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The Quality of Mercy (1994)
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The Quality of Mercy (1994)
Original name: Hasenjagd - Vor lauter Feigheit gibt es kein Erbarmen
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 break out. One winter night the Russian prisoners make an escape. During the following shooting a great number of them gets killed. Some, however, succeed to hide in nearby villages. But the German Nazis convince the inhabitants of the villages to hunt the prisoners "like rabbits".
Plot: world war two, winter, world war, nazi, escape, prisoner, death, murder, concentration camp, manhunt, war crime, resistance, russian soldier, execution, male nudity
Place: austria

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, black and white, independent film and captivating films with plots about world war two, nazi, world war, death, murder, escape and execution mostly in Drama, War and History genres. Some movies like The Quality of Mercy: Iron Cross (2009), Dara of Jasenovac (2020), The Boys from St. Petri (1991), The Silent Raid (1962), Persian Lessons (2020). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Iron Cross (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Joseph (Roy Scheider) a retired New York police officer and Holocaust survivor, travels to Nuremberg to visit his son Ronnie (Scott Cohen) years after turning his back on him for rejecting a promising career in the NYPD and marrying a local artist, ...
Plot: world war two, family relations, nazi, haunted by the past, assassin, interracial marriage, execution, justice, murder, revenge
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Dara of Jasenovac (2020)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Serbia
Duration: 130 min.
Story: During the Nazi-occupied Ustasha regime "NDH" in former Yugoslavia during WWII, little girl Dara is sent to the concentration camp complex Jasenovac in Croatia also known as "Balkan's Auschwitz".
Style: suspense, thought provoking, suspenseful, disturbing, sincere ...
Plot: concentration camp, world war two, hospital, execution, war, world war, nazi, prison, starving child, dead body, homicide, rural setting ...
Time: 1940s
Place: serbia, germany, soviet union, croatia
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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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The Silent Raid (1962)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 98 min.
Story: 1944. Resistance-fighter Bakker gets send to a prison in Leeuwarden by the Gestapo. There he and other resistance-fighters are about to be rescued in a giant prison escape by their companions
Plot: world war two, resistance movement, prison escape, nazi, world war, military prison, escape, pow, caper, prison, resistance fighter, resistance ...
Place: netherlands
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Persian Lessons (2020)
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, suspense, independent film
Plot: concentration camp, world war two, german soldier, military, lie, pretending to be someone else, labor camp, wartime life, holocaust, german officer, soldier, con trick ...
Time: 1940s, year 1942, year 1945, 20th century
Place: germany
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One-Two, Soldiers Were Going... (1977)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 87 min.
Story: The families of 18 soldiers who heroically died in 1944 are meeting at the place of the squad last battle.
Style: thought provoking, sentimental, atmospheric, realistic, compassionate
Plot: world war two, death, parents and children, murder, storytelling, danger, winter, world war, russian soldier, family relations, soviet soldier, killed in action ...
Time: year 1944, year 1974
Place: soviet union, russia
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Wedding (1973)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia, Soviet Union
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Beginning in 1943. year. The tragic story of the prisoners... partisans and others who were found in a prison in Montenegro at the time when the Chetniks and the occupiers at all costs they want to crush the uprising in Yugoslavia.
Plot: world war two, partisan, wedding, liberation, escape, prisoner, girl, prison, murder, death, fear, cold the temperature ...
Time: year 1943
Place: former yugoslavia, montenegro
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The Highest Honor (1982)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Australia, Japan
Duration: 144 min.
Story: On 11 September 1944, a squad of 23 Australian and British soldiers lead by Lieutanant-Colonel Ivan Lyon leave Fremantle bound for Indonesia as part of Operation Rimau, an attempted repeat of the highly-successful Operation Jaywick the previous year ...
Style: independent film
Plot: world war two, world war, humanist, decapitation, revisionist history, japanese occupation, harbor, ship, captain, cambridge university, british, atomic bomb ...
Time: 1940s
Place: singapore, indonesia, sydney australia, australia
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Black Birds (1967)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 85 min.
Story: WW2 story about group of prisoners who are trying to escape the death camp, run by local pro-Nazi militia.
Plot: world war two, partisan, nazi concentration camp, group, death, escape, cruelty, civil war, nazi, prison
Time: 1940s
Place: croatia
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Die letzte Schlacht (2005)
Genre: War, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 105 min.
Story: April 1945: In the demolished and bombed-out streets of Berlin the civilian population tries to survive the last days of Nazi rule and to hide from marauding Red Army forces.
Plot: world war two, nazi, german soldier, combat casualty, german history, red army, nazi germany, russian soldier, demolished city
Time: 1940s
Place: berlin germany
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Johnny the Partisan (2000)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 135 min.
Story: After the 8th September 1943 north of Italy is occupied by Germans. Italian army collapsed and the soldiers are escaped to the mountains trying to set up a resistance. Many civilians did the same and Johnny, an English literature student, is among ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, exciting, bleak
Plot: resistance, world war two, resistance movement, partisan, murder, war zone, fascism, wartime life, italian history, nazi, world war, holocaust ...
Time: 1940s
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24%
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The roundup (1965)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Greece
Duration: 74 min.
Story: One of filmmaker and expatriate writer Adonis Kyrou's best-known quotes translates roughly as "I urge you: Learn to look at 'bad' films, they are so often sublime." The same could be said of Kyrou's own directorial work ...
Plot: resistance, world war two, dilemma, nazi, occupation, traitor, black market, execution, german occupation, roadblock, night
Time: 1940s
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Eight Kilos of Happiness (1980)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A film about an incident in the last war when a gypsy girl sacrifices herself for her lover, a partisan who has deserted.
Plot: world war two, desertion, murder, singing, fear, death, execution, gypsy, river, nazi, prayer
Time: year 1941
Place: former yugoslavia, serbia
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The Escape (1987)
Genre: War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The tragic story of a group of prisoners, ordinary people, were detained in the camp at Lager in Naise at the beginning of WWII, after that mighty torture and abuse by the Germans, will try escape from the camp. A few succeeded.
Plot: world war two, partisan, concentration camp, group, death, massacre, murder, night, son, escape, fear, death of father ...
Time: year 1941
Place: former yugoslavia, serbia
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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
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The 25th Hour (1967)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France, Italy, Yugoslavia
Duration: 130 min.
Story: A Romanian peasant fights to get back to his family after he's imprisoned by the Nazis.The picture is based on real events. It includes Hungary's government in collaboration with the Nazis, the encroachment of Romania by Stalin's ...
Plot: world war two, nazi, world war, racism, wartime, war, peasant, jew persecution, village, deportation, volunteer, holocaust ...
Time: 1940s, year 1967
Place: romania, hungary
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Kozara (1962)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 124 min.
Story: In June of 1942 Germans and their collaborators decide to get rid of partisans and their stronghold in the woods of Mount Kozara in Northern Bosnia. They encircle the mountain and begin the mop up operation. Out gunned and outnumbered the partisans ...
Style: epic, crying, black and white
Plot: world war two, partisan, world war, mountain, fate, inhumanity, woods, war crime, dead body, assault, villager, escape ...
Time: year 1942
Place: bosnia, bosnia herzegovina, former yugoslavia, balkan
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Genre: Drama, History, War
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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 ...
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Time: year 1945, 1940s
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Style: suspenseful, captivating, serious, dramatic
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Time: 1940s
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Hideouts (1986)
Genre: Drama, War
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Duration: 100 min.
Story: In this well-photographed and sometimes confusing wartime drama, an Austrian village experiences the tragedy of war on several different levels. Within one family, the younger son is jealous of the praise his father gives to a Polish POW who is ...
Plot: informant, typhus, teenage boy, father son relationship, brother brother relationship, death, betrayal, world war two, prisoner, husband wife relationship, death of brother, german army ...
Time: 1940s
Place: austria, alps
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Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: France, Canada, Hungary
Duration: 145 min.
Story: Polish Martin Gray (Michael York) recalls the Holocaust, New York prosperity, and losing his wife (Brigitte Fossey) and family.
Plot: holocaust, world war two, nazi, revolution, freedom, struggle, revolutionary, world war, revolutionary war, terror, immigration, army ...
Place: eastern europe, warsaw poland, europe, usa
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Paradise (2016)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Russia, Germany
Duration: 130 min.
Story: The historical drama set during the Second World War centres on three people whose paths cross: a Russian aristocratic emigrant and member of the French resistance, a French collaborator and a high-ranking German SS officer.
Style: psychological, rough, touching, black and white, philosophical
Plot: prison, concentration camp, world war two, nazi collaborator, interrogation, nazi, holocaust, dictator, nazism, genocide, slavery, post soviet ...
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story: By 1941, Adolf Hitler had taken personal command of the German military apparatus. His initial successes made this seem like a good idea at the time, but by 1944, after an unparalleled series of military defeats that Hitler refused even to ...
Plot: guesthouse, waitress, politician, world war two, flashback, guilt, money, propaganda, justice, betrayal, naivete, war criminal ...
Time: post world war two, 1920s
Place: germany
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: August 1943, Europe. The tentacles of the German octopus have begun to recoil. As the Nazis retreat, their concern focuses on the supply of oil from the refineries of Romania. Without the flow of "black gold", Germany's doom is ...
Plot: world war two, partisan, hanged man, nazi, river, violence, machine gun, death, train, murder, blood, traitor ...
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: East Germany
Duration: 124 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: deep, crying, inspirational, complex
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Fact based drama about one of the internment camps used by the American military during World War II to detain some 100,000 Japanese Americans (most of them U.S. born) following Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor.
Plot: world war two, usa history, concentration camp, japanese american
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 96 min.
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Style: political, black and white
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The Great Escape II: The Untold Story (1988)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 178 min.
Story: Allied prisoners tunnel out of a stalag, then return to avenge fellow escapees executed by the Nazis.
Plot: world war two, prison, revolutionary war, military prison, prisoner, freedom, revolution, struggle, prison escape, pow, escape, nazi ...
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The Trek (1968)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 83 min.
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Style: black and white
Plot: world war two, partisan, farmer, calf, fate, hiding place, death, escape, fear, murder, blood, massacre ...
Time: year 1943
Place: serbia, former yugoslavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Concentration camp commander Kraft finds out that prisoner Kominek is a former professional boxer. Overnight, the prisoner is made Kraft's exercise partner and unwillingly rises to a privileged position at the camp. His anger over the death of ...
Plot: world war two, boxing, boxer, nazi, prisoner, escape, concentration camp, starvation, nazism, prizefight, fighting
Place: eastern europe
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