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We Were Young (1961)
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Original name: А бяхме млади
Genre: Drama
Country: Bulgaria
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
During Second World War a beautiful love between two young people burns out against the background of the Nazi reality.
Style:
bleak, intense, poignant, period piece, political drama
Plot:
world war two, torture, betrayal, occupation, sacrifice, resistance, nazi occupation, partisan, espionage, heroism, double agent, anti fascist, informant, martyrdom, underground movement, tragic romance, bomb, female protagonist, resilience, surveillance, coming of age, european, love, ballet, photographer ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
bulgaria
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Most similar movies to We Were Young
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out bleak, period piece, historical drama and tense films with plots about world war two, sacrifice, resistance, betrayal, survival, heroism and occupation mostly in Drama, War and Romance genres. Some movies like We Were Young: Front in the Rear of the Enemy (1982), Long Dark Night (2004), Dirty Hands (1989), I'm Alive and I Love You (1998), The Garden of Redemption (1997). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, East Germany
Duration: 161 min.
Story:
A final episode in the trilogy about the Russian partisan's resistance during WWII. The film is set in 1944, when Russian partisans are making progress in their fighting against the Nazi occupation of Russia, Poland and Czechoslovakia. Lt. ...
Style:
period piece, tense, suspenseful, patriotic
Plot:
world war two, eastern front, behind enemy lines, guerilla warfare, resistance, occupation, sabotage, underground movement, sacrifice, resilience, heroism, patriotism ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
soviet union, russia, czechoslovakia, poland, ussr
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Croatia
Duration: 200 min.
Story:
"Long Dark Night" follows the life of the fictional character Iva Kolar: his experiences as a Croatian University student, his role as a Partisan fighting Hitler's troops during W.W. II, his involvement in his nation's post-war ...
Style:
historical drama, bleak, period piece, grim, intense ...
Plot:
world war two, biopic, national identity, historical epic, university student, political intrigue, realism, occupation, fascism, tragedy, moral ambiguity, sacrifice ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
croatia, former yugoslavia
Similarity:
89%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
The film is divided into two segments, both set in Europe during WWII.
Style:
emotional, historical drama, tension, inspirational, bleak ...
Plot:
persecution, courage, holocaust, bravery, rescue, world war two, sacrifice, nazi occupation, resistance, european, occupation, world war ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
france, poland
Similarity:
86%
Genre: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 68 min.
Story:
A political drama set in the fictional country of Illyria between 1943 and 1945, the story is about the assassination of a leading politician. The country, an ally of Nazi Germany, is on the verge of being annexed to the Eastern Bloc. ...
Style:
intellectual, bleak, philosophical, suspenseful, tense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
assassination, political intrigue, moral ambiguity, ethical dilemma, power struggle, ambition, conspiracy, betrayal, character study, manipulation, adaptation, propaganda ...
Time:
1940s
Similarity:
83%
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 ...
Style:
poignant, historical drama, bleak, suspense, tension ...
Plot:
world war two, occupied france, courage, holocaust, nazi occupation, jewish family, deportation, rescue, loss, tragedy, sadness, diary ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
france
Similarity:
81%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A priest struggles with his religious beliefs as he sees his countrymen murdered in Nazi occupied Italy and as he becomes attracted to a woman operating in the resistance.
Style:
bleak, period piece, historical drama, tense, suspense ...
Plot:
world war two, nazi occupation, conscience, redemption, religious conflict, moral dilemma, guilt, sacrifice, forbidden love, church, political persecution, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
italy
Similarity:
77%
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union, Colombia
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
A man wants to flee wartime Germany and the detested Nazis to Columbia, where his brother lives. In order to achieve his goal he agrees to become an informer for the Reich.
Style:
historical drama, period piece, dark, bleak, tense ...
Plot:
world war two, betrayal, nazism, ethical dilemma, moral ambiguity, tragedy, guilt, survival, totalitarianism, collaboration, compromise, conscience ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
colombia
Similarity:
77%
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
An actress travels from Warsaw to Paris and during the trip reflects on the last few years of her life. It goes back to the German occupation and her hiding of a fellow actor who has supposedly killed a collaborator. He is weak and a bit cowardly, ...
Style:
reflective, bleak, melancholic, dramatic, road movie ...
Plot:
world war two, identity, theater, flashback, actress, nazi occupation, suicide, guilt, female protagonist, survival, moral ambiguity, tragedy ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
warsaw poland, paris france, poland, eastern europe
Similarity:
76%
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Destinies of two friends-fighters during WW2.
Style:
bleak, period piece, tense, atmospheric, melancholic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
world war two, sacrifice, friendship, occupation, resistance, partisan, survival, underground movement, loss, courage, fighter, duty ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
albania, kosovo, former yugoslavia
Similarity:
73%
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union, Italy
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A politically neutral man is arrested and tortured in prerevolutionary Lisbon, and forced to make, and act on, a political commitment. …
Style:
tense, tension, bleak, political thriller, suspense ...
Plot:
oppression, authoritarianism, resistance, fight for freedom, survival, military police, escape, hopes, love story, courage, idealism, underground movement ...
Place:
portugal, italy
Similarity:
73%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
An unassuming young lawyer leads a fight against the Nazis near the end of the Second World War.
Style:
bleak, tension, suspense, period drama
Plot:
world war two, nazi, european, occupation, courage, determination, heroism, sacrifice, loss, resistance, ethical dilemma, ruthlessness ...
Time:
1940s
Similarity:
71%
Genre: Drama
Country: Lithuania
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Radio Free Europe, BBC, and Voice of America can only rarely get through the Iron Curtain and Soviet mufflers to Lithuania, a country torn by a war between the local resistance movement and the Soviet regime that is forced onto Lithuanian people by ...
Style:
historical drama, captivating, suspense, psychological, bleak ...
Plot:
partisan, iron curtain, cold war, sacrifice, resistance movement, hopes, political oppression, post war, society, showdown, fight for supremacy, fighting the system ...
Time:
post world war two
Place:
lithuania
Similarity:
71%
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.
Style:
historical drama, tense, period piece, bleak, suspenseful ...
Plot:
world war two, resistance, nazi occupation, children, political oppression, loss of innocence, coming of age, courage, moral ambiguity, underground movement, tragedy, escalation ...
Time:
1940s
Similarity:
69%
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A lawyer, who represents the German government against the Greek reparation claims for Nazi crimes in World War II, travels to Greece and meets one of the remaining survivors of the Kalavryta massacre that took place in 1943.
Style:
historical drama, captivating, tense, suspenseful, thrilling ...
Plot:
war crime, world war two, investigation, war violence, attorney, genocide, massacre, tragic past, troubled past, nazi occupation, german occupation, haunting ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
germany
Similarity:
68%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
In Japanese-occupied Hong Kong, a school teacher and her would-be-fiancé link up with Chinese guerrilla fighters, forging their own path to freedom.
Style:
suspense, historical drama, captivating, disturbing, tense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
japanese occupation, world war two, mother daughter relationship, sacrifice, courage, resistance, military, arrest, family relations, life is a bitch, occupation, partisan ...
Place:
hong kong
Similarity:
66%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The name Anne Frank stands for courage and confidence in hopeless times. But also for the cheeky and unsparing view of an adolescent on her family and her environment. Millions of people around the world know her diary, she wrote it while hiding ...
Style:
poignant, bleak, emotional, period piece, captivating ...
Plot:
world war two, jewish history, world war, jewish girl, courage, hiding, holocaust, anti semitism, diary, tragedy, memories, biopic ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
amsterdam
Similarity:
66%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 50 min.
Story:
In SIRIUS, a young boy whose most cherished companion is his loyal German shepherd devises his own form of resistance when the Nazis arrest his father, then order the confiscation of local canines, including his pet, to be retrained as attack dogs ...
Style:
historical drama, tense, bleak, period piece, tragic ...
Plot:
world war two, human animal relationship, loyalty, german shepherd, nazi occupation, resistance, child protagonist, grief, empathy, political repression, loss of innocence, animal cruelty ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
czechoslovakia, central europe, europe
Similarity:
65%
161
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
The movie tells the life story and friendship of five blacksmiths in town of Leninakan during the war and the years preceding it - as told by the son of one of the blacksmiths.
Style:
poignant, historical drama, melancholic, period piece, sentimental
Audience:
kids
Plot:
friendship, world war two, sacrifice, memory, nostalgia, tragedy, brotherhood, loss, mourning, working class, coming of age, small town life ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
armenia, soviet union, caucasus, ussr
Similarity:
63%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Switzerland, Iraq
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Cruel politics and intensive love. Najla (N) has just finished her medical studies in Rome. Sherko (S) conceals sick and injured partisans. Mokhtar (M) belongs to the dictator's police. S and M love N, N loves S. When she gets a letter from S ...
Style:
tragic ending, bleak, art house, islamic, political drama
Plot:
political oppression, police station, love triangle, sacrifice, female protagonist, war crime, moral ambiguity, martyrdom, underground movement, love, torture, self sacrifice ...
Place:
iraq
Similarity:
61%
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
17-year-old Yu Gwan-Sun participates in the Korean independence movement. The country is under the rule of Japan, which annexed the country in 1910.
Style:
historical drama, dramatic, captivating, exciting, serious ...
Plot:
japanese occupation of korea, independence movement, japanese occupation, korean war, women's prison, protest, resistance, asian woman, asian, korean history, occupation, asian history ...
Time:
year 1919
Place:
south korea, korea
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
In Milan, in the winter of 1944, the ruthless Cane Nero leads the fascists against the partisans. Enne 2, one of the leading figures of the C.N.L., meets Berta, whom he loved three years ago, but Berta refuses to leave her husband for him. Enne 2 is ...
Style:
historical drama, serious, tension, bleak, atmospheric ...
Plot:
world war two, fascism, political conflict, occupation, persecution, moral ambiguity, oppression, betrayal, fear, violence, sacrifice, pursuit ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
milan italy, italy, turin italy
Similarity:
56%
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 ...
Style:
emotional, melancholic, bleak, period piece, tension
Plot:
world war two, father son relationship, family drama, longing, waiting, grief, loss, child protagonist, trauma, sacrifice, hopes, family conflict ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
armenia
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 720 min.
Story:
Raoul Wallenberg born 1912 Stockholm is send to Budapest 1944 July. His job is to save Jewish from Holocaust, his methods are non conventional. January 1945 arrested by Russians at Budapest Siege. Man who saved lives never returns home.
Style:
tragic ending, captivating, emotional, tense, inspirational ...
Plot:
holocaust, spy, historical figure, sacrifice, world war two, biopic, heroism, humanitarian, arrested, salvation, saving a life, life ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
budapest, hungary, stockholm sweden
Similarity:
52%
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
September the 8th 1943, Rome, that crucial day, the armistice, in the town many life change their way. Danilo escapes the fascist enlist, while Michele succeeded to leave his administration moving from Rome. On the way to come back Rome the two ...
Style:
historical drama, period piece, realistic, bleak, tense
Plot:
world war two, fascism, sabotage, heroism, resistance movement, sacrifice, nazi, occupation, courage, german occupation, bravery, tragedy ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
italy, rome italy
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Denmark
Duration: 152 min.
Story:
This Danish movie "Out of The Darkness" ( in Danish 'De Forbandede år 2' ) is a continuation of the popular WW II drama "Into The Darkness" ( in Danish 'De forbandede år' ) and it portraits the Danish ...
Style:
suspenseful, dramatic, captivating, serious, historical drama ...
Plot:
world war two, occupation, german occupation, resistance, freedom fighter, world war, wartime, nazism, war, fight, nazi soldier, nazi ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
denmark, copenhagen
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Based on the true story of a British secret agent, shot down over Malaya near to a Allied POW forced labour camp. There she is hidden, disguised as a youthful prisoner, until her escape can be effected. The costs of keeping her identity secret fall ...
Style:
bleak, period piece, grindhouse
Plot:
world war two, pow, torture, survival, spy, captivity, secret agent, female protagonist, escape, sacrifice, bravery, loyalty ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
asia
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Albania, 1958. Luana, the daughter of a well respected man in the village, makes friends with Agim, who moved here after his family were banned from the city by the communists. Years later, their childhood friendship turns into teenage love, but ...
Style:
historical drama, romantic drama, poignant, emotional, melancholic ...
Plot:
forbidden love, family drama, female protagonist, political oppression, sacrifice, loneliness, patriarchy, gender roles, moral dilemma, arranged marriage, family honor, coming of age ...
Time:
1950s
Place:
albania
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Line of Demarcation. is a 1966 film written and directed by Claude Chabrol. Its title in French is La Ligne de démarcation. It is based on upon the memoir Mémoires d'un agent secret de la France libre et La Ligne de démarcation by Gilbert ...
Style:
bleak, anthology, period drama
Plot:
french resistance, world war two, barber, nazi occupation, smuggler, doctor, resistance movement, occupation, occupied france, sacrifice, betrayal, escape ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
france
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama
Country: China
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Story:
1942, Nanjing. Following a series of assassination attempts on officials of the Japanese-controlled puppet government, the Japanese spy chief gathers a group of suspects in a mansion for questioning, and eventually, torturing. A tense game of ...
Style:
suspense, intense, tension, period piece
Plot:
espionage, japanese occupation, spy thriller, interrogation, underground movement, secret identity, deception, political intrigue, claustrophobia, resistance movement, double agent, torture ...
Time:
1940s
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
In 1943, Vincenzio and Maria take their children to his father's Tuscan farm. Vincenzio commutes to Rome where he's a physician and, in the hospital basement, prints an anti-Fascist paper. His brother is in the Resistance; his father ...
Style:
historical drama, period piece, suspense, tension, poignant ...
Plot:
world war two, fascism, anti fascism, german occupation, war violence, coming of age, innocence lost, survival, revenge, trauma, brotherhood, high school life ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
rome italy, tuscany, italy
Similarity:
49%
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