Movies like Bethune: The Making of a Hero

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Bethune: The Making of a Hero (1990)
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Bethune: The Making of a Hero (1990)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, War
Country: Canada, China, France
Duration: 168 min.
Story: True story of Norman Bethune, a medical doctor who fought for justice in China during Mao's rise to power.
Style: realistic, thought provoking, serious, epic, exciting, suspense, independent film, tense, sincere, uplifting ...
Plot: fascism, military, evacuation, politics, world war two, human spirit, japanese history, rebellion, revolution, injustice, media, idealism, hopes, doctor, medical profession, autobiography, biopic, spanish civil war, economist, capitalism, world war, heroes, armored car, civil engineer, war ...
Time: 1930s, 1920s, pre world war two, 30s, 20s
Place: china, spain, asia, russia, madrid, montreal, montreal quebec ...
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Most similar movies to Bethune: The Making of a Hero

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, emotional and sincere films with plots about death, politics, society, husband wife relationship, singer, song and singing mostly in Drama, War and Biography genres. Some movies like Bethune: The Making of a Hero: Che Guevara (2005), Pavilion of Women (2001), John Rabe (2009), The Passion of Ayn Rand (1999), Hamsun (1996). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Che Guevara (2005)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: When he is captured in Bolivia, the "Che" is conducted to prission, when he remembers his life facts, the revolution and the women.
Style: disturbing, captivating, realistic, serious, contemplative ...
Plot: revolution, leadership, rebellion, injustice, politics, righting the wronged, fighting the system, folk hero, escapades, state affairs, hopes, rebelliousness ...
Time: 60s, 50s, 20th century, year 1956, year 1960 ...
Place: bolivia, havana cuba, latin america, cuba, guatemala ...
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95%
Pavilion of Women (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: China, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: With World War 2 looming, a prominent family in China must confront the contrasting ideas of traditionalism, communism and Western thinking, while dealing with the most important ideal of all: love and its meaning in society.
Style: emotional, serious, realistic, tense, intercultural ...
Plot: interracial romance, forbidden love, fall in love, social differences, culture clash, society, politics, state affairs, couple relations, family problems, couples, political unrest ...
Time: year 2001, 1930s, year 1938
Place: china, japan, asia
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86%
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John Rabe (2009)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: France, China, Germany, Austria, Italy, Spain, Belgium
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.
Style: tense, disturbing, realistic, bleak, serious ...
Plot: war, world war two, rescue, nazi, heroes, atrocity, confined, wartime life, lifesaver, life is a bitch, against humanity, danger ...
Time: 20th century, 1930s, year 1938, year 1937
Place: china, japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
The Passion of Ayn Rand (1999)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story: The rather eccentric (especially in her thinking) author of "The Fountainhead" and "Atlas Shrugged" becomes involved with a much younger, and married man... to the dismay of those close to her.
Style: political, independent film, captivating, sentimental, sexual ...
Plot: writers, philosopher, infidelity, individualism, libertarian, russian woman, art, biopic, bookstore, marriage, psychologist, poet ...
Time: 50s, 1940s, 1950s, 70s, 60s ...
Place: california, manhattan new york city, new york, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
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Hamsun (1996)
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, realistic, serious, emotional, sincere ...
Plot: world war two, holocaust, writers, world war, nazi, war, poet, biopic, writer's life, nobel prize winner, totalitarian state, fascism ...
Time: 1940s, year 1996, 1930s
Place: europe, germany
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75%
The Last Station (2009)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, UK, Russia
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A historical drama that illustrates Russian author Leo Tolstoy's struggle to balance fame and wealth with his commitment to a life devoid of material things. The Countess Sofya, wife and muse to Leo Tolstoy, uses every trick of seduction on her ...
Style: sentimental, factual, period piece, touching, melancholic ...
Plot: biopic, adultery, betrayal, love and romance, family relations, loss of virginity, lifestyle, writer's life, parents and children, art, poet, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 1910s, edwardian era, year 2009, 20th century
Place: russia, europe, moscow russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
The Puppetmaster (1993)
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: Taiwan
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.
Style: realistic, serious, sincere, slow cinema, aesthetic ...
Plot: world war two, puppeteer, human spirit, anti war, politics, wartime life, war, performer's life, puppet, husband wife relationship, father son relationship, storytelling ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, 1930s, year 1993, 1910s ...
Place: taiwan, china, taipei
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68%
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Good (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story: The rise of national socialism in Germany should not be regarded as a conspiracy of madmen. Millions of "good" people found themselves in a society spiralling into terrible chaos. A film about then, which illuminates the terrors of now.
Style: serious, realistic, disturbing, captivating, romantic drama ...
Plot: nazi, writers, politics, moral dilemma, state affairs, wartime life, political unrest, society, nazi germany, third reich, holocaust, mother son relationship ...
Time: 1930s, year 2008, 20th century, year 1937, year 1933 ...
Place: germany, europe, paris france, berlin germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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Antonieta (1982)
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: France, Mexico, Spain
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Anna is a psychologist undertaking research about famous suicidal women. She takes a specific interest in the case of Antonieta Rivas Mercado, who killed herself in 1931 in the Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris.
Plot: biopic, writers, suicide, poet, political intrigue, girl, women, theatre group, court martial, platonic, theater, notre dame cathedral ...
Time: 1930s, 1920s
Place: latin america, mexico city, paris france, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
Steal This Movie (2000)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Five years after Yippie founder Abbie Hoffman goes underground to avoid a drug-related prison sentence, he contacts a reporter to get out the story of the FBI's covert spying, harassment and inciting of violence they then blame on the Left.
Style: stylized, melancholic, talky, serious, captivating ...
Plot: politics, fighting the system, justice, conspiracy, depression, biopic, revolution, mental illness, injustice, conspiracy theory, on the run, drug abuse ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, 70s, year 1968
Place: new york, usa, chicago, manhattan new york city, pentagon ...
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63%
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Talk of Angels (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: This is the story of a young Irish woman who comes to Spain to escape from the pressures she feels about her impending marriage to a political activist in Ireland. But in Spain in the 1930's, taking a job of governess in a wealthy family, she ...
Style: realistic, serious, touching, emotional, sincere ...
Plot: infidelity, forbidden love, fall in love, politics, social differences, love triangle, society, couples, love affair, spanish civil war, extramarital affair, war ...
Time: year 1998, 1930s, year 1936
Place: ireland, europe, madrid, spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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Haven (2001)
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.
Style: emotional, disturbing, sincere, realistic, serious ...
Plot: holocaust, world war two, wartime life, survival, rescue, deportation, anti semitism, immigrant, fighting the system, human spirit, idealism, heroic mission ...
Time: 1940s, 1930s
Place: europe, chicago, harvard university, vienna, belgrade ...
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60%
Circle of Deceit (1981)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: West Germany, France
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Georg Laschen leaves his family in West Germany to go work as a war correspondent in Beirut during the fights between Christians and Palestinians.
Style: political, thought provoking, serious, realistic, disturbing ...
Plot: journalism, reporter, journalist, female nudity, photograph, photographer, lebanese civil war, cold war, correspondents, raf, politics, adoption ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1981
Place: lebanon, germany, middle east, east berlin, west berlin west germany ...
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59%
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Warm Springs (2005)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Franklin Roosevelt, left a paraplegic from polio at 39 years of age, seeks out a miracle cure in the backwoods of Georgia.
Style: uplifting, realistic, sincere, sentimental, political ...
Plot: president, politics, disability, politician, ambition, rise and fall, society, fighting the system, human spirit, rebellion, life is a bitch, hopes ...
Time: 1930s, 1920s, 20th century, 1940s
Place: georgia, usa, new york state, southern usa, washington d.c. ...
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Coup de grâce (1976)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A countess loves her brother's Prussian-officer friend in the 1919 Baltic area.
Style: serious, stylized, realistic, bleak, black and white ...
Plot: love triangle, soldier, betrayal, evacuation, tragic love, tragic hero, world war one, wartime life, political unrest, love and romance, destructive relationship, couple relations ...
Time: year 1976, 1910s, 1920s, post world war one
Place: latvia, europe, baltics, lithuania, prussia ...
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56%
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Path to War (2002)
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 165 min.
Story: From director John Frankenheimer ('The Manchurian Candidate') comes this powerful drama of soaring ambition and shattered dreams that takes a provocative insider's look at the way our country goes to war--as seen from inside the LBJ ...
Style: political, tense, serious, realistic, non fiction ...
Plot: vietnam war, politics, usa politics, military, u.s. president, president, political corruption, cold war, campaign, state affairs, battles, idealism ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, year 1968, year 1966
Place: vietnam, asia, texas, pentagon, saigon
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
Perlasca: The Courage of a Just Man (2002)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Italy, France, Sweden, Hungary
Duration: 197 min.
Story: It is the real story of Giorgio Perlasca (Luca Zingaretti). During the 1920s he was an Italian Fascist supporter, fighting in Africa an in the Spanish civil war where he deserved a safe conduct for Spanish embassies. After some years, disillusioned ...
Style: disturbing, serious, uplifting, emotional, realistic ...
Plot: holocaust, world war two, nazism, idealism, genocide, hopes, deportation, concentration camp, fighting the system, life is a bitch, wartime life, nazi occupation ...
Time: 1930s, 1940s, 1920s, 20th century, 80s ...
Place: hungary, italy, budapest, spain
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56%
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Zelary (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia, Austria
Duration: 150 min.
Story: A nurse and her surgeon-lover are part of a resistance movement in 1940s Czechoslovakia. When they are discovered, her lover flees and she must find a place to hide. A patient whose life she saved, a man from a remote mountain village where time ...
Style: realistic, touching, sincere, contemplative, epic ...
Plot: world war two, small town, resistance, marriage, betrayal, self discovery, older man younger woman relationship, life is a bitch, couple relations, society, hopes, fugitives ...
Time: 1940s, year 2003, 20th century
Place: czechoslovakia, central europe, prague
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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The Soul Keeper (2002)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, War
Country: Italy, France, UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In the present days, Maria Spielrein and Fraser are in Russia making a research about the life of Sabina Spielrein. In the beginning of the Twentieth Century, this Russian girl was a patient treated by Dr. Jung and later they fall in love for each ...
Style: psychological, serious, captivating, touching, sexual ...
Plot: mental illness, psychology, love affair, nazi occupation, mental institution, tragic hero, power relations, mentally unstable, doctors and patients, society, experimenting, male female relationship ...
Time: 1940s, 1930s, 1920s, 20th century, 1900s
Place: switzerland, russia, europe, zurich switzerland, geneva switzerland ...
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Safe Conduct (2002)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: France, Germany, Spain
Duration: 170 min.
Story: The film is about the French film industry from 1942 to 1944 during the Nazi occupation. The film focuses on assistant director and resistance fighter Jean Devaivre and screenwriter Jean Aurenche. Aurenche is on the move so that he doesn't have ...
Style: touching, sincere, suspenseful, emotional, contemplative ...
Plot: world war two, politics, survival, human spirit, couples, writer's life, escapades, love and romance, society, couple relations, lifestyle, hopes ...
Time: 1940s, year 2002, 20th century
Place: france, paris france, europe, vichy
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
An Unforgettable Summer (1994)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Romania, France
Duration: 82 min.
Story: In 1925 Romania, young Marie-Therese Von Debretsy refuses the flirtatious advances of her husband's commanding officer. As a result, the cosmopolitan family is reassigned to a brutally bleak and dangerous outpost on the Bulgarian/Romanian ...
Style: meditative, melancholic, talky, light, atmospheric ...
Plot: unlikely friendships, politics, military, soldier, state affairs, moral dilemma, political unrest, wartime life, military life, injustice, hopes, life is a bitch ...
Time: year 1994, 1920s
Place: eastern europe, bucharest
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
The Quiet American (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: UK, Germany, USA, Vietnam, Australia, France, Canada, New Zealand
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A stylish political thriller where love and war collide in Southeast Asia. Set in early 1950s Vietnam, a young American becomes entangled in a dangerous love triangle when he falls for the beautiful mistress of a British journalist. As war is waged ...
Style: realistic, political, talky, intense, atmospheric ...
Plot: politics, older man younger woman relationship, journalism, war, cia, moral ambiguity, tragedy, complex characters, communism, reporter, cold war, political unrest ...
Time: 1950s, 50s, year 2002, 2000s, year 1952 ...
Place: vietnam, southeast asia, indochina, asia, hong kong ...
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51%
Christ Stopped at Eboli (1979)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 150 min.
Story: In the fascist Italy of 1935, a painter trained as a doctor is exiled to a remote region near Eboli. Over time, he learns to appreciate the beauty and wisdom of the peasants, and to overcome his isolation.
Style: thought provoking, serious, realistic, uplifting, sincere ...
Plot: fascism, artist, world war two, painter, world war one, anarchist, biopic, world war, italian fascism, solar eclipse, revolt, strike ...
Time: year 1979, 1930s, year 1936, year 1935
Place: italy, naples italy, europe, turin italy, new york ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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Come See the Paradise (1990)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story: Come See The Paradise is a deeply touching love story set against the backdrop of a dramatic and controversial period in American history, It follows the romance and eventual marriage of Jack McGurn (Dennis Quad), a hot blooded Irish American, and a ...
Style: emotional, contemplative, realistic, serious, thought provoking ...
Plot: world war two, forbidden love, interracial romance, love, racism, atomic bomb, family relations, culture clash, war, white man asian woman relationship, hospital, death ...
Time: 1940s, 1930s, year 1936, 20th century, year 1941
Place: hiroshima japan, ireland, japan, asia, north dakota ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
The White Countess (2005)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: UK, Germany, China, USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story: The last movie from the team of Ismail Merchant, James Ivory, and Kazuo Ishiguro. Set in 1930s Shanghai, "The White Countess" is both Sofia (Natasha Richardson), a fallen member of the Russian aristocracy, and a nightclub created by a ...
Style: romantic, sentimental, emotional, atmospheric, period piece ...
Plot: blindness, love story, couples, friendship, fall in love, couple relations, love and romance, unlikely couple, world war two, politics, intrigue, women ...
Time: 1930s, year 2005, 20th century, year 1937, year 1936 ...
Place: china, shanghai, asia, hong kong, macau
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Good Evening, Mr. Wallenberg (1990)
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: Sweden, Hungary
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Swedish account of Raoul Wallenberg, the man responsible for the largest rescue of Jews during World War II.
Style: contemplative, bleak, emotional, uplifting, thought provoking ...
Plot: world war two, genocide, politics, rescue, nazi, holocaust, world war, revolutionary war, diplomacy, judaism, revolutionary, israeli ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: israel, hungary, europe, moscow russia, stockholm sweden ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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The Truce (1997)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy, France, Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Although liberated from Auschwitz on January 27, 1945, Levi did not reach Turin until October 19 of that year. After spending some time in a Soviet camp for former concentration camp inmates, he embarked on an arduous journey home in the company of ...
Style: sincere, historical drama, realistic, serious, gloomy ...
Plot: holocaust, world war two, concentration camp, children, prisoner, shoah, political intrigue, world war, biopic, writers, judaism, refugee ...
Time: year 1997, 1940s, 20th century, post world war two, year 1945
Place: italy, russia, europe, turin italy, venice
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Head in the Clouds (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 132 min.
Story: A romantic drama set in 1930's England, Paris, and Spain. Gilda Bessé shares her Paris apartment with an Irish schoolteacher, Guy Malyon, and Mia, a refugee from Spain. As the world drifts toward war, Gilda defiantly pursues her hedonistic ...
Style: sexy, romantic, sentimental, captivating, stylized ...
Plot: world war two, lesbian, spanish civil war, lesbianism, bisexual woman, sexual relations, love triangle, group sex, war, love, orgy, betrayal ...
Time: 1930s, 1920s, 1940s, year 1944, year 2004 ...
Place: paris france, england, france, germany, spain ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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To Live (1994)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 133 min.
Story: Fugui and Jiazhen endure tumultuous events in China as their personal fortunes move from wealthy landownership to peasantry.
Style: epic, family saga, sad, touching, emotional ...
Plot: communism, cultural revolution, chinese history, politics, gambling, storytelling, family relations, poverty, destiny, asian history, social justice, civil war ...
Time: 1940s, 60s, year 1994, 1950s, 50s ...
Place: china, asia, taiwan
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
There Be Dragons (2011)
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: Spain, USA, Argentina
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Arising out of the horror of the Spanish Civil War, a candidate for canonization is investigated by a journalist who discovers his own estranged father had a deep, dark and devastating connection to the saint's life.While researching the life ...
Style: serious, captivating, realistic, thought provoking, stylized ...
Plot: priest, spanish civil war, catholic, saint, soldier, dying father, betrayal, journalist, redemption, self discovery, unfulfilled love, haunted by the past ...
Time: year 1936, 1930s, year 1937, 70s
Place: spain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
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