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Ship of Fools (1965)
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Ship of Fools (1965)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 149 min.
Story: Passengers on a ship traveling from Mexico to Europe in the 1930s represent society at large in that era. The crew is German, including the ship's Dr. Schumann, who falls in love with one of the passengers, La Condesa. A young American woman, Jenny, is traveling with the man she loves, David. Jenny is fascinated and puzzled by just who some of the other passengers are.
Style: atmospheric, emotional, tense, serious, realistic, black and white, talky, retro, psychological, clever ...
Plot: world war two, ship, racism, ocean liner, fighting the system, anti semitism, love and romance, fall in love, society, love hate relationship, couples, human nature, wartime, cruise ship, spanish civil war, world war, nazi, storytelling, drinking, war, sea, military, swing, genocide, yacht ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, year 1933, pre world war two, 30s
Place: germany, middle east, mexico, latin america, europe, cuba, spain
Keyword: jewish, german, oldies, american, reading, cuban, doctors

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, emotional and sincere films with plots about world war two, love, love and romance, husband wife relationship, couples, dancing and war mostly in Drama, Romance and War genres. Some movies like Ship of Fools: Talk of Angels (1998), Good (2008), Come See the Paradise (1990), The Way We Were (1973), The Aftermath (2019). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Talk of Angels (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: This is the story of a young Irish woman who comes to Spain to escape from the pressures she feels about her impending marriage to a political activist in Ireland. But in Spain in the 1930's, taking a job of governess in a wealthy family, she ...
Style: realistic, serious, touching, emotional, sincere ...
Plot: infidelity, forbidden love, fall in love, politics, social differences, love triangle, society, couples, love affair, spanish civil war, extramarital affair, war ...
Time: year 1998, 1930s, year 1936
Place: ireland, europe, madrid, spain
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95%
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Good (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story: The rise of national socialism in Germany should not be regarded as a conspiracy of madmen. Millions of "good" people found themselves in a society spiralling into terrible chaos. A film about then, which illuminates the terrors of now.
Style: serious, realistic, disturbing, captivating, romantic drama ...
Plot: nazi, writers, politics, moral dilemma, state affairs, wartime life, political unrest, society, nazi germany, third reich, holocaust, mother son relationship ...
Time: 1930s, year 2008, 20th century, year 1937, year 1933 ...
Place: germany, europe, paris france, berlin germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Come See the Paradise (1990)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story: Come See The Paradise is a deeply touching love story set against the backdrop of a dramatic and controversial period in American history, It follows the romance and eventual marriage of Jack McGurn (Dennis Quad), a hot blooded Irish American, and a ...
Style: emotional, contemplative, realistic, serious, thought provoking ...
Plot: world war two, forbidden love, interracial romance, love, racism, atomic bomb, family relations, culture clash, war, white man asian woman relationship, hospital, death ...
Time: 1940s, 1930s, year 1936, 20th century, year 1941
Place: hiroshima japan, ireland, japan, asia, north dakota ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
The Way We Were (1973)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Two desperate people have a wonderful romance, but their political views and convictions drive them apart.
Style: sentimental, realistic, serious, captivating, intellectual ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: mccarthyism, naval officer, couples, politics, breakup, husband wife relationship, adultery, love story, passion, world war two, love and romance, friendship ...
Time: 1940s, 50s, 1930s, 1950s, pre world war two ...
Place: usa, new york, california, middle east, malibu california ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
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The Aftermath (2019)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: United Arab Emirates, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: In the aftermath of World War II, a British colonel and his wife are assigned to live in Hamburg during the post-war reconstruction, but tensions arise with the German widower who lives with them.
Style: realistic, melancholic, serious, philosophical, psychological ...
Audience: chick flick, boys' night
Plot: post war germany, unfaithful wife, cheating wife, adultery, husband wife relationship, love hate relationship, infidelity, horny wife, love triangle, extramarital affair, world war two, cheating on husband ...
Time: post world war two, 1940s, year 2019, year 1945, year 1943 ...
Place: hamburg germany, alps, london, northern germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
A Year of the Quiet Sun (1984)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Poland, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Shortly after WWII an American soldier (Norman) and a Polish refugee (Emilia) fall in deep love. Eventually he will return to USA and both expect that she will soon follow him. Emilia's mother is sick but would recover by available medicine. ...
Style: contemplative, depressing, touching, emotional, atmospheric ...
Plot: world war two, soldier, wartime, colonialism, legion, foreign legion, world war, renaissance, love, painter, prostitute, widow ...
Time: year 1984, post world war two, year 1946, 20th century, 1940s ...
Place: poland, eastern europe, europe, warsaw poland, arizona ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
Voyage of the Damned (1976)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 155 min.
Story: A luxury liner carries Jewish refugees from Hitler's Germany in a desperate fight for survival.
Style: political, serious, realistic, bleak, suspenseful ...
Plot: world war two, holocaust, cruise ship, ship, nazi, ocean liner, murder, world politics, sea, runaway, trippy, judaism ...
Time: year 1976, 20th century, year 1939, 1930s
Place: cuba, germany, havana cuba, latin america, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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In Harm's Way (1965)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 165 min.
Story: A naval officer reprimanded after Pearl Harbor is later promoted to rear admiral and gets a second chance to prove himself against the Japanese.
Style: realistic, tense, factual, exciting, suspenseful ...
Plot: war, world war two, naval battle, military, wartime, naval officer, father son relationship, u.s. navy, military life, suicide, marital infidelity, navy ...
Time: year 1941, year 1965, 1940s, year 1942
Place: pearl harbor, hawaii, pacific ocean, san francisco, polynesia
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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Pavilion of Women (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: China, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: With World War 2 looming, a prominent family in China must confront the contrasting ideas of traditionalism, communism and Western thinking, while dealing with the most important ideal of all: love and its meaning in society.
Style: emotional, serious, realistic, tense, intercultural ...
Plot: interracial romance, forbidden love, fall in love, social differences, culture clash, society, politics, state affairs, couple relations, family problems, couples, political unrest ...
Time: year 2001, 1930s, year 1938
Place: china, japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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Mother Night (1996)
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: dieselpunk, political thriller, political, independent film, contemplative ...
Plot: world war two, nazi, espionage, politics, holocaust, satire, world war, radio station, propaganda, guilt, book, chess ...
Time: 1940s, year 1996, 60s, 1930s, 20th century
Place: germany, israel, new york, usa, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 179 min.
Story: In 1947, four German judges who served on the bench during the Nazi regime face a military tribunal to answer charges of crimes against humanity. Chief Justice Haywood hears evidence and testimony not only from lead defendant Ernst Janning and his ...
Style: black and white, political, suspenseful, emotional, disturbing ...
Plot: courtroom drama, judge, genocide, holocaust, justice, lawyer, court, legal, courtroom, trial, politics, nazi ...
Time: 20th century, year 1946, 1940s, year 1961, 60s ...
Place: germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
The Land Girls (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK, France
Duration: 111 min.
Story: During World War II, the organisation "The Women's Land Army" recruited women to work on British farms while the men were off to war. Three such "land girls" of different social backgrounds - quiet Stella, young hairdresser ...
Style: period piece, touching, sentimental, realistic, historical drama ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: world war two, friendship, love, wartime life, working class, war, countryside, farm, woman, women, wine, world war ...
Time: 1940s, year 1998, 20th century
Place: england, united kingdom, english channel, europe, britain ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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Angry Harvest (1985)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: West Germany
Duration: 105 min.
Story: In the winter of 1942-43, a Jewish family leaps from a train going through Silesia. They are separated in the woods, and Leon, a local peasant who's now a farmer of some wealth, discovers the woman, Rosa, and hides her in his cellar. ...
Style: political, insightful, sincere, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot: holocaust, world war two, captivity, female nudity, nazi, israeli, renaissance, world war, anti semitism, train, survival, older man younger woman relationship ...
Time: 1940s, year 1985
Place: eastern europe, israel, poland, europe, holland ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
A Soldier's Tale (1989)
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, soldier, love affair, war, love and romance, couples, impossible love, unfulfilled love, woman in danger, wartime life, love, love triangle ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: france, europe, normandy
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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Focus (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: In the waning months of World War II, a man and his wife are mistakenly identified as Jews by their anti-Semitic Brooklyn neighbors. Suddenly the victims of religious and racial persecution, they find themselves aligned with a local Jewish immigrant ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, sincere, thought provoking, suspense ...
Plot: racism, anti semitism, world war two, prejudice, mistaken identity, false accusation, injustice, job seeking, life is a bitch, love and romance, couple relations, society ...
Time: 1940s, year 2001, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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Swing Shift (1984)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In 1941 America Kay and her husband are happy enough until he enlists after Pearl Harbor. Against his wishes, his wife takes a job at the local aircraft plant where she meets Hazel, the singer from across the way the two soon become firm friends and ...
Style: sentimental, emotional, touching, semi serious, humorous ...
Plot: world war two, friendship, love triangle, wartime, courage, adultery, storytelling, unlikely friendships, betrayal, fascism, love and romance, sexism ...
Time: 1940s, year 1941, 20th century
Place: los angeles, california, santa monica california
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54%
The White Countess (2005)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: UK, Germany, China, USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story: The last movie from the team of Ismail Merchant, James Ivory, and Kazuo Ishiguro. Set in 1930s Shanghai, "The White Countess" is both Sofia (Natasha Richardson), a fallen member of the Russian aristocracy, and a nightclub created by a ...
Style: romantic, sentimental, emotional, atmospheric, period piece ...
Plot: blindness, love story, couples, friendship, fall in love, couple relations, love and romance, unlikely couple, world war two, politics, intrigue, women ...
Time: 1930s, year 2005, 20th century, year 1937, year 1936 ...
Place: china, shanghai, asia, hong kong, macau
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Every Time We Say Goodbye (1986)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Israel, USA
Duration: 95 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, entertaining ...
Plot: world war two, friends, friendship, fall in love, father daughter relationship, couples, social differences, love affair, couple relations, opposites attract, interfaith relationship, wartime life ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1986
Place: jerusalem, middle east, israel, palestine
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50%
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Chinese Box (1997)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Japan, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: The story of Hong Kong, from New Year's Day to June 30th, 1997, when the British left their colony and turned it over to the People's Republic of China.
Style: atmospheric, independent film, contemplative, serious, realistic ...
Plot: unrequited love, love, colonialism, culture clash, death, photography, couples, politics, journalism, basement, white man asian woman relationship, barmaid ...
Time: year 1997, 90s, 20th century
Place: china, hong kong, asia, beijing china, north korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Twin Sisters (2002)
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: captivating, thought provoking, serious, realistic, touching ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: world war two, twins, wartime life, family reunited, family relations, ss officer, life is a bitch, culture clash, orphan, society, human nature, reconciliation ...
Time: 1940s, 1930s, 20th century, 1920s
Place: germany, europe, holland, netherlands
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Yanks (1979)
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, historical drama ...
Plot: world war two, soldier, wartime life, prejudice, infidelity, racism, american abroad, couple relations, love affair, premarital sex, world war, opposites attract ...
Time: 1940s, year 1979, 20th century
Place: england, yorkshire, northern england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Marcel Proust's Time Regained (1999)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: France, Italy, Portugal
Duration: 169 min.
Story: Marcel Proust (1871-1922) is on his deathbed. Looking at photographs brings memories of his childhood, his youth, his lovers, and the way the Great War put an end to a stratum of society. His memories are in no particular order, they move back and ...
Style: philosophical, atmospheric, spiritual, contemplative, realistic ...
Plot: writers, childhood, art, voyeurism, writer's life, melancholy, book, death, memory, storytelling, surrealism, artist ...
Time: year 1999, 1920s, 20th century, 1890s, 1910s ...
Place: france, portugal, paris france, europe, normandy
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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The Messenger (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Will Montgomery (Ben Foster), a U.S. Army Staff Sergeant who has returned home from Iraq, is assigned to the Army’s Casualty Notification service. Montgomery is partnered with Captain Tony Stone (Woody Harrelson), to give notice to the families of ...
Style: touching, depressing, sincere, bleak, sad ...
Audience: date night
Plot: military, soldier, loneliness, redemption, honest, character study, bereavement, human nature, officer, wartime, relationships, friendship ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: iraq, usa, bosnia
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Zelary (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia, Austria
Duration: 150 min.
Story: A nurse and her surgeon-lover are part of a resistance movement in 1940s Czechoslovakia. When they are discovered, her lover flees and she must find a place to hide. A patient whose life she saved, a man from a remote mountain village where time ...
Style: realistic, touching, sincere, contemplative, epic ...
Plot: world war two, small town, resistance, marriage, betrayal, self discovery, older man younger woman relationship, life is a bitch, couple relations, society, hopes, fugitives ...
Time: 1940s, year 2003, 20th century
Place: czechoslovakia, central europe, prague
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Head in the Clouds (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 132 min.
Story: A romantic drama set in 1930's England, Paris, and Spain. Gilda Bessé shares her Paris apartment with an Irish schoolteacher, Guy Malyon, and Mia, a refugee from Spain. As the world drifts toward war, Gilda defiantly pursues her hedonistic ...
Style: sexy, romantic, sentimental, captivating, stylized ...
Plot: world war two, lesbian, spanish civil war, lesbianism, bisexual woman, sexual relations, love triangle, group sex, war, love, orgy, betrayal ...
Time: 1930s, 1920s, 1940s, year 1944, year 2004 ...
Place: paris france, england, france, germany, spain ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Death in Love (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Death in Love is a psychosexual-thriller about a love affair between a Jewish woman and a doctor overseeing human experimentation at a Nazi German concentration camp, and the impact this has on her sons' lives in the 1990s.
Style: serious, psychological, emotional, sincere, bleak ...
Plot: world war two, concentration camp, dysfunctional family, memory, cruelty, doctor, parents and children, holocaust, haunted by the past, nazi, experiment, human nature ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 1940s
Place: new york, germany, europe, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
The English Patient (1996)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA, UK, Italy
Duration: 162 min.
Story: In the 1930s, Count Almásy is a Hungarian map maker employed by the Royal Geographical Society to chart the vast expanses of the Sahara Desert along with several other prominent explorers. As World War II unfolds, Almásy enters into a world of ...
Style: romantic, sentimental, emotional, touching, heartbreaking ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: world war two, adultery, love story, tragic love, betrayal, desert, life philosophy, beautiful scenery, life & death, war, wartime, power of love ...
Time: 1940s, 1930s, year 1944, year 1942, 90s ...
Place: sahara, italy, africa, ottoman empire, cairo egypt ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Aimee & Jaguar (1999)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Berlin 1943/44 ("The Battle of Berlin"). Felice, an intelligent and courageous Jewish woman who lives under a false name, belongs to an underground organization. Lilly, a devoted mother of four, though an occasional unfaithful wife, is ...
Style: erotic, romantic, sad, historical drama, romantic drama ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: lesbian, lesbian relationship, lesbian love, holocaust, lesbian interest, gender, woman in danger, nazi, gays and lesbians, world war two, couples, forbidden love ...
Time: year 1999, ancient times, 20th century, 1940s, year 1943 ...
Place: germany, europe, berlin germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
The Accompanist (1992)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance, War
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: In Nazi-occupied Paris, a young accompanist named Sophie Vasseur gets a job with famed singer Irene Brice. As Irene's husband Charles, a businessman collaborating with the Nazis, wrestles with his conscience, Sophie becomes obsessed with Irene, ...
Style: serious, psychological, realistic, sincere, crying
Plot: world war two, betrayal, railway, singer, maid, pianist, obsession, politics, infidelity, love, manipulation, strong female presence ...
Time: year 1992, 1940s
Place: vichy, paris france, france, london, england ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Captain Corelli's Mandolin (2001)
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: date night, girls' night
Plot: world war two, war, italian army, wartime, resistance fighter, fascism, world war, love and romance, social relations, fall in love, impossible love, wartime life ...
Time: 1940s, year 2001, 20th century
Place: greece, europe, albania
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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