Movies like Sirius 1975
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Sirius (1975)
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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 against the rebellious populace.
Style:
historical drama, tense, bleak, period piece, tragic, period drama
Plot:
world war two, german shepherd, loyalty, human animal relationship, nazi occupation, loss of innocence, child protagonist, resistance, grief, political repression, empathy, survival, heroism, animal cruelty, betrayal, village life, rescue attempt, coming of age, underground movement, killer dog, dog, village, boy, german occupation, sabotage ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
czechoslovakia, central europe, europe
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Most similar movies to Sirius
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out bleak, period piece, historical drama and tense films with plots about world war two, resistance, survival, occupation, betrayal, sacrifice and nazi occupation mostly in Drama, War and History genres. Some movies like Sirius: The Garden of Redemption (1997), The Boys from St. Petri (1991), Out of the Darkness (2022), Front in the Rear of the Enemy (1982), La grande quercia (1997). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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:
95%
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:
95%
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:
70%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, East Germany
Duration: 161 min.
Story:
A final episode in the trilogy about the Russian partisan's resistance during WWII. The film is set in 1944, when Russian partisans are making progress in their fighting against the Nazi occupation of Russia, Poland and Czechoslovakia. Lt. ...
Style:
period piece, tense, suspenseful, patriotic
Plot:
world war two, eastern front, behind enemy lines, guerilla warfare, resistance, occupation, sabotage, underground movement, sacrifice, resilience, heroism, patriotism ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
soviet union, russia, czechoslovakia, poland, ussr
Similarity:
69%
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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:
66%
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:
65%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Czechoslovakia, East Germany
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
On 20th of April 1945 the Soviet army launches its attack on Berlin. The end has come for Nazi Germany and Hitler decides to commit suicide. In Prague K.H. Frank (Nazi Secretary of State and Chief of police in the Protectorate of Bohemia a Moravia) ...
Style:
historical drama
Plot:
world war two, nazi germany, occupation, resistance, german occupation, czech history, liberation, end of war, soviet army, insurrection, nazism, solidarity ...
Time:
1940s, year 1945
Place:
central europe, prague, czechoslovakia
Similarity:
61%
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:
61%
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
An unassuming young lawyer leads a fight against the Nazis near the end of the Second World War.
Style:
bleak, tension, suspense, period drama
Plot:
world war two, nazi, european, occupation, courage, determination, heroism, sacrifice, loss, resistance, ethical dilemma, ruthlessness ...
Time:
1940s
Similarity:
61%
166
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 ...
Style:
historical drama, period piece, melancholic, realistic, bleak ...
Plot:
world war two, mother daughter relationship, collaboration, family drama, loss of innocence, trauma, betrayal, guilt, intimate, identity, haunting, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
1940s
Similarity:
60%
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:
57%
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 ...
Style:
bleak, emotional, medical horror, period piece, historical drama
Audience:
adult
Plot:
world war two, concentration camp, suffering, holocaust, jewish family, persecution, oppression, survival, deportation, anti war, loss of innocence, family drama ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
europe, eastern europe, hungary
Similarity:
55%
306
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Greece
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Two stories set in northern Greece during World War II.
Style:
period piece, black and white, grim, bleak, psychological ...
Plot:
world war two, retreat, sacrifice, loss, tragedy, survival, desperation, battlefield, wounded, trauma, anti war, realism ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
greece
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Greece
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
One of filmmaker and expatriate writer Adonis Kyrou's best-known quotes translates roughly as "I urge you: Learn to look at 'bad' films, they are so often sublime." The same could be said of Kyrou's own directorial work ...
Style:
historical drama, tension, suspense, political, controversial ...
Plot:
resistance, world war two, occupation, traitor, nazi, betrayal, moral dilemma, black market, survival, underground movement, collaboration, guilt ...
Time:
1940s
Similarity:
52%
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:
52%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Albania
Duration: 51 min.
Story:
Germans come amid snow and winter. In the village only people remained are women, that fight until wounded partisans, sheltered in the village, will retreat deeper and snow will cover their tracks. Face to face with the Germans and their control of ...
Style:
tense, historical drama, grim, suspenseful, black and white ...
Plot:
winter, world war two, village, nazi, occupation, resistance, cold, snow, solidarity, courage, survival, sacrifice ...
Time:
1940s, year 1970
Place:
albania
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
In Milan, in the winter of 1944, the ruthless Cane Nero leads the fascists against the partisans. Enne 2, one of the leading figures of the C.N.L., meets Berta, whom he loved three years ago, but Berta refuses to leave her husband for him. Enne 2 is ...
Style:
historical drama, serious, tension, bleak, atmospheric ...
Plot:
world war two, fascism, political conflict, occupation, persecution, moral ambiguity, oppression, betrayal, fear, violence, sacrifice, pursuit ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
milan italy, italy, turin italy
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 650 min.
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Story:
Enemy At The Door is a British television drama series made by London Weekend Television for ITV. The series was shown between 1978 and 1980 and dealt with the German occupation of Guernsey, one of the Channel Islands, during the Second World War. ...
Style:
historical drama, period piece, bleak, melancholic, suspense
Plot:
world war two, german occupation, nazi germany, fear, resistance movement, moral ambiguity, survival, collaboration, underground movement, stoicism, propaganda, rationing ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Similarity:
48%
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Genre: War, Drama
Country: Romania
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A young boy is adopted by a priest and his wife during the Nazi occupation of Romania during the Second World War. He befriends the village idiot, who's despised by everyone else. When a German is killed in the last days of the war, the ...
Style:
bleak, tension, existential, art house, period drama
Plot:
world war two, village, scapegoat, injustice, moral dilemma, tragedy, nazi occupation, village idiot, outcast, war crime, sacrifice, fear ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
romania, eastern europe
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
The Germans held the strategically important airport, where planes were taking off to bombard partisans positions. Headquarters of one a partisan unit sent a few commandos to blow up airplanes and airport in the air.
Style:
tension, suspenseful, tense, period piece, realistic ...
Plot:
world war two, partisan, sabotage, resistance, covert operation, espionage, commando raid, guerilla warfare, sacrifice, loyalty, heroism, weapons ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
eastern europe, czechoslovakia, former yugoslavia
Similarity:
45%
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:
45%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
This movie is realistic and even crude, and maybe that is the reason, why it's so impressive. Instead of romantic (nearly melodramatic) scenes, incorporated to the Sverak's "Tmavomodry svet" (Dark Blue World) it offers stories ...
Style:
period drama
Plot:
world war two, aviation, luftwaffe, aeroplane, royal air force, airplane crash, aircraft, czech history, friend, airplane, funeral, friendship ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
england, czechoslovakia, central europe
Similarity:
44%
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:
41%
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
The true story of George Tweed, an American sailor who became the only serviceman on the island of Guam to avoid capture by the Japanese during the early years of World War II.
Style:
period piece, tense, suspenseful, grim, educational ...
Plot:
world war two, biopic, survival, island, isolation, military, resilience, heroism, japanese occupation, loneliness, resistance, patriotism ...
Time:
1940s, year 1962
Place:
japan, minneapolis minnesota, pacific ocean, pearl harbor
Similarity:
41%
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:
41%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The tragic story of a group of prisoners, ordinary people, were detained in the camp at Lager in Naise at the beginning of WWII, after that mighty torture and abuse by the Germans, will try escape from the camp. A few succeeded.
Style:
bleak, tense, suspense, period piece
Plot:
world war two, concentration camp, escape, torture, prisoner of war camp, survival, nazi occupation, partisan, resistance, prisoners of war, execution, brutality ...
Time:
1940s, year 1941
Place:
former yugoslavia, eastern europe, serbia
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
During the German occupation of France, a young woman - Marie - finds a Jewish boy in her room. His parents and other Jewish neighbors have been just been deported, but Maurice (the boy) escaped. Marie decides to hide him, secretly.
Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological, historical drama, suspenseful ...
Plot:
world war two, jew persecution, hiding, life is a bitch, child custody, nazi occupied france, occupied france, rescue, anti semitism, german occupation, persecution, holocaust ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
france
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
This film, chronicling the last days of Czech resistance fighter Maruska Kuderikova (played by Magda Vasaryova), is based on her diaries. Though she was tortured and eventually executed by the Nazis, her diaries indicate that she was optimistic for ...
Style:
erotic, freeze frame, period drama
Plot:
world war two, czech history, renaissance, women's prison, female protagonist, european history, rural setting, female friendship, jail cell, bravery, german occupation, imprisonment ...
Time:
1940s, year 1942, 20th century
Place:
eastern europe, czechoslovakia, europe, central europe
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Denmark
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
The true story of the Fiil's a family of innkeepers who during Nazi-Germany's occupation of Denmark took up arms against the German occupiers. But in the fight for freedom, some must die so that others may live.
Style:
realistic, emotional, disturbing, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
resistance fighter, nazi occupation, nazi, freedom fighter, resistance, world war two, sabotage, danger, heroes, showdown, wartime life, battles ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
denmark, germany, scandinavia
Similarity:
38%
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:
38%
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