Movies like Cold Summer
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Cold Summer (2006)
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Original name: Die Mauer – Berlin ’61
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The Wall - Berlin '61.
Plot:
thief, military, escape, border, smuggling, family relations, fear, berlin wall, separation, danger, wall, sweat, barbed wire
Time:
60s, year 1961, 1960s
Place:
east germany
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Most similar movies to Cold Summer
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, suspenseful and tense films with plots about family relations, danger, escape, life is a bitch, parents and children, friendship and society mostly in Drama, Thriller and History genres. Some movies like Cold Summer: One Night in Berlin (2011), The Man on the Wall (1982), The Tunnel (2001), Das Wunder von Lengede (2003), Halam Geldi (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
Berlin. Night. An old, homeless drunk stumbles down the street. Ignored by everyone - almost everyone. A woman suddenly appears in front of him - mid-thirties, thin, a drug addict. She stands face-to-face for the first time in years with the man she ...
Style:
road movie
Plot:
berlin wall, inheritance, separation, past, nazi, stasi, road
Place:
germany, german democratic republic, east germany, berlin germany
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95%
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
An East German man finds a way to cross the border between East and West Berlin. But when he succeeds in bringing his wife out as well, things are not quite as expected.
Plot:
spy, cold war, cheating wife, border crossing, berlin wall, iron curtain, passport, border, stasi, eccentricity, a vision, ransom ...
Place:
germany, west berlin west germany, berlin germany, german democratic republic, east berlin ...
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92%
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
Inspired by true events, Olympic swimmer Harry Melchior defects from East Germany in the 1960s and hatches a daring plot to help his sister and others flee East Berlin through a 145-yard underground tunnel.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, compassionate, captivating, political ...
Plot:
tunnel, berlin wall, politics, suspense, betrayal, communism, escape, political unrest, wartime, freedom, breast feeding, brutality ...
Time:
60s
Place:
east germany, germany, berlin germany, west berlin west germany, german democratic republic ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 182 min.
Story:
No overview found.
Plot:
german history, mining, miraculous event, gallery, mine, drowning, legend, flood, suffocation, darkness, miner, heroism ...
Time:
60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
"Halam Geldi"(My Aunt has Arrived) does not just tell a story in the Greek village of Northern Cyprus, where the sounds of the Ezan is accompanied by the church bells, it also underlines a tradition in Anatolia; the drama of child brides. ...
Style:
touching, suspenseful, tense
Plot:
child bride, family relations, military, teenage girl, border crossing, young girl, domineering father, loss of child, school, friendship, corruption, father daughter relationship ...
Place:
cyprus
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 186 min.
Story:
The Berlin wall separated families and friends for 28 years. Some accepted it, and some worked hard to make it fall.
Plot:
spy, german reunification, police, soldier, historical event, border crossing, german, nationalism, berlin wall, border, intercourse, male female relationship ...
Time:
year 1989
Place:
germany, german democratic republic, east germany, berlin germany, west germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
423
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico, France, Poland, Germany
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Ceci, a seven year old girl, has to keep a huge secret, but she doesn't completely understand what is the secret about. The life of her family depends on her silence. But what exactly must she keep silent about? Ceci and her mom live hidden ...
Style:
serious, touching, emotional, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot:
school, dictatorship, military, rebelliousness, family in danger, political unrest, parents and children, repression, family relations, dishonesty, rebellion, village ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
argentina, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
After learning that his grandfather is alive and living in Seoul, a North Korean musician must leave his fiancee behind and accompany his family to South Korea.
Plot:
inter-korean relations, orchestra, border, letter, grandfather, musician, escape, marriage, money, promise, north korean, fiancee ...
Place:
north korea, korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
When you read the title ‘Summer on the Balcony’ you probably think it will be a light Berlin summer comedy but it’s not. This film is an intimate study of two women friends who come to each other because of troubles with everyday life and with ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, touching, erotic ...
Plot:
friendship, unemployment, sexual abuse, women, lifestyle, life is a bitch, single parent, love, intrigue, loneliness, mother son relationship, drug addiction ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
berlin germany, germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 151 min.
Story:
Mid-19th-century, Baltic Sea port city of Lubeck, Germany. Follows the fourth generation of the Buddenbrook mercantile family as Tony and Thomas reach the age of marriage. Fatefully impeded every step of the way, the Buddenbrooks struggle as ...
Style:
realistic, saga, emotional, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
family relations, family business, fall in love, society, workplace, parents and children, unfulfillment, relationship vs career, rivalry, inheritance, friendship, german history ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era
Place:
germany, europe, northern germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
John Ritter plays a family man who puts his wife through domestic violence and his children through emotional torture. After leaving his family and almost killing his new girlfriend in one of his rages, he is ordered to seek professional help ...
Plot:
group therapy, domestic violence, fear, marital abuse, anger management
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Summer 1968. 14-year-old Wolfgang is deported from his family in the secluded Church Welfare Institution sanctuary. One thing is clear for Wolfgang: His yearning for freedom, he will not soon buried in the bog.
Style:
sad
Plot:
stepfather, coming of age, violence, gay, boy, lgbt, childhood, boyhood, distopia, lgbt teen, traumatic childhood, parent child relationship ...
Time:
60s, year 1968
Place:
germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
In Berlin in 1961, an American soldier and a German engineer join forces to build a tunnel under the Berlin Wall in order to smuggle out refugees, including the soldier's East German girlfriend.
Style:
realistic, serious, exciting, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
communism, cold war, escape, tunnel, new love, love letter, political unrest, against the odds, getting home, soldier, escapades, hopes ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
germany, berlin germany, europe, east berlin, east germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Is. This. My. Son? No matter how often Tobias Wilke poses this question, there's always only one answer: Yes! Tobias, can't believe his eyes when he comes to the airport to pick up his 17-year-old son Finn – and learns that Finn is now ...
Style:
psychological, tense, tragicomedy, suspenseful, unusual plot structure ...
Plot:
lgbt, father son relationship, coming out, bullying, coming of age, teenager, transsexual, seductive woman, male objectification, female objectification, awkward situation, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
When Micha's mother leaves his irascible father, he tries to prevent their divorce by any means he can think of, but his attempts to hold the family together lead to a catastrophe...
Plot:
childhood, children, teenage girl, nude, family relations, female nudity, sex scene, female full frontal nudity, braless, bare breasts
Time:
60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
A dramatization of the thalidomide drug scandal of the early 1960s.
Plot:
medicine, lawyer, damage, disabled child, court case, baby, politics, boss, courtroom, pills, physician, mishap ...
Time:
60s
Place:
west germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
1959, support from US troops based in Asia and later from the Sates enables two actresses to start a charity for mixed-race 'orphans' who are locally neglected as outcasts. Thus originates Childhelp, which later runs multi-disciplinary ...
Style:
disturbing, touching, thought provoking, rough, tense ...
Plot:
orphan, child abuse, rescue, family relations, selflessness, dysfunctional family, parents and children, life is a bitch, family problems, abuse, love, youth ...
Time:
20th century, 50s, 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
White Water is the story of a 7 year-old black kid in segregated 1963 Opelika, Alabama who becomes obsessed with the desire to taste the water from the "white's only" drinking fountain and sets out on a quest to do the unthinkable: ...
Style:
touching, suspenseful, serious, sentimental, realistic
Plot:
young heroes, missing child, youth, life is a bitch, obsession, discrimination, family problems, family relations, parents and children, society, racism, interracial relations ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
usa, alabama
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Lichter is an episodic tale from Hans-Christian Schmid about the life on the boarder between Germany and Poland. The film sheds light on the everyday stories of escape and desperateness.
Style:
serious, captivating, realistic, sincere, atmospheric ...
Plot:
border, immigrants, human spirit, politics, couples, political unrest, rebelliousness, hopes, state affairs, redemption, life is a bitch, injustice ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
poland, germany, europe, ukraine
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Based upon a true story, Marg Helgenberger stars as a single mother mysteriously arrested by the FBI and separated from her children, thus beginning a 25-year struggle to be reunited with them.
Plot:
prison, car accident, corruption, adoption
Time:
80s, 70s, 60s
Place:
georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Jimmy McGovern's depiction of the mid 90s Liverpool dockers strike. Featuring script contributions from Irvine Welsh and the real dockers themselves
Plot:
suffering, family relations, strike, violence, dispute, job
Place:
liverpool
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
In this made-for-tv movie, an adopted woman decides to find her birth mother. Her search leads her to a shocking discovery that she has to face and why her upbringing was not an easy one.
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, emotional
Plot:
women, interracial relations, adoption, strong female presence, society, life is a bitch, family relations, family problems, dysfunctional family, parents and children, mixed race, interracial rape ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 60s
Place:
usa, wisconsin
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
After a woman's husband beats and abuses her, she and her son join the witness protection program and move away secretly.
Style:
psychological, serious, realistic, tense, emotional ...
Plot:
domestic violence, obsession, kidnapped, abusive relationship, battered wife, family problems, family relations, life is a bitch, hopes, witnessing a crime, domestic disturbance, starting over ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
usa, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Based on the true story of baby Jessica McClure who fell into a drain pipe in her back yard while playing. She was stuck in the pipe about 20 to 30 feet down and it took rescuers 58 hours to get her out. There was fear that if they shook the earth ...
Style:
emotional, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Plot:
isolation, confined, heroes, babies and infants, escapades, twins, daring rescue, baby, rescue, child in peril, media coverage, trapped ...
Time:
80s
Place:
austin texas, texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Ingo Hasselbach, whose parents were Communist Party members in East Germany during his childhood, has lived at both ends of the political seesaw. The question of how people reach a change of heart is a profound one; Hasselbach describes the external ...
Style:
serious, disturbing, suspenseful, tense, realistic ...
Plot:
prison, racism, fascism, berlin wall, friendship, teenage boy, jail, politics, moral dilemma, escape, prison life, obsession ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, 90s
Place:
germany, german democratic republic, europe, east germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Russia, Germany, Ukraine
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A group of friends and bandmates look to escape from the Chernobyl disaster.
Style:
disturbing, serious, suspenseful, sincere, tense ...
Plot:
friendship, survival, race against time, small town, disaster, nuclear reactor, escape, post apocalypse, catastrophe, couple relations, rock, government facility ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
chernobyl, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
Drama - Vic's days are filled with selling sci-fi collectibles, harassing his fellow antique dealers, and trying to communicate with extraterrestrials. - Charles Brin, Alex Cole, Paul Cram
Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful, offbeat
Plot:
obsession, small town, alien encounter, death, tragedy, antique dealer, small town life, doll, lost love, puppet, danger
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
2K
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A family of four lives off of scams in which they pretend to be injured by automobiles. After suffering an injury during the war, the father believes he is an invalid. He and his wife have a 10-year-old boy and a 3-year-old girl. The adults pretend ...
Style:
experimental, realistic, serious, thought provoking, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
family relations, youth, child abuse, dysfunctional family, train, boy, bad father, traumatic childhood, abusive father, father son relationship, stepmother, abortion ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
japan, hokkaido
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Felix from West-Berlin falls in love with Thomas in East-Berlin. At first they keep their relationship going by regular visits from Felix, but the curfew forces him to return every evening. When the East-German authorities become suspicious, Thomas ...
Plot:
lgbt, gay, cold war, gay interest, lgbtq, berlin wall, curfew, man in underwear, gay crush, gay sex, slaughterhouse, police chase ...
Place:
west berlin west germany, west germany, east germany, berlin germany, east berlin
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
In 1923, the young Kim Shun-Pei moves from Cheju Island (South Korea), to Osaka (Japan). Through the years, he becomes a cruel, greedy and violent man and builds a factory of kamaboko (processed seafood products) in his poor Korean-Japanese ...
Style:
serious, psychological, realistic, rough, bleak
Plot:
family relations, ambition, dysfunctional family, family problems, obsession, life is a bitch, gang, loan, alcohol abuse, family in crisis, violence, abusive relationship ...
Time:
80s, 50s
Place:
japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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