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The Poet (2007)
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
At the dawn of World War 2, a Rabbi's daughter and a disenchanted German soldier fall in love and are separated by the war. They struggle on a perilous journey to find one another.
Style:
emotional, realistic, disturbing, serious, bleak, gloomy
Plot:
forbidden love, sexual content, world war two, war, couples, soldier, family relations, against humanity, age difference, wartime, rabbi, graphic violence, love and romance, life is a bitch, wartime life, state affairs, unfulfillment, horse, boxing, chess, rape, nazi, forest, wedding, prostitution ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, 1930s, year 1939, year 1940, 30s, 40s
Place:
poland, europe, russia
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, emotional and gloomy films with plots about world war two, life is a bitch, wartime life, love and romance, family relations, society and couples mostly in Drama, War and Romance genres. Some movies like The Poet: The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979), Suite Française (2014), Spring 1941 (2007), The New World (1995), Fugitive Pieces (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: UK, France, Canada, Belgium, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
France, 1940. In the first days of occupation, beautiful Lucile Angellier is trapped in a stifled existence with her controlling mother-in-law as they both await news of her husband: a prisoner of war. Parisian refugees start to pour into their ...
Style:
emotional, realistic, romantic, captivating, serious ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
world war two, forbidden love, nazi occupation, german soldier, german officer, war, fall in love, wartime life, love and romance, nazi officer, adultery, nazi occupied france ...
Time:
1940s, year 1940, 20th century, 18th century
Place:
france, europe, paris france, england, germany ...
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100%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
In the Warsau Ghetto of 1943, one man's struggle to keep his family together leads him to the ultimate crisis of faith, and one final chance at redemption. Written by legendary 'Twilight Zone' creator, Rod Sterling.
Style:
realistic, serious, bleak, gloomy, disturbing ...
Plot:
world war two, rabbi, holocaust, jewish, confined, society, survival, war, life is a bitch, against humanity, human spirit, misfit ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
poland, europe, warsaw poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Poland, Israel
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
After Germany invades Poland and the Nazis order the confinement of all local Jews in the ghetto, medical doctor Artur Planck (Joseph Fiennes) manages to flee with his family, seeking refuge at the farm of Emilia (Kelly Harrison), their former ...
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tense, serious, emotional, captivating, sexy ...
Plot:
world war two, wartime life, love triangle, family in danger, couple relations, against humanity, life is a bitch, infidelity, love and romance, dishonesty, couples, isolation ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
eastern europe, poland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
A young boy who worships all things American comes of age in Orleans, where over 14,000 American GIs were stationed.
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, emotional, gloomy ...
Plot:
age difference, jazz, world war two, older man young girl relationship, couples, friends, family relations, friendship, village, teenage life, rock, experimenting ...
Time:
20th century, post world war two
Place:
europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, Greece
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A child escapes from Poland during World War II and first heads to Greece before coming of age in Canada.
Style:
realistic, emotional, bleak, serious, rough ...
Plot:
holocaust, childhood trauma, breakup, haunted by the past, life is a bitch, fugitives, wartime life, coming of age, survival, war, boy, world war two ...
Place:
canada, europe, greece, poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Germany, Israel
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A man endeavors to collect memories of his grandparents who died in a concentration camp during the Holocaust.
Style:
serious, realistic, emotional, touching, gloomy ...
Plot:
world war two, holocaust, war crime, haunted by the past, family relations, family life, parents and children, death in the family, against humanity, love and romance, society, jewish ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
paris france, europe, germany, france, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
In 1942, Henan Province was devastated by the most tragic famine in modern Chinese history, resulting in the deaths of at least three million men, women and children. Although the primary cause of the famine was a severe drought, it was exacerbated ...
Style:
captivating, rough, serious, bleak, realistic ...
Plot:
world war two, sino japanese war, chaos, life is a bitch, survival, family problems, on the road, family in danger, wartime life, escapades, on the run, against humanity ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, year 1942
Place:
china, taiwan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
In the aftermath of World War II, a former Czech soldier takes charge of a manor formerly owned by a German family. He falls in love with the daughter, who is now a maid, and is forced to confront the stress between his love and his conscience when ...
Style:
surreal, touching, captivating, realistic, atmospheric ...
Plot:
world war two, military, forbidden love, holocaust, girl, comeback, post war, locomotive, forest, soldier, estate, haunted by the past ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
czechoslovakia, czech republic, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The true story of a nun who betrayed a network of Resistance fighters after having a passionate but doomed love affair with a priest during the Second World War.
Style:
captivating, serious, realistic, emotional, gloomy
Plot:
impossible love, german occupation, nun, catholic church, love affair, wartime life, forbidden love, betrayal, dishonesty, society, life is a bitch, clergy ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
Set in Tokyo in 1940, the peaceful life of the Nogami Family suddenly changes when the father, Shigeru, is arrested and accused of being a Communist. His wife Kayo works frantically from morning to night to maintain the household and bring up her ...
Style:
sincere, serious, touching, realistic, emotional ...
Plot:
family relations, life is a bitch, world war two, parents and children, nationalism, wartime life, political unrest, single parent, unsupportive parent, state affairs, death in the family, wartime ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
To be defeated and not be - a victory. This is the motto that life is guided by three young friends: Alek, Sophy and Rudy. Scouts, high school graduates high school in Warsaw drifting ambitious plans for the future broken through September 1939. ...
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realistic, suspenseful, serious, captivating, disturbing
Plot:
world war two, war, wartime life, life is a bitch, against the odds, daring rescue, prospector, wartime, suspense, resistance, resistance fighter, nazi occupation ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
poland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
During an interview, Max Baumstein (Piccoli), respected chairman of a humanitarian organisation, shoots the Paraguayan ambassador dead, in cold blood. Tried for first-degree murder, he explains himself: the ambassador was a former Nazi official, ...
Style:
emotional, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot:
world war two, holocaust, revenge, cabaret, idealism, life is a bitch, against humanity, heroes, state affairs, moral dilemma, vigilantism, vengeance ...
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80s, 1930s, 1940s
Place:
france, europe, paris france, berlin germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, France, Italy
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Tsili is a young girl caught in the middle of World War II. After her family is taken to a concentration camp, Tsili hides in the forest, free from hatred and men, until the arrival of Marek, a stranger who speaks to her in Yiddish.
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serious, realistic, bleak, disturbing, tense
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, survival, holocaust survivor, against humanity, youth, jewish, hiding, coming of age, violinist, rainstorm, rape ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Netherlands
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
The epic tale of an American reconnaissance pilot downed in occupied Belgium at the height of World War II. Hidden by resistance fighters, the pilot falls in love with the wife of the man who will save him. When their affair is exposed, an act of ...
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating
Plot:
world war two, betrayal, resistance movement, military, wartime life, love triangle, forbidden love, pilot, soldier, leadership, survival, infidelity ...
Time:
year 1944, year 1945
Place:
belgium, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
In the days following the D-Day invasion in Normandy, France, a British platoon leader named Saul (Gabriel Byrne) and his corporal (Paul Wyett) reach an isolated farmhouse and encounter a beautiful French girl named Belle (Marianne Basler). Love ...
Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, tense
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
world war two, soldier, love affair, couples, love and romance, war, impossible love, unfulfilled love, woman in danger, wartime life, love, love triangle ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
france, europe, normandy
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
As an aging woman married to a workaholic doctor by chance meets a young man who makes her feel young again. All of this is films by a director making a film about her which cuts in and out of the on camera and off camera drama.
Style:
realistic, atmospheric, serious, emotional, sincere ...
Plot:
mature woman, small town, love and romance, love affair, tragic love, couples, couple relations, dishonesty, dealing with death, infidelity, filmmaking, young man ...
Time:
20th century, 50s
Place:
poland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Cet Amour-là is an intimate portrait of a legendary love affair. Set against the beauty of the Breton seaside, it is also a film that revels in the insights that Marguerite Duras' writing affords.
Style:
psychological, emotional, serious, captivating, sentimental ...
Plot:
wartime life, destiny, fall in love, soldier, couple relations, love and romance, lifestyle, hopes, couples, family relations, culture clash, destructive relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
The two-part TV movie Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil crystallizes that evil by concentrating on two Berlin brothers. In 1931, Helmut Hoffman (Bill Nighy) a brilliant student and self-styled opportunist, joins Hitler's SS. At the same time, ...
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disturbing, bleak, captivating, serious, realistic
Plot:
world war two, nazi, hitler, gestapo, ss, concentration camp, third reich, nazism, wartime life, siblings relations, political unrest, cabaret ...
Time:
1930s, 1940s
Place:
europe, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Pregnant out of wedlock, an educated young woman is pressured by her father into an arranged marriage with a lonely farmer in this drama set during WWII.
Style:
touching, sincere, sentimental, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
marriage of convenience, hopes, destiny, world war two, love and romance, soldier, society, fall in love, life is a bitch, arranged marriage, unhappy marriage, friendship ...
Time:
20th century, 50s, 1940s
Place:
usa, colorado
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK, USA, West Germany
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
During WWII, the United States set up army bases in Great Britain as part of the war effort. Against their proper sensibilities, many of the Brits don't much like the brash Yanks, especially when it comes to the G.I.s making advances on the ...
Style:
serious, realistic, emotional, touching
Plot:
world war two, soldier, wartime life, prejudice, racism, american abroad, couple relations, love affair, opposites attract, war, infidelity, forbidden love ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
england, northern england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
"Fanny" is the second part of the "Marseille trilogy", made by Marcel Pagnol with the generic name of "Marius, Fanny and César". Fanny falls in love and is abandoned by Marius. Now she discovers she is pregnant. Her ...
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serious, emotional, realistic, touching, gloomy ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
wedding, parents and children, pregnancy, love and romance, society, social differences, couples, unfulfillment, couple relations, rich man, working class, sailor ...
Time:
20th century, 1930s
Place:
france, marseille, south of france
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal, Belgium, Spain
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
This is the story of Aristides de Sousa Mendes, a man of conviction who saved 30,000 lives during WWII, in June 1940. Among them were10,000 Jews. As the Portuguese General Consul stationed in Bordeaux, France, he issued 30,000 visas for safe ...
Style:
uplifting, realistic, captivating, touching, emotional ...
Plot:
politics, human spirit, rescue, wartime life, hopes, tragic hero, life is a bitch, against humanity, disobey, refugee, border crossing, visa ...
Time:
1930s, 1940s, 20th century
Place:
portugal, europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A theater projectionist's daughter is involved in the Resistance in WWII, but she doesn’t share his political involvement & only believes in passion. She follows the men she loves unconditionally, suffering betrayal and hardship.
Style:
captivating, psychological, realistic, serious, emotional ...
Plot:
world war two, soldier, strong female presence, haunted by the past, saving a life, concentration camp, autobiography, saved from execution, accused of murder, american soldier, nazi, love ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, 1930s
Place:
france, paris france
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32%
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.
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realistic, serious, touching, uplifting, captivating ...
Plot:
holocaust, concentration camp, survival, wartime life, holocaust survivor, world war two, human spirit, auschwitz, life is a bitch, starting over, anti semitism, war ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
hungary, europe, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The story takes place in a country about which we know nothing: a country of snow and dense forests somewhere in the North. A family lives in an isolated house near a lake. Alexi, the brother, is a young man with pure heart. A woodcutter. An ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Set in Northern England, this powerful tale of suppressed sexuality offers poignant and sharply observant social commentary, interlaced with a tender romance. Vetern actress Barbara Marten tugs at the heart as Ellen Hardy, a working-class mother ...
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lesbian, forbidden love, love affair, female friendship, friendship, fall in love, couples, family relations, feminism, society, working class, homecoming ...
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Place:
britain, england, europe, northern england
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
Kanao, a courtroom portrait artist, observes crimes, scandals and the decline of Japanese values without passing judgement. As he and his wife endure the tragedy of their first child’s death, hope slowly unfolds and their love story flickers to ...
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Country: Hungary, Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A man comes home to meet his mother and sister after many years away. He finds his mother living with a new boyfriend, and his sister to be grown-up. He begins to settle down in this new place by building a new home for himself on the delta. But ...
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Time:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Pierre and Elisabeth, a couple in their thirties, move with their baby into a cottage on a lake for the summer. The setting is idyllic, and the couple’s happiness seems within reach. Every day, Pierre goes to work in the city while Elisabeth ...
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