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The Bridge (1969)
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Original name: Most
Genre: Action, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
In order to check the German offensive, Partizans send an elite team of explosive experts to blow up a strategically important bridge. Besides being heavily guarded, that bridge is almost indestructible and the only man who knows weak spots in the construction is the architect who built it. He is, however, reluctant to cooperate because he doesn't want to see his masterpiece destroyed.
Plot:
world war two, partisan, mountain, engineer, sea, tank, fight, nazi, truck, water, death, murder, nun, battles, church, traitor, river, swamp, blood, mission, occupation, commando, machine gun, bell, explosives expert ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
former yugoslavia, yugoslavia
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Most similar movies to The Bridge
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out epic, crying, black and white and patriotic films with plots about world war two, partisan, death, nazi, murder, mountain and machine gun mostly in War, Drama and Action genres. Some movies like The Bridge: The Peaks of Zelengore (1976), Walter Defends Sarajevo (1972), Red Blow (1974), Low Tide (1969), Tactical Guerilla (1974). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
During the Battle of Sutjeska, partisan troops must endure 24 hours of big and heavy attacks on German units Ljubino grave, to the main Partisan units, with the wounded and the Supreme Headquarters, pulled out the ring that is tightened around them.
Style:
epic
Plot:
world war two, madness, brutality, burned alive, enemy, woman, weapons, battles, soldier, violence, blinded, pistol ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1943
Place:
former yugoslavia, bosnia herzegovina
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
Valter brani Sarajevo (English: Walter Defends Sarajevo, German: Walter verteidigt Sarajewo) is a Yugoslav partisan drama film that takes place during World War. Walter Defends Sarajevo takes place in Sarajevo, Bosnia against the German withdrawal ...
Plot:
world war two, partisan, feeling, train, machine gun, police, disguise, trap, secret base, mountain, fight, traitor ...
Place:
bosnia, balkan, bosnia herzegovina, sarajevo
Similarity:
48%
113
Genre: War, Action
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
At the beginning of the war the Germans come to the mine Trepca in Kosovo and occupy it. Communist Party and the workers do not agree with that and under constant repression, beginning small diversions, which will be transferred in the conquest and ...
Style:
tense, historical drama, suspenseful
Audience:
adult
Plot:
world war two, partisan, sabotage, mine, occupation, anti fascist, liberation, repression, solidarity, underground movement, class struggle, communist party ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
former yugoslavia, kosovo
Similarity:
46%
Genre: War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A remote village in Serbia in 1941. Through the fate of rural residents and the destiny of a partisan detachment reflected is the horror and absurdity of war in Serbia during World War II. On one hand, ordinary people and partisans; the Germans and ...
Style:
epic
Plot:
partisan, world war two, slaughter, woods, communist, night, winter, river, tragic event, tank, nazi, chaos ...
Time:
year 1941, year 1944
Place:
former yugoslavia, serbia
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance, War
Country: Yugoslavia, USA, Liechtenstein
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Yugoslav partisans battle Nazi invaders in a series of bloody confrontations which eventually culminate in the Battle at Hell River.
Plot:
world war two, partisan, world war, military, mass murder, mountain, traitor, skiing, brother, hanging, wound, factory ...
Time:
year 1941
Place:
former yugoslavia, serbia
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
An American commando officer, in search of his father's killers, becomes part of a plot to capture a trainload of gold bullion destined to finance the Nazi cause. What begins as mission impossible explodes into a battle to rock the Balkans.
Plot:
world war two, town, nudity, quarrel, van, map, train, girl, drunkenness, machine gun, combat, nazi ...
Place:
former yugoslavia
Similarity:
35%
Genre: War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Two partisans, a man and a woman, try to escape a Nazi manhunt in the infernal landscape of WW2 Vojvodina.
Style:
epic
Plot:
partisan, world war two, persecution, battles, hiding place, hunting, massacre, fear, escape, murder, machine gun, death ...
Time:
year 1941
Similarity:
35%
186
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
August 1943, Europe. The tentacles of the German octopus have begun to recoil. As the Nazis retreat, their concern focuses on the supply of oil from the refineries of Romania. Without the flow of "black gold", Germany's doom is ...
Style:
tension, period piece, historical drama, action packed, suspense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
world war two, partisan, battles, military, nazi germany, resistance, resistance movement, sabotage, commando mission, sacrifice, occupation, explosions ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
former yugoslavia, eastern europe, romania
Similarity:
35%
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
In this episodic WW II drama, a Yugoslavian youth attempts to escape from German soldiers. In the first scene, he stands amongst a group of refugees waiting for a train. One man, with no identification papers is accused of a petty crime and the ...
Style:
black and white
Plot:
partisan, world war two, black, death, fugitive, revolutionary, nazi, false accusation, wound, execution, cemetery, fight ...
Place:
serbia, balkan, eastern europe, former yugoslavia
Similarity:
34%
Genre: War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
The film tells the story of the Battle of Sutjeska which occurred in Nazi-occupied Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1943.
Style:
mythical, crying, epic
Plot:
world war two, partisan, child, murder, nazi soldier, wound, mountain, parachutist, revolutionary war, rock climbing, balkan war, military ...
Time:
1940s, year 1943
Place:
former yugoslavia, bosnia herzegovina, bosnia
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
The first Yugoslav Partisan air force unit. Loosely based on historical facts.
Style:
epic
Plot:
world war two, world war, aviation, luftwaffe, combat, mountain, partisan, air battle, woman, weapons, battles, army ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1942
Place:
former yugoslavia
Similarity:
33%
Genre: War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
At the end of the year 1942 and the start of 1943, to stop spreading the revolution in county of Bitola, bulgarian occupiers are reinforcing the persecutions and the acts of violence on civil population. The movie is based on true events,
Style:
crying, epic, iconic
Plot:
world war two, partisan, mountain, reprisal, fear, death, girl, blood, boy, police, innocence, teacher ...
Time:
year 1944, year 1942
Place:
former yugoslavia, macedonia
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
The Germans held the strategically important airport, where planes were taking off to bombard partisans positions. Headquarters of one a partisan unit sent a few commandos to blow up airplanes and airport in the air.
Style:
tension, suspenseful, tense, period piece, realistic ...
Plot:
world war two, partisan, sabotage, resistance, covert operation, espionage, commando raid, guerilla warfare, sacrifice, loyalty, heroism, weapons ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
eastern europe, czechoslovakia, former yugoslavia
Similarity:
29%
Genre: War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
German forces in Yugoslavia set out to destroy the stronghold of Tito with a traitor's help, but are overcome by Partisan resistance.
Style:
epic
Plot:
partisan, world war two, mountain, world war, legend, tank, letter, paratrooper, cinema, commander, tragic event, raid ...
Place:
former yugoslavia, bosnia
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A story of a boy, forced to grow mature before his time and to die too early because of the cruel war circumstances. This film is dedicated to all the children who have died during the National Liberation War.
Style:
crying
Plot:
world war two, partisan, soldier, children, battles, commander, child with gun, reprisal, combat, boy, machine gun, dog ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
former yugoslavia, bosnia
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
This WW2 epic was one of the last movies of that kind made in former Yugoslavia. It tells the true story of great transport of Partizans from Vojvodina to Bosnia in 1943.
Style:
tense, realistic, patriotic, melancholic, grim ...
Plot:
world war two, partisan, historical epic, convoy, resistance movement, evacuation, guerilla warfare, tragedy, heroism, sacrifice, resilience, woods ...
Place:
former yugoslavia, bosnia, eastern europe
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
In the conflict with the enemy in one battle lost in advance, the risk to die in vain, partisan Mitko Angelov, fleeing from the battlefield. He climbs onto the train and goes to see his mother, who has just returned from internment. When he returned ...
Plot:
world war two, partisan, murder, prison, train, horse, basement, machine gun, death, patrol, deserter, river ...
Place:
macedonia, former yugoslavia
Similarity:
28%
Genre: War, Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Immediately after the war, OZNA insert an outstanding intelligence agent to catch the General Draza Mihajlovic.
Style:
epic
Plot:
world war two, trap, partisan, drinking, wedding, spy, girl, secret, fear, murder, blood, machine gun ...
Time:
year 1945
Place:
former yugoslavia, bosnia, serbia
Similarity:
27%
Genre: War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Live-action adaptation of the popular Yugoslav comic book about two young Partisan couriers in World War II.
Style:
crying, epic
Plot:
world war two, partisan, superhero, commander, heroes, reprisal, fear, death, murder, innocence, dog, machine gun ...
Time:
year 1941
Place:
former yugoslavia, serbia
Similarity:
27%
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, execution, tank, mass murder, traitor, river, village, nazi, surprise ...
Time:
year 1941
Place:
serbia
Similarity:
26%
268
Genre: War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
The leftover disbanded partisan battalion draws Chetniks' attention, who push their plans of attacking the partisan headquarters aside and start hunting them instead.
Style:
black and white, epic
Plot:
partisan, world war two, pregnant girl, manhunt, escape, gunfight, soldier, killing, battles, truck, mountain, italian soldier ...
Place:
balkan, former yugoslavia, serbia
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia, Soviet Union
Duration: 91 min.
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.
Plot:
partisan, world war two, wedding, shooting, execution, struggle, fascist, tank, murder, nazi, river, fear ...
Time:
year 1943
Place:
former yugoslavia, montenegro
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
An American pilot escapes from a POW camp and links up with Yugoslav partisans. He’s about to head back to Allied lines when he learns that the Partisans are plotting to assassinate the camp commander. He joins in the plot, aiming for revenge.
Plot:
world war two, partisan, world war, bomb, pow, colonel, timebomb, hunting, fight, underground, night, assassination ...
Place:
former yugoslavia
Similarity:
26%
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
An ex-servant becomes a lonely Shepard, killer hidden in the mountain woods during wartime. Under disguise of a black marketeer, a woman from the town maintains steady connection between the town and mountain, and organizes a resistance movement. ...
Style:
black and white, epic
Plot:
world war two, mountain, partisan, black, resistance, forest, outlaw, insane, insanity, woods, slaughter, town ...
Time:
year 1941
Place:
serbia
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Romance, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Autumn, 1941. Tito's partisans are ordered to attack a railway network system used by the Germans, their Bulgarian allies and local collaborators. A bloody battle ensues.
Plot:
world war two, partisan, battles, massacre, madness, commissioner, weapons, combat, reprisal, woman, insanity, prison escape ...
Time:
1940s, year 1941, 20th century
Place:
former yugoslavia, serbia
Similarity:
25%
119
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
A story of a farmer and his calf, the only survivors of the German WW2 punitive expeditions that passed through their village. While evading before the dangers of war, the farmer develops a deep attachment to his calf and tries to save it at all ...
Style:
black and white
Plot:
world war two, partisan, farmer, calf, fate, hiding place, reprisal, ss, hell, cow, cattle, army ...
Time:
year 1943
Place:
serbia, former yugoslavia
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Silent Gunpowder (Serbo-Croatian: Gluvi barut) is a Yugoslavian war film Based on a novel by Branko Ćopić and set during World War II, the film tells the story of a Serbian village in the mountains of Bosnia and its villagers who found themselves ...
Style:
silent
Plot:
world war two, partisan, mountain, communism, civil war, ideology, mountain village, fire, priest, death, fear, drowning ...
Place:
bosnia herzegovina, bosnia, former yugoslavia
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Two best friends, former Partisans, must face new challenges after the war.
Style:
tension, suspense, political, period piece
Plot:
world war two, partisan, mission, resistance, sabotage, post war, danger, dangerous mission, friendship, brotherhood, bravery, loyalty ...
Time:
post world war two
Place:
former yugoslavia
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Comedy, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A tragicomic tale of lumberjack who joined the partisans during WW2. As a corporal, he successfully and courageously fulfilled the combat tasks with his partisan battalion. The commander sends him on a special assignment.
Style:
dark
Plot:
world war two, partisan, mountain, barber, town, woods, assignment, death, machine gun, fear, friend, murder ...
Place:
former yugoslavia, bosnia
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Action, War
Country: Italy, Spain, West Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A British Colonel is angry with his superiors after his entire platoon is slaughtered by the Germans in what he saw as a suicide mission. So for his next mission, he takes along a platoon a convicted criminals - to prepare the Normandy beaches for ...
Style:
exciting, macaroni combat, realistic, serious, captivating ...
Plot:
world war two, combat, world war, revenge, resistance, submarine, train, disguise, collaborator, commando, soldier, military ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 60s
Place:
normandy, france
Similarity:
24%
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