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The Assisi Underground (1985)
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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, catholic priest, christian, nazi, holocaust, pope, holocaust survivor, priest, escape, friendship, nun, monk, catholic church, monastery, bishop, mother superior, nazi occupation, stock footage
Time:
1940s, year 1985
Place:
italy
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, thought provoking and bleak films with plots about world war two, nazi, holocaust, world war, nazi uniform, war and nazi occupation mostly in Drama, War and History genres. Some movies like The Assisi Underground: Inside the Third Reich (1982), The Scarlet and the Black (1983), The Cardinal (1963), Miracle at Moreaux (1985), The Auschwitz Report (2021). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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.
Style:
political, tense, thought provoking, grim, bleak ...
Plot:
world war two, nazi, nazi germany, third reich, character study, biopic, architecture, ambition, moral ambiguity, ideology, totalitarianism, rise to power ...
Time:
1930s, 1940s, 1920s
Place:
berlin germany, germany
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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:
factual, tense, serious, suspenseful, period piece ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
nazi, world war two, catholic, vatican, soldier, fighting the system, military, uninhibited rivalry, clergy, politics, hopes, survival ...
Time:
year 1943, 1940s, 20th century, 1930s
Place:
rome italy, europe, italy, germany, california
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46%
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:
epic, religious drama, serious, realistic, captivating ...
Plot:
catholic priest, priest, racism, vatican, widow, church, catholic, nazi, clergy, pope, cardinal the priest, woman in labor ...
Time:
year 1963
Place:
italy, rome italy, vienna, boston, georgia
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37%
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, christmas, nun, faith, judaism, religion, children in wartime, faith based, siblings, hanukkah, hiding place, escape ...
Time:
year 1943
Place:
france
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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, escape, world war two, wartime life, wartime, jew persecution, war violence, life is a bitch, male pubic hair, nazi propaganda ...
Time:
1940s, year 1944
Place:
central europe, germany
Similarity:
30%
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:
pope, world war two, catholic priest, catholic, money, forbidden love, religion, politics, female nudity, sicilian, christian, christianity ...
Time:
1940s, year 1982, 50s, 1950s, post world war two
Place:
rome italy, italy, brooklyn new york city
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Father Alexander is trying to maintain peaceful life for his church amidst the Nazi occupation during WWII.
Style:
christian film, spiritual, rough, compassionate, sincere ...
Plot:
belief in god, religion, world war two, priest, children, church, brutality, human spirit, countryside, husband wife relationship, war, nazi occupation ...
Time:
1940s
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: Poland, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
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Style:
historical drama, heartbreaking, bleak, grim, period piece ...
Plot:
world war two, holocaust, gypsy, genocide, discrimination, nazi occupation, loss, auschwitz, suffering, persecution, tragedy, ethnic cleansing ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
poland
Similarity:
27%
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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 ...
Style:
religious drama, grim, tense, suspense, period piece
Plot:
priest, communism, religious persecution, chinese civil war, political conflict, persecution, moral dilemma, sacrifice, pursuit, escape, heroism, martyrdom ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
china
Similarity:
27%
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, realistic, serious, captivating, thought provoking ...
Plot:
world war two, world war, partisan, nazi occupation, military, holocaust, nazi, german soldier, fascism, fictional history, bureaucracy, shoah ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
rome italy, italy, europe
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: Russia, Germany, Lithuania
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Based on the true story, international historical project “Sobibor” is dedicated to the heroism of the Soviet o cer Alexander Pechersky. During the great Patriotic war, being in a Nazi concentration camp Sobibor he managed to do the impossible ...
Style:
rough, factual, suspenseful, political, philosophical
Plot:
world war two, holocaust, nazi, nazi germany, genocide, concentration camp, holocaust survivor, mass murder, rebellion, pow, escape, killing ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
poland, germany, lithuania, soviet union
Similarity:
25%
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, wehrmacht, military, war, soldier, battles, danger, against the odds, nazi, world war, friendship ...
Time:
20th century, year 1940, 1940s
Place:
denmark, germany, europe
Similarity:
24%
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, realistic, serious, disturbing, bleak
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, nazi, world war, anti semitism, journal, biopic, injustice, on the run, human spirit, war, life is a bitch ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, 20th century
Place:
holland, europe, amsterdam
Similarity:
24%
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, german soldier, brother sister relationship, husband wife relationship, world war, judaism, holocaust, mother, nazi soldier, boat, fisherman ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
scandinavia, denmark, copenhagen
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
1939, Hitler's army was closing borders, and 85 American missionaries were in Germany serving their church. The escape of these missionaries from Nazi Germany is one of the most dramatic events to occur in modern LDS history.
Style:
captivating, psychological, thrilling, independent film, period drama
Plot:
christian, faith, nazi occupation, neo nazi, church, nazism, problem, nazi soldier, evacuation, mormon, customs, missionary ...
Time:
1930s, year 1939
Place:
copenhagen, frankfurt germany
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Crime, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 74 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, suspense, sincere, melancholic, independent film
Plot:
holocaust, family relations, spirituality, religion, concentration camp, retirement home, death, world war two, world war, voice over narration, nazi, journal ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
poland
Similarity:
23%
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:
tense, disturbing, captivating, bleak, grim ...
Plot:
world war two, holocaust, nazi, nazism, ss officer, jew persecution, nazi officer, genocide, anti semitism, war crime, nazi germany, wartime ...
Time:
1940s, year 1942
Place:
berlin germany, germany
Similarity:
23%
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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, behind enemy lines, military operation, military, world war, ss, nazi, tank, pain, u.s. army, beach, u.s. military ...
Time:
1940s, year 1944
Place:
italy, europe, rome italy
Similarity:
23%
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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, costume drama, serious, emotional ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
world war two, pow, prison, holocaust, island, war crime, justice, friendship, women, women's prison, nazi, human spirit ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, year 1997, 20th century
Place:
japan, indonesia, asia, singapore, germany ...
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A Nazi doctor, along with the Sonderkomando Jews – who are forced to work in the crematoria of Auschwitz against their fellow-Jews – find themselves in a moral grey zone.
Style:
depressing, bleak, disturbing, factual, harsh ...
Plot:
holocaust, nazi, world war two, concentration camp, redemption, nazi germany, auschwitz, ss, shoah, moral ambiguity, world war, tragedy ...
Time:
1940s, year 1944, 20th century, post world war two
Place:
poland, germany, europe, middle east, budapest ...
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Four young Jews survive the Third Reich in the middle of Berlin by living so recklessly that they become "invisible."
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, suspense, sincere, thought provoking ...
Plot:
holocaust, nazi officer, world war two, holocaust survivor, refugee, courage, resistance, hiding, nazi, feminist, military, biopic ...
Time:
1940s, year 1943, 20th century
Place:
germany, berlin germany
Similarity:
22%
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:
suspense, disturbing, intense, bleak, period drama
Plot:
world war two, nazi, air raid, nazism, gestapo, royal air force, eye, bombing, nordic, military, murder, killing ...
Time:
year 1945, 1940s
Place:
copenhagen
Similarity:
22%
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:
tense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological ...
Plot:
world war two, holocaust, brother brother relationship, ss, nazi occupation, nazi, german occupation, children in wartime, german soldier, shoah, military, soldier ...
Time:
1940s, year 2017, year 1943, year 1942, year 1944
Place:
paris france, nice france, france
Similarity:
22%
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: France, Germany, Hungary
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
1942. Joseph is eleven. And this June morning, he must go to school, a yellow star sown on his chest. He receives the support of a goods dealer. The mockery of a baker. Between kindness and contempt, Jo, his Jewish friends, their families, learn of ...
Style:
emotional, disturbing, realistic, serious, bleak ...
Plot:
holocaust, concentration camp, nazism, holocaust survivor, german occupation, world war two, nazi, genocide, nazi concentration camp, shoah, world war, injustice ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, year 2009, post world war two, year 1942
Place:
paris france, vichy, france, middle east, europe ...
Similarity:
22%
618
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, thought provoking, disturbing, serious, realistic
Plot:
world war two, anti semitism, friendship between boys, nazi, friendship, boyhood, religions or cults, against humanity, society, confined, coming of age, youth ...
Time:
1940s, year 1989, 1930s
Place:
europe, germany
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
During WWII an American soldier sent to Norway to help with the escape of a scientist working on the atomic bomb for the Germans. Before they can escape they are captured and sent to a POW prison camp in an alpine castle. Cook must find a way to ...
Plot:
escape, world war two, world war, pow, castle, military prison, prison escape, historical event, prisoner, caper, funeral, prisoner of war camp ...
Time:
1940s, year 1943
Place:
germany
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France, Italy, Yugoslavia, USA
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, peasant, racism, racial discrimination, wartime, war, jew persecution, deportation, volunteer, concentration camp ...
Time:
1940s, year 1967
Place:
romania, hungary
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, USA, UK
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:
dramatic, realistic, serious, suspenseful, bleak
Plot:
world war two, czech history, spy, world war, holocaust, nazi, espionage, secret mission, parachutist, double suicide, nazi occupation, traitor ...
Time:
1940s, year 1941, year 1975, 20th century, year 1942
Place:
prague, europe, england, czechoslovakia, czech republic ...
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: Italy, Hungary
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
An expressionist biography of Edith Stein, who converted from the Jewish faith to the Catholic one and became a Carmelite sister. She would die in a German concentration camp.
Style:
intellectual, christian film
Plot:
catholic, world war two, saint, catholic saint, woman, christian, wartime life, biopic, nun, running, concentration camp, tragic event ...
Place:
germany
Similarity:
21%
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 ...
Style:
historical drama, emotional, melancholic, period piece, tension ...
Plot:
world war two, holocaust, hotel, war crime, execution, tragedy, nazism, massacre, fear, ss officer, desperation, escape ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
italy
Similarity:
21%
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