Movies like Phoenix
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Phoenix (2014)
19K
Genre: Drama, History, Music, Romance
Country: Germany, Poland
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A disfigured concentration-camp survivor, unrecognizable after facial reconstruction surgery, searches ravaged postwar Berlin for the husband who might have betrayed her to the Nazis.
Style:
psychological, atmospheric, enigmatic, tricky, poignant, social, stylized, neo noir, light, romantic ...
Plot:
betrayal, world war two, haunted by the past, hospital, survivor, brutality, secret, violence against women, holocaust survivor, holocaust, jewish, divorce, husband wife relationship, surgery, strong female character, love, homecoming, war, suspense, nazi, german, blindness, catastrophe, twists and turns, revenge ...
Time:
1940s, year 1943, 20th century, year 1945, year 1944, year 1938, 1930s ...
Place:
europe, berlin germany, israel, tokyo, germany, switzerland, palestine ...
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Most similar movies to Phoenix
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, dramatic and melancholic films with plots about culture clash, runaway, storytelling, catastrophe, betrayal, beautiful scenery and mentor mostly in Drama, Romance and War genres. Some movies like Phoenix: Cold War (2018), Barbara (2012), Gloomy Sunday (1999), The White Countess (2005), Lili Marleen (1981). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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59K
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Poland, UK, France, Belgium
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A Cold War-era love story follows the passionate love affair between a mismatched couple.
Style:
romantic, sad, thought provoking, art film, tragic ending ...
Plot:
cold war, musician, audition, love, female singer, loveless marriage, communism, love story, suicide, tragic love, jazz, folklore ...
Time:
50s, 60s, year 1964, year 1949, year 1959 ...
Place:
paris france, poland, east berlin, former yugoslavia, eastern europe ...
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100%
15K
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
It is the summer of 1980 in East Germany and, alone, Barbara is confined to living and working as a doctor in a small provincial town - her punishment for attempting to emigrate to the West. She has only one focus; to escape and for this, she has to ...
Style:
tense, melancholic, compassionate, atmospheric, psychological ...
Plot:
stasi, german, cold war, fascism, doctor, introspection, character study, confined, power relations, life is a bitch, society, communism ...
Time:
80s, 70s, 20th century, year 1980
Place:
east germany, germany, berlin germany, california, german democratic republic ...
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75%
Genre: Romance, Drama
Country: Germany, Hungary
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Budapest in the thirties. The restaurant owner Laszlo hires the pianist András to play in his restaurant. Both men fall in love with the beautiful waitress Ilona who inspires András to his only composition. His song of Gloomy Sunday is, at first, ...
Style:
sentimental, sexy, harsh, sincere, emotional ...
Plot:
holocaust, love triangle, sex, suicide, jealousy, menage a trois, world war two, manipulation, infidelity, love and romance, musician's life, occupation ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, 20th century
Place:
budapest, hungary, germany, england, eastern europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: UK, Germany, China, USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
The last movie from the team of Ismail Merchant, James Ivory, and Kazuo Ishiguro. Set in 1930s Shanghai, "The White Countess" is both Sofia (Natasha Richardson), a fallen member of the Russian aristocracy, and a nightclub created by a ...
Style:
romantic, sentimental, emotional, atmospheric, touching ...
Plot:
blindness, love story, world war two, russian, friendship, love and romance, unlikely couple, couple relations, couples, fall in love, politics, intrigue ...
Time:
1930s, post world war two, 20th century, year 1937, year 1936 ...
Place:
china, russia, asia, macau, shanghai ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance, War
Country: West Germany
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Lili Marleen is the story of a German singer named Wilkie who while working in Switzerland falls in love with a Jewish composer named Robert who’s family is helping people to flee from the Nazis. Roberts family is skeptical of Walkie thinking she ...
Style:
stylized, clever, witty, atmospheric, art house ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
nazi germany, nazi, world war two, women, wartime, wartime life, nude, love, german, writers, brutality, sacrifice ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, 20th century, year 1938
Place:
germany, berlin germany, new jersey, vienna, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Films like Schindler's List
15K
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Germany, Austria, Canada, Hungary, France, UK, USA
Duration: 181 min.
Story:
The film follows a Jewish family living in Hungary through three generations, rising from humble beginnings to positions of wealth and power in the crumbling Austro-Hungarian Empire. The patriarch becomes a prominent judge but is torn when his ...
Style:
erotic, sexy, political, enigmatic, talky ...
Plot:
holocaust, jewish, anti semitism, world war two, nazi, sex scene, society, political unrest, family life, siblings relations, politics, wartime ...
Time:
19th century, 1940s, 20th century, 90s, 50s ...
Place:
hungary, eastern europe, israel, serbia, sarajevo ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: Denmark, Germany, Norway, France, Sweden, Finland, Czech Republic
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
During Nazi occupation, red-headed Bent Faurschou-Hviid ("Flame") and Jørgen Haagen Schmith ("Citron"), assassins in the Danish resistance, take orders from Winther, who's in direct contact with Allied leaders. One shoots, ...
Style:
realistic, sincere, factual, tense, atmospheric ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
war, world war two, gestapo, resistance, betrayal, spy, nazi, dishonesty, nazism, wartime, double agent, organized crime ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, post world war two, year 1940, year 1944
Place:
denmark, germany, poland, copenhagen, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
34K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
There is just one week until Kate Mercer's 45th wedding anniversary and the planning for the party is going well. But then a letter arrives for her husband. The body of his first love has been discovered, frozen and preserved in the icy ...
Style:
art house, melancholic, psychological, touching, cerebral ...
Plot:
old woman, marriage, secret, anniversary, aging, childless couple, death, promise, character study, haunted by the past, elderly, jealousy ...
Time:
year 1962, 21st century
Place:
england, tokyo, usa, switzerland
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Superficial people are revealed and drastically changed by circumstance or luck in this a tale of death, seduction, blackmail and theft among British and Americans in Florence in the turbulent days just before World War II.
Style:
serious, stylized, suspenseful, atmospheric, romantic ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
widow, blackmail, infidelity, refugee, vacation, destructive relationship, fall in love, couples, false accusation, dishonesty, seduction, loveless marriage ...
Time:
1930s, 19th century, 20th century, year 1938, pre world war two
Place:
italy, england, florence, europe, rome italy ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Colonel Chabert has been severely wounded in the French-Russian Napoleonic war to the point that the medical examiner has signed his death certificate. When he regains his health and memory, he goes back to Paris, where his "widow", Anne ...
Style:
harsh, talky, disturbing, stylized, serious ...
Plot:
betrayal, napoleonic wars, battles, military, war, haunted by the past, homecoming, aristocracy, life is a bitch, dishonesty, infidelity, wartime life ...
Time:
19th century, 1810s, 18th century
Place:
france, paris france, tokyo, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Movies similar to The Reader
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Berlin 1943/44 ("The Battle of Berlin"). Felice, an intelligent and courageous Jewish woman who lives under a false name, belongs to an underground organization. Lilly, a devoted mother of four, though an occasional unfaithful wife, is ...
Style:
romantic, erotic, sexy, thought provoking, light ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
lesbian, lesbian relationship, lesbian love, world war two, wartime life, holocaust, gays and lesbians, lesbian interest, woman in danger, forbidden love, lesbian mother, nazi ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1943, year 1944, year 1999
Place:
germany, berlin germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
In 1850, on the isolated French island of Saint-Pierre, a murder shocks the natives. Two fishermen are arrested. One of them, Louis Ollivier, dies in custody. The other, Neel Auguste, is sentenced to death by the guillotine. The island is so small ...
Style:
emotional, compassionate, atmospheric, sincere, touching ...
Plot:
murder, death row, prison, island, death sentence, tragic love, fighting the system, introspection, isolation, destiny, social differences, society ...
Time:
19th century, 50s, 1850s
Place:
france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: France, UK, Germany
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
Cio-Cio-San, a young Japanese geisha, seeks to fulfill her dreams through marriage to an American naval officer. Her faith in their future is shattered by his empty vows and the loss she endures touches something deep within us all.
Style:
sexy, sentimental, stylized, emotional, unusual plot structure ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
suicide, betrayal, interracial romance, marriage, adaptation, destiny, guilt, hospital, idealism, art, culture clash, childhood ...
Time:
18th century, 20th century
Place:
japan, tokyo, paris france, canada, china ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: China
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
An old leper who owned a remote sorghum winery dies. Jiu'er, the wife bought by the leper, and her lover, identified only as "my Grandpa" by the narrator, take over the winery and set up an idealized quasi-matriarchal community headed ...
Style:
tense, sexy, light, visually appealing, gloomy ...
Plot:
world war two, wine, sino japanese war, macabre, visceral, crime gone awry, transformation, tragedy, vengeance, twists and turns, minimal dialogue, chinese ...
Time:
1930s, 1920s, 1940s, 20th century
Place:
china, japan, tokyo, berlin germany, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Loosely based on the Charles Dickens' classic novel, "Great Expectations" is a sensual tale of a young man's unforgettable passage into manhood, and the three individuals who will undeniably change his life forever. Through the ...
Style:
romantic, emotional, sexy, touching, melancholic ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot:
childhood, art, destiny, artist, love, love story, fall in love, understanding, painting, stranger, social differences, inheritance ...
Time:
20th century, 19th century, 80s, 18th century, 90s ...
Place:
new york, usa, london, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Movies like Valkyrie
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance, War
Country: UK, France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A young refugee travels from Russia to America in search of her lost father and falls in love with a gypsy horseman.
Style:
lyrical, intense, touching, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
world war two, anti semitism, culture clash, gypsy, jewish, love story, secrets, wartime, adaptation, family relations, adoption, holocaust ...
Time:
1930s, 1920s, 20th century
Place:
russia, england, paris france, france, poland ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
16K
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Australia, Germany, UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
After her Nazi parents are imprisoned, Lore leads her younger siblings across a war-torn Germany in 1945. Amidst the chaos, she encounters mysterious Jewish refugee Thomas, who shatters her fragile reality with hatred and desire. To live, she must ...
Style:
tense, disturbing, bleak, psychological, harsh ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
nazi, survival, world war two, coming of age, nazism, holocaust, youth, war, children, hitler, jewish, suspense ...
Time:
1940s, post world war two, 20th century, year 1945
Place:
germany, berlin germany, australia, poland, hamburg germany ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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, world war two, concentration camp, war, redemption, anti semitism, jewish, nazi germany, rebellion, moral ambiguity, tragedy ...
Time:
1940s, year 1944, 20th century, post world war two
Place:
germany, poland, europe, israel, budapest
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Russia, Ukraine, Bulgaria, France, Spain
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
June 1946: Stalin invites Russian emigres to return to the motherland. It's a trap: when a ship-load from France arrives in Odessa, only a physician and his family are spared execution or prison. He and his French wife (her passport ripped up) ...
Style:
touching, heartbreaking, realistic, harsh, sentimental ...
Plot:
kgb, propaganda, survival, freedom, brutality, destiny, tragedy, runaway, communism, world war two, love story, brainwashing ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, post world war two, year 1946
Place:
france, russia, ussr, germany, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
249K
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, tense, bad ending, suspenseful, captivating ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
world war two, nazi, war, nazism, hitler, conspiracy, nazi germany, suspense, resistance, politics, german soldier, wehrmacht ...
Time:
1940s, year 1944, post world war two, year 1943, 20th century
Place:
germany, berlin germany, africa, poland, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: UK, Australia, Germany
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
This is a drama set in Nazi-occupied France at the height of World War II. Charlotte Gray tells the compelling story of a young Scottish woman working with the French Resistance in the hope of rescuing her lover, a missing RAF pilot. Based on the ...
Style:
sexy, sentimental, romantic, captivating, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
world war two, espionage, resistance, war, nazi, spy, wartime life, holocaust, women, jewish, french resistance, secret agents ...
Time:
1940s, post world war two, 20th century
Place:
france, london, germany, england, paris france ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Genre: Drama, Music, Mystery, Romance
Country: France, Poland, Switzerland
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Julie is haunted by her grief after living through a tragic auto wreck that claimed the life of her composer husband and young daughter. Her initial reaction is to withdraw from her relationships, lock herself in her apartment and suppress her pain. ...
Style:
reflective, atmospheric, emotional, art house, sexy ...
Plot:
loss of child, loneliness, depression, isolation, stripper, solitude, existentialism, love, grief, art, philosophy, obsession ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
paris france, france, poland, eastern europe, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Kate is secretly betrothed to a struggling journalist, Merton Densher. But she knows her Aunt Maude will never approve of the match, since Kate's deceased mother has lost all her money in a marriage to a degenerate opium addict. When Kate meets ...
Style:
atmospheric, sexy, serious, romantic, stylized ...
Plot:
love, love triangle, relationships, nude, greed, death, betrayal, fall in love, power relations, rich and poor, couple relations, melancholy ...
Time:
1910s, edwardian era, 19th century, victorian era, 1920s ...
Place:
england, london, europe, italy, venice
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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250K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
The story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a teenager in the late 1950s, had an affair with an older woman, Hanna, who then disappeared only to resurface years later as one of the defendants in a war crimes trial stemming from her actions as ...
Style:
sexy, melancholic, touching, emotional, sexual ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
coming of age, older woman younger man relationship, age difference, forbidden love, court, first love, nazi, holocaust, older woman younger man sex, secret, world war two, sex ...
Time:
year 1958, year 1988, year 1966, post world war two, year 1980 ...
Place:
germany, israel, west berlin west germany, hamburg germany, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Italy, West Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
In late 1930s Ferrara, Italy, the Finzi-Continis are a leading family: wealthy, aristocratic, and urbane; they are also Jewish. Their adult children, Micol and Alberto, gather a diverse circle of friends for tennis and parties at their villa with ...
Style:
thought provoking, disturbing, compassionate, breathtaking, emotional ...
Plot:
fascism, holocaust, world war two, anti semitism, jewish, assassination, tennis, family relations, unrequited love, brother sister relationship, family life, life is a bitch ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 1930s, 19th century
Place:
italy, poland, germany, israel, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Near the end of World War II, Maria marries Hermann, who is immediately sent off to battle. When the war concludes, Maria believes that Hermann is dead. She starts working at an Allied bar, where she meets American soldier Bill. They start a ...
Style:
psychological, emotional, thought provoking, touching, realistic ...
Plot:
marriage, world war two, infidelity, wartime life, love triangle, german woman, lovers reunited, couples, rise to the top, businesswoman, love and romance, human nature ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, post world war two, 20th century, 50s ...
Place:
berlin germany, germany, canada, europe, west germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Andrea, a gifted young Polish violinist from Krakow, is bound for America when he is swept overboard by a storm. When the Widdington sisters discover the handsome stranger on the beach below their house, they nurse him back to health. However, the ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, atmospheric, emotional, sexy ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
golden years, friendship, violinist, sister sister relationship, musician, dancing, polish, human nature, village life, sisters, aging, foreigner ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century
Place:
england, cornwall, london, poland, new jersey ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, China, Brazil, Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
In 1951, Marcus Messner, a working-class Jewish student from New Jersey, attends a small Ohio college, where he struggles with anti-Semitism, sexual repression, and the ongoing Korean War.
Style:
intellectual, melancholic, sexy, stylized, exciting ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
jewish, college, existentialism, adolescence, war, atheist, adaptation, coming of age, sexual repression, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, father son relationship, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
50s, year 1955, year 1951, 20th century
Place:
new jersey, ohio, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Young orphan Heathcliff is adopted by the wealthy Earnshaw family and moves into their estate, Wuthering Heights. Soon, the new resident falls for his compassionate foster sister, Cathy. The two share a remarkable bond that seems unbreakable until ...
Style:
romantic, atmospheric, gothic, emotional, melancholic ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
obsession, tragic love, forbidden love, social differences, revenge, master and servant, betrayal, haunted by the past, love, love story, love and romance, class differences ...
Time:
18th century, 19th century, regency period, georgian era, 70s
Place:
england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Vietnam, France
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A little girl, Mui, went to a house as a new servant. The mother still mourns the death of her daughter, who would have been Mui's age. In her mind she treated Mui as her daughter. 10 years later Mui (now a young woman) was sent to another ...
Style:
sexy, sweet, erotic, visually appealing, allegory ...
Plot:
peasant, friendship, music, buddhism, food, youth, coming of age, animal abuse, destiny, master and servant, death, cooking ...
Time:
60s, 50s, 20th century
Place:
vietnam, asia, saigon
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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