Movies like Broken Promise

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Broken Promise (2009)
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Broken Promise (2009)
Original name: Nedodržaný sľub
Genre: Biography, Drama, Family, Sport, War
Country: Slovakia, Czech Republic, USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: In the face of insurmountable odds, one man will risk everything to take back his country. Czechoslovakia, 1943, and the world is enveloped by the dark clouds of war. Showing unimaginable bravery, a Jewish teenager manages to escape the clutches of a concentration camp and joins a group of partisans fighting to liberate Europe from the Nazis.
Style: captivating, exciting, suspense, suspenseful, student film
Plot: football, football player, monastery, christian, brother brother relationship, nazi occupation, dictator, dictatorship, world war, soccer, nazi, military, boy, nazism, anti semitism, shoah, world war two, jewish family, holocaust survivor, concentration camp survivor, jewish culture, jew persecution, partisan, first sex, family relations ...
Place: slovakia, czechoslovakia
Keyword: jewish

Most similar movies to Broken Promise

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, suspense, suspenseful and disturbing films with plots about world war two, nazi, world war, war, biopic, life is a bitch and military mostly in Drama, War and Biography genres. Some movies like Broken Promise: A Bag of Marbles (2017), The Resistance Banker (2018), Victory (1981), The Match (2020), Another Mother's Son (2017). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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A Bag of Marbles (2017)
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.
Style: suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot: world war two, brother brother relationship, holocaust, ss, nazi occupation, nazi, german occupation, german soldier, soldier, military, danger, machismo ...
Time: 1940s, year 2017, year 1943, year 1942, year 1944
Place: paris france, nice france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
The Resistance Banker (2018)
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Duration: 123 min.
Story: In the occupied Netherlands during World War II, banker Walraven van Hall (Barry Atsma) is asked to use his financial contacts to help the Dutch resistance. He doesn’t have to think about it for long. With his brother Gijs van Hall (Jacob Derwig), ...
Style: suspense, thought provoking, touching, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot: world war two, resistance, war hero, soldier, nazi, sibling relationship, german occupation, friends, dictatorship, dictator, war, danger ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1942, year 1944
Place: netherlands, amsterdam
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
 6.6
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Victory (1981)
Genre: Drama, Sport, War
Country: UK, USA, Italy
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A group of POWs in a German prison camp during World War II play the German National Soccer Team in this powerful film depicting the role of prisoners during wartime.
Style: inspirational, serious, exciting, suspenseful, cult classic ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, kids
Plot: world war two, prison, soccer, football, nazi, war, human spirit, escape, contests and competitions, against the odds, world war, rivalry ...
Time: year 1981, 20th century
Place: germany, france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
 5.8
 814
The Match (2020)
Genre: Drama, History, Sport, War
Country: Croatia, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Inspired by true events from the spring of 1944 when the Nazis organized a football match between a team of camp inmates and an elite Nazi team on Adolf Hitler's birthday. A match the prisoners are determined to win, no matter what happens.
Style: tense, suspense, historical drama
Plot: world war two, football, concentration camp, soccer, sport team, soccer match, prisoner of war camp, nazi, prisoners of war, military, football team, football player ...
Time: year 1944
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
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Another Mother's Son (2017)
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Directed by Christopher Menaul ('Summer in February', 'Fatherland) and written by Jenny Lecoat, Another Mother's Son tells the true story of Louisa Gould, a widow living in Nazi occupied Jersey who takes in a Russian prisoner of ...
Style: captivating, suspense, costume drama, period drama
Plot: world war two, surrogate family, hunger, pow, escaped prisoner, tragedy, fight, heroine, death of protagonist, nazi, world war, fighting the system ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
On Wings of Eagles (2016)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Sport, War
Country: China, Hong Kong, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Eric Liddell - China's first gold medalist and one of Scotland's greatest athletes - returns to war-torn China.
Style: captivating, tense, thought provoking, suspense, christian film
Plot: japanese occupation of china, japanese occupation, world war two, japanese soldier, race, pow, world war, social problems, life is a bitch, historical character, historical figure, athlete's life ...
Place: china
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Return to the Hiding Place (2013)
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: When a young resistance fighter witnesses atrocities towards the Jews, he's drawn into a web of espionage and clandestine activities. When he meets a young physics students and resistance journalist - Hans Poley - they embark on a hunt through ...
Style: disturbing, captivating, suspense, tense
Plot: world war two, nazi, jewish ghetto, christian, world war, jew persecution, resistance fighter, saving a life, resistance, nazi occupation, nazi soldier, nazism ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Baggio: The Divine Ponytail (2021)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: Italy
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A chronicle biopic of the 22-year career of soccer star Roberto Baggio, including depictions of his difficult debut as a player, his deep rifts with some of his coaches, his triumph over injuries and personal discovery of Buddism.
Style: thought provoking, captivating
Plot: football, soccer, athlete and trainer, athlete's life, life, football player, soccer coach, playing football, price of fame, career change, rising to stardom, european ...
Time: 70s, year 1970, 20th century, year 2000, year 1985 ...
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Golden Shoes (2015)
Genre: Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: With his father MIA at war and his mother critical in hospital, a young boy consoles himself with dreams of playing in the youth soccer league. To do so, he must overcome the adult deception, the bullying and his solitude.
Style: entertaining, touching, captivating, exciting
Plot: soccer, football, little boy, father, playing football, dream, sports man, football player, ambition, sports fan, athlete's life, magic ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Fist of the Reich (2010)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport, War
Country: Germany, Croatia
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Based on the true story of Max Schmeling. A national hero in the 1930's when he became World heavyweight champion. He lost favour with the Nazi regime when he lost to a black man, Joe Louis, and is sent to the front in the hope he will be ...
Style: serious, rough, realistic, bleak
Plot: world war two, nazi germany, world champion, anti semitism, boxing, fighting the system, hopes, athlete's life, against humanity, society, lifestyle, love and romance ...
Time: 1930s, 1940s, 20th century
Place: europe, new york, hamburg germany, berlin germany, germany ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Goal (2018)
Genre: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: Sri Lanka
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Goal is the story of bunch of ordinary village children who challenge the impossible with the help of a teacher who refuses to see them fail.
Style: sinhala, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative, unusual plot structure ...
Plot: soccer, children, football player, football, teacher, school, soccer match, soccer coach, football team, teenager, friends, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: sri lanka
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
The Birdcatcher (2019)
Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: Norway, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Norway, 1942, during World War II. After being separated from her family, Esther, a young Jewish girl from Trondheim, arrives at an isolated farm where she must assume a new identity in order to survive the Nazi persecution.
Style: suspense, tense, thought provoking, suspenseful, heartbreaking ...
Plot: world war two, gender disguise, nazi occupation, woman dressed as man, holocaust, holocaust survivor, pretending to be someone else, cross dressing, false identity, fascism, war violence, world war ...
Time: year 1942, 1940s
Place: scandinavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
My Name is Sara (2019)
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: The true life-story of Sara Góralnik, a 13 year-old Polish Jew whose entire family was killed by Nazis in September of 1942. After a grueling escape to the Ukrainian countryside, Sara steals her Christian best friend’s identity and finds refuge ...
Style: realistic, captivating, suspense
Plot: holocaust, jewish girl, world war two, stolen identity, jewish family, child protagonist, 13 year old, small village, jewess, teenage life, life is a bitch, wartime ...
Time: 1940s, year 1942
Place: ukraine
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
When the Game Stands Tall (2014)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A young coach turns a losing high school football program around to go undefeated for 12 consecutive seasons.
Style: uplifting, captivating, exciting, serious, sincere ...
Audience: teens, family outing, family friendly, teen drama
Plot: american football, rise to the top, contests and competitions, athlete and trainer, coach, ambition, small town, high school football, youth, football, sport team, christian ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 21st century
Place: usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Oba: The Last Samurai (2011)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 128 min.
Story: In 1944, the American military lands on the shores of Saipan. Refusing to commit suicide with his superiors or be forced into camps for prisoners of war, Captain Oba Sakae leads a group of his men and other similarly minded local residents into the ...
Style: tense, captivating, exciting, suspense, disturbing
Plot: world war two, military, honor, world war, soldier, battles, japanese army, commander, fight, heroic mission, wartime, war ...
Time: 1940s, year 1945, year 1944
Place: japan, pacific ocean, oceania
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Waiting for Anya (2020)
Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: UK, Belgium
Duration: 109 min.
Story: During the harrows of WWII, Jo, a young shepherd along with the help of the widow Horcada, helps to smuggle Jewish children across the border from southern France into Spain.
Style: sincere, disturbing, captivating
Plot: world war two, wartime life, nazi occupation, deportation, occupation, german occupation, military, jew persecution, wartime, social problems, children in wartime, world war ...
Time: 2020s, year 1942
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Stones for the Rampart (2014)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 111 min.
Story: To be defeated and not be - a victory. This is the motto that life is guided by three young friends: Alek, Sophy and Rudy. Scouts, high school graduates high school in Warsaw drifting ambitious plans for the future broken through September 1939. ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, captivating, suspense ...
Plot: world war two, wartime life, against the odds, life is a bitch, daring rescue, danger, prospector, wartime, german occupation, resistance, resistance fighter, nazi occupation ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: europe, poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 6.6
 6K
April 9th (2015)
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: serious, captivating, realistic, tense, suspense ...
Plot: world war two, nazi occupation, military, war, soldier, battles, danger, against the odds, wehrmacht, nazi, world war, friendship ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, year 1940
Place: denmark, germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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A Secret (2007)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: In 1953, a sensitive French boy finds out from a neighbor that his family's Jewish. François Grimbert becomes a physician, and gradually peels the layers of his buried family history which resulted in his difficult upbringing, raised as ...
Style: serious, realistic, exciting, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot: world war two, missing person, holocaust, wartime life, occupation, against humanity, haunted by the past, family disapproval, boy, mafia, war, youth ...
Time: 20th century, post world war two, 1940s, 50s
Place: europe, israel, paris france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Triumph of the Spirit (1989)
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 ...
Style: disturbing, independent film, tense, realistic, serious ...
Plot: holocaust, world war two, boxing, prison, ss, boxer, prison escape, fight, nazi, biopic, war, shoah ...
Time: 1940s, 1930s, 20th century, year 1943
Place: middle east, poland, europe, greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Berenshtein (2021)
Genre: Biography, History, War
Country: Israel
Duration: 105 min.
Story: The unbelievable story of Leonid Bernshtein, a young Jewish soldier who rose to become the leader and led the operation to destroy the secret facility of the notorious Nazi V2 ballistic missiles.
Style: thought provoking, suspense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing
Plot: world war two, soldier, great patriotic war, guerilla warfare, nazi occupation, military, life is a bitch, german officer, german soldier, moral dilemma, warrior, military life ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Our Patriots (2017)
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 105 min.
Story: After the French defeat of summer 1940, Addi Ba, a young Senegalese rifleman escapes and hides in the Vosges. Aided by some villagers, he gets false documents that allow him to live openly.
Style: exciting, suspenseful, suspense, tense, captivating ...
Plot: world war two, french resistance, resistance, escape, pow, teacher, school, prisoner, arrest, racism, farm, world war ...
Time: 1940s, year 2017, year 1940
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
The Shadow in My Eye (2021)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Denmark, Belgium
Duration: 107 min.
Story: On March 21st, 1945, the British Royal Air Force set out on a mission to bomb Gestapo's headquarters in Copenhagen. The raid had fatal consequences as some of the bombers accidentally targeted a school and more than 120 people were killed, 86 ...
Style: disturbing, suspense
Plot: world war two, nazi, nazism, air raid, bombing, gestapo, military, nordic, murder, aerial bombardment, chaos, killings ...
Time: year 1945, 1940s
Place: copenhagen
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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The Survivor (2021)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Sport, War
Country: USA, Canada, Hungary
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Harry Haft is a boxer who fought fellow prisoners in the concentration camps to survive. Haunted by the memories and his guilt, he attempts to use high-profile fights against boxing legends like Rocky Marciano as a way to find his first love again.
Style: disturbing, psychological, captivating, historical drama, period drama
Plot: boxer, boxing, concentration camp survivor, concentration camp, world war two, love affair, martial arts, male female relationship, love interest, life is a bitch, relationships, guilty conscience ...
Time: post world war two, year 1963, year 1949, 60s
Place: germany, coney island brooklyn new york city, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
The King's Choice (2016)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Ireland
Duration: 133 min.
Story: On 9 April 1940, German soldiers arrive in the city of Oslo. The King of Norway faces a choice that will change his country forever. The King's Choice is a story about the three most dramatic days in Norway's history, the royal ...
Style: exciting, suspenseful, suspense, tense, melancholic ...
Plot: world war two, royal family, invasion, evacuation, democracy, wehrmacht, german occupation, king, hitler, crown prince, young soldier, world war ...
Time: 1940s, year 1940
Place: germany, scandinavia, eastern europe, oslo norway
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 7.1
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Riphagen (2016)
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: period piece, serious, realistic, emotional
Plot: nazi, nazi war criminal, holocaust, biopic, jew persecution, genocide, kickass, military, world war two, violence, betrayal, scoundrel ...
Time: 1940s, post world war two
Place: holland, amsterdam
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 6.8
 2K
Tigers (2020)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: Sweden, Italy, Denmark
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Super-talented footballing prodigy Martin is bought by top club Inter Milan, aged just 16. It’s the chance of a lifetime – but at what price?
Style: sincere, thought provoking, captivating, suspense, disturbing
Plot: soccer, football, depression, football player, playing football, price of fame, professional sports, athlete's life, adulthood, soccer coach, self sacrifice, football team ...
Place: milan italy, italy, eastern europe, scandinavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
The Hiding Place (1975)
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: bleak, spiritual, independent film, christian film, uplifting ...
Plot: holocaust, concentration camp, world war two, nazi concentration camp, christian, faith, christianity, jew persecution, religion, christian faith, shoah, fictional history ...
Time: 1940s, year 1975
Place: holland, europe, netherlands
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 7.1
 41K
Race (2016)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: Canada, Germany, France, UK, USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: Based on the incredible true story of Jesse Owens, the legendary athletic superstar whose quest to become the greatest track and field athlete in history thrusts him onto the world stage of the 1936 Olympics, where he faces off against Adolf ...
Style: inspirational, factual, political, exciting, captivating ...
Plot: racism, olympics, track and field, african american, nazi, racial prejudice, nazi germany, running, biopic, racial segregation, athlete, world war two ...
Time: year 1936, 1930s, year 1933, 20th century
Place: berlin germany, germany, usa, cleveland ohio, ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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