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Operation Valkyrie (2004)
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Original name: Stauffenberg
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Germany, Austria, Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
In 1944, a group of high command officers plot an attempt against Hitler, and one of the leaders of the conspiracy, Stauffenberg (Sebastian Koch), goes to a meeting with the Fuhrer in charge of exploding the place. However, Hitler survives and the officers are executed. This unsuccessful operation was called "Valkyrie Operation", and this realistic movie discloses this true event.
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating
Plot:
hitler, world war two, assassination attempt, nazi, national socialism, war, conspiracy, plan gone wrong, military, leadership, wartime life, danger, rebelliousness, against humanity, state affairs, resistance, gestapo, world war, german soldier, nobility, nazi germany, suicide, coup d'etat, wehrmacht, military officer ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, post world war two, 40s
Place:
germany
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, captivating and bleak films with plots about world war two, nazi, war, nazi uniform, world war, german soldier and military mostly in Drama, War and History genres. Some movies like Operation Valkyrie: The White Rose (1982), April 9th (2015), Generation War (2013), Naked Among Wolves (2015), Rommel (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.

Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: West Germany
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
During the Second World War, a small group of students at Munich University begin to question the decisions and sanity of Germany's Nazi government. The students form a resistance cell which they name the "White Rose" after a ...
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Plot:
world war two, resistance, nazi, anti fascist, fascism, death sentence, resistance movement, nude girl, dying young, german history, intrigue, world war ...
Time:
year 1943, 1940s, 20th century, year 1982, 1920s
Place:
germany, europe, munich germany, california, paris france ...
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Denmark
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
In the early morning of April 9th 1940 the Danish army is alerted. The Germans have crossed the border; Denmark is at war against Europe's strongest army. In Southern Jutland Danish bicycle- and motorcycle companies are ordered out, to against ...
Style:
serious, captivating, realistic, tense, suspense ...
Plot:
world war two, nazi occupation, wehrmacht, military, war, soldier, battles, danger, against the odds, nazi, world war, friendship ...
Time:
20th century, year 1940, 1940s
Place:
denmark, germany, europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min.
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Story:
Berlin, 1941. Five friends eager to become heroes in an adventure that will change the face of Europe - and that will forever change them as well.
Style:
tense, captivating, thought provoking, serious, anime ...
Plot:
world war two, nazism, holocaust, soldier, military, nazi germany, guilt, danger, eastern front, atrocity, wehrmacht, friends ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
germany, berlin germany, east germany, hawaii, soviet union ...
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Naked Among Wolves (German: Nackt unter Wölfen) is a German drama film directed by Philipp Kadelbach in 2015. It is based on the novel of the same name by Bruno Apitz, which was published in 1958 by the East German Publishing house. It was created ...
Style:
captivating, tense, realistic, psychological, independent film ...
Plot:
holocaust, concentration camp, nazi, world war two, nazi concentration camp, liberation, world war, shoah, little boy, resistance, death, child in peril ...
Time:
year 1945, 1940s
Place:
germany, switzerland
Similarity:
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Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Germany, France, Austria
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A new film about Erwin Rommel has been shown on German television, depicting the general as a weak man undone by his links to Adolf Hitler.
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, suspenseful
Plot:
world war two, military, wehrmacht, nazi, assassination attempt, political conspiracy, political unrest, rivalry, state affairs, world war, assassination plot, trial ...
Time:
1940s, year 1944, 20th century
Place:
europe, france, berlin germany, paris france, normandy
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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:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: France
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
This gripping historical drama recounts the story of Armenian-born Missak Manouchian, a woodworker and political activist who led an immigrant laborer division of the Parisian Resistance on 30 operations against the Nazis in 1943. The Nazis branded ...
Style:
serious, realistic, rough, disturbing, sincere ...
Plot:
world war two, gestapo, resistance, ss officer, nazi, occupation, poet, danger, hopes, youth, heroes, human spirit ...
Time:
1940s, year 2009, 20th century, year 1942, post world war two
Place:
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Similarity:
100%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The historical recreation of the 1942 Wannsee Conference, in which Nazi and SS leaders gathered in a Berlin suburb to discuss the "Final Solution to the Jewish Question". Lead by SS-General Reinhard Heydrich, this group of high ranking ...
Style:
factual, political, disturbing, bleak, atmospheric ...
Plot:
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Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1942, post world war two, 1930s
Place:
berlin germany, germany, europe, poland
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: Germany, Italy
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
The breath-taking story of a man who nearly would have changed the world. 1939, when Hitler tricked millions of people at the height of his power, one said a radical No: Georg Elser, disparaged as an assassin, is one of the greatest resistance ...
Style:
realistic, serious, tense, suspenseful
Audience:
kids
Plot:
hitler, nazi germany, world war two, gestapo, resistance fighter, battered woman, bolshevik, nazi, hitler youth, assassination attempt, anti fascist, third reich ...
Time:
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Place:
germany, munich germany, europe, switzerland, berlin germany
Similarity:
100%
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.
Style:
political, tense, thought provoking, grim, bleak ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
berlin germany, germany
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Germany, Switzerland, Italy
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
In 1933 in Berlin. Anna is only nine years old when her life changes from the ground up. To escape the Nazis, her father Arthur Kemper, a well-known Jewish journalist, has to flee to Zurich. His family, Anna, her twelve-year-old brother Max and her ...
Style:
sincere, realistic, serious, touching
Plot:
world war two, wartime life, anti semitism, refugee, heroes, life is a bitch, against humanity, teenage life, life turned upside down, family in danger, crime against humanity, danger ...
Time:
year 2019, 1930s, year 1933
Place:
germany, switzerland, berlin germany, paris france, swiss alps ...
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100%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Germany, France, UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Berlin in June of 1940. While Nazi propaganda celebrates the regime’s victory over France, a kitchen-cum-living room in Prenzlauer Berg is filled with grief. Anna and Otto Quangel’s son has been killed at the front. This working class couple had ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1940, year 1943
Place:
berlin germany, germany, central europe
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100%

Genre: Drama, History, Thriller, War
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Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, realistic, exciting, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Country: UK, Italy
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Duration: 111 min.
Story:
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Style:
tense, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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32%
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Country: France, USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
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Style:
bleak, realistic, captivating, disturbing, serious ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
germany, berlin germany, europe
Similarity:
31%

Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 270 min.
TV show
Story:
A reassessment of the role Albert Speer played in the Third Reich. Speer, who was ultimately convicted at the Nuremburg trials and served a 20-year prison sentence, was known for designing many of the Third Reich's buildings and for being ...
Style:
contemplative, serious, sincere, thought provoking, captivating ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
germany, berlin germany
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31%
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: Norway
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Norwegian war drama. The old sea-captain retires, but the next day German WWII occupation of Norway begins. He then kisses his wife good-bye and is off to Army HQ. There he finds a lack of leadership and morale that offends him. They even laugh at ...
Style:
contemplative, captivating, sincere, emotional, serious ...
Plot:
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Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
germany
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, captivating, serious, talky, political
Plot:
world war two, diplomacy, soldier, german occupation, wartime life, danger, disobey, race against time, nazi, sabotage, french resistance, obedience ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1944, year 2014
Place:
paris france, germany, france, europe
Similarity:
27%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Brazil
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
Based upon the true story of Olga Benário, the German-born wife of Brazilian communist leader Luís Carlos Prestes. During the dictatorship of Getúlio Vargas (1930-1945) she was arrested and sent to Nazi Germany, where she was put to death in a ...
Style:
captivating, realistic, serious, emotional, contemplative ...
Plot:
nazi germany, world war two, concentration camp, holocaust, wartime life, life is a bitch, dictatorship, biopic, love affair, revolution, politics, confined ...
Time:
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Place:
germany, rio de janeiro, europe, brazil
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, serious, bleak, rough
Plot:
world war two, military, heroic mission, soldier, left to die, danger, young heroes, combat casualty, american soldier, nazi, world war, german history ...
Time:
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Place:
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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, realistic, serious, captivating, thought provoking ...
Plot:
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Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
rome italy, italy, europe
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: USA, Canada, Poland, Latvia
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Irena Sendler is a Catholic social worker who has sympathized with the Jews since her childhood, when her physician father died of typhus contracted while treating poor Jewish patients. When she initially proposes saving Jewish children from the ...
Style:
serious, realistic, emotional, period piece, suspense ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
poland, europe, warsaw poland
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: France, China, Germany, Austria, Italy, Spain, Belgium
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
A true-story account of a German businessman who saved more than 200,000 Chinese during the Nanjing massacre in 1937-38.
Style:
tense, realistic, disturbing, serious, bleak ...
Plot:
war, world war two, rescue, nazi, heroes, atrocity, confined, wartime life, lifesaver, chaos, disorder, righting the wronged ...
Time:
20th century, 1930s, year 1937, year 1938, post world war two
Place:
china, japan, asia, berlin germany
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24%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min.
TV show
Story:
A unique slant, profiling the life of Adolf Hitler as a child and his rise through the ranks of the National German Workers' Party prior to World War II.
Style:
serious, captivating, realistic, bleak, disturbing ...
Plot:
hitler, world war two, nazism, fascism, against humanity, racism, politics, political unrest, dictatorship, nazi, leadership, ss ...
Time:
1920s, 1930s, 20th century, 1910s
Place:
germany, europe, austria
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24%
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:
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Time:
1940s, year 1943, 20th century, post world war two
Place:
berlin germany, germany, europe, new york, usa
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23%
Genre: Drama, War
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Duration: 123 min.
Story:
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serious, realistic, bleak, captivating, entertaining ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: Netherlands
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, captivating, realistic, emotional, bleak
Plot:
ss, holocaust, wartime life, nazi occupation, human spirit, world war two, children, selflessness, rescue, idealism, hopes, deportation ...
Time:
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Place:
holland, europe, amsterdam
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: Austria, Luxembourg
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, captivating, tense, contemplative, realistic ...
Plot:
world war two, friends, friendship, military, life is a bitch, soldier, wartime life, moral dilemma, holocaust, against humanity, concentration camp, nazi ...
Time:
20th century, 1930s, 1940s
Place:
germany, europe, poland, austria
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
The true story of the greatest manhunt of the century!
Style:
contemplative, captivating, thought provoking, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
fascism, italian politics, world war, italian history, escape attempt, partisan, resistance, totalitarian state, dystopia, biopic, military, rise and fall ...
Time:
1940s, year 1945, 20th century
Place:
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Similarity:
23%
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