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The Condemned of Altona (1962)
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The Condemned of Altona (1962)
Original name: I sequestrati di Altona
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A dying German magnate invites his youngest son and daughter-in-law home to discuss the future of the family's shipbuilding empire. There, the daughter-in-law stumbles upon a secret of the family's Nazi past.
Style: neorealism, existential
Plot: holocaust, wealth, brother and sister, existentialism, economist, literary, world war two, nazi, torture, criminal, genocide, house, father, war criminal, mansion, german soldier, drug addiction, insanity, brother sister relationship, father son relationship, guilty conscience, terminal illness, flashback, shipyard, nazis
Time: 60s, 1960s
Place: hamburg germany, soviet union, ussr

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, captivating and thought provoking films with plots about world war two, holocaust, nazi, world war, genocide, life is a bitch and anti semitism mostly in Drama, History and War genres. Some movies like The Condemned of Altona: The Man in the Glass Booth (1975), Hotel Meina (2007), The Eichmann Show (2015), Never Forget (1991), Saviors in the Night (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Man in the Glass Booth (1975)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Arthur Goldman is a rich Jewish industrialist, living in luxury in a Manhattan high-rise. He banters with his assistant Charlie, often shocking Charlie with his outrageousness and irreverence about aspects of Jewish life. Nonetheless, Charlie is ...
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Time: year 1975
Place: israel, middle east, usa, new york
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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 ...
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The Eichmann Show (2015)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK, Lithuania
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The behind-the-scenes true life story of a groundbreaking producer, Milton Fruchtman, and blacklisted TV director Leo Hurwitz who, overcoming enormous obstacles, set out to capture the testimony of one of the war's most notorious Nazis, Adolf ...
Style: serious, clever, realistic, captivating, dark ...
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Time: 20th century, 60s
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Never Forget (1991)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Mr. Mermelstein (Leonard Nimoy) and Mrs. Mermelstein (Blythe Danner) a true-life California couple, thrown into the spotlight of judicial history in the 1980s. He is a Hungarian-born Jew, sole-survivor of his family's extermination at ...
Style: political
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Duration: 94 min.
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Country: Germany, France
Duration: 95 min.
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Style: disturbing, suspense, captivating, thought provoking, psychological
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Style: realistic, disturbing, serious, emotional, bleak
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Audience: adult
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