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Shining Through (1992)
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
Spirited New Yorker Linda Voss goes to work for international lawyer and secret Office of Strategic Services operative Ed Leland just before World War II. As they fall in love, the United States enters the fight against Hitler, and Linda volunteers to work for Ed spying undercover behind Nazi lines. Assigned to uncover information about a German bomb, Linda also has personal motives to fulfill: discovering the fate of her Jewish family members in Berlin.
Style:
suspenseful, sentimental, suspense, melancholic, exciting, serious, realistic, romantic, retro, anamorphic ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
nazi germany, double agent, espionage, behind enemy lines, world war two, wartime, spy, wartime life, destiny, secret agent, love and romance, working undercover, love, world war, war, sex scene, air raid, voice over narration, mafia, cold war, flirting, nazi, translator, heroes, nanny ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 40s
Place:
germany, berlin germany, new york, usa, europe, american
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Most similar movies to Shining Through
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, suspenseful and captivating films with plots about world war two, nazi, war, world war, wartime life, wartime and espionage mostly in War, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Shining Through: The Exception (2016), Eye of the Needle (1981), Suite Française (2014), Enigma (2001), X Company (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: UK, USA, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A German soldier tries to determine if the Dutch resistance has planted a spy to infiltrate the home of Kaiser Wilhelm in Holland during the onset of World War II, but falls for a young Jewish Dutch woman during his investigation.
Style:
sexy, suspense, captivating, tense, exciting ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
world war two, nazi germany, nazi officer, gestapo, german soldier, nazi occupation, royalty, espionage, conspiracy, german army, love, sex scene ...
Time:
1940s, year 1940, 1920s, year 1934
Place:
germany, berlin germany, poland, netherlands, holland
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100%
Genre: Romance, Thriller, War
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A ruthless German spy, trying to get out of Britain with vital information about D-Day, must spend time with a young woman and her crippled husband.
Style:
sexy, suspenseful, tense, suspense, political thriller ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
world war two, espionage, spy, nazi, storm at sea, nazi spy, submarine, war, murder, chase, surveillance, wartime ...
Time:
1940s, year 1940, 20th century, year 1944, year 1981 ...
Place:
london, scotland, england, europe, fictional island ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, History, 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:
realistic, emotional, romantic, period piece, costume drama ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
world war two, forbidden love, nazi occupied france, nazi occupation, german officer, german soldier, wartime, fall in love, wartime life, war, occupied france, nazi officer ...
Time:
1940s, ancient times, year 1940, 20th century, 18th century
Place:
france, europe, paris france, germany, england ...
Similarity:
50%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: UK, USA, Germany, Netherlands
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
A romantic thriller based around the World War 2 project to crack the codes behind the Enigma machine, used by the Germans to encrypt messages sent to their submarines.
Style:
clever, factual, tricky, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
world war two, wartime, nazi, code breaking, espionage, war, cryptography, spy, mathematics, submarine, conspiracy, secret service ...
Time:
1940s, year 2001, 20th century, post world war two
Place:
poland, scotland, europe, london, big ben london ...
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Canada
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story:
An emotionally-driven character drama, set in the thrilling and dangerous world of WWII espionage and covert operations. It follows the stories of five highly skilled young recruits - Canadian, American and British - torn from their ordinary lives ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, realistic, captivating, exciting ...
Plot:
world war two, secret agent, working undercover, heroic mission, undercover, danger, espionage, rivalry, friendship, nazi, world war, strength ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
europe
Similarity:
67%
179K
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: UK, USA, China
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
In 1942, an intelligence officer in North Africa encounters a female French Resistance fighter on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. When they reunite in London, their relationship is tested by the pressures of war.
Style:
sexy, suspense, period piece, tense, romantic ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night
Plot:
world war two, espionage, spy, nazi, female agent, love, secret mission, double agent, betrayal, prospector, female spy, undercover ...
Time:
1940s, year 2016, year 1942, future, 2010s ...
Place:
london, france, england, south africa, north africa ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
When the Nazi high command learns in late 1943 that Winston Churchill will be spending time at a country estate in Norfolk, it hatches an audacious scheme to kidnap the prime minister and spirit him to Germany for enforced negotiations with Hitler.
Style:
exciting, suspense, tense, intense, serious ...
Plot:
world war two, espionage, spy, war, nazi germany, military, soldier, nazi soldier, commando mission, runaway, insubordination, rescue ...
Time:
1940s, year 1976, 20th century, year 1943
Place:
london, germany, poland, europe, england ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
A young woman finds out that her mother worked as a spy for the British Secret Service during World War II and has been on the run ever since.
Style:
tense, serious, suspenseful, captivating, realistic ...
Plot:
world war two, mother daughter relationship, spy, espionage, intrigue, secret hideout, secret service, government agency, undercover, double agent, british secret service, secret agent ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, 70s, 1930s
Place:
europe, united kingdom, new york, london, holland ...
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
Blacklisted in modern day WW2, a Swedish oil trader opts to assist British Allies, by means of infiltrating and surveying Nazi Germany.
Style:
political thriller, retro, captivating, tense, realistic ...
Plot:
world war two, espionage, nazi, covert operation, dominatrix, nazi germany, wartime, international relations, youth, politics, secret agent, danger ...
Time:
year 1962, 20th century, 1940s, year 1942
Place:
germany, europe, hamburg germany, copenhagen, berlin germany ...
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance, War
Country: West Germany
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Lili Marleen is the story of a German singer named Wilkie who while working in Switzerland falls in love with a Jewish composer named Robert who’s family is helping people to flee from the Nazis. Roberts family is skeptical of Walkie thinking she ...
Style:
stylized, clever, witty, art house, romantic drama ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
nazi germany, nazi, wartime, women, world war, wartime life, world war two, dictatorship, nazism, dictator, forbidden love, love ...
Time:
1940s, year 1981, 20th century, 1930s, year 1938
Place:
germany, berlin germany, europe, zurich switzerland, munich germany ...
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Duration: 165 min.
Story:
This film depicts World War II through the eyes of several Dutch students. It follows them through the beginning of the war, the Nazi occupation and the liberation.
Style:
tense, stylized, realistic, colorful, edutainment ...
Plot:
world war two, nazi, gestapo, nazi occupation, resistance, war, tango, wartime, espionage, world war, betrayal, occupation ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, year 1977, 80s
Place:
netherlands, europe, london, germany
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
An American spy behind the lines during WWII serves as a Nazi propagandist, a role he cannot escape in his future life as he can never reveal his real role in the war.
Style:
political thriller, political, independent film, contemplative, biting ...
Plot:
world war two, nazi, espionage, holocaust, politics, satire, chess, world war, radio station, book, guilt, propaganda ...
Time:
1940s, 60s, 1930s, 20th century, year 1996
Place:
germany, israel, new york, europe, usa ...
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 176 min.
Story:
At a Dresden hospital in 1945, nurse Anna Mauth (Felicitas Woll) cares for badly injured British pilot Robert Newman (John Light), whom Anna believes to be a German deserter. As Allied forces close in, Anna grows close to Robert despite her ...
Style:
tense, captivating, serious, touching, period piece ...
Plot:
world war two, bombing, war, survival, military, moral dilemma, love affair, wartime life, behind enemy lines, fall in love, danger, military life ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
germany, europe
Similarity:
28%
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, tense, emotional
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
world war two, impossible love, soldier, love affair, war, love and romance, couples, unfulfilled love, wartime life, woman in danger, love, love triangle ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
france, europe, normandy
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Netherlands, Luxembourg
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
Twin Sisters is an epic love story based on the Dutch bestseller by Tessa de Loo that has been read by more than 3.5 million readers in Holland and Germany.
Style:
thought provoking, captivating, serious, realistic, sentimental ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
world war two, twins, family reunited, ss officer, family relations, life is a bitch, culture clash, wartime, orphan, society, human nature, reconciliation ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, 20th century, 1920s
Place:
germany, europe, holland, netherlands
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Germany, Netherlands
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
When Ruth's husband dies in New York, in 2000, she imposes strict Jewish mourning, which puzzles her children. A stranger comes to the house - Ruth's cousin - with a picture of Ruth, age 8, in Berlin, with a woman the cousin says helped ...
Style:
uplifting, serious, emotional, touching, contemplative ...
Plot:
holocaust, nazi germany, world war two, anti semitism, nazi, wartime life, human spirit, hopes, couple relations, society, world war, strong female character ...
Time:
1940s, year 1943, 20th century, post world war two
Place:
berlin germany, germany, europe, new york, usa
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
An American journalist arrives in Berlin just after the end of World War Two. He becomes involved in a murder mystery surrounding a dead GI who washes up at a lakeside mansion during the Potsdam negotiations between the Allied powers. Soon his ...
Style:
neo noir, period piece, suspenseful, atmospheric, realistic ...
Plot:
murder, world war two, investigation, nazi, sex shop, justice, haunted by the past, journalism, uncover truth, love of one's life, love affair, cold war ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, year 2006, post world war two, year 1945 ...
Place:
germany, berlin germany, europe
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In april 1944, an allied agent is sent to France in order to rescue an "overlord" captured by the Germans. (An "overlord" is one of the few men who knew the date and place of the "D" day). To achieve this goal, he will ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, realistic
Plot:
world war two, world war, double agent, spy, cell mate, revolutionary war, struggle, revolutionary, nazi officer, mole, covert operation, man on a mission ...
Time:
1940s, year 1944, year 1985, 20th century
Place:
paris france, france, europe, london, berlin germany
Similarity:
27%
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Hannah, a young Jewish girl, is rescued from a concentration camp by her Polish boyfriend, and believes he died after their perilous escape. More than 30 years later, the married Hannah faces an emotional crisis when she learns he's alive.
Style:
realistic, serious, tense, exciting, captivating ...
Plot:
concentration camp, holocaust, world war two, life is a bitch, against the odds, love affair, on the run, couple relations, wartime life, couples, nazi, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, germany, poland
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Germans kidnap an American major and try to convince him that World War II is over, so that they can get details about the Allied invasion of Europe out of him.
Style:
retro, bleak, suspenseful, exciting, realistic ...
Plot:
world war two, spy, war, espionage, world war, nazi, hospital, military, mind game, brainwashing, amnesia, pretense ...
Time:
1940s, year 1944
Place:
europe, germany, portugal, london, lisbon portugal ...
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 148 min.
Story:
May 1944, a group of French servicewomen and resistance fighters are enlisted into the British Special Operations Executive commando group under the command of Louise Desfontaines and her brother Pierre. Their mission, to rescue a British army ...
Style:
realistic, serious, suspense, tense, historical drama ...
Plot:
world war two, french resistance, wartime life, female agent, resistance, rescue, betrayal, heroic mission, gestapo, hospital, espionage, military ...
Time:
1940s, year 1945, year 1944, post world war two
Place:
london, france, paris france, europe, england ...
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
During World War II, an American serviceman in London decides to impress his English girlfriend by acting as an American gangster, which soon turns deadly.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, tense, realistic, atmospheric ...
Plot:
crime spree, world war two, gangster, investigation, soldier, heist, criminal heroes, dishonesty, cons and scams, frame up, wartime life, serial killer ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
england, london, europe
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: China
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
1942, Nanjing (Nanking). Following a series of assassination attempts on officials of the Japanese-controlled puppet government, the Japanese spy chief gathers a group of suspects in a mansion house for questioning. A tense game of "cat and ...
Style:
suspense, captivating, realistic, tense, psychological ...
Plot:
japanese occupation, espionage, world war two, medieval, code breaking, resistance, assassination, undercover, wartime life, rivalry, danger, chinese history ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, year 1942
Place:
china, asia
Similarity:
27%
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Two people, a Frenchman Julien Maroyeur and a Jewish German woman (Anna Kupfer) met on a train while escaping the German army entering France.
Style:
road movie, sincere, sentimental, emotional, touching ...
Plot:
world war two, train, french resistance, love, world war, railway, occupied france, refugee, unhappy ending, judaism, wartime, nazi ...
Time:
1940s, year 1940, year 1943
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
An American flyer who joined the RAF before his country was in the war is recovering from a leg injury in Jerusalem. Through an English friend he meets a quiet Jewish girl whose close-knit family originally came from Spain. The two are attracted to ...
Style:
sentimental, touching, serious, realistic, romantic ...
Plot:
world war two, interfaith relationship, friends, forbidden love, friendship, fall in love, father daughter relationship, couples, couple relations, opposites attract, love affair, social differences ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1986
Place:
jerusalem, middle east, israel, palestine
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA, Croatia
Duration: 126 min.
TV show
Story:
In the late 1930s, world politics begin to head in a dangerous direction. In Europe, Germany expands and rearms and proceeds to annex several border countries into the Reich. Meanwhile, Italy attempts to establish a Facist Colonial Empire under ...
Style:
sentimental, contemplative, serious, realistic, captivating ...
Plot:
world war two, holocaust, luftwaffe, u.s. navy, military, world war, jewish girl, anti semitism, cheating wife, holocaust survivor, wartime, navy ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, 20th century
Place:
germany, italy, berlin germany, japan, china ...
Similarity:
26%
273K
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Japan, USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Wounded in Africa during World War II, Nazi Col. Claus von Stauffenberg returns to his native Germany and joins the Resistance in a daring plan to create a shadow government and assassinate Adolf Hitler. When events unfold so that he becomes a ...
Style:
bad ending, factual, tense, period piece, realistic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
world war two, nazi, nazism, nazi germany, conspiracy, war, hitler, german soldier, resistance, politics, wehrmacht, gestapo ...
Time:
1940s, year 2008, year 1944, year 1943, 20th century ...
Place:
germany, berlin germany, europe, munich germany, tunisia ...
Similarity:
26%
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. ...
Style:
captivating, realistic, suspenseful, serious, suspense ...
Plot:
world war two, wartime life, wartime, against the odds, life is a bitch, danger, daring rescue, german occupation, prospector, nazi occupation, resistance fighter, resistance ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
europe, poland
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK, Russia
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Nazi POWs suspected of heinous acts are locked up in a Soviet women's prison run by vengeful female guards. To weed out the guilty, the innocent must pay. Can supposed enemies turn into great loves? Based on a true post-World War II story, this ...
Style:
sincere, realistic, captivating, period piece, emotional ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
sex scene, wartime life, male nudity, public nudity, holocaust, soldier, prisoners of war, captivity, against humanity, genocide, prison life, heroes ...
Time:
1940s, post world war two
Place:
soviet union, europe, russia, st. petersburg russia, ussr
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance, War
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
When a Greek fisherman leaves to fight with the Greek army during WWII, his fiancee falls in love with the local Italian commander. The film is based on a novel about an Italian soldier's experiences during the Italian occupation of the Greek ...
Style:
sentimental, romantic, intense, melancholic, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot:
world war two, italian army, wartime, roman empire, impossible love, nude bathing, resistance fighter, fascism, world war, love and romance, social relations, fall in love ...
Time:
1940s, year 2001, 20th century, post world war two
Place:
greece, europe, albania, rome italy, italy ...
Similarity:
26%
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