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Reunion (1989)
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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. After that summer and the election of Hitler, things change as antisemitism gains fervor. After the core of the film deals with that era, the film flashes to the present and the Jewish man now returns to his boyhood home and seeks his old friend with some surprises.
Style: independent film, thought provoking, serious, realistic, disturbing
Plot: world war two, anti semitism, friendship, nazi, friendship between boys, holocaust, youth, society, confined, coming of age, homecoming, against humanity, religions or cults, live action, golden years
Time: 1940s, year 1989, 1930s, 30s, 40s
Place: germany, europe
Keyword: german, jewish

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, bleak and captivating films with plots about world war two, holocaust, nazi, wartime life, war, against humanity and life is a bitch mostly in Drama, History and War genres. Some movies like Reunion: Tsili (2014), Auschwitz (2011), Jew-Boy Levi (1999), Day One (1989), Spring of Life (2000). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Tsili (2014)
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.
Style: realistic, serious, bleak, disturbing, tense
Plot: holocaust, world war two, survival, holocaust survivor, youth, against humanity, danger, woods, hiding, coming of age, violinist, rainstorm ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: europe
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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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51%
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Auschwitz (2011)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Canada, Germany
Duration: 73 min.
Story: Auschwitz is a hard-hitting war film which shows life as it really was at the death camp.
Style: disturbing, thought provoking, rough, realistic, bleak ...
Plot: nazi, holocaust, world war two, concentration camp, anti semitism, mass murder, against humanity, life is a bitch, society, genocide, gas chamber, exploitation ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: europe, poland
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Jew-Boy Levi (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Switzerland, Austria
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Benjamin Levi (Bruno Cathomas) is a Bavarian cattle dealer traveling to pre-World War II Germany on his annual trip to a remote farming village. Levi hopes to do some business and, more importantly, win the hand of the lovely Lisbeth (Caroline ...
Style: biting, thought provoking, realistic, serious, emotional ...
Plot: world war two, holocaust, social differences, village, anti semitism, countryside, isolation, village life, wartime life, life turned upside down, injustice, life is a bitch ...
Time: 1930s
Place: europe, germany
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Day One (1989)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 141 min.
Story: Hungarian physicist Leo Szilard leaves Europe, eventually arriving in the United States. With the help of Einstein, he persuades the government to build an atomic bomb. The project is given to no-nonsense Gen. Leslie Groves who selects physicist J. ...
Style: tense, thought provoking, captivating, realistic, serious
Plot: atomic bomb, world war two, nuclear war, nuclear holocaust, super weapon, nuclear, cold war, holocaust, terrorism, war, atomic weapons, politics ...
Time: 1930s, 1940s, 20th century
Place: usa, new mexico, london, hiroshima japan, chicago ...
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Spring of Life (2000)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 107 min.
Story: The film, 'The Spring Of Life', brings to light a little-known operation of the Nazi SS, started just before the outbreak of World War II. Through the careful selection and re-education of young women, it was the Nazi's mad dream to ...
Style: disturbing, serious, realistic, bleak, rough
Plot: world war two, holocaust, breeding, racism, nazi, anti semitism, ss, genocide, wartime life, against humanity, life is a bitch, society ...
Time: 1940s
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The Final Solution: The Wannsee Conference (1984)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Austria, West Germany
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A real time recreation of the 1942 Wannsee Conference, in which leading SS and Nazi Party officals gathered to discuss the "Final Solution to the Jewish Question". Led by SS-General Reinhard Heydrich, the Wannsee Conference was the ...
Style: contemplative, bleak, disturbing, thought provoking, captivating ...
Plot: world war two, holocaust, nazi, world war, nazi germany, war, anti semitism, genocide, racism, international relations, nazi concentration camp, politics ...
Time: year 1942, 1940s
Place: germany, berlin germany, europe, palestine, warsaw poland
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34%
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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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33%
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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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32%
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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Massacre in Rome (1973)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: In the Nazi occupied city of Rome, an assault on an SS brigade draws retaliation from the military governship. "Massacre in Rome" is the true story of how this partisan attack led to the mass execution of Italian nationals under the orders ...
Style: contemplative, serious, realistic, thought provoking, captivating ...
Plot: world war two, world war, military, war, partisan, nazi occupation, holocaust, shoah, nazi, bureaucracy, fictional history, fascism ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: italy, rome italy, europe
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31%
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Hotel Meina (2007)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy, France, Serbia
Duration: 115 min.
Story: How will the Germans react to the armistice of the 8th of September 1943, due to which Italy betrays them and sides with the allied forces? This is the distressing questions that a group of 16 Italian - Greek Jews evacuated at The Meina Hotel ask ...
Plot: world war two, holocaust, nazi occupation, hotel, refugee, truce, nazi, war crime, mass murder
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Place: italy
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The Ogre (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, France, UK, Poland
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Frenchman Abel Tiffauges likes children, and wants to protect them against the grown-ups. Falsely suspected as child molester, he's recruited as a soldier in the 2nd World War, but very soon he is taken prisoner of war.
Style: realistic, disturbing, sad, contemplative, serious ...
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The Wall (1982)
Genre: Action, War, Drama
Country: Poland, USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story: A dramatic re-enactment of the Warsaw Ghetto Jewish uprising in April 1943 were 650 armed members of the Jewish Fighting Organization of Poland held off a 3,000 strong Nazi force in which only a handful of Jews survived. Tom Conti plays Dolek ...
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The War Between Us (1995)
Genre: Drama, History
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Duration: 93 min.
Story: In World War II British Columbia, Canada, a Japanese immigrant family has to endure the racist Canadian policy of being interned and their property confiscated as "enemy aliens". At the same time, a white Canadian family has to deal with ...
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Nina's House (2005)
Genre: Drama, History, War
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Duration: 112 min.
Story: Starting in 1944 in the wake of the Liberation and continuing into the '60s, 'houses of hope' were established to lend a semblance of continuity to youngsters orpahaned by the war. Nina's Home takes place between September 1944 ...
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Despair (1978)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: West Germany, France
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Germany in the early 1930s. Against the backdrop of the Nazis' rise, Hermann Hermann, a Russian émigré and chocolate magnate, goes slowly mad. It begins with his seating himself in a chair to observe himself making love to his wife, Lydia, a ...
Style: art house, psychedelic, surreal, neo noir, mind bending ...
Plot: doppelganger, world war two, nazism, chocolate, interwar period, anti fascism, refugee, capitalism, obsession, murder, madness, nazi ...
Time: 1930s, year 1978
Place: germany, berlin germany, europe
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Emotional Arithmetic (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story: An emotionally scarred fifty-something female, a high-profile but haunted British novelist, and a heroic dissident-cum-Soviet psychiatric hospital veteran, all reunite decades after bonding and surviving together in a detention camp during World War ...
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, disturbing, contemplative
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Time: year 2007
Place: france, paris france, canada, europe
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The Edelweiss Pirates (2004)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Germany, Netherlands
Duration: 111 min.
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Style: realistic, suspenseful, tense, captivating, serious ...
Plot: resistance, wartime life, world war two, young heroes, human spirit, rebellion, idealism, life is a bitch, against humanity, rebelliousness, danger, confined ...
Time: 1940s, year 1944, 20th century
Place: europe, germany
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Bulgarian Rhapsody (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Bulgaria, Israel
Duration: 108 min.
Story: the story of two adolescents, Moni and Zhozho, who meet 17-year-old Zheni in 1943 and with whom both fell in love. The events that follow unfold while Bulgaria has to decide on the deportation of 11 343 Jewish citizens in Macedonia and Thrace.
Style: touching, emotional, captivating, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot: friendship, wartime life, fall in love, on the run, teenage love, holocaust, youth, love and romance, society, teenage life, anti semitism, coming of age ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: bulgaria
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The Bunker (1981)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: France, USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story: Dramatization depicting the events surrounding Adolf Hitler's last weeks in and around his underground bunker in Berlin before and during the battle for the city.
Style: realistic, bleak, serious, psychological, disturbing ...
Plot: world war two, hitler, nazi germany, nazi, against humanity, suicide, life is a bitch, downfall, confined, state affairs, confinement indoors, wartime life ...
Time: year 1945, 20th century, 1940s
Place: germany, berlin germany, europe
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Simon & the Oaks (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Norway
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Epic story about two families and their friendship and common destiny in Sweden's Gothenburg in the 1940s and 1950s. Told from the perspective of young Simon Larsson, who learns that he's an adopted child who has a Jewish father from ...
Style: realistic, tense, touching, psychological, contemplative ...
Audience: teens
Plot: world war two, coming of age, wartime life, youth, boy, family relations, friendship, society, culture clash, working class, best friend, older woman younger man ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, post world war two, 50s
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My Best Enemy (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: Austria, Luxembourg
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Poland 1943: An unlikely pair - a concentration camp prisoner and a captain in Hitler's notorious SS - free themselves from the wreckage of a crashed SS airplane. The two appear to be strangely familiar with each other and the extent of their ...
Style: thought provoking, captivating, tense, serious, contemplative ...
Plot: concentration camp, world war two, friends, friendship, military, wartime life, soldier, life is a bitch, moral dilemma, against humanity, holocaust, nazi ...
Time: 20th century, 1930s, 1940s
Place: germany, poland, europe, austria
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27%
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The Conference (2022)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 108 min.
Story: On January 20, 1942, the Wannsee Conference takes place in Berlin, a meeting that had only one item on the agenda: The Final Solution, the organization of the systematic mass murder of eleven million European Jews.
Style: thought provoking, disturbing, captivating, tense
Plot: nazi, world war two, nazism, holocaust, ss officer, jew persecution, nazi officer, war, military officer, wartime, murder, nazi uniform ...
Time: year 1942, 1940s
Place: berlin germany, germany
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The Empty Mirror (1996)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Adolf Hitler faces himself and must come to terms with his infamous career in an imaginary post-war subterranean bunker where he reviews historical films, dictates his memoirs and encounters Eva Braun, Josef Goebbels, Hermann Göring and Sigmund ...
Style: independent film, sincere, emotional, psychological, serious ...
Plot: nazi, world war two, hitler, soldier, genocide, anti semitism, holocaust, obsession, under the surface, campaign, transvestism, wartime life ...
Time: year 1996
Place: germany, europe
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27%
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The Only Way (1970)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA, Denmark, Panama, UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story: In April 1940, the armies of Nazi Germany invaded Denmark. The Danish government promised peaceful cooperation on the condition that Denmark s Jews remain free. The Nazi s agreed. In October, 1943, the agreement was broken...This is the true and ...
Style: bleak, realistic, serious, captivating, uplifting ...
Plot: holocaust, world war two, nazi occupation, danger, politics, heroes, against humanity, society, state affairs, confined, war, military ...
Time: 1940s
Place: denmark, europe
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27%
Inside the Third Reich (1982)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 240 min.
Story: A dramatization of the life of Albert Speer, Hitler's young architect and onetime confidant, and his meteoric rise into the Nazi hierarchy. Based upon Speer's own monograph of the same title.
Plot: world war two, nazi, hitler, autobiography, third reich
Time: 1940s, 1930s
Place: germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Snow Pirates (2015)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Turkey
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In the shadow of the military coup in 1980, these children aged 12-13, playing their childish games soon arrive at an understanding of life's responsibilities and are hastily introduced into the world of the grownups.
Style: sentimental, serious, realistic, captivating, bleak
Plot: self discovery, friendship, youth, society, life is a bitch, small town, dystopia, coming of age, friends, children
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
The Island on Bird Street (1997)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Denmark, UK, Germany, France
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Alex is an 11-year old boy who, during WWII, hides in the Jewish ghetto from Nazis after all the relatives have been sent to the concentration camp. The movie portrays the ghetto through his eyes.
Style: serious, realistic, tense, bleak, independent film ...
Plot: world war two, holocaust, jewish ghetto, youth, wartime life, ghetto, boy, nazi, children in wartime, coming of age, boy strangling, judaism ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: europe, poland, warsaw poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Winter in Wartime (2008)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Duration: 103 min.
Story: During World War II in the freezing Netherlands winter of 1944/1945 the western Netherlands are in the grip of a famine. Many people move east to provide for their families. Fourteen year old Michiel can't wait to join the Dutch resistance, to ...
Style: tense, exciting, realistic, serious, captivating ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: world war two, coming of age, resistance movement, children in wartime, resistance, nazi, wartime life, winter, execution, occupation, nazism, nazi occupation ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 2008
Place: netherlands, germany, europe, holland
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