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Liten Ida (1981)
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Liten Ida (1981)
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway, Sweden
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Little Ida's mother is working for the Germans during WW2, and she is also having a relationship with a German SS-officer. Ida is experiencing the problems of having a mother who is involved with the enemy, without being old enough to understand what is actually going on.
Plot: world war two, post war, wartime life, children, nazi, occupation, outsider, terror, harassment, nazi occupation, chase, pursuit, female director
Keyword: norwegian

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, serious, disturbing and psychological films with plots about world war two, nazi, wartime life, world war, life is a bitch, children and occupation mostly in Drama, War and History genres. Some movies like Liten Ida: The Boys from St. Petri (1991), Lena: My 100 Children (1987), Hungarians (1978), How to Be Loved (1963), My Best Friend Anne Frank (2021). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Rescuers: Stories of Courage: Two Women (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: The film is divided into two segments, both set in Europe during WWII.
Plot: world war, fake relationship, wartime life, world war two, wrestler
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100%
The Boys from St. Petri (1991)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A group of school-mates form a resistance group in nazi-occupied Denmark.
Plot: world war two, children, wartime life, world war, war, nazi, sabotage, resistance, high school, teenager
Time: 1940s
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32%
Lena: My 100 Children (1987)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: At the end of World War II Lena Kuchler arrives at a refuge camp in search of her disappeared family members. But at this place she can get no information in her case but only encounters hungry children.
Plot: children in wartime, school, world war two, children, religious intolerance, post war, gun
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28%
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Hungarians (1978)
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A group of landless Hungarian peasants accept work as migrant-laborers on a farm in northern Germany where the wages are good, and the wives and family are allowed to accompany them. Though it is in the midst of World War II, they are relatively ...
Plot: world war two, humiliation, peasant, pow
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27%
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How to Be Loved (1963)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 92 min.
Story: An actress travels from Warsaw to Paris and during the trip reflects on the last few years of her life. It goes back to the German occupation and her hiding of a fellow actor who has supposedly killed a collaborator. He is weak and a bit cowardly, ...
Style: road movie
Plot: world war two, identity, wartime life, airplane, german soldier, rape, theater, murder suspect, flashback, tank, suicide, cigarette smoking ...
Place: poland, eastern europe
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25%
From the Clouds to the Resistance (1979)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, West Germany, UK, France
Duration: 104 min.
Story: 'Dalla nube alla resistenza (From the Cloud to the Resistance ) (1978), based on two works by Cesare Pavese, falls into the category of History Lessons and Too Early, Too Late as well. It, too, has two parts—a twentieth-century text and a ...
Style: experimental
Plot: world war two, italian history, resistance, myth, greek mythology, post war, class struggle, mythology
Time: 1940s
Place: ancient greece, italy
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25%
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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25%
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The Execution (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The members of a San Diego Wednesday night womens' mah jongg club are five survivors of a Nazi concentration camp. They recognize the owner of a local restaurant, Walter Grossman, as a doctor from the camp who performed experiments on them as ...
Style: surprise ending
Plot: rape, homicide, doctor, secret, world war two, revenge, murder, lawyer, torture, rape and revenge, execution, concentration camp ...
Time: post world war two, 1940s
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24%
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Waiting for Anya (2020)
Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: UK, Belgium
Duration: 109 min.
Story: During the harrows of WWII, Jo, a young shepherd along with the help of the widow Horcada, helps to smuggle Jewish children across the border from southern France into Spain.
Style: sincere, disturbing, captivating
Plot: world war two, wartime life, nazi occupation, deportation, occupation, german occupation, military, jew persecution, wartime, social problems, children in wartime, world war ...
Time: 2020s, year 1942
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24%
'38 - Vienna Before the Fall (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria, West Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story: The film presents the political events surrounding the Anschluss in March of 1938 through the lives of Carola Hell, a popular young actress at the prestigious Theater in der Josefstadt, and Martin Hofmann, the Jewish journalist she plans to marry. ...
Plot: world war two, interwar period, totalitarian state, israeli, fascism, nazism, journalist, actress, nazi, love
Time: year 1938, 1930s
Place: austria, israel, vienna
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23%
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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23%
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The Ogre (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, France, UK, Poland
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Frenchman Abel Tiffauges likes children, and wants to protect them against the grown-ups. Falsely suspected as child molester, he's recruited as a soldier in the 2nd World War, but very soon he is taken prisoner of war.
Style: realistic, disturbing, sad, contemplative, serious ...
Plot: nazi, hitler youth, world war two, war, youth, redemption, friendship, wartime life, nazi germany, children, world war, eastern front ...
Time: 1940s, year 1996, year 1939, 1930s
Place: germany
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23%
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Monte Carlo (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 200 min.
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Story: An American writer on the Riviera courts a Russian singer who is spying on Nazis for revenge.
Style: period drama
Plot: world war two, spy, nazi, gambler, singer
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Faneflukt (1975)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Norway
Duration: 97 min.
Story: 1941, Norway. The young kitchen maid Liv and the German officer Franz meet in the military camp where Liv works. They develop a friendship and decides to flee to Sweden.
Plot: world war two, desertion, father, love, escape, occupation, nazi, young
Time: 1940s
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23%
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I Am Maria (1979)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A story about a strange friendship between 11 years old Maria and an older man Jon.
Style: sexual
Plot: children, male nudity, painter, friendship, small town, friend, female nudity, sexploitation
Place: eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Everyone Dies Alone (1976)
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 106 min.
Story: When they start losing family members and neighbors due to WWII and the Nazi government's policies, a quiet married couple becomes disillusioned and begins spreading leaflets against the government - a crime punishable by death.
Plot: world war two, gestapo, nazi germany, death penalty, killed in action, resistance, loss of son, nazi soldier, death of son, anti nazi, death, fear ...
Time: 1940s, year 1940
Place: central europe
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22%
1914 the Glorious Summer (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 117 min.
Story: An old aristocrat, short of money, who does not accept the new world ruled by the bourgeois class ,epitomized by the industrialist and by the doctor who finally grabs the the aristocrat's castle which soon will be turned into a hospital.
Plot: children, great war, male nudity, nude bathing, male pubic hair, nudity, female nudity, bathing, pubic hair
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21%
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Cefalonia (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 210 min.
Story: Cefalonia tells the real story about what happened in September 1943 on the Greek island of Kefalonia (Cefalonia in Italian), when the 12,000 men in the Italian 33rd Acqui Infantry Division, following Italy's surrender to the Allied, refused to ...
Plot: world war two, fascism, german occupation, italian history, island, italian army, mass murder, bravery, nazi, soldier, truce, surrender
Place: greece
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Jew-Boy Levi (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Switzerland, Austria
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Benjamin Levi (Bruno Cathomas) is a Bavarian cattle dealer traveling to pre-World War II Germany on his annual trip to a remote farming village. Levi hopes to do some business and, more importantly, win the hand of the lovely Lisbeth (Caroline ...
Style: biting, thought provoking, realistic, serious, emotional ...
Plot: world war two, holocaust, social differences, village, anti semitism, countryside, isolation, village life, wartime life, life turned upside down, injustice, life is a bitch ...
Time: 1930s
Place: europe, germany
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Neger, Neger, Schornsteinfeger (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 180 min.
Story: This drama is based on the childhood memories of Hans Jürgen Massaquoi, who was one of the few black native Germans in Nazi Germany. In 1935 at the age of nine, he lives with his German mother in a small flat in Hamburg's working class ...
Style: psychological, emotional, atmospheric, captivating
Plot: world war two, black boy, racism, prosecution, xenophobia, boy, single mother, ethnic conflict, violence, culture clash, nazi, world war ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: germany, hamburg germany
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21%
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. ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, captivating, suspense ...
Plot: world war two, wartime life, against the odds, life is a bitch, daring rescue, danger, prospector, wartime, german occupation, resistance, resistance fighter, nazi occupation ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: europe, poland
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21%
The German Lesson (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 125 min.
Story: In a small North German village a drama played out during and shortly after the Second World War about duty versus individual conscience and morality.
Style: crying
Plot: male pubic hair, world war two, corporal punishment, coming of age, teenager, boyhood, wartime life, nazi, male nudity, striptease, cycling, death ...
Time: year 2019
Place: germany
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21%
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Adelheid (1969)
Genre: Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 99 min.
Story: In the aftermath of World War II, a former Czech soldier takes charge of a manor formerly owned by a German family. He falls in love with the daughter, who is now a maid, and is forced to confront the stress between his love and his conscience when ...
Style: surreal, realistic, touching, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot: world war two, military, forbidden love, holocaust, girl, locomotive, forest, comeback, post war, estate, soldier, society ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: czechoslovakia, germany, czech republic
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21%
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Out of the Darkness (2022)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Denmark
Duration: 152 min.
Story: This Danish movie "Out of The Darkness" ( in Danish 'De Forbandede år 2' ) is a continuation of the popular WW II drama "Into The Darkness" ( in Danish 'De forbandede år' ) and it portraits the Danish ...
Style: suspenseful, captivating, serious, dramatic
Plot: world war two, resistance, freedom fighter, war, german occupation, wartime, nazism, fight, wartime life, occupation, nazi, nazi soldier ...
Time: 1940s
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The Berlin Affair (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, West Germany
Duration: 121 min.
Story: In 1938 Berlin, Gudrun Landgrebe, wife of Nazi functionary Kevin McNally, begins taking art lessons. She makes the acquaintance of another student, Japanese ambassador's daughter Mio Takaki. Soon afterwards, the two women begin a passionate ...
Style: erotic, grindhouse, sensual, queer cinema
Plot: lesbian, lesbian sex, nazi, threesome, lesbian relationship, world war two, lgbt, espionage, lesbian teen, lgbtq, wartime life, wartime ...
Time: 1930s, year 1985
Place: berlin germany, asia
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21%
The Plouffe Family (1981)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 227 min.
Story: The lives of the average Quebecois Plouffe family during the final years of the depression and through World War II.
Plot: world war two, family relations, great depression, conscription, religion, catholic, french canadian
Place: quebec, canada
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21%
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Elysium (1987)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Hungary
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Film about the Holocaust. A Jewish family is allowed to keep the flat they have always lived in and to live a relatively normal life. One day their 10-year old son disappears. He has been sent to a deportation camp which seems like paradise except ...
Plot: world war two, medical experiment, death of child, children, nazi, concentration camp, boy, police, parents, swimming, air raid, chess ...
Place: eastern europe, hungary
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21%
The Last Letter (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 61 min.
Story: Locked away in the Jewish ghetto of an occupied Ukrainian town in 1941, a mother revisits her life in a last letter to her son.
Style: minimal cast
Plot: holocaust, mother, town, persecution, world war two, doctor, monologue, jewish ghetto, nazi, letter, ghetto, human rights ...
Place: ukraine
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Simon & the Oaks (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Norway
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Epic story about two families and their friendship and common destiny in Sweden's Gothenburg in the 1940s and 1950s. Told from the perspective of young Simon Larsson, who learns that he's an adopted child who has a Jewish father from ...
Style: realistic, tense, touching, psychological, contemplative ...
Audience: teens
Plot: world war two, coming of age, wartime life, youth, boy, family relations, friendship, society, culture clash, working class, best friend, older woman younger man ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, post world war two, 50s
Place: europe, eastern europe
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20%
Gruber's Journey (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary, Romania
Duration: 100 min.
Story: On 22 June 1941, Germany and Romania attack Soviet Russia. Several days later, Curzio Malaparte, the Italian writer who would one day pen the novel « Kaputt », a war correspondent for « Corriere de la Sera », arrives in Iasi, in the north of ...
Plot: world war two, holocaust, anti semitism, war correspondent, mass murder
Place: romania
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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