Movies like And a Nightingale Sang

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And a Nightingale Sang (1989)
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And a Nightingale Sang (1989)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Set in working class Newcastle, the Stott family fight their private battles against the backdrop of the conflict of World War II. Helen Stott, over thirty and with a limp, is resigned to being left on the shelf until she meets and falls in love with Norman, a serviceman from London. In contrast, her younger sister Joyce has quite a way with men, and finds herself a little too popular with the troops, especially when her husband pops up on leave from his regiment.
Plot: world war two, wartime, shipyard, world war, adultery, singing, fiancee, catholic church, radio, broken heart, piano, winston churchill, letter, bomb shelter, wedding dress, celebration, marital problem, air raid, air raid siren, dead dog, fireworks, limp, lame
Place: dunkirk

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Most similar movies to And a Nightingale Sang

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and emotional films with plots about world war two, world war, love and romance, wartime, couple relations, couples and love mostly in Drama, Romance and War genres. Some movies like And a Nightingale Sang: The Hasty Heart (1983), War Bride (2001), Closing the Ring (2007), Hope and Glory (1987), Protector (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Hasty Heart (1983)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 144 min.
Story: In Burma on the penultimate day of World War II, Cameron Highlander Lachlan 'Lachie' MacLachlan is seriously wounded and transported to a local military hospital. He seems to have recovered from his wounds but appearances can be deceiving. ...
Plot: world war, world war two, wartime, love, scotsman, nurse, soldier, patient, birthday party, military hospital, terminal illness, kilt ...
Place: burma
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
 6.7
 2K
War Bride (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Anna Friel stars in classy wartime drama The War Bride. She plays Lily, an orphan who suddenly finds herself married, with child and living with hostile in-laws in the wilds of Canada.
Style: serious, emotional, sentimental, touching, romantic ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: world war two, culture clash, love and romance, against the odds, wartime life, couples, family problems, family relations, society, fall in love, parents and children, homecoming ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: canada, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
Closing the Ring (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: During the 1940s, a group of young men go off to war, leaving behind Ethel Ann, who is in love with one of them, Teddy. In modern-day Belfast, a man named Jimmy endeavors to return a ring found in the wreckage of a crashed plane. He travels to ...
Style: serious, touching, suspenseful, realistic, romantic drama ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: world war two, optimism, couples, death in the family, couple relations, battles, family problems, family relations, parents and children, wartime life, love and romance, sex ...
Time: 90s, 50s, 1940s
Place: ireland, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
 7.3
 15K
Hope and Glory (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: British writer/director John Boorman (The Emerald Forest) draws us into an astonishing and exhilarating portrait of his own childhood, set against the terrors of a London torn apart by the onset of WWII. Seven-year-old Billy Rohan (Sebastian Rice ...
Style: touching, realistic, humorous, sentimental, intense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: world war two, wartime, childhood, children in wartime, war, boy, youth, wartime life, coming of age, character study, unlikely friendships, ethnic conflict ...
Time: 1940s, year 1939, year 1987
Place: england, london, europe, britain, big ben london
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
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Protector (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Czech Republic, Germany
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A Czech journalist joins a Prague radio station what broadcasts Nazi propaganda in order to protect his Jewish wife. However, as the Nazi rule over Czechoslovakia calls for more and more collaboration, his relationship with his wife spirals downward.
Style: realistic, serious, atmospheric, stylized
Plot: world war two, anti semitism, couple relations, crumbling marriage, life is a bitch, wartime life, couples, artists and showbiz, against humanity, husband wife relationship, assassination, betrayal ...
Time: 20th century, 1930s
Place: middle east, israel, europe, czech republic
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
 6.4
 178
Rama Dama (1991)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Felix Zeiler doesn't return after the end of World War II. His wife - alone with 2 little children - meets Hans and they are slowly getting closer.
Style: period piece
Plot: world war two, german history, strong female character, u.s. army, american abroad, birth, old man, post war, ruins, neighborhood, african american, adultery ...
Place: germany, munich germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
 6.2
 491
Three Sisters (1970)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 165 min.
Story: Laurence Olivier's film of Chekhov's play.
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, rough, touching ...
Plot: family problems, family life, love and romance, life is a bitch, society, infidelity, small town, human nature, unfulfillment, sister sister relationship, husband wife relationship, death of father ...
Time: 1900s
Place: russia, moscow russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Another Time, Another Place (1983)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Set in 1943 in Scotland during World War II. Janie is a young housewife married to a man named Dougal, 15 years her senior. As part of a war rehabilitation program, Janie and Dougal welcome three Italian POWs to work on their farm. Soon, Janie falls ...
Style: independent film, realistic, serious
Plot: world war two, world war, prisoner, infidelity, cheating wife, older man younger woman marriage, couples, unfulfillment, fall in love, crumbling marriage, love and romance, wartime life ...
Place: scotland, europe, scottish highlands
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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The End of the Affair (1999)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: On a rainy London night in 1946, novelist Maurice Bendrix has a chance meeting with Henry Miles, husband of his ex-mistress Sarah, who abruptly ended their affair two years before. Bendrix's obsession with Sarah is rekindled; he succumbs to his ...
Style: romantic, erotic, intellectual, heartbreaking, enigmatic ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: world war two, obsessive love, obsession, infidelity, jealousy, love affair, private detective, passion, betrayal, sex scene, adultery, extramarital affair ...
Time: 1940s, year 1999, 1930s, 20th century, year 1946
Place: london, england, brighton, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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Crossings (1986)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 269 min.
TV show
Story: Despite rumors of impending war, the majestic ship Normandie makes its transatlantic voyage from Washington D.C., to France. Aboard is beautiful, American-born Liane De Villiers, devoted to her much-older husband, the French ambassador to the United ...
Plot: world war two, love, world war, wartime, nazi occupation, journey, husband wife relationship, infidelity, adultery, politics, nazi, diplomat ...
Place: paris france, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
 6.2
 43
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 ⇓
57%
 3.6
 132
Iron Angel (1964)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min.
Story: A seasoned Sargent with a sorry unit, led by an angry 1st Lt., to take out an enemy hold for a convoy to proceed. After their success the Sarge and the crew meet up with another Lieutenant - Female nurse.
Style: independent film
Plot: world war two, korean war, world war, combat, nurse, army, racism, convoy, mountain, patrol, ambulance, mortar
Place: korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
 6.7
 4K
The Dresser (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story: One fateful night in a small English regional theatre during World War II a troupe of touring actors stage a production of Shakespeares King Lear. Bombs are falling, sirens are wailing, the curtain is up in an hour but the actor/manager Sir who is ...
Style: realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, sad ...
Plot: world war two, aging, friendship, illness, actor's life, elderly, showbiz, actor, death, adultery, lgbtq, obsession ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
A Tale of Three Cities (2015)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 130 min.
Story: A former spy in the Chinese Nationalist Party falls for an opium-dealing widow, as China is ravaged by war and revolution.
Style: suspense, captivating, disturbing, psychological
Plot: loner, male female relationship, wartime life, war, romantic relationship, wartime, fall in love, couple relations, life is a bitch, world war two, social problems, relationships ...
Time: 1930s
Place: hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
A French Woman (1995)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Wed just as war breaks out, Jeanne hardly gets to know her military husband, Louis, before the debacle of 1940. While waiting for his return from a POW camp, Jeanne journeys through countless affairs with Louis' comrades- in-arms. Hoping to ...
Style: realistic, serious, sexual, sentimental, gloomy ...
Plot: adultery, women, occult, world war, military, infidelity, world war two, wedding, cheating wife, dishonesty, love and romance, couple relations ...
Time: 1940s, 1950s, 1930s, year 1940, year 1939 ...
Place: europe, france, germany, paris france, berlin germany ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
The Deep Blue Sea (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Australia
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The wife of a British Judge is caught in a self-destructive love affair with a Royal Air Force pilot.
Style: romantic, emotional, period piece, heartbreaking, intense ...
Plot: love affair, infidelity, forbidden love, husband wife relationship, unhappy marriage, judge, unfaithful wife, suicide attempt, unfulfilled love, love, depression, family problems ...
Time: 1950s, 50s, post world war two, 20th century
Place: london, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Maria's Lovers (1984)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Israel
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Ivan Bibic returns to his Pittsburgh PA suburb after surviving a Japanse POW camp, causing regular nightmares. All the time he remained faithfully devoted to his childhood love, fellow ethnic Yugoslavian virgin Maria Bosic. She dates him again, thus ...
Style: sincere, emotional, erotic, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot: marital problem, world war two, couples, fall in love, human nature, soldier, love affair, small town, homecoming, erotica, husband wife relationship, marriage ...
Time: post world war two
Place: pennsylvania, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
 5.8
 280
The Nymph (1996)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Set during the second world war, the sentimental education of a sensual adolescent girl, growing out of her childhood in a small, impoverished village in Southern Italy.
Plot: prostitute, erotica, teenage sexuality, sexual abuse, rumor, sexism, true love, orphan, gossip, world war two, soldier, adultery ...
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Summer of '42 (1971)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Silent as a painting, the movie shows us day-dreamer Hermie and his friends Oscy and Benjie spending the summer of '42 on an US island with their parents - rather unaffected by WWII. While Oscy's main worries are the when and how of ...
Style: romantic, touching, sentimental, sad, realistic ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: world war two, coming of age, age difference, older woman younger man relationship, summer vacation, sex, beach house, teenager, war widow, first love, love story, love ...
Time: 1940s, year 1971, 20th century, year 1942
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
The Last Train (1973)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Two people, a Frenchman Julien Maroyeur and a Jewish German woman (Anna Kupfer) met on a train while escaping the German army entering France.
Style: road movie, sincere, sentimental, touching, emotional ...
Plot: world war two, train, french resistance, world war, love, railway, unhappy ending, nazi, judaism, wartime, occupied france, refugee ...
Time: 1940s, year 1940, year 1943
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Silence of the Sea (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 93 min.
Story: In a small town in the West of France, during the German Occupation, a room is requisitioned by a Wehrmacht captain, Werner von Ebrennac. The house where he now stays is inhabited by young Jeanne, who makes a living by giving piano lessons, and by ...
Style: suspense, captivating, psychological, romantic drama
Plot: world war two, german officer, nazi occupation, french resistance, german soldier, nazi, female protagonist, pianist, german occupation, grandfather granddaughter relationship, relationship problems, life is a bitch ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Eight Kilos of Happiness (1980)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A film about an incident in the last war when a gypsy girl sacrifices herself for her lover, a partisan who has deserted.
Plot: world war two, desertion, murder, singing, fear, death, execution, gypsy, river, nazi, prayer
Time: year 1941
Place: former yugoslavia, serbia
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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 565
Jewels (1992)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Luxembourg, UK
Duration: 241 min.
TV show
Story: Sarah Thompson, an American visiting England, meets and marries William Whitfield, the Duke of Whitfield. They settle in a chateau in France and begin a family. World War II interrupts their happiness and alters their future. After the war, the ...
Plot: jewelry, family relations, world war, love, world war two, royalty
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Hanover Street (1979)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Margaret is a nurse in England during WW2, and married to a secret agent. Things get complicated when she falls for David, an American pilot.
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, sincere, period piece ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: world war two, secret mission, aviation, war, secret agent, couples, infidelity, love triangle, couple relations, fall in love, danger, love and romance ...
Time: 20th century, year 1979, 1940s
Place: london, france, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Sophie's Choice (1982)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story: Stingo, a young writer, moves to Brooklyn in 1947 to begin work on his first novel. As he becomes friendly with Sophie and her lover Nathan, he learns that she is a Holocaust survivor. Flashbacks reveal her harrowing story, from pre-war prosperity ...
Style: depressing, sad, realistic, heartbreaking, serious ...
Audience: date night
Plot: holocaust, world war two, against humanity, nazi, concentration camp, mental illness, wartime life, obsession, tragedy, melancholy, loneliness, relationships ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, year 1982, 1930s, post world war two
Place: poland, new york, middle east, usa, brooklyn new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 6.8
 21K
Their Finest (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK, Sweden, France
Duration: 117 min.
Story: During the Blitz of World War II, a female screenwriter (Gemma Arterton) works on a film celebrating England's resilience as a way to buoy a weary populace's spirits. Her efforts to dramatise the true story of two sisters (Lily Knight and ...
Style: historical drama, costume drama, humorous, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot: world war two, filmmaking, war propaganda, screenwriter, bomb shelter, world war, friendship, lie, writers, war, feminism, woman ...
Time: 1940s, year 1940, 20th century
Place: england, united kingdom, dunkirk, london, america
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Eternal Winter (2018)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Hungary
Duration: 110 min.
Story: The true story of an unlikely romance in a Soviet labor camp.
Style: beautiful
Plot: world war two, stalinism, world war, landscape, gulag, coal mine, christmas, train, romantic relationship, wolf attack, communism, survival ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
From Here to Eternity (1980)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: From Here to Eternity was short-lived dramatic television series that aired in 1980. It was a spinoff of the successful 1979 miniseries of the same title. The series featured most of the cast members from the original miniseries, including William ...
Plot: world war two, world war, wartime, love, us military, dysfunctional marriage, u.s. army, bombing, infidelity, gay subtext, love triangle
Time: 1940s, year 1941
Place: pearl harbor
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Gloomy Sunday (1999)
Genre: Romance, Drama
Country: Germany, Hungary
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Budapest in the thirties. The restaurant owner Laszlo hires the pianist András to play in his restaurant. Both men fall in love with the beautiful waitress Ilona who inspires András to his only composition. His song of Gloomy Sunday is, at first, ...
Style: sentimental, sexy, harsh, emotional, sincere ...
Plot: holocaust, love triangle, sex, suicide, jealousy, nazi, manipulation, infidelity, love and romance, unrequited love, musician's life, occupation ...
Time: 1940s, 1930s, 20th century
Place: hungary, germany, eastern europe, budapest, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Arch of Triumph (1984)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Arch of Triumph is a 1985 British made-for-television film based on the novel Arch of Triumph by Erich Maria Remarque, which was previously adapted in 1948 for a film of the same name with Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer. Dr. Ravic (Anthony ...
Style: noir, gloomy, emotional, sincere, serious ...
Plot: world war two, nazi, wartime, doctor, intrigue, concentration camp, unfulfillment, vengeance, against humanity, war, love and romance, on the run ...
Time: 1930s
Place: paris france, europe, france, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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