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The Hell with Heroes (1968)
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The Hell with Heroes (1968)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: In 1946 North Africa, two former US Air Force pilots are forced to work for an international smuggler to get money needed for their return to civilian life after fighting in World War II.
Plot: world war two, world war, pilot, prospector, money, murder, mistress, u.s. army, smuggler, post war, veteran, ambition, partnership, world war two veteran, profit, narcotics, drugs
Time: 1940s, year 1946
Place: africa, algeria

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Most similar movies to The Hell with Heroes

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, contemplative and touching films with plots about world war two, world war, nazi, family relations, post war, veteran and society mostly in Drama, War and Action genres. Some movies like The Hell with Heroes: Hidden in Silence (1996), Last Man Club (2016), Sour Grape (1974), Death Race (1973), From Here to Eternity (1979). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Secret War of Jackie's Girls (1980)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: An improbable story, but entertaining, of five American women pilots recruited in to the British RAF before the USA joined the war to fly a new top secret aircraft, which turns out to be helicopters, with a Hollywood mansion standing in for a ...
Plot: world war two, world war, helicopter, aviator, pilot, secret mission
Place: england
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95%
Hidden in Silence (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Poland 1939, shortly before invasion of the German troops. To save their belongings from the Nazis, the Jewish family Diamant transfers them to their 17-year-old catholic maid Fusia. In return Fusia provides them with food until the ghetto is ...
Plot: world war two, nazi, holocaust, catholic, world war one, christian, world war, rat, teenager, christmas eve, house, attic ...
Time: 1940s
Place: poland
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94%
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Last Man Club (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A WW2 veteran destined for life in a retirement home escapes his difficult family situation and embarks on a cross country adventure to find the last remaining members of his B-17 bomber crew with the help of a beautiful accomplice.
Style: tense, disturbing, captivating, psychological, suspense
Plot: friendship, veteran, young woman, elderly man, woman in danger, escapades, old friends reunited, world war two veteran, runaway, elderly, friends, reunited friends ...
Time: 1940s
Place: texas
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89%
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Sour Grape (1974)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 76 min.
Story: Two years after receiving news of his father’s death in WWII a young boy continues to wait for trains from the front. The boy lives with his crippled uncle rather than with his mother, who has remarried and has another child. Then one day the ...
Plot: world war two, father son relationship, soldier
Time: 1940s
Place: armenia
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
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Death Race (1973)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In the North African desert in World War II, a crippled American fighter plane that is unable to take off tries to evade and destroy a pursuing Nazi tank.
Plot: world war two, dystopia, world war, war, pursuit, desert, plane crash, stranded in the desert, airplane, pilot, minefield, tank ...
Place: africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
From Here to Eternity (1979)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 360 min.
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Story: Soapy look at events of Pearl Harbor just previous to the Japanese attack.
Plot: world war two, world war, military base, wartime, love, us military, cheating, boxing, military
Time: 1940s
Place: hawaii, pearl harbor
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84%
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Class of '44 (1973)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Sequel to "Summer of '42" reunites Hermie, Oscy and Benjie as they graduate from high school. Benjie departs shortly to war while Hermie and Oscy go on to college and experience fraternity hazings, cheating on exams, sex scandals and ...
Plot: coming of age, college, world war two, fraternity, campus, generation, autobiography, streetcar
Time: 1940s, year 1944
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83%
The Hasty Heart (1983)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 144 min.
Story: In Burma on the penultimate day of World War II, Cameron Highlander Lachlan 'Lachie' MacLachlan is seriously wounded and transported to a local military hospital. He seems to have recovered from his wounds but appearances can be deceiving. ...
Plot: world war, world war two, wartime, love, scotsman, nurse, soldier, patient, birthday party, military hospital, terminal illness, kilt ...
Place: burma
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
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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
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79%
The Subject Was Roses (1968)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: When Timmy Cleary (Sheen), comes home from soldiering, he's greeted by the open but strained arms of his two parents, John and Nettie, (Neal and Albertson). Once considered sickly and weak, he has now distinguished himself in the service and is ...
Plot: world war two, veteran, regret, world war, marriage, dysfunctional family, world war two veteran, conversation, poverty, abusive father, coming of age, unfaithful husband ...
Place: bronx new york city, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
Georg (1964)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 55 min.
Story: Essay film about a man coping with the aftermath of World War II.
Style: fake documentary
Plot: direct cinema, rural setting, family relations, world war two, brother brother relationship, found footage, childbirth, german army, veteran, u.s. army, pregnancy, missile
Place: illinois
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78%
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Plenty (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: David Hare's account of a one-time French freedom fighter who gradually realizes that her post-war life is not meeting her expectations.
Style: independent film, contemplative, tense, thought provoking, psychological ...
Plot: world war two, french resistance, memory, mental illness, world war, rock, women, parachute, one night stand, love and romance, hopes, introspection ...
Time: 1940s, 1950s, year 1985, post world war two, 20th century ...
Place: england, france, europe, london
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78%
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A Time To Die (1982)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A World War II vet sets out in 1948 to avenge the death of his wife at the hands of Nazis. His targets are four Germans, a Sicilian, and a Hungarian who committed the atrocities. He is aided by a CIA operative, who has another agenda. One of the ...
Style: independent film, eighties
Plot: revenge, world war, vigilante, spy, manhunt, terror, war crime, nazi, war criminal, past, torture, world war two ...
Time: year 1982, post world war two
Place: europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
The Law and the Fist (1964)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 90 min.
Story: At the end of World War Two, Polish people move to the western lands vacated by Germans. But some ruthless profiteers pose as government representatives and intend to make off with loot from a deserted town they took over. One honest man stands up ...
Plot: shooting, post war, ghost town, murder, death, violence, drinking, train, world war two, death by gunshot, gun
Time: 1940s, year 1945
Place: poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
From the Clouds to the Resistance (1979)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, West Germany, UK, France
Duration: 104 min.
Story: 'Dalla nube alla resistenza (From the Cloud to the Resistance ) (1978), based on two works by Cesare Pavese, falls into the category of History Lessons and Too Early, Too Late as well. It, too, has two parts—a twentieth-century text and a ...
Style: experimental
Plot: world war two, italian history, resistance, myth, greek mythology, post war, class struggle, mythology
Time: 1940s
Place: ancient greece, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
The Wizard of Loneliness (1988)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A family drama.
Style: independent film
Plot: world war two, magic, youth, grief, psychiatric patient, escapee, family secret, generation gap, war veteran, uncle, grandmother, aunt ...
Time: 1940s
Place: vermont
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
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 ⇓
70%
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The Execution (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The members of a San Diego Wednesday night womens' mah jongg club are five survivors of a Nazi concentration camp. They recognize the owner of a local restaurant, Walter Grossman, as a doctor from the camp who performed experiments on them as ...
Style: surprise ending
Plot: rape, homicide, doctor, secret, world war two, revenge, murder, lawyer, torture, rape and revenge, execution, concentration camp ...
Time: post world war two, 1940s
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
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Out of the Ashes (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: The real-life story of Gisella Perl, a Jewish Hungarian doctor imprisoned in the notorious Auschwitz death camp of World War II.
Style: realistic, serious, touching, contemplative, captivating ...
Plot: holocaust, concentration camp, wartime life, holocaust survivor, world war two, auschwitz, human spirit, anti semitism, life is a bitch, starting over, danger, moral dilemma ...
Time: 1940s
Place: hungary, europe, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
An American Story (1992)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: World War II has ended and many soldiers return to their houses and families. But three of them find themselves with big problems when they arrive at their home village.
Style: contemplative, bleak, disturbing, gloomy, thought provoking ...
Plot: battles, world war two, politics, soldier, friends, cons and scams, political corruption, homecoming, friendship, military, state affairs, innocence lost ...
Time: 1940s
Place: usa, texas
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69%
Red Dirt Rising (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Based on a true story, this film shares with us a decade in the lives of Jimmie Lewallen and his wife Carrie as they experience the joys of love and marriage alongside the tragedies of war and poverty (1939-1949).
Plot: classic car, auto racing, world war two, nascar, racing, car racing, moonshine
Time: 1930s, 1940s
Place: north carolina
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
The Long Island Four (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Based on the true story of four Nazi saboteurs who infiltrated the US in 1942 and were quickly caught and executed, this 80-minute ode to America's irresistibly corruptive allure was the only underground feature by writer-director Anders ...
Style: avant garde
Plot: mission, underground, nazi, decadence, raft, saboteur, capture, death, world war two, radio, nightlife, champagne
Time: 1940s
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
The Battle of the Last Panzer (1969)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 91 min.
Story: The film looks through the eyes of the German offense during World War II, specifically a German tank crew who, after losing a battle, struggle to get home.
Style: macaroni combat
Plot: world war two, tank, revolutionary war, world war, war, freedom, revolution, revolutionary, struggle, u.s. army, german soldier, bombing ...
Time: 1940s
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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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 ⇓
62%
The Artist and the Model (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: The story of a famous old sculptor, weary of life and the folly of men, who finds, thanks to the arrival of a Spanish girl escaped from a refugee camp, the desire to return to work and sculpt your final work in occupied France in 1943. Model and ...
Style: atmospheric, light, touching, melancholic, visually appealing ...
Plot: art, female nudity, artist, painter, model, muse, world war two, sculptor, inspiration, sculpture, young girl, painting ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1943
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
Islands in the Stream (1977)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: An isolated sculptor is visited by his three sons just before the start of WWII.
Style: realistic, serious
Plot: world war two, sculptor, world war, father son relationship, fishing, art, hidden treasure, estranged father, fishing boat, island, sibling relationship, bittersweet ...
Time: 1940s, 1930s
Place: bahamas
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
Dog Nail Clipper (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Bright young soldier Mertsi suffers a permanent brain injury in the Second World War. In the late 1940s he wanders around the Finnish countryside looking for simple work and relying on other people's help. A workmate, Ville, tells him about his ...
Style: melancholic, sincere, thought provoking, touching
Plot: dog, human animal relationship, nature, post war, war injury, lumberjack, life is a bitch, life philosophy, post traumatic stress disorder, winter, russo finnish war, mental disorder ...
Time: 1940s, post world war two
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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 ⇓
57%
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Decoration Day (1990)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A cantankerous widower (Garner) who is virtually living the life of a recluse is forced to rejoin his community when his Godchild (Skaggs) gets in trouble and a childhood friend (Cobbs), a black tenant farmer, refuses to belatedly accept a ...
Style: touching, sentimental, emotional, sincere, captivating ...
Plot: world war two, world war, friendship, family relations, couples, friends, interracial relations, society, human nature, hopes, opposites attract, introspection ...
Place: georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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