Movies like A Bloody Tale

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A Bloody Tale (1969)
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A Bloody Tale (1969)
Original name: Krvava bajka
Genre: War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Memory of the victims of the Kragujevac massacre is described through the events that are related to a group of boys, shoe shiners. At that time, thousands of workers refused to work for the invaders, and the whole city was exposed to harsh repression and persecution of innocent citizens and the abolition of the regular rations of food.
Style: epic
Plot: world war two, partisan, coming of age, massacre, catastrophe, tank, nazi, train, wedding, student, gypsy, prisoner, death, murder, camp, battles, fear, funeral, mass murder, chaos, child, high school, colonel, escape attempt, execution ...
Time: year 1941
Place: serbia
Keyword: german, attack

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Most similar movies to A Bloody Tale

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out epic, crying, black and white and heroic films with plots about world war two, partisan, death, nazi, fear, murder and execution mostly in War, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like A Bloody Tale: Mirko and Slavko (1973), Persecution (1982), Low Tide (1969), Massacre at Noon (1975), The Escape (1987). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Stars Are the Eyes of Warriors (1972)
Genre: War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 89 min.
Story: When a warrior dies, a star is born, a company of us die when born to a group of stars. Small children are fascinated by ancient legends and stories of old people, people replace their signature ready to be shot and put yourself in front of the ...
Style: epic
Plot: partisan, world war two, woods, eye, mountain, child, gypsy, chaos, nazi, peasant, snow, execution ...
Time: year 1941
Place: former yugoslavia, serbia
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Mirko and Slavko (1973)
Genre: War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Live-action adaptation of the popular Yugoslav comic book about two young Partisan couriers in World War II.
Style: crying, epic
Plot: world war two, partisan, superhero, bomb, train, girl, dog, innocence, wedding, death, fear, blood ...
Time: year 1941
Place: former yugoslavia, serbia
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
 6.3
 53
Persecution (1982)
Genre: War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Two partisans, a man and a woman, try to escape a Nazi manhunt in the infernal landscape of WW2 Vojvodina.
Style: epic
Plot: partisan, world war two, persecution, death, murder, escape, girl, fear, machine gun, massacre, hunting, hiding place ...
Time: year 1941
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
 5.7
 26
Low Tide (1969)
Genre: War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A remote village in Serbia in 1941. Through the fate of rural residents and the destiny of a partisan detachment reflected is the horror and absurdity of war in Serbia during World War II. On one hand, ordinary people and partisans; the Germans and ...
Style: epic
Plot: partisan, world war two, slaughter, woods, tank, tragic event, blood, village, cave, fight, river, nazi ...
Time: year 1944, year 1941
Place: former yugoslavia, serbia
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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Massacre at Noon (1975)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 91 min.
Story: In Autumn of 1941, the German army, determined to put down a Communist-led uprising in Serbia, is conducting a policy of killing 100 hostages for any German soldier killed. The city of Kraljevo is the site of one of those massacres, portrayed in ...
Style: crying, heroic
Plot: world war two, partisan, world war, heroism, fire department, murder, bomb, train, military, death, betrayal, police ...
Place: serbia
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
 6.4
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The Escape (1987)
Genre: 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.
Plot: world war two, partisan, concentration camp, group, death, massacre, murder, night, son, escape, fear, death of father ...
Time: year 1941
Place: former yugoslavia, serbia
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
The Descent upon Drvar (1963)
Genre: War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 105 min.
Story: German forces in Yugoslavia set out to destroy the stronghold of Tito with a traitor's help, but are overcome by Partisan resistance.
Style: epic
Plot: partisan, world war two, world war, mountain, fire, schizophrenia, photograph, doctor, innocence, cinema, blood, cold the temperature ...
Place: former yugoslavia, bosnia
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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Manhunt (1977)
Genre: War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 104 min.
Story: The leftover disbanded partisan battalion draws Chetniks' attention, who push their plans of attacking the partisan headquarters aside and start hunting them instead.
Style: black and white, epic
Plot: partisan, world war two, escape, manhunt, gunfight, soldier, killing, truck, doctor, fear, snow, death ...
Place: balkan, former yugoslavia, serbia
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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Do Not Mention the Cause of Death (1968)
Genre: War, Drama
Country: Yugoslavia, West Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story: In an atmosphere of WWII, a village dyer wants to help his folks in their sorrow and distress by supplying them with the black paint, but there is not enough black paint for all of them, because death works faster than the dyer. His wife was raped, ...
Style: epic
Plot: world war two, mountain, massacre, fire, photograph, husband wife relationship, death, fear, rape, murder, mass murder, tragic event ...
Time: year 1941
Place: serbia
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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 86
The Trek (1968)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A story of a farmer and his calf, the only survivors of the German WW2 punitive expeditions that passed through their village. While evading before the dangers of war, the farmer develops a deep attachment to his calf and tries to save it at all ...
Style: black and white
Plot: world war two, partisan, farmer, calf, fate, hiding place, death, escape, fear, murder, blood, massacre ...
Time: year 1943
Place: serbia, former yugoslavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Girl from the Mountains (1972)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 82 min.
Story: The relationship between a boy and a girl shortly after the start of the war and the arrival of the Germans. He goes to Chetniks, and there he disappears without a trace, and she ,after much torture and solitude, begins to search for him not ...
Plot: world war two, partisan, mountain, woods, traitor, river, nazi, mass murder, tank, execution, village, surprise ...
Time: year 1941
Place: serbia
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Wolf of Prokletije (1968)
Genre: War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Uka is an old Albanian who lives in the mountains on the border of Kosovo and Albania. As an honorable man, he must deal with his son who befriended Italian fascists during WW2.
Style: epic
Plot: partisan, world war two, mountain, nudity, nazi, traitor, shooting, wolf, canyon, river, brothel, army ...
Place: kosovo, serbia
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
The Battle of Sutjeska (1973)
Genre: War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 130 min.
Story: The film tells the story of the Battle of Sutjeska which occurred in Nazi-occupied Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1943.
Style: mythical, crying, epic
Plot: world war two, partisan, child, rock climbing, world war, revolutionary war, military, balkan war, freedom, revolutionary, revolution, struggle ...
Time: 1940s, year 1943
Place: former yugoslavia, bosnia herzegovina, bosnia
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
The Man from the Oak Forest (1964)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 87 min.
Story: An ex-servant becomes a lonely Shepard, killer hidden in the mountain woods during wartime. Under disguise of a black marketeer, a woman from the town maintains steady connection between the town and mountain, and organizes a resistance movement. ...
Style: black and white, epic
Plot: world war two, forest, resistance, black, partisan, mountain, outlaw, crazy, tragic event, mercenary, terror, craziness ...
Time: year 1941
Place: serbia
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Arrive Before Daybreak (1978)
Genre: War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 94 min.
Story: The story of political prisoners, detained in a jail before the start of the WWII, and their torture and attempts to escape, and join a partisan unit.
Plot: partisan, world war two, quarrel, excavation, brawl, pride, execution, shooting, exhaustion, nazi, prisoner, blood ...
Place: former yugoslavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Wedding (1973)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia, Soviet Union
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Beginning in 1943. year. The tragic story of the prisoners... partisans and others who were found in a prison in Montenegro at the time when the Chetniks and the occupiers at all costs they want to crush the uprising in Yugoslavia.
Plot: world war two, partisan, wedding, liberation, escape, prisoner, girl, prison, murder, death, fear, cold the temperature ...
Time: year 1943
Place: former yugoslavia, montenegro
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Guns of War (1974)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 170 min.
Story: Uzice Republic a known as the 'first offensive', is a story about Serbia in 1941. Few months after German panzers forced Yugoslav Royal Army to capitulate, organized resistance is turning into massive uprising against occupying forces. ...
Style: epic, crying
Plot: world war two, partisan, world war, mountain, slaughter, cannon, murder of an innocent person, innocent, heroes, airplane, battles, exploding airplane ...
Time: 1940s, year 1941
Place: former yugoslavia, london, serbia
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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July 13th (1982)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 110 min.
Story: This is a movie about the start of people's uprising in Montenegro in World War II. After the capitulation of the Yugoslav Royal Army in April 1941, the Italians managed to infiltrate their puppet regime in Montenegro. However, people ...
Style: crying, epic
Plot: world war two, partisan, mountain, battles, water, fascist, reprisal, rock, motorcycle, tragic event, italian soldier, resistance ...
Time: year 1941
Place: montenegro, former yugoslavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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 4.3
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Wild Wind (1985)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: August 1943, Europe. The tentacles of the German octopus have begun to recoil. As the Nazis retreat, their concern focuses on the supply of oil from the refineries of Romania. Without the flow of "black gold", Germany's doom is ...
Plot: world war two, partisan, hanged man, nazi, river, violence, machine gun, death, train, murder, blood, traitor ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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The Bombers (1973)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Two best friends, former Partisans, must face new challenges after the war.
Plot: world war two, partisan, mountain, bomber, battles, mission, night, river, commando, nazi, train, fear ...
Time: post world war two
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Balkan Express (1983)
Genre: Comedy, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 102 min.
Story: In this entertaining, clever satire, it is the beginning of World War II and a group of con artists and thieves decide to pose as musicians under the rubric "The Balkan Express".
Style: spoof, black comedy, dark comedy
Plot: world war two, partisan, holocaust, con artists, money, female nudity, train, musician, machine gun, hotel, fear, hiding place ...
Time: year 1941
Place: serbia, former yugoslavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Eight Kilos of Happiness (1980)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A film about an incident in the last war when a gypsy girl sacrifices herself for her lover, a partisan who has deserted.
Plot: world war two, desertion, murder, singing, fear, death, execution, gypsy, river, nazi, prayer
Time: year 1941
Place: former yugoslavia, serbia
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Bomb at 10:10 (1967)
Genre: War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 88 min.
Story: An American pilot escapes from a POW camp and links up with Yugoslav partisans. He’s about to head back to Allied lines when he learns that the Partisans are plotting to assassinate the camp commander. He joins in the plot, aiming for revenge.
Plot: world war two, partisan, world war, bomb, pow, colonel, timebomb, hunting, escape, army, police, gestapo ...
Place: former yugoslavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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The Peaks of Zelengore (1976)
Genre: War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 101 min.
Story: During the Battle of Sutjeska, partisan troops must endure 24 hours of big and heavy attacks on German units Ljubino grave, to the main Partisan units, with the wounded and the Supreme Headquarters, pulled out the ring that is tightened around them.
Style: epic
Plot: world war two, madness, suicide, blood, escape, painting, death, teacher, deception, murder, singing, fire ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1943
Place: bosnia herzegovina, former yugoslavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Red Blow (1974)
Genre: War, Action
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 95 min.
Story: At the beginning of the war the Germans come to the mine Trepca in Kosovo and occupy it. Communist Party and the workers do not agree with that and under constant repression, beginning small diversions, which will be transferred in the conquest and ...
Plot: partisan, world war two, excavation, painter, escape, murder, train, death, sabotage, mine, miner, nazi ...
Place: kosovo, former yugoslavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
The Macedonian Part of Hell (1971)
Genre: War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 104 min.
Story: At the end of the year 1942 and the start of 1943, to stop spreading the revolution in county of Bitola, bulgarian occupiers are reinforcing the persecutions and the acts of violence on civil population. The movie is based on true events,
Style: crying, epic, iconic
Plot: partisan, world war two, mountain, combat, fascist, warning, army, river, village, church, hanging, harmonica ...
Time: year 1942, year 1944
Place: macedonia, former yugoslavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 7.2
 35
The Verdict (1977)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 110 min.
Story: In the conflict with the enemy in one battle lost in advance, the risk to die in vain, partisan Mitko Angelov, fleeing from the battlefield. He climbs onto the train and goes to see his mother, who has just returned from internment. When he returned ...
Plot: partisan, world war two, nazi, mountain, patrol, motorcycle, mythology, deserter, river, commissioner, battles, commander ...
Place: former yugoslavia, macedonia
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Silent Gunpowder (1990)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Silent Gunpowder (Serbo-Croatian: Gluvi barut) is a Yugoslavian war film Based on a novel by Branko Ćopić and set during World War II, the film tells the story of a Serbian village in the mountains of Bosnia and its villagers who found themselves ...
Style: silent
Plot: partisan, world war two, communist, mountain, civil war, communism, tragic event, church, lieutenant, mission, rock, execution ...
Place: bosnia herzegovina, former yugoslavia, bosnia
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Two Nights in a Day (1963)
Genre: Romance, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Commander Pavle receives partisan Jovan to shot him for not executing his orders. While listening to his unfortunate love story from the war, Pavle remembers his own relationship which had an equally bitter epilogue, and decides to set Jovan free.
Plot: world war two, partisan, fear, friend, girl, execution, mission, commander, nazi, mountain, tragic event, gun ...
Place: bosnia, former yugoslavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
The South Railway Battle (1978)
Genre: Romance, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Autumn, 1941. Tito's partisans are ordered to attack a railway network system used by the Germans, their Bulgarian allies and local collaborators. A bloody battle ensues.
Plot: world war two, partisan, battles, massacre, madness, commissioner, weapons, prison escape, insanity, combat, woman, fear ...
Time: 1940s, year 1941, 20th century
Place: former yugoslavia, serbia
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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