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The Long Island Four (1980)
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The Long Island Four (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Based on the true story of four Nazi saboteurs who infiltrated the US in 1942 and were quickly caught and executed, this 80-minute ode to America's irresistibly corruptive allure was the only underground feature by writer-director Anders Grafstrom. A Swedish art director who relocated to NYC, he created this grandiose No-Wave, Super-8 color-epic at the age of 23, only to die in a Mexican car accident a few months after completing the film.
Style: avant garde
Plot: world war two, nazi, saboteur, death, underground, capture, radio, mission, nightlife, decadence, raft, champagne, cult
Time: 1940s
Place: new york

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out independent film, avant garde, realistic and psychological films with plots about world war two, nazi, death, world war, family relations, post war and soldier mostly in Drama, War and History genres. Some movies like The Long Island Four: I'm Alive and I Love You (1998), Rome '78 (1978), Everyone Dies Alone (1976), Sour Grape (1974), Hidden in Silence (1996). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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I'm Alive and I Love You (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Drama - During World War II, a woman aboard a railroad car full of deportees slips French railway worker Julien (Jérôme Deschamps) a note with an address and a simple message: "I am alive, and I love you," and he decides to track down ...
Plot: world war two, judaism, train station, family relations, nazi, courage, train, father son relationship, man boy relationship, german occupation, railway station
Time: 1940s
Place: france
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Rome '78 (1978)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Nares mocks up Ancient Rome by shooting in faux-classical sites like Grant's Tomb and Tribeca's American Thread Building, where a decrepit penthouse loft with a peeling-paint dome serves as an echoey stand-in for the imperial palace. The ...
Style: costume drama, avant garde
Plot: emperor, transgression, underground, ancient rome, tongue in cheek
Place: new york
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Everyone Dies Alone (1976)
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 106 min.
Story: When they start losing family members and neighbors due to WWII and the Nazi government's policies, a quiet married couple becomes disillusioned and begins spreading leaflets against the government - a crime punishable by death.
Plot: world war two, gestapo, nazi germany, death penalty, killed in action, resistance, loss of son, nazi soldier, death of son, anti nazi, death, fear ...
Time: 1940s, year 1940
Place: central europe
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90%
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Sour Grape (1974)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 76 min.
Story: Two years after receiving news of his father’s death in WWII a young boy continues to wait for trains from the front. The boy lives with his crippled uncle rather than with his mother, who has remarried and has another child. Then one day the ...
Plot: world war two, father son relationship, soldier
Time: 1940s
Place: armenia
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
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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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Black Birds (1967)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 85 min.
Story: WW2 story about group of prisoners who are trying to escape the death camp, run by local pro-Nazi militia.
Plot: world war two, partisan, nazi concentration camp, group, death, escape, cruelty, civil war, nazi, prison
Time: 1940s
Place: croatia
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76%
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Class of '44 (1973)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Sequel to "Summer of '42" reunites Hermie, Oscy and Benjie as they graduate from high school. Benjie departs shortly to war while Hermie and Oscy go on to college and experience fraternity hazings, cheating on exams, sex scandals and ...
Plot: coming of age, college, world war two, fraternity, campus, generation, autobiography, streetcar
Time: 1940s, year 1944
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The Day the Clown Cried (1972)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A circus clown is imprisoned by the Nazis and goes with Jewish children to their deaths.
Style: emotional, controversial, independent film, weird
Plot: holocaust, clown, children, commander, nazi concentration camp, world war two, concentration camp, circus, nazi, gestapo, political prisoner, gas chamber ...
Time: 1940s
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75%
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Miriam (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Heart-wrenching story of a woman who takes another's identity to survive the most horrible time of the 20th Century. Miriam is the triumphant story of one woman's survival and success, which takes place in Lithuania over a period of forty ...
Style: captivating, suspenseful, suspense, disturbing
Plot: survival, world war two, survivor, holocaust, life is a bitch, struggle for survival, new identity, female protagonist, fight, prison, soldier, suffering ...
Time: 1940s
Place: lithuania
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71%
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The Execution (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The members of a San Diego Wednesday night womens' mah jongg club are five survivors of a Nazi concentration camp. They recognize the owner of a local restaurant, Walter Grossman, as a doctor from the camp who performed experiments on them as ...
Style: surprise ending
Plot: rape, homicide, doctor, secret, world war two, revenge, murder, lawyer, torture, rape and revenge, execution, concentration camp ...
Time: post world war two, 1940s
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Little Alexander (1981)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union, East Germany
Duration: 98 min.
Story: May of 1945. Soviet soldiers conducting an operation to rescue the children in a small town in the territory of Germany.
Audience: kids
Plot: world war two, death, poverty, concentration camp, hunger, post war
Time: 1940s
Place: germany
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Red Dirt Rising (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Based on a true story, this film shares with us a decade in the lives of Jimmie Lewallen and his wife Carrie as they experience the joys of love and marriage alongside the tragedies of war and poverty (1939-1949).
Plot: classic car, auto racing, world war two, nascar, racing, car racing, moonshine
Time: 1930s, 1940s
Place: north carolina
⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Hell with Heroes (1968)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: In 1946 North Africa, two former US Air Force pilots are forced to work for an international smuggler to get money needed for their return to civilian life after fighting in World War II.
Plot: world war two, world war, pilot, money, narcotics, ambition, murder, prospector, post war, smuggler, partnership, mistress ...
Time: 1940s, year 1946
Place: africa, algeria
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The Wizard of Loneliness (1988)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A family drama.
Style: independent film
Plot: world war two, magic, youth, grief, psychiatric patient, escapee, family secret, generation gap, war veteran, uncle, grandmother, aunt ...
Time: 1940s
Place: vermont
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58%
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
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57%
The Law and the Fist (1964)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 90 min.
Story: At the end of World War Two, Polish people move to the western lands vacated by Germans. But some ruthless profiteers pose as government representatives and intend to make off with loot from a deserted town they took over. One honest man stands up ...
Plot: shooting, post war, ghost town, murder, death, violence, drinking, train, world war two, death by gunshot, gun
Time: 1940s, year 1945
Place: poland
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The Sea and Poison (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Downed American fliers in WW II are vivisected by Japanese surgeons in medical experiments.
Style: retro
Plot: world war two, mental disorder, nurse, torture, bomber, vivisection, air force, doctor
Time: 1940s, year 1945
Place: japan
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The Boys from St. Petri (1991)
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.
Plot: world war two, children, wartime life, world war, war, nazi, sabotage, resistance, high school, teenager
Time: 1940s
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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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For Michelle (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: When Brett Cornell learns that the mother of a child he is alleged to have Fathered 5 years prior, has died in an accident, he heads south to try and take custody of the daughter that he never knew. Brett takes to desperate measures to make it in ...
Plot: love, death, accident, court, intimacy, custody
Place: south carolina, new york, north carolina
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50%
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Faneflukt (1975)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Norway
Duration: 97 min.
Story: 1941, Norway. The young kitchen maid Liv and the German officer Franz meet in the military camp where Liv works. They develop a friendship and decides to flee to Sweden.
Plot: world war two, desertion, father, love, escape, occupation, nazi, young
Time: 1940s
⇓ similarity ⇓
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September 30, 1955 (1977)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Rebel. Icon. Legend. James Dean’s untimely death on September 30, 1955, shocked the world and helped define an entire generation. This gripping drama chronicles the reactions of an Arkansas college town to the tragedy and focuses on Jimmy J., a ...
Plot: filmmaking, radio, suburbs, movie star, college, friend, autumn, actor, death, fandom
Time: 1950s, year 1955
Place: arkansas
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47%
The Second Circle (1990)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A man tries to come to terms with his father's death and to deal with the mundane details of his burial in a society cut off from spirituality.
Style: spiritual, avant garde
Plot: underground, spirit, european, existentialism, loss of father, death, snow, soviet, coffin
Place: soviet union, ussr, russia
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Pressure Point (1962)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: An African-American prison psychiatrist (Sidney Poitier) finds the boundaries of his professionalism sorely tested when he must counsel a disturbed inmate (Bobby Darin) with bigoted Nazi tendencies.
Style: political, psychedelic, mind bending, surreal, independent film ...
Plot: world war two, psychopath, prison, african, colonialism, nazi, therapy, black, blaxploitation, mental disorder, legion, foreign legion ...
Time: 1940s, year 1962, year 1942
Place: madison square garden manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city, harlem, new york
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44%
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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44%
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Plenty (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: David Hare's account of a one-time French freedom fighter who gradually realizes that her post-war life is not meeting her expectations.
Style: independent film, contemplative, tense, thought provoking, psychological ...
Plot: world war two, french resistance, memory, mental illness, world war, rock, women, parachute, one night stand, love and romance, hopes, introspection ...
Time: 1940s, 1950s, year 1985, post world war two, 20th century ...
Place: england, france, europe, london
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44%
Die letzte Schlacht (2005)
Genre: War, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 105 min.
Story: April 1945: In the demolished and bombed-out streets of Berlin the civilian population tries to survive the last days of Nazi rule and to hide from marauding Red Army forces.
Plot: world war two, nazi, german soldier, combat casualty, german history, red army, nazi germany, russian soldier, demolished city
Time: 1940s
Place: berlin germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
From the Clouds to the Resistance (1979)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, West Germany, UK, France
Duration: 104 min.
Story: 'Dalla nube alla resistenza (From the Cloud to the Resistance ) (1978), based on two works by Cesare Pavese, falls into the category of History Lessons and Too Early, Too Late as well. It, too, has two parts—a twentieth-century text and a ...
Style: experimental
Plot: world war two, italian history, resistance, myth, greek mythology, post war, class struggle, mythology
Time: 1940s
Place: ancient greece, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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 ⇓
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Hitler (1962)
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: The private life of Hitler revealed for the first time!
Style: independent film
Plot: world war two, nazi, hitler, intrigue, world war, myth, biopic, evil man
Time: 1930s, 1920s, 1940s
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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