Movies like Testament of Youth

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Testament of Youth (2014)
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Testament of Youth (2014)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: UK, Denmark, USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Testament of Youth is a powerful story of love, war and remembrance, based on the First World War memoir by Vera Brittain, which has become the classic testimony of that war from a woman’s point of view. A searing journey from youthful hopes and dreams to the edge of despair and back again, it’s a film about young love, the futility of war and how to make sense of the darkest times.
Style: touching, period piece, serious, captivating, romantic, stylized, costume drama, factual, sad, historical drama ...
Audience: girls' night, teens, chick flick
Plot: world war one, wartime, war, aspiring writer, women, death, poetry, nurse, life is a bitch, wartime life, love and romance, love affair, writers, compassion, coming of age, nursing, great war, hospital, war injury, love, literature, summer, eternal love, pacifism, brother sister relationship ...
Time: 1910s, 20th century, edwardian era, 1920s, 2010s, year 1918, year 1914 ...
Place: england, oxford university, london, yorkshire, france, flanders, europe
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, period drama and captivating films with plots about war, world war one, love and romance, biopic, wartime life, military and wartime mostly in Drama, War and Romance genres. Some movies like Testament of Youth: Atonement (2007), Birdsong (2012), The Crimson Field (2014), Suite Française (2014), Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Atonement (2007)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, War
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: As a 13-year-old, fledgling writer Briony Tallis irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit.
Style: touching, emotional, heartbreaking, sad, period piece ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens, adult
Plot: world war two, wartime, tragic love, redemption, injustice, unfulfilled love, love story, false accusation, love and romance, forbidden love, innocence, life is a bitch ...
Time: 1940s, 1930s, year 2007, 2000s, victorian era ...
Place: england, london, britain, dunkirk, europe ...
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Birdsong (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK
Duration: 165 min.
TV show
Story: As an English soldier fights in the horrific trenches of northern France, he is haunted by the memories of his forbidden love affair with a French woman.
Style: realistic, emotional, serious, stylized, epic ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: world war one, soldier, trench warfare, love affair, military, lovers, lovers apart, great war, war, battles, election, underground ...
Time: 1910s, 20th century
Place: france, united kingdom, europe
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The Crimson Field (2014)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: In a tented field hospital on the coast of France, a team of doctors, nurses and women volunteers work together to heal the bodies and souls of men wounded in the trenches.
Style: serious, period piece, realistic, emotional, suspenseful ...
Plot: world war one, military hospital, nurse, army, wartime life, friendship, lifesaver, love triangle, nursing, doctor, medicine, great war ...
Time: 1910s, 20th century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Suite Française (2014)
Genre: Drama, 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: emotional, realistic, romantic, period piece, serious ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: world war two, forbidden love, nazi occupation, german officer, german soldier, war, fall in love, wartime life, occupied france, nazi occupied france, adultery, nazi officer ...
Time: 1940s, year 1940, ancient times, 20th century
Place: france, europe, paris france
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Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: UK, France, USA, Germany
Duration: 114 min.
Story: When Queen Elizabeth's reign is threatened by ruthless familial betrayal and Spain's invading army, she and her shrewd adviser must act to safeguard to the lives of her people.
Style: period piece, costume drama, breathtaking, colorful, historical drama ...
Plot: british history, queen, queen elizabeth i, throne, royal family, royalty, tudors, politics, monarchy, medieval, political intrigue, biopic ...
Time: 16th century, middle ages, 19th century, victorian era, ancient times ...
Place: england, london, britain, scotland, spain ...
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The Water Diviner (2014)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: In 1919, Australian farmer Joshua Connor travels to Turkey to discover the fate of his three sons, reported missing in action. Holding on to hope, Joshua must travel across the war-torn landscape to find the truth and his own peace.
Style: touching, reflective, emotional, dramatic, compassionate ...
Plot: world war one, war, redemption, missing person, courage, family drama, great war, parents and children, family relations, escapades, military, wartime ...
Time: 1910s, year 1919, year 2014, 2010s, 1920s ...
Place: australia, gallipoli, turkey, istanbul turkey, ottoman empire
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100%
Merry Christmas (2005)
Genre: Drama, History, Music, Romance, War
Country: France, Germany, UK, Belgium, Romania, Japan
Duration: 116 min.
Story: In 1914, World War I, the bloodiest war ever at that time in human history, was well under way. However on Christmas Eve, numerous sections of the Western Front called an informal, and unauthorized, truce where the various front-line soldiers of the ...
Style: uplifting, touching, emotional, sincere, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: christmas, world war one, truce, war, soldier, holiday, human spirit, idealism, christmas eve, friendship, trench warfare, prejudice ...
Time: 1910s, 20th century, year 2005, 1920s, year 1914
Place: france, europe, berlin germany, holland, prussia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
In Love and War (1996)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: After teenage ambulance driver Ernest Hemingway (Chris O'Donnell) takes shrapnel in the leg during World War I, he falls in love with Agnes von Kurowsky (Sandra Bullock), a beautiful older nurse at the hospital where he's sent to recover. ...
Style: romantic, sentimental, romantic drama, sincere, sex comedy ...
Audience: date night
Plot: world war one, writers, war, great war, love, bittersweet, world war, soldier, couple relations, italian history, past, poet ...
Time: year 1996, 20th century
Place: europe, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Behind the Lines (1997)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Based on Pat Barker's novel of the same name, 'Regeneration' tells the story of soldiers of World War One sent to an asylum for emotional troubles. Two of the soldiers meeting there are Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, two of ...
Style: psychological, disturbing, emotional, serious, realistic ...
Plot: world war one, shell shock, great war, war, gay interest, world war, writers, psychology, poet, world war two, mental illness, anti war ...
Time: year 1997, 20th century
Place: scotland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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My Boy Jack (2007)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: UK, USA, Ireland
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Author Rudyard Kipling and his wife search for their 17-year-old son after he goes missing during WWI.
Style: realistic, serious, suspense, costume drama, tense ...
Plot: world war one, battles, military, british army, family relations, writers, teenage life, officers and cadets, parents and children, missing person, great war, father son relationship ...
Time: 1910s, year 1915
Place: france, dublin ireland, england, germany
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Cold Mountain (2003)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA, Italy, Romania, UK
Duration: 154 min.
Story: In this classic story of love and devotion set against the backdrop of the American Civil War, a wounded Confederate soldier named W.P. Inman deserts his unit and travels across the South, aiming to return to his young wife, Ada, who he left behind ...
Style: romantic, sincere, serious, period piece, touching ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: american civil war, love story, survival, civil war, tragic love, war, loss of family member, wartime, getting home, slavery, loss of loved one, military ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1800s, 1860s, year 2003 ...
Place: south carolina, north carolina, usa, america, ancient greece ...
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100%
Nicholas and Alexandra (1971)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: UK
Duration: 183 min.
Story: Biography of the last Russian Monarch, Tsar Nicholas II and his Tsarina, Alexandra.Czar Nicholas II, the inept monarch of Russia, insensitive to the needs of his people, is overthrown and exiled to Siberia with his family.
Style: epic, realistic, serious, captivating, tense ...
Plot: czar, world war one, russian history, royalty, politics, rise and fall, political unrest, rebelliousness, rebellion, state affairs, coming of age, russian empire ...
Time: 20th century, edwardian era, year 1971, 19th century, 1910s
Place: russia, siberia, crimea
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Tolkien (2019)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: England, early 20th century. The future writer and philologist John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892-1973) and three of his schoolmates create a strong bond between them as they share the same passion for literature and art, a true fellowship that ...
Style: bleak, suspense, suspenseful, rough, retro ...
Plot: world war one, boys' school, writers, teenage boy, soldier, friendship, treasure, coming of age, orphan, young soldier, poet, great war ...
Time: 1910s, 20th century, year 2019, edwardian era, year 1937 ...
Place: oxford university, birmingham alabama, england
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100%
To Walk Invisible (2016)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min.
Story: To Walk Invisible takes a new look at the extraordinary Brontë family, telling the story of these remarkable women who, despite the obstacles they faced, came from obscurity to produce some of the greatest novels in the English language.
Style: captivating, cult classic, historical drama, dark, gothic ...
Plot: writers, sisters, female writer, novelist, publisher, women, family relations, historical figure, social relations, writer's life, sister, life ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1840s
Place: yorkshire
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Anzac Girls (2014)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Australia
Duration: 60 min.
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Story: The unique, and rarely told true stories of Australian and New Zealand nurses serving at Gallipoli and the Western Front during the First World War.
Style: captivating, realistic, emotional, serious, stylized ...
Plot: world war one, war, human spirit, love and romance, nurse, fall in love, hopes, military, battles, wartime life, tragic love, life is a bitch ...
Time: 1910s, 20th century
Place: australia, egypt, cairo egypt, greece, france ...
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100%
The Railway Man (2013)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, War
Country: Switzerland, UK, Australia
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A victim from World War II's "Death Railway" sets out to find those responsible for his torture. A true story.
Style: intense, emotional, captivating, inspirational, romantic ...
Plot: world war two, war, torture, autobiography, biopic, prison, life is a bitch, human spirit, wartime life, haunted by the past, revenge, captivity ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1980, year 1942
Place: burma, england, asia, thailand
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100%
The Imitation Game (2014)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Based on the real life story of legendary cryptanalyst Alan Turing, the film portrays the nail-biting race against time by Turing and his brilliant team of code-breakers at Britain's top-secret Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley ...
Style: inspirational, clever, intellectual, captivating, serious ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, family friendly, adult
Plot: world war two, mathematics, genius, inventor, inventions and discoveries, code, code breaking, prodigy, mathematician, invention, computer, ambition ...
Time: 1940s, year 2014, 20th century, 1950s, 2010s ...
Place: england, london, britain, idaho, los angeles ...
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The Duchess (2008)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, Italy, France, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A chronicle of the life of 18th century aristocrat Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, who was reviled for her extravagant political and personal life.
Style: romantic, costume drama, sexy, emotional, dramatic ...
Audience: chick flick, teens
Plot: royalty, love story, duchess, love triangle, love affair, aristocracy, duke, infidelity, adultery, high society, marriage, nobility ...
Time: 18th century, georgian era, 19th century, middle ages, ancient times ...
Place: england, britain, europe, london
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The Edge of Love (2008)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story: The Edge of love is a love story of two feisty women and a brilliant, charismatic poet who love both women. One woman Vera Phillips who is his first love and whom he lost for ten year, while other one is his present wife Caitlin who is adventurous ...
Style: romantic, captivating, sincere, melancholic, period piece ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: love triangle, marriage, husband wife relationship, jealousy, infidelity, writers, pregnancy, world war two, unfulfillment, love, couple relations, dishonesty ...
Time: 1940s, year 2008
Place: wales, europe, england, london
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Admiral (2008)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 124 min.
Story: This is a story of a great love facing the greatest drama of the history of Russia. Admiral Kolchak is a true war hero and beloved husband and father. One day he meets Anna, the love of his life and the wife of his best friend. The revolution in his ...
Style: realistic, serious, dramatic, touching, tragic ending ...
Plot: world war one, political unrest, russian history, military, battles, russian empire, destiny, heroes, wartime life, warship, revolution, against the odds ...
Time: 1910s, 20th century
Place: russia, soviet union
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100%
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Doctor Zhivago (1965)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Italy, UK, USA
Duration: 197 min.
Story: Doctor Zhivago is the filmed adapation of the Russian novel by Boris Pasternak from director David Lean that was an international success and today deemed a classic. Omar Sharif and Julie Christie play two protagonists who in fact love each other ...
Style: epic, atmospheric, emotional, visual, costume drama ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: world war one, revolution, communism, war, wartime, train, rape, love triangle, poet, communist, imperial russia, betrayal ...
Time: 20th century, 1920s, 1910s, 1940s, year 1965 ...
Place: russia, soviet union, moscow russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Summer in February (2013)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The Newlyn School of artists flourished at the beginning of the 20th Century and the film focuses on the wild and bohemian Lamorna Group, which included Alfred Munnings and Laura and Harold Knight. The incendiary anti-Modernist Munnings, now ...
Style: touching, sincere, emotional, serious, retro ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: painter, love triangle, infidelity, biopic, love affair, lifestyle, couples, family relations, unfulfilled love, love and romance, fall in love, couple relations ...
Time: 1910s, 1900s, 20th century, year 1915, pre world war one ...
Place: cornwall, england, london
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100%
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War Horse (2011)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, War
Country: USA, India
Duration: 146 min.
Story: Follows a young man named Albert and his horse, Joey, and how their bond is broken when Joey is sold to the cavalry and sent to the trenches of World War One. Despite being too young to enlist, Albert heads to France to save his friend.
Style: touching, emotional, epic, uplifting, sentimental ...
Audience: family outing, date night, girls' night, teens, teen drama ...
Plot: world war one, horse, war, friendship, animal training, animal, battles, human spirit, wartime, battlefield, danger, military ...
Time: 1910s, 20th century, 2010s, 1920s, year 2011 ...
Place: england, belgium, britain, america, europe ...
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The Killing Fields (1984)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: UK
Duration: 141 min.
Story: The Killing Fields tells the real-life story of a friendship between two journalists, an American and a Cambodian, during the bloody Khmer Rouge takeover of Cambodia in 1975, which led to the death of 2-3 million Cambodians during the next four ...
Style: disturbing, rough, political, emotional, heartbreaking ...
Plot: genocide, journalism, vietnam war, war, photographer, civil war, photograph, brutality, anti war, friendship, photography, politics ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, 80s, year 1984
Place: cambodia, vietnam, east asia, asia, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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A Royal Affair (2012)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Denmark, Sweden, Czech Republic, Germany
Duration: 137 min.
Story: A young queen falls in love with her physician, and they start a revolution that changes their nation forever.
Style: period piece, costume drama, realistic, stylized, factual ...
Audience: date night, teens, adult
Plot: royal family, queen, love affair, love triangle, adultery, political intrigue, aristocracy, coup d'etat, royalty, royal court, infidelity, king ...
Time: 18th century, year 2012, ancient times, victorian era, georgian era ...
Place: denmark, europe, england, scandinavia, copenhagen ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Suffragette (2015)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK, France
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Based on true events about the foot soldiers of the early feminist movement who were forced underground to evade the State.
Style: inspirational, political, factual, educational, bleak ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
Plot: feminism, women, feminist, sexism, girl power, activism, women's suffrage, human rights, rebelliousness, women's rights, sexual harassment, women's liberation ...
Time: 1900s, year 1912, 1910s, edwardian era, victorian era ...
Place: england, london, britain, europe, united kingdom
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50%
 6.3
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The Red Baron (2008)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Biography, Drama, Romance, War
Country: Germany, UK
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Richthofen goes off to war like thousands of other men. As fighter pilots, they become cult heroes for the soldiers on the battlefields. Marked by sportsmanlike conduct, technical exactitude and knightly propriety, they have their own code of ...
Style: emotional, captivating, exciting, sincere, touching ...
Audience: date night
Plot: world war one, soldier, fighter pilot, airplane, aviation, flying, great war, fall in love, rise to the top, pilot, airplane shot down, heroes ...
Time: 1910s, year 2008, 1900s, 20th century
Place: germany, europe, belgium, france, berlin germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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Gemma Bovery (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Martin, an ex-Parisian well-heeled hipster passionate about Gustave Flaubert who settled into a Norman village as a baker, sees an English couple moving into a small farm nearby. Not only are the names of the new arrivals Gemma and Charles Bovery, ...
Style: sexy, touching, sentimental, lyrical, romantic ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: infidelity, literature, love triangle, love and romance, couple relations, unfaithful wife, baker, infatuation, hot and sexy, mysterious girl, women, summer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: normandy, france, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Rotterdam Bombing (2012)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A thrilling love story between the young boxer Vincent and the German Eva, who soon has to marry with the middle-aged Dirk to save her family. While the war starts in the Netherlands their impossible love inflames. May 14, 1940, the day that the ...
Style: realistic, serious, touching, suspenseful, emotional ...
Plot: world war two, wartime life, life is a bitch, bombing, social differences, society, german occupation, unfulfillment, brother sister relationship, wedding planning, dutch history, boxing ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: holland, europe, rotterdam netherlands
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
In the Land of Blood and Honey (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: During the Bosnian War, Danijel, a soldier fighting for the Serbs, re-encounters Ajla, a Bosnian who's now a captive in his camp he oversees. Their once promising connection has become ambiguous as their motives have changed.
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, touching, romantic drama ...
Plot: bosnian war, soldier, muslim, forbidden love, war, rape, life is a bitch, love affair, escape, love and romance, couple relations, couples ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: sarajevo, bosnia, bosnia herzegovina, europe, former yugoslavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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