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Long Road in the Dunes (1982)
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Long Road in the Dunes (1982)
Original name: Долгая дорога в дюнах
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Soviet Union
TV show
Story: Love and betrayal in a small fishing village in Latvia from 1930s until the Soviet time. Time before WW2, during WW2, punishment in Siberia, Soviet Union, returning home, and above all that - undying love, that still survives no matter what. And, on top of that, Marta and Arthur share their love...
Plot: world war two, soviet army, father daughter relationship, anti capitalism, nazi, partisan, nazi germany, fisherman, bolshevik, red army, capitalist, nazi propaganda, anti communist, expatriate, nazi occupation, nazi soldier, soviet, seine river, military uniform, nazi uniform, romance
Place: latvia, ussr, soviet union

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, captivating and suspenseful films and TV series with plots about world war two, red army, great patriotic war, soldier, nazi, war and military uniform mostly in Drama, War and History genres. Some movies like Long Road in the Dunes: Seventeen Moments of Spring (1973), Front in the Rear of the Enemy (1982), The Dawns Here Are Quiet (1972), The Fight for Moscow (1985), Trial on the Road (1986). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Seventeen Moments of Spring (1973)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 69 min.
TV show
Story: The series is based on a true story of a Russian spy Colonel Isaev (Stirlitz) in Fascist Germany during 17 days in very end of WWII. Stirlitz has worked his way to the very top of the Fascist hierarchy without being caught. However, his ...
Style: serious, tense, captivating, suspenseful, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: world war two, spy, nazi, undercover agent, war, nazi germany, espionage, dishonesty, state affairs, undercover, gestapo, intrigue ...
Time: 1940s, year 1945, 20th century
Place: ussr, europe, germany, switzerland, russia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Front in the Rear of the Enemy (1982)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia
Duration: 161 min.
Story: A final episode in the trilogy about the Russian partisan's resistance during WWII. The film is set in 1944, when Russian partisans are making progress in their fighting against the Nazi occupation of Russia, Poland and Czechoslovakia. Lt. ...
Plot: world war two, soviet army, partisan, great patriotic war, nazi occupation, firearm
Place: ussr
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
The Dawns Here Are Quiet (1972)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 188 min.
Story: Based on the eponymous book by Boris Vasilyev, the film is set in Karelia (North-West of Russia, near Finland) in 1941 during WWII. In a beautiful and quiet wilderness far from the front-line there is an anti-aircraft artillery point, where corporal ...
Style: disturbing, tragic ending, epic, sad, serious ...
Plot: world war two, soviet army, soldier, great patriotic war, war, wartime life, heroic mission, military life, military, swamp, female soldier, friendship ...
Time: year 1942
Place: ussr, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
The Fight for Moscow (1985)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Vietnam
Duration: 358 min.
TV show
Story: A historic movie telling the story about a battle of Moscow during WWII.
Style: suspenseful, thought provoking, disturbing, rough
Audience: boys' night
Plot: world war two, great patriotic war, josef stalin, nazi, military, battles, heroism, life & death, heroes, bravery, human spirit, reconnaissance ...
Time: year 1941, 1940s
Place: russia, ussr, moscow russia, berlin germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
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Trial on the Road (1986)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A Russian POW joins the partisan guerrillas and proves his loyalty fighting the Nazis.
Style: political
Plot: great patriotic war, world war two, nazi, prisoners of war, redemption, partisan, collaborator, suspicion, nazi occupation, eastern front, soldier, pow ...
Time: 1940s
Place: russia, ussr
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
The Saboteurs (2015)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Norway, Denmark, UK, Czech Republic, Sweden
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
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.
Style: serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, tense
Plot: world war two, bomb, resistance, ambition, inventions and discoveries, heroic mission, soldier, military, moral dilemma, nazi, chemistry, atomic bomb ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, 1930s
Place: norway, europe, germany, england, scotland
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
The Alive and the Dead (1964)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 201 min.
Story: A Russian war correspondent is drafted into the war and finds himself in the middle of battle. When he loses his party card, however, he is treated as a deserter until he finds help from a kind man. This Soviet war feature was considerably outspoken ...
Style: epic
Plot: world war two, great patriotic war, cold weather, war correspondent, soviet army, soldier, red army, frontline, bombing, tank, russian soldier, uniform ...
Time: year 1941
Place: russia, ussr
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
Batallions Ask for Fire (1985)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 285 min.
TV show
Story: A story of a several days of intense fighting on the Eastern Front during one of the Soviet offensives in WWII.
Style: suspenseful, disturbing, rough
Audience: boys' night
Plot: world war two, red army, great patriotic war, war, military, battles, heroic mission, life & death, betrayal, patriotism, heroism, suspense ...
Time: 1940s, year 1942
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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They Fought for Their Country (1975)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 158 min.
Story: In July 1942, in the Second World War, the rearguard of the Russian army protects the bridgehead of the Don River against the German army while the retreating Russian troops cross the bridge. While they move back to the Russian territory through the ...
Style: heroic, suspenseful, rough, tense, sentimental
Audience: boys' night
Plot: world war two, red army, heroism, camaraderie, war, life & death, nazi, military, world war, retreat, eastern front, russian soldier ...
Time: 1940s, year 1942
Place: ussr, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
Attack and Retreat (1964)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Italy, Soviet Union
Duration: 137 min.
Story: Beautifully photographed and lyrically written, this largely factual account of Mussolini's disastrous invasion of Russia during World War II tells the story of an Italian regiment through the eyes of a farmer from Emilia, a plumber from Rome, ...
Style: macaroni combat
Plot: world war two, eastern front, politics, italian army, nazism, nazi, bravery, italian history, soldier, frozen, partisan, frostbite ...
Time: 1940s, year 1941, year 1942
Place: russia, ussr
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Fortress on Wheels (1961)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 78 min.
Story: A story about an armored train number 56 and his actions during WWII.
Plot: red army, soviet army, nazi soldier, russian soldier, great patriotic war, exploitation, world war two, train, german, tank, enemy, captain ...
Place: ukraine, ussr, kiev ukraine
⇓ similarity ⇓
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 229
Tank T-34 (1965)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Russian prisoners of war commandeer a tank and lead the Nazis on a cross-country chase in this World War II adventure drama. The Russians use their own tanks so the Nazis can use them as target practice to test a new anti-tank weapon. Knowing that ...
Plot: world war two, great patriotic war, tank, behind enemy lines, pow, self sacrifice, red army, armor, uniform
Place: ussr
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
 6.9
 540
The Hot Snow (1972)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 99 min.
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Time: year 1942
Place: russia, ussr
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Call Fire for Ourselves (1963)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 317 min.
TV show
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Style: realistic, bleak, thought provoking, rough
Audience: boys' night
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Country: UK
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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 8.4
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TV show
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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TV show
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⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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TV show
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⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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TV show
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⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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TV show
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Country: Soviet Union
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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TV show
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⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Check Passed: No Mines (1965)
Genre: War
Country: Yugoslavia, Soviet Union
Duration: 88 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 6.8
 2K
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Duration: 173 min.
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Style: psychological, suspenseful, unusual plot structure, captivating, exciting ...
Plot: world war two, partisan, german soldier, nazi germany, pow, eastern front, defector, border crossing, escape, jail, abuse, loyalty ...
Time: year 1945, 1940s, year 1956, post world war two, year 1944
Place: berlin germany, germany, east berlin, hamburg germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
The Auschwitz Report (2021)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Slovakia, Czech Republic, Poland, Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story: This is the true story of Freddy and Walter – two young Slovak Jews, who were deported to Auschwitz in 1942. On 10 April 1944, after meticulous planning and with the help and the resilience of their inmates, they manage to escape. While the ...
Style: disturbing, tense
Plot: concentration camp, nazi, nazi occupation, world war two, male nudity, wartime life, suspense, nazism, wartime, jewish, war violence, prisoner of war camp ...
Time: 1940s, year 1944
Place: germany, central europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 6.9
 111
Vasiliy Stalin (2013)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Russia, Belarus, Ukraine
Duration: 53 min.
TV show
Story: General lieutenant at 26, a womanizer and a booze-hound, Vasily Stalin has always lived a life too scandalous for the Soviet Union and yet too insignificant to ever escape the shadow of his larger-then-life father. The dictator's sudden death ...
Style: captivating, sentimental, exciting, melancholic, disturbing
Plot: dictator, josef stalin, father son relationship, stalinism, world war two, aviator, pilot, alcoholic, war crime, binge drinking, totalitarian regime, father son conflict ...
Time: 1940s, year 1945
Place: ussr, moscow russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Tomorrow Was the War (1987)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 89 min.
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Place: ussr, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%