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The Grey Zone (2001)
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A Nazi doctor, along with the Sonderkomando Jews – who are forced to work in the crematoria of Auschwitz against their fellow-Jews – find themselves in a moral grey zone.
Style:
bleak, disturbing, serious, factual, depressing, harsh, compassionate, emotional, realistic, stylized ...
Plot:
holocaust, nazi, rebellion, world war two, concentration camp, survival, anti semitism, redemption, smuggling, human spirit, against humanity, war, pow, confined, moral dilemma, rebelliousness, hopes, burned alive, moral ambiguity, doctor, auschwitz, tragedy, heroes, rescue, escapades ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, year 1944, 40s
Place:
poland, europe, germany, budapest, israel, budapest hungary
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Most similar movies to The Grey Zone
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, bleak and emotional films with plots about world war two, holocaust, nazi, against humanity, anti semitism, jewish and survival mostly in Drama, War and History genres. Some movies like The Grey Zone: Schindler's List (1993), Europa Europa (1990), Fateless (2005), The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2008), The Round Up (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 195 min.
Story:
The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II.
Style:
touching, realistic, serious, emotional, thought provoking ...
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, concentration camp, genocide, against humanity, war, jewish, survival, wartime, rescue, ghetto, anti semitism ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, 90s, 1930s
Place:
poland, germany, europe, central europe, israel
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64%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Germany, France, Poland
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A Jewish boy separated from his family in the early days of WWII poses as a German orphan and is taken into the heart of the Nazi world as a 'war hero' and eventually becomes a Hitler Youth. Although improbabilities and happenstance are ...
Style:
epic, realistic, thought provoking, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, hitler youth, survival, ghetto, german, anti semitism, roommate, communism, homosexual, concentration camp, hidden identity ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 1930s
Place:
latvia, germany, poland, europe, berlin germany ...
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100%
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Hungary, Germany, UK, Israel, France, USA
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
An Hungarian youth comes of age at Buchenwald during World War II. György Köves is 14, the son of a merchant who's sent to a forced labor camp. After his father's departure, György gets a job at a brickyard; his bus is stopped and its ...
Style:
emotional, serious, sincere, disturbing, realistic ...
Plot:
holocaust, concentration camp, world war two, survival, life is a bitch, confined, estrangement, destiny, self discovery, youth, bus, faith ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
hungary, budapest, europe, slovakia, poland
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100%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
When his family moves from their home in Berlin to a strange new house in Poland, young Bruno befriends Shmuel, a boy who lives on the other side of the fence where everyone seems to be wearing striped pajamas. Unaware of Shmuel's fate as a ...
Style:
touching, heartbreaking, emotional, serious, twists and turns ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, jewish, concentration camp, childhood, against humanity, friendship, nazism, war, gas chamber, nazi, atrocity ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
germany, poland, europe, switzerland, berlin germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: France, Germany, Hungary
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
1942. Joseph is eleven. And this June morning, he must go to school, a yellow star sown on his chest. He receives the support of a goods dealer. The mockery of a baker. Between kindness and contempt, Jo, his Jewish friends, their families, learn of ...
Style:
disturbing, emotional, thought provoking, bleak, serious ...
Plot:
holocaust, nazism, concentration camp, nazi germany, holocaust survivor, injustice, against humanity, genocide, occupation, survival, confined, society ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, post world war two, year 1942
Place:
france, paris france, vichy, europe, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Movies like Schindler's List
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 179 min.
Story:
In 1947, four German judges who served on the bench during the Nazi regime face a military tribunal to answer charges of crimes against humanity. Chief Justice Haywood hears evidence and testimony not only from lead defendant Ernst Janning and his ...
Style:
disturbing, suspenseful, emotional, sincere, talky ...
Plot:
courtroom drama, judge, genocide, war crime, world war two, holocaust, jewish, court, redemption, german, nazism, cold war ...
Time:
1940s, 60s, 20th century, year 1946, year 1945
Place:
germany, europe, poland, berlin germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, History, War
Country: Austria, Germany
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
The story Jewish counterfeiter, Salomon Sorowitsch, coerced into assisting the Nazi operation of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp during World War II.
Style:
tense, serious, disturbing, suspenseful, harsh ...
Plot:
holocaust, concentration camp, nazi, counterfeit money, forgery, world war two, survival, jewish, german, war crime, racial slur, war ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 1930s, post world war two, year 1945 ...
Place:
europe, germany, berlin germany, warsaw poland, monte carlo ...
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54%
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:
captivating, serious, suspenseful, psychological, tense ...
Plot:
concentration camp, world war two, holocaust, genocide, anti semitism, survival, hidden identity, uncover truth, life is a bitch, undercover, moral dilemma, forbidden love ...
Time:
1940s, year 1944
Place:
hungary, switzerland, germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Italy, France, Sweden, Hungary
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
It is the real story of Giorgio Perlasca (Luca Zingaretti). During the 1920s he was an Italian Fascist supporter, fighting in Africa an in the Spanish civil war where he deserved a safe conduct for Spanish embassies. After some years, disillusioned ...
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disturbing, uplifting, emotional, serious, captivating ...
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, idealism, genocide, deportation, concentration camp, hopes, nazism, wartime life, life is a bitch, fighting the system, nazi occupation ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, 1920s, 80s, 20th century ...
Place:
hungary, italy, sweden, budapest, spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
An examination of the Soviet slaughter of thousands of Polish officers and citizens in the Katyn forest in 1940.
Style:
disturbing, heartbreaking, sentimental, sad, realistic ...
Plot:
war crime, world war two, nazism, survival, war, life is a bitch, military life, captivity, against humanity, military, confined, occupation ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1940
Place:
poland, russia, europe, ussr, germany ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The historical recreation of the 1942 Wannsee Conference, in which Nazi and SS leaders gathered in a Berlin suburb to discuss the "Final Solution to the Jewish Question". Lead by SS-General Reinhard Heydrich, this group of high ranking ...
Style:
bleak, disturbing, factual, intense, atmospheric ...
Plot:
holocaust, genocide, anti semitism, war crime, racism, politics, conspiracy, state affairs, wartime life, human spirit, world war two, leadership ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 1930s
Place:
berlin germany, germany, europe, poland
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49%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Paradise Road is a 1997 film which tells the story of a group of English, American, Dutch and Australian women who are imprisoned in Sumatra during World War II. It was directed by Bruce Beresford and stars Glenn Close as beatific Adrienne Pargiter, ...
Style:
serious, uplifting, emotional, touching, harsh ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
pow, world war two, prison, war crime, island, holocaust, war, friendship, human spirit, prison life, survival, justice ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, 20th century
Place:
singapore, japan, asia, indonesia, australia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Film opens with the mad rush of haphazard freedom as the concentration camps are liberated. Men are trying to grab food, change clothes, bury their tormentors they find alive. Then they are herded into other camps as the Allies try to devise policy ...
Style:
serious, realistic, gloomy, touching, bleak ...
Plot:
survival, world war two, concentration camp, hopes, unfulfillment, war, against humanity, love and romance, writer's life, confined, dealing with death, romance ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, post world war two, year 1945
Place:
poland, warsaw poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Sport, War
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Fact based story about a former Greek Olympic boxer who was taken as a prisoner during World war II and placed in the Auschwitz prison camp. There he was permitted to survive as long as he fought for the amusement of his captors. His father and ...
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, bleak, tense
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, concentration camp, survival, boxing, boxer, auschwitz, contests and competitions, against humanity, misfit, sport, confined ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, 20th century, year 1943
Place:
poland, europe, greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Canada, Germany
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
Auschwitz is a hard-hitting war film which shows life as it really was at the death camp.
Style:
disturbing, rough, thought provoking, realistic, bleak ...
Plot:
holocaust, anti semitism, concentration camp, nazi, against humanity, world war two, postmodernism, life is a bitch, strong violent content, society, genocide, nudity (full frontal - brief) ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
poland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA, France, Germany
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
In 1944 Poland, a Jewish shop keeper named Jakob is summoned to ghetto headquarters after being caught out after curfew. While waiting for the German Kommondant, Jakob overhears a German radio broadcast about Russian troop movements. Returned to the ...
Style:
gloomy, humorous, emotional, sincere, uplifting ...
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, starvation, hopes, jewish ghetto, ghetto, war, graphic violence, protecting from truth, social relations, figment, lifesaver ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
poland, europe, germany, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Genre: Action, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
Based on a true story, during World War II, four Jewish brothers escape their Nazi-occupied homeland of West Belarus in Poland and join the Soviet partisans to combat the Nazis. The brothers begin the rescue of roughly 1,200 Jews still trapped in ...
Style:
emotional, epic, sincere, realistic, intense ...
Plot:
world war two, holocaust, partisan, nazi, wartime life, survival, jewish, forest, rebellion, camp, genocide, judaism ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, year 1941, year 1942
Place:
poland, europe, germany, israel, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: France, USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
Dramatization depicting the events surrounding Adolf Hitler's last weeks in and around his underground bunker in Berlin before and during the battle for the city.
Style:
realistic, bleak, serious, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
nazi germany, hitler, world war two, against humanity, state affairs, confined, life is a bitch, downfall, wartime life, confinement indoors, introspection, human nature ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1945
Place:
germany, europe, berlin germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
The Hiding Place is an account of a Dutch family who risk their lives by offering a safe haven for Jews during World War II
Style:
realistic, serious, uplifting, disturbing, emotional ...
Plot:
holocaust, concentration camp, survival, world war two, religions or cults, hopes, society, misfit, opposites attract, escapades, against humanity, confined ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
holland, europe, netherlands
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 475 min.
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Holocaust is an American television miniseries broadcast in four parts in 1978 on the NBC television network. The series tells the story of the Holocaust from the perspective of the Weiss family of German Jews and that of a rising member of the SS, ...
Style:
captivating, serious, realistic, bleak, disturbing ...
Plot:
holocaust, concentration camp, world war two, deportation, massacre, war crime, starvation, rebellion, anti semitism, genocide, ghetto, auschwitz ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, 20th century, year 1938, year 1943 ...
Place:
poland, germany, europe, berlin germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Hungary
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
In the horror of 1944 Auschwitz, a prisoner forced to burn the corpses of his own people finds moral survival trying to save from the flames the body of a boy he takes for his son.
Style:
melancholic, harsh, compassionate, disturbing, macabre ...
Plot:
jewish, concentration camp, holocaust, anti semitism, german, world war two, saving a life, auschwitz, courage, tragedy, rabbi, prisoner ...
Time:
1940s, year 1944
Place:
poland, california, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: UK, Yugoslavia
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
During WWII, the death camp at Treblinka had an escape, causing the Commandant at a similar camp in Sobibor to vow (actually threaten) that his camp would never experience the same thing. But those who were its captives, the Jewish laborers that had ...
Style:
tense, realistic, suspenseful, rough, serious ...
Plot:
concentration camp, pow, world war two, escape, captivity, genocide, brutality, against humanity, corporal punishment, holocaust, hopes, confined ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
poland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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, touching, serious, uplifting, emotional ...
Plot:
concentration camp, holocaust, survival, wartime life, human spirit, life is a bitch, starting over, anti semitism, war, auschwitz, holocaust survivor, confined ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
hungary, europe, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Germany, Czech Republic
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
A group of people are imprisoned in a rail car bound from Berlin to a concentration camp in 1945.
Style:
disturbing, bleak, realistic, serious, captivating
Plot:
holocaust, anti semitism, nazism, life is a bitch, pow, war, confined, train travel, gestapo, concentration camp, brutality, world war two ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1943
Place:
germany, europe
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42%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA, Poland
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A 12-year-old Jewish boy hides with a family of Catholic peasant farmers to escape the Nazis.
Style:
touching, emotional, sentimental, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
holocaust, village, survival, hidden identity, human spirit, against humanity, life is a bitch, society, fish out of water, anti semitism, wartime life, lifesaver ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
poland, europe, vatican
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, War
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Hannah Stern, an American-born Jewish adolescent, is uninterested in the culture, faith and customs of her relatives; however, Hannah begins to revaluate her heritage when she has a supernatural experience that transports her back to a Nazi death ...
Style:
serious, realistic, uplifting, emotional, sentimental ...
Plot:
concentration camp, holocaust, time travel, nazi occupation, world war two, anti semitism, jewish, war, human spirit, hopes, against humanity, survival ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
poland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 177 min.
Story:
Jews rise up in the Warsaw Ghetto against the Nazis in 1943.
Style:
uplifting, captivating, serious, rough, tense ...
Plot:
holocaust, deportation, rebellion, anti semitism, human spirit, survival, life is a bitch, wartime life, ghetto, against humanity, society, politics ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1943
Place:
poland, europe, warsaw poland
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41%
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, gloomy, emotional, bleak, realistic ...
Plot:
concentration camp, world war two, holocaust, hopes, refugee, wartime life, human spirit, anti semitism, captivity, escapades, life is a bitch, war ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, post world war two
Place:
italy, russia, europe, venice, turin italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Genre: History, War
Country: Germany, Lithuania
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
In 1942, in Vilna, the Nazi annihilate 55,000 Jews and squeeze the 15,000 survivors in a seven blocks ghetto. The twenty-two year old sadistic commander Kittel is assigned to administrate the ghetto in the capital of Lithuania, becoming the master ...
Style:
bleak, serious, realistic, emotional, rough ...
Plot:
genocide, holocaust, ghetto, human nature, anti semitism, moral dilemma, survival, war, lifesaver, against humanity, confined, heroes ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Germany, Israel, 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, bleak, serious, realistic, emotional ...
Plot:
holocaust, nazi, survival, concentration camp, world war two, haunted by the past, against humanity, life is a bitch, mental illness, circus, mental institution, patient ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, 1940s, 1930s, year 1961 ...
Place:
israel, europe, middle east, germany, berlin germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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