Movies like Les Patates

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Les Patates (1969)
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Les Patates (1969)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In a village in the Ardennes, during the German occupation, finding rations is becoming almost impossible. Clovis, an ordinary labourer, decides to cross the occupied zone to bring back enough potatoes to feed his family. His plan is a success but Clovis rapidly becomes obsessed with storing the precious tubers.
Plot: world war two, hunger, german occupation, nazi occupied france, potato

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, contemplative and semi serious films with plots about world war two, german occupation, friendship, nazi, wartime life, family relations and pow mostly in Drama, Comedy and War genres. Some movies like Les Patates: Hungarians (1978), The Toth Family (1969), Operation Snafu (1970), A Self-Made Hero (1996), If I Had a Gun (1971). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Hungarians (1978)
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A group of landless Hungarian peasants accept work as migrant-laborers on a farm in northern Germany where the wages are good, and the wives and family are allowed to accompany them. Though it is in the midst of World War II, they are relatively ...
Plot: world war two, humiliation, peasant, pow
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95%
The Toth Family (1969)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The Toth family resides in Northern Hungary. The couple has a daughter and a son, the latter a member of the armed forces. When his weary major is ordered to take a vacation, the son talks him into a visit to his family home. Comedy ensues when the ...
Style: cult classic, dark comedy, black comedy
Plot: world war two, fascism, oppression, military officer, guest, villager, dark humor
Place: hungary
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84%
Operation Snafu (1970)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, War
Country: Italy, Yugoslavia
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In WWII, a commando was sent in a secret mission in Sicily. They had a reluctant Italian prisoner of war to help them.
Plot: world war two, commando, secret, cafe, cigarette smoking, italian fascism, commando raid, german army, german occupation
Place: italy, sicily
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71%
A Self-Made Hero (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Set in France at the end of World War II Albert Dehousse finds out his father wasn't a war hero and his mother is a collaborator.
Style: biting, humorous, realistic, semi serious
Plot: french resistance, world war two, nazi, imposture, holocaust, satire, couples, switching roles, dishonesty, hidden identity, war, friendship ...
Time: 1940s, year 1996
Place: france, germany, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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If I Had a Gun (1971)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Vlado, an intelligent boy living in a small village, has fantasies that take him away from his humdrum life. But as the Nazi occupation begins to encroach on the townsfolk his fantasies and reality begin to merge.
Plot: world war two, children in wartime, boy, traumatic childhood, adolescence, circumcision, dream, foreskin
Time: 1940s
Place: slovakia
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
The Two of Us (1967)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A story of the caring friendship formed between a crusty, old anti-Semite and an eight-year-old Jewish boy who goes to live with him during World War II.
Style: anthology, cult classic, semi autobiographical, serious, realistic ...
Plot: world war two, boy, youth, wartime life, liberation, countryside, holocaust, occupation, children in wartime, swing, realism, children ...
Time: 1940s, year 1967, 20th century
Place: vichy, france, europe, alps
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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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53%
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Cefalonia (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 210 min.
Story: Cefalonia tells the real story about what happened in September 1943 on the Greek island of Kefalonia (Cefalonia in Italian), when the 12,000 men in the Italian 33rd Acqui Infantry Division, following Italy's surrender to the Allied, refused to ...
Plot: world war two, fascism, german occupation, italian history, island, italian army, mass murder, bravery, nazi, soldier, truce, surrender
Place: greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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Liten Ida (1981)
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway, Sweden
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Little Ida's mother is working for the Germans during WW2, and she is also having a relationship with a German SS-officer. Ida is experiencing the problems of having a mother who is involved with the enemy, without being old enough to ...
Plot: world war two, post war, wartime life, nazi, outsider, occupation, children, terror, harassment, nazi occupation
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
100 Years of Adolf Hitler (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 60 min.
Story: The last hours in the lives of Hitler and his associates.
Style: black and white
Plot: hitler, world war two, sex crime, suicide, suicide by poison, third reich, satire, bunker
Time: 1940s
Place: germany
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44%
I'm Alive and I Love You (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Drama - During World War II, a woman aboard a railroad car full of deportees slips French railway worker Julien (Jérôme Deschamps) a note with an address and a simple message: "I am alive, and I love you," and he decides to track down ...
Plot: world war two, judaism, train station, family relations, nazi, courage, train, father son relationship, man boy relationship, german occupation, railway station
Time: 1940s
Place: france
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44%
The Plouffe Family (1981)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 227 min.
Story: The lives of the average Quebecois Plouffe family during the final years of the depression and through World War II.
Plot: world war two, family relations, great depression, conscription, religion, catholic, french canadian
Place: quebec, canada
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41%
Rescuers: Stories of Courage: Two Women (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: The film is divided into two segments, both set in Europe during WWII.
Plot: world war, fake relationship, wartime life, world war two, wrestler
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Gruber's Journey (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary, Romania
Duration: 100 min.
Story: On 22 June 1941, Germany and Romania attack Soviet Russia. Several days later, Curzio Malaparte, the Italian writer who would one day pen the novel « Kaputt », a war correspondent for « Corriere de la Sera », arrives in Iasi, in the north of ...
Plot: world war two, holocaust, anti semitism, war correspondent, mass murder
Place: romania
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40%
A Monkey in Winter (1962)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: The story of a man who has stopped drinking- and then dreaming- and who thanks to a young man who tries to forget a lost love in alcohol will turn drunk again during an exciting night.
Style: humorous, feel good, realistic, semi serious, light ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: couples, alcohol abuse, drinking, buddies, friendship, partner, small town life, alcoholic, post war, world war two, drinking alcohol, drug addiction ...
Time: 20th century, 50s, 1950s
Place: france, europe, english channel, normandy
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
The Soldier and the Elephant (1978)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 79 min.
Story: Soldier Armenak is given an extraordinary task: to transport an elephant from Germany to the Yerevan Zoo.
Plot: world war two, soldier, zoo, elephant, yerevan
Time: 1940s
Place: soviet union, armenia, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
The Violin Player (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Germany, Belgium
Duration: 94 min.
Story: This European drama, set in Paris, follows a brilliant musician as he suddenly forsakes his career, to live and love amongst the common populace. Armand is the violinist who yearns to experience that life and to share his music with everyone, not ...
Plot: violinist, musician, violin, subway, world, paris metro
Place: paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Nailcruncher (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Adapation of the fanciful comic novel by Albert Cohen.
Plot: immigrant, eccentricity, weirdo, diplomat, ambassador, treasure
Time: 1930s
Place: geneva switzerland, greece, palestine, marseille
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Strange Gardens (2003)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Lucien, 14, can’t understand why his father, a serious and respected teacher, makes a fool of himself by dressing up as a clown and giving a show. André, Lucien’s father’s best friend, feels for the teenager and decides to reveal something ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, captivating, tense
Plot: occupied france, world war two, french resistance, german occupation, nazi occupation, sabotage, resistance fighter, occupation, fighting the system, resistance, fight, war ...
Time: 1940s, year 2003
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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 ⇓
37%
Dad Is Gone, Mom Also (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A coming-of-age film: When Laurette's parents disappear following a row, Laurette assumes responsibility for the family. The initial fiesta of children alone gives way to abandonment and the pressures of responsibility.
Plot: children, bare chested male, parents, female nudity, pregnancy, coming of age, brother sister relationship, teenager, divorce, pregnant girl, female full frontal nudity
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36%
Now Where Did the Seventh Company Get to? (1973)
Genre: Action, Comedy, War
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story: 1940: During the chaotic running fights of the French army the 7th company disappears - nobody knows they've been taken captive. Only their scouting patrol, three witty but lazy guys, can escape and now wanders around behind the German lines. ...
Style: fun
Plot: world war two, pow, wehrmacht, french soldier, german occupation, french military, disguise, uniform, tow truck
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36%
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The Lifeguard (1979)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Marie, the charming daughter of Italian immigrants, has a dream : to become rich. In Roubaix, where she lives, she meets and marries small-time crooner Marcel Potier. Together they leave for the South of France where they live happily but poorly. ...
Plot: swimming, teacher, death, marathon, wealth, greed, woman in a wheelchair, last wish, man in a wheelchair, woman
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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The Very Private Life of Mister Sim (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: François Sim considers himself worthless and he may have good reasons for that. Hasn't he lost his job as well as his wife Caroline? Isn't he unable to relate to Lucy, his teenage daughter? Didn't he, when he was eighteen miss out on ...
Style: psychological, captivating, unusual plot structure, light, contemplative ...
Plot: divorced man, dentist, ex wife, father daughter relationship, depression, salesman, new job, parents and children, family relations, road trip, job, life is a bitch ...
Time: year 2015, 21st century
Place: france
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36%
Situation Hopeless... But Not Serious (1965)
Genre: Comedy, War
Country: USA, West Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A lonely German clerk captures two American flyers and keeps them as prisoners in his basement long after WWII has ended. Director Gottfried Reinhardt's 1965 comedy stars Alec Guinness, Robert Redford and Michael Connors.
Style: retro, sad, independent film
Plot: world war two, captive, pow, new world, pilot, alternate reality, past
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35%
The Elusive Corporal (1962)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The story serves as a companion piece to Renoir's 1937 film, Grand Illusion, once more bringing together men from across the broad social spectrum of French society to depict one man's Sisyphean efforts to escape captivity in a German POW ...
Style: contemplative, realistic, semi serious, humorous
Plot: world war two, explosions, prisoner, partner, escape, prison, military life, danger, nothing goes right, buddies, soldier, military ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: paris france, france, europe
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35%
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Theatre (1978)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 136 min.
Story: Human attempts to understand why when acting they are all going through the heart, but in real life are playing a role.
Plot: theater, actor, love, actress
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34%
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The Confession (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Under the German occupation, in a small French town, the arrival of a new priest arouses the interest of all women... Barny, a young communist and atheist woman, can not however be more indifferent. Driven by curiosity, the young skeptic went to the ...
Style: spiritual, psychological, disturbing, captivating
Plot: faith, belief in god, religious faith, religion, atheist, confession, nazi occupation, moral transformation, life is a bitch, character change, priest, friendship ...
Time: year 2016, 1940s
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Little Alexander (1981)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union, East Germany
Duration: 98 min.
Story: May of 1945. Soviet soldiers conducting an operation to rescue the children in a small town in the territory of Germany.
Audience: kids
Plot: world war two, death, poverty, concentration camp, hunger, post war
Time: 1940s
Place: germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Erfolg (1991)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 265 min.
Story: For fans of history, this glimpse of Munich society in the 1920s will be a much-treasured event. The story revolves around an art-gallery manager who puts on a show featuring the scandalous works of a woman artist who committed suicide. He is ...
Plot: world war two, woman, artist, intrigue, smoking, politics, bourgeoisie, female nudity, greed, talking after sex, barefoot woman
Time: 1920s
Place: munich germany
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31%
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