Movies like This Life 2012

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This Life (2012)
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This Life (2012)
Original name: Hvidsten gruppen
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Denmark
Duration: 122 min.
Story: The true story of the Fiil's a family of innkeepers who during Nazi-Germany's occupation of Denmark took up arms against the German occupiers. But in the fight for freedom, some must die so that others may live.
Style: emotional, realistic, disturbing, captivating, tense, bleak, serious
Plot: resistance fighter, nazi, world war two, freedom fighter, resistance, nazi occupation, sabotage, danger, heroes, fight, battles, wartime, heroism, self sacrifice, military life, wartime life, showdown, military, darkness, world war, family relations, wehrmacht, inn, parachute drop, war ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: denmark, germany, scandinavia
Keyword: danish

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, serious, realistic and bleak films with plots about war, world war two, wartime life, world war, danger, nazi and military mostly in Drama, War and History genres. Some movies like This Life: Süskind (2012), Out of the Darkness (2022), April 9th (2015), Stones for the Rampart (2014), A Day in October (1991). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Süskind (2012)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 118 min.
Story: In Nazi-occupied Amsterdam, Walter Süskind is a member of the Dutch Jewish Council who rescues hundreds of children from the concentration camps.
Style: captivating, serious, emotional, realistic, bleak
Plot: ss, holocaust, wartime life, world war two, nazi occupation, human spirit, selflessness, children, idealism, rescue, deportation, danger ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: europe, amsterdam, holland
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Out of the Darkness (2022)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Denmark
Duration: 152 min.
Story: This Danish movie "Out of The Darkness" ( in Danish 'De Forbandede år 2' ) is a continuation of the popular WW II drama "Into The Darkness" ( in Danish 'De forbandede år' ) and it portraits the Danish ...
Style: suspenseful, captivating, serious, dramatic
Plot: world war two, resistance, freedom fighter, war, german occupation, wartime, nazism, fight, wartime life, occupation, nazi, nazi soldier ...
Time: 1940s
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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
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81%
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
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A Day in October (1991)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Denmark
Duration: 100 min.
Story: During the month of October 1943, the Danish resistance movement and just plain ordinary citizens joined together in staging a mass exodus by fishing boats to neutral Sweden of their Jewish countrymen, practically on the eve of the Nazi's ...
Style: independent film, contemplative, serious, realistic, bleak ...
Plot: world war two, world war, terrorism, rescue, evacuation, strong female presence, heroes, danger, against the rules, against humanity, fall in love, war ...
Time: 1940s, year 1991
Place: denmark, europe, scandinavia, eastern europe, copenhagen
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The 12th Man (2017)
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: Norway
Duration: 135 min.
Story: After a failed anti-Nazi sabotage mission leaves his 11 comrades dead, Norwegian resistance fighter Jan Baalsrud finds himself fleeing from the Gestapo through the snowbound reaches of Scandinavia.
Style: uplifting, suspense, serious, costume drama, dark ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: world war two, gestapo, nazi, resistance fighter, survival, coping, wilderness, winter, world war, ss, nature, war ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1943, year 1940, year 1988 ...
Place: germany, scotland
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100%
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The Only Way (1970)
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
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Strange Gardens (2003)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Lucien, 14, can’t understand why his father, a serious and respected teacher, makes a fool of himself by dressing up as a clown and giving a show. André, Lucien’s father’s best friend, feels for the teenager and decides to reveal something ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, captivating, tense
Plot: occupied france, world war two, french resistance, german occupation, nazi occupation, sabotage, resistance fighter, occupation, fighting the system, resistance, fight, war ...
Time: 1940s, year 2003
Place: france
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67%
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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
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The Forgotten Battle (2020)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Duration: 124 min.
Story: November 1944. On the flooded isle of Walcheren, Zeeland, thousands of Allied soldiers are battling the German army. Three young lives become inextricably connected. A Dutch boy fighting for the Germans, an English glider pilot and a girl from ...
Style: disturbing, suspense, captivating, tense, powerful
Plot: world war two, military, combat, war, british soldier, british military, killed in action, soldier, dam, shell shock, royal air force, british army ...
Time: 1940s, year 1944
Place: netherlands, germany, holland
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63%
The Last Lieutenant (1993)
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: Norway
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Norwegian war drama. The old sea-captain retires, but the next day German WWII occupation of Norway begins. He then kisses his wife good-bye and is off to Army HQ. There he finds a lack of leadership and morale that offends him. They even laugh at ...
Style: contemplative, serious, realistic, captivating, sincere ...
Plot: world war two, world war, holocaust, violent content, battles, survival, couple relations, human spirit, aging, rebelliousness, soldier, idealism ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: germany
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The Biggest Battle (1978)
Genre: War, Drama
Country: Italy, West Germany, Yugoslavia
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A story of how World War II affected the lives of a German family and an American family, both of whom had sons and fathers fighting in the war.
Style: macaroni combat, exciting, rough, bleak, realistic ...
Plot: world war two, world war, battles, nazi, revolutionary, freedom, revolution, combat, struggle, revolutionary war, soldier, computers and web ...
Time: 1940s, year 1978
Place: africa
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Attack on Leningrad (2009)
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, bleak, rough, gloomy
Audience: boys' night
Plot: world war two, siege, hunger, wartime life, battles, soldier, world war, danger, self sacrifice, female protagonist, military, heroic mission ...
Time: 1940s, year 1941, 20th century
Place: russia
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The Edelweiss Pirates (2004)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Germany, Netherlands
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Im Kölner Stadtteil Ehrenfeld lebt eine Gruppe von Arbeiterkindern kurz vor Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs ihren ganz eigenen Alltag. Die selbsternannten „Edelweißpiraten“ träumen von einer gerechten Welt und sehnen sich nach der unbeschwerten ...
Style: realistic, suspenseful, tense, captivating, serious ...
Plot: resistance, wartime life, world war two, young heroes, human spirit, rebellion, idealism, life is a bitch, against humanity, rebelliousness, danger, confined ...
Time: 1940s, year 1944, 20th century
Place: europe, germany
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Into the Darkness (2020)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Denmark
Duration: 152 min.
Story: Karlskov is a self made, successful owner of a large electronics factory, has a wife and five children. They live the good, privileged upper-class life on Strandvejen north of Copenhagen when the Nazis occupy Denmark in April 1940. Karl struggles to ...
Style: suspense, realistic, bleak, rough
Plot: world war two, factory, german occupation, conflict, industry, family relations, businessman, money, world war, economist, family conflict
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Place: denmark, germany
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Stalingrad (2013)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
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Duration: 131 min.
Story: Drama set in 1942, during one of the most important battles of World War II, which stopped the progress of Nazi forces and turned the tide of war in favor of the Allies. The Soviet army mounts a counter-attack on the Nazi forces that occupy half of ...
Style: realistic, captivating, serious, exciting, rough ...
Plot: world war two, war, heroism, battles, heroes, world war, life is a bitch, wartime life, russian history, danger, battle zone, military life ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1942
Place: europe, soviet union, russia
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Hell Boats (1970)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A war drama of motor torpedo boats which did much unsung work in WW2, but the naval battles merely provide an exciting story in which an even more special romantic drama is wrapped up.
Style: independent film, realistic, serious, captivating, exciting
Plot: world war, royal navy, kriegsmarine, navy, wartime, submarine, love triangle, war, military, danger, escapades, heroes ...
Time: 60s, 1940s
Place: malta, italy, sicily
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The Boys from St. Petri (1991)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A group of school-mates form a resistance group in nazi-occupied Denmark.
Plot: world war two, children, wartime life, world war, war, nazi, sabotage, resistance, high school, teenager
Time: 1940s
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Style: captivating, tense, serious, touching, period piece ...
Plot: world war two, war, bombing, moral dilemma, survival, military, love affair, wartime life, behind enemy lines, danger, fall in love, military life ...
Time: 1940s
Place: germany, europe
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Chaco (2020)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Argentina, Bolivia
Duration: 80 min.
Story: In 1934, Bolivia is at war with Paraguay. Liborio and Ticona and other Bolivian indigenous soldiers are lost in the hell of the Chaco, under the commandment of German Captain Kundt. They're looking for the Paraguayan enemy that they ...
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, intense
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In the Fog (2012)
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.
Style: realistic, bleak, serious, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: world war two, nazi occupation, false accusation, moral dilemma, danger, survival, life is a bitch, human nature, wartime life, resistance fighter, nazi, underground ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1942
Place: soviet union, germany, latvia, russia, ussr
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58%
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Calm at Sea (2011)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A teenager joins the resistance in Nazi-occupied France during World War II.
Style: rough, captivating, tense, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot: world war two, german soldier, repression, french resistance, communist, execution, nazi officer, suppression, concentration camp, hostage, assassination, wehrmacht ...
Time: year 1941, 1940s, 20th century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
Back Door to Hell (1964)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Philippines, USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story: During WWII, a three-man commando team places its trust in the hands of a band of Filipino resistors, as they try to knock out a Japenese communication center.
Style: exciting, serious, realistic, tense, psychotronic ...
Plot: world war two, espionage, war, danger, anti war, escapades, mission, world war, liberation, reconnaissance, battles, soldier ...
Time: 1940s
Place: the philippines, japan, asia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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Only the Brave (2006)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A searing portrait of war and prejudice, 'Only the Brave' takes you on a haunting journey into the hearts and minds of the forgotten heroes of WWII - the Japanese-American 100th/442nd.
Style: exciting, tense, captivating, suspenseful, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: military, battles, soldier, survival, military life, society, daring rescue, danger, war, heroic mission, battle zone, world war ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: europe, usa, france, italy, hawaii
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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 ...
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Pathfinders: In the Company of Strangers (2011)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Untold and lost history. A true story of the American Pathfinders, the volunteer paratroopers whose deadly mission was to land 30 minutes before the Normandy invasion, locate and mark strategic "drop zones" and set up the top-secret ...
Style: realistic, tense, suspenseful, captivating, epic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: world war two, military life, heroic mission, military, military base, battles, danger, friendship, battle zone, d day, world war, violent content ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: normandy, germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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Texas '46 (2002)
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 ...
Style: suspenseful, rough, disturbing, realistic, exciting ...
Plot: fascism, world war two, military, military life, prison life, isolation, danger, wartime life, captivity, confined, genocide, prison ...
Time: 1940s
Place: usa, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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Uprising (2001)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 177 min.
Story: Jews rise up in the Warsaw Ghetto against the Nazis in 1943.
Style: uplifting, captivating, rough, serious, political ...
Plot: holocaust, world war two, jewish ghetto, resistance, anti semitism, nazi, ghetto, heroism, rebellion, human spirit, shoah, survival ...
Time: year 2001, 1940s, year 1943, 20th century
Place: germany, warsaw poland, europe, poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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4 Days in May (2011)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Germany, Russia, Ukraine
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A group of Russian soldiers are sent into Northern Germany at the tail-end of WWII, where they occupy a children's home in close proximity to a larger German unit. Against these odds, a friendship forms between a German orphan and a childless ...
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, suspense
Plot: holocaust, battles, world war two, military, love affair, military life, friendship, wartime life, basic training, hiding, russian soldier, boyhood ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1945
Place: ukraine, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
Army of Crime (2009)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: France
Duration: 139 min.
Story: This gripping historical drama recounts the story of Armenian-born Missak Manouchian, a woodworker and political activist who led an immigrant laborer division of the Parisian Resistance on 30 operations against the Nazis in 1943. The Nazis branded ...
Style: rough, realistic, serious, disturbing, sincere ...
Plot: world war two, resistance, gestapo, nazi, ss officer, poet, rebelliousness, danger, war, life is a bitch, idealism, human spirit ...
Time: 1940s, year 2009, 20th century, year 1942
Place: paris france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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