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Prisoners of Auschwitz (2013)
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Original name: Colette
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 and his own recollection of several escape attempts from the hell of Auschwitz. The story of The Pulitzer Prize nominee Lustig is about the power of love under an extreme life circumstances. It is a story of young lovers and their vigorous determination to escape from a hopeless life condition and theirs courage to face death.
Style:
psychological, captivating, tense, touching
Plot:
concentration camp, holocaust, auschwitz, world war two, prisoner, doctor, execution, love and romance, couples, danger, society, male nudity, girl, prison, lesbian, musician, train, pregnancy, writers, female nudity, ss, chocolate, diamond, pregnant woman, jail ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
canada, prague, central europe, prague czechoslovakia
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Most similar movies to Prisoners of Auschwitz
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, bleak and tense films with plots about world war two, nazi, holocaust, concentration camp, world war, war and genocide mostly in Drama, War and History genres. Some movies like Prisoners of Auschwitz: Remembrance (2011), The Assault (1986), For Those I Loved (1983), Death in Love (2008), Paradise (2016). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Hannah, a young Jewish girl, is rescued from a concentration camp by her Polish boyfriend, and believes he died after their perilous escape. More than 30 years later, the married Hannah faces an emotional crisis when she learns he's alive.
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realistic, serious, tense, exciting, captivating ...
Plot:
concentration camp, holocaust, world war two, life is a bitch, against the odds, love affair, on the run, couple relations, wartime life, couples, nazi, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, germany, poland
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Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 144 min.
Story:
At the end of WW II the Dutch resistance kills a German officer in front of the house of a Dutch family. Years after the war the young boy who witnessed the killing runs into the members of the resistance who committed the killing.
Style:
cult classic, grindhouse, political, contemplative, sincere ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
world war two, coming of age, holocaust, world war, wartime life, terrorism, fictional history, cannon, nazi, dutch history, gestapo, post war ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, 80s, 50s, 1940s ...
Place:
netherlands, europe
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100%
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, holocaust survivor, nazi occupied france, revolutionary war, world war, struggle, revolutionary, revolution, freedom, immigration ...
Place:
eastern europe, warsaw poland, usa, europe
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Death in Love is a psychosexual-thriller about a love affair between a Jewish woman and a doctor overseeing human experimentation at a Nazi German concentration camp, and the impact this has on her sons' lives in the 1990s.
Style:
sexy, serious, psychological, sincere, emotional ...
Plot:
world war two, dysfunctional family, concentration camp, nazi, memory, cruelty, doctor, parents and children, haunted by the past, holocaust, experiment, human nature ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 1940s
Place:
new york, germany, europe, usa
Similarity:
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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:
concentration camp, prison, world war two, nazi collaborator, interrogation, nazi, holocaust, dictator, collaboration, occupied france, nobleman, ss officer ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, year 1942
Place:
germany, soviet union, french riviera
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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, emotional ...
Plot:
holocaust, concentration camp, holocaust survivor, wartime life, world war two, auschwitz, anti semitism, genocide, human spirit, life is a bitch, starting over, nazi ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
hungary, europe, usa, poland
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100%
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: Finland
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
'The Midwife' (fin.'Kätilö') is a romance-drama set during WWII in Finland’s Lapland province, a major European battle ground of the war. Based on Katja Kettu’s bestselling novel, 'The Midwife' turns on the love ...
Style:
romantic, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, touching
Plot:
world war two, sex scene, ss officer, violence, fall in love, genocide, war crime, german soldier, concentration camp, midwife, drug, nurse ...
Time:
1940s, year 1944
Place:
finland
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67%
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
The film, 'The Spring Of Life', brings to light a little-known operation of the Nazi SS, started just before the outbreak of World War II. Through the careful selection and re-education of young women, it was the Nazi's mad dream to ...
Style:
disturbing, realistic, serious, bleak, rough
Plot:
world war two, holocaust, ss, racism, nazi, anti semitism, genocide, wartime life, society, against humanity, life is a bitch, war ...
Time:
1940s
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: UK
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
During WWII, the death camp at Treblinka had an escape, causing the Commandant at a similar camp in Sobibor to vow (actually threaten) that his camp would never experience the same thing. But those who were its captives, the Jewish laborers that had ...
Style:
tense, realistic, thought provoking, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot:
concentration camp, world war two, pow, holocaust, escape, shoah, against humanity, genocide, military, captivity, nazi, hopes ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
poland, europe
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: UK, USA
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Based on the eponymously titled novel, this is the powerful real-life story of Lale Sokolov, a Jewish prisoner who was tasked with tattooing ID numbers on prisoners' arms in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp during World War Two.
Style:
captivating, psychological, suspenseful, period drama
Plot:
holocaust, concentration camp, cruelty, tattoo artist, nazi concentration camp, nazism, prisoner, old man, prisoner of war camp, tattoo, nazi, nazi occupation ...
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
A beautiful story about youth, love, friendship and the pursuit of adventure during the bloody and brutal reality of the Warsaw Uprising.
Style:
realistic, romantic, captivating, psychological, tense ...
Plot:
world war two, rebel army, nazi occupation, love and romance, nazism, death, world war, shoah, friendship, love story, friends, relationships ...
Time:
year 1944, 20th century, 1940s
Place:
poland, warsaw poland
Similarity:
53%
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:
tense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological ...
Plot:
world war two, holocaust, brother brother relationship, ss, nazi occupation, nazi, german occupation, children in wartime, german soldier, shoah, military, soldier ...
Time:
1940s, year 2017, year 1943, year 1942, year 1944
Place:
paris france, nice france, france
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A Nazi doctor, along with the Sonderkomando Jews – who are forced to work in the crematoria of Auschwitz against their fellow-Jews – find themselves in a moral grey zone.
Style:
depressing, bleak, disturbing, factual, harsh ...
Plot:
holocaust, nazi, world war two, concentration camp, redemption, nazi germany, auschwitz, ss, shoah, moral ambiguity, world war, tragedy ...
Time:
1940s, year 1944, 20th century, post world war two
Place:
poland, germany, europe, middle east, budapest ...
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Germany
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 ...
Style:
captivating, tense, realistic, psychological, independent film ...
Plot:
holocaust, concentration camp, nazi, world war two, nazi concentration camp, liberation, world war, shoah, little boy, resistance, death, child in peril ...
Time:
year 1945, 1940s
Place:
germany, switzerland
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Canada, Germany
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
Auschwitz is a hard-hitting war film which shows life as it really was at the death camp.
Style:
disturbing, thought provoking, controversial, bleak, rough ...
Plot:
concentration camp, nazi, holocaust, world war two, shoah, mass murder, anti semitism, against humanity, life is a bitch, society, genocide, gas chamber ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
europe, poland
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Slovakia, Czech Republic, Poland, Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
This is the true story of Freddy and Walter – two young Slovak Jews, who were deported to Auschwitz in 1942. On 10 April 1944, after meticulous planning and with the help and the resilience of their inmates, they manage to escape. While the ...
Style:
suspense, disturbing, tense, social
Plot:
nazi, concentration camp, nazi occupation, escape, world war two, wartime life, wartime, jew persecution, war violence, life is a bitch, male pubic hair, nazi propaganda ...
Time:
1940s, year 1944
Place:
central europe, germany
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: UK, Poland, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
The commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolf Höss, and his wife Hedwig, strive to build a dream life for their family in a house and garden next to the camp.
Style:
captivating, psychological, experimental, crying, period drama
Plot:
garden, auschwitz, holocaust, world war two, ss officer, nazi germany, husband wife relationship, concentration camp, swimming pool, nazi, genocide, nazi officer ...
Time:
1940s, year 1943, year 1944, 20th century, year 1942 ...
Place:
poland, berlin germany, hungary
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Film opens with the mad rush of haphazard freedom as the concentration camps are liberated. Men are trying to grab food, change clothes, bury their tormentors they find alive. Then they are herded into other camps as the Allies try to devise policy ...
Style:
gloomy, touching, bleak, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
world war two, holocaust, renaissance, holocaust survivor, world war, female nudity, nazi, male nudity, fascism, wartime, terrorism, nazi concentration camp ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, post world war two, year 1945
Place:
poland, eastern europe, middle east, warsaw poland
Similarity:
50%
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Russia, Belarus, Czech Republic, France, Poland, Israel, Ukraine
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
The film tells about the history of the Holocaust through the stories of its unwitting Witnesses.
Style:
tense, thought provoking, bleak, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot:
world war two, holocaust, ss officer, concentration camp, anti war, witness, war crime, genocide, atrocity, memory, anti semitism, auschwitz ...
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Italy, France, Sweden, Hungary
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
It is the real story of Giorgio Perlasca (Luca Zingaretti). During the 1920s he was an Italian Fascist supporter, fighting in Africa an in the Spanish civil war where he deserved a safe conduct for Spanish embassies. After some years, disillusioned ...
Style:
disturbing, serious, emotional, captivating, realistic ...
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, nazism, idealism, genocide, fascism, deportation, concentration camp, hopes, nazi occupation, wartime life, political unrest ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, 1920s, 80s, 20th century ...
Place:
hungary, budapest, italy, spain
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50%
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, realistic, serious, bleak ...
Plot:
holocaust, concentration camp, nazism, holocaust survivor, german occupation, world war two, nazi, genocide, nazi concentration camp, shoah, world war, injustice ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, year 2009, post world war two, year 1942
Place:
paris france, vichy, france, middle east, europe ...
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49%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Sport, War
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Fact based story about a former Greek Olympic boxer who was taken as a prisoner during World war II and placed in the Auschwitz prison camp. There he was permitted to survive as long as he fought for the amusement of his captors. His father and ...
Style:
disturbing, independent film, tense, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, boxing, ss, prison, boxer, prison escape, fight, nazi, biopic, shoah, judaism ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, 20th century, year 1943
Place:
middle east, poland, europe, greece
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Germany, Slovakia
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
As Minister of Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels creates films and pictures used to prepare the Germans for Total War and the Holocaust. When the war is lost, he conceives his last staging, the most radical propaganda act still possible to him.
Style:
historical drama, disturbing, grim, period piece, dark ...
Plot:
world war two, holocaust, propaganda, nazi germany, hitler, biopic, manipulation, political corruption, husband wife relationship, infidelity, flashback, nazi propaganda ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s
Place:
berlin germany, germany
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: France
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Starting in 1944 in the wake of the Liberation and continuing into the '60s, 'houses of hope' were established to lend a semblance of continuity to youngsters orpahaned by the war. Nina's Home takes place between September 1944 ...
Style:
uplifting, captivating, serious, emotional, touching ...
Plot:
adoption, survival, holocaust, confined, family relations, society, danger, against humanity, anti semitism, frame up, religions or cults, orphan ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
paris france, france
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
The incredible, untold true story of how a group of prisoners attempt a seemingly impossible escape from the first Nazi death camp in order to provide the first eyewitness account of the Holocaust.
Style:
historical drama, bleak, tense, intense, emotional ...
Plot:
holocaust, concentration camp, world war two, nazi germany, memories, prison escape, war crime, survival, resistance, biopic, sacrifice, forced labor ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Crime, Drama, History, War
Country: Austria, Germany
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
The story Jewish counterfeiter, Salomon Sorowitsch, coerced into assisting the Nazi operation of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp during World War II.
Style:
harsh, tense, brutal, bleak, serious ...
Plot:
holocaust, nazi, concentration camp, world war two, nazi germany, counterfeit money, brutality, forgery, counterfeiter, prison, nazi concentration camp, war crime ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 1930s, year 1936, year 2008 ...
Place:
germany, europe, poland, austria, canada ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: Poland, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
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Style:
historical drama, heartbreaking, bleak, grim, period piece ...
Plot:
world war two, holocaust, gypsy, genocide, discrimination, nazi occupation, loss, auschwitz, suffering, persecution, tragedy, ethnic cleansing ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
poland
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
In Nazi-occupied Amsterdam, Walter Süskind is a member of the Dutch Jewish Council who rescues hundreds of children from the concentration camps.
Style:
serious, captivating, realistic, emotional, bleak
Plot:
ss, holocaust, wartime life, nazi occupation, human spirit, world war two, children, selflessness, rescue, idealism, hopes, deportation ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
holland, europe, amsterdam
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama, Music, War
Country: Greece
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
During World War II in Greece, under the submission of Germans, one Christian, Giorgos, falls in love with a Jewish, Estrea, something completely forbidden. Can they and their families overcome all the obstacles, along with racial discriminations ...
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, psychological, unusual plot structure, contemplative ...
Plot:
world war two, greek, lovers, love, nazi, brutality, composer, german occupation, couples, society, love and romance, danger ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
greece
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
After the French defeat of summer 1940, Addi Ba, a young Senegalese rifleman escapes and hides in the Vosges. Aided by some villagers, he gets false documents that allow him to live openly.
Style:
suspenseful, exciting, suspense, touching, tense ...
Plot:
escape, world war two, french resistance, resistance, school, prisoner, teacher, racism, farm, arrest, pow, nazi ...
Time:
1940s, year 2017, year 1940
Similarity:
47%
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