Movies like 13 Minutes 2015
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13 Minutes (2015)
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Original name: Elser
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: Germany, Italy
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
The breath-taking story of a man who nearly would have changed the world. 1939, when Hitler tricked millions of people at the height of his power, one said a radical No: Georg Elser, disparaged as an assassin, is one of the greatest resistance fighters.
Style:
serious, realistic, tense, suspenseful
Plot:
nazi germany, hitler, nazi, battered woman, world war two, gestapo, resistance fighter, anti fascist, assassination attempt, jealousy, infidelity, german history, corporal punishment, public speaking, alone, nazi soldier, state affairs, third reich, prisoner, confession, treason, plan gone wrong, friendship, murder, adultery ...
Time:
year 1939, 1930s, pre world war two, year 1937, year 1945, year 1934, year 1932 ...
Place:
germany, munich germany, europe, berlin germany, switzerland
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, disturbing and suspenseful films with plots about world war two, nazi, war, death, jewish, german and holocaust mostly in Drama, War and Biography genres. Some movies like 13 Minutes: Downfall (2004), The Damned (1969), Valkyrie (2008), Salon Kitty (1976), Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (2005). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Germany, Austria, Italy
Duration: 156 min.
Story:
In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the east and the Allied Expeditionary Force attacking from the west. In Berlin, capital of the Third Reich, Adolf Hitler proclaims that Germany will still ...
Style:
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world war two, war, suicide, hitler, nazi, nazism, holocaust, fascism, national socialism, third reich, betrayal, courage ...
Time:
1940s, year 1945, post world war two, 20th century, year 1942
Place:
germany, berlin germany, poland, prague, europe ...
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy, West Germany
Duration: 156 min.
Story:
In the early days of Nazi Germany, a powerful noble family must adjust to life under the new dictatorship regime. The transition from democracy to dictatorship is thus dramatized through the lives of the family which also owns a powerful German ...
Style:
controversial, disturbing, sad, art house, erotic ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
germany, europe, berlin germany
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Genre: Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: USA, Germany, Italy, Spain, France, Japan, UK
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:
factual, tense, bad ending, suspenseful, captivating ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
world war two, nazi, war, nazism, hitler, conspiracy, nazi germany, suspense, resistance, politics, german soldier, wehrmacht ...
Time:
1940s, year 1944, post world war two, year 1943, 20th century
Place:
germany, berlin germany, africa, poland, europe ...
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100%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Kitty runs a brothel in Nazi Germany where the soldiers come to "relax". Recording devices have been installed in each room by a power hungry army official who plans to use the information to blackmail Hitler and gain power himself. A girl ...
Style:
erotic, sexy, disturbing, controversial, psychotronic ...
Plot:
world war two, sex, erotica, exploitation, eroticism, gestapo, sexual humiliation, gynecological exam, lesbian sex, oral sex, lust, wartime life ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, year 1939
Place:
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100%
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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:
touching, tense, sincere, suspenseful, emotional ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
politics, nazism, world war two, resistance, death sentence, nazi germany, gestapo, historical character, nazi, lawyer, rebellion, fighting the system ...
Time:
1940s, post world war two, year 1943, 20th century
Place:
germany, poland, berlin germany, east germany, munich germany ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Germany, Austria, Italy
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
In 1944, a group of high command officers plot an attempt against Hitler, and one of the leaders of the conspiracy, Stauffenberg (Sebastian Koch), goes to a meeting with the Fuhrer in charge of exploding the place. However, Hitler survives and the ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
germany
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40%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: UK, France, Germany
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Berlin in June of 1940. While Nazi propaganda celebrates the regime’s victory over France, a kitchen-cum-living room in Prenzlauer Berg is filled with grief. Anna and Otto Quangel’s son has been killed at the front. This working class couple had ...
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Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1943, year 1940
Place:
berlin germany, germany, central europe
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40%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: France, China, Germany, Austria, Italy, Spain
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
A true-story account of a German businessman who saved more than 200,000 Chinese during the Nanjing massacre in 1937-38.
Style:
tense, disturbing, realistic, bleak, serious ...
Plot:
war, world war two, rescue, heroes, atrocity, confined, wartime life, lifesaver, against humanity, life is a bitch, fighting the system, righting the wronged ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: Germany, Italy
Duration: 189 min.
Story:
Inspired by real events and spanning three eras of German history, film tells the story of Kurt, a young art student who falls in love with fellow student, Ellie. Ellie’s father, Professor Seeband, a famous doctor, is dismayed at his daughter’s ...
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exciting, captivating, sincere, art house, intellectual ...
Audience:
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painter, art gallery, nazism, artist, father daughter relationship, world war two, forced abortion, pregnancy, sex scene, nazi, romantic relationship, struggling artist ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, 20th century, year 1937, 60s ...
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east germany, germany, berlin germany, west berlin west germany, west germany ...
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39%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: UK, France, Germany, USA, China
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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Plot:
french resistance, world war two, occupied france, nazi officer, french, secret, love, refugee, escape, mother daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, chase ...
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germany, europe, berlin germany, switzerland, france ...
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38%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: Netherlands, Germany, UK, Belgium
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
In the Nazi-occupied Netherlands during World War II, a Jewish singer infiltrates the regional Gestapo headquarters for the Dutch resistance.
Style:
tense, psychological, erotic, realistic, dramatic ...
Audience:
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Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A new film about Erwin Rommel has been shown on German television, depicting the general as a weak man undone by his links to Adolf Hitler.
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Plot:
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france, europe, paris france, berlin germany, normandy
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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germany, berlin germany, europe
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37%
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Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Fact based story about a former Greek Olympic boxer who was taken as a prisoner during World war II and placed in the Auschwitz prison camp. There he was permitted to survive as long as he fought for the amusement of his captors. His father and ...
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Plot:
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tense, brutal, bleak, harsh, serious ...
Plot:
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Story:
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Duration: 122 min.
Story:
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Duration: 123 min.
Story:
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Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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Duration: 145 min.
Story:
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Duration: 125 min.
Story:
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Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
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Duration: 180 min.
Story:
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Duration: 125 min.
Story:
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