Movies like Silent Night 2002
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Silent Night (2002)
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Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Fact-based World War II story set on Christmas Eve, 1944, finds a German Mother and her son seeking refuge in a cabin on the war front. When she is invaded by three American soldiers and then three German soldiers, she successfully convinces the soldiers to put aside their differences for one evening and share a Christmas dinner.
Style:
uplifting, captivating, serious, realistic, motivational, based on true events
Audience:
family outing, girls' night
Plot:
christmas eve, anti war, world war two, christmas, american soldier, soldier, hitler youth, military, friendship, single parent, nazi, boy, german soldier, winter, holocaust, snow, intrigue, military police, world war one, german, third reich, traitor, frontline, christmas dinner, refugee ...
Time:
1940s, year 1944, 40s
Place:
germany, europe, africa, dunkirk
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, captivating and bleak films with plots about world war two, war, military, soldier, danger, heroes and survival mostly in Drama, War and Biography genres. Some movies like Silent Night: 4 Days in May (2011), Merry Christmas (2005), Good Evening, Mr. Wallenberg (1990), El Alamein - The Line of Fire (2002), John Rabe (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Germany, Russia, Ukraine
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A group of Russian soldiers are sent into Northern Germany at the tail-end of WWII, where they occupy a children's home in close proximity to a larger German unit. Against these odds, a friendship forms between a German orphan and a childless ...
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realistic, serious, captivating
Plot:
holocaust, battles, military, love affair, military life, friendship, wartime life, world war two, basic training, hiding, russian soldier, suspense ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1945
Place:
germany
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Genre: Drama, History, Music, Romance, War
Country: France, Germany, UK, Belgium, Romania, Japan
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
In 1914, World War I, the bloodiest war ever at that time in human history, was well under way. However on Christmas Eve, numerous sections of the Western Front called an informal, and unauthorized, truce where the various front-line soldiers of the ...
Style:
touching, uplifting, sincere, emotional, captivating ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
christmas, world war one, truce, war, soldier, human spirit, idealism, german, holiday, anti war, friendship, christmas eve ...
Time:
1910s, 20th century, 1920s, year 1914
Place:
france, berlin germany, germany, paris france, europe ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: Sweden, Hungary
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Swedish account of Raoul Wallenberg, the man responsible for the largest rescue of Jews during World War II.
Style:
serious, realistic, emotional, bleak, uplifting ...
Plot:
world war two, jewish, politics, rescue, diplomacy, judaism, heroes, ghetto, anti semitism, genocide, nazi soldier, righting the wronged ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
sweden, europe, hungary, moscow russia, stockholm sweden ...
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
War seen through the eyes of Serra, a university student from Palermo who volunteers in 1942 to fight in Africa. He is assigned to the Pavia Division on the southern line in Egypt. Rommel and the Axis forces are bogged down; it's October, the ...
Style:
bleak, serious, sincere, realistic, captivating
Plot:
war, world war two, military, battles, soldier, friendship, military life, wartime life, british army, behind enemy lines, introspection, survival ...
Time:
1940s, post world war two, year 1942, 20th century
Place:
middle east, africa, egypt, palermo italy, libya ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: France, China, Germany, Austria, Italy, Spain
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
A true-story account of a German businessman who saved more than 200,000 Chinese during the Nanjing massacre in 1937-38.
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tense, disturbing, realistic, bleak, serious ...
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war, world war two, rescue, heroes, atrocity, confined, wartime life, lifesaver, against humanity, life is a bitch, fighting the system, righting the wronged ...
Time:
20th century, 1930s, post world war two, year 1937, year 1938
Place:
china, japan, asia
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
"Stalingrad" follows the progress of a German Platoon through the brutal fighting of the Battle of Stalingrad. After having half their number wiped out and after being placed under the command of a sadistic Captain, the Lieutenant of the ...
Style:
realistic, gloomy, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot:
world war two, war, battles, russian, german, nazism, soldier, survival, military, starvation, military life, wehrmacht ...
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1940s, 20th century, year 1943, year 1942
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
This is the true story of a woman named Ruth Gruber who travels to Europe to help escort 1000 Jewish War victims to the United States. She comes to love and feel sorry for them all, and fights for their rights to live in America.
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emotional, disturbing, sincere, uplifting, serious ...
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, wartime life, survival, rescue, deportation, anti semitism, immigrants, fighting the system, human spirit, idealism, heroic mission ...
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Place:
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31%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Finland, Belgium, Iceland
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
The film follows Finnish army machine gun company in Continuation War against Soviet Union, 1941–1944. Based on Väinö Linna's best selling novel Tuntematon Sotilas (The Unknown Soldier) and the novel's uncensored version, Sotaromaani ...
Style:
thought provoking, realistic, suspenseful, psychological, disturbing ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
world war two, military, infantry, eastern front, soldier, friendship, friend, husband wife relationship, battles, insubordination, firing squad, courage ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1942, year 1944, year 1943 ...
Place:
finland, germany, ussr
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: France, Canada, Czech Republic
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
In occupied France, Maurice and Joseph, two young Jewish brothers left to their own devices demonstrate an incredible amount of cleverness, courage, and ingenuity to escape the enemy invasion and to try to reunite their family once again.
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tense, captivating, disturbing, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot:
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Time:
1940s, year 1943, year 1944, year 1942
Place:
paris france, nice france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: China
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Based on a true story, this horrifying tale follows two orphaned friends as they struggle to survive during World War II.
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serious, bleak, touching, saga, realistic ...
Plot:
world war two, monastery, orphan, school, tattoo, chinese, life is a bitch, war, military, youth, society, innocence lost ...
Time:
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Place:
russia, moscow russia, ussr
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Australia
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
Palestine, 1917. The British advance has been stopped by the Turkish line running from Gaza to Beersheba. The latest attack on Gaza has failed. The attacking forces included a regiment of Australian mounted infantry, the Light Horse... Lighthorseman ...
Style:
serious, realistic, disturbing, tense, epic
Plot:
world war one, military, soldier, battles, war, survival, heroic mission, against the odds, basic training, military life, wartime life, world war two ...
Time:
1910s, year 1917
Place:
australia, palestine, ottoman empire, turkey, melbourne australia ...
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29%
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 ...
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serious, realistic, emotional, tense, intense ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Faith of My Fathers is based on the story of Lieutenant Commander John McCain's experiences as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam for five and a half years during the Vietnam War, interleaved with his memories of growing up in a heritage rich ...
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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:
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Germany, Austria, Italy
Duration: 156 min.
Story:
In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the east and the Allied Expeditionary Force attacking from the west. In Berlin, capital of the Third Reich, Adolf Hitler proclaims that Germany will still ...
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Story:
"Patton" tells the tale of General George S. Patton, famous tank commander of World War II. The film begins with patton's career in North Africa and progresses through the invasion of Germany and the fall of the Third Reich. Side ...
Style:
breathtaking, realistic, epic, patriotic, historical epic ...
Audience:
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world war two, war, politics, business, sacrifice, german, general, destiny, nazi, military, military life, tank ...
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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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serious, realistic, captivating, sincere, emotional ...
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world war two, military life, military base, political unrest, wartime life, captivity, couple relations, anti war, working class, battles, heroes, aging ...
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Germany, UK, Austria, Ireland
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The deportation of 4000 Jews from Budapest to Auschwitz in July 1944, as told by George Tabori, and how the narrator's mother escaped it, owing to coincidence, courage and some help from where you'd least expect it.
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realistic, serious, disturbing, bleak, captivating ...
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29%
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A WWII Drama about a German/Jewish industrialist who, in order to ensure his family's safe passage out of Germany, is forced to hand over his business to the Nazis.
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29%
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
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Duration: 100 min.
Story:
WWII drama.
Style:
captivating, realistic, serious
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Duration: 90 min.
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Five American soldiers fighting in Europe during World War II struggle to return to Allied territory after being separated from U.S. forces during the historic Malmedy Massacre.
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Story:
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Story:
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Genre: Biography, Drama, War
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Duration: 142 min.
Story:
In the first half of this century, young Li Tienlu joins a travelling puppet theatre and subsequently makes a career as one of Taiwan's leading puppeteers.
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realistic, thought provoking, serious, sincere, epic ...
Plot:
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Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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tense, captivating, psychological, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Germany, Austria, Italy
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
In 1944, a group of high command officers plot an attempt against Hitler, and one of the leaders of the conspiracy, Stauffenberg (Sebastian Koch), goes to a meeting with the Fuhrer in charge of exploding the place. However, Hitler survives and the ...
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating
Plot:
world war two, hitler, national socialism, plan gone wrong, nazi, conspiracy, wartime life, leadership, rebellion, military, against humanity, rebelliousness ...
Time:
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Sport, War
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Fact based story about a former Greek Olympic boxer who was taken as a prisoner during World war II and placed in the Auschwitz prison camp. There he was permitted to survive as long as he fought for the amusement of his captors. His father and ...
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Genre: Drama, War
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Duration: 119 min.
Story:
It is 1943, and the German army, ravaged and demoralised, are hastily retreating from the Russian front. In the midst of all this madness, conflict brews between the aristocratic yet ultimately pusillanimous Captain Stransky and the courageous ...
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Story:
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Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA, China, UK
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
Last months of World War II in April 1945. As the Allies make their final push in the European Theater, a battle-hardened U.S. Army sergeant in the 2nd Armored Division named Wardaddy commands a Sherman tank called "Fury" and its five-man ...
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