Movies like The Diary of Anne Frank 1980
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The Diary of Anne Frank (1980)
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
The story of a 13-year-old Jewish girl and her family who are forced into hiding by the Nazis during World War II.
Style:
sincere, uplifting, touching, serious, captivating, emotional, realistic, gloomy
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, nazi, writers, anti semitism, survival, heroes, family relations, human spirit, family life, life is a bitch, teenage life, dentist, confined, attic, wartime life, family in danger, against humanity, hopes, confinement indoors, jewish, german, soldier, german soldier, starvation ...
Time:
1940s, 40s
Place:
amsterdam, europe, holland
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, emotional and bleak films with plots about world war two, life is a bitch, holocaust, against humanity, jewish, society and wartime life mostly in Drama, Biography and War genres. Some movies like The Diary of Anne Frank: Schindler's List (1993), Riphagen (2016), Out of the Ashes (2003), Anne Frank: The Whole Story (2001), The Hiding Place (1975). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 195 min.
Story:
The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II.
Style:
touching, emotional, thought provoking, realistic, heartbreaking ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, jewish, genocide, nazi, war, concentration camp, anti semitism, brutality, against humanity, wartime, racism ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 1930s, 90s
Place:
poland, germany, vatican, europe, israel ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
The true story about the biggest warcriminal from Holland during world war II, Andries "Al Capone" Riphagen.
Style:
realistic, serious, emotional
Plot:
nazi, holocaust, military, nazi war criminal, world war two, violence, betrayal, jewish, con artists, society, life is a bitch, dishonesty ...
Time:
1940s, post world war two, 20th century
Place:
holland, amsterdam
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
During the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam, Otto Frank decides to hide his family, who are Jewish, after his daughter Margot is called to appear for transport to a Nazi labour camp. Miep Gies, Otto Frank's office assistant hides them in the attic ...
Style:
thought provoking, realistic, serious, disturbing, bleak
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, nazi, jewish, anti semitism, injustice, war, on the run, confined, survival, society, human spirit ...
Time:
1930s, 1940s, 20th century
Place:
amsterdam, holland, europe
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46%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
The real-life story of Gisella Perl, a Jewish Hungarian doctor imprisoned in the notorious Auschwitz death camp of World War II.
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realistic, serious, touching, uplifting, captivating ...
Plot:
holocaust, concentration camp, survival, wartime life, holocaust survivor, world war two, human spirit, auschwitz, life is a bitch, starting over, anti semitism, war ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
hungary, europe, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: Czech Republic, USA
Duration: 180 min.
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Story:
Anne Frank: The Whole Story is a film based on the life of Anne Frank, a Jewish girl growing up in Nazi occupied Holland. When war breaks out Anne & her family, Otto her father, Edith her mother & Margot her sister move from Germany ...
Style:
uplifting, sincere, emotional, bleak, sad ...
Plot:
genocide, holocaust, against humanity, world war two, war, starvation, concentration camp, survival, childhood, hopes, anti semitism, ss ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, 20th century
Place:
amsterdam, holland, europe, netherlands
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Schindler's List similar movies
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
The Hiding Place is an account of a Dutch family who risk their lives by offering a safe haven for Jews during World War II
Style:
christian film, bleak, uplifting, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, christian, faith, concentration camp, christianity, jewish, religion, intrigue, missionary, women, fictional history ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
holland, europe, netherlands
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40%
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Irena Sendler is a Catholic social worker who has sympathized with the Jews since her childhood, when her physician father died of typhus contracted while treating poor Jewish patients. When she initially proposes saving Jewish children from the ...
Style:
serious, realistic, emotional, tense, intense ...
Audience:
family outing, date night
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, nazi germany, jewish, ghetto, social worker, rescue, wartime life, life is a bitch, against humanity, historical figure, confined ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
poland, europe, warsaw poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
In the Warsau Ghetto of 1943, one man's struggle to keep his family together leads him to the ultimate crisis of faith, and one final chance at redemption. Written by legendary 'Twilight Zone' creator, Rod Sterling.
Style:
realistic, serious, bleak, gloomy, disturbing ...
Plot:
world war two, rabbi, holocaust, jewish, confined, society, survival, war, life is a bitch, against humanity, human spirit, misfit ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
poland, europe, warsaw poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
In Nazi-occupied Amsterdam, Walter Süskind is a member of the Dutch Jewish Council who rescues hundreds of children from the concentration camps.
Style:
serious, captivating, emotional, realistic, bleak
Plot:
ss, world war two, wartime life, holocaust, war, nazi occupation, human spirit, selflessness, children, rescue, idealism, escape attempt ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
holland, europe, amsterdam
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal, Belgium, Spain
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
This is the story of Aristides de Sousa Mendes, a man of conviction who saved 30,000 lives during WWII, in June 1940. Among them were10,000 Jews. As the Portuguese General Consul stationed in Bordeaux, France, he issued 30,000 visas for safe ...
Style:
uplifting, realistic, captivating, touching, emotional ...
Plot:
politics, human spirit, rescue, wartime life, hopes, tragic hero, life is a bitch, against humanity, disobey, refugee, border crossing, visa ...
Time:
1930s, 1940s, 20th century
Place:
portugal, europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Arthur Goldman is a rich Jewish industrialist, living in luxury in a Manhattan high-rise. He banters with his assistant Charlie, often shocking Charlie with his outrageousness and irreverence about aspects of Jewish life. Nonetheless, Charlie is ...
Style:
sad, captivating, tense, talky, suspenseful ...
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, courtroom, nazi, jewish, lawyer, judaism, terrorism, genocide, destiny, wartime life, racism ...
Place:
usa, middle east, new york, israel
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Germany
Duration: 159 min.
Story:
Knut Hamsun is Norway's most famous and admired author. Ever since he was young he has hated the English for the starvation they caused Norway during WWI. When the Germans occupy Norway 9 April 1940 he welcomes them and the protection they can ...
Style:
sad, serious, realistic, uplifting, talky ...
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world war two, holocaust, writers, war, writer's life, nazi, nobel prize winner, poet, art, nazism, marriage, controversy ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s
Place:
norway, europe, germany
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36%
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Genre: Action, War, Drama
Country: Poland, USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
A dramatic re-enactment of the Warsaw Ghetto Jewish uprising in April 1943 were 650 armed members of the Jewish Fighting Organization of Poland held off a 3,000 strong Nazi force in which only a handful of Jews survived. Tom Conti plays Dolek ...
Style:
tense, captivating, thought provoking, sincere, suspenseful ...
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, racism, nazi, anti semitism, survival, war, confined, against humanity, military, escapades, heroes ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
poland, europe, warsaw poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, War
Country: Germany, France, Poland
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Run Boy Run is the true story of Jurek, an eight-year-old boy, who escapes from the Warsaw ghetto, then manages to survive in the woods and working as a farmhand, disguising himself as a Polish orphan. He encounters people who will betray him for a ...
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captivating, touching, bleak, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, survival, youth, human spirit, on the run, young heroes, hidden identity, orphan, against humanity, anti semitism, coming of age ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
germany, poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Italy, UK, Poland
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
The film is a biography of Pope John Paul II. It starts in 1926 when the boy Karol Wojtila was celebrating Christmas with his father in Poland. Some years later Nazi Germany attacks Poland and invades the country while Wojtila seeks refuge at the ...
Style:
captivating, thought provoking, uplifting, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
pope, church, catholic church, world war two, politics, rebellion, religions or cults, genocide, political unrest, anti semitism, wartime life, holocaust ...
Time:
1940s, 60s, 50s, 70s, 1930s
Place:
poland, europe, germany, vatican, rome italy ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Living Proof is a 2008 Lifetime Television movie, directed by Dan Ireland, starring Harry Connick, Jr. The film is based on the true life story of Dr. Dennis Slamon and the book HER-2: The Making of Herceptin, a Revolutionary Treatment for Breast ...
Style:
sincere, touching, uplifting, emotional, light ...
Plot:
breast cancer, human spirit, doctor, doctors and patients, hopes, terminal illness, ego clash, child illness, power relations, life is a bitch, drugs, cancer ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 200 min.
Story:
This is a true story about forty Jewish children on their way to Palestine, who were blocked by the German and Italian occupation of Yugoslavia in 1941. Before finding a haven at Villa Emma in Nonantola in northern Italy, where they arrived on June ...
Style:
uplifting, touching, emotional, sentimental, realistic ...
Plot:
holocaust, rescue, human spirit, orphan, survival, society, life is a bitch, against humanity, hopes, youth, fugitives, wartime life ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
italy, switzerland, europe, slovenia
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Germany, Netherlands
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
When Ruth's husband dies in New York, in 2000, she imposes strict Jewish mourning, which puzzles her children. A stranger comes to the house - Ruth's cousin - with a picture of Ruth, age 8, in Berlin, with a woman the cousin says helped ...
Style:
uplifting, touching, emotional, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
holocaust, jewish, nazi germany, world war two, anti semitism, human spirit, life is a bitch, wartime life, hopes, couple relations, society, nazi ...
Time:
1940s, post world war two, year 1943, 20th century
Place:
berlin germany, germany, europe, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Sweden, Norway
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Renowned journalist Torgny Segerstedt declares war against Hitler as he criticizes Swedish politicians who tried to look away from the tyranny of the Nazis with the good excuse of “neutralism”. His only weapon is his pen and his life is full of ...
Style:
serious, thought provoking, touching, realistic, uplifting ...
Plot:
world war two, journalism, life is a bitch, human spirit, fighting the system, political unrest, fascism, rebelliousness, righting the wronged, hopes, idealism, media ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, 1930s
Place:
sweden, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 148 min.
Story:
Hanna's War is the true story of Hanna Senesh, a Hungarian-Jewish WW2 resistance fighter, who would become Israel's "Joan of Arc". As a young person, she fled Nazi-occupied Hungary for Palestine, where she was recruited and ...
Style:
political, serious, realistic, emotional, bleak ...
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, rescue, wartime, secret mission, wartime life, women, spy, writers, women's prison, misfit, unfulfillment ...
Place:
israel, middle east, hungary
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
A dramatization of the controversial trial concerning the right for Neo-Nazis to march in the predominately Jewish community of Skokie.
Style:
political, thought provoking, captivating, uplifting, talky ...
Plot:
holocaust, courtroom drama, jewish, aging, lawyer, suburbs, civil rights, small town life, small town, genocide, culture clash, anti semitism ...
Time:
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Place:
illinois, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A film about the early life of the baseball star in the army, particulary his court-martial for insubordination regarding segragation.
Style:
realistic, serious, disturbing, clever, sincere ...
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world war two, racism, courtroom drama, african american, civil rights, usa history, blaxploitation, intrigue, lawyer, courtroom, soldier, military ...
Time:
1940s
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, War
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Hannah Stern, an American-born Jewish adolescent, is uninterested in the culture, faith and customs of her relatives; however, Hannah begins to revaluate her heritage when she has a supernatural experience that transports her back to a Nazi death ...
Style:
emotional, realistic, serious, uplifting, sentimental ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
concentration camp, holocaust, time travel, jewish, world war two, war, nazi occupation, anti semitism, human spirit, against humanity, hopes, heroes ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
poland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Family, History, War
Country: Germany, Switzerland, Italy
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
In 1933 in Berlin. Anna is only nine years old when her life changes from the ground up. To escape the Nazis, her father Arthur Kemper, a well-known Jewish journalist, has to flee to Zurich. His family, Anna, her twelve-year-old brother Max and her ...
Style:
sincere, touching, realistic, serious
Plot:
world war two, wartime life, refugee, heroes, human spirit, life is a bitch, life turned upside down, family in danger, against humanity, oppression, anti semitism, teenage life ...
Time:
year 1933
Place:
germany, berlin germany, switzerland, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
An emotionally scarred fifty-something female, a high-profile but haunted British novelist, and a heroic dissident-cum-Soviet psychiatric hospital veteran, all reunite decades after bonding and surviving together in a detention camp during World War ...
Style:
serious, emotional, realistic, disturbing, contemplative
Plot:
holocaust, homecoming, genocide, haunted by the past, human spirit, confined, hospital, concentration camp, wartime life, hopes, anti semitism, infidelity ...
Place:
france, europe, canada, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story:
Doris soon was out of the Nazi's hands and met up with her family.
Style:
captivating, uplifting, tense, thought provoking, realistic ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
world war two, holocaust, anti semitism, survival, society, war, escapades, heroes, moral dilemma, confined, against humanity, life is a bitch ...
Place:
denmark, sweden, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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 ...
Style:
realistic, serious, thought provoking, biting, emotional ...
Plot:
world war two, holocaust, countryside, suspense, life is a bitch, survival, society, injustice, social differences, village, anti semitism, life turned upside down ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
europe, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Rose White (Sedgwick) is a modern young career woman in post-World War II New York City who has largely relegated her Jewish heritage to scrapbooks and memories. Born in Poland but fortunate enough to escape the country before the Nazi occupation ...
Style:
touching, emotional, realistic, serious
Plot:
world war two, holocaust, family relations, bittersweet, solace, human spirit, immigrants, misfit, starting over, society, introspection, siblings relations ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, post world war two, 50s
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Germany, Israel
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A man endeavors to collect memories of his grandparents who died in a concentration camp during the Holocaust.
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serious, realistic, emotional, touching, gloomy ...
Plot:
world war two, holocaust, war crime, haunted by the past, family relations, family life, parents and children, death in the family, against humanity, love and romance, society, jewish ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
paris france, europe, germany, france, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Germany, Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
When an extraordinary man who has lived through all is approaching his end, he decides to call his son to join him for the last time at his home in Tuscany. His intention is to share some valuable conversations about his life as a press ...
Style:
touching, serious, captivating, realistic, talky ...
Plot:
elderly, introspection, dealing with death, terminal illness, life is a bitch, village, family relations, parents and children, unfulfillment, writers
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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