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The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1970)
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The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1970)
Original name: Il giardino dei Finzi Contini
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Italy, West Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story: In late 1930s Ferrara, Italy, the Finzi-Continis are a leading family: wealthy, aristocratic, and urbane; they are also Jewish. Their adult children, Micol and Alberto, gather a diverse circle of friends for tennis and parties at their villa with its lovely grounds, and try to keep the rest of the world at bay. But tensions between them all grow as anti-Semitism rises in Fascist Italy, and even the Finzi-Continis will have to confront the Holocaust.
Style: disturbing, compassionate, breathtaking, emotional, talky, sentimental, thought provoking, touching, serious, captivating ...
Plot: fascism, holocaust, world war two, unrequited love, anti semitism, tennis, assassination, family relations, brother sister relationship, family life, nazi germany, life is a bitch, wartime life, politics, death, genocide, italian fascism, garden, bittersweet, uncle niece relationship, multiple storylines, chess, nazi, segregation, prejudice ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, 1930s, ancient times, year 1970, 19th century, 40s ...
Place: italy, europe, africa, germany, israel, poland
Keyword: jewish, oldies, watching a movie, reading, german, retrospective

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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Germany, France, Poland
Duration: 112 min.
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Salon Kitty (1976)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 129 min.
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Time: 1940s, year 1939, 1930s
Place: germany, italy, europe, paris france, naples italy ...
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1900 (1976)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 317 min.
Story: Set in Bertolucci's ancestral region of Emilia, the film chronicles the lives of two men during the political turmoils that took place in Italy in the first half on the 20th century.
Style: epic, disturbing, controversial, compassionate, realistic ...
Audience: adult
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The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2008)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 94 min.
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Duration: 115 min.
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Duration: 125 min.
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Country: Italy, France
Duration: 110 min.
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Duration: 99 min.
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45%
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Style: sentimental, touching, realistic, compassionate, political ...
Audience: teens
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The Final Solution: The Wannsee Conference (1984)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Austria, West Germany
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A real time recreation of the 1942 Wannsee Conference, in which leading SS and Nazi Party officals gathered to discuss the "Final Solution to the Jewish Question". Led by SS-General Reinhard Heydrich, the Wannsee Conference was the ...
Style: contemplative, bleak, disturbing, thought provoking, captivating ...
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Time: year 1942, 1940s
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45%
My Mother's Courage (1995)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Germany, UK, Austria, Ireland
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The deportation of 4000 Jews from Budapest to Auschwitz in July 1944, as told by George Tabori, and how the narrator's mother escaped it, owing to coincidence, courage and some help from where you'd least expect it.
Style: realistic, serious, disturbing, bleak, captivating ...
Plot: world war two, holocaust, genocide, wartime life, world war, rape, hopes, concentration camp, deportation, moral dilemma, war, danger ...
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44%
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The Book Thief (2013)
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Style: sentimental, touching, emotional, serious, captivating ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, family outing, teens, adult
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44%
 5.9
 237
Texas '46 (2002)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Based on a true story its the untold story of Italian World War II POW"S in Jan 1946. Luca Zingaretti stars as one of over 50,000 Italian Prisoners of War detained at POW camps in the U.S. Roy Schneider stars as Colonel Gartner, the Commander ...
Style: suspenseful, rough, disturbing, realistic, exciting ...
Plot: fascism, world war two, military, military life, prison life, isolation, danger, wartime life, captivity, confined, genocide, prison ...
Time: 1940s
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⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
The Aryan Couple (2004)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A WWII Drama about a German/Jewish industrialist who, in order to ensure his family's safe passage out of Germany, is forced to hand over his business to the Nazis.
Style: psychological, serious, captivating, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot: concentration camp, world war two, holocaust, survival, genocide, anti semitism, undercover, hidden identity, moral dilemma, life is a bitch, forbidden love, uncover truth ...
Time: 1940s, year 1944
Place: germany, switzerland, hungary, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
The Wedding Song (2008)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: France, Tunisia
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The Nazi occupation of Tunisia strains the bonds of friendship between a Muslim woman and a Sephardic Jewess who are both preparing for their marriages.
Style: realistic, emotional, atmospheric, erotic, captivating ...
Plot: world war two, nazi occupation, loss of virginity, coming of age, sexual humiliation, friendship, life is a bitch, injustice, holocaust, sex, society, family relations ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: tunisia, africa, middle east, maghreb, south africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank (1988)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story: During the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam, Otto Frank decides to hide his family, who are Jewish, after his daughter Margot is called to appear for transport to a Nazi labour camp. Miep Gies, Otto Frank's office assistant hides them in the attic ...
Style: thought provoking, serious, realistic, bleak, disturbing
Plot: holocaust, world war two, nazi, world war, anti semitism, journal, biopic, injustice, against humanity, hopes, confined, human spirit ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, 1930s
Place: holland, europe, amsterdam
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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