Movies like Eiszeit

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Eiszeit (1975)
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Eiszeit (1975)
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany, Norway
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Based on a very successful play of the same name by Tankred Dorst, this film tells a story about Norwegian author Knut Hamsun (here played by O.E. Hasse), a Nobel prizewinner for literature who was notorious for having collaborated with the Nazi regime. After the war, rather than hand him over for prosecution, he was sent to a retirement home. A young man, bitter about the war, tracks him down and begins to harass him in various ways. The author handles everything that comes to him with remarkable dignity, which eventually removes some of the taint from his actions.
Plot: world war two, nazi, hitler, friendship, partisan, suicide, old man, old age, insanity, retirement home, friend, trial, court
Time: 1950s, 50s

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Most similar movies to Eiszeit

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, psychological, independent film and realistic films with plots about friendship, world war two, old man, friend, suicide, nazi and retirement home mostly in Drama, War and Comedy genres. Some movies like Eiszeit: Threesome (1970), Triangle (1967), Salut Victor (1989), Last Man Club (2016), My Best Friend Anne Frank (2021). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Threesome (1970)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 102 min.
Story: The childhood of three friends, Ilya, Yacob, and Pavel, was spent in the innkeeper's house. Their three destinies are similarly unhappy. Yakob died of tuberculosis, Ilya, after robbing a merchant, committed suicide. And Pavel, who let the woman ...
Plot: fate, brothel, childhood, friend, friendship, suicide, illness, consumption
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95%
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Triangle (1967)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 84 min.
Story: The movie tells the life story and friendship of five blacksmiths in town of Leninakan during the war and the years preceding it - as told by the son of one of the blacksmiths.
Audience: kids
Plot: soldier, friendship, world war two, friend, town
Time: 1940s
Place: armenia, caucasus, soviet union
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Salut Victor (1989)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Friendship between two old men becomes love. Slightly-unkempt, tired, and frail, Philippe Lanctot moves into a rest home. The administrator says she wants him to be happy, but that seems far from his mind: he's waiting to die. Then, into his ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, lgbtq, gay subtext, friendship, friendship between men, retirement home, gay relationship, bachelor, homosexuality, closeted homosexual, gay lead character ...
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Last Man Club (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A WW2 veteran destined for life in a retirement home escapes his difficult family situation and embarks on a cross country adventure to find the last remaining members of his B-17 bomber crew with the help of a beautiful accomplice.
Style: tense, disturbing, captivating, psychological, suspense
Plot: friendship, veteran, young woman, elderly man, woman in danger, escapades, old friends reunited, world war two veteran, runaway, elderly, friends, reunited friends ...
Time: 1940s
Place: texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
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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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67%
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Midlothia (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Midlothia is a small, tight-knit town, where everyone knows everyone else's business. On Fred's last day in town, he and his closest friends uncover secrets that threaten the fabric of their friendship.
Plot: friend, beer, friendship, infidelity, small town, duck, abortion, mini van, barbed wire, shotgun, tequila
Place: austin texas, texas
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67%
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The Dresser (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story: One fateful night in a small English regional theatre during World War II a troupe of touring actors stage a production of Shakespeares King Lear. Bombs are falling, sirens are wailing, the curtain is up in an hour but the actor/manager Sir who is ...
Style: realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, sad ...
Plot: world war two, aging, friendship, illness, actor's life, elderly, showbiz, actor, death, adultery, lgbtq, obsession ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: england, london
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Mindshadows (1988)
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands, Canada
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Feature based on the novel by J. Bernlef. A Dutch couple who have emigrated are confronted with the husband's rapid onset of senility during a snowy winter in North Eastern Canada. The film is an account of the man's fight within himself ...
Style: independent film
Plot: mental health, husband wife relationship, dementia, flashback, suicide, retirement home, elderly couple, winter, fishing village, memory loss, old man, wandering ...
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
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100 Years of Adolf Hitler (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 60 min.
Story: The last hours in the lives of Hitler and his associates.
Style: black and white
Plot: hitler, world war two, sex crime, suicide, suicide by poison, third reich, satire, bunker
Time: 1940s
Place: germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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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 ...
Plot: world war two, post war, wartime life, nazi, outsider, occupation, children, terror, harassment, nazi occupation
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57%
The White Angel (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Beyaz Melek’ filmi; bir aşkın öyküsüdür.Bu aşk öyküsü, iki insanın birbirine duyduğu aşk değil, bir grup insanın hayata ve birbirlerine duyduğu aşkın ve sevginin hikayesidir.Filmde, doğudan batıya, mekteplisinden köylüsüne, ...
Style: touching, realistic, psychological, captivating, serious ...
Plot: family relations, hospital, aging, terminal illness, friendship, retirement home, death, old age, wedding, bittersweet, love and romance, elderly lovers ...
Time: 21st century
Place: turkey, istanbul turkey, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
The Face of Jizo (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Based on a play by Hisashi Inoue, it focuses on the sufferings of the survivors of Hiroshima. The film takes place during 4 days in the summer of 1948, as the ghost of her father visits Mitsué (Rié Miyama). He had somehow learned that she has ...
Style: minimal cast, retro
Plot: world war two, atomic bomb, father daughter relationship, one location
Place: hiroshima japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
Hitler Meets Christ (2007)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Canada
Duration: 76 min.
Story: Hitler Meets Christ premiered at the Cinequest Film Festival in 2007 and went on to play at other festivals internationally. Written as a play by Michael Moriarty entitled "Hitler and Christ meet Death at the Port Authority Bus Station" ...
Style: dark comedy, independent film
Plot: hitler, world war two, jesus, religion, train station
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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The Climb (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, New Zealand, Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Baltimore, 1959. Danny's dad is the only man in the neighborhood who didn't fight in World War II. Danny, who's 12, gets teased and folks make nasty cracks about cowards. An old radio tower on a nearby hill is about to be torn down, ...
Style: serious, realistic, uplifting, touching, independent film
Audience: family outing
Plot: friendship, rescue, young heroes, youth, heroes, coming of age, aging, human spirit, hopes, family relations, friends, child illness ...
Time: 50s, 1950s, post world war two
Place: baltimore, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
The First Day of Freedom (1964)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Freed Polish soldiers are trapped in a small town in Germany during the last days of World War II. After a doctor's daughter is raped by a concentration camp worker, the Poles allow her and her father to stay in the house that is their ...
Plot: world war two, partisan, group, doctor, father daughter relationship, bell, end of war, post war, shooting
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Lollipop Monster (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Ari and Oona go to the same school. Lolita-like Ari, is blonde, pouting and lives in a world of bright colours, frustrated by her mother still treating her as a child, while arty Oona dresses in black and is treated as an adult by her artist father. ...
Style: queer cinema
Plot: suicide, friendship, female female relationship, coming of age, suicide by hanging, sexual promiscuity, mutilation, burial, murder, loss of father, friend, girlfriend ...
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51%
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Grace & Glorie (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: When a lonely ex-New Yorker moves into the home of a rural senior to act as a hospice worker, the two initially couldn't seem to be less alike. However, as time passes, the two find much kinship including a lost child. Slowly the two build a ...
Plot: surprise visitor, suicide, volunteer, husband wife relationship, grandmother grandson relationship, lawyer, respect, widow, regret, caregiver, dying, friendship ...
Place: connecticut, new york
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The Last Letter (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 61 min.
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Style: minimal cast
Plot: holocaust, mother, town, persecution, world war two, doctor, monologue, jewish ghetto, nazi, letter, ghetto, human rights ...
Place: ukraine
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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The Mourning Forest (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan, France
Duration: 97 min.
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Style: sincere, psychological, captivating, aesthetic, independent film ...
Plot: retirement home, forest, travel, sadness, old man, cross country trip, relationships, male female relationship, family problems, relationship problems, life is a bitch, old age ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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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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46%
Signs of Life (1968)
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story: During World War II, three German soldiers are withdrawn from combat when one of them, Stroszek, is wounded. They are assigned to a small coastal community on the Greek island of Kos while Stroszek recuperates. The men become increasingly stir crazy ...
Style: serious, psychological, realistic, tense, atmospheric ...
Plot: world war two, soldier, german soldier, world war, psychiatry, nazi, war, summer, mental illness, island, driven mad, dull life ...
Time: 1940s, year 1968, 20th century
Place: greece, germany, europe, mediterranean sea, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Farewell, Mr. Haffmann (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Paris 1942. François Mercier is an ordinary man who only aspires to start a family with the woman he loves, Blanche. He is also the employee of a talented jeweler, Mr. Haffmann. But faced with the German occupation, the two men will have no other ...
Plot: world war two, nazi, jew persecution, family relations, pregnant woman, letter, police arrest, husband wife relationship, body swapping, doll, newspaper, arrest ...
Time: year 1941, 1940s
Place: germany, paris france
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45%
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Max Rose (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: An ageing jazz pianist learns something about his wife of 65 years, leading him to question their life together.
Style: realistic, psychological, captivating, thought provoking, serious ...
Plot: aging, introspection, jazz, flashback sequence, memory, death of wife, friendship, elderly, dishonesty, dealing with death, wife, death ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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45%
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Two Friends (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Two Sicilian friends, Nunzio and Pino, share the same apartment in Turin. Nunzio works in a factory but is laid off because of his illness. Pino, on the other hand, is a mysterious man and he is always traveling because of his work. Nunzio would ...
Style: romantic, captivating, light
Plot: illness, friend, friendship, friendship between men, love and romance, love affair, love story, couple relations, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, living together, fall in love, relationships ...
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44%
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Two of a Kind (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Nolie has just turned 21 but is retarded and acts more like 8. While claiming that she only wants to help him, his "smother" actually likes things that way. One day Nolie visits his beloved grandfather in a rest home and is horrified at ...
Plot: golf, intellectual disability, cycling, disability, mentally challenged person, miniature golf, african american, party, man in a wheelchair, senior citizen, family relations, 21 year old ...
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44%
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Sam & Me (1991)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story: 23-year-old Nikhil comes to Canada from India to find his fortune and is convinced by his uncle to work as a companion and care-giver to Sam, an elderly Jewish man. An unlikely friendship ensues, which gives both men new insight into life.
Style: independent film, intercultural
Plot: immigrant, tradition, friendship, friend, transvestite, uncle nephew relationship, servant, party, fired from the job, family relations, interracial relations, tragic event ...
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Hamlet (1964)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 191 min.
Story: A stage production of Hamlet filmed at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre in New York.
Plot: shakespeare, murder, incest, fratricide, dysfunctional family, duel, skull, insanity, haunted by the past, castle, brother sister relationship, tragedy ...
Place: denmark
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Now (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A mysterious accident has separated Jaap from his beloved Rose, but they continue to talk to each other in their minds and dreams. As Jaap struggles to come to terms with what happened, his best friend JP suggests they travel to France to visit Rose ...
Style: road movie
Plot: coma, friend, love, accident, loneliness, loss, friendship, gay interest
Place: london, belgium
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
'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
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Tomorrow Was the War (1987)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A drama a life in a small Russian provincial town in 1940 - one year before Germany invaded the Soviet Union. Two school girls for the first time in their lives discover truth about Stalin repressions against innocent people. Based on a novel by ...
Plot: world war two, totalitarian regime, girl, totalitarian state, small town, politics, repression, loss of innocence, mother daughter relationship, idealism, stalinism, father daughter relationship ...
Time: year 1940, 1940s, pre world war two
Place: ussr, soviet union, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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