Movies like Merry Christmas

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Merry Christmas (2005)
 7.7
 32K
Merry Christmas (2005)
Original name: Joyeux Noël
Genre: Drama, History, Music, Romance, War
Country: France, Germany, UK, Belgium, Romania, Japan
Duration: 116 min.
Story: In 1914, World War I, the bloodiest war ever at that time in human history, was well under way. However on Christmas Eve, numerous sections of the Western Front called an informal, and unauthorized, truce where the various front-line soldiers of the conflict peacefully met each other in No Man's Land to share a precious pause in the carnage with a fleeting brotherhood.
Style: uplifting, touching, sincere, emotional, captivating, political, christian film, realistic, educational, spiritual ...
Audience: teens
Plot: christmas, world war one, truce, war, soldier, holiday, human spirit, idealism, christmas eve, friendship, trench warfare, prejudice, initially antagonists, winter, great war, military, anti war, battles, soccer, hopes, german army, new year, military life, behind enemy lines, battle zone ...
Time: 1910s, 20th century, year 2005, 1920s, year 1914
Place: france, europe, berlin germany, holland, prussia, glasgow scotland, oslo norway ...
Keyword: german, french, jewish, scot, latin, mass, challenge, eye candy

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Most similar movies to Merry Christmas

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, epic and captivating films with plots about war, soldier, military, death, great war, battles and wartime mostly in Drama, War and History genres. Some movies like Merry Christmas: Testament of Youth (2014), Silent Night (2002), Flags of Our Fathers (2006), The Thin Red Line (1998), Captain Corelli's Mandolin (2001). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Testament of Youth (2014)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, 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, serious, romantic ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, teens
Plot: world war one, wartime, war, aspiring writer, women, death, poetry, nurse, life is a bitch, wartime life, love and romance, love affair ...
Time: 1910s, 20th century, 1920s, edwardian era, 2010s ...
Place: england, oxford university, london, yorkshire, france ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.5
 2K
Silent Night (2002)
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Fact-based World War II story set on Christmas Eve, 1944, finds a German Mother and her son seeking refuge in a cabin on the war front. When she is invaded by three American soldiers and then three German soldiers, she successfully convinces the ...
Style: captivating, uplifting, realistic, serious, christmas special ...
Audience: family outing, girls' night
Plot: christmas eve, anti war, world war two, christmas, american soldier, soldier, military, friendship, nazi, boy, danger, single parent ...
Time: 1940s, year 1944
Place: germany, europe, africa, dunkirk
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Flags of Our Fathers (2006)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story: There were five Marines and one Navy Corpsman photographed raising the U.S. flag on Mt. Suribachi by Joe Rosenthal on February 23, 1945. This is the story of three of the six surviving servicemen – John 'Doc' Bradley, Pvt. Rene Gagnon ...
Style: realistic, emotional, sincere, epic, factual ...
Plot: war, military, world war two, propaganda, wartime, battles, guilt, survival, world war, fame, american history, political intrigue ...
Time: year 2006, 1940s, 20th century
Place: japan, asia, pacific ocean, america, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Thin Red Line (1998)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 170 min.
Story: Based on the graphic novel by James Jones, The Thin Red Line tells the story of a group of men, an Army Rifle company called C-for-Charlie, who change, suffer, and ultimately make essential discoveries about themselves during the fierce World War II ...
Style: epic, visually stunning, visual, philosophical, visually appealing ...
Plot: war, sergeant, jungle, soldier, world war two, infantry, anti war, pacific war, pacific island, existentialism, survival, world war ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, 90s, year 1998
Place: asia, america, japan, pacific ocean
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Captain Corelli's Mandolin (2001)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance, War
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story: When a Greek fisherman leaves to fight with the Greek army during WWII, his fiancee falls in love with the local Italian commander. The film is based on a novel about an Italian soldier's experiences during the Italian occupation of the Greek ...
Style: sentimental, romantic, intense, melancholic, realistic ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: world war two, war, italian army, wartime, resistance fighter, fascism, world war, love and romance, social relations, fall in love, impossible love, wartime life ...
Time: 1940s, year 2001, 20th century
Place: greece, europe, albania
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.2
 165K
War Horse (2011)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, War
Country: USA, India
Duration: 146 min.
Story: Follows a young man named Albert and his horse, Joey, and how their bond is broken when Joey is sold to the cavalry and sent to the trenches of World War One. Despite being too young to enlist, Albert heads to France to save his friend.
Style: touching, emotional, epic, uplifting, sentimental ...
Audience: family outing, date night, girls' night, teens, teen drama ...
Plot: world war one, horse, war, friendship, animal training, animal, battles, human spirit, wartime, battlefield, danger, military ...
Time: 1910s, 20th century, 2010s, 1920s, year 2011 ...
Place: england, belgium, britain, america, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 7.4
 42K
Gallipoli (1981)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, War
Country: Australia
Duration: 110 min.
Story: As World War I rages, brave and youthful Australians Archy and Frank, both agile runners, become friends and enlist in the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps together. They later find themselves part of the Dardanelles Campaign on the Gallipoli ...
Style: touching, atmospheric, harsh, emotional, intense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: world war one, military, anti war, friendship, war, idealism, human spirit, wartime, great war, social commentary, politics, british army ...
Time: 1910s, 20th century, year 1915, year 1981, 1920s
Place: australia, ottoman empire, egypt, gallipoli, turkey ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 5.9
 4K
The Trench (1999)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: France, UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The Trench tells the story of a group of young British soldiers on the eve of the Battle of the Somme in the summer of 1916, the worst defeat in British military history. Against this ill-fated backdrop, the movie depicts the soldiers' ...
Style: independent film, captivating, realistic, serious, gloomy ...
Plot: world war one, soldier, military, great war, war, battlefield, world war, 007, intrigue, nature, world war two, holocaust ...
Time: 1910s, year 1916
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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The Flowers of War (2011)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: China
Duration: 146 min.
Story: A Westerner finds refuge with a group of women in a church during Japan's rape of Nanking in 1937. Posing as a priest, he attempts to lead the women to safety.
Style: touching, emotional, realistic, harsh, visually stunning ...
Plot: world war two, atrocity, war, japanese occupation of china, prostitution, holocaust, sino japanese war, prostitute, wartime, genocide, oppression, rape ...
Time: 20th century, year 1937, ancient times, 1930s
Place: china, asia, east asia, seattle
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
The Lighthorsemen (1987)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Australia
Duration: 131 min.
Story: Palestine, 1917. The British advance has been stopped by the Turkish line running from Gaza to Beersheba. The latest attack on Gaza has failed. The attacking forces included a regiment of Australian mounted infantry, the Light Horse... Lighthorseman ...
Style: serious, realistic, disturbing, tense, anamorphic ...
Plot: world war one, military, soldier, horse, battles, great war, heroic mission, basic training, against the odds, danger, military life, wartime life ...
Time: 1910s, year 1917, year 1987
Place: australia, palestine, gallipoli, ottoman empire, melbourne ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Beneath Hill 60 (2010)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Australia
Duration: 122 min.
Story: The true story of Australia's cat-and-mouse underground mine warfare – one of the most misunderstood, misrepresented and mystifying conflicts of WW I. It was a secret struggle BENEATH the Western Front that combined daring engineering, ...
Style: tense, realistic, serious, emotional, uplifting ...
Plot: world war one, military, war, great war, human spirit, hopes, trench warfare, danger, tunnel, world war, life is a bitch, brutality ...
Time: 20th century, year 1916, 1910s
Place: gallipoli, belgium, europe, germany, australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Passchendaele (2008)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Canada
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Sergeant Michael Dunne fights in the 10th Battalion, AKA The "Fighting Tenth" with the 1st Canadian Division and participated in all major Canadian battles of the war, and set the record for highest number of individual bravery awards for ...
Style: realistic, serious, rough, emotional, epic ...
Plot: world war one, veteran, military, battlefield, battles, platoon, great war, military life, heroic mission, love and romance, heroes, state affairs ...
Time: 1910s, 50s, 20th century, year 1917
Place: belgium, canada, flanders, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
A Very Long Engagement (2004)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, War
Country: France, USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story: In 1919, Mathilde was 19 years old. Two years earlier, her fiancé Manech left for the front at the Somme. Like millions of others he was "killed on the field of battle." It's written in black and white on the official notice. But ...
Style: romantic, touching, atmospheric, epic, colorful ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: world war one, war, love and romance, wartime, life & death, private detective, investigation, obsession, tragedy, relationships, lighthouse, against the odds ...
Time: 2000s, 1920s, year 2004, 1910s, 20th century ...
Place: france, paris france, europe, marseille, brittany ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
We Were Soldiers (2002)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: France, Germany, USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story: The story of the first major battle of the American phase of the Vietnam War and the soldiers on both sides that fought it.
Style: serious, factual, realistic, emotional, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: military, vietnam war, war, battles, soldier, battlefield, army, military life, heroic mission, wartime, justice, u.s. army ...
Time: 20th century, year 2002, 60s, 2000s
Place: vietnam, america, asia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 6.5
 44K
Flyboys (2006)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 140 min.
Story: The adventures of the Lafayette Escadrille, young Americans who volunteered for the French military before the U.S. entered World War I, and became the country's first fighter pilots.
Style: harsh, exciting, realistic, factual, epic ...
Audience: boys' night, date night
Plot: war, world war one, aerial combat, airplane, fighter pilot, aviation, zeppelin, vengeance, biplane, fight scenes, great war, love story ...
Time: 1910s, 20th century, year 2006
Place: europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 8.1
 370K
Hotel Rwanda (2004)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: UK, South Africa, Italy, USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Inspired by true events, this film takes place in Rwanda in the 1990s when more than a million Tutsis were killed in a genocide that went mostly unnoticed by the rest of the world. Hotel owner Paul Rusesabagina houses over a thousand refuges in his ...
Style: emotional, intense, informative, rough, political ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: genocide, racism, war, hotel, against humanity, cruelty, civil war, refugee, politics, war crime, murder, un ...
Time: 20th century, year 2004, 90s, 2000s
Place: rwanda, africa, south africa, congo, somalia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 6.7
 11K
Journey's End (2017)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Set in a dugout in Aisne in 1918, a group of British officers, led by the mentally disintegrating young officer Stanhope, variously await their fate.
Style: suspense, psychological, period piece, thought provoking, captivating ...
Audience: date night
Plot: world war one, trench warfare, war, great war, british army, mentally unstable, army, officer, world war two, battles, fear, nightmare ...
Time: year 1918, 1910s, future
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Saints and Soldiers (2003)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Five American soldiers fighting in Europe during World War II struggle to return to Allied territory after being separated from U.S. forces during the historic Malmedy Massacre.
Style: touching, intense, emotional, rough, epic ...
Plot: world war two, military, behind enemy lines, soldier, war, world war, battles, winter, survival, friendship, pow, allies ...
Time: 1940s, year 1944, 20th century
Place: belgium, germany, europe, chicago, new york ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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 7.6
 31K
Gettysburg (1993)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 271 min.
Story: Summer 1863. The Confederacy pushes north into Pennsylvania. Union divisions converge to face them. The two great armies clash at Gettysburg, site of a theology school. For three days, through such legendary actions as Little Round Top and ...
Style: epic, factual, realistic, captivating, serious ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: american civil war, military, battles, war, civil war, slavery, civil rights, soldier, usa history, battlefield, prejudice, infantry ...
Time: 19th century, 1800s, 1860s
Place: usa, pennsylvania, maryland
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
The Great War (2019)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: In November of 1918 as World War I was ending, a unit of American soldiers goes behind enemy lines to find a lost platoon of African American soldiers.
Style: captivating, serious
Audience: boys' night
Plot: world war one, trench warfare, military, soldier, rescue mission, battles, military life, infantrymen, death, army, wartime life, battlefield ...
Time: 1910s, 20th century, year 1918
Place: europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
The Officers' Ward (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: France
Duration: 135 min.
Story: The first days of WWI. Adrien, a young and handsome lieutenant, is wounded by a piece of shrapnel. He will spend the entire wartime at the Val-de-Grâce Hospital, in Paris. Five long years, and his life will change forever...
Style: serious, touching, uplifting, realistic, psychological ...
Plot: world war one, military, anti war, wartime, soldier, starting over, hopes, war, human spirit, life turned upside down, wartime life, bravery ...
Time: year 2001, 1910s, year 1918, year 1914, post world war one
Place: france, paris france, europe, brittany
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 6.3
 13K
The Red Baron (2008)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Biography, Drama, Romance, War
Country: Germany, UK
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Richthofen goes off to war like thousands of other men. As fighter pilots, they become cult heroes for the soldiers on the battlefields. Marked by sportsmanlike conduct, technical exactitude and knightly propriety, they have their own code of ...
Style: emotional, captivating, exciting, sincere, touching ...
Audience: date night
Plot: world war one, soldier, fighter pilot, airplane, aviation, flying, great war, fall in love, rise to the top, pilot, airplane shot down, heroes ...
Time: 1910s, year 2008, 1900s, 20th century
Place: germany, europe, belgium, france, berlin germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 7.5
 38K
Stalingrad (1993)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 134 min.
Story: "Stalingrad" follows the progress of a German Platoon through the brutal fighting of the Battle of Stalingrad. After having half their number wiped out and after being placed under the command of a sadistic Captain, the Lieutenant of the ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, gloomy, rough ...
Plot: world war two, war, battles, nazism, soldier, eastern front, military, holocaust, starvation, survival, military life, winter ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1942, year 1943
Place: russia, germany, europe, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Captain Conan (1996)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Bulgaria near the end of World War I: Conan, warrior and wolf, leads a band of 50 ruthless French fighters who love hand-to-hand combat. Their motto: "We forgot to take prisoners, Captain." At war's end, the unit goes to Bucharest, ...
Style: rough, serious, realistic, suspense
Plot: world war one, french army, military life, brutality, society, heroism, great war, insubordination, danger, interwar period, world war, european ...
Time: year 1918, 20th century, year 1996, 1910s, year 1919 ...
Place: macedonia, bulgaria, romania, europe, balkan ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 141 min.
Story: The story of the battle of Iwo Jima between the United States and Imperial Japan during World War II, as told from the perspective of the Japanese who fought it.
Style: bleak, realistic, epic, contemplative, disturbing ...
Audience: family outing, adult
Plot: world war two, war, military, japanese history, battles, survival, anti war, japanese army, imperial japan, brutality, japanese military, violence ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 2006, 2000s, ancient times ...
Place: japan, asia, nebraska, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 7.6
 12K
Shooting Dogs (2005)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Two westerners, a priest and a teacher find themselves in the middle of the Rwandan genocide and face a moral dilemna. Do they place themselves in danger and protect the refugees, or escape the country with their lives? Based on a true story.
Style: disturbing, bleak, sad, emotional, sincere ...
Plot: genocide, politics, violence, survival, rwandan genocide, survivor, priest, teacher, against the odds, fighting the system, moral dilemma, human spirit ...
Time: year 2005, 90s, year 1994
Place: africa, rwanda, united kingdom
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 7.9
 82K
Doctor Zhivago (1965)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Italy, UK, USA
Duration: 197 min.
Story: Doctor Zhivago is the filmed adapation of the Russian novel by Boris Pasternak from director David Lean that was an international success and today deemed a classic. Omar Sharif and Julie Christie play two protagonists who in fact love each other ...
Style: epic, atmospheric, emotional, visual, costume drama ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: world war one, revolution, communism, war, wartime, train, rape, love triangle, poet, communist, imperial russia, betrayal ...
Time: 20th century, 1920s, 1910s, 1940s, year 1965 ...
Place: russia, soviet union, moscow russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 7.1
 258K
Valkyrie (2008)
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: USA, Germany, Italy, Spain, France, Japan, UK
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Wounded in Africa during World War II, Nazi Col. Claus von Stauffenberg returns to his native Germany and joins the Resistance in a daring plan to create a shadow government and assassinate Adolf Hitler. When events unfold so that he becomes a ...
Style: factual, bad ending, tense, captivating, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: world war two, nazi, nazism, war, nazi germany, hitler, conspiracy, resistance, german soldier, politics, wehrmacht, espionage ...
Time: 1940s, year 2008, year 1944, year 1943, 20th century
Place: germany, berlin germany, europe, bavaria, tunisia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 7.2
 292K
The Patriot (2000)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 165 min.
Story: After proving himself on the field of battle in the French and Indian War, Benjamin Martin wants nothing more to do with such things, preferring the simple life of a farmer. But when his son Gabriel enlists in the army to defend their new nation, ...
Style: period piece, dramatic, rough, uplifting, factual ...
Audience: manly, family friendly, kids, boys' night, adult
Plot: american revolution, war, freedom, revolution, military, battles, vengeance, rebellion, human spirit, heroic mission, wartime, combat ...
Time: 18th century, year 2000, georgian era, y2k, 1780s ...
Place: south carolina, america, southern usa, virginia, britain ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
A Bridge Too Far (1977)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 175 min.
Story: A Bridge Too Far tells the story of Operation Market Garden, the failed attempt by the allies to end the war quickly by securing three bridges in Holland and allowing access over the Rhine into Germany. A combination of poor allied intelligence and ...
Style: epic, realistic, suspense, intense, serious ...
Audience: manly
Plot: world war two, war, behind enemy lines, wartime, military, tank, combat, military operation, courage, allies, soldier, army ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1944
Place: germany, america, netherlands, europe, united kingdom ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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