Movies like Santa Fe 1986

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Santa Fe (1986)
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Santa Fe (1986)
Original name: Wohin und zurück - Santa Fe
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria, West Germany
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Picking up where "God Does Not Believe In Us Anymore" leaves off, Freddy struggles to find work after arriving in New York in 1940. His world of refugee acquaintances includes the depressed daughter of a poet/delicatessen owner, an aging surgeon who cannot find work, and a lovable charlatan photographer. Corti's trilogy continues with "Welcome in Vienna"
Plot: world war two, jewish culture, immigration, holocaust, job, hunger, job seeking, debt, poetry, brooklyn bridge, fired from the job, drowning, death by drowning, visa, homesickness, jewish american, frigidity, writing a novel, english class, jewish history, immigrant, grocery store, divorced divorcee, record player, sewing machine ...
Time: year 1986, year 1941, year 1942
Place: new york, brooklyn new york city, santa fe new mexico
Keyword: jewish

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, captivating and bleak films with plots about world war two, holocaust, nazi, immigrant, society, anti semitism and life is a bitch mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Santa Fe: Welcome in Vienna (1986), Gruber's Journey (2008), Hidden in Silence (1996), The Chosen (1981), The Man in the Glass Booth (1975). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Welcome in Vienna (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria, West Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 127 min.
Story: In the conclusion of Axel Corti's trilogy (following God Does Not Believe In Us Anymore and Santa Fe) Freddy, a Viennese Jew who emigrated to New York after Hitler's invasion, and Adler, a left-wing intellectual originally from Berlin, ...
Style: bilingual
Plot: world war two, jewish life, trafficking, theater, skating, frontline, black market, actress, christmas eve, american soldier, deserter, treason ...
Time: year 1945, 1940s, year 1986, year 1944, post world war two
Place: vienna
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95%
God Does Not Believe in Us Anymore (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria, Switzerland, West Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story: After his father is murdered by the Nazis in 1938, a young Viennese Jew named Ferry Tobler flees to Prague, where he joins forces with another expatriate and a sympathetic Czech relief worker. Together with other Jewish refugees, the three make ...
Style: pre war
Plot: world war two, national socialism, rabbi, jewish life, torah, suicide, death of father, police, concentration camp, accusation, border crossing, visa ...
Time: year 1982, year 1938, year 1940
Place: vienna, paris france, prague, marseille
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
Gruber's Journey (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary, Romania
Duration: 100 min.
Story: On 22 June 1941, Germany and Romania attack Soviet Russia. Several days later, Curzio Malaparte, the Italian writer who would one day pen the novel « Kaputt », a war correspondent for « Corriere de la Sera », arrives in Iasi, in the north of ...
Plot: world war two, holocaust, anti semitism, war correspondent, mass murder
Place: romania
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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The Chosen (1981)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: The Chosen follows the story of two teenage boys determined to remain friends despite the deep differences between their two families. Set in New York during the 1940s, this provocative film follows the son of an orthodox rabbi and the son of a ...
Style: realistic, touching, thinking, contemplative, serious ...
Audience: kids, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, orthodox jew, religion, jewish culture, judaism, friendship, father son relationship, culture clash, chosen one, holocaust, family drama, traumatic childhood ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, 80s, year 1981, year 1944
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
The Man in the Glass Booth (1975)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Arthur Goldman is a rich Jewish industrialist, living in luxury in a Manhattan high-rise. He banters with his assistant Charlie, often shocking Charlie with his outrageousness and irreverence about aspects of Jewish life. Nonetheless, Charlie is ...
Style: sad, independent film, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: holocaust, courtroom, world war two, mossad, nazi, lawyer, law, judaism, terrorism, legal, genocide, courtroom drama ...
Time: year 1975
Place: israel, middle east, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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 ⇓
28%
The Rose Garden (1989)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, West Germany, Austria
Duration: 112 min.
Story: In Germany, an old man attacks another old man and is arrested. The attacker refuses to speak. A female lawyer is appointed to him. She discovers that the attacker has numbers tattooed on his arm and the attacked man was a German officer.
Style: grindhouse, contemplative, tense, psychological, thought provoking ...
Plot: courtroom, world war two, children, courtroom drama, lawyer, holocaust, world war, haunted by the past, injustice, legal action, airport, concentration camp ...
Time: year 1989, 80s
Place: germany, europe, hamburg germany, frankfurt germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Miss Rose White (1992)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Rose White (Sedgwick) is a modern young career woman in post-World War II New York City who has largely relegated her Jewish heritage to scrapbooks and memories. Born in Poland but fortunate enough to escape the country before the Nazi occupation ...
Style: emotional, touching, serious, realistic, crying
Plot: world war two, holocaust, family relations, bittersweet, solace, starting over, introspection, human spirit, misfit, society, forceful separation, siblings relations ...
Time: 20th century, post world war two, 1950s, 1940s
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
My Best Friend Anne Frank (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Based on the real-life friendship between Anne Frank and Hannah Goslar, from Nazi-occupied Amsterdam to their harrowing reunion in a concentration camp.
Style: psychological, captivating, disturbing
Plot: world war two, nazi occupation, friend, best friend, life is a bitch, memories, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, women, female protagonist, childhood memory, occupation, life ...
Time: 1930s
Place: netherlands
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
'38 - Vienna Before the Fall (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria, West Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story: The film presents the political events surrounding the Anschluss in March of 1938 through the lives of Carola Hell, a popular young actress at the prestigious Theater in der Josefstadt, and Martin Hofmann, the Jewish journalist she plans to marry. ...
Plot: world war two, interwar period, totalitarian state, israeli, fascism, nazism, journalist, actress, nazi, love
Time: year 1938, 1930s
Place: austria, israel, vienna
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Jonah Who Lived in the Whale (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France, Hungary
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The story of the Holocaust, seen as Jonah, a young jewish boy living in Amsterdam at the onset of WW II, who with his family is taken by the Nazis to a concentration camp. (Based on the book 'Childhood' by Jona Oberski.)
Plot: holocaust, world war two, traumatic childhood, youth, concentration camp, parents, madness, nazi concentration camp, nazism, child in peril, childhood memory, deportation ...
Place: amsterdam
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Hungarians (1978)
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A group of landless Hungarian peasants accept work as migrant-laborers on a farm in northern Germany where the wages are good, and the wives and family are allowed to accompany them. Though it is in the midst of World War II, they are relatively ...
Plot: world war two, humiliation, peasant, pow
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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 ⇓
25%
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Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 106 min.
Story: When they start losing family members and neighbors due to WWII and the Nazi government's policies, a quiet married couple becomes disillusioned and begins spreading leaflets against the government - a crime punishable by death.
Plot: world war two, gestapo, nazi germany, death penalty, killed in action, resistance, loss of son, nazi soldier, death of son, anti nazi, death, fear ...
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Place: central europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: Austria
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Directed by Peter Patzak
Style: perverse, freeze frame
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⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Odds and Ends (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Essay film by Alexander Kluge.
Style: experimental, semi documentary
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, France, Italy
Duration: 88 min.
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Style: realistic, serious, bleak, disturbing, tense
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⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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The Proprietor (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, UK, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: An expatriated French novelist (Jeanne Moreau) returns to Paris when she learns that her childhood home is being placed on the auction block. What she doesn't count on is that she has to confront many old issues dating back to her childhood and ...
Style: serious, realistic, talky
Plot: age-gap relationship, world war two, immigrant, family relations, couples, dull life, couple relations, self discovery, human nature, society, writer's life, family life ...
Time: year 1996
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⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Valiant Hearts (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 92 min.
Story: In August 1942, during the Second World War, Six Jewish children are trying to escape the Nazis. They are hidden by the resistance in the Chambord Castle, where paintings from Le Louvre are being stored as well. The Nazis are looking for paintings ...
Style: captivating, thrilling, psychological
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Time: 1940s
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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1945 (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 91 min.
Story: An unsettling feeling overwhelms a small Hungarian town when two orthodox Jews arrive with a mysterious trunk. As residents begin to speculate on the purpose of the visit of these two strangers, order starts to crumble in town with some pursuing ...
Style: black and white, art house, grim, tense, motivational
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Time: year 1945, post world war two, 1940s
Place: hungary
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Occasional Work of a Female Slave (1973)
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 91 min.
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Style: disturbing, captivating, psychological
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⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Out of My Hand (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Liberia
Duration: 87 min.
Story: ‘What do you want?’ asks the trade union leader, to which the men respond as if with one voice: change! Life is hard work on Liberia’s rubber plantations and wages are meagre. Nothing has changed for generations, but now the workers are ...
Style: contemplative, captivating, serious, realistic, independent film
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⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Nunzio (1978)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A mentally-challenged delivery boy indulges in fantasies that he is a superhero in the tough streets of Brooklyn. He lives a life marked with torments from the gang of deadbeats at the corner, overbearing concern from his mother and older brother, ...
Plot: urban setting, sex, brother brother relationship, seduction, priest, rescue, neighborhood, saving a life, widow, paraplegic, bully, mentally challenged person ...
Time: year 1978
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Away from Home (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 110 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
The Day the Clown Cried (1972)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A circus clown is imprisoned by the Nazis and goes with Jewish children to their deaths.
Style: emotional, controversial, independent film, weird
Plot: holocaust, clown, children, commander, nazi concentration camp, world war two, concentration camp, circus, nazi, gestapo, political prisoner, gas chamber ...
Time: 1940s
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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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 ⇓
21%
 6.4
 5K
Green Border (2023)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland, USA, France, Czech Republic, Belgium, Germany, Turkey
Duration: 147 min.
Story: In the treacherous and swampy forests that make up the so called “green border” between Belarus and Poland, refugees from the Middle East and Africa trying to reach the European Union are trapped in a geopolitical crisis cynically engineered by ...
Plot: migration, young man, border guard, border crossing, male nudity, airplane, dead body, cigarette smoking, teacher, violence, illegal immigrant, nudity ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
Place: poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 7.4
 928
Adelheid (1969)
Genre: Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 99 min.
Story: In the aftermath of World War II, a former Czech soldier takes charge of a manor formerly owned by a German family. He falls in love with the daughter, who is now a maid, and is forced to confront the stress between his love and his conscience when ...
Style: surreal, realistic, touching, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot: world war two, military, forbidden love, holocaust, girl, locomotive, forest, comeback, post war, estate, soldier, society ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: czechoslovakia, germany, czech republic
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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