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Fanny's Journey (2016)
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Fanny's Journey (2016)
Original name: Le voyage de Fanny
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Fanny is a Jewish girl in a French orphanage in 1943. When she and her friends are no longer safe from the Nazis, they try to flee to Switzerland. After their guide disappears, Fanny has to take the lead and help the other kids make it over the mountains.
Style: psychological, rough, thought provoking, touching, suspense
Audience: kids
Plot: holocaust, world war two, little girl, children, german soldier, female protagonist, border crossing, sister sister relationship, nazi, youth, friends, woman, wartime life, world war, money, train, escape, doll, baby, radio, girl, letter, interrogation, locked in, puppet ...
Time: year 1943
Place: france
Keyword: jewish

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, thought provoking, realistic and disturbing films with plots about world war two, nazi, holocaust, war, world war, wartime life and survival mostly in Drama, War and History genres. Some movies like Fanny's Journey: Across the Waters (2016), Jakob the Liar (1999), The Round Up (2010), Tombstone of the Fireflies (2008), Rosenstrasse (2003). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Across the Waters (2016)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Denmark
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Fuglene Over Sundet is the gripping tale of the Danish Jews' escape to Sweden in October 1943.
Style: exciting, unusual plot structure, thought provoking, touching, sincere
Plot: nazi occupation, world war two, husband wife relationship, german soldier, brother sister relationship, world war, judaism, holocaust, nazi soldier, guitarist, jazz, fisherman ...
Time: 1940s
Place: denmark, scandinavia, copenhagen
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Jakob the Liar (1999)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA, France, Germany
Duration: 120 min.
Story: In 1944 Poland, a Jewish shop keeper named Jakob is summoned to ghetto headquarters after being caught out after curfew. While waiting for the German Kommondant, Jakob overhears a German radio broadcast about Russian troop movements. Returned to the ...
Style: sad, cult classic, uplifting, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: holocaust, world war two, nazi, jewish ghetto, world war, gestapo, judaism, war, shoah, death, radio, lie ...
Time: 1940s, year 1999, 20th century
Place: poland, europe
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The Round Up (2010)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: France, Germany, Hungary
Duration: 115 min.
Story: 1942. Joseph is eleven. And this June morning, he must go to school, a yellow star sown on his chest. He receives the support of a goods dealer. The mockery of a baker. Between kindness and contempt, Jo, his Jewish friends, their families, learn of ...
Style: emotional, disturbing, thought provoking, bleak, realistic ...
Plot: holocaust, concentration camp, nazism, german occupation, holocaust survivor, world war two, nazi, world war, against humanity, injustice, genocide, nazi concentration camp ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, year 2009, post world war two, year 1942
Place: france, vichy, paris france, middle east, europe ...
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Tombstone of the Fireflies (2008)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Set during World War II, the film follows a young brother and sister as they attempt to survive the aftermath of the firebombing of Kobe City.
Style: psychological, suspense, rough, touching, disturbing
Plot: world war two, sibling relationship, bombing, firefly, brother sister relationship, little girl, wartime, survival, struggle for survival, war, life is a bitch, kids in trouble ...
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Rosenstrasse (2003)
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, emotional, touching, serious, contemplative ...
Plot: holocaust, nazi germany, world war two, anti semitism, nazi, wartime life, life is a bitch, human spirit, hopes, society, couple relations, world war ...
Time: 1940s, year 1943, 20th century
Place: berlin germany, germany, europe, new york, usa
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A Bag of Marbles (2017)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: France, Canada, Czech Republic
Duration: 110 min.
Story: In occupied France, Maurice and Joseph, two young Jewish brothers left to their own devices demonstrate an incredible amount of cleverness, courage, and ingenuity to escape the enemy invasion and to try to reunite their family once again.
Style: suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot: world war two, brother brother relationship, holocaust, ss, nazi occupation, nazi, german occupation, german soldier, soldier, military, danger, machismo ...
Time: 1940s, year 2017, year 1943, year 1942, year 1944
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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 Island on Bird Street (1997)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Denmark, UK, Germany, France
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Alex is an 11-year old boy who, during WWII, hides in the Jewish ghetto from Nazis after all the relatives have been sent to the concentration camp. The movie portrays the ghetto through his eyes.
Style: serious, realistic, tense, bleak, independent film ...
Plot: world war two, holocaust, jewish ghetto, youth, wartime life, ghetto, boy, nazi, children in wartime, coming of age, boy strangling, judaism ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: europe, poland, warsaw poland
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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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The Birdcatcher (2019)
Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: Norway, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Norway, 1942, during World War II. After being separated from her family, Esther, a young Jewish girl from Trondheim, arrives at an isolated farm where she must assume a new identity in order to survive the Nazi persecution.
Style: suspense, tense, thought provoking, suspenseful, heartbreaking ...
Plot: world war two, gender disguise, nazi occupation, woman dressed as man, holocaust, holocaust survivor, pretending to be someone else, cross dressing, false identity, fascism, war violence, world war ...
Time: year 1942, 1940s
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My Honor Was Loyalty (2016)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Captain Ludwig Herckel a devoted and patriotic soldier of the SS Leibstandarte fights in every major conflict from the Eastern front to the battle of the bulge. Fiercely loyal to his country and his brothers in arms, loved by his men, Herckel will ...
Style: thought provoking, heartbreaking, suspense, disturbing, bleak ...
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Female Agents (2008)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 148 min.
Story: May 1944, a group of French servicewomen and resistance fighters are enlisted into the British Special Operations Executive commando group under the command of Louise Desfontaines and her brother Pierre. Their mission, to rescue a British army ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspense, tense, historical drama ...
Plot: world war two, french resistance, wartime life, resistance, female agent, rescue, spy, betrayal, heroic mission, d day, hospital, military ...
Time: 1940s, year 1945, year 1944
Place: paris france, france, london, europe, england ...
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45%
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Hatred (2016)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 150 min.
Story: Summer of 1939. Zosia is a young Polish girl who is deeply in love with Ukrainian Petro. Their great love will be put to the test when her father decides to marry her to a wealthy widower Skiba. Right after wedding she is left alone because her ...
Style: tense, thought provoking, suspense, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot: genocide, world war two, war atrocity, massacre, murder, nazi occupation, wedding, torture, female protagonist, village, baby, husband wife relationship ...
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Duration: 105 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Come What May (2015)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 114 min.
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Genre: Drama, War
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Time: 1940s, year 1942, 1930s
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⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
The Invisibles (2017)
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Drama, History, War
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Style: suspense, psychological, suspenseful, sincere, thought provoking ...
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Time: 1940s, year 1943, 20th century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Goodbye, Children (1987)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France, West Germany, Italy
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A French boarding school run by priests seems to be a haven from World War II until a new student arrives. He becomes the roommate of top student in his class. Rivals at first, the roommates form a bond and share a secret.
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Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1987
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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 ...
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Germany, Czech Republic
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Story: Summer 1944, Schwäbisch Hall. Contrary to the war propaganda and the decreed heroism, the 16-year-old boys dream of Swing music, sex and freedom - and of Lore, the air force helper from the air base, who attracts all eyes in her red swimsuit. At ...
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The Zookeeper's Wife (2017)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
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Style: factual, rough, sad, costume drama, suspense ...
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Audience: kids
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Time: 20th century, 1940s
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Genre: Drama
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Style: captivating, thrilling, psychological
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Set in 1942, The Jewish wife she worked for before the war hires her to take her young daughter to the countryside until the war is over.
Plot: world war two, holocaust, wartime life, jewish ghetto, jewess, elderly woman, soldier, mishap, empathy, little girl, train, sacrifice ...
Time: 1940s
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⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank (1988)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story: During the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam, Otto Frank decides to hide his family, who are Jewish, after his daughter Margot is called to appear for transport to a Nazi labour camp. Miep Gies, Otto Frank's office assistant hides them in the attic ...
Style: thought provoking, serious, realistic, bleak, disturbing
Plot: holocaust, world war two, nazi, world war, anti semitism, journal, biopic, injustice, against humanity, hopes, confined, human spirit ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, 1930s
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⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
The Liberation of Skopje (2016)
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Story: Eight-year-old Zoran is the hero of this story set in Skopje during the German occupation of the city in World War II. Through his eyes, we experience all the cruelty, poverty and suffering of wartime. A love affair between his Macedonian mother and ...
Style: tense, thought provoking, suspense, rough, psychological
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Marie's Children (2002)
Genre: Drama, War
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Duration: 91 min.
Story: During the German occupation of France, a young woman - Marie - finds a Jewish boy in her room. His parents and other Jewish neighbors have been just been deported, but Maurice (the boy) escaped. Marie decides to hide him, secretly.
Style: thrilling, captivating, psychological
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Dara of Jasenovac (2020)
Genre: Drama, War
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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 ...
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