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Nowhere in Africa (2001)
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Nowhere in Africa (2001)
Original name: Nirgendwo in Afrika
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Germany
Duration: 141 min.
Story: A Jewish woman named Jettel Redlich flees Nazi Germany with her daughter Regina, to join her husband, Walter, on a farm in Kenya. At first, Jettel refuses to adjust to her new circumstances, bringing with her a set of china dishes and an evening gown. While Regina adapts readily to this new world, forming a strong bond with her father's cook, an African named Owuor.
Style: sincere, touching, emotional, thought provoking, captivating, visually stunning, realistic, sad, inspirational, serious ...
Plot: world war two, friendship, childhood, holocaust, exile, farm, culture clash, immigrant, family relations, wartime life, anti semitism, understanding, survival, starting over, nazi, society, human nature, hopes, judge, boarding school, food shortage, hockey, racism, adultery, emigrant ...
Time: 1930s, year 2002, 20th century, 1940s, 30s
Place: kenya, africa, germany, south africa, east africa, ethiopia, israel ...
Keyword: jewish, german, superior

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, emotional and sincere films with plots about society, world war two, biopic, nazi, life is a bitch, against humanity and holocaust mostly in Drama, History and Biography genres. Some movies like Nowhere in Africa: Hotel Rwanda (2004), Out of Africa (1985), Schwabenkinder (2003), The Good Lie (2014), Saviors in the Night (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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 ...
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Out of Africa (1985)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 161 min.
Story: Out of Africa tells the story of the life of Danish author Karen Blixen, who at the beginning of the 20th century moved to Africa to build a new life for herself. The film is based on the autobiographical novel by Karen Blixen from 1937.
Style: touching, emotional, realistic, period piece, romantic ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: love story, colonialism, infidelity, writers, love and romance, love, mentor, unlikely friendships, adaptation, love affair, fall in love, destructive relationship ...
Time: 1910s, 1920s, 20th century, victorian era, year 1985 ...
Place: africa, kenya, south africa, denmark
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Schwabenkinder (2003)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Germany
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A man returning to his parents years after having been sent away as a child-laborer tells his lifetime story to his dying father.
Style: sincere, touching, captivating, psychological
Plot: child labor, coming of age, father son reunion, emigration, father son relationship, death of wife, farmer, mountain, child trafficking, poverty, slavery, farm ...
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100%
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The Good Lie (2014)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Kenya, India, USA, Canada, South Africa
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A young refugee of the Sudanese Civil War who wins a lottery for relocation to the United States with three other lost boys. Encountering the modern world for the first time, they develop an unlikely friendship with a brash American woman assigned ...
Style: inspirational, touching, sentimental, captivating, rough ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: refugee, survival, culture clash, friendship, childhood, children, courage, civil war, self sacrifice, life is a bitch, fish out of water, society ...
Time: 21st century
Place: africa, sudan, south africa, kenya, kansas ...
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Saviors in the Night (2009)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Drama, based on the book "Retter in der Nacht", in which Marga Spiegel tells her memories: In Westfalia of 1943 Marga Spiegel, her husband and her daughter are about to be deported. Yet westfalian farmers help the jewish family, grant ...
Style: serious, emotional, tense, realistic, bleak
Plot: holocaust, survival, friendship, false identity, hidden identity, woman in danger, genocide, life is a bitch, hopes, injustice, farm, wartime life ...
Time: 20th century
Place: germany, europe, france
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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
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29%
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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 ...
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Goodbye Bafana (2007)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Germany, France, Belgium, South Africa, Italy, UK, Luxembourg
Duration: 118 min.
Story: The true story of a white South African racist whose life was profoundly altered by the black prisoner he guarded for twenty years. The prisoner's name was Nelson Mandela.
Style: uplifting, realistic, serious, touching, political ...
Plot: racism, apartheid, racial violence, leadership, prison life, interracial relations, freedom fighter, friendship, rebellion, human spirit, fighting the system, self discovery ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 70s, 90s
Place: south africa, africa
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28%
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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
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28%
The Gathering Storm (2002)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A love story offering an intimate look inside the marriage of Winston and Clementine Churchill during a particularly troubled, though little-known, moment in their lives.
Style: sincere, realistic, serious, talky, political ...
Plot: world war two, british history, politics, winston churchill, biopic, state affairs, head of state, rise to the top, society, couple relations, husband wife relationship, world war ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, year 1934
Place: england, britain, europe, germany, united kingdom
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Hamsun (1996)
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Germany
Duration: 159 min.
Story: Knut Hamsun is Norway's most famous and admired author. Ever since he was young he has hated the English for the starvation they caused Norway during WWI. When the Germans occupy Norway 9 April 1940 he welcomes them and the protection they can ...
Style: sad, realistic, serious, emotional, sincere ...
Plot: world war two, holocaust, writers, world war, nazi, war, poet, biopic, writer's life, nobel prize winner, totalitarian state, fascism ...
Time: 1940s, year 1996, 1930s
Place: europe, germany
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27%
Labyrinth of Lies (2014)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Germany
Duration: 124 min.
Story: A young prosecutor in postwar West Germany investigates a massive conspiracy to cover up the Nazi pasts of prominent public figures.
Style: serious, disturbing, realistic, captivating, heartbreaking ...
Plot: holocaust, lawyer, nazi, investigation, prosecutor, world war two, idealism, fighting the system, nazi war criminal, post war germany, ex nazi, genocide ...
Time: 20th century, post world war two, 1950s, year 2014, year 1963 ...
Place: germany, frankfurt germany, west germany
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27%
The Zookeeper's Wife (2017)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Czech Republic, UK, USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: The account of keepers of the Warsaw Zoo, Jan and Antonina Zabinski, who helped save hundreds of people and animals during the Nazi invasion.
Style: factual, rough, sad, costume drama, suspense ...
Audience: chick flick
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Time: 1930s, year 2017, 1940s
Place: warsaw poland, poland, germany, central europe
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Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe (2016)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Austria, Germany, France
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Before Dawn charts the years of exile in the life of famous Jewish Austrian writer Stefan Zweig, his inner struggle for the "right attitude" towards the events in war torn Europe and his search for a new home.
Style: exciting, thought provoking, captivating, sincere, touching ...
Plot: writers, literature, husband wife relationship, exile, world war two, writing a book, ex husband ex wife relationship, judaism, art, sociology, politics, biopic ...
Time: 1940s, 1930s, year 1941, year 1942, year 1936
Place: germany, new york, buenos aires argentina, brazil
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The King's Speech (2010)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: The King's Speech tells the story of the man who became King George VI, the father of Queen Elizabeth II. After his brother abdicates, George ('Bertie') reluctantly assumes the throne. Plagued by a dreaded stutter and considered unfit ...
Style: inspirational, period piece, sincere, uplifting, dramatic ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, adult
Plot: british royal family, british history, world war two, stuttering, royal family, disability, queen, politics, unlikely friendships, british monarchy, king of england, historical character ...
Time: 1930s, year 2010, 2010s, pre world war two, 50s ...
Place: england, britain, london, united kingdom, scotland ...
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Reunion (1989)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: France, West Germany, UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Two young boys from very different backgrounds become friends in 1933 Stuttgart. However, they don't realize how different they are until much later as one is the son of a well-to-do Jewish doctor and the other the son of a German aristocrat. ...
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, disturbing, thought provoking
Plot: world war two, anti semitism, friendship, nazi, friendship between boys, against humanity, confined, society, youth, coming of age, religions or cults, homecoming ...
Time: 1940s, year 1989, 1930s
Place: europe, germany
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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
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When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit (2019)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Family, History, War
Country: Germany, Switzerland, Italy
Duration: 119 min.
Story: In 1933 in Berlin. Anna is only nine years old when her life changes from the ground up. To escape the Nazis, her father Arthur Kemper, a well-known Jewish journalist, has to flee to Zurich. His family, Anna, her twelve-year-old brother Max and her ...
Style: serious, sincere, touching, realistic
Plot: world war two, wartime life, oppression, refugee, anti semitism, heroes, human spirit, family in danger, girl, life turned upside down, nazism, danger ...
Time: year 2019, 1930s, year 1933
Place: germany, paris france, switzerland, berlin germany, swiss alps ...
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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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Europa Europa (1990)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Germany, France, Poland
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A Jewish boy separated from his family in the early days of WWII poses as a German orphan and is taken into the heart of the Nazi world as a 'war hero' and eventually becomes a Hitler Youth. Although improbabilities and happenstance are ...
Style: political, realistic, mind bending, psychedelic, surreal ...
Audience: date night
Plot: nazi, holocaust, hitler youth, circumcision, war, coming of age, genocide, childhood, survival, wartime, judaism, world war two ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, 90s, year 1990, 1930s
Place: germany, poland, berlin germany, eastern europe, latvia ...
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All About Me (2018)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, History
Country: Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Dramatised origin story of one of Germany's most beloved contemporary comedians.
Style: sincere, thought provoking, captivating, humorous, light ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: father son relationship, brother brother relationship, death of mother, fame, comedian, ambition, friendship, society, monkey, summer, lgbt, traumatic childhood ...
Time: year 1972, year 1971, year 1973
Place: germany
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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
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26%
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Desert Flower (2009)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, Germany, Austria, France
Duration: 120 min.
Story: The autobiography of a Somalian nomad who was sold in marriage at 13, fled from Africa a while later to become finally an American supermodel and is now at the age of 38, the UN spokeswoman against female genital mutilation.
Style: sincere, touching, captivating, realistic, thought provoking ...
Plot: supermodel, immigrant, life is a bitch, fighting the system, injustice, feminism, model, fashion, un, homelessness, female protagonist, circumcision ...
Time: year 2009, year 1997, 60s, 21st century
Place: somalia, africa, indiana, europe, london ...
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The Round Up (2010)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: France, Germany, Hungary
Duration: 115 min.
Story: 1942. Joseph is eleven. And this June morning, he must go to school, a yellow star sown on his chest. He receives the support of a goods dealer. The mockery of a baker. Between kindness and contempt, Jo, his Jewish friends, their families, learn of ...
Style: emotional, disturbing, thought provoking, bleak, realistic ...
Plot: holocaust, concentration camp, nazism, german occupation, holocaust survivor, world war two, nazi, world war, against humanity, injustice, genocide, nazi concentration camp ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, year 2009, post world war two, year 1942
Place: france, vichy, paris france, middle east, europe ...
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26%
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Safe Conduct (2002)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: France, Germany, Spain
Duration: 170 min.
Story: The film is about the French film industry from 1942 to 1944 during the Nazi occupation. The film focuses on assistant director and resistance fighter Jean Devaivre and screenwriter Jean Aurenche. Aurenche is on the move so that he doesn't have ...
Style: touching, sincere, suspenseful, emotional, contemplative ...
Plot: world war two, politics, survival, human spirit, couples, writer's life, escapades, love and romance, society, couple relations, lifestyle, hopes ...
Time: 1940s, year 2002, 20th century
Place: france, paris france, europe, vichy
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26%
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
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26%
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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 ⇓
26%
Oranges and Sunshine (2010)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK, Australia
Duration: 105 min.
Story: The story of Margaret Humphreys, a social worker from Nottingham, who uncovers one of the most significant social scandals in recent times – the forced migration of children from the United Kingdom. Almost singlehandedly, Margaret reunited ...
Style: realistic, serious, sincere, captivating, educational ...
Plot: social worker, deportation, child abuse, against the odds, fighting the system, uncover truth, injustice, life is a bitch, state affairs, society, rebellion, family reunited ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, 2010s, 21st century
Place: england, united kingdom, australia, europe, adelaide south australia ...
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26%
Adidas Vs. Puma: The Brother's Feud (2016)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Sport
Country: Germany
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Two brothers start a sportswear company in the 1920s, hoping to make the best shoes in the world. Their relationship deteriorates until they become bitter rivals.
Style: captivating, thought provoking
Plot: rise to the top, brother brother relationship, businessman, world war two, family relations, society, disagreement, friendship, german history, startup, business, entrepreneur ...
Time: 20th century, 1920s, 1950s, 1930s, 1940s
Place: germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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 ⇓
26%
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