Movies like Samson 1961

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Samson (1961)
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Samson (1961)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Sampson is one of several Andrzej Wajda films harking back to his youth during the Nazi Occupation of Poland. Many of these concern not only the struggle between good and evil, but also between passive and impassive. The hero is a Jewish youth. He, like his family, has always been silent and undemonstrative in the face of prejudice. Now he stands up for his right to survive, and in so doing represents the fighting spirit that culminated in the 1943 Warsaw Uprising. It was originally titled Samson, but re-spelled as Sampson upon its American release to avoid confusion with a sword-and-sandal epic of the same name.
Style: heroic
Plot: world war two, peplum, gladiator, holocaust, myth, renaissance, prison, ghetto, fight, escape, student, party, death, rebellion, heroism, basement, anti semitism, accidental killing, hidden identity, guilt, loss of mother, nazi occupation, persecution, chase, pursuit ...
Place: eastern europe
Keyword: jewish

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, emotional and sincere films with plots about world war two, nazi, holocaust, death, escape, train and renaissance mostly in Drama, War and Romance genres. Some movies like Samson: Holy Week (1995), The Ring with a Crowned Eagle (1992), Wherever You Are... (1988), Deborah (1995), Landscape After Battle (1970). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Holy Week (1995)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Poland, Germany, France
Duration: 97 min.
Story: During the Nazi era, a Jewish woman on the run takes a trolley which passes near the Warsaw ghetto, where the uprising battle is taking place, and some passengers are struck by stray bullets. They take temporary refuge in an empty building, and ...
Plot: world war two, holocaust, wartime life, world war one, nazi occupation, underground movement, rebellion, jewish girl, ghetto, jewess, neighbor, love triangle ...
Place: poland, warsaw poland
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95%
The Ring with a Crowned Eagle (1992)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Poland, France, UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A Polish Resistance fighter who survived the Nazi years cannot accept the new Communist power.
Plot: world war two, renaissance, post war, vodka, nazism, resistance, anti communist, ss, partisan, communism, nkvd, polish history ...
Time: 1940s, year 1944
Place: eastern europe, poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
Wherever You Are... (1988)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Poland, UK, West Germany, France, Italy
Duration: 106 min.
Story: An Uruguayan diplomat brings his new wife with him on a business trip to Poland in the summer immediately preceding the outbreak of World War II.
Style: pre war
Plot: world war two, renaissance, wife, factory, riding accident, insanity, doomed love, nun, businessman, post war, holocaust, death of wife ...
Place: eastern europe, uruguay, poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
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Deborah (1995)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 98 min.
Story: In a small Polish town in the summer of 1939, a married painter and a young Jewish woman begin an affair. Based on the novel by Marek Sołtysik.
Plot: big breasts, pretty girl, mad love, basement, nazi occupation, world war two, atrocity, church, cheating, artist, painter, painting ...
Time: 1930s
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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Landscape After Battle (1970)
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: contemplative, bleak, gloomy, touching, serious ...
Plot: world war two, holocaust, world war, female nudity, nazi, fascism, terrorism, wartime, nazi concentration camp, renaissance, survival, concentration camp ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, post world war two, year 1945
Place: poland, eastern europe, middle east, warsaw poland
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63%
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Passenger (1963)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 62 min.
Story: The last film of Andrzej Munk, who died in a crash during the filming. A German woman on a ship coming back to Europe notices a face of another woman which brings recollections from the past. She tells her husband that she has been an overseer in ...
Style: experimental, odd
Plot: holocaust, world war two, auschwitz, female nudity, concentration camp, nazi, wartime life, prison, women, renaissance, love letter, identity ...
Time: year 1963
Place: poland, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
For Those I Loved (1983)
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, revolution, freedom, struggle, revolutionary, world war, revolutionary war, terror, immigration, army ...
Place: eastern europe, warsaw poland, europe, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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Wedding (1973)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia, Soviet Union
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Beginning in 1943. year. The tragic story of the prisoners... partisans and others who were found in a prison in Montenegro at the time when the Chetniks and the occupiers at all costs they want to crush the uprising in Yugoslavia.
Plot: world war two, partisan, wedding, liberation, escape, prisoner, girl, prison, murder, death, fear, cold the temperature ...
Time: year 1943
Place: former yugoslavia, montenegro
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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Forbidden (1984)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: West Germany, UK
Duration: 114 min.
Story: In Berlin in the early 1940s, romance is forbidden between the young countess who is studying veterinary medicine and a young man she meets at the home of a former professor. But they fall in love. She gets involved in helping Jews escape from the ...
Style: independent film
Plot: world war two, ruins, voice over narration, escape, train, forbidden love, bombing, nazi, high society, nazi germany, holocaust, stock footage
Time: 1940s
Place: berlin germany
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56%
The Mother of Kings (1987)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Made in 1982, shelved for five years. Story opens with Lucja Krol's husband under the tram. She gives birth to her fourth son on the floor of their new apartment. Neighbor Wiktor, a communist intellectual, befriends the poverty-stricken family ...
Style: intellectual, pre war
Plot: world war two, renaissance, communism, bravery, communist, post war, false confession, bombing, collaborator, neighbor, single mother, widow ...
Time: year 1953, year 1956, year 1933
Place: poland, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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Angry Harvest (1985)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: West Germany
Duration: 105 min.
Story: In the winter of 1942-43, a Jewish family leaps from a train going through Silesia. They are separated in the woods, and Leon, a local peasant who's now a farmer of some wealth, discovers the woman, Rosa, and hides her in his cellar. ...
Style: political, insightful, sincere, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot: holocaust, world war two, captivity, female nudity, nazi, israeli, renaissance, world war, anti semitism, train, survival, older man younger woman relationship ...
Time: 1940s, year 1985
Place: eastern europe, israel, poland, europe, holland ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Massacre at Noon (1975)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 91 min.
Story: In Autumn of 1941, the German army, determined to put down a Communist-led uprising in Serbia, is conducting a policy of killing 100 hostages for any German soldier killed. The city of Kraljevo is the site of one of those massacres, portrayed in ...
Style: crying, heroic
Plot: world war two, partisan, world war, heroism, fire department, murder, bomb, train, military, death, betrayal, police ...
Place: serbia
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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Fateless (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Hungary, Germany, UK, Israel, France, USA
Duration: 140 min.
Story: An Hungarian youth comes of age at Buchenwald during World War II. György Köves is 14, the son of a merchant who's sent to a forced labor camp. After his father's departure, György gets a job at a brickyard; his bus is stopped and its ...
Style: sincere, emotional, serious, disturbing, gloomy ...
Audience: teens, date night, teen drama
Plot: holocaust, concentration camp, world war two, nazi, survival, youth, life is a bitch, orthodox jew, confined, estrangement, world war, danger ...
Time: 1940s, year 2005
Place: hungary, eastern europe, germany, europe, slovakia ...
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48%
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Warsaw 44 (2014)
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, tense, psychological ...
Plot: world war two, nazi occupation, love and romance, rebel army, nazism, death, world war, friendship, war, love affair, relationships, young love ...
Time: year 1944, 20th century, 1940s
Place: poland, warsaw poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
A Love to Hide (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A young Jewish girl, Sarah, is looking to escape the clutches of the Third Reich after seeing her parents and sister brutally slain by a smuggler who betrayed them while attempting to escape to England. Terrified, she is sheltered by her childhood ...
Style: emotional, serious, touching, sad, lgbt cinema ...
Audience: date night
Plot: gay, holocaust, gay relationship, gay couple, gay love, world war two, nazi, lgbtqi, betrayal, lgbt, lgbtq, traitor ...
Time: 1940s
Place: france, paris france, europe
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44%
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Joanna (2010)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 110 min.
Story: In an era in which it is difficult for the true emotion and excitement, Feliks Falk found the key to the human heart. How many of us love? How much we are able to self-sacrifice? Is there a price that can not pay, when it comes to life of a loved ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, captivating, sincere
Plot: world war two, nazi occupation, loneliness, officer, hiding place, secret, treason, holocaust, wartime life, girl, jewish girl, punishment ...
Place: poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Black Birds (1967)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 85 min.
Story: WW2 story about group of prisoners who are trying to escape the death camp, run by local pro-Nazi militia.
Plot: world war two, partisan, nazi concentration camp, group, death, escape, cruelty, civil war, nazi, prison
Time: 1940s
Place: croatia
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43%
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 40
Escapes (1968)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Political prisoners imprisoned in Yugoslavia will try to escape from prison by digging a channel under the ground and join the partisans.
Plot: world war two, partisan, prisoner, fight, traitor, cold, escape, hunger, political prisoner, sick, girl, prison ...
Place: former yugoslavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Mother Night (1996)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: An American spy behind the lines during WWII serves as a Nazi propagandist, a role he cannot escape in his future life as he can never reveal his real role in the war.
Style: dieselpunk, political thriller, political, independent film, contemplative ...
Plot: world war two, nazi, espionage, politics, holocaust, satire, world war, radio station, propaganda, guilt, book, chess ...
Time: 1940s, year 1996, 60s, 1930s, 20th century
Place: germany, israel, new york, usa, europe ...
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40%
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Godzina W (1980)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 77 min.
Story: Tells the story of a very memorable in Warsaw - August 1, 1944. The Germans have been withdrawing for some time, everyone is waiting for the signal of the Polish uprising to start.
Plot: world war two, young adult, weapons, rebellion, youth, patriotism, tragic event, german occupation, fight, conspiracy, shotgun
Place: warsaw poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Silence of the Sea (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 93 min.
Story: In a small town in the West of France, during the German Occupation, a room is requisitioned by a Wehrmacht captain, Werner von Ebrennac. The house where he now stays is inhabited by young Jeanne, who makes a living by giving piano lessons, and by ...
Style: suspense, captivating, psychological, romantic drama
Plot: world war two, german officer, nazi occupation, french resistance, german soldier, nazi, female protagonist, pianist, german occupation, grandfather granddaughter relationship, relationship problems, life is a bitch ...
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39%
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The Pals (1979)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The war is over, and a group of young Partisans returns to their town to continue their interrupted education. They are doing everything in their way, because they are young enough to go to school and to horse around, but mature enough to react to ...
Style: crying
Plot: partisan, world war two, education, nudity, woods, quarrel, murder, school, father, party, blood, machine gun ...
Time: post world war two
Place: former yugoslavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Just Beyond This Forest (1991)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Set in 1942, The Jewish wife she worked for before the war hires her to take her young daughter to the countryside until the war is over.
Plot: world war two, holocaust, wartime life, jewish ghetto, jewess, elderly woman, soldier, mishap, empathy, little girl, train, sacrifice ...
Time: 1940s
Place: poland, warsaw poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Carriage to Vienna (1966)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 78 min.
Story: A WW2 story of a young Austrian soldier running from the Russian army and a woman whom he forces to come along in order to save his wounded mate.
Style: road movie, dark
Plot: world war two, revenge, night, renaissance, wartime life, wounded, hatchet, burial, soldier, forest, tree, weapons ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: eastern europe, czechoslovakia
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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The Wall (1982)
Genre: Action, War, Drama
Country: Poland, USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story: A dramatic re-enactment of the Warsaw Ghetto Jewish uprising in April 1943 were 650 armed members of the Jewish Fighting Organization of Poland held off a 3,000 strong Nazi force in which only a handful of Jews survived. Tom Conti plays Dolek ...
Style: thought provoking, captivating, tense, bleak, suspenseful ...
Plot: holocaust, world war two, racism, nazi, anti semitism, society, survival, war, danger, against humanity, military, escapades ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: europe, poland, warsaw poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Uprising (2001)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 177 min.
Story: Jews rise up in the Warsaw Ghetto against the Nazis in 1943.
Style: uplifting, captivating, rough, serious, political ...
Plot: holocaust, world war two, jewish ghetto, resistance, anti semitism, nazi, ghetto, heroism, rebellion, human spirit, shoah, survival ...
Time: year 2001, 1940s, year 1943, 20th century
Place: germany, warsaw poland, europe, poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Gaston's War (1997)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Denmark, Belgium, Netherlands
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Gaston Vandermeerssche is a young, resourceful Flemish action hero of the Belgian resistance during World War II: he coaches surviving allied pilots trough occupied Belgium and France to Spain so they can regain England, each time a dangerous ...
Plot: world war two, heroism, resistance, brothel, prison, pilot, prospector, intelligence agency, gestapo, railway, train travel, double agent ...
Time: year 1942, year 1945, 1940s
Place: london, belgium, france, holland, spain ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Occupation in 26 Pictures (1978)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Set in Dubrovnik, this drama chronicles a friendship, between three men, that began just before World War II. One of the men is of Italian origin, another is the wealthy heir of a shipping fortune, and the third is the son of a Jewish antique-store ...
Style: black and white, pre war
Plot: world war two, children, black, bare breasts, friendship, female nudity, worker, big breasts, violence, controversy, massacre, prisoner ...
Time: 1940s
Place: croatia, eastern europe, balkan, former yugoslavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
A Year of the Quiet Sun (1984)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Poland, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Shortly after WWII an American soldier (Norman) and a Polish refugee (Emilia) fall in deep love. Eventually he will return to USA and both expect that she will soon follow him. Emilia's mother is sick but would recover by available medicine. ...
Style: contemplative, depressing, touching, emotional, atmospheric ...
Plot: world war two, soldier, wartime, colonialism, legion, foreign legion, world war, renaissance, love, painter, prostitute, widow ...
Time: year 1984, post world war two, year 1946, 20th century, 1940s ...
Place: poland, eastern europe, europe, warsaw poland, arizona ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Pan Tadeusz: The Last Foray in Lithuania (1999)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Poland, France
Duration: 147 min.
Story: A grand and patriotic tale of Poland's struggle for freedom just before Napoleon's war with Russia. Written in poetic style by Adam Mickiewicz, this story follows two feuding Polish families as they overcome their old conflicts and petty ...
Style: realistic, serious, epic, emotional, sincere
Plot: napoleon bonaparte, napoleonic wars, napoleonic era, russian empire, renaissance, imperial russia, polish history, destructive relationship, heroes, rivalry, war, vengeance ...
Time: 1810s, 19th century
Place: poland, lithuania, eastern europe, russia, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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