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I'm Alive and I Love You (1998)
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Original name: Je suis vivante et je vous aime
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Drama - During World War II, a woman aboard a railroad car full of deportees slips French railway worker Julien (Jérôme Deschamps) a note with an address and a simple message: "I am alive, and I love you," and he decides to track down the intended recipients. When he finds the woman's Jewish family, he is inspired to do what he can to protect them from the Nazi atrocities. This compelling drama from director Roger Kahane co-stars Dorian Lambert. - Jérôme Deschamps, Dorian Lambert, Agnès Soral
Style:
poignant, historical drama, bleak, atmospheric, suspense, tension, period drama
Plot:
world war two, occupied france, courage, holocaust, deportation, jewish family, nazi occupation, tragedy, rescue, sadness, diary, loss, moral dilemma, compassion, love letter, hopes, heroism, sacrifice, romantic obsession, resistance, guardian, small town, identity, man boy relationship, judaism ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
france
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Most similar movies to I'm Alive and I Love You
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out period piece, bleak, historical drama and tension films with plots about world war two, resistance, survival, nazi occupation, betrayal, sacrifice and holocaust mostly in Drama, War and History genres. Some movies like I'm Alive and I Love You: Rondo (2012), My Daughter, Anne Frank (2015), Story of Annette Zelman (2022), How to Be Loved (1963), The Pianist's Choice (2024). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Description : Belgium, 1943. The situation is becoming unbearable for the Field family : antisemitic persecutions become common and violent. Joseph Field, the father, rebels against the occupying army. He is arrested and deported. Esther, his wife, ...
Style:
emotional, bleak, realistic, serious, historical drama ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
anti semitism, world war two, wartime life, youth, elderly, holocaust, teenage life, against humanity, life is a bitch, family relations, cause and meaning, resistance ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
belgium, england, europe
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
The film is divided into two segments, both set in Europe during WWII.
Style:
emotional, historical drama, tension, inspirational, bleak ...
Plot:
persecution, courage, holocaust, bravery, rescue, world war two, sacrifice, nazi occupation, resistance, european, occupation, world war ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
france, poland
Similarity:
86%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The name Anne Frank stands for courage and confidence in hopeless times. But also for the cheeky and unsparing view of an adolescent on her family and her environment. Millions of people around the world know her diary, she wrote it while hiding ...
Style:
poignant, bleak, emotional, period piece, captivating ...
Plot:
world war two, jewish history, world war, jewish girl, courage, hiding, holocaust, anti semitism, diary, tragedy, memories, biopic ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
amsterdam
Similarity:
74%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
1942 Paris. Annette is 20 years old, Jean is barely older, they love each other and the future is bright for them. But the deportation of the Jews of France will change their destiny. Upset at the idea of their only son marrying a Jewish woman, Jean ...
Style:
historical drama, emotional, melancholic, tense, atmospheric ...
Plot:
world war two, accusation, jewish family, auschwitz, holocaust, anti semitism, deportation, tragedy, female protagonist, betrayal, loss, prejudice ...
Place:
paris france
Similarity:
58%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
An actress travels from Warsaw to Paris and during the trip reflects on the last few years of her life. It goes back to the German occupation and her hiding of a fellow actor who has supposedly killed a collaborator. He is weak and a bit cowardly, ...
Style:
reflective, bleak, melancholic, dramatic, road movie ...
Plot:
world war two, identity, theater, flashback, actress, nazi occupation, suicide, guilt, female protagonist, survival, moral ambiguity, tragedy ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
warsaw poland, paris france, poland, eastern europe
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: France
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
During the Second World War, François Touraine, a young piano prodigy, has no choice but to go and play in Germany to save the woman he loves. Because Rachel is Jewish in an age that no longer allows it... A great story of love, music and ...
Style:
historical drama, emotional, poignant, tense, period piece ...
Plot:
oppression, love story, nazi occupation, moral dilemma, piano, anti semitism, world war two, sacrifice, forbidden love, classical music, courage, prodigy ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
germany, paris france
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Lucien, 14, can’t understand why his father, a serious and respected teacher, makes a fool of himself by dressing up as a clown and giving a show. André, Lucien’s father’s best friend, feels for the teenager and decides to reveal something ...
Style:
suspense, disturbing, tense, captivating, poignant ...
Plot:
world war two, occupied france, occupation, sabotage, resistance, french resistance, friendship, nazi occupation, german occupation, father son relationship, family secret, fight ...
Time:
1940s, year 2003
Place:
france
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
An unassuming young lawyer leads a fight against the Nazis near the end of the Second World War.
Style:
bleak, tension, suspense, period drama
Plot:
world war two, nazi, european, occupation, courage, determination, heroism, sacrifice, loss, resistance, ethical dilemma, ruthlessness ...
Time:
1940s
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
The story of Anne Frank, the Jewish girl who went into hiding with her family in Amsterdam and became a victim of the Holocaust.
Style:
heartbreaking, bleak, reflective, historical drama, tension ...
Plot:
world war two, nazi occupation, children in wartime, tragedy, persecution, holocaust, fear, loss, anti semitism, isolation, teenage protagonist, peril ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
amsterdam
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
During the German occupation of France, a young woman - Marie - finds a Jewish boy in her room. His parents and other Jewish neighbors have been just been deported, but Maurice (the boy) escaped. Marie decides to hide him, secretly.
Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological, historical drama, suspenseful ...
Plot:
world war two, jew persecution, hiding, life is a bitch, child custody, nazi occupied france, occupied france, rescue, anti semitism, german occupation, persecution, holocaust ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
france
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Greece
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
One of filmmaker and expatriate writer Adonis Kyrou's best-known quotes translates roughly as "I urge you: Learn to look at 'bad' films, they are so often sublime." The same could be said of Kyrou's own directorial work ...
Style:
historical drama, tension, suspense, political, controversial ...
Plot:
resistance, world war two, occupation, traitor, nazi, betrayal, moral dilemma, black market, survival, underground movement, collaboration, guilt ...
Time:
1940s
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
This movie tells a true story about events in Zagreb in 1941. Nazis and their collaborators organized the great gathering of students on Dubrava stadium. The intention was to publicly separate Jews from them which would lead to future pogrom. The ...
Style:
historical drama, tension, serious, period piece, bleak ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
world war two, partisan, nazi occupation, political conflict, political repression, student protest, human rights, holocaust, resistance movement, fear, identity, memory ...
Time:
year 1941
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
In August 1942, during the Second World War, Six Jewish children are trying to escape the Nazis. They are hidden by the resistance in the Chambord Castle, where paintings from Le Louvre are being stored as well. The Nazis are looking for paintings ...
Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological, historical drama, tension ...
Plot:
world war two, jew persecution, anti semitism, persecution, occupied france, french resistance, nazi occupation, life is a bitch, jewish life, friendship, children, jewish family ...
Time:
1940s
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A circus clown is imprisoned by the Nazis and goes with Jewish children to their deaths.
Style:
controversial, emotional, tragic ending, grim, disturbing ...
Plot:
clown, holocaust, nazi, auschwitz, concentration camp, oppression, innocence lost, accomplice, haunting, tragedy, guilt, prison ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
europe
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A group of school-mates form a resistance group in nazi-occupied Denmark.
Style:
historical drama, tense, period piece, bleak, suspenseful ...
Plot:
world war two, resistance, nazi occupation, children, political oppression, loss of innocence, coming of age, courage, moral ambiguity, underground movement, tragedy, escalation ...
Time:
1940s
Similarity:
42%
5K
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
An unsettling feeling overwhelms a small Hungarian town when two orthodox Jews arrive with a mysterious trunk. As residents begin to speculate on the purpose of the visit of these two strangers, order starts to crumble in town with some pursuing ...
Style:
black and white, art house, grim, tense, motivational
Plot:
holocaust, orthodox jew, world war two, guilt, village, world war, judaism, villain, nazism, holocaust survivor, dilemma, moral dilemma ...
Time:
year 1945, post world war two, 1940s
Place:
hungary
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama
Country: Bulgaria
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
During Second World War a beautiful love between two young people burns out against the background of the Nazi reality.
Style:
period piece, poignant, bleak, intense, political drama
Plot:
world war two, torture, betrayal, sacrifice, resistance, occupation, nazi occupation, double agent, tragic romance, partisan, espionage, underground movement ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
bulgaria
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
September the 8th 1943, Rome, that crucial day, the armistice, in the town many life change their way. Danilo escapes the fascist enlist, while Michele succeeded to leave his administration moving from Rome. On the way to come back Rome the two ...
Style:
historical drama, period piece, realistic, bleak, tense
Plot:
world war two, fascism, sabotage, heroism, resistance movement, sacrifice, nazi, occupation, courage, german occupation, bravery, tragedy ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
italy, rome italy
Similarity:
40%
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
In Milan, in the winter of 1944, the ruthless Cane Nero leads the fascists against the partisans. Enne 2, one of the leading figures of the C.N.L., meets Berta, whom he loved three years ago, but Berta refuses to leave her husband for him. Enne 2 is ...
Style:
historical drama, serious, tension, bleak, atmospheric ...
Plot:
world war two, fascism, political conflict, occupation, persecution, moral ambiguity, oppression, betrayal, fear, violence, sacrifice, pursuit ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
milan italy, italy, turin italy
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
Two years after receiving news of his father’s death in WWII a young boy continues to wait for trains from the front. The boy lives with his crippled uncle rather than with his mother, who has remarried and has another child. Then one day the ...
Style:
emotional, melancholic, bleak, period piece, tension
Plot:
world war two, father son relationship, family drama, longing, waiting, grief, loss, child protagonist, trauma, sacrifice, hopes, family conflict ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
armenia
Similarity:
39%
245
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Poland, Germany, France
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
During the Nazi era, a Jewish woman on the run takes a trolley which passes near the Warsaw ghetto, where the uprising battle is taking place, and some passengers are struck by stray bullets. They take temporary refuge in an empty building, and ...
Style:
tension, period piece, bleak, historical drama, atmospheric ...
Plot:
world war two, holocaust, nazi occupation, suspicion, hiding, anti semitism, survival, fear, neighbor, moral ambiguity, memory, accomplice ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
poland, warsaw poland
Similarity:
38%
161
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
The movie tells the life story and friendship of five blacksmiths in town of Leninakan during the war and the years preceding it - as told by the son of one of the blacksmiths.
Style:
poignant, historical drama, melancholic, period piece, sentimental
Audience:
kids
Plot:
friendship, world war two, sacrifice, memory, nostalgia, tragedy, brotherhood, loss, mourning, working class, coming of age, small town life ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
armenia, soviet union, caucasus, ussr
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Hungary
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Film about the Holocaust. A Jewish family is allowed to keep the flat they have always lived in and to live a relatively normal life. One day their 10-year old son disappears. He has been sent to a deportation camp which seems like paradise except ...
Style:
bleak, emotional, medical horror, period piece, historical drama
Audience:
adult
Plot:
world war two, concentration camp, suffering, holocaust, jewish family, persecution, oppression, survival, deportation, anti war, loss of innocence, family drama ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
europe, eastern europe, hungary
Similarity:
38%
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy, France, Serbia
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
How will the Germans react to the armistice of the 8th of September 1943, due to which Italy betrays them and sides with the allied forces? This is the distressing questions that a group of 16 Italian - Greek Jews evacuated at The Meina Hotel ask ...
Style:
historical drama, emotional, melancholic, period piece, tension ...
Plot:
world war two, holocaust, hotel, war crime, execution, tragedy, nazism, massacre, fear, ss officer, desperation, escape ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
italy
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union, Colombia
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
A man wants to flee wartime Germany and the detested Nazis to Columbia, where his brother lives. In order to achieve his goal he agrees to become an informer for the Reich.
Style:
historical drama, period piece, dark, bleak, tense ...
Plot:
world war two, betrayal, nazism, ethical dilemma, moral ambiguity, tragedy, guilt, survival, totalitarianism, collaboration, compromise, conscience ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
colombia
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Line of Demarcation. is a 1966 film written and directed by Claude Chabrol. Its title in French is La Ligne de démarcation. It is based on upon the memoir Mémoires d'un agent secret de la France libre et La Ligne de démarcation by Gilbert ...
Style:
bleak, anthology, period drama
Plot:
french resistance, world war two, barber, nazi occupation, smuggler, doctor, resistance movement, occupation, occupied france, sacrifice, betrayal, escape ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
france
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
In World War II British Columbia, Canada, a Japanese immigrant family has to endure the racist Canadian policy of being interned and their property confiscated as "enemy aliens". At the same time, a white Canadian family has to deal with ...
Style:
historical drama, period piece, tension, independent film, captivating ...
Plot:
world war two, racism, family drama, cultural conflict, social injustice, prejudice, identity, grief, civil liberties, resilience, human rights, moral dilemma ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
british columbia, canada
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A lawyer, who represents the German government against the Greek reparation claims for Nazi crimes in World War II, travels to Greece and meets one of the remaining survivors of the Kalavryta massacre that took place in 1943.
Style:
historical drama, captivating, tense, suspenseful, thrilling ...
Plot:
war crime, world war two, investigation, war violence, attorney, genocide, massacre, tragic past, troubled past, nazi occupation, german occupation, haunting ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
germany
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
October 1941. Thousands of fascists troops are advancing on Kalinin to capture the city and therefore open a direct route to Moscow. There are two thousand people able to defend the city and they are without tanks or artillery. The only hope of ...
Style:
atmospheric, serious, rough, suspenseful, touching ...
Plot:
world war two, protection, fight, diversion, battles, eastern front, sabotage, danger, spy, society, resistance, siege ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
soviet union
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 61 min.
Story:
Locked away in the Jewish ghetto of an occupied Ukrainian town in 1941, a mother revisits her life in a last letter to her son.
Style:
bleak, poignant, historical drama, reflective, emotional ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
holocaust, persecution, world war two, jewish ghetto, anti semitism, mature, grief, loss, haunting, family tragedy, mother son relationship, witness ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
eastern europe, ukraine
Similarity:
34%
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