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Hanna's War (1988)
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Hanna's War (1988)
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 148 min.
Story: Hanna's War is the true story of Hanna Senesh, a Hungarian-Jewish WW2 resistance fighter, who would become Israel's "Joan of Arc". As a young person, she fled Nazi-occupied Hungary for Palestine, where she was recruited and trained by the British to serve as a commando. After completing her training in Britain, she parachutes into Yugoslavia with a commando team to establish escape routes across the Hungarian-Yugoslavian border for downed British pilots. Her attempts to save Hungarian Jews in Nazi-occupied Hungary, however, leads to her capture, torture and demise at the hands of the Gestapo and the Nazi-controlled Hungarian police.
Style: political, grindhouse, independent film, sincere, uplifting, thought provoking, bleak, serious, captivating, emotional ...
Plot: holocaust, world war two, cannon, concentration camp, spy, women, writers, rescue, wartime, totalitarian state, wartime life, secret mission, world war, women's prison, war, heroes, military, misfit, espionage, life is a bitch, society, danger, confined, against the odds, against humanity ...
Place: israel, middle east, hungary
Keyword: jewish

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, bleak and captivating films with plots about world war two, war, holocaust, against humanity, nazi, wartime life and world war mostly in Drama, War and Biography genres. Some movies like Hanna's War: The Hiding Place (1975), Faith of My Fathers (2005), Good Evening, Mr. Wallenberg (1990), Haven (2001), Out of the Ashes (2003). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Hiding Place (1975)
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: bleak, spiritual, independent film, christian film, uplifting ...
Plot: holocaust, concentration camp, world war two, nazi concentration camp, christian, faith, christianity, jew persecution, religion, christian faith, shoah, fictional history ...
Time: 1940s, year 1975
Place: holland, europe, netherlands
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95%
Faith of My Fathers (2005)
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Faith of My Fathers is based on the story of Lieutenant Commander John McCain's experiences as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam for five and a half years during the Vietnam War, interleaved with his memories of growing up in a heritage rich ...
Style: uplifting, captivating, disturbing, serious, suspense ...
Plot: vietnam war, prison, human spirit, survival, military, confined, captivity, patriotism, hopes, rebellion, danger, soldier ...
Time: 60s, 70s, 50s, 20th century, 1950s
Place: vietnam
⇓ similarity ⇓
93%
Good Evening, Mr. Wallenberg (1990)
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: Sweden, Hungary
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Swedish account of Raoul Wallenberg, the man responsible for the largest rescue of Jews during World War II.
Style: contemplative, bleak, emotional, uplifting, thought provoking ...
Plot: world war two, genocide, politics, rescue, nazi, holocaust, world war, revolutionary war, diplomacy, judaism, revolutionary, israeli ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: israel, hungary, europe, moscow russia, stockholm sweden ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
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Haven (2001)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 180 min.
Story: This is the true story of a woman named Ruth Gruber who travels to Europe to help escort 1000 Jewish War victims to the United States. She comes to love and feel sorry for them all, and fights for their rights to live in America.
Style: emotional, disturbing, sincere, realistic, serious ...
Plot: holocaust, world war two, wartime life, survival, rescue, deportation, anti semitism, immigrant, fighting the system, human spirit, idealism, heroic mission ...
Time: 1940s, 1930s
Place: europe, chicago, harvard university, vienna, belgrade ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
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The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler (2009)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: USA, Latvia, Poland, Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Irena Sendler is a Catholic social worker who has sympathized with the Jews since her childhood, when her physician father died of typhus contracted while treating poor Jewish patients. When she initially proposes saving Jewish children from the ...
Style: emotional, realistic, serious, suspense, tense ...
Audience: family outing, date night
Plot: holocaust, nazi germany, world war two, ghetto, social worker, rescue, wartime life, nazi, world war, against humanity, life is a bitch, historical figure ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: poland, europe, warsaw poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
Out of the Ashes (2003)
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, captivating ...
Plot: holocaust, concentration camp, wartime life, holocaust survivor, world war two, auschwitz, human spirit, anti semitism, life is a bitch, starting over, danger, moral dilemma ...
Time: 1940s
Place: hungary, europe, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
The Diary of Anne Frank (1980)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: The story of a 13-year-old Jewish girl and her family who are forced into hiding by the Nazis during World War II.
Style: uplifting, captivating, gloomy, sincere, touching ...
Plot: holocaust, world war two, world war, nazi, writers, poet, anti semitism, family relations, dentist, teenage life, attic, family life ...
Time: 1940s
Place: amsterdam, europe, holland
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
In the Presence of Mine Enemies (1997)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In the Warsau Ghetto of 1943, one man's struggle to keep his family together leads him to the ultimate crisis of faith, and one final chance at redemption. Written by legendary 'Twilight Zone' creator, Rod Sterling.
Style: contemplative, gloomy, bleak, emotional, disturbing ...
Plot: world war two, rabbi, holocaust, shoah, world war, family relations, injustice, religions or cults, misfit, human spirit, war, danger ...
Time: 1940s, year 1942
Place: poland, europe, warsaw poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
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Conspiracy (2001)
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: political, factual, disturbing, bleak, atmospheric ...
Plot: holocaust, world war two, genocide, nazi, politics, nazism, third reich, ss officer, war crime, anti semitism, racism, ss ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1942
Place: berlin germany, germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
Hitler: The Last Ten Days (1973)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: UK, Italy
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Hitler: The Last Ten Days takes us into the depths of der Furher’s Berlin bunker during his final days. Based on the book by Gerhard Boldt, it provides a bleak look at the goings-on within, and without.
Style: independent film, contemplative, serious, realistic, disturbing ...
Plot: world war two, nazi, third reich, military, world war, bunker, ss, biopic, suicide, history lesson, eastern front, holocaust ...
Time: year 1945, 20th century, 1940s
Place: germany, europe, berlin germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
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 317
The Only Way (1970)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA, Denmark, Panama, UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story: In April 1940, the armies of Nazi Germany invaded Denmark. The Danish government promised peaceful cooperation on the condition that Denmark s Jews remain free. The Nazi s agreed. In October, 1943, the agreement was broken...This is the true and ...
Style: bleak, realistic, serious, captivating, uplifting ...
Plot: holocaust, world war two, nazi occupation, danger, politics, heroes, against humanity, society, state affairs, confined, war, military ...
Time: 1940s
Place: denmark, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
The Last Lieutenant (1993)
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: Norway
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Norwegian war drama. The old sea-captain retires, but the next day German WWII occupation of Norway begins. He then kisses his wife good-bye and is off to Army HQ. There he finds a lack of leadership and morale that offends him. They even laugh at ...
Style: contemplative, serious, realistic, captivating, sincere ...
Plot: world war two, world war, holocaust, violent content, battles, survival, couple relations, human spirit, aging, rebelliousness, soldier, idealism ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
Perlasca: The Courage of a Just Man (2002)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Italy, France, Sweden, Hungary
Duration: 197 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 ...
Style: disturbing, serious, uplifting, emotional, realistic ...
Plot: holocaust, world war two, nazism, idealism, genocide, hopes, deportation, concentration camp, fighting the system, life is a bitch, wartime life, nazi occupation ...
Time: 1930s, 1940s, 1920s, 20th century, 80s ...
Place: hungary, italy, budapest, spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
 6.5
 4K
Olga (2004)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Brazil
Duration: 141 min.
Story: Based upon the true story of Olga Benário, the German-born wife of Brazilian communist leader Luís Carlos Prestes. During the dictatorship of Getúlio Vargas (1930-1945) she was arrested and sent to Nazi Germany, where she was put to death in a ...
Style: captivating, serious, realistic, emotional, contemplative ...
Plot: world war two, nazi germany, holocaust, concentration camp, wartime life, life is a bitch, biopic, love affair, revolution, confined, society, couple relations ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: germany, rio de janeiro, europe, brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
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 ⇓
77%
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Uprising (2001)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 177 min.
Story: Jews rise up in the Warsaw Ghetto against the Nazis in 1943.
Style: uplifting, captivating, rough, serious, political ...
Plot: holocaust, world war two, jewish ghetto, resistance, anti semitism, nazi, ghetto, heroism, rebellion, human spirit, shoah, survival ...
Time: year 2001, 1940s, year 1943, 20th century
Place: germany, warsaw poland, europe, poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
 6.9
 3K
Süskind (2012)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 118 min.
Story: In Nazi-occupied Amsterdam, Walter Süskind is a member of the Dutch Jewish Council who rescues hundreds of children from the concentration camps.
Style: captivating, serious, emotional, realistic, bleak
Plot: ss, holocaust, wartime life, world war two, nazi occupation, human spirit, selflessness, children, idealism, rescue, deportation, danger ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: europe, amsterdam, holland
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
 6.7
 3K
Rosenstrasse (2003)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Germany, Netherlands
Duration: 136 min.
Story: When Ruth's husband dies in New York, in 2000, she imposes strict Jewish mourning, which puzzles her children. A stranger comes to the house - Ruth's cousin - with a picture of Ruth, age 8, in Berlin, with a woman the cousin says helped ...
Style: uplifting, emotional, touching, serious, contemplative ...
Plot: holocaust, nazi germany, world war two, anti semitism, nazi, wartime life, life is a bitch, human spirit, hopes, society, couple relations, world war ...
Time: 1940s, year 1943, 20th century
Place: berlin germany, germany, europe, new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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Everyman's War (2009)
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: No one in high command believed that German forces would attack in the sub zero temperatures and near blizzard conditions. As the pre-dawn attack comes, with communications down Sgt. Smith is left with no choice but to make his way through enemy ...
Style: rough, realistic, serious, uplifting
Plot: world war two, military, soldier, historical event, military life, against the odds, heroes, danger, infantrymen, battle zone, small town, world war ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: europe, germany, astoria oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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Jakob the Liar (1999)
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: sad, cult classic, uplifting, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: holocaust, world war two, nazi, jewish ghetto, world war, gestapo, judaism, war, shoah, death, radio, lie ...
Time: 1940s, year 1999, 20th century
Place: poland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
Varian's War: The Forgotten Hero (2001)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: UK, USA, Canada
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Varian Fry rescues more than 2,000 artists from Nazi persecution during World War II.
Style: emotional, sincere, tense, serious, realistic
Plot: world war two, uncover truth, hidden identity, wartime life, life is a bitch, moral dilemma, society, against humanity, state affairs, escapades, survival, rescue ...
Time: 20th century
Place: france, europe, usa, marseille
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
Female Agents (2008)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 148 min.
Story: May 1944, a group of French servicewomen and resistance fighters are enlisted into the British Special Operations Executive commando group under the command of Louise Desfontaines and her brother Pierre. Their mission, to rescue a British army ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspense, tense, historical drama ...
Plot: world war two, french resistance, wartime life, resistance, female agent, rescue, spy, betrayal, heroic mission, d day, hospital, military ...
Time: 1940s, year 1945, year 1944
Place: paris france, france, london, europe, england ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
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 ⇓
72%
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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
Place: usa, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
The Last 4 Days (1974)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 126 min.
Story: The true story of the greatest manhunt of the century!
Style: thought provoking, captivating, realistic, serious, disturbing ...
Plot: fascism, italian politics, world war, italian history, totalitarian state, resistance, escape attempt, partisan, biopic, dystopia, state affairs, military ...
Time: year 1945, 1940s, 20th century
Place: milan italy, alps, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
The Last Train (2006)
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, serious, realistic, bleak, captivating ...
Audience: date night
Plot: holocaust, nazism, nazi, gestapo, anti semitism, danger, pow, life is a bitch, nazi germany, war, confined, world war ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1943
Place: germany, israel, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
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The Wall (1982)
Genre: Action, War, Drama
Country: Poland, USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story: A dramatic re-enactment of the Warsaw Ghetto Jewish uprising in April 1943 were 650 armed members of the Jewish Fighting Organization of Poland held off a 3,000 strong Nazi force in which only a handful of Jews survived. Tom Conti plays Dolek ...
Style: thought provoking, captivating, tense, bleak, suspenseful ...
Plot: holocaust, world war two, racism, nazi, anti semitism, society, survival, war, danger, against humanity, military, escapades ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: europe, poland, warsaw poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
 7.0
 11K
The Grey Zone (2001)
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: depressing, disturbing, bleak, factual, emotional ...
Plot: holocaust, nazi, concentration camp, world war two, nazi germany, redemption, war, nazi concentration camp, moral ambiguity, world war, tragedy, auschwitz ...
Time: 1940s, year 1944, 20th century
Place: germany, poland, europe, middle east, budapest
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
Anne Frank: The Whole Story (2001)
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: USA, Czech Republic
Duration: 180 min.
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Story: Anne Frank: The Whole Story is a film based on the life of Anne Frank, a Jewish girl growing up in Nazi occupied Holland. When war breaks out Anne & her family, Otto her father, Edith her mother & Margot her sister move from Germany ...
Style: uplifting, sincere, emotional, bleak, sad ...
Plot: holocaust, genocide, against humanity, world war two, starvation, concentration camp, ss, survival, childhood, hopes, anti semitism, human spirit ...
Time: 1940s, 1930s, 20th century
Place: amsterdam, europe, holland, netherlands
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
The Hanoi Hilton (1987)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Lionel Chetwynd's film documents the horrific struggles that faced American POWs held in the North Vietnamese prison Hoa Lo -- more infamously known as the Hanoi Hilton -- between 1964 and 1975. Williamson (Michael Moriarty) leads a group of ...
Style: political, grindhouse, independent film, serious, realistic ...
Audience: manly
Plot: vietnam war, military, prison, cannon, conservative, military prison, prison escape, war trauma, electric torture, violent content, profanity, escape ...
Time: year 1987, 20th century
Place: vietnam
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
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