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A Secret (2007)
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A Secret (2007)
Original name: Un secret
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: In 1953, a sensitive French boy finds out from a neighbor that his family's Jewish. François Grimbert becomes a physician, and gradually peels the layers of his buried family history which resulted in his difficult upbringing, raised as Catholic by his "Aryan" appearing parents. His athletic father labored to stamp out stereotypical Jewish characteristics he perceived in his son, to keep the family's many secrets, as most relatives fought in World War II, and later were hauled off to labor and death camps by the Gestapo.
Style: serious, realistic, exciting, captivating, suspenseful, offbeat, gloomy
Plot: world war two, missing person, holocaust, occupation, wartime life, haunted by the past, family disapproval, against humanity, boy, war, mafia, nazi, youth, children in wartime, israeli, world war, female nudity, blonde, voyeur, family secret, secret, marriage, voyeurism, jewish family, toys ...
Time: 20th century, post world war two, 50s, 1940s, 40s
Place: europe, israel, paris france, france
Keyword: jewish

Most similar movies to A Secret

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, captivating and bleak films with plots about world war two, holocaust, wartime life, war, nazi, world war and against humanity mostly in Drama, War and History genres. Some movies like A Secret: At First Sight (1983), Pornography (2003), Sarah's Key (2010), The Last Train (2006), A Bag of Marbles (2017). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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At First Sight (1983)
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: In 1942 in occupied France, a Jewish refugee marries a soldier to escape deportation to Germany. Meanwhile a wealthy art student loses her first husband to a stray Resistance bullet; at the Liberation she meets an actor, gets pregnant, and marries ...
Style: psychological, realistic, serious, captivating, sincere ...
Plot: lesbian, world war two, lgbt, female nudity, world war, biopic, feminist, lesbianism, partisan, girl power, women, woman ...
Time: year 1983, 1950s, year 1942, year 1952
Place: paris france, france, lyon, europe, alps ...
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Pornography (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Poland, France
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Two intellectuals, a writer and a director, begin to play a mysterious psychological game in a peaceful countryside manor house during the Nazi occupation.
Style: psychological, realistic, serious, emotional, biting ...
Plot: world war two, soldier, countryside, social differences, obsession, losing-it hero, life is a bitch, haunted by the past, wartime life, teenage life, war, holocaust ...
Time: 1940s
Place: poland, europe, warsaw poland
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100%
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Sarah's Key (2010)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 111 min.
Story: On the night of 16 July 1942, ten year old Sarah and her parents are being arrested and transported to the Velodrome d'Hiver in Paris where thousands of other jews are being send to get deported. Sarah however managed to lock her little brother ...
Style: emotional, captivating, disturbing, serious, powerful ...
Plot: holocaust, nazism, jewish family, secret past, separation from family, investigation, journalism, family secret, haunted by the past, introspection, confined, against humanity ...
Time: year 1942, 20th century, 1940s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: paris france, manhattan new york city, france, new york, middle east ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
The Last Train (2006)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Germany, Czech Republic
Duration: 123 min.
Story: A group of people are imprisoned in a rail car bound from Berlin to a concentration camp in 1945.
Style: disturbing, serious, realistic, bleak, captivating ...
Audience: date night
Plot: holocaust, nazism, nazi, gestapo, anti semitism, danger, pow, life is a bitch, nazi germany, war, confined, world war ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1943
Place: germany, israel, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
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A Bag of Marbles (2017)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: France, Canada, Czech Republic
Duration: 110 min.
Story: In occupied France, Maurice and Joseph, two young Jewish brothers left to their own devices demonstrate an incredible amount of cleverness, courage, and ingenuity to escape the enemy invasion and to try to reunite their family once again.
Style: suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot: world war two, brother brother relationship, holocaust, ss, nazi occupation, nazi, german occupation, german soldier, soldier, military, danger, machismo ...
Time: 1940s, year 2017, year 1943, year 1942, year 1944
Place: paris france, nice france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
The Island on Bird Street (1997)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Denmark, UK, Germany, France
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Alex is an 11-year old boy who, during WWII, hides in the Jewish ghetto from Nazis after all the relatives have been sent to the concentration camp. The movie portrays the ghetto through his eyes.
Style: serious, realistic, tense, bleak, independent film ...
Plot: world war two, holocaust, jewish ghetto, youth, wartime life, ghetto, boy, nazi, children in wartime, coming of age, boy strangling, judaism ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: europe, poland, warsaw poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Monsieur Batignole (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In 1942, in an occupied Paris, the apolitical grocer Edmond Batignole lives with his wife and daughter in a small apartment in the building of his grocery. When his future son-in-law and collaborator of the German Pierre-Jean Lamour calls the Nazis ...
Style: realistic, serious, tense, captivating, exciting
Plot: holocaust, world war two, nazism, child, wartime life, soldier, anti semitism, against humanity, life is a bitch, confined, society, resistance ...
Time: 1940s, year 2002, year 1942
Place: france, paris france, switzerland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Winter in Wartime (2008)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Duration: 103 min.
Story: During World War II in the freezing Netherlands winter of 1944/1945 the western Netherlands are in the grip of a famine. Many people move east to provide for their families. Fourteen year old Michiel can't wait to join the Dutch resistance, to ...
Style: tense, exciting, realistic, serious, captivating ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: world war two, coming of age, resistance movement, children in wartime, resistance, nazi, wartime life, winter, execution, occupation, nazism, nazi occupation ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 2008
Place: netherlands, germany, europe, holland
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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The Round Up (2010)
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, thought provoking, bleak, realistic ...
Plot: holocaust, concentration camp, nazism, german occupation, holocaust survivor, world war two, nazi, world war, against humanity, injustice, genocide, nazi concentration camp ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, year 2009, post world war two, year 1942
Place: france, vichy, paris france, middle east, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
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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
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62%
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Freedom (2009)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A Gypsy family travels the French roads during the Second World War, followed by Little Claude, a young boy seeking a new family after his parents "left and never returned". Upon reaching a town where they traditionally stop for a few ...
Style: emotional, captivating, realistic, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot: world war two, gypsy, holocaust, racism, moral dilemma, life is a bitch, social differences, family in danger, rebelliousness, rebellion, concentration camp, on the run ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, year 2009
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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 ⇓
61%
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Rosenstrasse (2003)
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, emotional, touching, serious, contemplative ...
Plot: holocaust, nazi germany, world war two, anti semitism, nazi, wartime life, life is a bitch, human spirit, hopes, society, couple relations, world war ...
Time: 1940s, year 1943, 20th century
Place: berlin germany, germany, europe, new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
 7.2
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Run Boy Run (2013)
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, War
Country: Germany, France, Poland
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Run Boy Run is the true story of Jurek, an eight-year-old boy, who escapes from the Warsaw ghetto, then manages to survive in the woods and working as a farmhand, disguising himself as a Polish orphan. He encounters people who will betray him for a ...
Style: touching, captivating, bleak, serious, realistic ...
Audience: kids
Plot: holocaust, world war two, survival, youth, human spirit, boy, hidden identity, on the run, young heroes, orphan, against humanity, danger ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: germany, poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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The Blockhouse (1973)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A group of Slave workers, drafted by the Nazis to help construct their coastal defenses in 1944 are trapped in an underground bunker when the Allies land at Normandy on D-Day. They find huge dtores of food but not enough candles. The slow dying of ...
Style: grindhouse, bleak, suspenseful, gloomy, serious ...
Plot: world war two, chess, world war, bunker, d day, survival, claustrophobia, battles, holocaust, wartime life, prison, war ...
Time: 1940s
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
Army of Crime (2009)
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: rough, realistic, serious, disturbing, sincere ...
Plot: world war two, resistance, gestapo, nazi, ss officer, poet, rebelliousness, danger, war, life is a bitch, idealism, human spirit ...
Time: 1940s, year 2009, 20th century, year 1942
Place: paris france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
Female Agents (2008)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 148 min.
Story: May 1944, a group of French servicewomen and resistance fighters are enlisted into the British Special Operations Executive commando group under the command of Louise Desfontaines and her brother Pierre. Their mission, to rescue a British army ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspense, tense, historical drama ...
Plot: world war two, french resistance, wartime life, resistance, female agent, rescue, spy, betrayal, heroic mission, d day, hospital, military ...
Time: 1940s, year 1945, year 1944
Place: paris france, france, london, europe, england ...
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59%
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Nina's House (2005)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: France
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Starting in 1944 in the wake of the Liberation and continuing into the '60s, 'houses of hope' were established to lend a semblance of continuity to youngsters orpahaned by the war. Nina's Home takes place between September 1944 ...
Style: uplifting, serious, captivating, touching, emotional ...
Plot: adoption, survival, holocaust, confined, society, danger, against humanity, family relations, anti semitism, frame up, war, religions or cults ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: paris france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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The Wall (1982)
Genre: Action, War, Drama
Country: Poland, USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story: A dramatic re-enactment of the Warsaw Ghetto Jewish uprising in April 1943 were 650 armed members of the Jewish Fighting Organization of Poland held off a 3,000 strong Nazi force in which only a handful of Jews survived. Tom Conti plays Dolek ...
Style: thought provoking, captivating, tense, bleak, suspenseful ...
Plot: holocaust, world war two, racism, nazi, anti semitism, society, survival, war, danger, against humanity, military, escapades ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: europe, poland, warsaw poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
In the Presence of Mine Enemies (1997)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In the Warsau Ghetto of 1943, one man's struggle to keep his family together leads him to the ultimate crisis of faith, and one final chance at redemption. Written by legendary 'Twilight Zone' creator, Rod Sterling.
Style: contemplative, gloomy, bleak, emotional, disturbing ...
Plot: world war two, rabbi, holocaust, shoah, world war, family relations, injustice, religions or cults, misfit, human spirit, war, danger ...
Time: 1940s, year 1942
Place: poland, europe, warsaw poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank (1988)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story: During the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam, Otto Frank decides to hide his family, who are Jewish, after his daughter Margot is called to appear for transport to a Nazi labour camp. Miep Gies, Otto Frank's office assistant hides them in the attic ...
Style: thought provoking, serious, realistic, bleak, disturbing
Plot: holocaust, world war two, nazi, world war, anti semitism, journal, biopic, injustice, against humanity, hopes, confined, human spirit ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, 1930s
Place: holland, europe, amsterdam
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
One Day You'll Understand (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Germany, Israel
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A man endeavors to collect memories of his grandparents who died in a concentration camp during the Holocaust.
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, touching, contemplative ...
Plot: world war two, holocaust, war crime, haunted by the past, family relations, family life, death in the family, parents and children, against humanity, love and romance, society, trial ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: paris france, germany, middle east, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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The Tin Drum (1979)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: West Germany, France, Poland
Duration: 142 min.
Story: Oskar is born in Germany in 1924 with an advanced intellect. Repulsed by the hypocrisy of adults and the irresponsibility of society, he refuses to grow older after his third birthday.
Style: surreal, controversial, disturbing, art house, harsh ...
Plot: world war two, fascism, coming of age, nazi, circus, boy, wartime life, magic realism, life is a bitch, political unrest, beach, against humanity ...
Time: 1930s, 1940s, 20th century, 1920s, year 1979 ...
Place: germany, middle east, israel, europe, central europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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Madame Rosa (1977)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Madame Rosa lives in a sixth-floor walkup in the Pigalle; she's a retired prostitute, Jewish and an Auschwitz survivor, a foster mom to children of other prostitutes. Momo is the oldest and her favorite, an Algerian lad whom she raises as a ...
Style: gloomy, sincere, emotional, realistic, serious ...
Plot: youth, old woman, world war two, sex, gay, israeli, prostitute, concentration camp, adoption, mental illness, wartime life, holocaust ...
Place: israel, paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Out of the Ashes (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: The real-life story of Gisella Perl, a Jewish Hungarian doctor imprisoned in the notorious Auschwitz death camp of World War II.
Style: realistic, serious, touching, contemplative, captivating ...
Plot: holocaust, concentration camp, wartime life, holocaust survivor, world war two, auschwitz, human spirit, anti semitism, life is a bitch, starting over, danger, moral dilemma ...
Time: 1940s
Place: hungary, europe, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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Jakob the Liar (1999)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA, France, Germany
Duration: 120 min.
Story: In 1944 Poland, a Jewish shop keeper named Jakob is summoned to ghetto headquarters after being caught out after curfew. While waiting for the German Kommondant, Jakob overhears a German radio broadcast about Russian troop movements. Returned to the ...
Style: sad, cult classic, uplifting, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: holocaust, world war two, nazi, jewish ghetto, world war, gestapo, judaism, war, shoah, death, radio, lie ...
Time: 1940s, year 1999, 20th century
Place: poland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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The Bunker (1981)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: France, USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story: Dramatization depicting the events surrounding Adolf Hitler's last weeks in and around his underground bunker in Berlin before and during the battle for the city.
Style: realistic, bleak, serious, psychological, disturbing ...
Plot: world war two, hitler, nazi germany, nazi, against humanity, suicide, life is a bitch, downfall, confined, state affairs, confinement indoors, wartime life ...
Time: year 1945, 20th century, 1940s
Place: germany, berlin germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Sword of Honour (2001)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 208 min.
Story: Guy Crouchback joins the war effort during World War 2, an idealistic quest to join the forces of good in the fight against evil. But his efforts is not rewarded, he never has any chance to join any real fighting, circumstances always prevent it. ...
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, touching, semi autobiographical ...
Plot: world war two, military, love triangle, fighting the system, love and romance, betrayal, haunted by the past, life is a bitch, military life, soldier, basic training, society ...
Time: future, 1940s
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Unfair Competition (2001)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Two linen fabric dealers with their shops close to one another, battle against each other for more and more costumers. Umberto constantly loses clients because of the tough competition brought by Leone, who offers the best prices in the ...
Style: serious, captivating, realistic, disturbing, bleak ...
Plot: fascism, anti semitism, holocaust, ghetto, social decay, family business, political unrest, human nature, moral dilemma, life is a bitch, against humanity, world war two ...
Time: 20th century, 1930s
Place: italy, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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The Skin (1981)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 131 min.
Story: Naples, year 1943, in the middle of World War II. The city has just be liberated by American troops in an era in which nobody knows just when the war or where begins the peace; winners and losers face...
Style: controversial, serious, bleak, rough, realistic ...
Plot: world war two, wartime life, world war, translator, female pubic hair, chaos and mayhem, war, against humanity, life is a bitch, soldier, society, captivity ...
Time: year 1981, 1940s, 20th century
Place: italy, naples italy, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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