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Akseli and Elina (1970)
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Original name: Akseli ja Elina
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Finland
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
A former Red Rebellion leader returns home after being imprisoned for his participation in the Finnish Civil War, but soon finds out that wartime mindsets still linger in the heads of people.
Style:
epic, family saga, pre war
Plot:
village, school, world war two, teacher, violence, female nudity, politics, soldier, priest, boy, family relations, farmer, farm, communism, society, progress, death of father, socialist, countryside, extremist, car, family history, marriage, death of son, skinny dipping ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, 1920s
Place:
finland
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, bleak and captivating films with plots about world war two, soldier, family relations, death, female nudity, wartime life and war mostly in Drama, War and History genres. Some movies like Akseli and Elina: Here, Beneath the North Star (1968), Under the North Star II (2010), The Winter War (1989), Where Once We Walked (2011), Zhila-byla Odna Baba (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Finland
Duration: 186 min.
Story:
Täällä Pohjantähden alla is based on the book with the same title. It is a story of the little village. The movie starts in the 1890's and it ends to the Finnish civil war in 1918. Story concentrates around a tenant farmer family, although ...
Style:
epic
Plot:
finnish civil war, rural setting, historical event, farmer, swamp, poverty, peasant, forest, class conflict, rebel, power, execution ...
Time:
20th century, 1910s, 1890s, 1900s, 1800s ...
Place:
finland
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Finland
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
Akseli Koskela returns from prison and tries to learn living again. He's not allowed to take part in politics anymore, but he sees a lot of injustice around him. He raises a family with his wife Elina while another war is around the corner...
Style:
suspense, psychological, touching, family saga, epic ...
Plot:
world war two, family relations, soldier, communism, male female relationship, lower class, working class, family history, post war, hate, communist, village ...
Time:
1900s, 1940s, 1920s, 1930s, 20th century
Place:
finland
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Finland
Duration: 199 min.
Story:
Russia attacked Finland in late November 1939. This film tells the story of a Finnish platoon of reservists from the municipality of Kauhava in the province of Pohjanmaa/Ostrobothnia who leave their homes and go to war. The film focuses on the ...
Style:
realistic, epic, tense, bleak, captivating ...
Plot:
war, world war two, winter, invasion, infantry, cold weather, wartime, military, world war, battlefield, tank, politics ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, 20th century, year 1939
Place:
finland, russia, baltics, europe, soviet union ...
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Finland
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Otso "The Main Man" Hultkrantz is playing the leading role of the young Allu Kajander in Where We Once Walked, based on a novel about a civil war raging between the Red and the White in Finland.
Style:
captivating, tense, psychological, factual, family saga
Plot:
civil war, class struggle, social class, working class, revolutionary, politics, revenge, socialist, unrequited love, lower class, rivalry, society ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, 1910s, year 1918, 1920s ...
Place:
helsinki finland, finland, eastern europe
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
История частной жизни одной женщины и четверых ее мужчин. Главная героиня - неграмотная крестьянка, и действие фильма начинается с ее ...
Style:
stylized, serious, realistic, bleak, epic ...
Plot:
village life, rape, wartime life, revolution, village, state affairs, village people, countryside, social injustice, communism, russian civil war, public nudity ...
Time:
1910s, 1920s, 1900s, 20th century
Place:
russia, europe
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34%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Finland
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
A movie based on real wartime diaries tells the story of the Swedish speaking Finns' infantry regiment 61. The story follows the regiment during the Continuation War from 1942 to 1944 and from Syväri to the Karelian Isthmus where they faced ...
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, tense
Plot:
world war two, russo finnish war, soldier, military, wartime life, battles, chaos and mayhem, heroic mission, state affairs, politics, against humanity, war ...
Time:
1940s, year 1942, year 1943, year 2002, 20th century ...
Place:
finland, russia, europe, eastern europe
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31%
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 275 min.
Story:
The evolution of a nation during six decades of turbulent history is dramatized via two families from opposing classes.
Style:
family saga, realistic, serious, captivating, epic
Plot:
parents and children, swamp, forbidden love, taiga, wartime life, homecoming, culture clash, tragic love, political unrest, village life, family life, revolution ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1979, 60s, 1920s ...
Place:
siberia, soviet union, ussr, russia
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Finland, Estonia, Sweden
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Based on true events an epic story of one man's struggle for survival. Jussi Ketola, returns to Finland from the great depression struck America only to face growing political unrest. One summer night of 1930, nationalist thugs violently abduct ...
Style:
psychological, suspense, rough, thought provoking, suspenseful ...
Plot:
immigrant, espionage, great depression, communism, family relations, mass murder, idealism, fear, secret police, violence, getting home, loss of child ...
Time:
1930s, year 1937, year 1938, year 1931
Place:
soviet union, germany, ussr
Similarity:
30%
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Made in 1982, shelved for five years. Story opens with Lucja Krol's husband under the tram. She gives birth to her fourth son on the floor of their new apartment. Neighbor Wiktor, a communist intellectual, befriends the poverty-stricken family ...
Style:
intellectual, pre war
Plot:
renaissance, world war two, communism, tram, single mother, neighbor, politics, sacrifice, false accusation, torture, death of father, jail ...
Time:
year 1953, year 1956, year 1933
Place:
poland, eastern europe
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Finland
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
The Soviet army breaks through the Finnish defences on the Karelian Isthmus in June 1944, advancing with overwhelming force. Somehow, the Finnish troops must find the strength to fight back, with all odds against them. The Battle of Tali-Ihantala ...
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot:
world war two, soldier, military, battles, against the odds, heroes, wartime life, rivalry, war, tank, battlefield, all male cast ...
Time:
1940s, year 1944
Place:
finland, europe, russia, soviet union, ussr
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Finland
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A war movie that takes place in Finnish Karelia in 1944.
Style:
serious, touching, disturbing, realistic, suspenseful
Plot:
world war two, male female relationship, family relations, refugee, soldier, baby, deserter, evacuation, military hospital, bombing, truck, flowers ...
Time:
1940s, year 1944
Place:
finland
Similarity:
26%
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 317 min.
Story:
Set in Bertolucci's ancestral region of Emilia, the film chronicles the lives of two men during the political turmoils that took place in Italy in the first half on the 20th century.
Style:
epic, controversial, compassionate, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
fascism, politics, world war two, italian history, friendship, revolution, class struggle, communism, peasant, socialist, sex, brutality ...
Time:
1900s, 1940s, 1920s, 1930s, 1910s ...
Place:
italy, paris france, france, europe
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The movie follows the perspective of several characters (such as Japanese victims, soldiers, American prisoners of war and others) and how they lived or tried to survive the effects felt during the aftermath of the Atomic Bomb dropping by the Enola ...
Style:
contemplative, captivating, realistic, serious, gloomy ...
Plot:
world war two, disaster, nuclear war, bombing, surrender, battles, military, against humanity, danger, life is a bitch, confined, moral dilemma ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
hiroshima japan, asia, japan, usa
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Finland
Duration: 193 min.
Story:
Perustuu Väinö Linnan samannimiseen romaanitrilogiaan, joka on yksi suomalaisen kirjallisuuden tärkeimmistä teoksista.
Style:
family saga, epic, captivating, serious
Plot:
revolution, trial, rebel, class differences, working class, socialism, class conflict, war crime, family history, socialist, brother brother relationship, revenge ...
Time:
turn of the century, 1910s, 1890s, 1900s, 20th century
Place:
finland
Similarity:
24%
Genre: War, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
It is the summer of 1941 and the Finnish army has been mobilized along the border with Russia. A platoon led by Lt. Eero Perkola is waiting for orders to go on the offensive. The platoon receives orders for a recon mission through the wilderness ...
Style:
realistic, suspense, intense, sincere, disturbing ...
Plot:
world war two, russo finnish war, ethnic conflict, military, behind enemy lines, courage, justice, culture clash, visceral, danger, battles, military life ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, 90s, 1930s
Place:
russia, finland, eastern europe, poland, germany
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: China
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Based on a true story, this horrifying tale follows two orphaned friends as they struggle to survive during World War II.
Style:
serious, touching, bleak, mesmerizing, saga ...
Plot:
world war two, tattoo, monastery, orphan, summer camp, youth, war, life is a bitch, military, innocence lost, society, wartime life ...
Time:
1940s, year 1941
Place:
russia, moscow russia, soviet union, china, ussr
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
The story begins in a small rural village in Ladimirevci, Eastern Croatia in 1943, where a land owner Sima is helping the Partisan Movement and the official Ustasha regime in order to save the life of his son Beneš, who is enlisted in the German ...
Style:
road movie
Plot:
world war two, partisan, landowner, rural setting, nudity, horse, priest, death, murder, fear, soldier, celebration ...
Time:
1940s, year 1943, year 1944
Place:
croatia, former yugoslavia, balkan, europe
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Spain, Italy, Belgium
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
At the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, the nun Maria is forced to flee her convent. She takes refuge in a brothel, until it is liberated by a woman's anarchist group. Maria joins the group and eventually goes to the front. The women's ...
Style:
political, social, sad, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
spanish civil war, anarchist, anarchism, feminism, spanish history, civil war, rebellion, revolution, radical, female soldier, revolt, strike ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, year 1938, year 1939, year 1936 ...
Place:
barcelona, iberian peninsula, europe, spain, basque country ...
Similarity:
23%
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Finland
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Nuori nainen on saanut kutsun saapua poliisin kuultavaksi. Hän pelkää joutuvansa ansaan. Hän on täydellistä suomenkieltä puhuva Neuvosto-desantti, joka on varomattomuuttaan jättänyt vakoiluradionsa pesulaan säilytettäväksi.
Plot:
russo finnish war, police interrogation, humanist, spying, russian spy, confession, world war two, communism, socialist, communist, humanism, breakdown ...
Time:
1940s, year 1943, year 1942, year 1944
Place:
finland, soviet union, ussr
Similarity:
23%
206
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Syria
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
The film explores the Arab-Israeli conflict as seen through the experiences of an Arab family in newly-liberated city of Quneitra, headed by a resistance fighter.
Plot:
village, past, male protagonist, president, soldier, memory, childhood, resistance, arab, terrorism, freedom fighter, resistance fighter ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
syria, israel, palestine, middle east
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: Finland
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
'The Midwife' (fin.'Kätilö') is a romance-drama set during WWII in Finland’s Lapland province, a major European battle ground of the war. Based on Katja Kettu’s bestselling novel, 'The Midwife' turns on the love ...
Style:
romantic, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, touching
Plot:
world war two, sex scene, ss officer, violence, fall in love, genocide, war crime, german soldier, concentration camp, midwife, drug, nurse ...
Time:
1940s, year 1944
Place:
finland
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 188 min.
Story:
Based on the eponymous book by Boris Vasilyev, the film is set in Karelia (North-West of Russia, near Finland) in 1941 during WWII. In a beautiful and quiet wilderness far from the front-line there is an anti-aircraft artillery point, where corporal ...
Style:
disturbing, tragic ending, epic, sad, realistic ...
Plot:
world war two, soldier, war, female soldier, soviet army, female warrior, wartime life, great patriotic war, military life, military, world war, friendship ...
Time:
year 1942
Place:
soviet union, ussr, russia
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: West Germany
Duration: 152 min.
Story:
Germany 1939. Hans and Lene marry the day before the war breaks out, and Hans is sent to the Eastern front. During a bombing raid their daughter Anna is born. The house is destroyed and Lene and Anna moves in with relatives in Berlin. Hans survives ...
Style:
art house, realistic, serious, gloomy, bleak ...
Plot:
world war two, post war germany, german history, nazi germany, german woman, drunkenness, motherhood, lonely, world war, art, woman, anti war ...
Time:
1940s, post world war two, 1930s, year 1939
Place:
germany, europe, berlin germany, west germany
Similarity:
22%
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Italy, West Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
In late 1930s Ferrara, Italy, the Finzi-Continis are a leading family: wealthy, aristocratic, and urbane; they are also Jewish. Their adult children, Micol and Alberto, gather a diverse circle of friends for tennis and parties at their villa with ...
Style:
political, disturbing, compassionate, breathtaking, talky ...
Plot:
fascism, holocaust, world war two, unrequited love, italian fascism, nazi germany, anti semitism, brother sister relationship, assassination, tennis, family relations, family life ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 1930s, ancient times, year 1970 ...
Place:
italy, europe, africa, germany, israel ...
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Finland
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Lieutenant Takala meets his fellow partisans of 20th division many year after the war. With flashbacks we see the events of summer 1944.
Style:
avant garde, black and white
Plot:
world war two, russo finnish war, conservative, post traumatic stress disorder, male female relationship, female nudity, partisan, drinking, male nudity, priest, friendship, hallucination ...
Time:
1940s, year 1944, 60s
Place:
finland, soviet union, ussr
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A group of German boys is ordered to protect a small bridge in their home village during the waning months of the second world war. Truckloads of defeated, cynical Wehrmacht soldiers flee the approaching American troops, but the boys, full of ...
Style:
realistic, serious, bleak, rough
Plot:
world war two, military, heroic mission, soldier, left to die, danger, young heroes, combat casualty, american soldier, nazi, world war, german history ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, year 1945
Place:
germany
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 157 min.
Story:
Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and the government clash over the demand from the Allies for unconditional surrender. Minister of the Army Anami leads the military officers who propose to ...
Style:
political, epic war
Plot:
world war two, japanese soldier, japanese military, world war, japanese army, japanese history, imperial japan, emperor, atomic bomb, soldier, bombing, military ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
japan, tokyo, china, usa
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: West Germany, France, Poland
Duration: 142 min.
Story:
Oskar is born in Germany in 1924 with an advanced intellect. Repulsed by the hypocrisy of adults and the irresponsibility of society, he refuses to grow older after his third birthday.
Style:
surreal, disturbing, controversial, clever, epic ...
Plot:
world war two, fascism, coming of age, boy, circus, nazi, wartime life, magic realism, cheating wife, extramarital affair, infidelity, beach ...
Time:
1930s, 1940s, 20th century, 1920s, year 1939 ...
Place:
germany, middle east, israel, europe, central europe ...
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Finland, Sweden
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
1943: Nine-year-old Eero whose father is killed during the war is brought to Sweden to foster parents to his protection like thousands of other Finnish children. Eero feels lost, particularly as his foster mother Signe behaves very unfriendly. She ...
Style:
emotional, touching, melancholic, bleak, realistic ...
Plot:
world war two, boy, children, foster child, coming of age, loneliness, wartime, family relations, life is a bitch, wartime life, adoption, society ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
finland, poland, tokyo, japan, germany
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: China
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
An old leper who owned a remote sorghum winery dies. Jiu'er, the wife bought by the leper, and her lover, identified only as "my Grandpa" by the narrator, take over the winery and set up an idealized quasi-matriarchal community headed ...
Style:
costume drama, tense, independent film, mind blowing, manga ...
Plot:
sino japanese war, wine, world war two, minimal dialogue, arranged marriage, literary, struggle, partisan, japanese occupation of china, war crime, rural area, couples ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, year 1987, 1940s, 1920s
Place:
china, indiana, tibet, asia, tokyo ...
Similarity:
21%
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