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La grande quercia (1997)
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La grande quercia (1997)
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 supplies food to a local monastery where 12 fugitives hide. All is seen through the eyes of the oldest child, Paulo, who's about 7 and the only lad at school who doesn't wear a Fascist Youth uniform. For Paulo and his siblings, it's great fun playing with their nonno, finding herbs in the fields, watching a maid's tryst with a soldier, teasing a silent monk. Then the war reaches the farm when Italy surrenders and the Germans exact revenge.
Plot: world war two, fascism, family relations, resistance, brother brother relationship, nazi occupation, truce
Time: 1940s
Place: rome italy, italy, tuscany

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, captivating, disturbing and bleak films with plots about world war two, resistance, nazi, fascism, war, nazi occupation and partisan mostly in Drama, War and History genres. Some movies like La grande quercia: The Garden of Redemption (1997), Uomini e no (1980), A Day for Lionhearts (1961), Johnny the Partisan (2000), The Four Days of Naples (1962). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Garden of Redemption (1997)
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.
Plot: world war two, wartime, love, resistance movement, partisan, nazi occupation, priest, resistance, fascism
Time: 1940s
Place: italy
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95%
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Uomini e no (1980)
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 ...
Plot: world war two, partisan, nazi occupation, resistance, italian history, resistance movement, fascist, italian fascism, love
Time: 1940s
Place: italy, turin italy, milan italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
92%
A Day for Lionhearts (1961)
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 ...
Plot: world war two, fascism, truce, italian soldier, civil war, resistance, friendship, bomb, commando, german army, partisan, sabotage ...
Place: italy, rome italy
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90%
Johnny the Partisan (2000)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 135 min.
Story: After the 8th September 1943 north of Italy is occupied by Germans. Italian army collapsed and the soldiers are escaped to the mountains trying to set up a resistance. Many civilians did the same and Johnny, an English literature student, is among ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, exciting, bleak
Plot: resistance, world war two, resistance movement, partisan, murder, war zone, fascism, wartime life, italian history, nazi, world war, holocaust ...
Time: 1940s
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
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The Four Days of Naples (1962)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 120 min.
Story: The film shows the history of the Neapolitan popular revolt against the invading Germans, during the second world war. During the four days in Naples the revolt turns over in just few hours. Neapolitans slinged on rifles and guns, and they armed ...
Style: historical drama
Plot: world war two, fascism, war, anti nazi, nazi soldier, resistance movement, boy, civil war, resistance, italian history, partisan, german army ...
Time: 1940s, year 1962, year 1943
Place: italy, naples italy
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79%
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The Cavern (1964)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: Italy, West Germany
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Adventure drama during WW2 in Italy where a mixed group of people get trapped inside a cave after a bomb raid. But can they co-operate? And will they survive?
Plot: world war two, soldier, cave, underground, trapped, group
Time: 1940s
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
The Two Marshals (1961)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Seconda Guerra Mondiale. Antonio Capurro, un ladruncolo travestito da prete, viene arrestato dal maresciallo Cottone. In seguito, durante un bombardamento il lestofante riesce a impossessarsi della divisa del poliziotto, lasciandogli l'abito ...
Style: slapstick, slapstick comedy
Plot: world war two, fascism, resistance, body swapping, bombing, truce, police officer, police inspector, fake priest, nazi, nazi officer, thief ...
Time: year 1943
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
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Glory Sky (1962)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Greece
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Two stories set in northern Greece during World War II.
Plot: world war two, resistance, greek, military, soldier, retreat, solitude, german occupation, wartime
Time: 1940s
Place: greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
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The roundup (1965)
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 ...
Plot: resistance, world war two, dilemma, nazi, occupation, traitor, black market, execution, german occupation, roadblock, night
Time: 1940s
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
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Hotel Meina (2007)
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 ...
Plot: world war two, holocaust, nazi occupation, hotel, refugee, truce, nazi, war crime, mass murder
Time: 1940s
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
The Man Who Will Come (2009)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A group of Italian villagers struggle to survive during a tumultuous time in 1943, debating how much assistance to give the partisans with the impending arrival of the Germans. Based on True Events.
Style: captivating, serious, atmospheric, bleak, realistic ...
Plot: world war two, youth, german army, family relations, against humanity, life is a bitch, parents and children, village life, village, nazi, children, child protagonist ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, year 1944, year 1943
Place: italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
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War Fever (1969)
Genre: War, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A twist of fate leads a recent Westpoint grad into being responsible for the execution of two fellow American GIs. The young lieutenant comes of age, and the two battle hardened veterans achieve a state of grace through acts of sacrifice.
Style: macaroni combat
Plot: world war two, world war, man on a mission, combat, german army, chaplain, cigarette smoking, small town, prisoner, firing squad, ambush, death of child ...
Time: 1940s
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
Io non scappo... fuggo (1970)
Genre: Comedy, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min.
Story: In the confusion of combat, two Italian get separated from their squadron and become hopelessly lost. As they wander the countryside attempting to find their lost comrades, they have to adopt all manner of outrageous disguises to avoid death at the ...
Plot: world war two, italian soldier, fake identity, cowardice, italian army, hitler, truce
Time: 1940s
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
Out of the Darkness (2022)
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, captivating, serious, dramatic
Plot: world war two, resistance, freedom fighter, war, german occupation, wartime, nazism, fight, wartime life, occupation, nazi, nazi soldier ...
Time: 1940s
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
Everlasting Glory (1976)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A Chinese national policy film
Plot: world war two, chinese army, japanese soldier, sino japanese war, tank, japanese army
Time: 1940s, 1930s
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
The Liberation of Prague (1977)
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) ...
Plot: world war two, machine gun, communist, fascism, red army, concentration camp, rebellion, russian soldier, propaganda
Time: 1940s, year 1945
Place: czechoslovakia, prague
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
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Fontamara (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 139 min.
Story: Fontamara is a village in the Marsica, forgotten by all but God and its inhabitants are called 'cafoni' (boors). Berardo Viola wants to marry Elvira but only after gaining enough money to buy some land and in order to reach his aim he has ...
Plot: fascism, italian fascism, police, resistance, farm, countryside, leftist
Time: 1930s
Place: italy, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
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 ⇓
71%
Strange Gardens (2003)
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, captivating, tense
Plot: occupied france, world war two, french resistance, german occupation, nazi occupation, sabotage, resistance fighter, occupation, fighting the system, resistance, fight, war ...
Time: 1940s, year 2003
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
The Last Winter (1976)
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: black and white
Plot: world war two, village, winter, war, battles, family relations, german army, german soldier, german occupation, partisan, nazi, husband wife relationship
Time: 1940s
Place: albania
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
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This Life (2012)
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: disturbing, emotional, realistic, captivating, tense ...
Plot: resistance fighter, nazi, world war two, freedom fighter, resistance, nazi occupation, sabotage, danger, heroes, wartime, showdown, self sacrifice ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: denmark, germany, scandinavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
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The Skin (1981)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 131 min.
Story: Naples, year 1943, in the middle of World War II. The city has just be liberated by American troops in an era in which nobody knows just when the war or where begins the peace; winners and losers face...
Style: controversial, serious, bleak, rough, realistic ...
Plot: world war two, wartime life, world war, translator, female pubic hair, chaos and mayhem, war, against humanity, life is a bitch, soldier, society, captivity ...
Time: year 1981, 1940s, 20th century
Place: italy, naples italy, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
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Sirius (1975)
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 ...
Plot: world war two, killer dog, boy, dog, animal death, village, sabotage, german occupation, young, train explosion
Time: 1940s
Place: czechoslovakia
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
The Last Note (2017)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Greece
Duration: 117 min.
Story: The execution of 200 Greek resistance fighters by the German occupiers on May 1st, 1944 in Kaisariani, as reprisal for the Greek Resistance ambush against Nazis.
Style: suspense, touching, psychological, rough, sincere ...
Plot: world war two, nazi occupation, resistance fighter, reprisal, nazi officer, resistance, nazi, mass murder, spring, summary execution
Time: 1940s, year 1944
Place: greece, germany, athens greece, balkan, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
Unfair Competition (2001)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Two linen fabric dealers with their shops close to one another, battle against each other for more and more costumers. Umberto constantly loses clients because of the tough competition brought by Leone, who offers the best prices in the ...
Style: serious, captivating, realistic, disturbing, bleak ...
Plot: fascism, anti semitism, holocaust, ghetto, social decay, family business, political unrest, human nature, moral dilemma, life is a bitch, against humanity, world war two ...
Time: 20th century, 1930s
Place: italy, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
Massacre in Rome (1973)
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, serious, realistic, thought provoking, captivating ...
Plot: world war two, world war, military, war, partisan, nazi occupation, holocaust, shoah, nazi, bureaucracy, fictional history, fascism ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: italy, rome italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
The Night of the Shooting Stars (1982)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 107 min.
Story: The Night of San Lorenzo, the night of the shooting stars, is the night when dreams come true in Italian folklore. In 1944, a group of Italians flee their town after hearing rumours that the Nazis plan to blow it up and that the Americans are about ...
Style: realistic, feel good, serious
Plot: world war two, fascism, civil war, war, resistance, farm, friendly fire, anarchist, italian history, journey, colonialism, basement ...
Time: 1940s, year 1982, year 1944
Place: italy, persia, tuscany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
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