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Colonel Kwiatkowski (1995)
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Original name: Pułkownik Kwiatkowski
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, History, Romance, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
In 1945, military doctor Andrzej Kwiatkowski pretends to be a communist army colonel in order to save innocent people from Stalinist imprisonment and to get the heart of the girl he's in love with.
Style:
crying
Plot:
russian soldier, pretending to be someone else, spy, world war two, dancing, fight, army, wedding, torture, soldier, priest, doctor, hotel, surgeon, rescue, singing, deception, post war, security guard, communism, bare breasts, gynecologist, cow, telephone call, male female relationship ...
Time:
1940s, year 1945, 20th century, post world war two
Place:
poland, warsaw poland
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, suspense and touching films with plots about world war two, soldier, war, military, kiss, world war and friendship mostly in War, Romance and Drama genres. Some movies like Colonel Kwiatkowski: How I Unleashed World War II (1970), The Deserters (1986), Walking with the Enemy (2013), The Birthday (1980), Land of Mine (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 224 min.
Story:
How I unleashed World War II is a Polish feature film made in 1969, based on Kazimierz Sławiński's novel "Przygody kanoniera Dolasa" (The adventures of Dolas the cannoneer). The film was divided into three parts: Ucieczka (The ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, realistic
Plot:
world war two, foreign legion, military, soldier, military life, war, polish, military hospital, love letter, coincidence, mistaken identity, wartime life ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
poland, africa, europe, italy, england
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, War
Country: Poland, Hungary
Duration: 155 min.
Story:
Set in military barracks in a small town during World War I. The soldiers herded in the barracks are 'politically suspect' mix of characters from all over of the Austro-Hungarian Empire: Czechs, Jews, and even Italians, but officers in ...
Style:
humorous, realistic, semi serious, biting, suspense
Plot:
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Place:
poland, eastern europe, hungary, europe, budapest
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Romania, Hungary, Canada, USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Regent Horthy is the leader of Hungary and a German ally, but his favorable standing with Hitler changes as the war comes to an end. Forced to cede Hungary’s power or else witness the execution of his son, Regent Horthy gives up control of his ...
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Time:
1940s, year 1948, year 1957, year 1939, year 1962 ...
Place:
europe, hungary, berlin germany, switzerland, budapest ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The four sequences in the film cover four days in a life of young Warsaw lad in September 1938, 1939, 1943 and 1944. In the first sequence Jurek decides not to study in the Sorbonne but enlists in a Polish military school instead. In the second ...
Plot:
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1940s, year 1939, 1930s, year 1944, year 1943 ...
Place:
poland, warsaw poland
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Denmark, Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
In the days following the surrender of Germany in May 1945, a group of young German prisoners of war were handed over to the Danish authorities and subsequently sent out to the West Coast, where they were ordered to remove the more than two million ...
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emotional, sentimental, harsh, realistic, brutal ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
world war two, german soldier, child soldier, beach, prisoners of war, minefield, abuse of power, pow, boy, nazi, teenager, brutality ...
Time:
1940s, post world war two, year 2015, 2010s, year 2016 ...
Place:
denmark, germany
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Romance, War
Country: Czech Republic, UK, France, Italy, Russia
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Set in a small Ukrainian village during the outbreak of war with Germany in 1941 Private Chonkin, not overly endowed with intelligence, is left to guard a downed military aircraft. The authorities appear to have forgotten about him so this leaves ...
Style:
low brow humor
Plot:
world war two, simple man, stalinism, josef stalin, red army, male female relationship, satire, police officer, nkvd, air disaster, letter, arrest ...
Time:
1940s, year 1941
Place:
balkan
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Three short segments about love.
Style:
anthology, romantic comedy, romantic, light hearted, period piece ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
marriage, wedding, love, couples, relationships, city life, engagement, slice of life, wooing, nostalgia, gender roles, post war ...
Time:
60s
Place:
warsaw poland, poland, europe
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Comedy, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
The Italian soldier Giuseppe Santucci, on his way home from the Russian front, during World War II (in 1943), has his machine gun stolen in Warsaw. Afraid of consequences, he stays in Warsaw and occupies a flat of the Polish girl Maria, whom he ...
Plot:
world war two, world war, swastika, italian soldier, drunk, shooting, nazi soldier, german army, nazi occupation, war zone, partisan, train ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
poland, warsaw poland
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Film opens with the mad rush of haphazard freedom as the concentration camps are liberated. Men are trying to grab food, change clothes, bury their tormentors they find alive. Then they are herded into other camps as the Allies try to devise policy ...
Style:
gloomy, touching, bleak, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
world war two, holocaust, renaissance, holocaust survivor, world war, female nudity, nazi, male nudity, fascism, wartime, terrorism, nazi concentration camp ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, post world war two, year 1945
Place:
poland, eastern europe, middle east, warsaw poland
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Poland, Soviet Union
Duration: 287 min.
Story:
Following With Fire and Sword', this is an adaptation of the second and most spectacular part of Sienkiewicz's trilogy of warfare, romance, and derring-do. With war raging across Europe in the 17th century, a dashing warrior fights for the ...
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, exciting, rough ...
Plot:
nobility, cavalry, cossack, palace, fortress, infantry, sword fight, chess, barbarian, female nudity, polish history, monk ...
Time:
middle ages, 17th century
Place:
poland, soviet union, europe, lithuania, warsaw poland ...
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Comedy, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Waclaw Orzeszko is unlucky soldier. Nobody from the platoon likes him. One day he decided to go away from platoon. At the castle he meet Russian soldier Marusia. At this time German forces came at the castle. They must hide. But there is also second ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
1940s, year 1945
Place:
poland
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Poland's winning battle against Soviet Russia as seen through the eyes of two young protagonists, Ola and Jan. She is a Warsaw cabaret dancer, while he is a cavalry officer and poet who believes in socialist ideals
Style:
captivating, tense, suspense, factual
Plot:
battlefield, epic battle, propaganda, battles, nurse, capture, soldier, showdown, rivalry, danger, polish history, nazi ...
Time:
1920s
Place:
warsaw poland, poland
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Hungary
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
On one hot summer night, the residents of a Hungarian apartment house slated for demolition restlessly revisit their haunted pasts as they face an uncertain future. In a gently turning kaleidoscope of dream imagery, regret-laden nostalgia and ...
Style:
contemplative, surreal, talky, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
world war two, world war, forbidden love, bride and groom, age-gap relationship, immigrant, family relations, attic, couples, battles, society, soldier ...
Place:
hungary, former yugoslavia, eastern europe, central europe
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Poland, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Time:
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Place:
poland, eastern europe, europe, arizona, berlin germany ...
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21%
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Country: Poland
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
poland, warsaw poland
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, War
Country: France, UK
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
world war two, nazi occupation, war, french resistance, soldier, rescue, world war, nazi occupied france, danger, royal air force, house painter, allies ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
20%
Genre: History, Romance, War
Country: China
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
It’s 1941 and the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor has destroyed America’s morale. The US President Franklin D. Roosevelt then decides to risk it all by bombing Tokyo and raise more hope for his citizens. After completing its mission, a unit of ...
Style:
sincere, captivating, touching, suspense, sentimental
Plot:
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Time:
1940s, year 1942
Place:
china
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
The action takes place shortly after the end of the Second World War in the Siberian hinterland, among Russians and Germans with damaged personal stories and a strange transformation: the victors seem to be crawling into the skins of the defeated, ...
Style:
realistic, bleak, captivating, tense, rough ...
Plot:
gulag, soldier, prisoner of war camp, rivalry, prison life, captivity, pow, world war two, wilderness, confined, danger, winter ...
Time:
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Place:
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20%
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Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, crying ...
Plot:
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20%
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Duration: 129 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
20%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, War
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
In this WW2 epic comedy – in the vein of “La Grande Vadrouille” – our two heroes, Max and Léon, two lazy and partier pals, will try by all possible means to avoid going in the battle zone… This will lead the duo to demented and wild ...
Style:
captivating, humorous, unusual plot structure, contemplative, buddy comedy
Plot:
world war two, soldier, storytelling, french army, german soldier, french soldier, aviation, war, aircraft, french military, drug, singing ...
Time:
1940s, year 2016, year 1939
Place:
vichy, france, syria, london
Similarity:
20%
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Country: France, Germany
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
In the aftermath of WWI, a young German who grieves the death of her fiancé in France meets a mysterious French man who visits the fiance’s grave to lay flowers.
Style:
sentimental, touching, sexy, black and white, captivating ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
world war one, guilty conscience, german soldier, grave, french soldier, nationalism, death of loved one, war veteran, sadness, casualty of war, soldier, mourning ...
Time:
post world war one, 1910s, year 1919, year 2016, 90s ...
Place:
germany, paris france, france
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: UK, USA, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A German soldier tries to determine if the Dutch resistance has planted a spy to infiltrate the home of Kaiser Wilhelm in Holland during the onset of World War II, but falls for a young Jewish Dutch woman during his investigation.
Style:
sexy, suspense, captivating, tense, exciting ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
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Time:
1940s, year 1940, 1920s, year 1934
Place:
germany, berlin germany, poland, netherlands, holland
Similarity:
19%
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Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
In Paris during WWII, an Algerian immigrant is inspired to join the resistance by his unexpected friendship with a Jewish man. Based on not very known facts about the Muslim community in Paris during WWII, when the Paris Mosque and its dynamic ...
Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, touching
Plot:
german occupation, world war two, resistance, friendship, idealism, moral dilemma, rebellion, wartime life, anti semitism, against humanity, life is a bitch, hopes ...
Time:
1940s, year 1944, year 1942, 20th century
Place:
paris france, france, europe
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Country: Hungary, Bulgaria
Duration: 157 min.
Story:
This romantic and grandiose historical film depicts the era of the constant incursions and heroic battles fought by the defenders of the castle of Eger, led by captain István Dobó, against the heavy odds of superior numbers through the lives and ...
Style:
cult classic, dark comedy, disgusting, biblical
Plot:
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Time:
middle ages, 16th century, medieval times
Place:
rome italy, ottoman empire, italy, vienna, transylvania ...
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19%
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Poland, France
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Two intellectuals, a writer and a director, begin to play a mysterious psychological game in a peaceful countryside manor house during the Nazi occupation.
Style:
serious, realistic, psychological, emotional, biting ...
Plot:
losing-it hero, world war two, nazi occupation, soldier, countryside, social differences, life is a bitch, obsession, teenage life, haunted by the past, wartime life, holocaust ...
Time:
1940s, post world war two
Place:
poland, europe, warsaw poland
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
May, 1945... A young pilot Aleksey Kaverin stationed in Germany is going home to Russia for vacation. The problem is he needs to bring a bride. And not only to himself but to four his friends as well.
Style:
sincere, light, feel good, period piece, road movie ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
escapades, young man, cheating fiancee, village, friends, looking for love, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, homecoming, post war, friendship, love, wedding ...
Time:
1940s, post world war two, year 1945
Place:
germany, russia
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19%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Poland
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
What Will You Do When You Catch Me? is a parody of comunist times in Poland. A state-owned company director is having an afair during his delegation. Later on, his mistress turns out to be the daughter of a Communist party bigwig and pregnant. He ...
Style:
cult classic
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Time:
year 1977, 20th century, 70s
Place:
poland, eastern europe, paris france, warsaw poland, hungary
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
During World War II South Sea beachcomber Walter Eckland is persuaded to spy on planes passing over his island. He gets more than he bargained for as schoolteacher Catherine Frenau arrives on the run from the Japanese with her pupils in tow!
Style:
humorous, witty, romantic comedy, sex comedy, semi serious ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
world war two, island, u.s. navy, destiny, wartime, radio, stranded on an island, sailing, dating, world war, jungle, boat ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, year 1942, 1930s
Place:
persia, pacific ocean, san francisco, germany
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK, France
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
During World War II, the organisation "The Women's Land Army" recruited women to work on British farms while the men were off to war. Three such "land girls" of different social backgrounds - quiet Stella, young hairdresser ...
Style:
period piece, sentimental, touching, realistic, retro ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
world war two, countryside, friendship, love, farm, working class, wartime life, war, woman, wine, women, young woman ...
Time:
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Place:
england, united kingdom, english channel, europe, bristol ...
Similarity:
18%
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