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Dr. Petiot (1990)
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Dr. Petiot (1990)
Original name: Docteur Petiot
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, War
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A true story shot in a German Impressionistic style. In France during the Nazi occupation, Dr. Petiot (Michel Serrault) offered to help Jews escape the Nazis. They would come to his house, and he would kindly give them lethal "vaccinations" for their anticipated travel to Argentina. Then he would steal everything the brought with them (in addition to their up-front payment to him) and burn their bodies in his home-made crematorium.
Style: anthology, neurotic, freeze frame
Plot: serial killer, world war two, chess, true crime, killer, vampire, murderer, money, firefighter, psychopath, police officer, police, hunting, partisan, female nudity, death, murder, criminal, illness, studying, doctor, cemetery, fire, boy, male nudity ...
Time: year 1942, year 1943, 1940s, 20th century
Place: paris france, france
Keyword: german, jewish, movie theatre

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, suspenseful and disturbing films with plots about murder, world war two, death, biopic, husband wife relationship, cigarette smoking and gun mostly in Drama, History and Biography genres. Some movies like Dr. Petiot: Operation Silver A (2007), Lacombe, Lucien (1974), Bluebeard (1963), Resistance (2020), A Bag of Marbles (2017). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Operation Silver A (2007)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 149 min.
Story: Based on actual events. Late 1941, Group Silver A are dropped into occupied Czechoslovakia on an SOE mission to set up a Radio communications centre for the resistance, and contact a German Army officer whom is forwarding information to the British.
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Plot: world war two, conspiracy, fight, german occupation, agent, illness, mass murder, secret mission, neighbor neighbor relationship, arrest, fever, trap ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1941, year 1942
Place: prague, czechoslovakia, central europe
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Lacombe, Lucien (1974)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 138 min.
Story: In 1944 Lucien Lacombe, a young peasant in the Lot region is refused permission to join the French Resistance. Instead, the opposing "French Gestapo" obtain from him information about an underground leader and recruit him into their ...
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Bluebeard (1963)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 115 min.
Story: France, WWI. Landru, the father of four Children, contacts Parisian women through newspapers, seduces and eventually kills them in order to feed his little family.
Style: neo noir, serious, realistic, suspenseful, factual ...
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Duration: 105 min.
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