Movies like The Day and the Hour
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The Day and the Hour (1963)
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Original name: Le Jour et l'Heure
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance, War
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
It's the spring of 1944 and Therese is in a hurry to get back to Paris. The trains aren't running from the village where she has gone to visit her father's grave and to fill two suitcases with food. Some British and American planes have been shot down and the Germans want to know where the pilots are hiding. An acquaintance has clearance to drive to Paris with a truckload of goats. After she is in the truck Therese discovers that two British pilots and an American pilot are back there with the goats. She must get the men on a train to Paris and to a safe house there, where there is no room for the American. Can she leave him at the Metro station trying to figure out the map?
Plot:
world war two, nazi, resistance movement, wartime life, nazi occupied france, aviator, train, police, escape, partisan, torture, betrayal, railway, gunfight, german soldier, gestapo, traitor, german officer, french police, french resistance, frenchwoman, interrogation, military police, train station, arrest ...
Time:
year 1944
Place:
france
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, captivating and tense films with plots about world war two, nazi, war, escape, explosion, death and machine gun mostly in War, Drama and Action genres. Some movies like The Day and the Hour: The Last Train (1973), Massacre at Noon (1975), Tactical Guerilla (1974), Shock Troops (1967), The Last Escape (1970). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
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Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Place:
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Genre: Action, Drama, History, Thriller, War
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Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
france, south of france
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Genre: Action, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
Valter brani Sarajevo (English: Walter Defends Sarajevo, German: Walter verteidigt Sarajewo) is a Yugoslav partisan drama film that takes place during World War. Walter Defends Sarajevo takes place in Sarajevo, Bosnia against the German withdrawal ...
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Place:
sarajevo
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Genre: Action, Thriller, War
Country: France, Italy, USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: France
Duration: 148 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Style:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama, War
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Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Duration: 120 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Action, Drama, War
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Plot:
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Country: France
Duration: 120 min.
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Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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