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Hella W (2011)
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Hella W (2011)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Finland, Estonia
Duration: 82 min.
Story: The life of a heroine. The life and work of Hella Wuolijoki. A poet, spy and millionaire, she turned into an internationally acclaimed businesswoman, politician and playwright, who collaborated with Europe's leading writers such as Bertolt Brecht and Maxim Gorky, but faced the harshness of a changing world as the Finnish, Soviet and British secret services focus on her life, family and work.
Style: captivating, psychological, tense, factual
Plot: spy, playwright, world war two, writers, prisoner, politics, power, women in society, business, divorce, interrogation, jail, husband wife relationship, treason, stage play, female writer, art, biopic, prison, strong female lead, businesswoman, politician, high society, mother daughter relationship, soviet spy ...
Time: 1940s, year 1936, year 1941, year 1942, year 1943, 1930s, 1920s ...
Place: finland, stockholm sweden, helsinki finland, soviet union, ussr

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, tense, psychological and suspenseful films with plots about world war two, biopic, nazi, world war, war, politics and military mostly in Drama, War and Biography genres. Some movies like Hella W: The Interrogation (2009), De Gaulle (2020), Milada (2017), Where Once We Walked (2011), Beyond the Front Line (2004). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Interrogation (2009)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Finland
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Nuori nainen on saanut kutsun saapua poliisin kuultavaksi. Hän pelkää joutuvansa ansaan. Hän on täydellistä suomenkieltä puhuva Neuvosto-desantti, joka on varomattomuuttaan jättänyt vakoiluradionsa pesulaan säilytettäväksi.
Plot: russo finnish war, police interrogation, humanist, spying, convict, soviet spy, military officer, russian spy, socialist, cell, female spy, breakdown ...
Time: 1940s, year 1942, year 1943, year 1944
Place: soviet union, finland
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95%
Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe (2016)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Austria, Germany, France
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Before Dawn charts the years of exile in the life of famous Jewish Austrian writer Stefan Zweig, his inner struggle for the "right attitude" towards the events in war torn Europe and his search for a new home.
Style: exciting, thought provoking, captivating, sincere, touching ...
Plot: writers, literature, husband wife relationship, exile, world war two, writing a book, ex husband ex wife relationship, judaism, art, sociology, politics, biopic ...
Time: 1940s, 1930s, year 1941, year 1942, year 1936
Place: germany, new york, buenos aires argentina, brazil
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69%
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De Gaulle (2020)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: France
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Paris, June 1940. The de Gaulle couple is confronted with the military and political collapse of France. Charles de Gaulle joins London while Yvonne, his wife, finds herself with her three children on the road of the exodus.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, captivating, psychological, interesting
Plot: world war two, french history, husband wife relationship, french president, politician, political leader, politics, political unrest, world politics, philosopher, flashback, male pubic hair ...
Time: 1940s, year 1940
Place: france, paris france, brittany, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
 6.3
 1K
Milada (2017)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Czech Republic, USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: The story of communist show-trial victim Milada Horáková. Horáková was one of the first victims of the communist regime in Czechoslovakia. She opposed the communist coup in 1948 but did not leave the country. She was arrested and tried for ...
Style: exciting, suspenseful, captivating, touching, tense
Plot: lawyer, european history, world war two, husband wife relationship, jail, trial, politics, strong female character, sister sister relationship, courtroom, strong female lead, female protagonist ...
Time: 20th century, 1950s
Place: prague, central europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
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Where Once We Walked (2011)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Finland
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Otso "The Main Man" Hultkrantz is playing the leading role of the young Allu Kajander in Where We Once Walked, based on a novel about a civil war raging between the Red and the White in Finland.
Style: captivating, factual, tense, psychological, family saga
Plot: class struggle, civil war, working class, social class, revenge, politics, lower class, socialist, unrequited love, revolutionary, society, rivalry ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, year 1918, 1910s, 1930s ...
Place: helsinki finland, finland, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
Beyond the Front Line (2004)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Finland
Duration: 127 min.
Story: A movie based on real wartime diaries tells the story of the Swedish speaking Finns' infantry regiment 61. The story follows the regiment during the Continuation War from 1942 to 1944 and from Syväri to the Karelian Isthmus where they faced ...
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, tense
Plot: world war two, military, soldier, wartime life, heroic mission, against humanity, chaos and mayhem, battles, politics, state affairs, war, russo finnish war ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1943, year 2002, year 1942 ...
Place: finland, russia, europe, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
The Good Traitor (2020)
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: Denmark
Duration: 115 min.
Story: The Danish ambassador to Washington declares himself to be the sole representative of a free Denmark during the Nazi occupation of the country.
Style: psychological, captivating
Plot: world war two, ambassador, treason, consul, nazi, diplomat, wartime, political unrest, political intrigue, nazism, wartime life, politics ...
Time: 1940s
Place: greenland, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Prisoners of Auschwitz (2013)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Slovakia, Czech Republic
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Arnost Lustig was one of the world's most renowned literary authors of our times. Lustig's novel 'A girl from Antwerp' upon which our film Colette is based, draws on the author's personal Nazi Concentration Camp experience ...
Style: psychological, captivating, touching, tense
Plot: concentration camp, holocaust, world war two, auschwitz, prisoner, doctor, execution, sex scene, love and romance, couples, danger, society ...
Time: 1940s
Place: central europe, prague, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Churchill (2017)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A ticking-clock thriller following Winston Churchill in the 24 hours before D-Day.
Style: factual, educational, disturbing, political, independent film ...
Plot: winston churchill, world war two, politician, prime minister, biopic, invasion, husband wife relationship, d day, courage, world war, war, risk ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 2017, year 1944
Place: england, normandy, britain, united kingdom
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
The Eternal Road (2017)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Finland, Estonia, Sweden
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Based on true events an epic story of one man's struggle for survival. Jussi Ketola, returns to Finland from the great depression struck America only to face growing political unrest. One summer night of 1930, nationalist thugs violently abduct ...
Style: suspense, psychological, tense, suspenseful, thought provoking ...
Plot: immigrant, espionage, great depression, communism, family relations, secret police, idealism, fear, mass murder, violence, american history, getting home ...
Time: 1930s, year 1931, year 1938, year 1937
Place: soviet union, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Jew Suss: Rise and Fall (2010)
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: Germany, Austria
Duration: 114 min.
Story: This intricate historical drama tells the story of actor Ferdinand Marian (Tobias Moretti), who is ordered by Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels to star in the 1940 anti-Semitic film Jew Suss. Despite his cooperation, Ferdinand's actions have ...
Style: realistic, captivating, psychological, factual, sad ...
Plot: anti semitism, world war two, nazi germany, propaganda, actor's life, rise and fall, filmmaking, movie business, introspection, politics, showbiz, political unrest ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, 1930s
Place: austria, europe, berlin germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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
Place: paris france, nice france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 6.3
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All Is True (2018)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A look at the final days in the life of playwright William Shakespeare.
Style: captivating, tense, touching, psychological, historical drama ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: playwright, british history, shakespeare, historical figure, father daughter relationship, family secret, death of son, retirement, church, tudors, writers, biopic ...
Time: ancient times, 17th century
Place: united kingdom
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
The King's Choice (2016)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Ireland
Duration: 133 min.
Story: On 9 April 1940, German soldiers arrive in the city of Oslo. The King of Norway faces a choice that will change his country forever. The King's Choice is a story about the three most dramatic days in Norway's history, the royal ...
Style: exciting, suspenseful, suspense, tense, melancholic ...
Plot: world war two, royal family, invasion, evacuation, democracy, wehrmacht, german occupation, king, hitler, crown prince, young soldier, world war ...
Time: 1940s, year 1940
Place: germany, scandinavia, eastern europe, oslo norway
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Brecht (2019)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Germany, Austria, Czech Republic
Duration: 187 min.
Story: Bertolt Brecht, a theatre revolutionary, poet of the state, outsider, looks back on his life in 1956, the year of his death, in East Berlin: adolescent provocations in Augsburg during the First World War, early poetic and amorous flights of fancy in ...
Style: tense, psychological, disturbing, thought provoking, fun
Plot: playwright, nazi, poet, nazism, world war one, german culture, literature, art, biopic, life, female nudity, poem ...
Time: 1920s, 1940s, 1930s, 1950s, 50s ...
Place: germany, berlin germany, east germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 7.2
 2K
Hamsun (1996)
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Germany
Duration: 159 min.
Story: Knut Hamsun is Norway's most famous and admired author. Ever since he was young he has hated the English for the starvation they caused Norway during WWI. When the Germans occupy Norway 9 April 1940 he welcomes them and the protection they can ...
Style: sad, realistic, serious, emotional, sincere ...
Plot: world war two, holocaust, writers, world war, nazi, war, poet, biopic, writer's life, nobel prize winner, totalitarian state, fascism ...
Time: 1940s, year 1996, 1930s
Place: europe, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Fat Man and Little Boy (1989)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 127 min.
Story: This film reenacts the Manhattan Project, the secret wartime project in New Mexico where the first atomic bombs were designed and built.
Style: factual, suspense, intense, serious, realistic ...
Plot: world war two, nuclear bomb, atomic bomb, scientist, military, biopic, idealism, politics, scientific research, nuclear, ego clash, moral dilemma ...
Time: 1940s, year 1945, 20th century
Place: usa, new mexico, bay area
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 5.9
 4K
Eichmann (2007)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Hungary, UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Based upon the final confession of Adolf Eichmann, made before his execution in Israel, of his role in Hitler's plan for the final solution.
Style: serious, captivating, tense, sincere, disturbing ...
Plot: nazi, holocaust, legal, nazi war criminal, anti semitism, life is a bitch, prison, genocide, courtroom, confined, society, investigation ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, 60s, post world war two, 50s ...
Place: europe, israel, middle east, budapest
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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A Hidden Life (2019)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 174 min.
Story: The Austrian Franz Jägerstätter, a conscientious objector, refuses to fight for the Nazis in World War II and is executed by them in 1943. Opening at Jägerstätter’s home in Austria’s countryside, the film follows Franz and his wife, Fani, ...
Style: political, psychological, thought provoking, romantic, captivating ...
Audience: date night
Plot: world war two, clergy, farmer, trial, military, catholic, prisoner, courtroom, prison life, treason, love, world war ...
Time: 1940s, year 2019, 2010s, year 1943, year 1942 ...
Place: austria, germany, alps, berlin germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
The Scarlet and the Black (1983)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA, UK, Italy
Duration: 143 min.
Story: Fr. Hugh O'Flaherty is a Vatican official in 1943-45 who has been hiding downed pilots, escaped prisoners of war, and Italian resistance families. His diplomatic status in a Catholic country prevents Colonel Kappler from openly arresting him, ...
Style: realistic, factual, tense, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: nazi, world war two, catholic, vatican, soldier, fighting the system, clergy, human spirit, uninhibited rivalry, military, survival, hopes ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: europe, rome italy, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
1944: Forced to Fight (2015)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Estonia, Finland
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The events of the war in 1944, from the Blue Hills to Sõrve Peninsula. Shown through the eyes of Estonian soldiers who had to pick sides and fight against fellow brothers. Choices have to be made, not only by the soldiers, but also by their loved ...
Style: tense, psychological, suspense, captivating
Plot: world war two, nazi, military, eastern front, nazi soldier, german army, soldier, enemy, death, retreat, world war, war ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1944
Place: estonia, europe, soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
The Catcher Was a Spy (2018)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Major league baseball player, Moe Berg, lives a double life working for the Office of Strategic Services.
Style: suspense, captivating, sentimental, suspenseful, cult classic ...
Plot: spy, world war two, gay, military police, baseball player, espionage, battlefield, world war, nazi, society, danger, atomic bomb ...
Time: year 1941, 1940s, 20th century, 1930s, year 1936 ...
Place: usa, tokyo, italy, zurich switzerland, former yugoslavia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Against the Sun (2014)
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A WWII pilot, bombardier, and radioman find themselves adrift on a lifeboat without food or water after being forced to ditch their plane during a scouting mission.
Style: tense, captivating, psychological, serious, realistic ...
Plot: survival, world war two, military, human spirit, danger, water, ocean, disaster, soldier, human nature, getting home, isolation ...
Time: 1940s, year 1942, 20th century
Place: pacific ocean
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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MacArthur (1977)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: The film portrays MacArthur's (Gregory Peck) life from 1942, before the Battle of Bataan, to 1952, the time after he had been removed from his Korean War command by President Truman (Ed Flanders) for insubordination, and is recounted in ...
Style: melancholic, intense, epic, realistic, serious ...
Plot: world war two, military, war, biopic, politics, president, korean war, revolution, police investigation, wartime, world war, pow ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, 50s, 1950s
Place: usa, japan, the philippines, australia, korea ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
The Zookeeper's Wife (2017)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Czech Republic, UK, USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: The account of keepers of the Warsaw Zoo, Jan and Antonina Zabinski, who helped save hundreds of people and animals during the Nazi invasion.
Style: factual, rough, sad, costume drama, suspense ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: holocaust, zoo, nazi, world war two, hiding place, marriage, women, zookeeper, nazi occupied poland, world war, shoah, biopic ...
Time: 1930s, year 2017, 1940s
Place: warsaw poland, poland, germany, central europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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General Nil (2009)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Poland
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Generał Nil is a Polish historical film, based on the life of general Emil August Fieldorf, pseudonym "Nil". The film was directed by Ryszard Bugajski and was released in 2009.
Style: serious, captivating, exciting, suspenseful
Plot: world war two, army general, trial, secret service, imprisonment, moral dilemma, communism, arrest, assassination, interrogation, prison, death sentence ...
Time: 1940s, 1950s
Place: poland, ussr, siberia
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (2005)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 120 min.
Story: True story of Germany's most famous anti-Nazi heroine brought to thrilling, dramatic life. Sophie Scholl stars Julia Jentsch in a luminous performance as the fearless activist of the underground student resistance group, The White Rose. Armed ...
Style: touching, tense, sincere, suspenseful, emotional ...
Audience: teens
Plot: nazism, politics, world war two, nazi germany, nazi, death sentence, resistance, gestapo, historical character, trial, lawyer, rebellion ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 2005, 2000s, year 1943
Place: germany, munich germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Unknown Soldier (2017)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Finland, Belgium, Iceland
Duration: 180 min.
Story: The film follows Finnish army machine gun company in Continuation War against Soviet Union, 1941–1944. Based on Väinö Linna's best selling novel Tuntematon Sotilas (The Unknown Soldier) and the novel's uncensored version, Sotaromaani ...
Style: disturbing, realistic, psychological, captivating, sincere ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: world war two, military, eastern front, infantry, soldier, friendship, husband wife relationship, friend, insubordination, firing squad, battles, heroes ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1943, year 1941, year 1942 ...
Place: finland, germany, soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 6.8
 4K
Tove (2020)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Finland, Sweden
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Helsinki, 1945. The end of the war brings a new sense of artistic and social freedom for painter Tove Jansson. While focusing her artistic dreams on painting, the enchanting tales of the ‘Moomin’ creatures she told to scared children in bomb ...
Style: psychological, tense, melancholic, unusual plot structure, touching ...
Plot: lesbian, lesbianism, writers, lgbt, lesbian relationship, artist, lesbian love, unrequited love, lesbian couple, love affair, love, female artist ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, 1950s, year 1947, year 1952 ...
Place: finland, helsinki finland, paris france, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Inside the Third Reich (1982)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 240 min.
Story: A dramatization of the life of Albert Speer, Hitler's young architect and onetime confidant, and his meteoric rise into the Nazi hierarchy. Based upon Speer's own monograph of the same title.
Plot: world war two, nazi, hitler, autobiography, third reich
Time: 1940s, 1930s
Place: germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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