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Red Cherry (1995)
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Original name: 红樱桃
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.
Style:
touching, bleak, serious, mesmerizing, saga, realistic, gloomy
Plot:
world war two, tattoo, monastery, orphan, summer camp, war, military, youth, life is a bitch, anti war, society, innocence lost, wartime life, teaching the ways of the world, tank, fight, nazi, teacher, escape, food, violence, student, friendship, party, death ...
Time:
1940s, year 1941, 40s
Place:
russia, moscow russia, soviet union, china, ussr, russian
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, crying and bleak films with plots about world war two, death, war, wartime life, survival, friendship and children mostly in Drama, War and Romance genres. Some movies like Red Cherry: Come and See (1985), Empire of the Sun (1987), To Live (1994), Au Revoir les Enfants (1987), David (1979). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 142 min.
Story:
The invasion of a village in Byelorussia by German forces sends young Florya into the forest to join the weary Resistance fighters, against his family's wishes. There he meets a girl, Glasha, who accompanies him back to his village. On ...
Style:
bleak, harsh, thought provoking, rough, brutal ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
world war two, genocide, war crime, against humanity, brutality, holocaust, nazi, atrocity, occupation, children in wartime, massacre, teenage girl ...
Time:
1940s, year 1943, 20th century, year 1985, near future ...
Place:
germany, persia, europe, soviet union, russia ...
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 153 min.
Story:
Jamie Graham, a privileged English boy, is living in Shanghai when the Japanese invade and force all foreigners into prison camps. Jamie is captured with an American sailor named Basie, who looks out for him while they are in the camp together. Even ...
Style:
epic, sad, period piece, crying, emotional ...
Audience:
family friendly, family outing, teens, teen drama
Plot:
world war two, coming of age, child protagonist, childhood, survival, pow, boy, japanese army, prisoner, young heroes, captivity, starvation ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1945, year 1987
Place:
china, hong kong, japan, asia, indochina ...
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100%
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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:
family saga, sad, touching, emotional, depressing ...
Plot:
cultural revolution, chinese history, communism, politics, gambling, asian history, poverty, storytelling, family relations, destiny, revolution, death ...
Time:
1940s, 1950s, 60s, year 1994, 20th century ...
Place:
china, asia, taiwan
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54%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France, West Germany, Italy
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A French boarding school run by priests seems to be a haven from World War II until a new student arrives. He becomes the roommate of top student in his class. Rivals at first, the roommates form a bond and share a secret.
Style:
sad, heartbreaking, art house, depressing, reflective ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
nazi, friendship, world war two, nazism, childhood, french resistance, coming of age, holocaust, gestapo, lgbt teen, nazi occupation, anti semitism ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1987, year 1944
Place:
france, paris france, israel, europe, jerusalem ...
Similarity:
52%
178
Genre: Drama, War
Country: West Germany
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Although members of the Hitler Youth chant anti-Semitic paroles in front of his house during the Purim festival, Rabbi Singer is still profoundly convinced that Germany will stay a safe country for him, his family, and his fellow believers. But ...
Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, rough, bleak ...
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, nazi, holocaust survivor, boy, chess, hitler youth, little boy, rabbi, family relations, survival, anti semitism ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, 1940s
Place:
europe, germany, black sea, new york, vienna ...
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51%
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:
contemplative, bleak, emotional, uplifting, thought provoking ...
Plot:
world war two, politics, genocide, rescue, nazi, nazi soldier, world war, struggle, revolutionary, revolutionary war, shoah, judaism ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
israel, hungary, europe, moscow russia, stockholm sweden ...
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
In a small town in California's San Joaquin Valley, 14-year-old Homer Macauley is determined to be the best and fastest bicycle telegraph messenger anyone has ever seen. His older brother has gone to war, leaving Homer to look after his widowed ...
Style:
captivating, thought provoking, realistic, tense, freeze frame ...
Plot:
world war two, coming of age, brother brother relationship, promise, friendship, family relations, death of brother, fear, husband wife relationship, jealousy, teenage boy, anti war ...
Time:
1940s, year 1942, 20th century
Place:
usa
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51%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Poetic journey through the shards and shadows of one boy’s war-ravaged youth.
Style:
bleak, black and white, meditative, art house, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
world war two, orphan, coming of age, boy, espionage, childhood, war, child spy, courage, forest, great patriotic war, youth ...
Time:
1940s, year 1962, 20th century, year 1943
Place:
soviet union, ussr, russia, germany, europe ...
Similarity:
50%
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Hungary, Germany, Austria, France
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
In a village on the Hungarian border, two young brothers grow up during war time with their cruel grandmother and must learn every trick of evil to survive in the absurd world of adults.
Style:
bleak, rough, realistic, serious, sad ...
Plot:
countryside, world war two, child abuse, boy, holocaust, twins, starvation, wartime life, teenage life, life is a bitch, nazi, teenager ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, year 1944
Place:
hungary
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
1943, an estate north of Firenze. The weight of the world is on the shoulders of Penny, who's about 10. An orphan, she must watch over her little sister when they go to live with her aunt and uncle. Penny's a Catholic, and worries about ...
Style:
emotional, sentimental, touching, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
hitler youth, world war two, racism, parents and children, war, opposites attract, family life, siblings relations, death in the family, brother sister relationship, cousin cousin relationship, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
sicily, italy, europe, florence, switzerland ...
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Czech Republic, USA, Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
An ailing communist reflects on a young boy childhood in Stalinist Yugoslavia.
Style:
atmospheric, serious, realistic, touching, contemplative
Plot:
orphan, youth, orphanage, friendship, betrayal, prison, coming of age, soldier, idealism, haunted by the past, injustice, politics ...
Time:
year 1945, post world war two, 1940s
Place:
macedonia, former yugoslavia, europe, soviet union, ussr ...
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50%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Germany, USA, UK
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
While subjected to the horrors of WWII Germany, young Liesel finds solace by stealing books and sharing them with others. Under the stairs in her home, a Jewish refuge is being sheltered by her adoptive parents.
Style:
touching, sentimental, emotional, serious, sad ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, teens, family outing, adult
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, childhood, nazi, adoption, nazi germany, war, human spirit, against humanity, death, youth, nazism ...
Time:
1940s, year 2013, ancient times, year 1941, 2010s ...
Place:
germany, europe
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50%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: China, Hong Kong, UK
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
City of Life and Death takes place in 1937, during the height of the Second Sino-Japanese War. The Imperial Japanese Army has just captured the then-capital of the Republic of China, Nanjing. What followed was known as the Nanking Massacre, or the ...
Style:
disturbing, rough, bleak, breathtaking, black and white ...
Plot:
sino japanese war, world war two, japanese army, war crime, sexual abuse, war atrocity, japanese occupation, rape, chinese history, atrocity, life is a bitch, japanese occupation of china ...
Time:
1930s, year 1938, year 2009, 2010s, 20th century ...
Place:
china, asia, shanghai
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Switzerland, West Germany, Austria
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
During World War II, Switzerland severely limited refugees: "Our boat is full." A train from Germany halts briefly in an isolated corner of Switzerland. Six people jump off seeking asylum: four Jews, a French child, and a German soldier. ...
Style:
captivating, realistic, serious, disturbing, bleak
Plot:
world war two, holocaust, refugee, children, ship, german soldier, nudity, brother sister relationship, age-gap relationship, social problems, holocaust survivor, youth ...
Time:
1940s, year 1942
Place:
switzerland, germany, europe, zurich switzerland
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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:
serious, bleak, realistic, sincere, captivating ...
Plot:
war, military, world war two, skinny dipping, british army, soldier, battles, friendship, danger, wartime life, military life, mother son relationship ...
Time:
1940s, year 1942, 20th century, post world war two
Place:
middle east, egypt, africa, palermo italy, libya ...
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Russia, UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
When in 1941 Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union, their troops quickly besieged Leningrad. Foreign journalists are evacuated but one of them, Kate Davies, is presumed dead and misses the plane. Alone in the city she is helped by Nina Tsvetnova a ...
Style:
serious, realistic, rough, bleak, gloomy
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
world war two, hunger, siege, battles, soldier, self sacrifice, female protagonist, wartime life, chess, journalist, world war, danger ...
Time:
1940s, year 1941, 20th century, post world war two
Place:
russia, st. petersburg russia
Similarity:
49%
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Spain
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The film centres on Moncho and his coming-of-age experience in Galicia in 1936. Moncho develops a close relationship with his teacher Don Gregorio who introduces the boy to different things in the world. While the story centres on Moncho's ...
Style:
sentimental, touching, realistic, political, compassionate ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
spanish civil war, coming of age, civil war, friendship, children, teacher, childhood, altar boy, spanish history, depression, anarchist, family relations ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, year 1999, 90s, year 1936 ...
Place:
spain, iberian peninsula, barcelona, europe, galicia ...
Similarity:
49%
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, photograph, female nudity, photographer, adoption, child, cold war, lebanese civil war, correspondents, nude girl, raf ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, year 1981
Place:
lebanon, germany, middle east, west berlin west germany, east berlin ...
Similarity:
49%
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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:
touching, realistic, sincere, contemplative, epic ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
world war two, redemption, small town, resistance, couple relations, marriage, betrayal, older man younger woman relationship, self discovery, life is a bitch, hopes, society ...
Time:
1940s, year 2003, 20th century, post world war two
Place:
central europe, prague, czechoslovakia, germany
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
When his family moves from their home in Berlin to a strange new house in Poland, young Bruno befriends Shmuel, a boy who lives on the other side of the fence where everyone seems to be wearing striped pajamas. Unaware of Shmuel's fate as a ...
Style:
emotional, touching, heartbreaking, sad, sentimental ...
Audience:
teens, family friendly, family outing, kids, teen drama ...
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, concentration camp, war, children, friendship, childhood, nazi, nazism, gas chamber, boy, morality ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, ancient times, year 2008, year 1941 ...
Place:
germany, poland, europe, berlin germany, switzerland
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: East Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
No overview found.
Style:
deep, crying, inspirational, complex
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, prisoner, nazi, concentration camp, communism, shoah, military, wartime life, nazi concentration camp, world war, holocaust survivor ...
Place:
east germany, germany, poland, frankfurt germany, german democratic republic ...
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Eleven-year-old Laïd lives in war-torn Lebanon. Chosen and trained by an extremist organisation, he has been forced to enter the adult world far too early. He has been transformed into a fanatical and programmed machine, whose life could be summed ...
Style:
realistic, serious, tense, disturbing, crying
Plot:
coming of age, children in wartime, youth, boy, french president, little boy, orphan, terrorism, friendship, immigrant, society, danger ...
Time:
90s
Place:
middle east, paris france, france, europe, beirut lebanon ...
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 170 min.
Story:
Uzice Republic a known as the 'first offensive', is a story about Serbia in 1941. Few months after German panzers forced Yugoslav Royal Army to capitulate, organized resistance is turning into massive uprising against occupying forces. ...
Style:
crying, epic
Plot:
world war two, partisan, mountain, world war, cannon, slaughter, heroes, exploding airplane, airplane, murder of an innocent person, innocent, river ...
Time:
year 1941, 1940s
Place:
former yugoslavia, serbia, london
Similarity:
48%
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:
suspenseful, psychological, thought provoking, captivating, disturbing ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
world war two, infantry, military, eastern front, soldier, friendship, friend, husband wife relationship, insubordination, firing squad, battles, heroes ...
Time:
1940s, year 1941, year 1942, year 1943, 20th century ...
Place:
finland, germany, soviet union, ussr
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Australia, China, Germany, USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
About young British journalist, George Hogg, who with the assistance of a courageous Australian nurse, saves a group of orphaned children during the Japanese occupation of China in 1937.
Style:
sincere, touching, captivating, serious, social ...
Plot:
survival, orphan, selflessness, rescue, self discovery, heroes, escapades, daring rescue, soldier, society, danger, invasion ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, 20th century, year 1938, year 1945 ...
Place:
china, asia, east asia
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A Nazi doctor, along with the Sonderkomando Jews – who are forced to work in the crematoria of Auschwitz against their fellow-Jews – find themselves in a moral grey zone.
Style:
depressing, bleak, disturbing, factual, harsh ...
Plot:
holocaust, nazi, world war two, concentration camp, redemption, nazi germany, auschwitz, ss, shoah, moral ambiguity, world war, tragedy ...
Time:
1940s, year 1944, 20th century, post world war two
Place:
poland, germany, europe, middle east, budapest ...
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Told from the perspective of man reflecting on his childhood in Prauge in the early years of World War 2 and the eventual destruction of his family as the Nazis rise to power. The storyline focuses heavily on Jewish-Czech Silberstein family members. ...
Style:
contemplative, captivating, realistic, serious, touching ...
Plot:
world war two, coming of age, escapades, hopes, life is a bitch, society, life turned upside down, circus, election, judaism, youth, starvation ...
Time:
80s, 1930s, 1940s, 20th century
Place:
slovakia, europe, czech republic, central europe, palestine ...
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: France, UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Fleeing the June 1940 arrival of Hitler's army in Paris, a young war widow and her two children are rescued from dive-bombing German fighters by a cocky, reckless teenager. He finds them refuge in an abandoned house, but despite the fact that ...
Style:
sincere, touching, erotic, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot:
older woman younger man relationship, wartime life, world war two, older woman teenage boy sex, age difference, teenage boy, escape, refugee, age-gap relationship, older woman younger man sex, capture, outdoor sex ...
Time:
1940s, year 2003
Place:
paris france, france, europe, nice france, riviera
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Poland, Germany, Canada
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
A dramatization of one man's rescue of Jewish refugees in the Nazi-occupied Polish city of Lvov. In Darkness tells the true story of Leopold Soha who risks his own life to save a dozen people from certain death. Initially only interested in his ...
Style:
harsh, sincere, uplifting, social, tense ...
Plot:
holocaust, nazi, world war two, atrocity, shoah, survival, genocide, outside help, hitler youth, judaism, world war, sewer ...
Time:
1940s, 2010s, 20th century, 2000s, year 1945 ...
Place:
poland, germany, eastern europe, europe, israel
Similarity:
47%
Genre: War, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
It is the summer of 1941 and the Finnish army has been mobilized along the border with Russia. A platoon led by Lt. Eero Perkola is waiting for orders to go on the offensive. The platoon receives orders for a recon mission through the wilderness ...
Style:
realistic, suspense, intense, sincere, disturbing ...
Plot:
world war two, russo finnish war, ethnic conflict, military, behind enemy lines, courage, justice, culture clash, visceral, danger, battles, military life ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, 90s, 1930s
Place:
russia, finland, eastern europe, poland, germany
Similarity:
47%
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