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In August of 1944 (2001)
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In August of 1944 (2001)
Original name: В августе 44-го
Genre: Action, Mystery, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: Russia, Belarus
Duration: 109 min.
Story: The movie is set in Belarus, where a team of counter-intelligence officers is given only three days to find a German radio operator posing as a Soviet soldier, behind soviet lines, on the eve of a major offensive.
Style: atmospheric, serious, realistic, rough, emotional, suspense, suspenseful, stylized, intense
Audience: family outing, boys' night
Plot: world war two, counter intelligence, war, spy, russian soldier, betrayal, wartime, traitor, friendship between men, patriotism, camaraderie, nazi, machine gun, great patriotic war, soviet, firearm, search
Time: 1940s, year 1944
Place: ussr, russia
Keyword: russian

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, suspenseful, realistic and rough films with plots about world war two, war, military, world war, soldier, nazi and danger mostly in War, Drama and Action genres. Some movies like In August of 1944: The Saboteur (2004), The Night of the Generals (1967), The Turkish Gambit (2005), They Fought for Their Country (1975), In June 1941 (2008). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Saboteur (2004)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 208 min.
TV show
Story: Two young intelligence officers headed by a tough captain are assigned various secret missions on the Nazi-occupied territories.
Style: exciting, suspense, humorous, feel good
Audience: boys' night
Plot: wartime, prospector, saboteur, friendship, world war two, heroism, wartime life, military, heroic mission, investigation, diversion, soviet army ...
Time: 1940s
⇓ similarity ⇓
97%
The Night of the Generals (1967)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, War
Country: UK, France
Duration: 148 min.
Story: An unusual World War II crime thriller about a Nazi investigation into the murder of a prostitute. Major Grau finds himself focusing on three suspects: the Generals Tanz, Kahlenberg and Seydlitz-Gabler – all three of whom, it seems, are also ...
Style: realistic, suspenseful, tense, suspense, serious ...
Plot: world war two, prostitute, investigation, murder, serial killer, war, conspiracy, nazi occupation, nazi, twists and turns, uncover truth, who done it ...
Time: 1940s, year 1967, 60s, year 1965, year 1944 ...
Place: france, paris france, poland, hamburg germany, warsaw poland ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Turkish Gambit (2005)
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, War
Country: Russia, Bulgaria
Duration: 208 min.
Story: The film is based on the second book from the Adventures of Erast Petrovich Fandorin series of novels written by the Russian author Boris Akunin. The film takes place in 1877 during the Russian-Turkish war. Erast Fandorin has just escaped from ...
Style: captivating, serious, realistic, tense, romantic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: siege, russian empire, whodunit, spy, escapades, rivalry, heroes, russian history, wartime life, woman in danger, war, investigation ...
Time: 19th century, 1870s
Place: ottoman empire, bulgaria, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
They Fought for Their Country (1975)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 158 min.
Story: In July 1942, in the Second World War, the rearguard of the Russian army protects the bridgehead of the Don River against the German army while the retreating Russian troops cross the bridge. While they move back to the Russian territory through the ...
Style: heroic, sentimental, rough, tense, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: world war two, red army, heroism, world war, life & death, war, camaraderie, military, nazi, retreat, eastern front, soviet soldier ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1942
Place: soviet union, ussr, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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In June 1941 (2008)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Russia, Belarus
Duration: 200 min.
TV show
Story: A Russian frontier guard Ivan Burov and a Polish girl Hanna love each other in spite of every prohibition and obstacle. But on the 22d of June 1941 the war begins.. After a series of clashes with the Germans Ivan Burov remains the only surviving ...
Style: rough, serious, stylized, atmospheric, intense ...
Audience: family outing, boys' night
Plot: world war two, great patriotic war, war, russian soldier, wartime, life & death, heroes, love and romance, fall in love, hopes, declaration of love, love ...
Time: 1940s
Place: ussr, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
 7.5
 574
Apostle (2008)
Genre: Action, History, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 600 min.
TV show
Story: At the beginning of the war, the Germans abandoned their saboteur in the USSR. The landing is unsuccessful - the spy is captured by the NKVD. When trying to escape, the saboteur, who turned out to be a Russian thief in law, accidentally remaining in ...
Style: exciting, captivating, patriotic, realistic, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: saboteur, impersonating, danger, male protagonist, secret agent, patriot, great patriotic war, heroic mission, secret mission, espionage, world war two, spy ...
Place: soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
 6.9
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The Star (2002)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 97 min.
Story: The film is based on the eponymous book by Emmanuil Kazakevich. In the summer of 1944 the Nazi Armies prepare a massive Tank Division named 'Viking" for the offensive on occupied Russian land. The Russian Army's special group of seven ...
Style: serious, realistic, exciting, bleak, captivating ...
Plot: world war two, war, d day, soldier, battles, fall in love, danger, military, world war, battlefield, holocaust, soviet army ...
Time: 1940s
Place: soviet union, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Death to Spies (2019)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Mystery, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: 1941. Georgy Volkov, Captain of the State Security Service, is delivering to the Soviet Union a consignment of emeralds under a trade agreement between the USSR and Germany.
Style: suspenseful, serious, suspense, thought provoking
Audience: boys' night
Plot: spy, world war two, great patriotic war, rivalry, danger, military, heroes, life & death, betrayal, storytelling, fascism, culture clash ...
Time: 1940s
Place: soviet union, ussr
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Batallions Ask for Fire (1985)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 285 min.
TV show
Story: A story of a several days of intense fighting on the Eastern Front during one of the Soviet offensives in WWII.
Style: suspenseful, disturbing, suspense, rough
Audience: boys' night
Plot: world war two, red army, war, military, battles, heroic mission, life & death, great patriotic war, betrayal, patriotism, red herring, heroism ...
Time: 1940s, year 1942
Place: ussr
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
The Last Frontier (2020)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 136 min.
Story: The story of the Podolsk cadets’ heroic stand outside Moscow in October 1941. Cadets were sent to the Ilyinsky line, fighting alongside units from the Soviet 43rd Army to hold back the German advance until reinforcements arrived. Hopelessly ...
Style: exciting, rough, tense, suspense, stylized ...
Plot: world war two, rescue mission, military, teenager, trapped, combat, soldier, battles, war, violence, murder, gunfight ...
Time: year 1941, 1940s, 20th century
Place: russia, soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Enigma (2001)
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: factual, tricky, clever, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot: world war two, nazi, code breaking, espionage, submarine, wartime, war, mathematics, conspiracy, secret service, cryptography, idealism ...
Time: 1940s, year 2001, 20th century
Place: poland, scotland, europe, big ben london, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Code Name: Emerald (1985)
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, realistic, serious
Plot: world war two, world war, spy, revolutionary war, man on a mission, revolutionary, revolution, struggle, freedom, secret mission, espionage, secret agent ...
Time: 1940s, year 1985, year 1944, 20th century
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Soldier of Orange (1977)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Duration: 155 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, realistic, stylized, colorful, political thriller ...
Plot: world war two, nazi, war, gestapo, resistance, wartime, espionage, world war, betrayal, spy, tango, friendship ...
Time: 1940s, year 1977, 1930s
Place: netherlands, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Unknown Battle (2019)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 113 min.
Story: During WW2, in 1942 and 1943, a series of not-so-well known yet bloody battles occurred near the town of Rzhev. Those battles received the name of ‘Rzhev Meat Grinder’. The film is based on the award-winning novel by Vyacheslav Kondratyev, which ...
Style: epic, rough, serious, suspense, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: world war two, infantry, wehrmacht, heroism, soviet army, battles, soldier, battle zone, life & death, death, great patriotic war, war ...
Time: 1940s
Place: soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Panfilov's 28 (2016)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 121 min.
Story: USSR, Late November, 1941. Based on the account by reporter Vasiliy Koroteev that appeared in the Red Army's newspaper, Krasnaya Zvezda, shortly after the battle, this is the story of Panifilov's Twenty-Eight, a group of twenty-eight ...
Style: touching, rough, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
Plot: world war two, red army, russian soldier, bravery, heroism, infantry, eastern front, protector, wartime, military life, world war, war ...
Time: year 1941, 1940s, 20th century
Place: germany, russia, ussr
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 6.5
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Road to Berlin (2015)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A story about two young men during the last days of WWII.
Style: rough, exciting, captivating, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: world war two, military, male bonding, soldier, friendship, violence, society, fascism, friendship between men, war, world war, soviet army ...
Time: 1940s
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 5.9
 1K
Brass Target (1978)
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, War
Country: USA, West Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 111 min.
Story: General George S. Patton died in a car accident in 1945. However, now speculates that his death was actually a murder carefully prepared by his staff to cover a large theft of gold.
Style: serious, realistic, exciting, suspenseful, rough
Plot: world war two, conspiracy, revolutionary war, freedom, struggle, revolution, revolutionary, ss, secret mission, gold, gay interest, violent content ...
Time: year 1978, 1940s, 20th century
Place: germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
The Bridge at Remagen (1969)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA, Czechoslovakia, West Germany
Duration: 115 min.
Story: In March of 1945, as the War in Europe is coming to a close, fighting erupts between German and American troops at the last remaining bridgehead across the Rhine.
Style: realistic, intense, harsh, exciting, serious ...
Plot: world war two, war, battles, survival, soldier, nazi, world war, military, tank, escapades, anti war, wartime life ...
Time: 1940s, year 1969, year 1945, 20th century
Place: germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Attack on Leningrad (2009)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Russia, UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story: When in 1941 Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union, their troops quickly besieged Leningrad. Foreign journalists are evacuated but one of them, Kate Davies, is presumed dead and misses the plane. Alone in the city she is helped by Nina Tsvetnova a ...
Style: serious, realistic, bleak, rough, gloomy
Audience: boys' night
Plot: world war two, siege, hunger, wartime life, battles, soldier, world war, danger, self sacrifice, female protagonist, military, heroic mission ...
Time: 1940s, year 1941, 20th century
Place: russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Dirty Heroes (1967)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Set near the end of World War II in the Netherlands, Dirty Heroes concerns a group of ex-convicts recruited into the U.S. Army to recover Dutch jewels originally stolen by the Nazis as well as confiscated Allied plans
Style: exciting, macaroni combat, grindhouse, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: world war two, world war, wartime, exploitation, holocaust, prisoner, battles, escapades, soldier, danger, confined, chases and races ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: holland, europe, amsterdam, netherlands
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Burnt by the Sun 2: Citadel (2011)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 157 min.
Story: The final part of Mikhalkov's trilogy about Divisional Commander Kotov finds him returning home during World War II having been betrayed, narrowly escaped execution for treason and nearly reduced to dust in a prison camp. Only to discover that ...
Style: realistic, stylized, atmospheric, serious, emotional ...
Plot: soldier, life is a bitch, wartime life, danger, war, dishonesty, family relations, injustice, battles, family problems, battle zone, nurse ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, year 1943
Place: soviet union, ussr, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Force 10 from Navarone (1978)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Mallory and Miller are back. The survivors of Navarone are sent on a mission along with a unit called Force 10, which is led by Colonel Barnsby. But Force 10 has a mission of their own which the boys know nothing about.
Style: exciting, suspense, intense, stylized, tense ...
Plot: world war two, war, military, survival, nazi, commando, wartime, battles, task force, double agent, spy, world war ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, year 1978
Place: former yugoslavia, italy, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 6.3
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Triple Cross (1966)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: UK, France, West Germany
Duration: 140 min.
Story: A safecracker turns double agent during WWII.
Style: political thriller, serious, realistic, suspenseful, eurospy
Audience: boys' night
Plot: world war two, nazi, espionage, spy, double agent, world war, secret agent, nazi germany, intrigue, revolutionary war, freedom, struggle ...
Time: year 1966, 1940s
Place: europe, england, germany, english channel, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Stones for the Rampart (2014)
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: serious, suspenseful, realistic, captivating, suspense ...
Plot: world war two, wartime life, against the odds, life is a bitch, daring rescue, danger, prospector, wartime, german occupation, resistance, resistance fighter, nazi occupation ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: europe, poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 7.0
 4K
Morituri (1965)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: A German living in India during World War II is blackmailed by the English to impersonate an SS officer on board a cargo ship leaving Japan for Germany carrying a large supply of rubber for tyres. His mission is to disable the scuttling charges so ...
Style: black and white, rough, suspenseful, serious, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: world war two, submarine, nazi, spy, sabotage, world war, mutiny, secret mission, military, soldier, war, espionage ...
Time: 1940s, year 1942
Place: japan, europe, asia, germany, england ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Burnt by the Sun 2: Exodus (2010)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 181 min.
Story: Epic film about WWII, a sequel to Utomlyonnye solntsem (1994). Evil Stalin is terrorizing people of Russia while the Nazis are advancing. Russian officer Kotov, who miraculously survived the death sentence in Stalin's Purge, is now fighting in ...
Style: stylized, atmospheric, realistic, serious, emotional ...
Plot: soldier, military, wartime life, dishonesty, danger, state affairs, war, life is a bitch, family relations, battles, prisoner, father daughter relationship ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1943, year 1941
Place: ussr, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 2.4
 973
USS Seaviper (2012)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Direct to DVD movie: The German U-Boat, U-234, from the Port of Kiel is trading cargo with the Japanese. USS Seaviper must locate and stop this dangerous exchange. The Captain of USS Seaviper must go ashore to conduct reconnaissance on an island ...
Style: exciting, tense, suspense, captivating, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: submarine, world war two, save the day, danger, isolation, heroic mission, rebellion, survival, island, rebelliousness, war, soldier ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
The Hunt for Wehrwolf (2011)
Genre: Action, Adventure, War
Country: Russia, Ukraine
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A small group of Russian soldiers with mixed skills are assembled to go on a covert mission to map out the area of Hitler's new HQ in the Ukraine known as Wehrwolf. But it's not until they get to their destination that the squads leader ...
Style: exciting, captivating, suspenseful, bleak, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: world war two, military, rivalry, danger, escapades, heroes, behind enemy lines, heroism, heroic mission, reconnaissance, war, dangerous animal ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: ukraine
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Out of the Darkness (2022)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Denmark
Duration: 152 min.
Story: This Danish movie "Out of The Darkness" ( in Danish 'De Forbandede år 2' ) is a continuation of the popular WW II drama "Into The Darkness" ( in Danish 'De forbandede år' ) and it portraits the Danish ...
Style: suspenseful, captivating, serious, dramatic
Plot: world war two, resistance, freedom fighter, war, german occupation, wartime, nazism, fight, wartime life, occupation, nazi, nazi soldier ...
Time: 1940s
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Shining Through (1992)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: USA, UK
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 ...
Style: suspenseful, sentimental, suspense, melancholic, exciting ...
Plot: nazi germany, espionage, world war two, double agent, wartime, spy, wartime life, behind enemy lines, secret agent, working undercover, love and romance, destiny ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: germany, new york, berlin germany, europe, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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