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The Travelling Players (1975)
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The Travelling Players (1975)
Original name: Ο θίασος
Genre: Drama, History, Music, War
Country: Greece
Duration: 230 min.
Story: This expansive Greek drama follows a troupe of theater actors as they perform around their country during World War II. While the production that they put on is entitled "Golfo the Shepherdess," the thespians end up echoing scenes from classic Greek tales in their own lives, as Elektra (Eva Kotamanidou) plots revenge on her mother (Aliki Georgouli) for the death of her father, and seeks help from her brother, Orestes (Petros Zarkadis), a young anti-fascist rebel.
Style: contemplative, slow cinema, road movie, art film, aesthetic, thought provoking, bleak, epic, serious, captivating ...
Plot: world war two, greek, masturbation, greek civil war, resistance, time travel, civil war, holocaust, partisan, mythology, myth, dream, anarchist, worker, sex crime, world war, male nudity, betrayal, murder, rape, spy, artist, fascism, communist, conflict ...
Time: 1940s, 1930s, 1950s, year 1975, year 1952, year 1939, post world war two ...
Place: greece, europe, ancient greece

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, bleak and captivating films with plots about world war two, life is a bitch, war, wartime life, holocaust, nazi and world war mostly in Drama, War and History genres. Some movies like The Travelling Players: Intimate Enemies (2007), Ulysses' Gaze (1995), Days of 36 (1972), The Hunters (1977), Alexander the Great (1980). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Intimate Enemies (2007)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: France, Morocco
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A drama following a French platoon during Algeria's war of independence
Style: realistic, rough, serious, disturbing, sexy ...
Plot: military, atrocity, soldier, basic training, anti war, racism, politics, imperialism, political unrest, military life, against humanity, state affairs ...
Time: 1950s, year 2007, 50s, year 1959
Place: algeria, france, europe
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Ulysses' Gaze (1995)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Greece, France, Italy, Germany, UK, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Romania, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Duration: 176 min.
Story: "A," a Greek filmmaker living in exile in the United States, returns to his native Ptolemas to attend a special screening of one of his extremely controversial films. But A's real interest lies elsewhere--the mythical reels of the ...
Style: road movie, contemplative, philosophical, aesthetic, devastating ...
Plot: filmmaking, greek, male nudity, on the road, war, time travel, marxism, art, myth, treasure hunt, love letter, art history ...
Time: year 1995
Place: greece, ancient greece, sarajevo, belgrade serbia, europe ...
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Days of 36 (1972)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Greece
Duration: 105 min.
Story: The assassin of a prominent trade unionist takes a conservative MP hostage and the government prevaricates over tactics so as not to alienate potential political allies.
Plot: military dictatorship, anarchist, radical, mythology, greek, myth, politician, kidnapping, poison, hostage, interwar period, politics ...
Time: year 1936, 1930s
Place: greece, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
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The Hunters (1977)
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece, France, West Germany
Duration: 168 min.
Story: During a hunting party on New Year's Eve 1976, five representatives of the bourgeoisie encounter with their companion the body of a partisan from the Civil War of the late forties. What they are most confused about is the fact that the corpse ...
Style: slow cinema, aesthetic
Plot: greek civil war, world war two, anarchist, partisan, actress, post war, group, night, social commentary, dead body, politician, retribution ...
Time: year 1976, 70s
Place: greece, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
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Alexander the Great (1980)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Greece, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 210 min.
Story: Based on some historical events, the film gives a romanticized biography of Theodoros Kolokotronis, a Greek historical hero serving as a metaphor for Greece herself. Based on a circular view of history, the film presents conflicting ideologies - ...
Style: slow cinema, aesthetic
Plot: anarchist, anarchism, greek, mythology, labor, myth, union, anarchy, peplum, strike, utopia, wrestling ...
Time: year 1980, turn of the century, 1900s, victorian era, 19th century ...
Place: greece, europe, ancient greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
Massacre in Rome (1973)
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, serious, realistic, thought provoking, captivating ...
Plot: world war two, world war, military, war, partisan, nazi occupation, holocaust, shoah, nazi, bureaucracy, fictional history, fascism ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: italy, rome italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
The Weeping Meadow (2004)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Greece, France, Italy, Germany
Duration: 170 min.
Story: This is the first film of Theo Angelopoulos' trilogy. The story starts in 1919 with some greek refugees from Odessa arriving somewhere near Thessaloniki. Among these people are two small kids, Alexis and Eleni. Eleni is an orphan and she is ...
Style: touching, sentimental, sincere, captivating, aesthetic ...
Plot: refugee, greek, village, wartime life, tragic love, on the run, orphan, political unrest, genocide, politics, self discovery, fall in love ...
Time: year 2004, 1920s, year 1945, year 1936, 1940s ...
Place: greece, ancient greece, europe, ottoman empire
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
Cloudy Sunday (2015)
Genre: Drama, Music, War
Country: Greece
Duration: 116 min.
Story: During World War II in Greece, under the submission of Germans, one Christian, Giorgos, falls in love with a Jewish, Estrea, something completely forbidden. Can they and their families overcome all the obstacles, along with racial discriminations ...
Style: suspenseful, psychological, touching, unusual plot structure, contemplative ...
Plot: world war two, greek, lovers, love, german occupation, composer, brutality, nazi, couples, love and romance, danger, society ...
Time: 1940s
Place: greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
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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 ⇓
72%
The Last 4 Days (1974)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 126 min.
Story: The true story of the greatest manhunt of the century!
Style: thought provoking, captivating, realistic, serious, disturbing ...
Plot: fascism, italian politics, world war, italian history, totalitarian state, resistance, escape attempt, partisan, biopic, dystopia, state affairs, military ...
Time: year 1945, 1940s, 20th century
Place: milan italy, alps, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
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Eleni (1985)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Nick is a writer in New York when he gets posted to a bureau in Greece. He has waited 30 years for this. He wants to know why his mother was killed in the civil war years earlier. In a parallel plot line we see Nick as a young boy and his family as ...
Style: political, independent film, contemplative, realistic, serious ...
Plot: biopic, reporter, civil war, greek civil war, correspondents, photojournalist, war zone, christian, girl, revolution, village, war ...
Time: year 1985
Place: greece, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
Purple Butterfly (2003)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: China, France
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Ding Hui is a member of Purple Butterfly, a powerful resistance group in Japanese occupied Shanghai. An unexpected encounter reunites her with Itami, an ex-lover... and officer with a secret police unit tasked with dismantling Purple Butterfly.
Style: thought provoking, realistic, serious, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot: japanese occupation, war, wartime life, rivalry, resistance, hidden identity, tragic hero, society, life is a bitch, love and romance, love affair, anti war ...
Time: 20th century, 1930s, 1940s, 2000s
Place: china, japan, shanghai, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
Germany Pale Mother (1980)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: West Germany
Duration: 152 min.
Story: Germany 1939. Hans and Lene marry the day before the war breaks out, and Hans is sent to the Eastern front. During a bombing raid their daughter Anna is born. The house is destroyed and Lene and Anna moves in with relatives in Berlin. Hans survives ...
Style: art house, realistic, serious, bleak, disturbing ...
Plot: world war two, german history, world war, woman, anti war, art, lonely, nazi, post war germany, nazi germany, german woman, drunkenness ...
Time: 1940s, post world war two, 1930s, year 1939
Place: germany, europe, berlin germany, west germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
Johnny the Partisan (2000)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 135 min.
Story: After the 8th September 1943 north of Italy is occupied by Germans. Italian army collapsed and the soldiers are escaped to the mountains trying to set up a resistance. Many civilians did the same and Johnny, an English literature student, is among ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, exciting, bleak
Plot: resistance, world war two, resistance movement, partisan, murder, war zone, fascism, wartime life, italian history, nazi, world war, holocaust ...
Time: 1940s
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70%
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Auschwitz (2011)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Canada, Germany
Duration: 73 min.
Story: Auschwitz is a hard-hitting war film which shows life as it really was at the death camp.
Style: disturbing, thought provoking, rough, realistic, bleak ...
Plot: nazi, holocaust, world war two, concentration camp, anti semitism, mass murder, against humanity, life is a bitch, society, genocide, gas chamber, exploitation ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: europe, poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
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 ⇓
69%
The Edelweiss Pirates (2004)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Germany, Netherlands
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Im Kölner Stadtteil Ehrenfeld lebt eine Gruppe von Arbeiterkindern kurz vor Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs ihren ganz eigenen Alltag. Die selbsternannten „Edelweißpiraten“ träumen von einer gerechten Welt und sehnen sich nach der unbeschwerten ...
Style: realistic, suspenseful, tense, captivating, serious ...
Plot: resistance, wartime life, world war two, young heroes, human spirit, rebellion, idealism, life is a bitch, against humanity, rebelliousness, danger, confined ...
Time: 1940s, year 1944, 20th century
Place: europe, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
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 ⇓
69%
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Perlasca: The Courage of a Just Man (2002)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Italy, France, Sweden, Hungary
Duration: 197 min.
Story: It is the real story of Giorgio Perlasca (Luca Zingaretti). During the 1920s he was an Italian Fascist supporter, fighting in Africa an in the Spanish civil war where he deserved a safe conduct for Spanish embassies. After some years, disillusioned ...
Style: disturbing, serious, uplifting, emotional, realistic ...
Plot: holocaust, world war two, nazism, idealism, genocide, hopes, deportation, concentration camp, fighting the system, life is a bitch, wartime life, nazi occupation ...
Time: 1930s, 1940s, 1920s, 20th century, 80s ...
Place: hungary, italy, budapest, spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
The Winter War (1989)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Finland
Duration: 199 min.
Story: Russia attacked Finland in late November 1939. This film tells the story of a Finnish platoon of reservists from the municipality of Kauhava in the province of Pohjanmaa/Ostrobothnia who leave their homes and go to war. The film focuses on the ...
Style: realistic, epic, tense, bleak, captivating ...
Plot: war, world war two, winter, wartime, military, world war, invasion, cold weather, battlefield, tank, politics, great war ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, 1930s, year 1939
Place: finland, russia, baltics, europe, soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
Land and Freedom (1995)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK, Spain, Germany, Italy, France, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: The movie narrates the story of David Carr, an unemployed worker and member of the Communist Party of Great Britain. In 1936 he decides to fight for the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War, an anti-fascist coalition of liberals, communists and ...
Style: political, informative, sad, social, hispanic ...
Plot: spanish civil war, revolution, politics, working class, communist, civil war, anarchist, anarchy, trench warfare, radical, dictator, dictatorship ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, 90s, year 1995
Place: spain, barcelona, catalonia, europe, england
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68%
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Rembetiko (1983)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: Greece
Duration: 110 min.
Story: The story of a group of Rembetes, singers and musicians of the Greek equivalent to the blues, in the early decades of the 20th century, seen through the eyes of a young female singer.
Style: philosophical, realistic, serious, captivating, atmospheric ...
Plot: greek, refugee, women, ethnicity, sex crime, myth, mythology, resistance, musician, singer, biopic, friends ...
Time: 20th century, 50s, 1940s, 1930s, 1920s
Place: greece, europe, athens greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
Freedomfighters (1996)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Spain, Italy, Belgium
Duration: 125 min.
Story: At the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, the nun Maria is forced to flee her convent. She takes refuge in a brothel, until it is liberated by a woman's anarchist group. Maria joins the group and eventually goes to the front. The women's ...
Style: political, informative, social, sad, serious ...
Plot: spanish civil war, anarchist, anarchism, feminism, civil war, rebellion, revolution, spanish history, radical, international relations, labor, sex ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century
Place: barcelona, iberian peninsula, spain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
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The Battle on the River Neretva (1969)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Yugoslavia, Italy, West Germany, USA, France
Duration: 175 min.
Story: In January 1943 the German army, afraid of an Allied invasion of the Balkans, launched a great offensive against Yugoslav Partisans in Western Bosnia. The only way out for the Partisan forces and thousands of refugees was the bridge on the river ...
Style: epic, exciting, captivating, serious, realistic ...
Plot: world war two, partisan, battles, military, war, machine gun, tank, world war, revolutionary war, judaism, struggle, freedom ...
Time: 1940s, year 1969, year 1943
Place: former yugoslavia, croatia, bosnia, europe
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68%
Shake Hands with the Devil (2007)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Canada
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Canadian Lt. General Romeo Dallaire was the military commander of the UN mission in Rwanda and this movie is personal and, all too true, story of his time there during the genocide of 1994. It is not quite as moving as the earlier Hotel Rwanda and ...
Style: disturbing, serious, bleak, rough, realistic ...
Plot: genocide, politics, rwandan genocide, betrayal, chaos, civil war, dishonesty, military, righting the wronged, anti war, against humanity, moral dilemma ...
Time: 90s
Place: africa, rwanda, ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
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Olga (2004)
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, serious, realistic, emotional, contemplative ...
Plot: world war two, nazi germany, holocaust, concentration camp, wartime life, life is a bitch, biopic, love affair, revolution, confined, society, couple relations ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: germany, rio de janeiro, europe, brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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In the Fog (2012)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Germany, Netherlands, Belarus, Russia, Latvia
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Western frontiers of the USSR, 1942. The region is under German occupation. A man is wrongly accused of collaboration. Desperate to save his dignity, he faces an impossible moral choice.
Style: realistic, bleak, serious, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: world war two, nazi occupation, false accusation, moral dilemma, danger, survival, life is a bitch, human nature, wartime life, resistance fighter, nazi, underground ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1942
Place: soviet union, germany, latvia, russia, ussr
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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The Ascent (1977)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Two Soviet partisans leave their starving band to get supplies from a nearby farm. The Germans have reached the farm first, so the pair must go on a journey deep into occupied territory, a voyage that will also take them deep into their souls.
Style: bleak, depressing, cerebral, sincere, sad ...
Plot: world war two, partisan, cold weather, execution, betrayal, nazi, winter, christian, woman, father, politics, spirituality ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1977, year 1942
Place: soviet union, ussr, iraq, europe, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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Ghetto (2005)
Genre: History, War
Country: Germany, Lithuania
Duration: 110 min.
Story: In 1942, in Vilna, the Nazi annihilate 55,000 Jews and squeeze the 15,000 survivors in a seven blocks ghetto. The twenty-two year old sadistic commander Kittel is assigned to administrate the ghetto in the capital of Lithuania, becoming the master ...
Style: serious, realistic, bleak, emotional, rough ...
Plot: genocide, holocaust, war, world war two, anti semitism, survival, moral dilemma, anti hero, confined, against humanity, heroes, lifesaver ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: europe, baltics
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1970)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Italy, West Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story: In late 1930s Ferrara, Italy, the Finzi-Continis are a leading family: wealthy, aristocratic, and urbane; they are also Jewish. Their adult children, Micol and Alberto, gather a diverse circle of friends for tennis and parties at their villa with ...
Style: disturbing, compassionate, emotional, breathtaking, talky ...
Plot: fascism, holocaust, world war two, unrequited love, anti semitism, assassination, tennis, family relations, brother sister relationship, family life, nazi germany, life is a bitch ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, 1930s, ancient times, year 1970
Place: italy, europe, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
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