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Remembrance (2011)
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Original name: Die verlorene Zeit
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Hannah, a young Jewish girl, is rescued from a concentration camp by her Polish boyfriend, and believes he died after their perilous escape. More than 30 years later, the married Hannah faces an emotional crisis when she learns he's alive.
Style:
realistic, serious, tense, exciting, captivating, sad
Plot:
concentration camp, holocaust, world war two, life is a bitch, love affair, against the odds, couples, on the run, wartime life, couple relations, nazi, husband wife relationship, fiance fiancee relationship, world war, mother son relationship, outdoor sex, love, genocide, lady, german soldier, chaos, life story, pregnancy, love and romance, prison ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
new york, germany, poland
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Most similar movies to Remembrance
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, captivating and emotional films with plots about world war two, nazi, wartime life, holocaust, war, world war and nazi uniform mostly in Drama, War and Romance genres. Some movies like Remembrance: The Midwife (2015), Prisoners of Auschwitz (2013), The Last Train (1973), Captive Hearts (1987), Rosenstrasse (2003). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: Finland
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
'The Midwife' (fin.'Kätilö') is a romance-drama set during WWII in Finland’s Lapland province, a major European battle ground of the war. Based on Katja Kettu’s bestselling novel, 'The Midwife' turns on the love ...
Style:
romantic, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, touching
Plot:
world war two, sex scene, ss officer, violence, fall in love, genocide, war crime, german soldier, concentration camp, midwife, drug, nurse ...
Time:
1940s, year 1944
Place:
finland
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Slovakia, Czech Republic
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Arnost Lustig was one of the world's most renowned literary authors of our times. Lustig's novel 'A girl from Antwerp' upon which our film Colette is based, draws on the author's personal Nazi Concentration Camp experience ...
Style:
captivating, psychological, touching, tense
Plot:
concentration camp, holocaust, auschwitz, world war two, prisoner, doctor, execution, love and romance, danger, couples, society, male nudity ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
central europe, prague, canada
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Two people, a Frenchman Julien Maroyeur and a Jewish German woman (Anna Kupfer) met on a train while escaping the German army entering France.
Style:
road movie, sincere, sentimental, emotional, touching ...
Plot:
world war two, train, french resistance, love, world war, railway, occupied france, refugee, unhappy ending, judaism, wartime, nazi ...
Time:
1940s, year 1940, year 1943
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
December 1944. As their bomber is shot down during a mission over Japan, Sergeant McManus and Robert, a young lieutenant, have no other choice but make a parachute jump. They are captured by local villagers and are saved from execution by Fukushima, ...
Style:
independent film, uplifting, emotional, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
world war two, forbidden love, world war, violent content, mountain, prison, opposites attract, war, confined, soldier, isolation, love affair ...
Time:
year 1987, year 1944
Place:
japan, asia
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Germany, Netherlands
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
When Ruth's husband dies in New York, in 2000, she imposes strict Jewish mourning, which puzzles her children. A stranger comes to the house - Ruth's cousin - with a picture of Ruth, age 8, in Berlin, with a woman the cousin says helped ...
Style:
uplifting, serious, emotional, touching, contemplative ...
Plot:
holocaust, nazi germany, world war two, anti semitism, nazi, wartime life, human spirit, hopes, couple relations, society, world war, strong female character ...
Time:
1940s, year 1943, 20th century, post world war two
Place:
berlin germany, germany, europe, new york, usa
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36%
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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 ...
Style:
captivating, realistic, serious, emotional, contemplative ...
Plot:
nazi germany, world war two, concentration camp, holocaust, wartime life, life is a bitch, dictatorship, biopic, love affair, revolution, politics, confined ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
germany, rio de janeiro, europe, brazil
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35%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: Austria, Luxembourg
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Poland 1943: An unlikely pair - a concentration camp prisoner and a captain in Hitler's notorious SS - free themselves from the wreckage of a crashed SS airplane. The two appear to be strangely familiar with each other and the extent of their ...
Style:
serious, captivating, tense, contemplative, realistic ...
Plot:
world war two, friends, friendship, military, life is a bitch, soldier, wartime life, moral dilemma, holocaust, against humanity, concentration camp, nazi ...
Time:
20th century, 1930s, 1940s
Place:
germany, europe, poland, austria
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34%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Germany, Czech Republic
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
A group of people are imprisoned in a rail car bound from Berlin to a concentration camp in 1945.
Style:
serious, realistic, bleak, captivating, entertaining ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
holocaust, nazism, nazi, gestapo, nazi germany, anti semitism, danger, life is a bitch, pow, war, confined, world war ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1943, post world war two
Place:
germany, israel, europe
Similarity:
32%
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Arch of Triumph is a 1985 British made-for-television film based on the novel Arch of Triumph by Erich Maria Remarque, which was previously adapted in 1948 for a film of the same name with Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer. Dr. Ravic (Anthony ...
Style:
noir, emotional, gloomy, sincere, realistic ...
Plot:
world war two, nazi, concentration camp, wartime, doctor, intrigue, against humanity, unfulfillment, war, vengeance, life is a bitch, couple relations ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
paris france, france, europe, germany
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Poland, Israel
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
After Germany invades Poland and the Nazis order the confinement of all local Jews in the ghetto, medical doctor Artur Planck (Joseph Fiennes) manages to flee with his family, seeking refuge at the farm of Emilia (Kelly Harrison), their former ...
Style:
captivating, serious, emotional, tense, sexual ...
Plot:
world war two, wartime life, love triangle, sexual content, family in danger, couple relations, confined, against humanity, couples, life is a bitch, dishonesty, infidelity ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
eastern europe, middle east, poland, europe
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
Spirited New Yorker Linda Voss goes to work for international lawyer and secret Office of Strategic Services operative Ed Leland just before World War II. As they fall in love, the United States enters the fight against Hitler, and Linda volunteers ...
Style:
suspenseful, sentimental, suspense, melancholic, exciting ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
nazi germany, double agent, espionage, behind enemy lines, world war two, wartime, spy, wartime life, destiny, secret agent, working undercover, love and romance ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
germany, berlin germany, new york, usa, europe
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance, War
Country: West Germany
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Lili Marleen is the story of a German singer named Wilkie who while working in Switzerland falls in love with a Jewish composer named Robert who’s family is helping people to flee from the Nazis. Roberts family is skeptical of Walkie thinking she ...
Style:
stylized, clever, witty, art house, romantic drama ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
nazi germany, nazi, wartime, women, world war, wartime life, world war two, dictatorship, nazism, dictator, forbidden love, love ...
Time:
1940s, year 1981, 20th century, 1930s, year 1938
Place:
germany, berlin germany, europe, zurich switzerland, munich germany ...
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: West Germany, France
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
"November Moon" is a timeless and compelling love story set against the backdrop of Nazi-occupied France. On the brink of war and in the face of escalating anti-Jewish activity, November has fled her native Germany for the relative safety ...
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, emotional, sincere ...
Plot:
lesbian, lesbian love, world war two, lgbt, world war, holocaust, strong female presence, love and romance, against humanity, gender, life is a bitch, fall in love ...
Time:
20th century, 1930s
Place:
paris france, france, europe, germany
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: UK
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
During WWII, the death camp at Treblinka had an escape, causing the Commandant at a similar camp in Sobibor to vow (actually threaten) that his camp would never experience the same thing. But those who were its captives, the Jewish laborers that had ...
Style:
tense, realistic, thought provoking, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot:
concentration camp, world war two, pow, holocaust, escape, shoah, against humanity, genocide, military, captivity, nazi, hopes ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
poland, europe
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Canada, Germany
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
Auschwitz is a hard-hitting war film which shows life as it really was at the death camp.
Style:
disturbing, thought provoking, controversial, bleak, rough ...
Plot:
concentration camp, nazi, holocaust, world war two, shoah, mass murder, anti semitism, against humanity, life is a bitch, society, genocide, gas chamber ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
europe, poland
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: UK, Germany, Australia, USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
This is a drama set in Nazi-occupied France at the height of World War II. Charlotte Gray tells the compelling story of a young Scottish woman working with the French Resistance in the hope of rescuing her lover, a missing RAF pilot. Based on the ...
Style:
sexy, sentimental, romantic, captivating, realistic ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
espionage, war, french resistance, nazi, holocaust, world war two, wartime life, women, resistance, wartime, secret agent, world war ...
Time:
1940s, year 2001, 20th century, post world war two
Place:
france, london, paris france, europe, scotland ...
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Death in Love is a psychosexual-thriller about a love affair between a Jewish woman and a doctor overseeing human experimentation at a Nazi German concentration camp, and the impact this has on her sons' lives in the 1990s.
Style:
sexy, serious, psychological, sincere, emotional ...
Plot:
world war two, dysfunctional family, concentration camp, nazi, memory, cruelty, doctor, parents and children, haunted by the past, holocaust, experiment, human nature ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 1940s
Place:
new york, germany, europe, usa
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Naked Among Wolves (German: Nackt unter Wölfen) is a German drama film directed by Philipp Kadelbach in 2015. It is based on the novel of the same name by Bruno Apitz, which was published in 1958 by the East German Publishing house. It was created ...
Style:
captivating, tense, realistic, psychological, independent film ...
Plot:
holocaust, concentration camp, nazi, world war two, nazi concentration camp, liberation, world war, shoah, little boy, resistance, death, child in peril ...
Time:
year 1945, 1940s
Place:
germany, switzerland
Similarity:
26%
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Genre: Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: Russia, Germany, Lithuania
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Based on the true story, international historical project “Sobibor” is dedicated to the heroism of the Soviet o cer Alexander Pechersky. During the great Patriotic war, being in a Nazi concentration camp Sobibor he managed to do the impossible ...
Style:
rough, factual, suspenseful, political, philosophical
Plot:
world war two, holocaust, nazi, nazi germany, genocide, concentration camp, holocaust survivor, mass murder, rebellion, pow, escape, killing ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
poland, germany, lithuania, soviet union
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A sad story of love between German soldier Franz and Russian girl Polina.
Style:
exciting, touching, captivating, suspense
Plot:
german soldier, deserter, forbidden love, nazi, soldier, occupation, military, wartime life, relationships, love story, war, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time:
post world war two
Place:
russia
Similarity:
26%
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.
Style:
serious, psychological, captivating, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot:
concentration camp, world war two, holocaust, undercover, survival, forbidden love, genocide, german army, gestapo, anti semitism, moral dilemma, life is a bitch ...
Time:
1940s, year 1944, post world war two
Place:
germany, switzerland, hungary, europe
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
In the days following the D-Day invasion in Normandy, France, a British platoon leader named Saul (Gabriel Byrne) and his corporal (Paul Wyett) reach an isolated farmhouse and encounter a beautiful French girl named Belle (Marianne Basler). Love ...
Style:
realistic, serious, tense, emotional
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
world war two, impossible love, soldier, love affair, war, love and romance, couples, unfulfilled love, wartime life, woman in danger, love, love triangle ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
france, europe, normandy
Similarity:
25%
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Australia, Germany, UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
After her Nazi parents are imprisoned, Lore leads her younger siblings across a war-torn Germany in 1945. Amidst the chaos, she encounters mysterious Jewish refugee Thomas, who shatters her fragile reality with hatred and desire. To live, she must ...
Style:
tense, disturbing, bleak, sincere, suspense ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
holocaust, nazi, world war two, survival, hitler, children, coming of age, youth, war, concentration camp survivor, children in wartime, child as adult ...
Time:
year 2012, post world war two, 90s, 1940s, 20th century ...
Place:
germany, russia, hamburg germany, berlin germany, poland ...
Similarity:
25%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Nazi occupied Poland, during the World War II. Hans, a former brilliant student, has become an SS officer stationed at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. When he is commissioned by his superior officer to build an efficient gas chamber, ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, captivating, historical drama, bleak ...
Plot:
world war two, holocaust, ss officer, nazi, auschwitz, nazi officer, nazism, nazi germany, genocide, war crime, anti semitism, wartime ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
poland, germany
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Hungary, Germany, UK, Israel, France, USA
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
An Hungarian youth comes of age at Buchenwald during World War II. György Köves is 14, the son of a merchant who's sent to a forced labor camp. After his father's departure, György gets a job at a brickyard; his bus is stopped and its ...
Style:
sincere, emotional, serious, disturbing, gloomy ...
Audience:
teens, date night, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
holocaust, concentration camp, world war two, nazi, estrangement, orthodox jew, youth, confined, shoah, survival, world war, self discovery ...
Time:
1940s, year 2005, post world war two
Place:
hungary, eastern europe, germany, europe, slovakia ...
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
In 1944 many Germans in Eastern Prussia believed like Lena von Mahlenberg, daughter of a local aristocrat, that Hitler would surrender and spare them from being invaded by the vengeful Russian Red Army. He didn't and they had to flee.
Style:
serious, realistic, emotional, touching, captivating
Plot:
world war two, third reich, eastern front, family relations, wartime life, parents and children, danger, survival, life is a bitch, nazi, fight, aristocracy ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
berlin germany, germany
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Russia, Germany, Belarus
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Occupied France, 1942. Gilles is arrested by SS soldiers alongside other Jews and sent to a camp in Germany. He narrowly avoids sudden execution by swearing to the guards that he is not Jewish, but Persian. This lie temporarily saves him, but Gilles ...
Style:
captivating, independent film, suspense, period drama
Plot:
concentration camp, world war two, german soldier, labor camp, nazi officer, military, lie, wartime life, holocaust, german officer, sex, soldier ...
Time:
year 1942, 1940s, 20th century, year 1945
Place:
germany
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK, Russia
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Nazi POWs suspected of heinous acts are locked up in a Soviet women's prison run by vengeful female guards. To weed out the guilty, the innocent must pay. Can supposed enemies turn into great loves? Based on a true post-World War II story, this ...
Style:
sincere, realistic, captivating, period piece, emotional ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
sex scene, wartime life, male nudity, public nudity, holocaust, soldier, prisoners of war, captivity, against humanity, genocide, prison life, heroes ...
Time:
1940s, post world war two
Place:
soviet union, europe, russia, st. petersburg russia, ussr
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
In 1999, a British mine clearance engineer working for the Taliban government in Afghanistan must flee the country when he becomes embroiled in a deadly game of intrigue and betrayal.
Style:
serious, tense, suspense, disturbing, informative ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
life turned upside down, wartime life, life is a bitch, state affairs, escapades, danger, manhunt, chase, disorder, intrigue, weapons, war in afghanistan ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
afghanistan, middle east
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: UK, France, Canada, Belgium, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
France, 1940. In the first days of occupation, beautiful Lucile Angellier is trapped in a stifled existence with her controlling mother-in-law as they both await news of her husband: a prisoner of war. Parisian refugees start to pour into their ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, romantic, period piece, costume drama ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
world war two, forbidden love, nazi occupied france, nazi occupation, german officer, german soldier, wartime, fall in love, wartime life, war, occupied france, nazi officer ...
Time:
1940s, ancient times, year 1940, 20th century, 18th century
Place:
france, europe, paris france, germany, england ...
Similarity:
24%
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