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Taking Sides (2001)
4K
Genre: Drama, History, Music, War
Country: France, UK, Germany, Austria
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A tale based on the life of Wilhelm Furtwangler, the controversial conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic whose tenure coincided with the controversial Nazi era. One of the most spectacular and renowned conductors of the 30s, Furtwangler's reputation rivaled that of Toscanini's. After the war, he was investigated as part of the Allies' de-Nazification programme. In the bombed-out Berlin of the immediate post-war period, the Allies slowly bring law and order--and justice--to bear on an occupied Germany. An American major is given the Furtwangler file, and is told to find everything he can and to prosecute the man ruthlessly. Tough and hard-nosed, Major Steve Arnold sets out to investigate a world of which he knows nothing. Orchestra members vouch for Furtwangler's morality--he did what he could to protect Jewish players from his orchestra. To the Germans, deeply respectful of their musical heritage, Furtwangler was a demigod; to Major Arnold, he is just a lying, weak-willed Nazi.
Style:
thought provoking, serious, realistic, atmospheric, touching, clever, contemplative, talky, historical drama, period drama ...
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, investigation, politics, war crime, racism, introspection, musician's life, military, rebellion, state affairs, music conductor, musician, betrayal, justice, conscience, world war, art, third reich, patriot, music, terrorism, judaism, german history, courtroom drama ...
Time:
year 2001, post world war two
Place:
germany, europe, france, russia, berlin germany, poland, vienna ...
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Most similar movies to Taking Sides
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, emotional and sincere films with plots about world war two, holocaust, war, world war, nazi, nazi uniform and anti semitism mostly in Drama, War and History genres. Some movies like Taking Sides: The Pianist (2002), Amen. (2002), Hamsun (1996), Conspiracy (2001), Judgment at Nuremberg (1961). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, War
Country: France, Poland, Germany, UK, USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
The true story of pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. When the Jews of the city find themselves forced into a ghetto, Szpilman finds work playing in a café; and when his family is deported in 1942, he ...
Style:
emotional, sad, harsh, reflective, bleak ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, survival, genocide, nazi, classical music, wartime, war, nazism, anti semitism, hunger, nazi occupation ...
Time:
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Place:
poland, germany, europe, eastern europe, central europe ...
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, War
Country: France, Germany, Romania
Duration: 132 min.
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The film "Amen." examines the links between the Vatican and Nazi Germany. The central character is Kurt Gerstein, a member of the Institute for Hygiene of the Waffen-SS who is horrified by what he sees in the death camps. Moreover, he is ...
Style:
sincere, political, disturbing, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot:
holocaust, genocide, world war two, concentration camp, politics, pope, christian, ss, conscience, nazi, nazism, priest ...
Time:
1940s, year 2002, 1930s, 20th century, post world war two
Place:
germany, poland, rome italy, italy, austria ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Germany
Duration: 159 min.
Story:
Knut Hamsun is Norway's most famous and admired author. Ever since he was young he has hated the English for the starvation they caused Norway during WWI. When the Germans occupy Norway 9 April 1940 he welcomes them and the protection they can ...
Style:
sad, talky, uplifting, sincere, emotional ...
Plot:
world war two, holocaust, writers, world war, nazi, poet, writer's life, biopic, nobel prize winner, nazism, marriage, fascism ...
Time:
1940s, year 1996, 1930s
Place:
germany, europe
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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:
holocaust, genocide, nazi, politics, world war two, conspiracy, third reich, ss officer, shoah, war crime, brutality, racism ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1942, post world war two, 1930s
Place:
berlin germany, germany, europe, poland
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Austria, West Germany
Duration: 87 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, thought provoking, talky, captivating, bleak ...
Plot:
world war two, holocaust, nazi, nazi germany, world war, genocide, racism, anti semitism, nazi officer, nazism, crime against humanity, conference ...
Time:
year 1942, 1940s
Place:
germany, berlin germany, europe, palestine, warsaw poland
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 179 min.
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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 ...
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black and white, political, philosophical, emotional, disturbing ...
Plot:
courtroom drama, judge, genocide, holocaust, lawyer, nazi, legal, redemption, court, trial, politics, justice ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1945, year 1961, post world war two ...
Place:
germany, europe, berlin germany, poland
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A Nazi doctor, along with the Sonderkomando Jews – who are forced to work in the crematoria of Auschwitz against their fellow-Jews – find themselves in a moral grey zone.
Style:
depressing, bleak, disturbing, factual, harsh ...
Plot:
holocaust, nazi, world war two, concentration camp, redemption, nazi germany, auschwitz, ss, shoah, moral ambiguity, world war, tragedy ...
Time:
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Place:
poland, germany, europe, middle east, budapest ...
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Germany, France, Poland
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A Jewish boy separated from his family in the early days of WWII poses as a German orphan and is taken into the heart of the Nazi world as a 'war hero' and eventually becomes a Hitler Youth. Although improbabilities and happenstance are ...
Style:
political, retro, realistic, surreal, psychedelic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
holocaust, nazi, circumcision, male nudity, woman peeing, hitler youth, children in wartime, physical exam, war, coming of age, genocide, nazi germany ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 90s, year 1990, 1930s
Place:
germany, poland, berlin germany, eastern europe, latvia ...
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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, realistic, serious, bleak ...
Plot:
holocaust, concentration camp, nazism, holocaust survivor, german occupation, world war two, nazi, genocide, nazi concentration camp, shoah, world war, injustice ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, year 2009, post world war two, year 1942
Place:
paris france, vichy, france, middle east, europe ...
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31%
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 ...
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30%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: UK
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
During WWII, the death camp at Treblinka had an escape, causing the Commandant at a similar camp in Sobibor to vow (actually threaten) that his camp would never experience the same thing. But those who were its captives, the Jewish laborers that had ...
Style:
tense, realistic, thought provoking, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot:
concentration camp, world war two, pow, holocaust, escape, shoah, against humanity, genocide, military, captivity, nazi, hopes ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
poland, europe
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29%
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Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Hungary, Germany, Canada, Austria, France, UK
Duration: 181 min.
Story:
The film follows a Jewish family living in Hungary through three generations, rising from humble beginnings to positions of wealth and power in the crumbling Austro-Hungarian Empire. The patriarch becomes a prominent judge but is torn when his ...
Style:
costume drama, erotic, saga, family saga, sad ...
Plot:
holocaust, sex scene, politics, love affair, political unrest, world war two, illicit affair, fascism, nazi, family life, siblings relations, jewish culture ...
Time:
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616
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
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emotional, disturbing, sincere, realistic, serious ...
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holocaust, world war two, wartime life, survival, rescue, anti semitism, deportation, immigrant, idealism, heroic mission, against humanity, hopes ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Germany, Austria, Italy
Duration: 156 min.
Story:
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psychological, costume drama, harsh, disturbing, epic ...
Audience:
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Plot:
world war two, hitler, nazi, war, nazism, suicide, fascism, holocaust, national socialism, dictatorship, third reich, paranoia ...
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germany, berlin germany, prague, europe, bavaria ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, History, War
Country: Austria, Germany
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Story:
The story Jewish counterfeiter, Salomon Sorowitsch, coerced into assisting the Nazi operation of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp during World War II.
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harsh, tense, brutal, bleak, serious ...
Plot:
holocaust, nazi, concentration camp, world war two, nazi germany, counterfeit money, brutality, forgery, counterfeiter, prison, nazi concentration camp, war crime ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 1930s, year 1936, year 2008 ...
Place:
germany, europe, poland, austria, canada ...
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28%
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
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28%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
When his family moves from their home in Berlin to a strange new house in Poland, young Bruno befriends Shmuel, a boy who lives on the other side of the fence where everyone seems to be wearing striped pajamas. Unaware of Shmuel's fate as a ...
Style:
emotional, touching, heartbreaking, sad, sentimental ...
Audience:
teens, family friendly, family outing, kids, teen drama ...
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, concentration camp, war, children, friendship, childhood, nazi, nazism, gas chamber, boy, morality ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, ancient times, year 2008, year 1941 ...
Place:
germany, poland, europe, berlin germany, switzerland
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28%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
True story of Germany's most famous anti-Nazi heroine brought to thrilling, dramatic life. Sophie Scholl stars Julia Jentsch in a luminous performance as the fearless activist of the underground student resistance group, The White Rose. Armed ...
Style:
sincere, emotional, touching, suspenseful, political ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
world war two, politics, nazism, nazi germany, death sentence, nazi, resistance, gestapo, justice, historical character, trial, lawyer ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1943, 2000s, year 2005 ...
Place:
germany, munich germany, europe, poland, berlin germany ...
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
An examination of the Soviet slaughter of thousands of Polish officers and citizens in the Katyn forest in 1940.
Style:
disturbing, sentimental, heartbreaking, realistic, sad ...
Plot:
world war two, war crime, ethnic conflict, polish history, nazism, survival, propaganda, holocaust, massacre, occupation, oppression, murder ...
Time:
1940s, year 2007, 20th century, year 1940, post world war two
Place:
poland, eastern europe, europe, russia, soviet union ...
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: UK
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
Based on a play, the story details the dramatic negotiations between UK, France, Poland, Nazi-Germany and USSR from the day Czechoslovakia fell, until Britain's declaration of war on Germany caused by Hitler's invasion of Poland.
Style:
historical drama, serious, period piece, tense, political ...
Plot:
world war two, nazi germany, hitler, world war, wartime, strategy, moral dilemma, war, sudden ending, politics, ultimatum, ambassador ...
Place:
soviet union, poland, united kingdom, france, czechoslovakia ...
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
The story of a close-knit group of young kids in Nazi Germany who listen to banned swing music from the US. Soon dancing and fun leads to more difficult choices as the Nazi's begin tightening the grip on Germany. Each member of the group is ...
Style:
serious, realistic, breathtaking, period piece, sentimental ...
Audience:
kids, girls' night, teens
Plot:
nazi, world war two, dancing, coming of age, dance, swing dancing, anti semitism, holocaust, friendship, jazz, fighting the system, brainwashing ...
Time:
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Place:
germany, new york, europe, usa, hamburg germany ...
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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:
tense, disturbing, captivating, bleak, grim ...
Plot:
world war two, holocaust, nazi, nazism, ss officer, jew persecution, nazi officer, genocide, anti semitism, war crime, nazi germany, wartime ...
Time:
1940s, year 1942
Place:
berlin germany, germany
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26%
Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: Germany, Luxembourg, Czech Republic
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A drama loosely based on Jean Bernard's Nazi-era prison diary.
Style:
serious, emotional, sincere, contemplative, uplifting ...
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, nazi, concentration camp, hopes, clergy, gestapo, catholic, nazi occupation, soldier, heroes, introspection ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, year 2004, post world war two
Place:
germany, belgium, switzerland, france, berlin germany ...
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25%
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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:
surreal, independent film, experimental, dark, emotional ...
Plot:
world war two, nazi, hitler, soldier, anti semitism, genocide, holocaust, obsession, mental illness, fascism, nazism, madness ...
Time:
year 1996
Place:
europe, germany
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25%
16K
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Japan, USA, New Zealand
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
As the Japanese surrender at the end of WWII, Gen. Fellers is tasked with deciding if Emperor Hirohito will be hanged as a war criminal. Influencing his ruling is his quest to find Aya, an exchange student he met years earlier in the U.S.
Style:
touching, captivating, sincere, historical drama, sex comedy ...
Plot:
world war two, japanese history, emperor, politics, investigation, occupation, military, forbidden love, war crime, moral dilemma, ruler, political unrest ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 1930s, year 1945, post world war two ...
Place:
japan, asia, berlin germany, china, tokyo ...
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
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Justice Robert H. Jackson leads Allied prosecutors in trying 21 Germans for Nazi war crimes after World War II.
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sincere, captivating, disturbing, serious, political ...
Plot:
holocaust, courtroom drama, courtroom, nazi, legal, politics, execution, military, nazi war criminal, third reich, anti semitism, judge ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
germany, france, england, europe
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25%
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
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24%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Hungary, UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Based upon the final confession of Adolf Eichmann, made before his execution in Israel, of his role in Hitler's plan for the final solution.
Style:
serious, captivating, tense, disturbing, sincere ...
Plot:
holocaust, nazi, nazi war criminal, anti semitism, legal, life is a bitch, prison, genocide, nazi germany, courtroom, investigation, confined ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, 60s, post world war two, 50s ...
Place:
europe, israel, middle east, budapest
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24%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, USA, UK
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Czechoslovakia, 1942. Three brave Czech patriots risk everything to rid their country of its brutal Nazi leader, SS-General Reinhard Heydrich.
Style:
dramatic, realistic, serious, suspenseful, bleak
Plot:
world war two, czech history, spy, world war, holocaust, nazi, espionage, secret mission, parachutist, double suicide, nazi occupation, traitor ...
Time:
1940s, year 1941, year 1975, 20th century, year 1942
Place:
prague, europe, england, czechoslovakia, czech republic ...
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24%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: UK, USA, Canada
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Varian Fry rescues more than 2,000 artists from Nazi persecution during World War II.
Style:
tense, serious, emotional, sincere, realistic
Plot:
world war two, wartime life, hidden identity, uncover truth, politics, life is a bitch, moral dilemma, state affairs, rescue, danger, escapades, against humanity ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
france, europe, usa, marseille
Similarity:
24%
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