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Miriam (2006)
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Miriam (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Heart-wrenching story of a woman who takes another's identity to survive the most horrible time of the 20th Century. Miriam is the triumphant story of one woman's survival and success, which takes place in Lithuania over a period of forty years, from the German occupation of World War II through the Soviet era, and is based upon the true story of Miriam Shafer.
Style: captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
Plot: survival, world war two, holocaust, survivor, life is a bitch, female protagonist, struggle for survival, new identity, prison, fight, nazi, soldier, captivity, starvation, suffering, hiding, nazi uniform, fighting
Time: 1940s
Place: lithuania

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, disturbing, suspense and psychological films with plots about life is a bitch, world war two, female protagonist, holocaust, wartime life, nazi and soldier mostly in Drama, War and History genres. Some movies like Miriam: Against the Ice (2022), Out of the Ashes (2003), My Best Friend Anne Frank (2021), Trees of Peace (2021), Valiant Hearts (2021). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Against the Ice (2022)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: Iceland, Denmark
Duration: 102 min.
Story: In 1909, two explorers fight to survive after they're left behind while on a Denmark expedition in ice-covered Greenland.
Style: suspense, captivating, disturbing, powerful, period piece ...
Plot: snow, cold, survival, struggle for survival, arctic, island, winter, captain, camp, crew, ship, biopic ...
Time: 2020s, edwardian era, 1900s, 20th century
Place: greenland, denmark
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Out of the Ashes (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: The real-life story of Gisella Perl, a Jewish Hungarian doctor imprisoned in the notorious Auschwitz death camp of World War II.
Style: realistic, serious, touching, contemplative, captivating ...
Plot: holocaust, concentration camp, wartime life, holocaust survivor, world war two, auschwitz, human spirit, anti semitism, life is a bitch, starting over, danger, moral dilemma ...
Time: 1940s
Place: hungary, europe, usa
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My Best Friend Anne Frank (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Based on the real-life friendship between Anne Frank and Hannah Goslar, from Nazi-occupied Amsterdam to their harrowing reunion in a concentration camp.
Style: psychological, captivating, disturbing
Plot: world war two, nazi occupation, friend, best friend, life is a bitch, memories, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, women, female protagonist, childhood memory, occupation, life ...
Time: 1930s
Place: netherlands
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Trees of Peace (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: In April of 1994, four women from different backgrounds and beliefs are trapped and hiding during the Rwandan genocide. Their fight for survival against all odds unites the women in an unbreakable sisterhood.
Style: captivating, disturbing, suspense, tense
Plot: genocide, survival, women's rights, struggle for survival, woman in danger, political unrest, female protagonist, civil rights movement, leader, sorority, deathtrap, civil rights ...
Time: year 1994, 90s
Place: rwanda, africa
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Valiant Hearts (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 92 min.
Story: In August 1942, during the Second World War, Six Jewish children are trying to escape the Nazis. They are hidden by the resistance in the Chambord Castle, where paintings from Le Louvre are being stored as well. The Nazis are looking for paintings ...
Style: captivating, thrilling, psychological
Plot: world war two, jew persecution, friends, jewish family, wartime, children, life is a bitch, social problems, friendship, jewish life, jewish girl, holocaust ...
Time: 1940s
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Skipping Stones (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Nearly a decade after a tragic accident costs a young man his life, his sister, Amanda (Gabrielle Kalomiris) and best friend, David (Nathaniel Ansbach) are still peeling back the layers of grief and guilt that come with being left behind.
Style: suspenseful, captivating, suspense, disturbing
Plot: tragic event, relationships, life is a bitch, loss of brother, family relations, changing lives, friendship
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We Burn Like This (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Amidst rising anti-Semitism in Billings, Montana, Rae, a 22 year-old descendant of Holocaust survivors uncovers the truth about a childhood accident.
Style: thrilling, captivating, psychological, realistic
Plot: female protagonist, nazism, racial discrimination, nazi, holocaust, nationalism, problem, tragic past, neo nazi, troubled past, life is a bitch, woman ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A woman is faced with a choice to fight for her life or sacrifice it for another. After years of infertility, a newly-expectant mother is diagnosed with a life-altering disease.
Style: captivating, disturbing, suspense, psychological
Plot: parenthood, motherhood, moral dilemma, fighting illness, changing lives, illness, female protagonist, life is a bitch, infertility, choice, family problems, fight
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The Network of Freedom (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 125 min.
Story: France, beginning of World War II. Hélène Studler is a nun who has been dedicated to the care of orphans and the abandoned people. But the times have changed, the people are living a whole revolt, the Germansoldiers have entered their city and the ...
Style: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
Plot: french resistance, convent, nazi officer, resistance, nun, military, war, female protagonist, world war two, military life, soldier, wartime life ...
Place: france
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Hidden in Silence (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Poland 1939, shortly before invasion of the German troops. To save their belongings from the Nazis, the Jewish family Diamant transfers them to their 17-year-old catholic maid Fusia. In return Fusia provides them with food until the ghetto is ...
Plot: world war two, nazi, holocaust, catholic, world war one, christian, world war, rat, teenager, christmas eve, house, attic ...
Time: 1940s
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39%
Stones for the Rampart (2014)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 111 min.
Story: To be defeated and not be - a victory. This is the motto that life is guided by three young friends: Alek, Sophy and Rudy. Scouts, high school graduates high school in Warsaw drifting ambitious plans for the future broken through September 1939. ...
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Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: europe, poland
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39%
A Rose in Winter (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 135 min.
Story: The true story of Edith Stein, a German Jewish philosopher and feminist who converted to Christianity and became a nun, and died in Auschwitz to became Saint and Martyr, the Patron of Europe with the name Saint Theresa Benedicta of the Cross.
Style: disturbing, captivating, psychological
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Switched Before Birth follows Olivia Crawford and her husband Brian, who after multiple miscarriages, numerous failed IVF trials and stretching themselves to the limit financially, finally receive the joyous news that she’s pregnant with twins. ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, captivating, suspenseful, psychotronic
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37%
#AnneFrank. Parallel Stories (2019)
Genre: Documentary, Drama, History
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story: One single Anne Frank moves us more than the countless others who suffered just as she did but whose faces have remained in the shadows-Primo Levi. The Oscar®-winning Helen Mirren will introduce audiences to Anne Frank's story through the ...
Style: disturbing, suspense, captivating, thought provoking, psychological
Plot: holocaust, holocaust survivor, concentration camp, world war two, life is a bitch, violence spree, historical character, teenage girl, deportation, prisoners of war, historical figure, struggle for survival ...
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Style: disturbing, suspense, psychological, captivating
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