Movies like Resistance 2011
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Resistance (2011)
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Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
It is 1944 and the D-Day invasion has failed, Germany's army have successfully invaded England and the Nazi war-machine is now heading west towards Wales. A group of women in an isolated Welsh village near the English border wake up to discover all of the their husbands have mysteriously vanished. They have headed into the mountains to join the Resistance.
Style:
tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic
Plot:
espionage, life is a bitch, war, undercover, wartime life, missing person, world war two, strong female presence, resistance fighter, danger
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 40s
Place:
england
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, suspenseful and captivating films with plots about world war two, war, danger, wartime life, life is a bitch, espionage and undercover mostly in Drama, War and Thriller genres. Some movies like Resistance: X Company (2015), Black Book (2006), The Message (2009), Stones for the Rampart (2014), The Counterfeit Traitor (1962). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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, realistic, suspenseful, exciting, captivating ...
Plot:
espionage, heroic mission, working undercover, secret agents, war, undercover, world war two, rivalry, friendship, heroes, good versus evil, spy ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
europe
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100%
Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: Netherlands, Germany, UK, Belgium
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
In the Nazi-occupied Netherlands during World War II, a Jewish singer infiltrates the regional Gestapo headquarters for the Dutch resistance.
Style:
tense, twists and turns, psychological, epic, emotional ...
Plot:
jewish, world war two, holocaust, nazism, atrocity, espionage, occupation, singer, spy, life is a bitch, betrayal, escape ...
Time:
1940s, 50s, 20th century, 60s, year 1956 ...
Place:
holland, netherlands, europe, israel, belgium ...
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100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: China
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
1942, Nanjing (Nanking). Following a series of assassination attempts on officials of the Japanese-controlled puppet government, the Japanese spy chief gathers a group of suspects in a mansion house for questioning. A tense game of "cat and ...
Style:
captivating, realistic, tense, psychological, suspense ...
Plot:
espionage, japanese occupation, code breaking, world war two, resistance, assassination, undercover, wartime life, spy, japanese occupation of china, rivalry, crimes ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, year 1942
Place:
china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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. ...
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, captivating, suspense ...
Plot:
wartime life, life is a bitch, against the odds, world war two, daring rescue, war, wartime, nazi occupation, german occupation, resistance fighter, resistance, prospector ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
poland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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Genre: Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
Blacklisted in modern day WW2, a Swedish oil trader opts to assist British Allies, by means of infiltrating and surveying Nazi Germany.
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, bleak, gloomy ...
Plot:
world war two, espionage, spy, life is a bitch, state affairs, forgery, dishonesty, undercover, betrayal, secret agents, double agent, wartime life ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1942
Place:
sweden, germany, europe, hamburg germany, copenhagen ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Professor-turned-spy Col. Calvin Turner and his associate, workaholic Lt. Shelley Flynn, plan a daring rescue behind enemy lines in World War II German-occupied Norway of a brilliant scientist who may or may not be aiding the Germans.
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, exciting, rough ...
Plot:
wartime life, rebellion, escapades, heroes, against humanity, military, state affairs, espionage, criminal heroes, war, undercover, world war two ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
england, london, europe, norway
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Genre: War, Drama
Country: Philippines, USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
During WWII, a three-man commando team places its trust in the hands of a band of Filipino resistors, as they try to knock out a Japenese communication center.
Style:
exciting, serious, realistic, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
world war two, espionage, war, escapades, anti war, mission, soldier, battles, reconnaissance, liberation, military, heroes ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
the philippines, japan, asia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
In 1944 many Germans in Eastern Prussia believed like Lena von Mahlenberg, daughter of a local aristocrat, that Hitler would surrender and spare them from being invaded by the vengeful Russian Red Army. He didn't and they had to flee.
Style:
touching, emotional, serious, realistic, captivating
Plot:
escape, family relations, wartime life, parents and children, survival, life is a bitch, war, aristocracy, fight, nobility, world war two, strong female presence ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
germany, berlin germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Genre: Romance, Thriller, War
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A ruthless German spy, trying to get out of Britain with vital information about D-Day, must spend time with a young woman and her crippled husband.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, bleak, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
world war two, espionage, island, nudity (full frontal - brief), nazi spy, war, submarine, idealism, contact, couples, disorder, cheating ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 1930s
Place:
england, europe, scotland, germany, berlin germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: Australia, Singapore
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
An unlikely friendship between 2 young men becomes everything, when an Australian soldier takes refuge under the canopied jungles of Singapore, during the violent Japanese invasion in World War II. Jim is lost, injured and defenseless in a hostile, ...
Style:
tense, realistic, exciting, serious, captivating ...
Plot:
jungle, world war two, survival, soldier, war, communication problem, military, escape, chase, very little dialogue, escapades, imperial japan ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
singapore, asia, australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Finland
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A drama between people under unconventional circumstances. In the Second World War Finland was the only nation who brought casualties killed-in-action back to be buried at home. These actions were carried out by men and women working in assembly ...
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, suspenseful, gloomy ...
Plot:
wartime life, military, life is a bitch, heroes, war, heroism, idealism, world war two, death of son, soldier, brawl, suicide attempt ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1944
Place:
europe, finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
In the final days of World War II, occupying Japanese forces in the Philippines face resistance from the local population and the American offensive. The dwindling Japanese soldiers attempt to survive through the horrors of war.
Style:
tense, psychological, realistic, atmospheric, captivating ...
Plot:
war, survival, military life, confined, isolation, escapades, japanese soldier, rivalry, graphic violence, world war two, life is a bitch, wartime life ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
the philippines
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
In 1999, a British mine clearance engineer working for the Taliban government in Afghanistan must flee the country when he becomes embroiled in a deadly game of intrigue and betrayal.
Style:
tense, serious, suspense, disturbing, realistic ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
afghanistan, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A group of Slave workers, drafted by the Nazis to help construct their coastal defenses in 1944 are trapped in an underground bunker when the Allies land at Normandy on D-Day. They find huge dtores of food but not enough candles. The slow dying of ...
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, bleak, gloomy
Plot:
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Time:
1940s
Place:
france
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Germany, Netherlands, Belarus, Russia, Latvia
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Western frontiers of the USSR, 1942. The region is under German occupation. A man is wrongly accused of collaboration. Desperate to save his dignity, he faces an impossible moral choice.
Style:
realistic, serious, bleak, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
false accusation, world war two, nazi occupation, moral dilemma, survival, life is a bitch, wartime life, human nature, forest, collaboration, resistance fighter, war ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1942
Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A WWII Drama about a German/Jewish industrialist who, in order to ensure his family's safe passage out of Germany, is forced to hand over his business to the Nazis.
Style:
captivating, serious, suspenseful, psychological, tense ...
Plot:
concentration camp, world war two, holocaust, genocide, anti semitism, survival, hidden identity, uncover truth, life is a bitch, undercover, moral dilemma, forbidden love ...
Time:
1940s, year 1944
Place:
hungary, switzerland, germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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:
village, world war two, strong female presence, wartime life, social relations, life is a bitch, society, friends, female protagonist, village life, family relations, british ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, 1930s
Place:
england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: Turkey
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
An archaeologist investigating mass graves during the Iraq War wakes up in a basement, unable to remember how he got there. The man must piece together the past of the enigmatic man who brought him there -- and discover who the pregnant woman is who ...
Style:
tense, serious, psychological, suspenseful, realistic
Plot:
uncover truth, captivity, confined, mysterious character, survival, war, danger
Time:
contemporary, 21st century
Place:
iraq, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
It is the Spring of 1943 and the Battle for the Atlantic rages as an Axis victory seems inevitable. The women of Vic Mu – Gladys, Lorna, Kate, Betty and Vera – band together in a tight bond of support and friendship.
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, stylized
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
factory, heroic mission, fall in love, espionage, family relations, workplace situations, couple relations, feminism, parents and children, love and romance, society, workplace ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, year 1943
Place:
europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Russia, UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
When in 1941 Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union, their troops quickly besieged Leningrad. Foreign journalists are evacuated but one of them, Kate Davies, is presumed dead and misses the plane. Alone in the city she is helped by Nina Tsvetnova a ...
Style:
bleak, rough, serious, realistic, gloomy
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
world war two, siege, battles, survival, life is a bitch, military, wartime life, hunger, rationing, soldier, starvation, self sacrifice ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1941
Place:
russia, st. petersburg russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA, Spain
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
In September 1942, the German Afrika Korps under Rommel have successfully pushed the Allies back into Egypt. A counter-attack is planned, for which the fuel dumps at Tobruk are a critical impediment. In order to aid the attack, a group of British ...
Style:
suspenseful, exciting, tense, realistic, serious
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
world war two, desert, battles, rescue, military, soldier, espionage, against the odds, military life, officers and cadets, wartime life, heroic mission ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1942
Place:
africa, libya, egypt
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
In Montauban in 1944, Julien Dandieu in a surgeon in the local hospital. Frightened by the German army entering Montauban, he asks his friend Francois to drive his wife and his daughter in the back country village where Julien has an old castle. One ...
Style:
disturbing, sincere, realistic, serious
Plot:
world war two, vengeance, revenge, rape, rape and revenge, crimes, dealing with death, heroes, rivalry, war, dishonesty, betrayal ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1939, year 1944
Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
During World War II, an American serviceman in London decides to impress his English girlfriend by acting as an American gangster, which soon turns deadly.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, realistic, atmospheric, tense
Plot:
gangsters, investigation, soldier, crimes, heist, dishonesty, witnessing a crime, criminal heroes, wartime life, cons and scams, frame up, lovers on the run ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
england, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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:
emotional, touching, sincere, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
world war two, wartime life, society, love and romance, war, life is a bitch, parent grown child relationship, female protagonist, heroes, gay, british, mother son reunion ...
Time:
year 1939, year 1941, 1940s
Place:
england, northern england
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
In the early years of the 20th Century, two British yachtsmen (Michael York and Simon MacCorkindale) stumble upon a German plot to invade the east coast of England in a flotilla of specially designed barges. They set out to thwart this terrible ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, exciting, realistic
Plot:
yacht, military, conquering, state affairs, espionage, undercover, heroes, ship, spy, world war one, war, world war two ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
germany, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 69 min.
TV show
Story:
The series is based on a true story of a Russian spy Colonel Isaev (Stirlitz) in Fascist Germany during 17 days in very end of WWII. Stirlitz has worked his way to the very top of the Fascist hierarchy without being caught. However, his ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
world war two, spy, nazi, espionage, nazi germany, undercover agent, war, dishonesty, state affairs, working undercover, undercover, intrigue ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Denmark
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
In the early morning of April 9th 1940 the Danish army is alerted. The Germans have crossed the border; Denmark is at war against Europe's strongest army. In Southern Jutland Danish bicycle- and motorcycle companies are ordered out, to against ...
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captivating, serious, realistic, tense, suspense ...
Plot:
war, world war two, nazi occupation, soldier, battles, military, against the odds, friendship, rivalry, military life, battle zone, german soldier ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, year 1940
Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: Italy, France, Spain
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The British High Command finds itself in the thick of a huge dilemma when it is realized that they have long been infiltrated by spies from a German intelligence group. This all happens during the preliminary stages of the Battle of Britain.
Style:
realistic, serious, exciting, captivating, suspenseful
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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:
serious, realistic, captivating, touching, gloomy ...
Plot:
military, love triangle, fighting the system, soldier, betrayal, haunted by the past, military life, love and romance, life is a bitch, world war two, war, society ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
In a remote village on the Suffolk Coast, Frank Perry (Ross Kemp) waits for his past to catch up with him. Previously a spy for MI6 working on Iranian chemical and biological weapons production, his reports led to the deaths of many Iranian ...
Style:
disturbing, serious, suspenseful, realistic
Plot:
hidden identity, espionage, undercover, government agency, terrorism, betrayal, on the run, secret agents, crimes, battles, special agents, arms dealing ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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