Movies like The Assisi Underground

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The Assisi Underground (1985)
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The Assisi Underground (1985)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: This film sheds light on the role of the Catholic Church and the people of Assisi in rescuing Italian Jews from the Nazis in 1943.
Style: grindhouse, independent film
Plot: catholic, world war two, christian, nazi, holocaust, pope, catholic priest, priest, escape, friendship, nun, monk, catholic church, monastery, bishop, mother superior, nazi occupation, stock footage
Time: 1940s, year 1985
Place: italy
Keyword: jewish

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Most similar movies to The Assisi Underground

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, disturbing and tense films with plots about world war two, nazi, holocaust, world war, war, nazi occupation and catholic mostly in Drama, War and History genres. Some movies like The Assisi Underground: The Scarlet and the Black (1983), The Cardinal (1963), Hotel Meina (2007), Satan Never Sleeps (1962), Inside the Third Reich (1982). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Scarlet and the Black (1983)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA, UK, Italy
Duration: 143 min.
Story: Fr. Hugh O'Flaherty is a Vatican official in 1943-45 who has been hiding downed pilots, escaped prisoners of war, and Italian resistance families. His diplomatic status in a Catholic country prevents Colonel Kappler from openly arresting him, ...
Style: realistic, factual, tense, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: nazi, world war two, catholic, vatican, soldier, fighting the system, clergy, human spirit, uninhibited rivalry, military, survival, hopes ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: europe, rome italy, italy
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95%
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The Cardinal (1963)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 175 min.
Story: A young Catholic priest from Boston confronts bigotry, Naziism, and his own personal conflicts as he rises to the office of cardinal.
Style: religious drama, epic, realistic, serious, sincere ...
Plot: priest, church, catholic, racism, catholic priest, clergy, nazi, pope, bigotry, abortion, major league, intrigue ...
Time: year 1963
Place: italy, vienna, boston, rome italy, georgia
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Hotel Meina (2007)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy, France, Serbia
Duration: 115 min.
Story: How will the Germans react to the armistice of the 8th of September 1943, due to which Italy betrays them and sides with the allied forces? This is the distressing questions that a group of 16 Italian - Greek Jews evacuated at The Meina Hotel ask ...
Plot: world war two, holocaust, nazi occupation, hotel, refugee, truce, nazi, war crime, mass murder
Time: 1940s
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
Satan Never Sleeps (1962)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: A priest (William Holden) arrives at a mission-post in China accompanied by a young native girl who has joined him along the way. His job is to relieve the existing priest (Clifton Webb), who is now too old and weak to continue with the upkeep of ...
Plot: priest, catholic, church, mission, catholic school, convent school, missionary, nun, catholic priest, catholic church, nun's habit
Place: china
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
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Inside the Third Reich (1982)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 240 min.
Story: A dramatization of the life of Albert Speer, Hitler's young architect and onetime confidant, and his meteoric rise into the Nazi hierarchy. Based upon Speer's own monograph of the same title.
Plot: world war two, nazi, hitler, autobiography, third reich
Time: 1940s, 1930s
Place: germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
Miracle at Moreaux (1985)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 58 min.
Story: Drama - On a December night in 1943, three Jewish children escape from Nazi-occupied France and are given refuge by Sister Gabrielle at a Catholic school in which the gentile students must face their fears about harboring Jews from the Nazis. As the ...
Plot: world war two, nun, christmas, faith based, faith, religion, children in wartime, judaism, siblings, convent school, mute child, prejudice ...
Time: year 1943
Place: france
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84%
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Monsignor (1982)
Genre: Crime, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: The vows of an ambitious young American priest are tested during World War II. Not only does Father John Flaherty get involved with the black market to raise money for the Vatican, he also falls in love with a young French nun.
Style: realistic, serious
Plot: catholic priest, pope, world war two, religion, christian, christianity, sicilian, black market, scandal, nun, catholic, catholic church ...
Time: 1940s, year 1982, 50s, 1950s, post world war two
Place: italy, brooklyn new york city, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
In This House of Brede (1975)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A well-to-do London businesswoman gives up her comfortable life, including the man who loves her, to become a cloistered Benedictine nun.
Plot: monk, faith, christian, catholic, convent, drastic change of life, japanese girl, newcomer, catholicism, loss of daughter, mother superior, priest ...
Place: london
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
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And the Violins Stopped Playing (1988)
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: Poland, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: independent film
Plot: world war two, holocaust, world war, gypsy, nazi, nazi concentration camp, violin, romani people, genocide, racism
Place: poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
Hidden in Silence (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Poland 1939, shortly before invasion of the German troops. To save their belongings from the Nazis, the Jewish family Diamant transfers them to their 17-year-old catholic maid Fusia. In return Fusia provides them with food until the ghetto is ...
Plot: world war two, nazi, holocaust, catholic, world war one, christian, world war, rat, teenager, christmas eve, house, attic ...
Time: 1940s
Place: poland
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The Auschwitz Report (2021)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Slovakia, Czech Republic, Poland, Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story: This is the true story of Freddy and Walter – two young Slovak Jews, who were deported to Auschwitz in 1942. On 10 April 1944, after meticulous planning and with the help and the resilience of their inmates, they manage to escape. While the ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, tense, social
Plot: nazi, concentration camp, nazi occupation, world war two, male pubic hair, wartime life, male nudity, wartime, war violence, prisoner of war camp, prisoners of war, life is a bitch ...
Time: 1940s, year 1944
Place: germany, central europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
The Conference (2022)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 108 min.
Story: On January 20, 1942, the Wannsee Conference takes place in Berlin, a meeting that had only one item on the agenda: The Final Solution, the organization of the systematic mass murder of eleven million European Jews.
Style: thought provoking, disturbing, captivating, tense
Plot: nazi, world war two, nazism, holocaust, ss officer, jew persecution, nazi officer, war, military officer, wartime, murder, nazi uniform ...
Time: year 1942, 1940s
Place: berlin germany, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
Massacre in Rome (1973)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: In the Nazi occupied city of Rome, an assault on an SS brigade draws retaliation from the military governship. "Massacre in Rome" is the true story of how this partisan attack led to the mass execution of Italian nationals under the orders ...
Style: contemplative, serious, realistic, thought provoking, captivating ...
Plot: world war two, world war, military, war, partisan, nazi occupation, holocaust, shoah, nazi, bureaucracy, fictional history, fascism ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: italy, rome italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank (1988)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story: During the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam, Otto Frank decides to hide his family, who are Jewish, after his daughter Margot is called to appear for transport to a Nazi labour camp. Miep Gies, Otto Frank's office assistant hides them in the attic ...
Style: thought provoking, serious, realistic, bleak, disturbing
Plot: holocaust, world war two, nazi, world war, anti semitism, journal, biopic, injustice, against humanity, hopes, confined, human spirit ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, 1930s
Place: holland, europe, amsterdam
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
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April 9th (2015)
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 ...
Style: serious, captivating, realistic, tense, suspense ...
Plot: world war two, nazi occupation, military, war, soldier, battles, danger, against the odds, wehrmacht, nazi, world war, friendship ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, year 1940
Place: denmark, germany, europe
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The Shadow in My Eye (2021)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Denmark, Belgium
Duration: 107 min.
Story: On March 21st, 1945, the British Royal Air Force set out on a mission to bomb Gestapo's headquarters in Copenhagen. The raid had fatal consequences as some of the bombers accidentally targeted a school and more than 120 people were killed, 86 ...
Style: disturbing, suspense
Plot: world war two, nazi, nazism, air raid, bombing, gestapo, military, nordic, murder, aerial bombardment, chaos, killings ...
Time: year 1945, 1940s
Place: copenhagen
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78%
The Abduction of Saint Anne (1975)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story: A cynical detective and a Roman Catholic bishop team up to investigate the reported miraculous powers of a 17-year-old girl being held captive in the home of her father, an ailing syndicate kingpin.
Style: detective
Plot: miraculous event, bishop, catholicism, convent, catholic church, catholic priest, mother superior, kidnapping, nun, priest, catholic
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
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Churchill and the Generals (1979)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min.
Story: The complicated relationship between Winston Churchill and the leaders of the British army during World War II.
Style: historical drama
Plot: world war two, winston churchill, british military, political leader, military, politics, nazi, strategy
Time: 1940s
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
Across the Waters (2016)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Denmark
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Fuglene Over Sundet is the gripping tale of the Danish Jews' escape to Sweden in October 1943.
Style: exciting, unusual plot structure, thought provoking, touching, sincere
Plot: nazi occupation, world war two, husband wife relationship, german soldier, brother sister relationship, world war, judaism, holocaust, nazi soldier, guitarist, jazz, fisherman ...
Time: 1940s
Place: denmark, scandinavia, copenhagen
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
The Garden of Redemption (1997)
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.
Plot: world war two, wartime, love, resistance movement, partisan, nazi occupation, priest, resistance, fascism
Time: 1940s
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
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Anzio (1968)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Allied forces land at Anzio unopposed but instead of moving straight inland their commanding officer decides to dig in. A battle-hardened war correspondent borrows a jeep and drives to Rome and back without meeting any German forces, but his report ...
Style: retro, macaroni combat, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: world war two, military, military operation, behind enemy lines, world war, nazi, tank, ss, holocaust, fascism, submarine, kriegsmarine ...
Time: 1940s, year 1944
Place: italy, europe, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
Esther's Diary (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story: Two successful, modern day American women, Maria and Sarah, are brought together by a secret connection they never knew they had; their mothers, Apolonia, a Christian, and Esther, a Jew, were best friends during the Polish Holocaust. A recently ...
Style: touching, sincere, suspense, melancholic, independent film
Plot: holocaust, family relations, retirement home, death, world war two, concentration camp, religion, spirituality, world war, voice over narration, cemetery, nazi concentration camp ...
Time: 1940s
Place: poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
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Paradise Road (1997)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Paradise Road is a 1997 film which tells the story of a group of English, American, Dutch and Australian women who are imprisoned in Sumatra during World War II. It was directed by Bruce Beresford and stars Glenn Close as beatific Adrienne Pargiter, ...
Style: touching, harsh, serious, uplifting, emotional ...
Plot: world war two, pow, holocaust, war, prison, island, friendship, justice, war crime, nazi, women, human spirit ...
Time: 1940s, year 1997, 1930s, 20th century
Place: japan, indonesia, asia, singapore
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
A Bag of Marbles (2017)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: France, Canada, Czech Republic
Duration: 110 min.
Story: In occupied France, Maurice and Joseph, two young Jewish brothers left to their own devices demonstrate an incredible amount of cleverness, courage, and ingenuity to escape the enemy invasion and to try to reunite their family once again.
Style: suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot: world war two, brother brother relationship, holocaust, ss, nazi occupation, nazi, german occupation, german soldier, soldier, military, danger, machismo ...
Time: 1940s, year 2017, year 1943, year 1942, year 1944
Place: paris france, nice france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
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Reunion (1989)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: France, West Germany, UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Two young boys from very different backgrounds become friends in 1933 Stuttgart. However, they don't realize how different they are until much later as one is the son of a well-to-do Jewish doctor and the other the son of a German aristocrat. ...
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, disturbing, thought provoking
Plot: world war two, anti semitism, friendship, nazi, friendship between boys, against humanity, confined, society, youth, coming of age, religions or cults, homecoming ...
Time: 1940s, year 1989, 1930s
Place: europe, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
Operation: Daybreak (1975)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Czechoslovakia, 1942. Three brave Czech patriots risk everything to rid their country of its brutal Nazi leader, SS-General Reinhard Heydrich.
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, bleak
Plot: world war two, czech history, spy, world war, nazi, espionage, holocaust, secret mission, great war, nazi germany, wartime, luftwaffe ...
Time: 1940s, year 1975, year 1942, year 1941
Place: prague, europe, england, czechoslovakia, czech republic ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
The Last Note (2017)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Greece
Duration: 117 min.
Story: The execution of 200 Greek resistance fighters by the German occupiers on May 1st, 1944 in Kaisariani, as reprisal for the Greek Resistance ambush against Nazis.
Style: suspense, touching, psychological, rough, sincere ...
Plot: world war two, nazi occupation, resistance fighter, reprisal, nazi officer, resistance, nazi, mass murder, spring, summary execution
Time: 1940s, year 1944
Place: greece, germany, athens greece, balkan, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
The 25th Hour (1967)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France, Italy, Yugoslavia
Duration: 130 min.
Story: A Romanian peasant fights to get back to his family after he's imprisoned by the Nazis.The picture is based on real events. It includes Hungary's government in collaboration with the Nazis, the encroachment of Romania by Stalin's ...
Plot: world war two, nazi, world war, racism, wartime, war, peasant, jew persecution, village, deportation, volunteer, holocaust ...
Time: 1940s, year 1967
Place: romania, hungary
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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Auschwitz (2011)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Canada, Germany
Duration: 73 min.
Story: Auschwitz is a hard-hitting war film which shows life as it really was at the death camp.
Style: disturbing, thought provoking, rough, realistic, bleak ...
Plot: nazi, holocaust, world war two, concentration camp, anti semitism, mass murder, against humanity, life is a bitch, society, genocide, gas chamber, exploitation ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: europe, poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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