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Dawn of a Filmmaker: The Keisuke Kinoshita Story (2013)
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Dawn of a Filmmaker: The Keisuke Kinoshita Story (2013)
Original name: はじまりのみち
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Keisuke Kinoshita sits easily alongside Ozu, Kurosawa and Naruse as one of Japan’s most respected legends of cinema. Made to commemorate the centenary of Kinoshita’s birth, this biographical drama chronicles formative hardships and personal encounters to provide a rare glimpse into the life of one of Japan’s most acclaimed screen directors. Includes archival footage from 49 of the films he produced during his career at Shochiku.
Plot: world war two, movie business, biopic, courage, evacuation, air raid, sick mother, filmmaking, wheelbarrow, censorship, film making

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Hitler (1962)
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: The private life of Hitler revealed for the first time!
Style: independent film
Plot: world war two, nazi, hitler, intrigue, world war, myth, biopic, evil man
Time: 1930s, 1920s, 1940s
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Curtin (2007)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 93 min.
Story: 1941. A country in crisis. A new man in power. Leadership demands and personal demons are set to collide. The story of John Curtin as he faces his first six months as Prime Minister, confronting in quick succession, the tragedy of Pearl Harbour, the ...
Plot: world war two, biopic, train, politics, military, historical event, breaking the fourth wall, speech
Time: 1940s
Place: japan, australia
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Jew Suss: Rise and Fall (2010)
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: Germany, Austria
Duration: 114 min.
Story: This intricate historical drama tells the story of actor Ferdinand Marian (Tobias Moretti), who is ordered by Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels to star in the 1940 anti-Semitic film Jew Suss. Despite his cooperation, Ferdinand's actions have ...
Style: realistic, captivating, psychological, factual, sad ...
Plot: anti semitism, world war two, nazi germany, propaganda, actor's life, rise and fall, filmmaking, movie business, introspection, politics, showbiz, political unrest ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, 1930s
Place: austria, europe, berlin germany
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Edith Stein: The Seventh Chamber (1995)
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: Italy, Hungary
Duration: 108 min.
Story: An expressionist biography of Edith Stein, who converted from the Jewish faith to the Catholic one and became a Carmelite sister. She would die in a German concentration camp.
Style: intellectual, christian film
Plot: catholic, world war two, saint, wartime life, woman, christian, catholic saint, biopic, auschwitz, concentration camp, tragic event, religious conversion ...
Place: germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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The King's Choice (2016)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Ireland
Duration: 133 min.
Story: On 9 April 1940, German soldiers arrive in the city of Oslo. The King of Norway faces a choice that will change his country forever. The King's Choice is a story about the three most dramatic days in Norway's history, the royal ...
Style: exciting, suspenseful, suspense, tense, melancholic ...
Plot: world war two, royal family, invasion, evacuation, democracy, wehrmacht, german occupation, king, hitler, crown prince, young soldier, world war ...
Time: 1940s, year 1940
Place: germany, scandinavia, eastern europe, oslo norway
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The Outsider (1961)
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Arizona Indian Ira Hayes' (Tony Curtis) life is a tragedy after he joins the Marines and helps raise the flag at Iwo Jima.
Plot: world war two, spy, addiction, lonely, alcoholism, marines, pacific war, biopic, american indian, post traumatic stress disorder, american soldier, war hero ...
Time: year 1961, 20th century, year 1955, year 1945
Place: arizona
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59%
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Lucie Aubrac (1997)
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A love story or a tale of the resistance, this poignant movie tells both the haunting story of a French resistance cell in Lyon but also the love of Lucie Aubrac for her husband...
Style: emotional, realistic, serious
Plot: french resistance, world war two, occupied france, gestapo, love, resistance movement, french history, biopic, resistance, judaism, nazi, nudity ...
Time: 1940s, year 1997, 20th century
Place: france, lyon
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Sophia Loren: Her Own Story (1980)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story: Dramatization of the life of Italian actress Sophia Loren who plays herself during adulthood and also that of her mother Romilda Villani.
Plot: hollywood, biopic, glory, mother daughter relationship, world war two, father daughter relationship, extramarital affair, italian woman, air raid, poverty, actress, miscarriage ...
Place: rome italy, italy
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Churchill (2017)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A ticking-clock thriller following Winston Churchill in the 24 hours before D-Day.
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Plot: winston churchill, world war two, politician, prime minister, biopic, invasion, husband wife relationship, d day, courage, world war, war, risk ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 2017, year 1944
Place: england, normandy, britain, united kingdom
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50%
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Kalashnikov (2020)
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Tank commander Kalashnikov is severely injured in battle in 1941. The accident leaves him incapacitated and unable to return to the front. While recovering in the hospital he begins creating the initial sketches of what will become one of the ...
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Promise (2005)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Finland
Duration: 112 min.
Story: The film tells about members of Finnish women's Lotta Service during the Second World War through the eyes of three young women.
Style: patriotic
Plot: world war two, russo finnish war, gender, eastern front, veterinarian, letter, surveillance, bombing, loss of sister, loss of friend, air raid, wounded animal ...
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Too Young the Hero (1988)
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: WWII drama.
Style: captivating, serious, realistic
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And the Violins Stopped Playing (1988)
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: Poland, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: independent film
Plot: world war two, holocaust, world war, gypsy, nazi, nazi concentration camp, violin, romani people, genocide, racism
Place: poland
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Another Mother's Son (2017)
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Directed by Christopher Menaul ('Summer in February', 'Fatherland) and written by Jenny Lecoat, Another Mother's Son tells the true story of Louisa Gould, a widow living in Nazi occupied Jersey who takes in a Russian prisoner of ...
Style: captivating, suspense, costume drama, period drama
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Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 140 min.
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Hamsun (1996)
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
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Genre: Biography, Drama, War
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Plot: world war two, resistance, war hero, soldier, nazi, sibling relationship, german occupation, friends, dictatorship, dictator, war, danger ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 102 min.
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Elysium (1987)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Hungary
Duration: 118 min.
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Stalingrad (1990)
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Duration: 196 min.
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The Execution of Private Slovik (1974)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
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Hanna's War (1988)
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Time: 1940s, year 1943, 20th century
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Naked Rose (2013)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 70 min.
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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
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36%
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Squadron 303 (2018)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Poland, UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story: After the fall of the September Campaign of 1939, two Polish pilots are forced to fight for their nation in foreign battlefronts.
Style: sincere, exciting
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Place: poland, britain, europe
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