Movies like Joy Division

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Joy Division (2006)
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Joy Division (2006)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK, Germany, Hungary
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A teenage orphan fights against the Red Army at the end of WWII and in the aftermath is 'adopted' by a Commissar. Years later he is sent to London during the Cold war to work for the KGB, where he questions his life.
Style: serious, captivating, disturbing, realistic, political, bleak, thought provoking, epic
Plot: world war two, kgb, politics, betrayal, introspection, political unrest, haunted by the past, secret agent, undercover, moral dilemma, burned alive, dishonesty, state affairs, unsuccessful, spy, cold war, nazi, rock, punk, coming of age, sex crime, soldier, mission of murder, war, espionage ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, year 1945, post world war two, 40s
Place: russia, london, england, soviet union, ussr

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Most similar movies to Joy Division

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, captivating and bleak films with plots about war, world war two, wartime life, life is a bitch, soldier, nazi and military mostly in Drama, War and History genres. Some movies like Joy Division: Behind Enemy Lines (1985), Stalingrad (1993), Company K (2004), Sword of Honour (2001), Jew Suss: Rise and Fall (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Hitler's S.S.: Portrait in Evil (1985)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story: The two-part TV movie Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil crystallizes that evil by concentrating on two Berlin brothers. In 1931, Helmut Hoffman (Bill Nighy) a brilliant student and self-styled opportunist, joins Hitler's SS. At the same time, ...
Style: bleak, disturbing, captivating, serious, realistic
Plot: world war two, nazi, gestapo, hitler, combat, world war, concentration camp, ss, third reich, nazism, cabaret, wartime life ...
Time: 1930s, 1940s
Place: germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Behind Enemy Lines (1985)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Professor-turned-spy Col. Calvin Turner and his associate, workaholic Lt. Shelley Flynn, plan a daring rescue behind enemy lines in World War II German-occupied Norway of a brilliant scientist who may or may not be aiding the Germans.
Style: exciting, captivating, serious, realistic, bleak ...
Plot: spy, state affairs, chases and races, undercover, criminal heroes, heroes, danger, against humanity, war, espionage, military, rebellion ...
Time: 20th century
Place: london, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
93%
 7.5
 38K
Stalingrad (1993)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 134 min.
Story: "Stalingrad" follows the progress of a German Platoon through the brutal fighting of the Battle of Stalingrad. After having half their number wiped out and after being placed under the command of a sadistic Captain, the Lieutenant of the ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, gloomy, rough ...
Plot: world war two, war, battles, nazism, soldier, eastern front, military, holocaust, starvation, survival, military life, winter ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1942, year 1943
Place: russia, germany, europe, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
91%
 5.4
 349
Company K (2004)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Based on the popular World War I novel by author William March, director Robert Clem's COMPANY K follows a veteran of the first great conflict as he finishes a book about his wartime experiences and reflects on how a man's true character ...
Style: serious, psychological, captivating, disturbing, epic ...
Plot: world war one, veteran, soldier, wartime life, battles, state affairs, military, life is a bitch, politics, prison life, haunted by the past, military life ...
Time: 20th century, 1930s, year 1917
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
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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 ⇓
68%
Jew Suss: Rise and Fall (2010)
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: Germany, Austria
Duration: 114 min.
Story: This intricate historical drama tells the story of actor Ferdinand Marian (Tobias Moretti), who is ordered by Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels to star in the 1940 anti-Semitic film Jew Suss. Despite his cooperation, Ferdinand's actions have ...
Style: realistic, captivating, psychological, factual, sad ...
Plot: anti semitism, world war two, nazi germany, propaganda, actor's life, rise and fall, filmmaking, movie business, introspection, politics, showbiz, political unrest ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, 1930s
Place: austria, europe, berlin germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
The Winston Affair (1964)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: In a remote jungle outpost in the Far Eastern theater of World War II, a hotheaded American soldier murders an allied British sergeant in cold blood. Stalwart American Lt. Colonel Barney Adams (Mitchum) is dispatched to defend him in the ensuing ...
Style: serious, captivating, bleak, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot: world war two, courtroom drama, murder, legal investigation, soldier, dedicated lawyer, world war, court martial, society, politics, mentally unstable, state affairs ...
Place: india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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 ⇓
62%
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Hiroshima (1995)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Canada, Japan
Duration: 190 min.
Story: Hiroshima is a 1995 Japanese / Canadian film directed by Koreyoshi Kurahara and Roger Spottiswoode about the decision-making processes that led to the dropping of the atomic bombs by the United States on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki ...
Style: serious, realistic, captivating
Plot: world war two, politics, world war, atomic bomb, nuclear holocaust, terrorism, injustice, nuclear, disaster, surrender, battles, white house ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, year 1945
Place: hiroshima japan, usa, japan, asia, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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 ⇓
57%
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 ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
 8.2
 10K
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 ⇓
55%
The Counterfeit Traitor (1962)
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 140 min.
Story: Blacklisted in modern day WW2, a Swedish oil trader opts to assist British Allies, by means of infiltrating and surveying Nazi Germany.
Style: retro, political thriller, captivating, tense, serious ...
Plot: world war two, espionage, nazi, dominatrix, politics, international relations, wartime, youth, nazi germany, secret agent, forgery, dishonesty ...
Time: year 1962, 20th century, 1940s, year 1942
Place: germany, europe, hamburg germany, copenhagen, berlin germany ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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 ⇓
49%
 7.1
 4K
Restless (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 180 min.
Story: A young woman finds out that her mother worked as a spy for the British Secret Service during World War II and has been on the run ever since.
Style: tense, serious, suspenseful, captivating, realistic ...
Plot: world war two, mother daughter relationship, espionage, intrigue, secret hideout, spy, secret service, undercover, government agency, double agent, british secret service, secret place ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, 70s, 1930s
Place: europe, united kingdom, new mexico, new york, london ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
 6.8
 2K
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 ⇓
45%
 5.9
 317
The Only Way (1970)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA, Denmark, Panama, UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story: In April 1940, the armies of Nazi Germany invaded Denmark. The Danish government promised peaceful cooperation on the condition that Denmark s Jews remain free. The Nazi s agreed. In October, 1943, the agreement was broken...This is the true and ...
Style: bleak, realistic, serious, captivating, uplifting ...
Plot: holocaust, world war two, nazi occupation, danger, politics, heroes, against humanity, society, state affairs, confined, war, military ...
Time: 1940s
Place: denmark, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
The Hanoi Hilton (1987)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Lionel Chetwynd's film documents the horrific struggles that faced American POWs held in the North Vietnamese prison Hoa Lo -- more infamously known as the Hanoi Hilton -- between 1964 and 1975. Williamson (Michael Moriarty) leads a group of ...
Style: political, grindhouse, independent film, serious, realistic ...
Audience: manly
Plot: vietnam war, military, prison, cannon, conservative, military prison, prison escape, war trauma, electric torture, violent content, profanity, escape ...
Time: year 1987, 20th century
Place: vietnam
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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The Red and the White (1967)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Hungary, Soviet Union
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In 1919, Hungarian Communists aid the Bolsheviks' defeat of Czarists, the Whites. Near the Volga, a monastery and a field hospital are held by one side then the other.
Style: political, contemplative, black and white, experimental, art house ...
Plot: revolution, world war one, struggle, execution, time travel, great war, international relations, conflict, revolutionary war, revolutionary, freedom, spirituality ...
Time: year 1967, 20th century, 1910s, year 1919
Place: soviet union, hungary, europe, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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 ⇓
43%
 4.9
 2K
Resistance (2011)
Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story: It is 1944 and the D-Day invasion has failed, Germany's army have successfully invaded England and the Nazi war-machine is now heading west towards Wales. A group of women in an isolated Welsh village near the English border wake up to ...
Style: tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic, period drama ...
Plot: missing person, wartime life, life is a bitch, war, danger, espionage, undercover, world war two, alternate history, alternate universe, strong female presence, village ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1945, year 1944
Place: england, madagascar
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
The Man Who Will Come (2009)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A group of Italian villagers struggle to survive during a tumultuous time in 1943, debating how much assistance to give the partisans with the impending arrival of the Germans. Based on True Events.
Style: captivating, serious, atmospheric, bleak, realistic ...
Plot: world war two, youth, german army, family relations, against humanity, life is a bitch, parents and children, village life, village, nazi, children, child protagonist ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, year 1944, year 1943
Place: italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 6.6
 1K
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 ⇓
42%
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Legacy (2013)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Set in the 1970s London during the height of the Cold War when a young spy discovers the disturbing truth about his father's complex past. Based on Alan Judd's 2001 novel Legacy, the second in the Thoroughgood series after 1981's A ...
Style: captivating, serious, tense, realistic, suspenseful
Plot: spy, cold war, espionage, kgb, secret agent, government agency, betrayal, undercover, love and romance, political unrest, dishonesty, forbidden love ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 1974
Place: england, london, britain, soviet union, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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 ⇓
41%
A Woman in Berlin (2008)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Germany, Poland
Duration: 131 min.
Story: A nameless woman keeps a diary as the Russians invade Berlin in the spring of 1945. She is in her early 30s, a patriotic journalist with international credentials; her husband, Gerd, a writer, is an officer at the Russian front. She speaks Russian ...
Style: realistic, bleak, serious, disturbing, sincere ...
Plot: world war two, war, war crime, strong sexual content, rape, military, soldier, sexual abuse, world war, brutality, injustice, political unrest ...
Time: year 1945, year 2008, 20th century, 1940s
Place: germany, berlin germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 7.5
 26K
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 ⇓
37%
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 ⇓
36%
 5.7
 18K
Stalingrad (2013)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 131 min.
Story: Drama set in 1942, during one of the most important battles of World War II, which stopped the progress of Nazi forces and turned the tide of war in favor of the Allies. The Soviet army mounts a counter-attack on the Nazi forces that occupy half of ...
Style: realistic, captivating, serious, exciting, rough ...
Plot: world war two, war, heroism, battles, heroes, world war, life is a bitch, wartime life, russian history, danger, battle zone, military life ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1942
Place: europe, soviet union, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 4.9
 1K
The Bridge (2008)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A group of German boys is ordered to protect a small bridge in their home village during the waning months of the second world war. Truckloads of defeated, cynical Wehrmacht soldiers flee the approaching American troops, but the boys, full of ...
Style: realistic, serious, bleak, rough
Plot: world war two, military, heroic mission, soldier, left to die, young heroes, danger, american soldier, combat casualty, world war, nazi, german history ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, year 1945
Place: germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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