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Lacombe, Lucien (1974)
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Lacombe, Lucien (1974)
Original name: Lacombe Lucien
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 138 min.
Story: In 1944 Lucien Lacombe, a young peasant in the Lot region is refused permission to join the French Resistance. Instead, the opposing "French Gestapo" obtain from him information about an underground leader and recruit him into their organization.Lucien enjoys his power and inclusion as a member of the German Police (Milice française) but soon falls in love with a Jewish girl. Forcing himself upon her family, Lucien becomes personally involved with the very people some of his collaborators and superiors are, in part, employed to oppress.
Style: anthology, art house, postmodern, visual, psychological, sincere, serious, realistic, disturbing, controversial ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: world war two, french resistance, occupation, collaborator, children in wartime, gestapo, nazi occupation, resistance, nazi, wartime life, resistance movement, holocaust, wartime, world war, interracial relations, female nudity, boy, genocide, corruption, foreign legion, legion, adolescence, trippy, traumatic childhood, colonialism ...
Time: year 1944, 1940s, 20th century, year 1974
Place: france, vichy, israel, europe, germany
Keyword: jewish, visit, outburst, cricket the game, retrospective

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, captivating and crying films with plots about world war two, nazi, wartime life, death, war, holocaust and cigarette smoking mostly in Drama, War and History genres. Some movies like Lacombe, Lucien: The Savior (1971), Goodbye, Children (1987), The Exception (2016), The Army of Shadows (1969), The Tin Drum (1979). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Savior (1971)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: This is rural France. It's the summer of 1943, the weather is fine and sunny and life is sweet. On one of these beautiful days, Nanette, a fourteen-year-old peasant girl, meets a slightly injured young man near the farm she lives on. Her life ...
Style: neurotic, crying
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Time: 1940s, year 1943
Place: germany, france
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Goodbye, Children (1987)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France, West Germany, Italy
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A French boarding school run by priests seems to be a haven from World War II until a new student arrives. He becomes the roommate of top student in his class. Rivals at first, the roommates form a bond and share a secret.
Style: sad, heartbreaking, depressing, art house, christian film ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
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Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1987
Place: france, israel, vichy, paris france, europe ...
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The Exception (2016)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK, USA, Germany, Belgium
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A German soldier tries to determine if the Dutch resistance has planted a spy to infiltrate the home of Kaiser Wilhelm in Holland during the onset of World War II, but falls for a young Jewish Dutch woman during his investigation.
Style: suspense, captivating, exciting, suspenseful, tense ...
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Place: germany, berlin germany, poland, netherlands, holland
⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Army of Shadows (1969)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 145 min.
Story: Betrayed by an informant, Philippe Gerbier (Lino Ventura) finds himself trapped in a torturous Nazi prison camp. Though Gerbier escapes to rejoin the Resistance in occupied Marseilles, France, and exacts his revenge on the informant, he must ...
Style: noir, visually appealing, art house, captivating, stylized ...
Plot: french resistance, world war two, espionage, terrorist, nazi, resistance, spy, wartime, world war, betrayal, nazism, secret agent ...
Time: 1940s, year 1969, 20th century, year 1943, year 1942
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The Tin Drum (1979)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: West Germany, France, Poland
Duration: 142 min.
Story: Oskar is born in Germany in 1924 with an advanced intellect. Repulsed by the hypocrisy of adults and the irresponsibility of society, he refuses to grow older after his third birthday.
Style: surreal, controversial, disturbing, art house, harsh ...
Plot: world war two, fascism, coming of age, nazi, circus, boy, wartime life, magic realism, life is a bitch, political unrest, beach, against humanity ...
Time: 1930s, 1940s, 20th century, 1920s, year 1979 ...
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Duration: 148 min.
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Winter in Wartime (2008)
Genre: Drama, History, War
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Duration: 103 min.
Story: During World War II in the freezing Netherlands winter of 1944/1945 the western Netherlands are in the grip of a famine. Many people move east to provide for their families. Fourteen year old Michiel can't wait to join the Dutch resistance, to ...
Style: tense, exciting, realistic, serious, captivating ...
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Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 2008
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Salon Kitty (1976)
Genre: Drama, War
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Duration: 129 min.
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Style: erotic, disturbing, sexy, controversial, sensual ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia, Austria
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Style: realistic, touching, sincere, contemplative, epic ...
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Country: West Germany
Duration: 105 min.
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29%
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28%
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⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Calm at Sea (2011)
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