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Copenhagen (2002)
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
No one knows for sure what transpired when German physicist Werner Heisenberg met with his Jewish Danish counterpart, Niels Bohr, in Copenhagen -- the event became the stuff of modern scientific mythology. Director Howard Davies puts his spin on the momentous meeting that occurred one night in September 1941, during which the longtime friends entered into a dangerous discussion about physics and politics.
Style:
captivating, serious, disturbing, realistic, contemplative, talky, thought provoking
Plot:
scientist, politics, world war two, moral dilemma, friendship, prodigy, inventions and discoveries, society, wartime life, state affairs, genius, nuclear threat, super weapon, science, inventor, 007, nobel prize winner, biopic, war, heroes, life is a bitch, head of state, quantum physics, physicist, bomb ...
Time:
1940s, 40s
Place:
europe, denmark, copenhagen, copenhagen denmark
Keyword:
german, danish
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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, world war, wartime life, heroes, military and state affairs mostly in Drama, War and History genres. Some movies like Copenhagen: Oppenheimer (1980), Day One (1989), The Only Way (1970), Massacre in Rome (1973), The Sun (2005). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 420 min.
TV show
Story:
Biography of the American physicist who led the U.S. effort to develop the atomic bomb during World War II, only to find himself suspected as a security risk in the 1950s because of his increasing ambivalence about the effect of his life's work.
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serious, realistic, thought provoking, captivating, disturbing ...
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world war two, scientist, atomic bomb, atomic weapons, science, mastermind, biopic, heroes, ego clash, war, danger, moral dilemma ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, 50s, 1950s
Place:
new mexico
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
Hungarian physicist Leo Szilard leaves Europe, eventually arriving in the United States. With the help of Einstein, he persuades the government to build an atomic bomb. The project is given to no-nonsense Gen. Leslie Groves who selects physicist J. ...
Style:
tense, thought provoking, captivating, realistic, serious
Plot:
atomic bomb, world war two, nuclear war, nuclear holocaust, super weapon, nuclear, cold war, holocaust, terrorism, war, atomic weapons, politics ...
Time:
1930s, 1940s, 20th century
Place:
usa, new mexico, london, hiroshima japan, chicago ...
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA, Denmark, Panama, UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
In April 1940, the armies of Nazi Germany invaded Denmark. The Danish government promised peaceful cooperation on the condition that Denmark s Jews remain free. The Nazi s agreed. In October, 1943, the agreement was broken...This is the true and ...
Style:
bleak, realistic, serious, captivating, uplifting ...
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, nazi occupation, danger, politics, heroes, against humanity, society, state affairs, confined, war, military ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
denmark, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
In the Nazi occupied city of Rome, an assault on an SS brigade draws retaliation from the military governship. "Massacre in Rome" is the true story of how this partisan attack led to the mass execution of Italian nationals under the orders ...
Style:
contemplative, serious, realistic, thought provoking, captivating ...
Plot:
world war two, world war, military, war, partisan, nazi occupation, holocaust, shoah, nazi, bureaucracy, fictional history, fascism ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
italy, rome italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Russia, Italy, Switzerland, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The Sun (Russian: Сóлнце, Solntse) is a 2005 Russian biographical film depicting Japanese Emperor Shōwa (Hirohito) during the final days of World War II. The film is the third drama in director Aleksandr Sokurov's trilogy, which included ...
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disturbing, thought provoking, serious, captivating, slow cinema ...
Plot:
world war two, emperor, politics, leadership, military, wartime life, state affairs, society, head of state, war, totalitarianism, defeat ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1945
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japan, soviet union, tokyo, asia
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Finland
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
A movie based on real wartime diaries tells the story of the Swedish speaking Finns' infantry regiment 61. The story follows the regiment during the Continuation War from 1942 to 1944 and from Syväri to the Karelian Isthmus where they faced ...
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, tense
Plot:
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finland, russia, europe, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
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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 ...
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
This film reenacts the Manhattan Project, the secret wartime project in New Mexico where the first atomic bombs were designed and built.
Style:
factual, suspense, intense, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
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1940s, year 1945, 20th century
Place:
usa, new mexico, bay area
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: UK, Italy
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Hitler: The Last Ten Days takes us into the depths of der Furher’s Berlin bunker during his final days. Based on the book by Gerhard Boldt, it provides a bleak look at the goings-on within, and without.
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Adolf Hitler faces himself and must come to terms with his infamous career in an imaginary post-war subterranean bunker where he reviews historical films, dictates his memoirs and encounters Eva Braun, Josef Goebbels, Hermann Göring and Sigmund ...
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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:
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Plot:
world war two, nazi occupation, military, war, soldier, battles, danger, against the odds, wehrmacht, nazi, world war, friendship ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 156 min.
Story:
Well-intentioned history lesson; the decision to drop the atom bomb, the secrecy surrounding the mission, and the men who flew it.
Style:
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Plot:
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Country: Canada, Japan
Duration: 190 min.
Story:
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Brazil
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
Based upon the true story of Olga Benário, the German-born wife of Brazilian communist leader Luís Carlos Prestes. During the dictatorship of Getúlio Vargas (1930-1945) she was arrested and sent to Nazi Germany, where she was put to death in a ...
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Country: USA
Duration: 194 min.
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Based upon the actual cables between Washington, London and Moscow during the Second World War, this TV-movie examines the relationship between the leaders of these countries throughout the conflict. Franklin D. Roosevelt (John Lithgow), Winston ...
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Duration: 90 min.
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It is the mid-1930s and the storm clouds of WWII were forming in Germany. This films charts the work of Robert Watson Watt - the pioneer of Radar - and his hand-picked team of eccentric yet brilliant meteorologists as they struggle to turn the ...
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Based on a true story its the untold story of Italian World War II POW"S in Jan 1946. Luca Zingaretti stars as one of over 50,000 Italian Prisoners of War detained at POW camps in the U.S. Roy Schneider stars as Colonel Gartner, the Commander ...
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
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bleak, disturbing, captivating, serious, realistic
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 126 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Germany, Netherlands, Belarus, Russia, Latvia
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Western frontiers of the USSR, 1942. The region is under German occupation. A man is wrongly accused of collaboration. Desperate to save his dignity, he faces an impossible moral choice.
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Duration: 83 min.
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Duration: 98 min.
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Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 107 min.
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As the Japanese surrender at the end of WWII, Gen. Fellers is tasked with deciding if Emperor Hirohito will be hanged as a war criminal. Influencing his ruling is his quest to find Aya, an exchange student he met years earlier in the U.S.
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japan, asia
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Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama, History, War
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Duration: 45 min.
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Story:
The story about the heavy water war unfolds during the prolouge, eruption and the end of the second world war. We follow the story of the the key personnel in the race of who develops the atomic bomb first.
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA, UK, Italy
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
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Duration: 111 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Genre: Drama, War
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Duration: 111 min.
Story:
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