Movies like Signs of Life
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Signs of Life (1968)
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Original name: Lebenszeichen
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
During World War II, three German soldiers are withdrawn from combat when one of them, Stroszek, is wounded. They are assigned to a small coastal community on the Greek island of Kos while Stroszek recuperates. The men become increasingly stir crazy in their uneventful new assignment. Stroszek eventually goes mad.
Style:
psychological, tense, atmospheric, serious, realistic
Plot:
world war two, soldier, war, nazi, summer, psychiatry, german soldier, mental illness, island, driven mad, village, military, greek, isolation, confined, military base, unfulfillment, losing-it hero, dull life, paratrooper, insanity, fortress, mediterranean, german abroad
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 40s
Place:
greece, germany, italy, europe, mediterranean sea
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, captivating and atmospheric films with plots about world war two, soldier, military, nazi, war, wartime life and life is a bitch mostly in Drama, War and History genres. Some movies like Signs of Life: Fires on the Plain (2014), Woyzeck (1979), Adelheid (1970), April 9th (2015), The Long Day's Dying (1968). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
In the final days of World War II, occupying Japanese forces in the Philippines face resistance from the local population and the American offensive. The dwindling Japanese soldiers attempt to survive through the horrors of war.
Style:
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Plot:
world war two, war, survival, japanese soldier, military life, escapades, confined, isolation, rivalry, asian prostitute, anti war, graphic violence ...
Time:
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Place:
the philippines
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Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Having fathered an illegitimate child with his lover, Marie, feckless soldier Franz Woyzeck takes odd jobs around his small town to provide some extra money for them. One of them is volunteering for experiments conducted by a local doctor, who puts ...
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murder, insanity, military, loser, brutality, infidelity, obsession, soldier, child, nude, crime gone awry, assassination ...
Time:
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Place:
germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
In the aftermath of World War II, a former Czech soldier takes charge of a manor formerly owned by a German family. He falls in love with the daughter, who is now a maid, and is forced to confront the stress between his love and his conscience when ...
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Plot:
world war two, military, forbidden love, holocaust, girl, comeback, post war, locomotive, forest, soldier, estate, haunted by the past ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
czechoslovakia, czech republic, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Denmark
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
In the early morning of April 9th 1940 the Danish army is alerted. The Germans have crossed the border; Denmark is at war against Europe's strongest army. In Southern Jutland Danish bicycle- and motorcycle companies are ordered out, to against ...
Style:
captivating, serious, realistic, tense, suspenseful
Plot:
world war two, nazi occupation, war, military, soldier, battles, against the odds, wehrmacht, friendship, suspense, judaism, nazi ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, year 1940
Place:
denmark, germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Three British soldiers and their German captive trek through the European countryside.
Style:
realistic, serious, cult film
Plot:
world war two, soldier, captive, survival, military, escapades, war, rescue, confined, battles, anti war, basic training ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
europe, england, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: Austria, Luxembourg
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Poland 1943: An unlikely pair - a concentration camp prisoner and a captain in Hitler's notorious SS - free themselves from the wreckage of a crashed SS airplane. The two appear to be strangely familiar with each other and the extent of their ...
Style:
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Plot:
concentration camp, world war two, friendship, military, friends, life is a bitch, moral dilemma, soldier, wartime life, holocaust, against humanity, nazi ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, 1940s
Place:
germany, europe, poland, austria
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
At the dawn of World War 2, a Rabbi's daughter and a disenchanted German soldier fall in love and are separated by the war. They struggle on a perilous journey to find one another.
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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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:
serious, realistic, rough, bleak
Plot:
world war two, war, military, heroic mission, soldier, left to die, young heroes, american soldier, combat casualty, german history, nazi, small town ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, year 1945
Place:
germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Near the end of World War II, Maria marries Hermann, who is immediately sent off to battle. When the war concludes, Maria believes that Hermann is dead. She starts working at an Allied bar, where she meets American soldier Bill. They start a ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Set near the end of World War II in the Netherlands, Dirty Heroes concerns a group of ex-convicts recruited into the U.S. Army to recover Dutch jewels originally stolen by the Nazis as well as confiscated Allied plans
Style:
exciting, macaroni combat, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience:
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Plot:
world war two, wartime, exploitation, battles, confined, escapades, soldier, rivalry, military, vengeance, war, prisoner of war camp ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
holland, europe, amsterdam, netherlands
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 210 min.
Story:
Cefalonia tells the real story about what happened in September 1943 on the Greek island of Kefalonia (Cefalonia in Italian), when the 12,000 men in the Italian 33rd Acqui Infantry Division, following Italy's surrender to the Allied, refused to ...
Plot:
world war two, german occupation, truce, island, nazi, italian history, italian army, bravery, mass murder, soldier, surrender
Place:
greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A young man travels to Holland for an assisted suicide. The young man was convinced that this was his only way of ending an existence that he considered to lack any dignity.
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Norway
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Norwegian war drama. The old sea-captain retires, but the next day German WWII occupation of Norway begins. He then kisses his wife good-bye and is off to Army HQ. There he finds a lack of leadership and morale that offends him. They even laugh at ...
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Plot:
world war two, military life, military base, political unrest, wartime life, captivity, couple relations, anti war, working class, battles, heroes, aging ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
germany, norway
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A Chinese peasant is given the responsibility of protecting his village's special dairy cow during a particularly harsh winter in 1940.
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Plot:
world war two, wartime life, friendship, life is a bitch, survival, escapades, village, dark humor, war, chinese, refugee, friends ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Genre: Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
During the shut down and destruction of the Japanese test camp Squadron 731 in Manchuria, a soldier becomes infected with a virus developed during the camp's testing and risks spreading it into Japan on the train ride home.
Style:
bloody, serious, realistic, bleak, rough ...
Plot:
against humanity, pandemic, extreme violence, torture, world war two, war, survival, military, soldier, life is a bitch, power relations, wartime life ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A would-be Marine fails basic training, and is sent home wearing the "baby blue" fatigues of a washout. En route, he is mugged by a battle-fatigued Marine Raider, who leaves him to hitch-hike home in an undeserved hero's uniform. A ...
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 225 min.
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Story:
The lives, loves and highs and lows of four members of the Women's Land Army working at the Hoxley Estate during World War II.
Style:
realistic, captivating, psychological, atmospheric, serious
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
world war two, wartime life, life is a bitch, family relations, military, strong female presence, friendship, soldier, rise and fall, love, women, intrigue ...
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20th century, 1940s
Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy, Romania
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Freddy Angi, separate and homeless, stumbles into strange love affairs, including one with his wife Anna. The two meet now and then as lovers in a hotel room.
Style:
serious, atmospheric, realistic, touching, bleak
Plot:
losing-it hero, couple relations, unfulfillment, life is a bitch, cause and meaning, alcohol abuse, dull life, writer's life, hotel, disintegration, drugs/alcohol
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, West Germany, Austria
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
In Germany, an old man attacks another old man and is arrested. The attacker refuses to speak. A female lawyer is appointed to him. She discovers that the attacker has numbers tattooed on his arm and the attacked man was a German officer.
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serious, bleak, realistic, tense, thought provoking ...
Plot:
world war two, children, courtroom drama, holocaust, lawyer, courtroom, graphic violence, legal investigation, wartime life, haunted by the past, immigrants, legal ...
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: France, West Germany, UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Two young boys from very different backgrounds become friends in 1933 Stuttgart. However, they don't realize how different they are until much later as one is the son of a well-to-do Jewish doctor and the other the son of a German aristocrat. ...
Style:
realistic, serious, thought provoking, disturbing
Plot:
world war two, anti semitism, friendship, friendship between boys, nazi, coming of age, golden years, youth, society, confined, against humanity, religions or cults ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, France, Italy
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Tsili is a young girl caught in the middle of World War II. After her family is taken to a concentration camp, Tsili hides in the forest, free from hatred and men, until the arrival of Marek, a stranger who speaks to her in Yiddish.
Style:
serious, realistic, bleak, disturbing, tense
Plot:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A theater projectionist's daughter is involved in the Resistance in WWII, but she doesn’t share his political involvement & only believes in passion. She follows the men she loves unconditionally, suffering betrayal and hardship.
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Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Greece
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Two stories set in northern Greece during World War II.
Plot:
world war two, greek, soldier, military, german occupation, retreat, wartime, solitude
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Denmark
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
The true story of the Fiil's a family of innkeepers who during Nazi-Germany's occupation of Denmark took up arms against the German occupiers. But in the fight for freedom, some must die so that others may live.
Style:
realistic, emotional, disturbing, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
world war two, resistance, nazi occupation, sabotage, resistance fighter, war, heroes, freedom fighter, nazi, wartime life, wartime, heroism ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
denmark, germany, scandinavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Genre: Drama
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Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A retelling of the Greek myth of Phaedra. In modern Greece, Alexis's father, an extremely wealthy shipping magnate, marries the younger, fiery Phaedra. When Alexis meets his stepmother, sparks fly and the two begin an affair. What will the ...
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Genre: Drama
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Duration: 87 min.
Story:
After suffering an emotional breakdown in a public place, a young man vows to quit the chaotic city life and never leave his apartment. He quickly discovers that in todays world all his needs can be easily met: sexual satisfaction via the internet, ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Switzerland, Austria
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Benjamin Levi (Bruno Cathomas) is a Bavarian cattle dealer traveling to pre-World War II Germany on his annual trip to a remote farming village. Levi hopes to do some business and, more importantly, win the hand of the lovely Lisbeth (Caroline ...
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
This drama is based on the childhood memories of Hans Jürgen Massaquoi, who was one of the few black native Germans in Nazi Germany. In 1935 at the age of nine, he lives with his German mother in a small flat in Hamburg's working class ...
Style:
emotional, psychological, captivating, atmospheric
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Direct to DVD movie: The German U-Boat, U-234, from the Port of Kiel is trading cargo with the Japanese. USS Seaviper must locate and stop this dangerous exchange. The Captain of USS Seaviper must go ashore to conduct reconnaissance on an island ...
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