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Fugitive Pieces (2007)
3K
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, Greece
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A child escapes from Poland during World War II and first heads to Greece before coming of age in Canada.
Style:
realistic, bleak, serious, emotional, breathtaking, exciting, rough, touching, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
holocaust, childhood trauma, breakup, haunted by the past, life is a bitch, fugitives, wartime life, war, survival, coming of age, boy, nazi, genocide, judaism, little boy, holocaust survivor, trauma, world war two, destiny, greek, grownups, writer's life, testimony, family in danger, bittersweet ...
Time:
year 2007
Place:
canada, greece, europe, poland
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Most similar movies to Fugitive Pieces
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, emotional and bleak films with plots about world war two, holocaust, life is a bitch, against humanity, society, wartime life and survival mostly in Drama, War and History genres. Some movies like Fugitive Pieces: Tsili (2014), Emotional Arithmetic (2007), The Pawnbroker (1964), One Day You'll Understand (2008), Jew-Boy Levi (1999). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
74
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, France, Italy
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Tsili is a young girl caught in the middle of World War II. After her family is taken to a concentration camp, Tsili hides in the forest, free from hatred and men, until the arrival of Marek, a stranger who speaks to her in Yiddish.
Style:
serious, realistic, bleak, disturbing, tense
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, survival, holocaust survivor, against humanity, youth, danger, woods, hiding, coming of age, violinist, rainstorm ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
An emotionally scarred fifty-something female, a high-profile but haunted British novelist, and a heroic dissident-cum-Soviet psychiatric hospital veteran, all reunite decades after bonding and surviving together in a detention camp during World War ...
Style:
serious, emotional, realistic, disturbing, contemplative
Plot:
holocaust, genocide, homecoming, haunted by the past, human spirit, confined, hopes, wartime life, anti semitism, infidelity, concentration camp, survival ...
Time:
year 2007
Place:
france, paris france, europe, canada
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A Jewish pawnbroker, a victim of Nazi persecution, loses all faith in his fellow man until he realizes too late the tragedy of his actions.
Style:
depressing, realistic, emotional, heartbreaking, bleak ...
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, holocaust survivor, survival, pawnshop, concentration camp, haunted by the past, flashback, self harm, redemption, life philosophy, against humanity ...
Time:
60s
Place:
new york, usa, germany, manhattan new york city, israel ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Germany, Israel
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A man endeavors to collect memories of his grandparents who died in a concentration camp during the Holocaust.
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, emotional, contemplative ...
Plot:
world war two, holocaust, war crime, haunted by the past, family relations, family life, parents and children, death in the family, love and romance, against humanity, society, trial ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
paris france, france, europe, germany, middle east
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Switzerland, Austria
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Benjamin Levi (Bruno Cathomas) is a Bavarian cattle dealer traveling to pre-World War II Germany on his annual trip to a remote farming village. Levi hopes to do some business and, more importantly, win the hand of the lovely Lisbeth (Caroline ...
Style:
thought provoking, biting, bleak, emotional, disturbing ...
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, society, survival, life is a bitch, injustice, village life, social differences, isolation, wartime life, village, countryside ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
germany, europe
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
"The Revolt of Job" tells the story of a childless Jewish couple in WWII-era Hungary who adopt a Hungarian boy. They raise him with their values and traditions. Unfortunately, the Nazis eventually come and round up all Jewish families in ...
Style:
thought provoking, gloomy, touching, bleak, emotional ...
Plot:
world war two, holocaust, boy, nude bathing, skinny dipping, coming of age, judaism, israeli, little boy, orphan, family relations, deportation ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
israel, eastern europe, europe, hungary
Similarity:
34%
23
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Description : Belgium, 1943. The situation is becoming unbearable for the Field family : antisemitic persecutions become common and violent. Joseph Field, the father, rebels against the occupying army. He is arrested and deported. Esther, his wife, ...
Style:
emotional, bleak, realistic, serious, historical drama ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
anti semitism, world war two, wartime life, youth, elderly, holocaust, teenage life, against humanity, life is a bitch, family relations, cause and meaning, resistance ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
belgium, england, europe
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
The real-life story of Gisella Perl, a Jewish Hungarian doctor imprisoned in the notorious Auschwitz death camp of World War II.
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, contemplative, emotional ...
Plot:
holocaust, concentration camp, holocaust survivor, wartime life, world war two, auschwitz, anti semitism, genocide, human spirit, life is a bitch, starting over, nazi ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
hungary, europe, usa, poland
Similarity:
32%
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Israel, Germany, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Before the war, in Berlin, Adam was an entertainer- cabaret impresario, magician, musician-loved by all until he finds himself in a concentration camp, confronted by Commandant Klein. Adam survives the camp by becoming the Klein's ...
Style:
touching, contemplative, serious, realistic, bleak ...
Plot:
holocaust, nazi, world war two, survival, haunted by the past, against humanity, life is a bitch, mental illness, circus, concentration camp, patient, circus performer ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, year 1936, year 2008, 60s ...
Place:
europe, israel, middle east, berlin germany, germany
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Drama, based on the book "Retter in der Nacht", in which Marga Spiegel tells her memories: In Westfalia of 1943 Marga Spiegel, her husband and her daughter are about to be deported. Yet westfalian farmers help the jewish family, grant ...
Style:
serious, emotional, tense, realistic, bleak
Plot:
survival, holocaust, false identity, friendship, hidden identity, injustice, genocide, woman in danger, life is a bitch, hopes, wartime life, farm ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
europe, france, germany
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands, UK, Belgium, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
While escaping from Nazis during the WWII, a Jewish man dug suitcases full of things dear to his heart in the ground two. The war deprived him of his family, and afterwards he endlessly turns over the soil of Antwerp to find the suitcases, which ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, emotional, inspirational, compassionate ...
Plot:
judaism, holocaust survivor, orthodox jew, racism, skinny dipping, life, tragedy, nazi, justice, culture clash, depression, mentor ...
Time:
20th century, year 1998, year 1972, 70s
Place:
europe, israel, antwerp, belgium, poland
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Drama
Country: Bulgaria, Israel
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
the story of two adolescents, Moni and Zhozho, who meet 17-year-old Zheni in 1943 and with whom both fell in love. The events that follow unfold while Bulgaria has to decide on the deportation of 11 343 Jewish citizens in Macedonia and Thrace.
Style:
emotional, captivating, touching, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot:
wartime life, fall in love, on the run, teenage love, friendship, holocaust, anti semitism, society, teenage life, youth, love and romance, coming of age ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
bulgaria
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Doris soon was out of the Nazi's hands and met up with her family.
Style:
captivating, thought provoking, uplifting, tense, emotional ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
world war two, holocaust, aftermath, world war, anti semitism, life is a bitch, confined, survival, danger, war, society, escapades ...
Place:
denmark, europe
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A woman struggles with the death of her lover. He was killed by South-American fascists.
Style:
thought provoking, realistic, serious, psychological, rough ...
Plot:
kidnapping, clinic, dystopia, life is a bitch, politics, against humanity, confined, on the run, danger, state affairs, survival, legal ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Josh is an ordinary teen living in an ordinary suburb. One morning he finds his friend's dead body. Next, he discovers that three more friends also have killed themselves, leaving him out of their pact. As the sole survivor, Josh becomes more ...
Style:
psychological, realistic, emotional, touching, erotic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
teenage life, life is a bitch, youth, lifestyle, family relations, parents and children, sex scene, making love, depression, friendship, loneliness, estrangement ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada, quebec
Similarity:
26%
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Nick is a writer in New York when he gets posted to a bureau in Greece. He has waited 30 years for this. He wants to know why his mother was killed in the civil war years earlier. In a parallel plot line we see Nick as a young boy and his family as ...
Style:
political, independent film, bleak, emotional, suspenseful ...
Plot:
biopic, reporter, war zone, photojournalist, greek civil war, correspondents, christian, girl, civil war, revolution, genocide, holocaust ...
Time:
year 1985
Place:
greece, europe
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The name Anne Frank stands for courage and confidence in hopeless times. But also for the cheeky and unsparing view of an adolescent on her family and her environment. Millions of people around the world know her diary, she wrote it while hiding ...
Style:
poignant, bleak, emotional, period piece, captivating ...
Plot:
world war two, jewish history, world war, jewish girl, courage, hiding, holocaust, anti semitism, diary, tragedy, memories, biopic ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
amsterdam
Similarity:
26%
448
Genre: Drama
Country: Romania
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Eva meets Tudor on the day of her 16th birthday. It is Tudor who is to make her feel whole as a woman. He becomes for her a source of both love and suffering through his constant mysterious departures and reappearances.
Style:
serious, touching, realistic, sincere, gloomy
Plot:
holocaust, lovers reunited, world war two, tragic hero, love triangle, life turned upside down, life is a bitch, couple relations, political unrest, couples, society, tragic love ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
romania, europe
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy, France, Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Although liberated from Auschwitz on January 27, 1945, Levi did not reach Turin until October 19 of that year. After spending some time in a Soviet camp for former concentration camp inmates, he embarked on an arduous journey home in the company of ...
Style:
sincere, historical drama, captivating, uplifting, gloomy ...
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, concentration camp, children, holocaust survivor, prisoner, writers, biopic, political intrigue, world war, judaism, shoah ...
Time:
year 1997, 1940s, 20th century, post world war two, year 1945
Place:
italy, russia, europe, turin italy, venice
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Prompted by horrific nightmares, Henry delves into the mystery of his past and begins to uncover the truth about his father's death, triggering a series of revelations that will change his family forever.
Style:
sentimental, psychological, sincere, captivating, realistic ...
Plot:
family relations, murder, teenage life, coming of age, parents and children, teenage love, family life, youth, bittersweet, death, father son relationship, world war two
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
europe, england
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Norway, Netherlands
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Epic story about two families and their friendship and common destiny in Sweden's Gothenburg in the 1940s and 1950s. Told from the perspective of young Simon Larsson, who learns that he's an adopted child who has a Jewish father from ...
Style:
realistic, tense, touching, psychological, contemplative ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
coming of age, world war two, boy, youth, family relations, friendship, society, culture clash, working class, german history, aftermath, nordic ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, post world war two, 50s
Place:
europe, eastern europe
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
During an interview, Max Baumstein (Piccoli), respected chairman of a humanitarian organisation, shoots the Paraguayan ambassador dead, in cold blood. Tried for first-degree murder, he explains himself: the ambassador was a former Nazi official, ...
Style:
emotional, realistic, serious, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot:
world war two, holocaust, revenge, avenger, cabaret, heroes, life is a bitch, vigilantism, vengeance, state affairs, idealism, moral dilemma ...
Time:
80s, year 1982, 1930s, 1940s
Place:
france, europe, berlin germany, paris france
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 200 min.
Story:
This is a true story about forty Jewish children on their way to Palestine, who were blocked by the German and Italian occupation of Yugoslavia in 1941. Before finding a haven at Villa Emma in Nonantola in northern Italy, where they arrived on June ...
Style:
uplifting, touching, sentimental, emotional, realistic ...
Plot:
holocaust, survival, orphan, rescue, hopes, youth, society, fugitives, against humanity, danger, life is a bitch, wartime life ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
italy, europe, switzerland, slovenia
Similarity:
24%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Drama - When Zak and his girlfriend Delphina visit his estranged father in the Catskills, they find him suffering from dementia and inadvertently uncover a dark family secret from WWII: an impossible sacrifice Zak's grandfather (Eli Wallach) ...
Style:
emotional, psychological, realistic, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
haunted by the past, holocaust, life is a bitch, memory loss, estrangement, parents and children, deportation, uncover truth, jew persecution, past, world war two, elderly ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: Ukraine
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
During the final winter of WWII, as displaced persons return to their former homes in the Soviet Union, an 8-year-old boy is left alone when his mother dies en route.
Style:
realistic, serious, stylized, atmospheric, road movie ...
Plot:
orphan, youth, little boy, on the road, wartime life, life is a bitch, human nature, society, world war two, death of mother, social injustice, boy ...
Time:
1940s, year 1944, 20th century
Place:
ukraine
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A made for TV movie of the Charles Dickens' classic novel, turns Dickens' picaresque tale into an extended flashback, with David Copperfield Robin Phillips as a young man, brooding on a deserted beach, recalling his youth. The characters ...
Style:
captivating, serious, realistic, gloomy, emotional ...
Plot:
coming of age, david copperfield, swing, orphan, boarding school, power relations, family relations, family problems, life is a bitch, youth, society, young heroes ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era
Place:
europe, england, london
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: Iceland, Norway, UK, Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
What could be better than knowing your future? And what could be worse? A love-filled childhood abruptly ends when catastrophe descends. A catastrophe that the child had foreseen yet failed to act upon.
Style:
psychological, serious, atmospheric, sincere, contemplative ...
Plot:
small town, haunted by the past, childhood trauma, life is a bitch, unlikely couple, midlife crisis, life turned upside down, unfulfillment, young love, childhood memory, village life, village ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
iceland, europe
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: Georgia, Kazakhstan
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Life creates many obstacles for 12 years old boy - Tedo. Tedo belongs to the generation, which was forced to mass displacement because of the civil war in Abkhazia, one of the most beatiful places in Georgia. The civil war took away everything Tedo ...
Style:
road movie, emotional, realistic, psychological, touching ...
Plot:
childhood, coming of age, life is a bitch, on the road, estrangement, family relations, poverty, single parent, parents and children, search for father, journey, grownups ...
Time:
year 2009, 21st century
Place:
europe, caucasus, georgia
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: Serbia, France, Croatia
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The story of a retired music professor, Misha Brankov, who under unusual circumstances discovers his true origins. At the place where once stood a Nazi concentration camp for Jews during World War II, a metal box filled with documents is found. It ...
Style:
serious, emotional, sincere, realistic, touching ...
Plot:
holocaust, concentration camp, uncover truth, self discovery, haunted by the past, identity, hidden truth, escapades, elderly, family relations, obsessive quest, lifesaver ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
serbia, belgrade, europe
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium, Germany
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
In 1942, the young Jewish girl Misha, her Russian mother Gerusha and her German father Reuven hide from the Germans in a small house in Ardennes, Belgium. Misha is very connected to her mother that advises her that if one day a person comes to her ...
Style:
touching, realistic, serious, uplifting, bleak ...
Plot:
wolf, world war two, survival, orphan, feral child, human animal relationship, little girl, forest, young heroes, danger, obsessive quest, wilderness ...
Place:
belgium, germany, europe, ukraine, brussels
Similarity:
22%
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