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Passenger (1963)
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Original name: Pasażerka
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 62 min.
Story:
The last film of Andrzej Munk, who died in a crash during the filming. A German woman on a ship coming back to Europe notices a face of another woman which brings recollections from the past. She tells her husband that she has been an overseer in Auschwitz during the war, but she has actually saved a woman's life. Her vision is shown and then the actual events.
Style:
experimental, odd
Plot:
world war two, holocaust, auschwitz, renaissance, nazi, female nudity, concentration camp, shoah, prison, women, nude girl, feminist, prison life, wartime life, love letter, identity, nazi concentration camp, dog, children, train, prisoner, lovers, jealousy, german shepherd, war criminal ...
Time:
year 1963
Place:
poland, eastern europe
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out bleak, realistic, serious and captivating films with plots about world war two, holocaust, nazi, concentration camp, world war, death and wartime life mostly in Drama, War and History genres. Some movies like Passenger: Escape from Sobibor (1987), The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2008), Son of Saul (2015), The Last Train (2006), Naked Among Wolves (1963). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: UK
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
When his family moves from their home in Berlin to a strange new house in Poland, young Bruno befriends Shmuel, a boy who lives on the other side of the fence where everyone seems to be wearing striped pajamas. Unaware of Shmuel's fate as a ...
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Hungary, France
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
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Style:
cerebral, compassionate, melancholic, disturbing, philosophical ...
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holocaust, world war two, genocide, nazi concentration camp, tragedy, nazi, death, prison, shoah, courage, concentration camp, life & death ...
Time:
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Place:
poland, germany, eastern europe, california
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Germany, Czech Republic
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, realistic, bleak, captivating, entertaining ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
holocaust, nazism, nazi, gestapo, nazi germany, anti semitism, danger, life is a bitch, pow, war, confined, world war ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: East Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
deep, crying, inspirational, complex
Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Style:
tension, poignant, grim, bleak, black and white ...
Plot:
world war two, children, orphanage, brutality, fear, hiding, occupation, concentration camp, soldier, trauma, loss, realism ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
poland, europe, central europe
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Poland, Germany, Canada
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
A dramatization of one man's rescue of Jewish refugees in the Nazi-occupied Polish city of Lvov. In Darkness tells the true story of Leopold Soha who risks his own life to save a dozen people from certain death. Initially only interested in his ...
Style:
harsh, sincere, uplifting, social, tense ...
Plot:
holocaust, nazi, world war two, atrocity, shoah, survival, genocide, outside help, hitler youth, judaism, world war, sewer ...
Time:
1940s, 2010s, 20th century, 2000s, year 1945 ...
Place:
poland, germany, eastern europe, europe, israel
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88%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, serious, touching, contemplative, emotional ...
Plot:
holocaust, concentration camp, holocaust survivor, wartime life, world war two, auschwitz, anti semitism, genocide, human spirit, life is a bitch, starting over, nazi ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
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Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Style:
disturbing, psychological, captivating, historical drama, bleak ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
poland, germany
Similarity:
88%
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:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
88%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: UK, Poland, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Style:
captivating, psychological, experimental, crying, period drama
Plot:
garden, auschwitz, holocaust, world war two, ss officer, nazi germany, husband wife relationship, concentration camp, swimming pool, nazi, genocide, nazi officer ...
Time:
1940s, year 1943, year 1944, 20th century, year 1942 ...
Place:
poland, berlin germany, hungary
Similarity:
87%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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306
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy, Brazil, Hungary
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Country: Russia, Germany
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, rough, touching, black and white, philosophical
Plot:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Story:
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Style:
disturbing, thought provoking, controversial, bleak, rough ...
Plot:
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Similarity:
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Country: UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
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Style:
thought provoking, serious, disturbing, tense, realistic ...
Plot:
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Time:
20th century, year 2008, 1940s
Place:
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Similarity:
85%
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Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Paradise Road is a 1997 film which tells the story of a group of English, American, Dutch and Australian women who are imprisoned in Sumatra during World War II. It was directed by Bruce Beresford and stars Glenn Close as beatific Adrienne Pargiter, ...
Style:
touching, harsh, costume drama, serious, emotional ...
Audience:
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Plot:
world war two, pow, prison, holocaust, island, war crime, justice, friendship, women, women's prison, nazi, human spirit ...
Time:
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Place:
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85%
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Country: Czechoslovakia, Poland
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: Poland
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
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Style:
surreal, disturbing, bleak, psychological, psychedelic ...
Plot:
world war two, nazi occupation, dead child, nun, lice, surrealism, blood, father son relationship, philosophy, bible, insanity, experiment ...
Place:
poland, eastern europe
Similarity:
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245
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Poland, Germany, France
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
world war two, holocaust, nazi occupation, suspicion, hiding, anti semitism, survival, fear, neighbor, moral ambiguity, memory, accomplice ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
poland, warsaw poland
Similarity:
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Country: Poland
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Style:
tension, dark, suspense, grim, bleak ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
world war two, escape, concentration camp, prisoner, survival, oppression, war crime, tragedy, resistance, execution, escape plan, brutality ...
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1940s
Place:
croatia, former yugoslavia
Similarity:
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Country: Germany, UK, Austria, Ireland
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Style:
thought provoking, captivating, bleak, disturbing, realistic ...
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, genocide, wartime life, world war, auschwitz, rape, concentration camp, deportation, hopes, holocaust survivor, battles ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
budapest, berlin germany, hungary
Similarity:
83%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Plot:
world war two, renaissance, psychiatric hospital, european, psychiatric ward, mental disorder, doctor, nazi occupation, sudden ending, psychiatric patient, experiment, suicide by poison ...
Time:
1930s, year 1939
Place:
poland, eastern europe
Similarity:
83%
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Hungary, Germany, UK, Israel, France, USA
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
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Style:
sincere, emotional, serious, disturbing, gloomy ...
Audience:
teens, date night, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
holocaust, concentration camp, world war two, nazi, estrangement, orthodox jew, youth, confined, shoah, survival, world war, self discovery ...
Time:
1940s, year 2005, post world war two
Place:
hungary, eastern europe, germany, europe, slovakia ...
Similarity:
83%
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: Russia, Germany, Lithuania
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Based on the true story, international historical project “Sobibor” is dedicated to the heroism of the Soviet o cer Alexander Pechersky. During the great Patriotic war, being in a Nazi concentration camp Sobibor he managed to do the impossible ...
Style:
rough, factual, suspenseful, political, philosophical
Plot:
world war two, holocaust, nazi, nazi germany, genocide, concentration camp, holocaust survivor, mass murder, rebellion, pow, escape, killing ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
poland, germany, lithuania, soviet union
Similarity:
83%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Russia, Germany, Belarus
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
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Style:
captivating, independent film, suspense, period drama
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
germany
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
rough, realistic, tense, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
wartime life, world war two, farm, soldier, countryside, military, danger, occupation, sexual abuse, german woman, household, holocaust ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, post world war two, year 1945
Place:
poland
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