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In the Land of Blood and Honey (2011)
35K
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
During the Bosnian War, Danijel, a soldier fighting for the Serbs, re-encounters Ajla, a Bosnian who's now a captive in his camp he oversees. Their once promising connection has become ambiguous as their motives have changed.
Style:
sexy, serious, emotional, realistic, erotic, touching, exciting, romantic, romantic drama, bleak ...
Plot:
bosnian war, prisoner, forbidden love, rape, soldier, food, sex, muslim, love affair, war, couples, bus, sister sister relationship, life is a bitch, love and romance, wartime life, couple relations, sexual harassment, violence, genocide, sniper, revenge, painter, military, female nudity ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 1990s
Place:
sarajevo, bosnia, former yugoslavia, bosnia herzegovina, europe
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Most similar movies to In the Land of Blood and Honey
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, emotional and touching films with plots about war, wartime life, love and romance, love, female nudity, soldier and life is a bitch mostly in Drama, War and Romance genres. Some movies like In the Land of Blood and Honey: Savior (1998), Go West (2005), The Poet (2007), As If I Am Not There (2010), Before the Rain (1994). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A hardened mercenary in the Foreign Legion begins to find his own humanity when confronted with atrocities during the fighting in Bosnia
Style:
disturbing, depressing, tense, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot:
terrorism, rape, atrocity, redemption, breast feeding, bosnian war, mercenary, ethnic cleansing, hopes, genocide, soldier, pregnancy ...
Time:
90s, year 1998, 20th century
Place:
bosnia, former yugoslavia, europe, serbia, bosnia herzegovina ...
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955
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War, Western
Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
In the nineties the Yugoslavia Federation falls apart in bloody wars. Perpetual student Milan, a Serb from a patriarchal community and Kenan, a Muslim cellist, are a homosexual couple living in Sarajevo. Their lives, intimate and public, are shaken ...
Style:
realistic, tense, emotional, serious, lgbt cinema ...
Plot:
gender bending, hidden identity, love affair, wartime life, life is a bitch, political unrest, state affairs, gays and lesbians, tragic love, love and romance, society, danger ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
bosnia, former yugoslavia, bosnia herzegovina, balkan, serbia ...
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100%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
At the dawn of World War 2, a Rabbi's daughter and a disenchanted German soldier fall in love and are separated by the war. They struggle on a perilous journey to find one another.
Style:
realistic, disturbing, emotional, serious, gloomy ...
Plot:
forbidden love, sexual content, world war two, soldier, couples, war, family relations, against humanity, age difference, wartime, rabbi, wartime life ...
Time:
20th century, 1930s, 1940s, year 1939, year 1940
Place:
poland, europe, russia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland, Sweden
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A harsh dose of cinematic realism about a harsh time-the Bosnian War of the 1990s-Juanita Wilson's drama is taken from true stories revealed during the International Criminal Tribunal in The Hague. Samira is a modern schoolteacher in Sarajevo ...
Style:
realistic, disturbing, emotional, serious, disgusting ...
Plot:
rape, bosnian war, sex slave, genocide, realism, wartime life, life is a bitch, military, soldier, life turned upside down, strong female presence, gang rape ...
Place:
bosnia, sarajevo, balkan, europe, former yugoslavia ...
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK, France
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
The circularity of violence seen in a story that circles on itself. In Macedonia, during war in Bosnia, Christians hunt an ethnic Albanian girl who may have murdered one of their own. A young monk who's taken a vow of silence offers her ...
Style:
political, erotic, realistic, atmospheric, anthology ...
Plot:
love affair, monk, civil war, terrorist, photograph, social commentary, violence, wartime, islam, politics, muslim, murder ...
Time:
90s, year 1994, 20th century
Place:
macedonia, former yugoslavia, london, bosnia, england ...
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42%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: UK, Denmark, USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Testament of Youth is a powerful story of love, war and remembrance, based on the First World War memoir by Vera Brittain, which has become the classic testimony of that war from a woman’s point of view. A searing journey from youthful hopes and ...
Style:
touching, period piece, captivating, costume drama, sad ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, teens
Plot:
world war one, wartime, death, aspiring writer, women, war, nurse, poetry, wartime life, love and romance, love affair, adaptation ...
Time:
1910s, 20th century, edwardian era, year 1918, 1920s ...
Place:
england, london, oxford university, france, yorkshire ...
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100%
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Brazil
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A dramatic novel that presents the submission in a relationship between an Italian settler and a Brazilian woman in 1932. Luiza is a generation of women who were sent to convents to be educated, many of the high cost of permanency option ran out and ...
Style:
serious, realistic, emotional, touching, gloomy ...
Plot:
love affair, forbidden love, couples, revolution, love and romance, life is a bitch, rivalry, society, vengeance, wartime life, war, unsupportive spouse ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century
Place:
brazil, latin america
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Full-throttle melodrama about an ill-starred romance set against the backdrop of the siege of Sarajevo. A mother brings her teenage son to Sarajevo, where his father died in the Bosnian conflict years ago.
Style:
serious, touching, realistic, erotic, romantic ...
Plot:
power of love, redemption, balkan war, haunted by the past, parents and children, life is a bitch, family relations, single parent, hopes, sexual harassment, italian soldier, suicide ...
Time:
90s, 21st century
Place:
bosnia, balkan, former yugoslavia, sarajevo, bosnia herzegovina ...
Similarity:
40%
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Death in Love is a psychosexual-thriller about a love affair between a Jewish woman and a doctor overseeing human experimentation at a Nazi German concentration camp, and the impact this has on her sons' lives in the 1990s.
Style:
sexy, serious, psychological, sincere, emotional ...
Plot:
world war two, dysfunctional family, concentration camp, nazi, memory, cruelty, doctor, parents and children, haunted by the past, holocaust, experiment, human nature ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 1940s
Place:
new york, germany, europe, usa
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA, Canada, UK, Hungary
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
The horrors of war are examined from the view points of lifelong friends (Linus Roache, Vincent Perez), who end up on opposing sides in the civil war in Sarajevo. One is an expert marksman, who trains the snipers used to terrify the city and the ...
Style:
realistic, serious, thought provoking, biting, tense ...
Plot:
balkan war, yugoslav war, conflict, war on terror, sibling relationship, best friend, politics, state affairs, society, against humanity, military, soldier ...
Place:
sarajevo, bosnia, europe, former yugoslavia, bosnia herzegovina
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
During the 1940s, a group of young men go off to war, leaving behind Ethel Ann, who is in love with one of them, Teddy. In modern-day Belfast, a man named Jimmy endeavors to return a ring found in the wreckage of a crashed plane. He travels to ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, touching, realistic, period piece ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
couples, optimism, death in the family, couple relations, battles, family relations, family problems, wartime life, parents and children, love and romance, sex, world war two ...
Time:
90s, 50s, 1940s
Place:
ireland, europe, london, belfast
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Set against the turbulent backdrop of London in the 1940s, this adaptation of Sarah Waters' bestselling novel, The Night Watch, follows four young Londoners inextricably linked by their wartime experiences. In a time when the barriers of sexual ...
Style:
touching, serious, stylized, emotional, sexual ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
love affair, couples, love and romance, life is a bitch, sexual relations, wartime life, haunted by the past, war, love, unwanted pregnancy, gay, lesbian couple ...
Time:
1940s, post world war two, 20th century
Place:
london, europe, england
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Follow a group of international journalists into the heart of the once cosmopolitan city of Sarajevo—now a danger zone of sniper and mortar attacks where residents still live. While reporting on an American aid worker who’s trying to get ...
Style:
disturbing, harsh, political, heartbreaking, brutal ...
Plot:
journalism, bosnian war, civil war, journalist, adoption, orphan, genocide, family relations, morality, military, anti war, rescue ...
Time:
year 1997, 90s, year 1992
Place:
bosnia, england, former yugoslavia, sarajevo, europe ...
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37%
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A retelling of Romeo and Juliet in Jerusalem involving a Palestinian woman and an Israeli man.
Style:
uplifting, serious, realistic, emotional, touching ...
Plot:
forbidden love, against the odds, unlikely couple, opposites attract, social differences, religions or cults, couples, fall in love, love and romance, society, young lovers, tragic love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel, middle east, jerusalem
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Will Montgomery (Ben Foster), a U.S. Army Staff Sergeant who has returned home from Iraq, is assigned to the Army’s Casualty Notification service. Montgomery is partnered with Captain Tony Stone (Woody Harrelson), to give notice to the families of ...
Style:
touching, sincere, depressing, sad, psychological ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
military, soldier, redemption, honest, character study, bereavement, human nature, officer, jihad, relationships, wartime, friendship ...
Time:
year 2009, 21st century
Place:
iraq, bosnia, usa, california
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Ireland, UK, France, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
The quirky story of a young boy's adventures growing up with his stunningly beautiful mother and the two very different men who love her.
Style:
talky, serious, realistic, psychological, touching ...
Plot:
forbidden love, family relations, mother son relationship, family life, self discovery, love triangle, death in the family, parents and children, couple relations, unfulfillment, love and romance, human nature ...
Time:
post world war two
Place:
ireland, texas, austin texas, europe, france
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 162 min.
Story:
In the 1930s, Count Almásy is a Hungarian map maker employed by the Royal Geographical Society to chart the vast expanses of the Sahara Desert along with several other prominent explorers. As World War II unfolds, Almásy enters into a world of ...
Style:
romantic, sentimental, touching, emotional, scenic ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night
Plot:
world war two, love story, desert, beautiful scenery, tragic love, power of love, love and romance, passion, adultery, sex scene, doomed love, life philosophy ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, year 1944, year 1942, 90s ...
Place:
sahara, italy, ottoman empire, cairo egypt, africa ...
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
In order to recover the body of her son lost during the war in Bosnia, a grieving, but strong-willed Muslim woman, Halima, must track down her estranged niece, who we find carries a mysterious connection to him.
Style:
touching, emotional, realistic, serious
Plot:
un, adoption, wartime life, loss of son, parents and children, family relations, life is a bitch, muslim, bodies, missing person, adopted son, birth mother ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, 90s
Place:
bosnia, eastern europe, bosnia herzegovina, croatia, balkan
Similarity:
33%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Ivan is the fierce patriarch of a family of Croatian refugees in Auckland. Nina is his daughter, ready to live on her own, despite his angry objections. Eddie is the Maori she takes as her lover. Nina works at a restaurant where Eddie cooks. For a ...
Style:
sexy, sexual, realistic, serious, sentimental ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
sex, interracial romance, culture clash, forbidden love, interracial relations, dysfunctional family, hospital, violence, wine, chase, young couple, erotica ...
Time:
year 1996, 90s
Place:
new zealand, former yugoslavia, europe, oceania, bosnia herzegovina ...
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A black soldier in World War II England begins an affair with a white woman whose husband is a soldier currently overseas in battle and in doubts of her relationship with him as she discovered he had been having an affair with his secretary.
Style:
erotic, sex comedy, bleak, emotional, gloomy ...
Plot:
black man white woman sex, world war two, making love, black man white woman relationship, interracial love relationship, interracial romance, wartime, black, sex scene, racism, interracial relations, society ...
Place:
england, europe
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Drama set in 1930s London with two sisters, Madeleine married to Rickie, and Dinah, who falls in love with him. Rickie and Dinah begin an affair which is to have repercussions throughout all their lives.
Style:
sentimental, serious, emotional, touching, erotic ...
Plot:
couples, forbidden love, infidelity, betrayal, unfaithful husband, sister sister relationship, pregnancy, fall in love, society, parents and children, haunted by the past, unfulfillment ...
Time:
1930s, 1940s, year 2002, 20th century, year 1934 ...
Place:
london, england, europe
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: France, USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Harrison Lloyd is a Pulitzer-winning photojournalist. His wife and family are making it hard for him to keep his mind on his work when he's in a war zone, and he wants to change jobs to something less stressful. But he's got one last ...
Style:
brutal, disturbing, suspense, bleak, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
genocide, journalism, missing person, violence, murder, photograph, photojournalist, photographer, civil war, blood, battles, vengeance ...
Time:
year 1991, 90s, 80s, 70s
Place:
new jersey, balkan, eastern europe, europe, serbia ...
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
André Demester secretly and painfully loves Barbe, his childhood friend, accepting from her the little that she gives him. He leaves home to be a soldier in a war in a far off land. Barbarity, camaraderie and fear turn him into a warrior. As the ...
Style:
realistic, serious, slow cinema, exciting, captivating ...
Plot:
castration, war crime, male female relationship, rape, soldier, murder, death, survival, battles, best friend, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, military ...
Time:
2000s, year 2006, 21st century
Place:
france, middle east, flanders, europe, belgium
Similarity:
32%
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
A romantic drama set in 1930's England, Paris, and Spain. Gilda Bessé shares her Paris apartment with an Irish schoolteacher, Guy Malyon, and Mia, a refugee from Spain. As the world drifts toward war, Gilda defiantly pursues her hedonistic ...
Style:
romantic, sexy, sentimental, captivating, erotic ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
world war two, lesbian, love triangle, bisexual woman, spanish civil war, sexual relations, orgy, sex scene, nazi, love story, nazi occupation, fascism ...
Time:
1940s, year 1944, 1920s, 1930s, year 1938 ...
Place:
paris france, spain, france, england, germany ...
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
An American flyer who joined the RAF before his country was in the war is recovering from a leg injury in Jerusalem. Through an English friend he meets a quiet Jewish girl whose close-knit family originally came from Spain. The two are attracted to ...
Style:
sentimental, touching, serious, realistic, romantic ...
Plot:
world war two, interfaith relationship, friends, forbidden love, friendship, fall in love, father daughter relationship, couples, couple relations, opposites attract, love affair, social differences ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1986
Place:
jerusalem, middle east, israel, palestine
Similarity:
32%
4K
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK, USA, West Germany
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
During WWII, the United States set up army bases in Great Britain as part of the war effort. Against their proper sensibilities, many of the Brits don't much like the brash Yanks, especially when it comes to the G.I.s making advances on the ...
Style:
serious, realistic, emotional, touching, historical drama ...
Plot:
world war two, soldier, wartime life, forbidden love, premarital sex, american abroad, prejudice, racism, infidelity, couple relations, love affair, world war ...
Time:
1940s, year 1979, 20th century, year 1942
Place:
england, yorkshire, northern england, europe
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A sergeant must deal with his desires to save the lives of young soldiers being sent to Vietnam. Continuously denied the chance to teach the soldiers about his experiences, he settles for trying to help the son of an old army buddy.
Style:
realistic, intense, harsh, bleak, serious ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
vietnam war, military, war, politics, soldier, casualty of war, justice, military life, civil war, wartime, dialogue, life is a bitch ...
Time:
20th century, year 1987, 60s, year 1968
Place:
washington d.c., vietnam, usa, indochina, iraq
Similarity:
31%
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:
31%
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK, Russia
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Nazi POWs suspected of heinous acts are locked up in a Soviet women's prison run by vengeful female guards. To weed out the guilty, the innocent must pay. Can supposed enemies turn into great loves? Based on a true post-World War II story, this ...
Style:
sincere, realistic, captivating, period piece, emotional ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
sex scene, wartime life, male nudity, public nudity, holocaust, soldier, prisoners of war, captivity, against humanity, genocide, prison life, heroes ...
Time:
1940s, post world war two
Place:
soviet union, europe, russia, st. petersburg russia, ussr
Similarity:
31%
163K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA, Italy, Romania
Duration: 154 min.
Story:
In this classic story of love and devotion set against the backdrop of the American Civil War, a wounded Confederate soldier named W.P. Inman deserts his unit and travels across the South, aiming to return to his young wife, Ada, who he left behind ...
Style:
romantic, sincere, epic, sexy, period piece ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
american civil war, love story, survival, civil war, tragic love, lovers reunited, slavery, tragic romance, loss of family member, star crossed lovers, getting home, loss of loved one ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1800s, 1860s, year 2003 ...
Place:
north carolina, usa, south carolina, appalachia, charleston south carolina ...
Similarity:
31%
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