Movies like Liten Ida
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Liten Ida (1981)
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Norway, Sweden
Duration: 87 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.
Style:
historical drama, bleak, melancholic, realistic, period piece, tense, grim
Plot:
world war two, mother daughter relationship, loss of innocence, family drama, collaboration, betrayal, trauma, isolation, secrets, alienation, coming of age, guilt, identity, moral ambiguity, haunting, intimate, traumatic memory, survival, small town, gender roles, post war, wartime life, propaganda, conformity, children ...
Time:
1940s
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Most similar movies to Liten Ida
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out period piece, historical drama, bleak and melancholic films with plots about world war two, survival, betrayal, resistance, coming of age, occupation and moral ambiguity mostly in Drama, War and History genres. Some movies like Liten Ida: The Boys from St. Petri (1991), Strange Gardens (2003), Before It Ends (2023), Evening Bells (1986), Out of the Darkness (2022). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
The film is divided into two segments, both set in Europe during WWII.
Style:
emotional, historical drama, tension, inspirational, bleak ...
Plot:
persecution, courage, holocaust, bravery, rescue, world war two, sacrifice, nazi occupation, resistance, european, occupation, world war ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
france, poland
Similarity:
100%
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.
Style:
historical drama, tense, period piece, bleak, suspenseful ...
Plot:
world war two, resistance, nazi occupation, children, political oppression, loss of innocence, coming of age, courage, moral ambiguity, underground movement, tragedy, escalation ...
Time:
1940s
Similarity:
73%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Lucien, 14, can’t understand why his father, a serious and respected teacher, makes a fool of himself by dressing up as a clown and giving a show. André, Lucien’s father’s best friend, feels for the teenager and decides to reveal something ...
Style:
suspense, disturbing, tense, captivating, poignant ...
Plot:
world war two, occupied france, occupation, sabotage, resistance, french resistance, friendship, nazi occupation, german occupation, father son relationship, family secret, fight ...
Time:
1940s, year 2003
Place:
france
Similarity:
62%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Denmark
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
When a folk high school is turned into an internment camp for German refugees, the headmaster couple Jakob and Lis and their children are thrust into an impossible situation. Should the family help the refugees - or stand firm in the Danish ...
Style:
suspenseful, captivating, psychological, serious, disturbing ...
Plot:
liberation, refugee camp, resistance, refugee, moral dilemma, occupation, world war, great war, wartime, prisoner of war camp, wartime life, war ...
Time:
year 1945, 1940s
Similarity:
61%
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Trials and tribulations of a Croatian Communist intellectual in the turbulent years before, during and after WW2.
Style:
melancholic, historical drama, bleak, intellectual, atmospheric ...
Plot:
world war two, communism, moral dilemma, character study, trauma, identity crisis, occupation, political persecution, repression, persecution, loss, survival ...
Time:
1940s, 1950s
Place:
former yugoslavia, croatia, balkan
Similarity:
59%
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, dramatic, captivating, serious, historical drama ...
Plot:
world war two, occupation, german occupation, resistance, freedom fighter, world war, wartime, nazism, war, fight, nazi soldier, nazi ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
denmark, copenhagen
Similarity:
59%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Colourful 'optimistic tragedy' of a poor family in Ukraine, living in the Carpathian mountains near the Romanian border, during the Second World War. This epic, which won the grand prize at the Moscow Film Festival in 1971, chronicles a ...
Style:
historical drama, emotional, bleak, period piece, melancholic ...
Plot:
world war two, survival, tragedy, family drama, poverty, occupation, family bonds, political conflict, loss, identity, loss of innocence, nationalism ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
ukraine, soviet union, romania, poland, ussr
Similarity:
59%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Croatia
Duration: 200 min.
Story:
"Long Dark Night" follows the life of the fictional character Iva Kolar: his experiences as a Croatian University student, his role as a Partisan fighting Hitler's troops during W.W. II, his involvement in his nation's post-war ...
Style:
historical drama, bleak, period piece, grim, intense ...
Plot:
world war two, biopic, national identity, historical epic, university student, political intrigue, realism, occupation, fascism, tragedy, moral ambiguity, sacrifice ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
croatia, former yugoslavia
Similarity:
59%
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A priest struggles with his religious beliefs as he sees his countrymen murdered in Nazi occupied Italy and as he becomes attracted to a woman operating in the resistance.
Style:
bleak, period piece, historical drama, tense, suspense ...
Plot:
world war two, nazi occupation, conscience, redemption, religious conflict, moral dilemma, guilt, sacrifice, forbidden love, church, political persecution, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
italy
Similarity:
54%
306
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy, Brazil, Hungary
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A man who grew up an orphan finally gets to meet his father: The psychopath Dr. Josef Mengele, the Auschwitz surgeon who performed genetic experiments on concentration camp refugees during WWII.
Style:
suspense, captivating, intense, serious, disturbing ...
Plot:
world war two, nazi, father son relationship, psychopath, family reunited, orphan, parent child relationship, experiment, father son reunion, war criminal, concentration camp, holocaust ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
brazil
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK, Yugoslavia
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
World War II finally reaches a Yugoslavian lake, where a lifeguard shelters a refugee and her son.
Style:
historical drama, suspense, melancholic, period piece, political ...
Plot:
world war two, partisan, refugee, nazi, summer, lifeguard, ethical dilemma, occupation, danger, river, widow, coming of age ...
Time:
year 1944
Place:
former yugoslavia
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy, France, Spain
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
From Hell To Victory follows the relationship of six friends throughout the Second World War. They meet in a cafe in Paris on 24th August 1939 and agree to meet there on the same day every year. The war however takes them on their own individual ...
Style:
period piece, tense, realistic, political, grim ...
Plot:
world war two, soldier, nazi, world war, occupation, commando, friendship, liberation, military, resistance, combat, survival ...
Time:
1940s, year 1979, 1930s
Place:
paris france, amsterdam, france
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Denmark
Duration: 152 min.
Story:
Karlskov is a self made, successful owner of a large electronics factory, has a wife and five children. They live the good, privileged upper-class life on Strandvejen north of Copenhagen when the Nazis occupy Denmark in April 1940. Karl struggles to ...
Style:
bleak, rough, suspense, realistic, historical drama ...
Plot:
world war two, businessman, factory, conflict, german occupation, family relations, industry, nazi occupation, collaboration, money, industrialist, family drama ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
denmark, germany, copenhagen
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union, East Germany
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
May of 1945. Soviet soldiers conducting an operation to rescue the children in a small town in the territory of Germany.
Style:
historical drama, period piece, bleak, atmospheric, melancholic
Audience:
kids
Plot:
world war two, children, realism, post war germany, rescue mission, survival, military operation, duty, loss, trauma, small town, hopes ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
berlin germany, germany
Similarity:
48%
112
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Serbia, Hungary
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A story of a Jewish-Hungarian-Serbian family. The plot is centered about trying of an adult son to reconstruct his childhood dream of and memories. Looms, but a sunken world, the central European town with its figures, the way to experiencing deep ...
Style:
melancholic, poignant, atmospheric, tragicomedy, period piece ...
Plot:
father son relationship, memory, family drama, madness, loneliness, childhood, identity, sadness, nostalgia, intimate, humiliation, dream ...
Time:
year 1942
Place:
central europe, balkan
Similarity:
46%
1K
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
On Amrum Island in spring 1945, twelve-year-old Nanning hunts seals, fishes at night, and works the fields to help feed his family. When the war ends, his mother sinks into depression, and he must navigate new conflicts while struggling to find his ...
Style:
historical drama, poignant, period piece, atmospheric, melancholic ...
Plot:
world war two, island, coming of age, north sea, resilience, fishing, isolation, nature, mother son relationship, loss of innocence, wartime, family drama ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
germany
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
The story of Anne Frank, the Jewish girl who went into hiding with her family in Amsterdam and became a victim of the Holocaust.
Style:
heartbreaking, bleak, reflective, historical drama, tension ...
Plot:
world war two, nazi occupation, children in wartime, tragedy, persecution, holocaust, fear, loss, anti semitism, isolation, teenage protagonist, peril ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
amsterdam
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Three separate stories depicting the tense everyday life during occupation, as seen through the eyes of children. In “On the Road,” the two main protagonists are lost in the September’s strife: a young boy, and a soldier transporting the ...
Style:
tension, poignant, grim, bleak, black and white ...
Plot:
world war two, children, orphanage, brutality, fear, hiding, occupation, concentration camp, soldier, trauma, loss, realism ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
poland, europe, central europe
Similarity:
43%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
In the aftermath of a traumatic event, a socially-awkward teen, Charlie, grapples with the guilt and judgement that ensues. He must confront the prison-like bondage of his fear when the perpetrator comes after him. In this tribute to contemporary ...
Style:
slow cinema, bleak, melancholic, tense, realistic ...
Plot:
guilt, character study, trauma, mother son relationship, slow burn, mental health, intimate, isolation, socially awkward, fear, family drama, claustrophobia ...
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Greece, Cyprus
Duration: 142 min.
Story:
Two brothers are fighting on opposite sides during the Greek Civil War.
Style:
historical drama, bleak, tense, melancholic, period piece ...
Plot:
greek civil war, brothers, civil war, brother vs brother, family drama, fanaticism, loss of innocence, family tragedy, national identity, tragedy, trauma, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
post world war two, 1940s
Place:
greece
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
In 1943, Vincenzio and Maria take their children to his father's Tuscan farm. Vincenzio commutes to Rome where he's a physician and, in the hospital basement, prints an anti-Fascist paper. His brother is in the Resistance; his father ...
Style:
historical drama, period piece, suspense, tension, poignant ...
Plot:
world war two, fascism, anti fascism, german occupation, war violence, coming of age, innocence lost, survival, revenge, trauma, brotherhood, high school life ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
rome italy, tuscany, italy
Similarity:
41%
245
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 ...
Style:
tension, period piece, bleak, historical drama, atmospheric ...
Plot:
world war two, holocaust, nazi occupation, suspicion, hiding, anti semitism, survival, fear, neighbor, moral ambiguity, memory, accomplice ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
poland, warsaw poland
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union, Colombia
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
A man wants to flee wartime Germany and the detested Nazis to Columbia, where his brother lives. In order to achieve his goal he agrees to become an informer for the Reich.
Style:
historical drama, period piece, dark, bleak, tense ...
Plot:
world war two, betrayal, nazism, ethical dilemma, moral ambiguity, tragedy, guilt, survival, totalitarianism, collaboration, compromise, conscience ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
colombia
Similarity:
39%
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 50 min.
Story:
In SIRIUS, a young boy whose most cherished companion is his loyal German shepherd devises his own form of resistance when the Nazis arrest his father, then order the confiscation of local canines, including his pet, to be retrained as attack dogs ...
Style:
historical drama, tense, bleak, period piece, tragic ...
Plot:
world war two, human animal relationship, loyalty, german shepherd, nazi occupation, resistance, child protagonist, grief, empathy, political repression, loss of innocence, animal cruelty ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
czechoslovakia, central europe, europe
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
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.
Style:
historical drama, romantic drama, bleak, tension, melancholic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
world war two, desertion, escape, occupation, military camp, forbidden romance, german soldier, survival, danger, young lovers, cross cultural relations, escape plan ...
Time:
1940s
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
No overview found.
Style:
historical drama, period piece, emotional, dark, atmospheric ...
Plot:
world war two, nazi germany, moral ambiguity, political conflict, love triangle, espionage, resistance, forbidden love, character study, tragedy, betrayal, courage ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
germany
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France, Italy, Czechoslovakia
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
This enigmatic, plodding story concerns a man who may or may not have betrayed a resistance fighter in his hometown during World War II. He has supposedly been shot down by the Nazis and wanders into town. Mourning the death of an unseen comrade, he ...
Style:
existential, psychological, art film, meditative, melancholic ...
Plot:
world war two, moral ambiguity, ambiguity, deception, betrayal, ethical dilemma, suspicion, identity, memory, resistance, character study, small town ...
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
The story of the legendary battle through the eyes of Jedrek - a boy who went through the hell of the gulag and left Russia with the Polish Army as one of thousands of polish orphans. Soon a decisive attack on a monastery located on the hills of ...
Style:
dramatic, intense, historical drama, period piece, emotional ...
Plot:
world war two, soldier, battlefield, combat, heroism, frontline, orphan, coming of age, trauma, survival, tragedy, brotherhood ...
Time:
1940s
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
The nurse Helga meets Baltic nobleman Arno when he's wounded in the Russo-Finnish war. They have a short but passionate affair before Arno is called back to the front and dies. Helga has a daughter, Dorli, as a result of the affair and they ...
Style:
historical drama, family saga, bleak, dramatic, period piece ...
Plot:
mother daughter relationship, tragedy, survival, loss, secret police, post war, political persecution, war trauma, torture, humiliation, exile, occupation ...
Time:
1940s, 1950s, 60s, 50s
Place:
czechoslovakia, africa
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
September the 8th 1943, Rome, that crucial day, the armistice, in the town many life change their way. Danilo escapes the fascist enlist, while Michele succeeded to leave his administration moving from Rome. On the way to come back Rome the two ...
Style:
historical drama, period piece, realistic, bleak, tense
Plot:
world war two, fascism, sabotage, heroism, resistance movement, sacrifice, nazi, occupation, courage, german occupation, bravery, tragedy ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
italy, rome italy
Similarity:
34%
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