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The Adventures of Werner Holt (1965)
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The Adventures of Werner Holt (1965)
Original name: Die Abenteuer des Werner Holt
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: East Germany
Duration: 164 min.
Story: Shortly before the end of WWII: While he is fighting at the Eastern front, private Werner Holt looks back on his still young life – especially his long-time friendship with former classmate Gilbert Wolzow, who is now Werner′s commanding officer. Both men used to be fanatic Nazi followers, but since Holt witnessed a massacre conducted by SS troops and the execution of a friend, he has begun to question the regime. He saves a Slovakian woman who is to be executed, and finally openly opposes Wolzow.
Plot: world war two, world war, friendship between men, love, war, dancing, tank, school, airplane, revenge, fight, musician, train, heroes, teacher, escape, food, violence, friendship, partisan, prisoner, blonde, death, torture, betrayal ...
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, crying and sincere films with plots about world war two, death, singing, nazi, train, world war and murder mostly in Drama, War and Romance genres. Some movies like The Adventures of Werner Holt: Massacre at Noon (1975), Lisa (2001), Naked Among Wolves (1963), Fateless (2005), The Pals (1979). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Massacre at Noon (1975)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 91 min.
Story: In Autumn of 1941, the German army, determined to put down a Communist-led uprising in Serbia, is conducting a policy of killing 100 hostages for any German soldier killed. The city of Kraljevo is the site of one of those massacres, portrayed in ...
Style: crying, heroic
Plot: world war two, partisan, world war, heroism, fire department, murder, bomb, train, military, death, betrayal, police ...
Place: serbia
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Lisa (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Stumbling across an uncompleted 1939 film called "Princess Marushka", filmmaker Sam becomes intrigued with the young actor Sylvain Marceau, who last appeared in the film. Hoping to discover the mystery behind Sylvain's disappearance, ...
Style: captivating, sincere, realistic, serious
Plot: world war two, secret, betrayal, cross cultural relations, anti semitism, murder, filmmaking, death, autobiography, love affair, girl, filmmaker ...
Time: 1930s
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Naked Among Wolves (1963)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: East Germany
Duration: 124 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: deep, crying, inspirational, complex
Plot: holocaust, world war two, prisoner, nazi, communism, concentration camp, military, wartime life, nazi concentration camp, shoah, world war, nazism ...
Place: east germany, germany, poland, warsaw poland, frankfurt germany ...
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Fateless (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Hungary, Germany, UK, Israel, France, USA
Duration: 140 min.
Story: An Hungarian youth comes of age at Buchenwald during World War II. György Köves is 14, the son of a merchant who's sent to a forced labor camp. After his father's departure, György gets a job at a brickyard; his bus is stopped and its ...
Style: sincere, emotional, serious, disturbing, gloomy ...
Audience: teens, date night, teen drama
Plot: holocaust, concentration camp, world war two, nazi, survival, youth, life is a bitch, orthodox jew, confined, estrangement, world war, danger ...
Time: 1940s, year 2005
Place: hungary, eastern europe, germany, europe, slovakia ...
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The Pals (1979)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
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Duration: 96 min.
Story: The war is over, and a group of young Partisans returns to their town to continue their interrupted education. They are doing everything in their way, because they are young enough to go to school and to horse around, but mature enough to react to ...
Style: crying
Plot: partisan, world war two, education, nudity, woods, quarrel, murder, school, father, party, blood, machine gun ...
Time: post world war two
Place: former yugoslavia
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Girl from the Mountains (1972)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 82 min.
Story: The relationship between a boy and a girl shortly after the start of the war and the arrival of the Germans. He goes to Chetniks, and there he disappears without a trace, and she ,after much torture and solitude, begins to search for him not ...
Plot: world war two, partisan, mountain, woods, traitor, river, nazi, mass murder, tank, execution, village, surprise ...
Time: year 1941
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Duration: 150 min.
Story: A nurse and her surgeon-lover are part of a resistance movement in 1940s Czechoslovakia. When they are discovered, her lover flees and she must find a place to hide. A patient whose life she saved, a man from a remote mountain village where time ...
Style: realistic, touching, sincere, contemplative, epic ...
Plot: world war two, small town, resistance, marriage, betrayal, self discovery, older man younger woman relationship, life is a bitch, couple relations, society, hopes, fugitives ...
Time: 1940s, year 2003, 20th century
Place: czechoslovakia, central europe, prague
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Kozara (1962)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 124 min.
Story: In June of 1942 Germans and their collaborators decide to get rid of partisans and their stronghold in the woods of Mount Kozara in Northern Bosnia. They encircle the mountain and begin the mop up operation. Out gunned and outnumbered the partisans ...
Style: epic, crying, black and white
Plot: world war two, partisan, world war, mountain, fate, inhumanity, woods, war crime, dead body, assault, villager, escape ...
Time: year 1942
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Duration: 110 min.
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Style: contemplative, depressing, touching, emotional, atmospheric ...
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Duration: 120 min.
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Plot: world war two, monastery, tattoo, orphan, military, innocence lost, life is a bitch, youth, war, society, anti war, boarding school life ...
Time: 1940s, year 1941
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Guns of War (1974)
Genre: Drama, War
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Duration: 170 min.
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Style: epic, crying
Plot: world war two, partisan, world war, mountain, slaughter, cannon, murder of an innocent person, innocent, heroes, airplane, battles, exploding airplane ...
Time: 1940s, year 1941
Place: former yugoslavia, london, serbia
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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Angry Harvest (1985)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
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Duration: 105 min.
Story: In the winter of 1942-43, a Jewish family leaps from a train going through Silesia. They are separated in the woods, and Leon, a local peasant who's now a farmer of some wealth, discovers the woman, Rosa, and hides her in his cellar. ...
Style: political, insightful, sincere, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot: holocaust, world war two, captivity, female nudity, nazi, israeli, renaissance, world war, anti semitism, train, survival, older man younger woman relationship ...
Time: 1940s, year 1985
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
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Duration: 95 min.
Story: Fleeing the June 1940 arrival of Hitler's army in Paris, a young war widow and her two children are rescued from dive-bombing German fighters by a cocky, reckless teenager. He finds them refuge in an abandoned house, but despite the fact that ...
Style: sincere, touching, suspenseful, serious, erotic ...
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Duration: 106 min.
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Style: realistic, serious, sex comedy, independent film
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Duration: 111 min.
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Audience: girls' night
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
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Style: emotional, art house, sentimental, offbeat, romantic drama ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Wedding (1973)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia, Soviet Union
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Story: Beginning in 1943. year. The tragic story of the prisoners... partisans and others who were found in a prison in Montenegro at the time when the Chetniks and the occupiers at all costs they want to crush the uprising in Yugoslavia.
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Good (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
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Duration: 92 min.
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The Exception (2016)
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Style: suspense, captivating, exciting, suspenseful, tense ...
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Plot: world war two, nazi germany, gestapo, nazi officer, german soldier, nazi occupation, nazi, espionage, royalty, conspiracy, spy, german army ...
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To End All Wars (2001)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
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Style: harsh, suspenseful, tense, serious, rough ...
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Battle of the Brave (2004)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Canada, UK, France
Duration: 143 min.
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Style: realistic, emotional, serious, crying, weird
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The Last Butterfly (1991)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Czechoslovakia, France, UK
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Stage mime Antoine Moreau is compelled by the Gestapo to put on a performance for the children of Terezin, a "model" concentration camp, to convince the Red Cross observers that the camp is truly what it seems. Reluctant at first, Moreau ...
Style: fairy tale, crying
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