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No Man is an Island (1962)
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No Man is an Island (1962)
Original name: No Man Is an Island
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: The true story of George Tweed, an American sailor who became the only serviceman on the island of Guam to avoid capture by the Japanese during the early years of World War II.
Style: independent film
Plot: world war two, shipwreck, stranded, priest, u.s. navy, behind enemy lines, bare chested male, scorpion
Time: year 1962
Place: japan, pearl harbor, pacific ocean, minneapolis minnesota
Keyword: american

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, suspense, disturbing and serious films with plots about world war two, nazi, war, battles, world war, soldier and wartime mostly in Drama, War and History genres. Some movies like No Man is an Island: The Burmese Harp (1985), Oba: The Last Samurai (2011), The Garden of Redemption (1997), King Rat (1965), Inside the Third Reich (1982). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Burmese Harp (1985)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 133 min.
Story: In the War's closing days, when a conscience-driven Japanese soldier fails to get his countrymen to surrender to overwhelming force, he adopts the lifestyle of a Buddhist monk.
Style: odd
Plot: world war two, bird, prisoner, british army, buddhism, japanese army, soldier, pow
Time: 1940s
Place: burma, japan
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95%
Oba: The Last Samurai (2011)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 128 min.
Story: In 1944, the American military lands on the shores of Saipan. Refusing to commit suicide with his superiors or be forced into camps for prisoners of war, Captain Oba Sakae leads a group of his men and other similarly minded local residents into the ...
Style: tense, captivating, exciting, suspense, disturbing
Plot: world war two, military, honor, world war, soldier, battles, japanese army, commander, fight, heroic mission, wartime, war ...
Time: 1940s, year 1945, year 1944
Place: japan, pacific ocean, oceania
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95%
The Garden of Redemption (1997)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A priest struggles with his religious beliefs as he sees his countrymen murdered in Nazi occupied Italy and as he becomes attracted to a woman operating in the resistance.
Plot: world war two, wartime, love, resistance movement, partisan, nazi occupation, priest, resistance, fascism
Time: 1940s
Place: italy
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94%
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King Rat (1965)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: When Singapore surrendered to the Japanese in 1942 the Allied POWs, mostly British but including a few Americans, were incarcerated in Changi prison. This was a POW detention center like no other. There were no walls or barbed-wire fences for the ...
Style: black and white, realistic, bleak, sad, serious ...
Plot: world war two, prison, prisoner of war camp, world war, prisoners of war, military, friendship, bullying, great war, prisoner, prison life, british ...
Time: 1940s, year 1945
Place: japan, asia, singapore
⇓ similarity ⇓
93%
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Inside the Third Reich (1982)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 240 min.
Story: A dramatization of the life of Albert Speer, Hitler's young architect and onetime confidant, and his meteoric rise into the Nazi hierarchy. Based upon Speer's own monograph of the same title.
Plot: world war two, nazi, hitler, autobiography, third reich
Time: 1940s, 1930s
Place: germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
93%
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Hanagatami (2017)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 169 min.
Story: Spring, 1941. Sixteen-year-old Toshihiko attends school in the coastal town of Karatsu, where his aunt cares for his ailing cousin. Immersed in the seaside's nature and culture, Toshihiko soon befriends the town's other extraordinary ...
Style: suspense, psychological, surreal, disturbing, tense ...
Plot: wartime, world war two, wartime life, life is a bitch, teenage life, surrealism, teenager, humanity, vampire, coming of age
Time: year 1941
Place: japan, pearl harbor
⇓ similarity ⇓
93%
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First to Fight (1967)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Jack is the sole survivor of a Japanese attack on his squad at Guadalcanal. Because of his heroism and the fact that he is still alive, he becomes a Medal of Honor hero. He returns to train new recruits for the Marines and falls for a girl named ...
Plot: world war two, combat, usa history, wartime, pacific war, bare chested male, cowardice, sergeant, war hero, japanese army, marriage, widow ...
Time: year 1967, year 1943
⇓ similarity ⇓
92%
Operation Stadium (1977)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 90 min.
Story: This movie tells a true story about events in Zagreb in 1941. Nazis and their collaborators organized the great gathering of students on Dubrava stadium. The intention was to publicly separate Jews from them which would lead to future pogrom. The ...
Plot: partisan, world war two, invasion, stadium, firearm
Time: year 1941
⇓ similarity ⇓
91%
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Evening Bells (1986)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Trials and tribulations of a Croatian Communist intellectual in the turbulent years before, during and after WW2.
Plot: world war two, partisan, communist, fascism, legs, stockings
Place: balkan, former yugoslavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
The Last U-Boat (1993)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Germany, USA, Japan, Austria
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Near the end of WWII a lone U-Boat is sent from Germany to Japan carrying plutonium needed for a Japanese A-Bomb. During the long journey, news arrives on the radio that Hitler killed himself and Germany has surrendered. This causes a rift in the ...
Plot: submarine, world war two, nazi, british navy, underwater, world war, hitler, secret mission, uranium, duty, torpedo, captain ...
Time: year 1945
Place: east germany, japan, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
Pride: The Fateful Moment (1998)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 161 min.
Story: Based on the International Military Tribunal for the Far East of 1946–48, depicts Japanese prime minister Hideki Tojo (played by Masahiko Tsugawa) as a family man who fought to defend Japan and Asia from western colonialism but was ultimately ...
Plot: world war two, justice, trial, prime minister, japanese history, court martial, pride, military, court, courtroom
Time: post world war two
Place: japan, pearl harbor, hiroshima japan, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
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The Heroes (1989)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Australia
Duration: 208 min.
TV show
Story: Based on a true story, The Heroes follows one of the most extraordinary and heroic exploits of World War II. After months of rigorous training in the north of Australia, a team of 14 men, most barely out of their teens, set sail from Cairns on ...
Plot: world war two, revolutionary, revolution, struggle, freedom, revolutionary war, male nudity, naked in public, canoe, male objectification, heroism, behind enemy lines ...
Time: year 1943, 1940s
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
Front in the Rear of the Enemy (1982)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia
Duration: 161 min.
Story: A final episode in the trilogy about the Russian partisan's resistance during WWII. The film is set in 1944, when Russian partisans are making progress in their fighting against the Nazi occupation of Russia, Poland and Czechoslovakia. Lt. ...
Style: patriotic
Plot: world war two, patriot, partisan, great patriotic war, nazi occupation, soviet army, firearm
Place: soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
The Sea and Poison (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Downed American fliers in WW II are vivisected by Japanese surgeons in medical experiments.
Style: retro
Plot: world war two, mental disorder, nurse, torture, bomber, vivisection, air force, doctor
Time: 1940s, year 1945
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
The Quality of Mercy (1994)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Austria, Germany
Duration: 105 min.
Story: It is the beginning of 1945 during WW2 in former Austria. 500 Russian prisoners of war who have refused to fight on the side of the Germans against their country were moved to the concentration camp in Mauthausen awaiting execution. They decide to ...
Plot: world war two, world war, winter, escape, prisoner, death, murder, resistance, war crime, execution, nazi, manhunt ...
Place: austria
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89%
The Boys from St. Petri (1991)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A group of school-mates form a resistance group in nazi-occupied Denmark.
Plot: world war two, children, wartime life, world war, war, nazi, sabotage, resistance, high school, teenager
Time: 1940s
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
Soldiers Aren't Born (1969)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 126 min.
Story: The continuation of a story started by Alexander Stolper epic movie "Zhivye i Myortvye".
Style: epic
Plot: great patriotic war, red army, world war two, russian soldier, battles, military uniform
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
Spring on the Oder (1968)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A war drama set in Germany at the end od WWII.
Plot: world war two, russian soldier, great patriotic war, red army, russian abroad, soviet army, uniform
Time: year 1945
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
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Tank T-34 (1965)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Russian prisoners of war commandeer a tank and lead the Nazis on a cross-country chase in this World War II adventure drama. The Russians use their own tanks so the Nazis can use them as target practice to test a new anti-tank weapon. Knowing that ...
Plot: world war two, great patriotic war, tank, red army, pow, behind enemy lines, self sacrifice, armor, uniform
Place: ussr, soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
Japan's Longest Day (1967)
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
Plot: world war two, world war, japanese soldier, japanese army, japanese history, military, japanese military, soldier, atomic bomb, emperor, imperial japan, pacific war ...
Time: 1940s
Place: japan, tokyo, china, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
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Stalingrad (1990)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union, USA, Czechoslovakia, East Germany
Duration: 196 min.
Story: The WWII pivotal battle of Stalingrad is shown through the eyes of the soldiers and officers on both sides of the war.
Plot: world war two, death, ruins, battles, dead soldier, uniform
Place: soviet union, ussr
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
Weekend at Dunkirk (1964)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 119 min.
Story: In June 1940, during the Dunkirk evacuation of Allied troops to England, French sergeant Julien Maillat and his men debate whether to evacuate to Britain or stay and fight the German troops that are closing-in from all directions. - from IMDB
Plot: world war two, french army, revolutionary war, wartime, submarine, kriegsmarine, revolutionary, freedom, struggle, revolution, war, car wreck ...
Time: year 1940
Place: france, dunkirk, english channel, flanders
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88%
The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial (1988)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A full-length adaptation, originally staged as a play, of the court-martial segment from the novel "The Caine Mutiny".
Style: talky, biting, thought provoking, disturbing, clever ...
Plot: courtroom drama, world war two, court martial, army investigation, lawyer, legal, rebellion, leadership, law enforcement, mentally unstable, dishonesty, dedicated lawyer ...
Time: 1940s
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87%
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The Assisi Underground (1985)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: This film sheds light on the role of the Catholic Church and the people of Assisi in rescuing Italian Jews from the Nazis in 1943.
Style: grindhouse, independent film
Plot: catholic, world war two, christian, nazi, pope, holocaust, catholic priest, priest, friendship, bishop, catholic church, monk ...
Time: 1940s, year 1985
Place: italy
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87%
MacArthur's Children (1984)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 125 min.
Story: In this drama at the end of World War II, the inhabitants of a small Japanese fishing village must come to terms with their nation's defeat and the sudden occupation of General MacArthur and his troops.
Plot: world war two, boy, handicapped, village, teenager, adultery, coming of age, baseball, japanese new wave
Time: post world war two
Place: japan
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87%
War and Remembrance (1988)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 1620 min.
TV show
Story: War and Remembrance is an American miniseries based on the novel of the same name by Herman Wouk. It is the sequel to highly successful The Winds of War.
Style: historical drama, saga, captivating, exciting, realistic ...
Plot: world war two, war, holocaust, nazi germany, military, world war, submarine, nazi, wartime, conservative, cavalry, winston churchill ...
Time: 1940s
Place: asia, japan, europe, pacific ocean, pearl harbor ...
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87%
The Great Escape II: The Untold Story (1988)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 178 min.
Story: Allied prisoners tunnel out of a stalag, then return to avenge fellow escapees executed by the Nazis.
Plot: world war two, prison, revolutionary war, military prison, prisoner, freedom, revolution, struggle, prison escape, pow, escape, nazi ...
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87%
Tombstone of the Fireflies (2008)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Set during World War II, the film follows a young brother and sister as they attempt to survive the aftermath of the firebombing of Kobe City.
Style: psychological, suspense, rough, touching, disturbing
Plot: world war two, sibling relationship, bombing, firefly, brother sister relationship, little girl, wartime, survival, struggle for survival, war, life is a bitch, kids in trouble ...
Place: japan
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86%
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Jenny's War (1985)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 198 min.
TV show
Story: This fact-based story follows a woman who launches a rescue of her Royal Air Force pilot son, who was shot down over Germany in 1941. Getting no help from the underground, she sets up her own rescue mission.
Plot: world war two, luftwaffe, capture, woman in jeopardy, royal air force, escape, pow, nazi, gestapo, prisoner of war camp, behind enemy lines, pilot
Time: post world war two
Place: germany
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86%
My Father, Rua Alguem 5555 (2003)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy, Brazil, Hungary
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A man who grew up an orphan finally gets to meet his father: The psychopath Dr. Josef Mengele, the Auschwitz surgeon who performed genetic experiments on concentration camp refugees during WWII.
Style: captivating, suspense
Plot: world war two, nazi, parent child relationship, father son reunion, experiment, father son relationship, war criminal, ex nazi, psychopath, family problems, human experiment, orphan ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
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