Movies like Twilight 2006
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Twilight (2006)
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Original name: Полумгла
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Germany, Russia
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
In the last winter 1945 of WWII a group of captive German soldiers is brought to a remote Russian village, where widows, a child and a crippled are the only ones left. This is a military drama about those, who can love and forgive.
Style:
thought provoking, touching, heartbreaking, disturbing, melancholic, tragic
Plot:
world war two, morality, pow, prisoners of war, culture clash, military, friendship, wartime, brutality, german soldier, human relationship, confined, brainwashing, crime against humanity, unlikely friendships, winter, isolation, forgiveness, humanity, grief, remote village, execution, trauma, ethical dilemma, revenge ...
Time:
year 1945
Place:
soviet union, russian
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Most similar movies to Twilight
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, bleak, realistic and serious films with plots about world war two, survival, war, soldier, nazi, wartime and military mostly in Drama, War and History genres. Some movies like Twilight: My Honor Was Loyalty (2016), The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2008), The Dawns Here Are Quiet... (2015), Strange Gardens (2003), My Good Hans (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Captain Ludwig Herckel a devoted and patriotic soldier of the SS Leibstandarte fights in every major conflict from the Eastern front to the battle of the bulge. Fiercely loyal to his country and his brothers in arms, loved by his men, Herckel will ...
Style:
disturbing, suspense, bleak, thought provoking, heartbreaking ...
Plot:
german soldier, world war two, nazi, wartime, human relationship, friendship between men, nazism, compassion, against humanity, sadism, violence, saving a life ...
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100%
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 ...
Style:
emotional, touching, heartbreaking, sad, sentimental ...
Audience:
teens, family friendly, family outing, kids, teen drama ...
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, concentration camp, war, children, friendship, childhood, nazi, nazism, gas chamber, boy, morality ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, ancient times, year 2008, year 1941 ...
Place:
germany, poland, europe, berlin germany, switzerland
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
It is late spring of 1942, and the Great Patriotic War is in full swing. A long way off from the front-line, at some God-forgotten junction, the Germans make an air landing operation in an attempt to get through to the Kirov railway and the White ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, realistic, compassionate, suspense ...
Plot:
world war two, heroism, female soldier, military training, wartime life, soldier, war, female friendship, human relationship, heroic mission, friendship, battles ...
Place:
soviet union, siberia, ussr
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Lucien, 14, can’t understand why his father, a serious and respected teacher, makes a fool of himself by dressing up as a clown and giving a show. André, Lucien’s father’s best friend, feels for the teenager and decides to reveal something ...
Style:
suspense, disturbing, tense, captivating, poignant ...
Plot:
world war two, occupied france, occupation, sabotage, resistance, french resistance, friendship, nazi occupation, german occupation, father son relationship, family secret, fight ...
Time:
1940s, year 2003
Place:
france
Similarity:
25%
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Russia, Germany, Ukraine
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
It is a story about the Soviet worker Pyotr and the German engineer Hans, who came to the USSR before the war on a business trip. At a Soviet plant the German team works in cooperation with Russian specialists. Once Hans makes a mistake which causes ...
Style:
suspenseful, realistic, serious, exciting, disturbing ...
Plot:
friendship, world war two, scientist, love interest, metaphor, nazi officer, humanism, suspicion, guilt, factory, solidarity, moral dilemma ...
Time:
year 1941
Place:
soviet union, ussr
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
"Stalingrad" follows the progress of a German Platoon through the brutal fighting of the Battle of Stalingrad. After having half their number wiped out and after being placed under the command of a sadistic Captain, the Lieutenant of the ...
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, gloomy, epic ...
Plot:
world war two, war, battles, nazism, eastern front, soldier, german soldier, starvation, survival, military life, holocaust, winter ...
Time:
year 1942, year 1943, 1940s, 20th century
Place:
russia, germany, europe, italy, berlin germany ...
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
The continuation of a story started by Alexander Stolper epic movie "Zhivye i Myortvye".
Style:
historical drama, serious, period piece, realistic, grim ...
Plot:
world war two, red army, stalingrad, great patriotic war, soldier, sacrifice, military, siege, eastern front, battlefield, survival, brutality ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
soviet union
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
September of 1944, a few days before Finland went out of the Second World War. A chained to a rock Finnish sniper-kamikadze Veikko managed to set himself free. Ivan, a captain of the Soviet Army, arrested by the Front Secret Police ...
Style:
touching, atmospheric, political, offbeat, witty ...
Plot:
culture clash, understanding, wartime, world war two, lapland, wartime life, wilderness, anti war, brutality, life is a bitch, hostility, military ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
russia, finland, ussr, siberia, germany
Similarity:
23%
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Fall of 1941. Freshly graduated from school, Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya volunteers for a partisan unit. During an assignment, her comrades are ambushed, and she is captured by the Nazis. She endures hours of grueling interrogations and horrendous ...
Style:
rough, tense, captivating, suspense
Plot:
wartime, military, world war two, heroism, bravery, patriot, strong female lead, brutality, life is a bitch, soldier, heroes, commando mission ...
Place:
ussr
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Based on Valentin Rasputin's story of the same title. The winter of 1945. In a village on the Angara embankment the women wait the return of their husbands from the front. The young soldier Andrei Guskov, who fled from the hospital, returns as ...
Style:
psychological, bleak, exciting, serious, captivating ...
Plot:
world war two, deserter, pregnancy, dishonesty, life risking, village, loneliness, social misfits, love, winter, post war, moral dilemma ...
Place:
soviet union, siberia
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Tank Klim Voroshilov 2
Style:
exciting, sincere, rough, touching, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
great patriotic war, world war two, death, tank, wartime, wartime life, nazi, battlefield, military life, soldier, eastern front, danger ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
soviet union, ussr
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Russia, Kazakhstan
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Based upon a short story by Leo Tolstoy, two Russian soldiers, Sacha and Vania, are ambushed by Muslim rebels in the grandly forbidding Caucasus and taken prisoner. Although complete understanding never fully emerges, their bittersweet ordeal ...
Style:
realistic, rough, suspenseful, serious, emotional ...
Plot:
pow, islam, russian soldier, hostage, drinking, violence, prison, confined, soldier, captivity, poverty, prisoner ...
Time:
year 1996, 90s, 21st century
Place:
russia, caucasus, chechnya, soviet union, asia ...
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK, Yugoslavia
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
World War II finally reaches a Yugoslavian lake, where a lifeguard shelters a refugee and her son.
Style:
historical drama, suspense, melancholic, period piece, political ...
Plot:
world war two, partisan, refugee, nazi, summer, lifeguard, ethical dilemma, occupation, danger, river, widow, coming of age ...
Time:
year 1944
Place:
former yugoslavia
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Freed Polish soldiers are trapped in a small town in Germany during the last days of World War II. After a doctor's daughter is raped by a concentration camp worker, the Poles allow her and her father to stay in the house that is their ...
Style:
tension, bleak, intense, dramatic, psychological ...
Plot:
world war two, post war, trauma, violence, moral dilemma, pow, moral ambiguity, mistrust, conflict, revenge, survival, occupation ...
Place:
germany
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Denmark, Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
In the days following the surrender of Germany in May 1945, a group of young German prisoners of war were handed over to the Danish authorities and subsequently sent out to the West Coast, where they were ordered to remove the more than two million ...
Style:
emotional, sentimental, harsh, realistic, brutal ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
world war two, german soldier, child soldier, beach, prisoners of war, minefield, abuse of power, pow, boy, nazi, teenager, brutality ...
Time:
1940s, post world war two, year 2015, 2010s, year 2016 ...
Place:
denmark, germany
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Denmark
Duration: 152 min.
Story:
This Danish movie "Out of The Darkness" ( in Danish 'De Forbandede år 2' ) is a continuation of the popular WW II drama "Into The Darkness" ( in Danish 'De forbandede år' ) and it portraits the Danish ...
Style:
suspenseful, dramatic, captivating, serious, historical drama ...
Plot:
world war two, occupation, german occupation, resistance, freedom fighter, world war, wartime, nazism, war, fight, nazi soldier, nazi ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
denmark, copenhagen
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Four partisans in the mountains and suffering from typhus are slowly destroyed.
Style:
grim, bleak, psychological, intense, melancholic ...
Plot:
typhus, partisan, mountain, survival, suffering, disease, struggle, world war two, death, isolation, realism, illness ...
Place:
former yugoslavia, croatia
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Austria, Germany
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
It is the beginning of 1945 during WW2 in former Austria. 500 Russian prisoners of war who have refused to fight on the side of the Germans against their country were moved to the concentration camp in Mauthausen awaiting execution. They decide to ...
Style:
historical drama, period piece, bleak, tension
Plot:
world war two, winter, escape, war crime, manhunt, persecution, survival, fear, barbarism, desperation, holocaust, collaboration ...
Place:
austria
Similarity:
20%
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
In Japanese-occupied Hong Kong, a school teacher and her would-be-fiancé link up with Chinese guerrilla fighters, forging their own path to freedom.
Style:
suspense, historical drama, captivating, disturbing, tense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
japanese occupation, world war two, mother daughter relationship, sacrifice, courage, resistance, military, arrest, family relations, life is a bitch, occupation, partisan ...
Place:
hong kong
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A teenager joins the resistance in Nazi-occupied France during World War II.
Style:
bleak, tense, captivating, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot:
world war two, german soldier, repression, communist, french resistance, execution, suppression, nazi officer, concentration camp, hostage, assassination, wehrmacht ...
Time:
year 1941, 1940s, 20th century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
20%
166
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Norway, Sweden
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Little Ida's mother is working for the Germans during WW2, and she is also having a relationship with a German SS-officer. Ida is experiencing the problems of having a mother who is involved with the enemy, without being old enough to ...
Style:
historical drama, period piece, melancholic, realistic, bleak ...
Plot:
world war two, mother daughter relationship, collaboration, family drama, loss of innocence, trauma, betrayal, guilt, intimate, identity, haunting, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
1940s
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Hungary, Latvia, France, Germany
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
World War II, occupied Soviet Union. István Semetka is a simple Hungarian farmer who serves as a Sub-Lieutenant in a special unit scouting for partisan groups. On their way to a remote village, his company falls under enemy fire. As the commander ...
Style:
suspense, tense, captivating, disturbing, bleak ...
Plot:
prospector, reconnaissance, soldier, partisan, realism, eastern front, military, military officer, fight for supremacy, ambush, war, struggle for survival ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
soviet union, germany
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France, Spain, West Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
During World War II, French Commandos join forces with a German officer in order to survive the African desert.
Style:
exciting, serious, realistic, road movie, rough ...
Plot:
world war two, war, desert, friendship, soldier, military, tank, courage, german soldier, german officer, pow, anti war ...
Time:
1940s, year 1942
Place:
africa, france, libya, paris france, north africa
Similarity:
20%
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306
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Greece
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Two stories set in northern Greece during World War II.
Style:
period piece, black and white, grim, bleak, psychological ...
Plot:
world war two, retreat, sacrifice, loss, tragedy, survival, desperation, battlefield, wounded, trauma, anti war, realism ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
greece
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy, France, Spain
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
From Hell To Victory follows the relationship of six friends throughout the Second World War. They meet in a cafe in Paris on 24th August 1939 and agree to meet there on the same day every year. The war however takes them on their own individual ...
Style:
period piece, tense, realistic, political, grim ...
Plot:
world war two, soldier, nazi, world war, occupation, commando, friendship, liberation, military, resistance, combat, survival ...
Time:
1940s, year 1979, 1930s
Place:
paris france, amsterdam, france
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Fourth-generation Army Col. William McNamara is imprisoned in a brutal German POW camp. Still, as the senior-ranking American officer, he commands his fellow inmates, keeping a sense of honor alive in a place where honor is easy to destroy, all ...
Style:
tense, realistic, harsh, factual, suspense ...
Plot:
world war two, nazi, racism, war, prison, prisoner of war camp, court martial, pow, moral dilemma, prison escape, soldier, propaganda ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 2002, post world war two
Place:
germany, europe, belgium, poland
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A Russian POW joins the partisan guerrillas and proves his loyalty fighting the Nazis.
Style:
political, black and white
Plot:
world war two, partisan, great patriotic war, nazi, prisoners of war, prisoner, pow, redemption, collaborator, suspicion, nazi occupation, eastern front ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
soviet union, russia, ussr
Similarity:
19%
306
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy, Brazil, Hungary
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A man who grew up an orphan finally gets to meet his father: The psychopath Dr. Josef Mengele, the Auschwitz surgeon who performed genetic experiments on concentration camp refugees during WWII.
Style:
suspense, captivating, intense, serious, disturbing ...
Plot:
world war two, nazi, father son relationship, psychopath, family reunited, orphan, parent child relationship, experiment, father son reunion, war criminal, concentration camp, holocaust ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
brazil
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
The entire family of a 6-year-old Anna dies in the mass coordinated execution of Jews. The mother covers up Anna with her own body, and the girl miraculously survives. For the next few hundred days Anna hides in the disused chimney at the Nazi ...
Style:
thought provoking, tense, melancholic, sad, suspenseful ...
Audience:
chick flick, boys' night
Plot:
child protagonist, food shortage, child, tragic past, little girl, world war two, fear, life is a bitch, surveillance, survival, nazi occupation, violence ...
Time:
year 1941
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Set during World War II, the film follows a young brother and sister as they attempt to survive the aftermath of the firebombing of Kobe City.
Style:
rough, psychological, touching, suspense, disturbing
Plot:
world war two, struggle for survival, sibling relationship, bombing, brother sister relationship, firefly, little girl, wartime, survival, life is a bitch, wartime life, kids in trouble ...
Place:
japan
Similarity:
19%
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