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The Man Who Lies (1968)
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Original name: L'Homme qui ment
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France, Italy, Czechoslovakia
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
This enigmatic, plodding story concerns a man who may or may not have betrayed a resistance fighter in his hometown during World War II. He has supposedly been shot down by the Nazis and wanders into town. Mourning the death of an unseen comrade, he is taken in by the family of the dead rebel. He engages in a superfluous affair and witnesses the lesbian relationship between the man's sister and a female servant. When passions subside, the family has doubts about the reliability of the man's ...
Style:
psychological, art film, existential, melancholic, meditative, suspenseful, period piece, experimental, allegory, noir
Plot:
world war two, moral ambiguity, ambiguity, betrayal, deception, memory, resistance, identity, suspicion, character study, ethical dilemma, post war, intrigue, isolation, occupation, grief, male protagonist, family drama, small town, mourning, hiding, intimate, lesbian relationship, claustrophobia, sexual tension ...
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Most similar movies to The Man Who Lies
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out melancholic, art house, period piece and bleak films with plots about world war two, survival, betrayal, moral ambiguity, loss, identity and occupation mostly in Drama, War and Romance genres. Some movies like The Man Who Lies: Liten Ida (1981), Holy Week (1995), Strange Gardens (2003), Fall of the Eagles (1989), Evening Bells (1986). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Norway, Sweden
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Little Ida's mother is working for the Germans during WW2, and she is also having a relationship with a German SS-officer. Ida is experiencing the problems of having a mother who is involved with the enemy, without being old enough to ...
Style:
historical drama, period piece, melancholic, realistic, bleak ...
Plot:
world war two, mother daughter relationship, collaboration, family drama, loss of innocence, trauma, betrayal, guilt, intimate, identity, haunting, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
1940s
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95%
245
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Poland, Germany, France
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
During the Nazi era, a Jewish woman on the run takes a trolley which passes near the Warsaw ghetto, where the uprising battle is taking place, and some passengers are struck by stray bullets. They take temporary refuge in an empty building, and ...
Style:
tension, period piece, bleak, historical drama, atmospheric ...
Plot:
world war two, holocaust, nazi occupation, suspicion, hiding, anti semitism, survival, fear, neighbor, moral ambiguity, memory, accomplice ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
poland, warsaw poland
Similarity:
87%
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, tense, captivating, poignant ...
Plot:
world war two, occupied france, occupation, sabotage, resistance, french resistance, friendship, nazi occupation, german occupation, father son relationship, family secret, fight ...
Time:
1940s, year 2003
Place:
france
Similarity:
75%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Style:
historical drama, period piece, emotional, dark, atmospheric ...
Plot:
world war two, nazi germany, moral ambiguity, political conflict, love triangle, espionage, resistance, forbidden love, character study, tragedy, betrayal, courage ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
germany
Similarity:
72%
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Trials and tribulations of a Croatian Communist intellectual in the turbulent years before, during and after WW2.
Style:
melancholic, historical drama, bleak, intellectual, atmospheric ...
Plot:
world war two, communism, moral dilemma, character study, trauma, identity crisis, occupation, political persecution, repression, persecution, loss, survival ...
Time:
1940s, 1950s
Place:
former yugoslavia, croatia, balkan
Similarity:
71%
112
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Serbia, Hungary
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A story of a Jewish-Hungarian-Serbian family. The plot is centered about trying of an adult son to reconstruct his childhood dream of and memories. Looms, but a sunken world, the central European town with its figures, the way to experiencing deep ...
Style:
melancholic, poignant, atmospheric, tragicomedy, period piece ...
Plot:
father son relationship, memory, family drama, madness, loneliness, childhood, identity, sadness, nostalgia, intimate, humiliation, dream ...
Time:
year 1942
Place:
central europe, balkan
Similarity:
66%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
An intimate portrait of a woman's mental confrontation and drifting between dream and reality after experiencing loss.
Style:
psychological, melancholic, contemplative, emotional, art house ...
Plot:
mental health, grief, character study, intimate, female protagonist, loss, loneliness, memory, isolation, confrontation, identity, minimalism ...
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy, France, Spain
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
From Hell To Victory follows the relationship of six friends throughout the Second World War. They meet in a cafe in Paris on 24th August 1939 and agree to meet there on the same day every year. The war however takes them on their own individual ...
Style:
period piece, tense, realistic, political, grim ...
Plot:
world war two, soldier, nazi, world war, occupation, commando, friendship, liberation, military, resistance, combat, survival ...
Time:
1940s, year 1979, 1930s
Place:
paris france, amsterdam, france
Similarity:
55%
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Colourful 'optimistic tragedy' of a poor family in Ukraine, living in the Carpathian mountains near the Romanian border, during the Second World War. This epic, which won the grand prize at the Moscow Film Festival in 1971, chronicles a ...
Style:
historical drama, emotional, bleak, period piece, melancholic ...
Plot:
world war two, survival, tragedy, family drama, poverty, occupation, family bonds, political conflict, loss, identity, loss of innocence, nationalism ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
ukraine, soviet union, romania, poland, ussr
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
In this wartime drama, a young soldier spends much of stint in Vietnam remembering his life and his 12 love affairs. The story ends before he can have a 13th.
Style:
independent film, psychological, existential, surreal, experimental ...
Plot:
vietnam war, memory, war trauma, post traumatic stress, flashback, identity crisis, mature, male protagonist, alienation, confession, intimate, autobiography ...
Place:
vietnam
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK, Yugoslavia
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
World War II finally reaches a Yugoslavian lake, where a lifeguard shelters a refugee and her son.
Style:
historical drama, suspense, melancholic, period piece, political ...
Plot:
world war two, partisan, refugee, nazi, summer, lifeguard, ethical dilemma, occupation, danger, river, widow, coming of age ...
Time:
year 1944
Place:
former yugoslavia
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama
Country: Estonia, France
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
After 27-year-old Karmen's father dies, the security structures of her previous life start falling apart, as her relationship with her half-brother Viktor also deteriorates, and she faces the darkness and emptiness of the universe.
Style:
psychological, melancholic, poignant, existential, dark ...
Plot:
grief, female protagonist, loss, dysfunctional family, mourning, young adult, character study, secrets, identity crisis, betrayal, isolation, trauma ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Croatia
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A young American is trying to find a man from her past, but he is never to be found, during the largest conflict on European soil since World War II – the battle of Vukovar. It is a search of identity and truth at a place where truth is selective, ...
Style:
captivating, thrilling, psychological, reflective, emotional ...
Plot:
identity, obsessive quest, problem, conflict, identity crisis, waking up, trauma, quest, freedom, truth, redemption, connection ...
Place:
croatia
Similarity:
47%
164
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Praxis peels away the layers of narrative even as Brian, the film's axis, struggles to create his true self. Brian, a writer on the verge of a breakdown, is aided by Joe and an Elusive Woman as he sifts through the fragments of his persona to ...
Style:
psychological, existential, philosophical, art film, surreal ...
Plot:
male pubic hair, male nudity, gay interest, gay, lgbt, lgbtq, self discovery, identity, identity crisis, mental breakdown, character study, alienation ...
Similarity:
46%
306
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy, Brazil, Hungary
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A man who grew up an orphan finally gets to meet his father: The psychopath Dr. Josef Mengele, the Auschwitz surgeon who performed genetic experiments on concentration camp refugees during WWII.
Style:
suspense, captivating, intense, serious, disturbing ...
Plot:
world war two, nazi, father son relationship, psychopath, family reunited, orphan, parent child relationship, experiment, father son reunion, war criminal, concentration camp, holocaust ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
brazil
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A Cape Verdean woman navigates her way through Lisbon, following the scanty physical traces her deceased husband left behind and discovering his secret, illicit life.
Style:
slow cinema, contemplative, art film, art house, disturbing ...
Plot:
female protagonist, mourning, loss, grief, intimate, character study, secret, immigrant, immigration, haunting, identity, memory ...
Place:
lisbon portugal, africa, west africa
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Hungary
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
In the final days of World War II, a young Hungarian is making his way home, through countryside full of the debris of war, when he is captures and imprisoned by Russians. Left in the custody of a young Russian soldier, the two youths form a ...
Style:
lyrical, psychological, political, tension, reflective ...
Plot:
world war two, coming of age, young soldier, friendship, post war, pow, female nudity, survival, soviet soldier, teenage protagonist, countryside, minimalism ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
hungary
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Azerbaijan, Mexico, Switzerland, UK, Turkey
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Davud returns from war to find everyone in his village has succumbed to a strange illness and has decomposed. His sister, the only survivor, is slowly rotting away herself. Davud is troubled by his memories as a soldier, as he confronts the only ...
Style:
existential, bleak, reflective, grim, atmospheric ...
Plot:
isolation, loneliness, survivor, trauma, loss, grief, moral ambiguity, mourning, war veteran, post war, post apocalyptic, moral dilemma ...
Similarity:
44%
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
In Milan, in the winter of 1944, the ruthless Cane Nero leads the fascists against the partisans. Enne 2, one of the leading figures of the C.N.L., meets Berta, whom he loved three years ago, but Berta refuses to leave her husband for him. Enne 2 is ...
Style:
historical drama, serious, tension, bleak, atmospheric ...
Plot:
world war two, fascism, political conflict, occupation, persecution, moral ambiguity, oppression, betrayal, fear, violence, sacrifice, pursuit ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
milan italy, italy, turin italy
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Summer 1943, Piedmont, Italy. Milton loves Fulvia who plays with his love: she only likes the depth of his thought and the letters he writes to her. One year later, Milton has joined the Resistance and fights beside other partisans. He learns during ...
Style:
art house, suspense, historical drama, disturbing, psychological ...
Plot:
world war two, unrequited love, resistance, partisan, family problems, love triangle, male female relationship, couple relations, wartime, war, relationship problems, political conflict ...
Time:
1940s
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Slovenia, Ireland, Finland, Sweden
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
A man stays alone with his children in a half demolished house in the middle of a desolate field. His wife has just been killed by a grenade in a military battle. He is expecting a new attack. Instead a wandering caravan called Circus Fantasticus ...
Style:
surreal, touching, stylized, serious, atmospheric ...
Plot:
circus, hopes, wartime life, human spirit, performer's life, parents and children, family relations, life is a bitch, death in the family, magic realism, grief, mourning ...
Place:
poetic realism
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Denmark
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
When a folk high school is turned into an internment camp for German refugees, the headmaster couple Jakob and Lis and their children are thrust into an impossible situation. Should the family help the refugees - or stand firm in the Danish ...
Style:
suspenseful, captivating, psychological, serious, disturbing ...
Plot:
liberation, refugee camp, resistance, refugee, moral dilemma, occupation, world war, great war, wartime, prisoner of war camp, wartime life, war ...
Time:
year 1945, 1940s
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Story of three partisans whose fates are determined by different encounters with women.
Style:
emotional, psychological, intense, art house, political ...
Plot:
world war two, partisan, women, character study, conflict, resistance, survival, loss, moral ambiguity, intimate, fate, urban ...
Place:
berlin germany
Similarity:
40%
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306
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Greece
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Two stories set in northern Greece during World War II.
Style:
period piece, black and white, grim, bleak, psychological ...
Plot:
world war two, retreat, sacrifice, loss, tragedy, survival, desperation, battlefield, wounded, trauma, anti war, realism ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
greece
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Four partisans in the mountains and suffering from typhus are slowly destroyed.
Style:
grim, bleak, psychological, intense, melancholic ...
Plot:
typhus, partisan, mountain, survival, suffering, disease, struggle, world war two, death, isolation, realism, illness ...
Place:
former yugoslavia, croatia
Similarity:
39%
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, dramatic, captivating, serious, historical drama ...
Plot:
world war two, occupation, german occupation, resistance, freedom fighter, world war, wartime, nazism, war, fight, nazi soldier, nazi ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
denmark, copenhagen
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A story about a heroic nurse working for Soviet Intelligence during and after WWII.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, melancholic, medical drama
Audience:
adult
Plot:
reconnaissance, female protagonist, world war two, sacrifice, patriotism, resilience, espionage, courage, post war, survival, political intrigue, spy thriller ...
Place:
eastern europe, kiev ukraine, soviet union, ussr
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Austria, Germany
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
It is the beginning of 1945 during WW2 in former Austria. 500 Russian prisoners of war who have refused to fight on the side of the Germans against their country were moved to the concentration camp in Mauthausen awaiting execution. They decide to ...
Style:
historical drama, period piece, bleak, tension
Plot:
world war two, winter, escape, war crime, manhunt, persecution, survival, fear, barbarism, desperation, holocaust, collaboration ...
Place:
austria
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
The two enemies from war, Slovenian partisan Berk and German soldier Bitter, meet each other during holidays in Spain. Recalling the war through conversation, Berk remembers Anton, his fellow comrade he had spend the most time with.
Style:
psychological, dramatic, melancholic, reflective, period piece ...
Plot:
partisan, world war two, memory, flashback, anti war, german soldier, character study, memories, enemy, moral ambiguity, post war, reconciliation ...
Place:
spain
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
Darren Prager is an aspiring writer who finds himself completely unable to comprehend the intricacies of human behavior. Obsessed with finding the key to understanding the nature of character, he turns a co-worker's family into the unwitting ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, independent film, tense, experimental ...
Plot:
obsession, voyeurism, ethical dilemma, character study, moral ambiguity, social experiment, manipulation, isolation, male protagonist, identity crisis, experimental narrative, alienation ...
Time:
2000s
Similarity:
34%
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