Movies like Resistance
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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, realistic, suspenseful
Plot:
war, espionage, missing person, life is a bitch, danger, wartime life, undercover, resistance fighter, world war two
Time:
40s, 20th century
Place:
england
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, suspenseful and bleak films with plots about war, world war two, danger, wartime life, life is a bitch, espionage and undercover mostly in Drama, War and Thriller genres. Some movies like Resistance: The Counterfeit Traitor (1962), Behind Enemy Lines (1985), The Message (2009), Code Name: Emerald (1985), Eagles Over London (1969). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, 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.
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gloomy, realistic, serious, bleak, suspenseful ...
Plot:
espionage, spy, undercover, double agent, forgery, dishonesty, danger, secret agents, wartime life, state affairs, working undercover, life is a bitch ...
Time:
40s, 20th century, year 1942
Place:
sweden, germany, europe, berlin germany, copenhagen denmark ...
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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:
rough, bleak, suspenseful, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
rebellion, undercover, military, espionage, danger, heroes, wartime life, chases and races, escapades, criminal heroes, against humanity, war ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
europe, norway, england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
93%
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:
realistic, suspenseful, stylized, serious, captivating
Plot:
espionage, code breaking, japanese occupation, resistance, undercover, life is a bitch, wartime life, crime, assassination, occupation, deadly, world war two ...
Time:
20th century, 40s, year 1942
Place:
china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In april 1944, an allied agent is sent to France in order to rescue an "overlord" captured by the Germans. (An "overlord" is one of the few men who knew the date and place of the "D" day). To achieve this goal, he will ...
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful
Plot:
espionage, undercover, rescue, danger, d day, war, secret agents, escapades, ss, double agent, interrogation, cell mate ...
Time:
40s, 20th century, year 1944, 1940s
Place:
france, europe, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy, France, Spain
Duration: 110 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, suspenseful, serious, exciting, captivating
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
evacuation, war, army investigation, chases and races, law enforcement, heroes, escapades, aerial combats, superior officer, undercover, danger, espionage ...
Time:
40s, 20th century, year 1940
Place:
london, england, britain, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
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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:
bleak, atmospheric, serious, tense, realistic ...
Plot:
survival, unfulfillment, losing-it hero, confined, wartime life, war, escapades, life is a bitch, military life, soldier, military, danger ...
Time:
20th century, 40s
Place:
the philippines
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Canada
Duration: 44 min.
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:
suspenseful, serious, stylized, realistic
Plot:
war, espionage, danger, heroic mission, working undercover, secret agents, undercover, heroes, good versus evil, rivalry, spy
Time:
40s, 20th century
Place:
europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
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, serious, sincere, realistic
Plot:
war, vengeance, rape, revenge, wartime life, crimes, dealing with death, life is a bitch, redemption, dishonesty, death in the family, heroes ...
Time:
20th century, 40s, 1940s
Place:
normandy
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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Genre: Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: UK
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
A mysterious tale set around a traditional British family on the eve of World War Two. Oblivious to the looming shadow of World War II, the wealthy Keyes maintain a confident façade in the British countryside until daughter Anne becomes an ...
Style:
realistic, tense, serious, suspenseful, clever ...
Plot:
life turned upside down, uncover truth, disorder, war, confined, secret movement, betrayal, adoption, conspiracy, world war two, filmmaking, spy ...
Time:
year 1939, 30s, 20th century
Place:
england, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Set in 1990s Belfast, a woman is forced to betray all she believes in for the sake of her son.
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, tense
Plot:
moral dilemma, ira, undercover, betrayal, state affairs, siblings relations, family relations, political unrest, snitch, radical, law enforcement, dishonesty ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1973, year 1993
Place:
ireland, england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
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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:
suspenseful, serious, tense, realistic, suspense
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
chase, love and romance, wartime life, life is a bitch, state affairs, escapades, chases and races, life turned upside down, war, dangerous attraction, manhunt, forbidden love ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
afghanistan, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
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:
psychological, suspenseful, serious, tense, realistic
Plot:
confined, war, uncover truth, mysterious character, survival, captivity, danger
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
middle east, iraq
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
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, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
espionage, spy, island, war, idealism, state affairs, couple relations, life is a bitch, disorder, couples, contact, cheating ...
Time:
40s, 20th century, 1940s, 1930s
Place:
england, scotland, europe, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Genre: War, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In WW2, a RAF squadron leader mourns the death of a comrade and receives a bombing mission against a secret Nazi V-2 rocket testing facility in France.
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
mosquito, danger, race against time, soldier, military, war, chases and races, heroic mission, escapades, wartime life, save the day, fall in love ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
england, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
Spirited New Yorker Linda Voss goes to work for international lawyer and secret Office of Strategic Services operative Ed Leland just before World War II. As they fall in love, the United States enters the fight against Hitler, and Linda volunteers ...
Style:
realistic, exciting, serious, suspenseful, sentimental ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
double agent, espionage, romance, wartime life, secret agents, behind enemy lines, love and romance, working undercover, world war two, translator, nazi germany, wartime ...
Time:
40s, 20th century, 1940s
Place:
germany, new york, berlin germany, usa, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Poland, Israel
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
After Germany invades Poland and the Nazis order the confinement of all local Jews in the ghetto, medical doctor Artur Planck (Joseph Fiennes) manages to flee with his family, seeking refuge at the farm of Emilia (Kelly Harrison), their former ...
Style:
realistic, sexual, tense, captivating, emotional ...
Plot:
love triangle, infidelity, isolation, danger, family in danger, couples, dishonesty, confined, love and romance, ghetto, against humanity, wartime life ...
Time:
20th century, 40s
Place:
poland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, War
Country: USA, West Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
General George S. Patton died in a car accident in 1945. However, now speculates that his death was actually a murder carefully prepared by his staff to cover a large theft of gold.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, realistic, exciting, rough
Plot:
gold, undercover, espionage, assassination, hitman, heist, dishonesty, deadly, soldier, military, investigation, war ...
Time:
40s, 20th century
Place:
germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
909
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:
realistic, suspenseful, serious, exciting, tense
Plot:
jungle, survival, communication problem, war, escapades, military, soldier, danger, imperial japan, on the run, friendship, friend ...
Time:
20th century, 40s, 1940s
Place:
singapore, asia, australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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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:
realistic, gloomy, serious, suspenseful, bleak
Plot:
d day, survival, bunker, military, prison, escapades, life is a bitch, war, confined, wartime life, against humanity, hopes ...
Time:
40s, 1940s
Place:
france
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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:
realistic, rough, serious, bleak, gloomy
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
siege, military, battles, survival, life is a bitch, danger, world war two, wartime life, hunger, rationing, soldier, starvation ...
Time:
40s, 20th century, 1940s, year 1941
Place:
russia, st. petersburg russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Sam Laker is an American industrialist, working in Britain, who has just been awarded an international award for industrial design. He is planning to travel to East Germany to attend a trade show and show off his invention, taking his 10 year old ...
Style:
realistic, atmospheric, suspenseful, serious
Plot:
assassination, spy, undercover, secret agents, deadly, espionage, danger, invention, intelligence, holiday, on the run
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
europe, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Genre: War, Drama
Country: USA, Philippines
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, bleak, suspenseful, realistic
Plot:
soldier, espionage, wartime life, lone wolves, daring rescue, military life, heroes, anti war, danger, military, escapades, adventure ...
Time:
40s, 1940s
Place:
japan, asia, the philippines, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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, realistic, captivating, emotional, serious
Plot:
danger, woman in danger, family relations, survival, wartime life, life is a bitch, war, parents and children, anti heroes, eastern front, loyalty, bed ...
Time:
20th century, 40s, 1940s
Place:
germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Mickey Spillane plays his own creation, street-thug-turned-PI Mike Hammer, in this 1963 adaptation of his novel. The film opens with Hammer on the downside of a years-long bender, scooped out of the gutter by a bitter cop intent on prying ...
Style:
tense, realistic, rough, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot:
missing person, espionage, columnist, alcohol abuse, private detective, crimes, mystery, crime, life is a bitch, investigation, rivalry, deadly ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
england
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK, Germany, Hungary
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A teenage orphan fights against the Red Army at the end of WWII and in the aftermath is 'adopted' by a Commissar. Years later he is sent to London during the Cold war to work for the KGB, where he questions his life.
Style:
epic, bleak, serious, thought provoking, captivating ...
Plot:
kgb, espionage, unsuccessful, political unrest, dishonesty, moral dilemma, introspection, politics, betrayal, undercover, haunted by the past, burned alive ...
Time:
20th century, 40s, 1940s, year 1945
Place:
russia, london, england, soviet union
⇓ 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:
captivating, rough, gloomy, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot:
heroes, war, wartime life, life is a bitch, military, soldier, nervous breakdown, small community, death of son, corpse, male nudity, priest ...
Time:
40s, 20th century, year 1944
Place:
europe, finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Set against the turbulent backdrop of London in the 1940s, this adaptation of Sarah Waters' bestselling novel, The Night Watch, follows four young Londoners inextricably linked by their wartime experiences. In a time when the barriers of sexual ...
Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, stylized, sexual ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
haunted by the past, love affair, couples, gays and lesbians, life is a bitch, war, wartime life, love and romance, sexual relations, romance, post world war two, homosexual ...
Time:
1940s, 40s, 20th century
Place:
england, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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:
gloomy, serious, bleak, sincere, realistic
Plot:
false accusation, in the woods, wartime life, life is a bitch, war, danger, human nature, moral dilemma, survival, nazi occupation, death, offscreen killing ...
Time:
20th century, 40s, year 1942, 1940s
Place:
russia, ussr
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Spring 1941. Center of Moscow. Duel of the two intelligence services turns more and more tense.
Style:
captivating, exciting, suspenseful, realistic, bleak ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
heroes, undercover, secret agents, spy, mole, secret police, world war two, mentor, heroic mission, rivalry, prospector, life & death ...
Time:
40s, 20th century, year 1941
Place:
russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 157 min.
Story:
The final part of Mikhalkov's trilogy about Divisional Commander Kotov finds him returning home during World War II having been betrayed, narrowly escaped execution for treason and nearly reduced to dust in a prison camp. Only to discover that ...
Style:
serious, emotional, atmospheric, stylized, gloomy ...
Plot:
soldier, escapades, war, wartime life, life is a bitch, deadly, family problems, dishonesty, military life, survival, battle zone, battles ...
Time:
40s, 20th century, year 1943
Place:
russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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