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Naked Rose (2013)
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Original name: Il Rosa Nudo
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
Among the millions of victims of the Nazi madness during the Second World War, Pierre Seel was charged with homosexuality and imprisoned in the Schirmeck concentration camp. He survived this terrifying experience of torture and humiliation, and after the war he married, had three children, and tried to live a normal life. In 1982, however, he came to terms with his past and his true nature and decided to publicly reveal what he and thousands of other homosexuals branded with the Pink Triangle had undergone during the Nazi regime. Il Rosa Nudo (Naked Rose), inspired by the true story of Pierre Seel, depicts in a theatrical and evocative way the Homocaust, focusing on the scientific theories of SS Physician Carl Peter Værnet for the treatment of homosexuality, which paved the way for the Nazi persecution of gay men.
Style:
bleak, emotional, historical drama, political, art house, period piece, indie film, semi documentary, queer cinema
Plot:
holocaust, gay slur, biopic, world war two, survival, concentration camp, lgbtq, trauma, persecution, torture, repression, memory, mature, memories, human rights, social commentary, autobiography, gay, nazism, art, homosexual, crucifix, gay interest, coming out
Time:
1940s, 80s
Place:
france
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out bleak, emotional, period piece and historical drama films with plots about biopic, world war two, survival, resilience, holocaust, nazi and loss mostly in Drama, Biography and History genres. Some movies like Naked Rose: The World Will Tremble (2025), The Boy in the Woods (2023), Coming Out of the Ice (1982), Hidden Away (2020), The Man Who Broke 1,000 Chains (1987). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: Poland, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
No overview found.
Style:
historical drama, heartbreaking, bleak, grim, period piece ...
Plot:
world war two, holocaust, gypsy, genocide, discrimination, nazi occupation, loss, auschwitz, suffering, persecution, tragedy, ethnic cleansing ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
poland
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
The incredible, untold true story of how a group of prisoners attempt a seemingly impossible escape from the first Nazi death camp in order to provide the first eyewitness account of the Holocaust.
Style:
historical drama, bleak, tense, intense, emotional ...
Plot:
holocaust, concentration camp, world war two, nazi germany, memories, prison escape, war crime, survival, resistance, biopic, sacrifice, forced labor ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
86%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
The remarkable true-life survival story of a Jewish boy hiding and being hunted in the forests of Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe, based on Maxwell Smart's memoir.
Style:
historical drama, suspenseful, thrilling, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
nazi occupation, holocaust, survival, holocaust survivor, world war two, fear, hiding, persecution, anti semitism, problem, nazism, nazi ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
76%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Victor and his family moved to the USSR in the mid '30's. When he refused to sign his skydiving accomplishment as a citizen of the USSR, he was not tried but simply sent to prison. His horrific imprisonment, beating and torture culminated ...
Style:
historical drama, brutal, period piece, bleak, intense ...
Plot:
gulag, biopic, prisoner of war camp, torture, survival, totalitarianism, endurance, persecution, resilience, isolation, exile, adaptation ...
Time:
1930s, 1940s
Place:
siberia, eastern europe, soviet union, ussr
Similarity:
75%
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
The story of Eddie Slovik, who was executed by the Army in 1945, the only American soldier to be executed for desertion since the Civil War.
Style:
period piece, grim, bleak, tragic
Plot:
world war two, firing squad, execution, desertion, death sentence, biopic, social commentary, court martial, world war, military, soldier, moral dilemma ...
Time:
1940s
Similarity:
72%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
The film tackles the life journey of Toni Ligabue, visionary naïf painter who used to draw tigers, lions and jaguars while living among the poplar trees of the boundless Po valley. A harsh life that is a fairy tale too, as a lonely and marginalized ...
Style:
captivating, sincere, semi autobiographical, suspense, psychotronic ...
Plot:
poverty, painter, isolation, autobiography, world war two, biopic, hiding place, alienation, painting, loneliness, character study, identity ...
Time:
1950s
Place:
switzerland
Similarity:
65%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
The true story of Robert Elliot Burns, the prisoner who, after being sentenced to a Georgia chain gang, attempted two daring escapes.
Style:
serious, period piece, bleak, historical drama, harsh ...
Plot:
crime and punishment, imprisonment, injustice, escape, escape attempt, biopic, wrongful conviction, forced labor, oppression, realism, survival, brutality ...
Time:
1930s
Similarity:
61%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Ariadna discovers that her grandfather has been searching for the remains of his father, who disappeared during the Civil War. Determined to help him, she travels to Burgos, where a mass grave is being excavated, and where he could be buried. During ...
Style:
historical drama, thrilling, psychological, captivating, emotional ...
Plot:
teacher, biopic, school teacher, professor, small community, spanish civil war, civil war, storytelling, political violence, exhumation, memories, memory ...
Time:
1930s
Similarity:
56%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 61 min.
Story:
Locked away in the Jewish ghetto of an occupied Ukrainian town in 1941, a mother revisits her life in a last letter to her son.
Style:
bleak, poignant, historical drama, reflective, emotional ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
holocaust, persecution, world war two, jewish ghetto, anti semitism, mature, grief, loss, haunting, family tragedy, mother son relationship, witness ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
eastern europe, ukraine
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
Story of the life of Quentin Crisp, an Englishman who was brave enough to live his life according to his own style even in the hostile days of WW2.
Style:
period piece, controversial, serious, realistic, touching ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night
Plot:
gay, lgbt, gay interest, homosexual history, gay son, homosexual, lgbtq, biopic, subculture, publisher, revolt, lgbtqi ...
Time:
1930s, 1940s, 20th century
Place:
england, europe
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama, Music, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Based on a true story of a Polish musician who survived the concentration camp only because he could play on the accordion the title melody.
Style:
intense, emotional, bleak, dark, melancholic ...
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, concentration camp, survival, nazi germany, auschwitz, oppression, loss, suffering, dehumanization, resilience, trauma ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
poland
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 60 min.
Story:
The profound depths of Ernõ Szép's life and poetry are revived in a new film adaptation of the poet's novel, 'The Smell of Humans'. This stoic and lyrical narrative of twenty fateful days offers an authentic account of an ...
Style:
reflective, lyrical, melancholic, bleak, emotional ...
Plot:
humanity, poetry, poet, memory, biopic, literary, haunting, survival, loss, resilience, oppression, anti semitism ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
hungary, eastern europe
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
The story of Mafalda is like the one of Cinderella, just the other way round. The dramatic real story of a Italian princess, born and raised in the comforts of a golden court, who will be forced by war to share the fate of ordinary people in a ...
Style:
thrilling, suspenseful, psychological, captivating, period piece ...
Plot:
fascism, concentration camp, italian history, princess, world war two, nazism, courage, imprisonment, oppression, persecution, biopic, injustice ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
germany, italy, europe
Similarity:
47%
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Cambodia, France
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
Cannes Special Screening 2016
Style:
bleak, political, emotional, poignant, realistic ...
Plot:
exile, trauma, genocide, loss, political oppression, khmer rouge, haunting, mourning, memory, survival, totalitarianism, identity ...
Time:
70s, year 1975
Place:
cambodia
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Biography
Country: Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Based on the childhood memories of actor Michael Degen, the movie deals with the everyday struggle to survive as a Jewish boy in Nazi Germany. As his father had died in 1940 after being released from the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, Michael and ...
Style:
suspenseful, touching, sincere, serious, historical drama ...
Plot:
world war two, survival, coming of age, false identity, lie, deportation, boy, persecution, nazi germany, holocaust, anti semitism, oppression ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
berlin germany
Similarity:
43%
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Pakistan
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
The controversial and troubled Indo-Pakistani writer Saadat Hasan Manto finds his artistic choices challenged by censors.
Style:
historical drama, melancholic, art house, intellectual, bleak ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
42%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Holly Hunter plays a lonely, single, poorly educated Texan who finds herself pregnant with no means to support a child. To avoid giving up the child, she seeks an abortion. Denied an abortion in Texas the young woman hires a novice lawyer to plead ...
Style:
thought provoking, controversial, bleak, tense, political ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Time:
80s
Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
adult
Plot:
world war two, lovers apart, older man younger woman relationship, true love, biopic, wartime, concentration camp, love story, romantic relationship, relationships, social problems, male female relationship ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
france
Similarity:
40%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Serbia, France, Croatia
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The story of a retired music professor, Misha Brankov, who under unusual circumstances discovers his true origins. At the place where once stood a Nazi concentration camp for Jews during World War II, a metal box filled with documents is found. It ...
Style:
serious, emotional, sincere, realistic, touching ...
Plot:
holocaust, concentration camp, uncover truth, self discovery, haunted by the past, identity, hidden truth, escapades, elderly, family relations, obsessive quest, lifesaver ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
serbia, belgrade, europe
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A look at the life of photographer Robert Mapplethorpe from his rise to fame in the 1970s to his untimely death in 1989.
Style:
costume drama, queer cinema
Plot:
gay, gay interest, aids, artist, photograph, obscenity, hiv, bdsm, photographer, art, fame, controversy ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
The story of a 13-year-old Jewish girl and her family who are forced into hiding by the Nazis during World War II.
Style:
gloomy, sincere, emotional, touching, uplifting ...
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, world war, nazi, writers, poet, anti semitism, teenage life, family in danger, attic, wartime life, family life ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
amsterdam, holland, europe
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: France, Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
The story of Robert Hughes-Lambert, who was captured by Nazis when his active homosexuality was discovered during the filming of Mermoz (1943).
Style:
realistic, semi serious, bleak, disturbing, biting ...
Plot:
filmmaking, world war two, biopic, wartime life, artists and showbiz, against humanity, state affairs, showbiz, life is a bitch, politics, society, actor's life ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
vichy, paris france, france
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Spain
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
In 1945, at the end of World War II, Neus Català returns to France, where she recalls her life under the Nazi yoke.
Style:
historical drama, bleak, captivating, harsh, serious ...
Plot:
world war two, survival, female protagonist, concentration camp, concentration camp survivor, forced labor, war trauma, life is a bitch, survival horror, struggle for survival, life, woman ...
Time:
1940s
Similarity:
35%
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Cuba, Italy, Spain, Chile, Mexico, Nicaragua
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
Narrative of a period of life (1926 - 1934) of the Nicaraguan revolutionary leader Sandino, who was known as "The general of free men."
Style:
historical drama, political, realistic, period piece, inspirational ...
Plot:
biopic, latin american history, political intrigue, guerilla warfare, revolution, resistance, nationalism, rebellion, intervention, colonialism, portrait, defiant ...
Time:
1930s, 1920s
Place:
nicaragua, latin america, central america
Similarity:
35%
480
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Darling is a woman of today. It seems to always choose the wrong path. Suffers but does not look like a victim. Do not feel sorry for herself. On the contrary, shows a passion for life against all odds. She is struggling to exist. If you fall, get ...
Style:
serious, captivating, emotional, realistic, melancholic ...
Plot:
farm, hopes, love and romance, loss of innocence, resilience, female protagonist, young woman, toxic relationship, mature, small town, longing, naivete ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Mr. Mermelstein (Leonard Nimoy) and Mrs. Mermelstein (Blythe Danner) a true-life California couple, thrown into the spotlight of judicial history in the 1980s. He is a Hungarian-born Jew, sole-survivor of his family's extermination at ...
Style:
emotional, inspirational, political
Plot:
holocaust, anti semitism, courtroom drama, world war two, memory, biopic, legal battle, justice, defamation, auschwitz, family life, activism ...
Time:
80s
Place:
california
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Biography
Country: Italy, Germany
Duration: 200 min.
Story:
Rome, 1943. The city is occupied by the Nazis. The lives of thousands of Jews are in danger, and in Vatican City, a neutral state within the borders of Rome, Pope Pius XII is struggling to save the city from hunger and destruction.
Style:
historical drama, period piece, tense, bleak, reflective ...
Plot:
world war two, vatican, catholic, faith, pope, nazi occupation, occupation, survival, moral ambiguity, biopic, diplomacy, clergy ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
rome italy
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Enric Marco, a Spanish trade unionist, claims to be a survivor of Nazi concentration camps.
Style:
thought provoking, historical drama, non fiction, bleak, tense ...
Plot:
holocaust, fraud, biopic, reputation, scandal, moral ambiguity, investigation, shame, ethical dilemma, character study, testimony, betrayal ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
spain, catalonia, barcelona
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
Dramatization of the life of Italian actress Sophia Loren who plays herself during adulthood and also that of her mother Romilda Villani.
Style:
period piece, emotional, dramatic
Plot:
biopic, mother daughter relationship, female protagonist, glamour, autobiography, resilience, legacy, motherhood, family drama, intimate, female empowerment, hollywood ...
Place:
rome italy, italy
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A look at the life of French designer Yves Saint Laurent from the beginning of his career in 1958 when he met his lover and business partner, Pierre Berge.
Style:
sentimental, melancholic, factual, captivating, sweet ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
fashion, gay, fashion designer, lgbtq, gay interest, rise to the top, biopic, lgbt, glbt, character study, art, fashion industry ...
Time:
1950s, 20th century, 2000s, 60s, 50s ...
Place:
paris france, france, morocco, europe, algeria ...
Similarity:
32%
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