Movies and TV shows like The Halcyon

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The Halcyon (2017)
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The Halcyon (2017)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The story of a bustling and glamorous five star hotel at the centre of London society and a world at war.
Style: realistic, disturbing, psychological, thought provoking, captivating, anime, interesting
Plot: hotel, world war two, aristocracy, manager, wartime, society, chef, maid, bellhop, world war one, lgbt, gay lead character, gay, female nudity, aristocrat, housekeeper, heir, doorman, british history, porter, switchboard operator, chambermaid, hotel manager
Time: 1940s
Place: england, london

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, realistic, serious and touching films and TV series with plots about world war two, society, wartime life, war, military, soldier and wartime mostly in Drama, War and Romance genres. Some movies like The Halcyon: Home Fires (2015), World on Fire (2019), Foyle's War (2002), Bomb Girls (2012), Upstairs Downstairs (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Home Fires (2015)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: The story of a group of inspirational women in a rural Cheshire community with the shadow of World War II casting a dark cloud over their lives. As the conflict takes hold and separates the women from their husbands, fathers, sons and brothers, the ...
Style: captivating, serious, realistic, psychological, touching
Plot: world war two, village, female protagonist, strong female presence, wartime life, social relations, life is a bitch, society, friends, family relations, father son relationship, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, 1930s
Place: england, europe
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World on Fire (2019)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 57 min.
TV show
Story: The story of World War II told through the intertwining fates of ordinary people from all sides of this global conflict as they grapple with the effect of the war on their everyday lives.
Style: thought provoking, psychological, captivating, disturbing, retro
Plot: world war two, soldier, military, singer, musician, gay, wartime life, society, military life, ordinary people, life is a bitch, wartime ...
Time: 1930s, 1940s
Place: manchester
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Foyle's War (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, War
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story: As WW2 rages around the world, DCS Foyle fights his own war on the home-front as he investigates crimes on the south coast of England. Foyle's War opens in southern England in the year 1940. Later series sees the retired detective working as an ...
Style: captivating, clever, serious, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot: world war two, police detective, investigation, whodunit, spy, war crime, police investigation, undercover, crimes of passion, murder, murder investigation, espionage ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: england, europe, new mexico, london
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Bomb Girls (2012)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Canada
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Focusing on a group of women working in a munitions plant during World War II, this ensemble drama depicts the dangers and new experiences they face.
Style: captivating, realistic, stylized, serious, tense
Audience: girls' night
Plot: world war two, wartime life, working woman, factory, life is a bitch, sexism, workplace, gender, society, accident, strong female presence, strong female lead ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: canada
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Upstairs Downstairs (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Set in 1936, the show takes viewers, old and new, back to the lavish world of Belgravia, London. A new set of occupants reside at 165 Eaton Place and viewers see how external and internal influences of the tumultuous pre-war period shape and mould ...
Style: realistic, stylized, serious, touching, retro ...
Plot: high society, master and servant, butler, family values, marriage, servant, family relations, rich and poor, millionaire, lifestyle, family life, class differences ...
Time: 1930s, edwardian era, 20th century
Place: england, london, europe
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Small Island (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min.
TV show
Story: In 1939 Hortense, illegitimate but intelligent and ambitious, is brought up on Jamaica with the family of charismatic, free-thinking Michael, who joins the Air Force when war breaks out and goes to England. After the war, Hortense, now a qualified ...
Style: serious, touching, captivating, realistic
Plot: racism, post war, interracial sex, couples, couple relations, starting over, culture clash, self discovery, hopes, misfit, bittersweet, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: england, jamaica, london, europe
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Coming Home (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 199 min.
TV show
Story: Drama about the Dunar and Carey-Lewis families, before during and after WW2.
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, contemplative
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: world war two, boarding school, girl power, coming of age, pow, unhappiness, wealth, love and romance, youth, society, estate, family relations ...
Time: 1930s, 1940s
Place: england, europe, cornwall
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Land Girls (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 225 min.
TV show
Story: The lives, loves and highs and lows of four members of the Women's Land Army working at the Hoxley Estate during World War II.
Style: realistic, captivating, psychological, atmospheric, serious
Audience: girls' night
Plot: world war two, wartime life, life is a bitch, family relations, military, strong female presence, friendship, soldier, rise and fall, love, women, intrigue ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: england, europe
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Island at War (2004)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 540 min.
TV show
Story: Island at War is a British television series that tells the story of the German Occupation of the Channel Islands. It primarily focuses on three local families: the upper class Dorrs, the middle class Mahys and the working class Jonases, and four ...
Style: tense, captivating, atmospheric, suspenseful, stylized ...
Plot: world war two, occupation, wartime, island, wartime life, society, military, against humanity, war, oppression, genocide, anti semitism ...
Time: post world war two
Place: england, europe
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The Cazalets (2001)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 360 min.
TV show
Story: The Cazalets is a 2001 six-episode television drama series (5 episodes when broadcast in the US) about the life of a large privileged family in the years 1937 to 1942.[1] Most of the action takes place in London, and at the family's large ...
Style: captivating
Plot: world war two, family relations, affair, parents and children, mother daughter relationship, family life, wartime, eccentric family, large family, kids and family, family problems, relationships ...
Place: england, london
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Piece of Cake (1988)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 312 min.
TV show
Story: The lives and loves of the men of RAF Hornet Squadron who are transferred to France at the outbreak of World Wat II in September 1939. For the most part the men are competent fliers but there is little action in the first several months. The men ...
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, exciting
Plot: world war two, aerial combats, battles, aviation, luftwaffe, wartime, friends, war, partners, heroes, soldier, military ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: europe
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36%
Close to the Enemy (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 59 min.
TV show
Story: Set in a bomb damaged London hotel during the aftermath of World War II, Close to the Enemy is a thriller that follows British intelligence officer Captain Callum Ferguson. His last task for the Army is to ensure that Dieter, a captured German ...
Style: exciting, tense, captivating
Plot: world war two, scientist, war crime, military officer, brother brother relationship, african american, father daughter relationship, politician, military base, american abroad, adultery, investigator ...
Time: 1940s, post world war two
Place: england, london
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35%
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Yanks (1979)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK, USA, West Germany
Duration: 138 min.
Story: During WWII, the United States set up army bases in Great Britain as part of the war effort. Against their proper sensibilities, many of the Brits don't much like the brash Yanks, especially when it comes to the G.I.s making advances on the ...
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, touching
Plot: world war two, soldier, wartime life, prejudice, racism, american abroad, couple relations, love affair, opposites attract, war, infidelity, forbidden love ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: england, northern england, europe
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A Dance to the Music of Time (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 416 min.
TV show
Story: Anthony Powell's 12 volume novel sequence "A Dance to the Music of Time" has been dramatised for television.
Style: captivating, realistic, serious, stylized
Plot: world war two, love, post war, high society, world war one, social relations, couples, power relations, lifestyle, society, dishonesty, social differences ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century
Place: england, europe, london
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34%
The Winds of War (1983)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 883 min.
TV show
Story: In the late 1930s, world politics begin to head in a dangerous direction. In Europe, Germany expands and rearms and proceeds to annex several border countries into the Reich. Meanwhile, Italy attempts to establish a Facist Colonial Empire under ...
Style: epic, sentimental, serious, realistic, captivating ...
Plot: world war two, holocaust, luftwaffe, military, wartime, cheating wife, politics, refugee, behind enemy lines, jewish girl, u.s. navy, anti semitism ...
Time: 1940s, 1930s, 20th century
Place: germany, italy, japan, berlin germany, china ...
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This Life (2012)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Denmark
Duration: 122 min.
Story: The true story of the Fiil's a family of innkeepers who during Nazi-Germany's occupation of Denmark took up arms against the German occupiers. But in the fight for freedom, some must die so that others may live.
Style: realistic, emotional, disturbing, captivating, tense ...
Plot: world war two, resistance, nazi occupation, sabotage, resistance fighter, war, heroes, freedom fighter, nazi, wartime life, wartime, heroism ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: denmark, germany, scandinavia
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33%
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
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33%
Sword of Honour (2001)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 208 min.
Story: Guy Crouchback joins the war effort during World War 2, an idealistic quest to join the forces of good in the fight against evil. But his efforts is not rewarded, he never has any chance to join any real fighting, circumstances always prevent it. ...
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, touching, semi autobiographical ...
Plot: world war two, military, love triangle, fighting the system, life is a bitch, military life, betrayal, haunted by the past, soldier, love and romance, society, basic training ...
Time: future, 1940s
Place: europe, england
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33%
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Fortunes of War (1987)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 407 min.
TV show
Story: Fortunes of War is a 1987 BBC television adaptation of Olivia Manning's cycle of novels Fortunes of War. It stars Kenneth Branagh as Guy Pringle, lecturer in English Literature in Bucharest during the early part of the Second World War, and ...
Style: realistic, serious, clever, gloomy, emotional ...
Plot: world war two, resistance, spy, activist, infidelity, lecturer, couples, betrayal, military, intrigue, unfulfillment, life is a bitch ...
Time: 1940s
Place: romania, europe, middle east, africa, greece ...
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33%
War and Remembrance (1988)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 1620 min.
TV show
Story: War and Remembrance is an American miniseries based on the novel of the same name by Herman Wouk. It is the sequel to highly successful The Winds of War.
Style: saga, captivating, exciting, realistic, serious ...
Plot: world war two, war, holocaust, nazi germany, military, german, submarine, nazi, wartime, winston churchill, soldier, behind enemy lines ...
Time: 1940s
Place: europe, asia, japan, pearl harbor, pacific ocean ...
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The Duchess of Duke Street (1976)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: The Duchess Of Duke Street is a BBC television drama series set in London between 1900 and 1925. It was created by John Hawkesworth, the former producer of the highly successful ITV period drama Upstairs, Downstairs. It starred Gemma Jones as Louisa ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, stylized, sincere
Plot: hotel, food, world war one, couples, power relations, social differences, rich and poor, master and servant, rise to the top, society, love and romance, ambition ...
Time: victorian era, 1910s, edwardian era, 20th century
Place: london, europe, england
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33%
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Banana (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: Witty, heartfelt and unique interlinked stories covering different aspects of LGBT life, featuring the most exciting emerging talent.
Style: realistic, sentimental, captivating, psychological, controversial ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: gay, gays and lesbians, lesbian, couple relations, self discovery, gender, haunted by the past, lgbtq, lgbt, love, society, multiple storylines ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, manchester, europe
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33%
Summer Solstice (2015)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Poland, Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Coming of Age Drama in rural Poland in the summer of 1943.
Style: psychological, captivating, disturbing
Plot: world war two, struggle for survival, nazi, suspense, war, tragic love, love affair, male female relationship, love story, wartime life, wartime, gendarmerie ...
Time: 1940s
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33%
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Housewife, 49 (2006)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Downtrodden wife and mother Nella's life takes an unexpected turn for the better after she joins the Women's Voluntary Service office in Barrow-in-Furness during the Second World War. However, her new-found happiness is shattered when her ...
Style: captivating, touching, sincere, emotional, realistic ...
Plot: world war two, wartime life, war, society, love and romance, life is a bitch, parent grown child relationship, female protagonist, heroes, unhappy marriage, family home, christmas ...
Time: 1940s, year 1939, year 1941
Place: england, northern england
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33%
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
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33%
Seaside Hotel (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: Film starring Bodil Jørgensen, Rosalinde Mynster and Merete Mærkedahl about the people at a beachfront hotel.
Style: disturbing, psychological, humorous, captivating, alternative comedy
Plot: hotel, world war two, society, coworker, resort hotel, workplace, lifestyle, chambermaid, life, workplace situations, social problems, seaside ...
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33%
At War as at War (1969)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 90 min.
Story: To the young lieutenant Maleshkin the war is a minor obstacle, if compared to his personal battle to command his subordinates, while conducting an armored vehicle at the same time he's trying to impress his superior Soviet officers who put him ...
Style: realistic, disturbing, captivating, thought provoking
Audience: boys' night
Plot: world war two, soviet army, tank, great patriotic war, military, soldier, heroism, heroes, leadership, battles, friendship, transformation ...
Time: 1940s, year 1943
Place: russia
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33%
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Colditz (2005)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 240 min.
TV show
Story: Three prisoners, Jack Rose, Tom Willis and Nick McGrade, embark on an heroic plan to escape from a World War Two POW camp. As Rose And Willis are recaptured by the Germans, McGrade manages to traverse their clutches and travels to London to inform ...
Style: realistic, serious, touching, tense, exciting
Plot: world war two, pow, military, soldier, castle, battles, love and romance, prison life, love triangle, nazism, human spirit, war ...
Time: 1940s, year 1939, 20th century
Place: europe, germany, warsaw poland
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33%
Upstairs, Downstairs (1971)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Upstairs, Downstairs is a British television drama series originally produced by London Weekend Television and revived by the BBC. It ran on ITV in 68 episodes divided into five series from 1971 to 1975. Set in a large townhouse in Edwardian, First ...
Style: realistic, stylized, serious, touching
Plot: domestic servant, butler, maid, master servant relationship, high society, wealth, master and servant, lifestyle, couples, rich and poor, society, couple relations ...
Time: 20th century, edwardian era, 1920s, 1930s, 1910s
Place: england, london, europe
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X Company (2015)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Canada
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: An emotionally-driven character drama, set in the thrilling and dangerous world of WWII espionage and covert operations. It follows the stories of five highly skilled young recruits - Canadian, American and British - torn from their ordinary lives ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, exciting, captivating ...
Plot: world war two, espionage, spy, heroic mission, secret agents, war, undercover, rivalry, friendship, suspense, women, nazi ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: europe
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32%