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Heartbeat Detector (2007)
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Heartbeat Detector (2007)
Original name: La Question humaine
Genre: Drama, History, Music, War
Country: France
Duration: 143 min.
Story: A psychologist discovers troubling links between Nazism and modern-day big business.
Style: psychological, tense, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surreal, gloomy
Plot: nazism, workplace situations, murder, workplace intrigue, haunted by the past, workplace, psychoanalysis, corporation, gambling, holocaust, memory, trauma, world war two, legal, factory, chaos and mayhem, psychologist, singer, fascism, elevator, office worker, capitalism, classical music, drunkenness, shoah ...
Time: year 2007
Place: france, paris france, europe, maine

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, bleak and captivating films with plots about world war two, holocaust, against humanity, war, nazi, wartime life and murder mostly in Drama, War and History genres. Some movies like Heartbeat Detector: Early One Morning (2011), The Colonel (2006), Sarah's Key (2010), Despair (1978), A Secret (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Early One Morning (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Monday morning. Paul Wertret, 50, heads off to his job as a manager at the International Credit and Trade Bank. He arrives at 8 o'clock on the dot, as usual. He enters a meeting room, takes out a gun and kills two of his bosses. Then he locks ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, serious, sincere, non-linear ...
Plot: losing-it hero, introspection, unlikely criminals, workplace, rivalry, road not taken, workplace situations, boss and employee, murder, suicide, business, violence spree ...
Time: 80s, 90s, 21st century
Place: europe, france
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The Colonel (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama, History, War
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A "Reformed Colonel" is found dead in Paris, a couple of decades after Algeria's struggle for independence was won from France. Lieutenant Galois is assigned the investigation of this murder. She receives the diary of Lieutenent Guy ...
Style: realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful, captivating
Plot: military, algerian war, torture, murder, investigation, military life, state affairs, uncover truth, love affair, brutality, war, soldier ...
Time: 90s, 50s
Place: algeria, paris france, france
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Sarah's Key (2010)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 111 min.
Story: On the night of 16 July 1942, ten year old Sarah and her parents are being arrested and transported to the Velodrome d'Hiver in Paris where thousands of other jews are being send to get deported. Sarah however managed to lock her little brother ...
Style: emotional, captivating, disturbing, serious, powerful ...
Plot: holocaust, nazism, jewish family, secret past, separation from family, investigation, journalism, family secret, haunted by the past, introspection, confined, against humanity ...
Time: year 1942, 20th century, 1940s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: paris france, manhattan new york city, france, new york, middle east ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
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Despair (1978)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: West Germany, France
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Germany in the early 1930s. Against the backdrop of the Nazis' rise, Hermann Hermann, a Russian émigré and chocolate magnate, goes slowly mad. It begins with his seating himself in a chair to observe himself making love to his wife, Lydia, a ...
Style: art house, psychedelic, surreal, neo noir, mind bending ...
Plot: doppelganger, world war two, nazism, chocolate, interwar period, anti fascism, refugee, capitalism, obsession, murder, madness, nazi ...
Time: 1930s, year 1978
Place: germany, berlin germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
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A Secret (2007)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: In 1953, a sensitive French boy finds out from a neighbor that his family's Jewish. François Grimbert becomes a physician, and gradually peels the layers of his buried family history which resulted in his difficult upbringing, raised as ...
Style: serious, realistic, exciting, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot: world war two, missing person, holocaust, wartime life, occupation, against humanity, haunted by the past, family disapproval, boy, mafia, war, youth ...
Time: 20th century, post world war two, 1940s, 50s
Place: europe, israel, paris france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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Nina's House (2005)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: France
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Starting in 1944 in the wake of the Liberation and continuing into the '60s, 'houses of hope' were established to lend a semblance of continuity to youngsters orpahaned by the war. Nina's Home takes place between September 1944 ...
Style: uplifting, serious, captivating, touching, emotional ...
Plot: adoption, survival, holocaust, confined, society, danger, against humanity, family relations, anti semitism, frame up, war, religions or cults ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: paris france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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The Round Up (2010)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: France, Germany, Hungary
Duration: 115 min.
Story: 1942. Joseph is eleven. And this June morning, he must go to school, a yellow star sown on his chest. He receives the support of a goods dealer. The mockery of a baker. Between kindness and contempt, Jo, his Jewish friends, their families, learn of ...
Style: emotional, disturbing, thought provoking, bleak, realistic ...
Plot: holocaust, concentration camp, nazism, german occupation, holocaust survivor, world war two, nazi, world war, against humanity, injustice, genocide, nazi concentration camp ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, year 2009, post world war two, year 1942
Place: france, vichy, paris france, middle east, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
Monsieur Batignole (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In 1942, in an occupied Paris, the apolitical grocer Edmond Batignole lives with his wife and daughter in a small apartment in the building of his grocery. When his future son-in-law and collaborator of the German Pierre-Jean Lamour calls the Nazis ...
Style: realistic, serious, tense, captivating, exciting
Plot: holocaust, world war two, nazism, child, wartime life, soldier, anti semitism, against humanity, life is a bitch, confined, society, resistance ...
Time: 1940s, year 2002, year 1942
Place: france, paris france, switzerland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
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Army of Crime (2009)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: France
Duration: 139 min.
Story: This gripping historical drama recounts the story of Armenian-born Missak Manouchian, a woodworker and political activist who led an immigrant laborer division of the Parisian Resistance on 30 operations against the Nazis in 1943. The Nazis branded ...
Style: rough, realistic, serious, disturbing, sincere ...
Plot: world war two, resistance, gestapo, nazi, ss officer, poet, rebelliousness, danger, war, life is a bitch, idealism, human spirit ...
Time: 1940s, year 2009, 20th century, year 1942
Place: paris france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
Escape from Sobibor (1987)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: UK
Duration: 143 min.
Story: During WWII, the death camp at Treblinka had an escape, causing the Commandant at a similar camp in Sobibor to vow (actually threaten) that his camp would never experience the same thing. But those who were its captives, the Jewish laborers that had ...
Style: tense, realistic, suspenseful, rough, serious ...
Plot: concentration camp, escape, world war two, holocaust, pow, against humanity, genocide, military, brutality, captivity, nazi, prison ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: poland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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Burnt Out (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: François Durrieux, a man in his forties, married to Clémence and father of Benjamin, has been employed for years by the firm DSBO. In order not to lose his job, he always submits to his boss's demands whether it means working after office ...
Style: tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic
Plot: workplace, fighting the system, parents and children, workplace situations, boss and employee, power relations, suffering, friendship, revolt, employee, middle aged man, rebellion ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
Special Section (1975)
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: France, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 118 min.
Story: In occupied France during the WWII, a German officer is murdered. The collaborationist Vichy government decides to pin the murder on six petty criminals. Loyal judges are called in to convict them as quickly as possible.
Style: political
Plot: politics, courtroom, lawyer, trial, death penalty, world war two, guillotine, french politics, assassination, murder, journalist, train ...
Time: 1940s, year 1941, year 1975
Place: paris france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
Blood from a Stone (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The day his bank refuses to finance him, Georges will do everything he can to save his shipyard and his employees.
Style: thought provoking, realistic, cynical, serious, captivating ...
Plot: bankruptcy, save the day, workplace, rivalry, factory, labor union, working class, society, boss and employee, workplace situations, employer, strike ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe, mediterranean sea, provence
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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Free Men (2011)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story: In Paris during WWII, an Algerian immigrant is inspired to join the resistance by his unexpected friendship with a Jewish man. Based on not very known facts about the Muslim community in Paris during WWII, when the Paris Mosque and its dynamic ...
Style: serious, realistic, sincere, touching
Plot: german occupation, world war two, resistance, friendship, human spirit, idealism, rebellion, moral dilemma, fighting the system, anti semitism, wartime life, life is a bitch ...
Time: 1940s, year 1942, year 1944, 20th century
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
She's One of Us (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: At the start, Christine Blanc is a temp, her boyfriend has gone. Near the story's end, she's been offered a steady job, she has a fiancé, other men seem interested in her, she's passed her driving test, and, after she wins 1000 Euros ...
Style: serious, realistic, psychological, captivating, contemplative ...
Plot: friendship, murder, workplace, police detective, investigation, workplace romance, couples, social misfits, love and romance, misfit, alone, businesswoman ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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The Assault (1986)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 141 min.
Story: At the end of WW II the Dutch resistance kills a German officer in front of the house of a Dutch family. Years after the war the young boy who witnessed the killing runs into the members of the resistance who committed the killing.
Style: cult classic, grindhouse, political, contemplative, gloomy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: world war two, coming of age, holocaust, world war, wartime life, fictional history, terrorism, nazi, cannon, dutch history, post war, gestapo ...
Time: 20th century, 50s, 80s, 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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Auschwitz (2011)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Canada, Germany
Duration: 73 min.
Story: Auschwitz is a hard-hitting war film which shows life as it really was at the death camp.
Style: disturbing, thought provoking, rough, realistic, bleak ...
Plot: nazi, holocaust, world war two, concentration camp, anti semitism, mass murder, against humanity, life is a bitch, society, genocide, gas chamber, exploitation ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: europe, poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
Fugitive Pieces (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, Greece
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A child escapes from Poland during World War II and first heads to Greece before coming of age in Canada.
Style: realistic, serious, emotional, bleak, exciting ...
Plot: holocaust, childhood trauma, haunted by the past, breakup, life is a bitch, fugitives, wartime life, survival, coming of age, war, boy, world war two ...
Time: year 2007
Place: canada, greece, europe, poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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Small World (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Conrad Lang, a handyman in a rich family - he has been raised like a brother with Thomas, who has the same age -, accidentally puts fire to the big holiday house he keeps. He returns to the town he grew up in, to the family home, where Philippe, ...
Style: psychological, realistic, serious, captivating, gloomy ...
Plot: mental illness, investigation, memory loss, haunted by the past, society, family relations, family life, flashback, power relations, amateur detective, social differences, dishonesty ...
Place: france, europe
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Gebo and the Shadow (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Portugal
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Despite his age and general weariness, Gebo keeps on working as an accountant to provide for his family. He lives with his wife, Doroteia, and his daughter-in-law, Sofia, but it is the absence of João, son and husband, that worries them.Gebo seems ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, suspense, bleak, realistic ...
Plot: poverty, honor, family relations, family problems, parents and children, society, thief, accountant, missing child
Time: 2010s, 19th century
Place: france, portugal
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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The Passerby (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story: During an interview, Max Baumstein (Piccoli), respected chairman of a humanitarian organisation, shoots the Paraguayan ambassador dead, in cold blood. Tried for first-degree murder, he explains himself: the ambassador was a former Nazi official, ...
Style: emotional, realistic, serious, disturbing, bleak ...
Plot: world war two, holocaust, revenge, cabaret, idealism, vengeance, state affairs, vigilantism, moral dilemma, heroes, life is a bitch, against humanity ...
Time: 80s, year 1982, 1930s, 1940s
Place: france, europe, berlin germany, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
The Butcher of Prague (2011)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia
Duration: 126 min.
Story: With the Nazi takeover of Europe underway, the Reich Protector Reinhard Heydrich arrives in Prague and his underlings begin enforcing his authority in the towns and villages across the occupied country. In Lidice, the film's main protagonist, ...
Style: realistic, disturbing, serious, emotional, bleak
Plot: nazi occupation, political repression, world war two, mass murder, holocaust, life is a bitch, heroic mission, wartime life, against humanity, social relations, haunted by the past, genocide ...
Time: 1940s, year 1942, 20th century
Place: czechoslovakia, prague, czech republic
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
One Day You'll Understand (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Germany, Israel
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A man endeavors to collect memories of his grandparents who died in a concentration camp during the Holocaust.
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, touching, contemplative ...
Plot: world war two, holocaust, war crime, haunted by the past, family relations, family life, death in the family, parents and children, against humanity, love and romance, society, trial ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: paris france, germany, middle east, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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Les Misérables (1995)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: France
Duration: 175 min.
Story: In France during World War II, a poor and illiterate man, Henri Fortin (Jean-Paul Belmondo), is introduced to Victor Hugo's classic novel Les Misérables and begins to see parallels between the book and his own life.
Style: epic, emotional, fairy tale, anthology, captivating ...
Plot: world war two, lawyer, redemption, destiny, revenge, rich and poor, christian, broadway, manhunt, nun, boxer, harassment ...
Place: france, paris france, normandy
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Massacre in Rome (1973)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: In the Nazi occupied city of Rome, an assault on an SS brigade draws retaliation from the military governship. "Massacre in Rome" is the true story of how this partisan attack led to the mass execution of Italian nationals under the orders ...
Style: contemplative, serious, realistic, thought provoking, captivating ...
Plot: world war two, world war, military, war, partisan, nazi occupation, holocaust, shoah, nazi, bureaucracy, fictional history, fascism ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: italy, rome italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
1939 Battle of Westerplatte (2013)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Poland, Lithuania
Duration: 118 min.
Story: This harrowing war film is an epic dramatization of the first battle of World War II. The Battle of Westerplatte that began on 1 September 1939 will forever be remembered as the one that announced the beginning of the Second World War in Europe. ...
Style: tense, realistic, serious, bleak, gloomy
Plot: world war two, soldier, military, danger, battles, against the odds, battle zone, heroic mission, beach, battleship, world war, holocaust ...
Time: 20th century, 1930s, year 1939
Place: poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Uranus (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History, War
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: After World War II, a small French village struggles to put the war behind as the controlling Communist Party tries to flush out Petain loyalists. The local bar owner, a simple man who likes to write poetry, who only wants to be left alone to do his ...
Style: anthology, clever, biting, psychological, realistic ...
Plot: world war two, planet, cold war, holocaust, uncover truth, life is a bitch, fighting the system, politics, society, war, dishonesty, idealism ...
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Is Paris Burning? (1966)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: France, USA
Duration: 175 min.
Story: The title is Adolf Hitler's question to his chief of staff Alfred Jodl on the eve of the liberation of Paris (August 25): the military governor of Paris, General Dietrich von Choltitz, had been ordered to destroy Paris rather than let it fall ...
Style: harsh, factual, tense, suspense, emotional ...
Plot: world war two, french resistance, resistance, holocaust, nazi, moral ambiguity, moral dilemma, totalitarianism, rescue, wartime life, against the odds, danger ...
Time: 1940s, year 1966, year 1944
Place: france, paris france, europe, warsaw poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Last Screening (2011)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Sylvain, a film-obsessed 31-year-old, lives in the basement of a small art-house theater where he works as a programmer, projectionist and cashier. Each night, after the last showing, he goes out for a murderous ritual.
Style: tense, suspenseful, psychological, captivating, scary ...
Plot: serial killer, obsession, danger, psychopath, theater, small town, murder, violence, mentally unstable, solitary, woman in danger, violent content ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Kedma (2002)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: France, Israel, Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In May 1948, shortly before the creation of the State of Israel, hundreds of immigrants from across Europe arrive in Palestine--only to risk arrest by British troops.
Style: realistic, serious, disturbing, sad, tense ...
Plot: military, immigrant, survival, tragic love, culture clash, life is a bitch, danger, society, against humanity, political unrest, hopes, wartime life ...
Time: 1940s, post world war two
Place: israel, middle east, palestine
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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