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A Friendship in Vienna (1988)
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A Friendship in Vienna (1988)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Inge Dournenvald and Lise Mueller are best friends in pre-WW2 Austria, despite the fact that Inge is Jewish and Lise is the daughter of a Nazi sympathizer. When they are forbidden to see each other, they meet secretly. After the Germans invade Austria in 1938, Inge and her family escape to America with the help of Lise
Plot: christmas, world war two, friendship between girls, 13 year old, nazi occupation, school, nazi, train, escape, friendship, priest, hospital, family relations, baptism, father daughter relationship, grandfather, memory, mother daughter relationship, best friend, girl, catholic, catholic priest, anti semitism, girls' school, redhead girl ...
Time: year 1938, 1930s
Place: austria, vienna
Keyword: jewish

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, captivating and emotional films with plots about nazi, world war two, family relations, friendship, school, holocaust and priest mostly in Drama, History and War genres. Some movies like A Friendship in Vienna: The Assisi Underground (1985), Miracle at Moreaux (1985), Carol's Journey (2002), Reunion (1989), Never Forget (1991). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Assisi Underground (1985)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: This film sheds light on the role of the Catholic Church and the people of Assisi in rescuing Italian Jews from the Nazis in 1943.
Style: grindhouse, independent film
Plot: catholic, world war two, christian, nazi, pope, holocaust, catholic priest, priest, friendship, bishop, catholic church, monk ...
Time: 1940s, year 1985
Place: italy
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95%
Miracle at Moreaux (1985)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 58 min.
Story: Drama - On a December night in 1943, three Jewish children escape from Nazi-occupied France and are given refuge by Sister Gabrielle at a Catholic school in which the gentile students must face their fears about harboring Jews from the Nazis. As the ...
Plot: world war two, nun, christmas, faith based, faith, religion, children in wartime, judaism, siblings, convent school, mute child, prejudice ...
Time: year 1943
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
Carol's Journey (2002)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Spain, Portugal
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Carol, a 12 year old Spanish-American girl from New York, travels with her mother to Spain in the spring of 1938, at the height of the Civil War. Separated from her beloved father, Carol arrives in her mother's home village and transforms the ...
Style: serious, emotional, touching, sentimental, realistic
Plot: spanish civil war, youth, coming of age, friendship, family relations, village, wartime life, human nature, parents and children, culture clash, single parent, forbidden love ...
Time: 1930s, year 1938
Place: new york, spain, europe, usa, madrid ...
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83%
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Reunion (1989)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: France, West Germany, UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Two young boys from very different backgrounds become friends in 1933 Stuttgart. However, they don't realize how different they are until much later as one is the son of a well-to-do Jewish doctor and the other the son of a German aristocrat. ...
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, disturbing, thought provoking
Plot: world war two, anti semitism, friendship, nazi, friendship between boys, against humanity, confined, society, youth, coming of age, religions or cults, homecoming ...
Time: 1940s, year 1989, 1930s
Place: europe, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
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Never Forget (1991)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Mr. Mermelstein (Leonard Nimoy) and Mrs. Mermelstein (Blythe Danner) a true-life California couple, thrown into the spotlight of judicial history in the 1980s. He is a Hungarian-born Jew, sole-survivor of his family's extermination at ...
Style: political
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Secret Places (1984)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Young girls, soon to be women, sharing everything...except their secret places.
Style: independent film
Plot: world war two, girls' school, refugee, lgbt, friendship, mother daughter relationship, girl, school, lesbian interest, female nudity, redhead, teenage girl ...
Place: britain, england
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75%
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The Cardinal (1963)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 175 min.
Story: A young Catholic priest from Boston confronts bigotry, Naziism, and his own personal conflicts as he rises to the office of cardinal.
Style: religious drama, epic, realistic, serious, sincere ...
Plot: priest, church, catholic, racism, catholic priest, clergy, nazi, pope, bigotry, abortion, major league, intrigue ...
Time: year 1963
Place: italy, vienna, boston, rome italy, georgia
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One Life (2023)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story: British stockbroker Nicholas Winton visits Czechoslovakia in the 1930s and forms plans to assist in the rescue of Jewish children before the onset of World War II, in an operation that came to be known as the Kindertransport.
Plot: world war two, jewish history, nazi occupation, nazi germany, jewish family, little girl, flashback, swimming pool, baby, train, restaurant, photograph ...
Time: 1930s, year 1938, 20th century, 1940s
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My Best Friend Anne Frank (2021)
Genre: Drama
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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 ⇓
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The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1970)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Italy, West Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story: In late 1930s Ferrara, Italy, the Finzi-Continis are a leading family: wealthy, aristocratic, and urbane; they are also Jewish. Their adult children, Micol and Alberto, gather a diverse circle of friends for tennis and parties at their villa with ...
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Plot: fascism, holocaust, world war two, unrequited love, anti semitism, assassination, tennis, family relations, brother sister relationship, family life, nazi germany, life is a bitch ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, 1930s, ancient times, year 1970
Place: italy, europe, africa
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62%
The Eternal Road (2017)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Finland, Estonia, Sweden
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Based on true events an epic story of one man's struggle for survival. Jussi Ketola, returns to Finland from the great depression struck America only to face growing political unrest. One summer night of 1930, nationalist thugs violently abduct ...
Style: suspense, psychological, tense, suspenseful, thought provoking ...
Plot: immigrant, espionage, great depression, communism, family relations, secret police, idealism, fear, mass murder, violence, american history, getting home ...
Time: 1930s, year 1931, year 1938, year 1937
Place: soviet union, germany
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Yes Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus (1991)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: While newspaper writer Church struggles with the death of his wife, he receives a "special" assignment. He must answer a little girl's question about whether Santa Claus really exists.
Plot: christmas, holiday, santa claus, xmas, youth, little girl, cemetery, shopping cart, family relations, 8 year old girl, girl, newspaper ...
Time: 19th century, 1800s, 1890s
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The Silent Revolution (2018)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Germany
Duration: 111 min.
Story: It's 1956. During a visit to a cinema in West Berlin, East German high school pupils Theo and Kurt see disturbing newsreel footage of the uprising in Budapest. Back in Stalinstadt, one of the GDR’s flagship workers’ settlements, they have ...
Style: thought provoking, disturbing, suspenseful, captivating, social ...
Plot: cold war, solidarity, teenager, high school, friendship, learning the truth, border crossing, communism, betrayal, father son relationship, twists and turns, nazi ...
Time: 1950s, 50s, year 1956, year 1953
Place: east germany, west berlin west germany, germany, hungary, german democratic republic ...
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Operation: Daybreak (1975)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Czechoslovakia, 1942. Three brave Czech patriots risk everything to rid their country of its brutal Nazi leader, SS-General Reinhard Heydrich.
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, bleak
Plot: world war two, czech history, spy, world war, nazi, espionage, holocaust, secret mission, great war, nazi germany, wartime, luftwaffe ...
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Duration: 126 min.
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Style: emotional, realistic, captivating, touching, stylized ...
Plot: husband wife reunion, labor camp, life is a bitch, wartime life, love affair, love, caucasian, marriage, couples, flashback, world war two, couple relations ...
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Perfect Parents (2006)
Genre: Drama
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Duration: 92 min.
Story: After a violent incident in Lucy's public school, her atheist parents Stuart and Alison decide to find her a safe 'traditional' school. The only one they can afford is St. Mary of the Veil, run by nuns whose 'preference' for ...
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Time: 20th century, 1930s, year 1977, year 1934, pre world war two
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⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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The Gathering (1977)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
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Style: realistic, serious, sentimental, emotional, touching ...
Plot: christmas, holiday, in love, fall in love, bondage, family relations, terminal illness, family gatherings, elderly, life is a bitch, introspection, hopes ...
Time: 70s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Hotel Meina (2007)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy, France, Serbia
Duration: 115 min.
Story: How will the Germans react to the armistice of the 8th of September 1943, due to which Italy betrays them and sides with the allied forces? This is the distressing questions that a group of 16 Italian - Greek Jews evacuated at The Meina Hotel ask ...
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44%
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Poland
Duration: 86 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: China, USA
Duration: 104 min.
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Roots: The Gift (1988)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In December 1775, Cletus Moyer is a free black Northerner in colonial America, helping slaves escape captivity. In the days just prior to Christmas, a group of bounty hunters captures Moyer. Because of his capture, dozens of slaves who have already ...
Style: historical drama
Plot: christmas, slavery, african american, freedom, holiday, captive, civil war, black history, slave, human exploitation, black, racism ...
Place: africa, virginia
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Welcome Home, Johnny Bristol (1972)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: An American soldier manages to endure his captivity in a Vietnamese POW camp by keeping alive the memories of life in his home town. When he is finally released from the camp, and is discharged from the military, he goes back to his town - but he ...
Plot: vietnam war, explosions, ptsd, aeroplane, flashback, psychiatrist, airplane, cell, prisoner, pow, awol, repressed memory ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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The Official Story (1985)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Argentina
Duration: 112 min.
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Style: political, captivating, disturbing, suspenseful, sincere ...
Plot: adoption, politics, family relations, uncover truth, dictatorship, society, revolution, parents and children, military coup, state affairs, haunted by the past, political unrest ...
Time: 80s, year 1985, 20th century, year 1983
Place: latin america, argentina, spain, buenos aires argentina, bolivia
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Some Mother's Son (1996)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Ireland, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Based on the true story of the 1981 hunger strike in a British prison, in which IRA prisoner Bobby Sands led a protest against the treatment of IRA prisoners as criminals rather than as prisoners of war. The film focuses on the mothers of two of the ...
Style: political, bleak, serious, realistic, psychological ...
Plot: prison, lawyer, prison violence, terrorist, working class, women, betrayal, politics, ira, british, struggle, trouble ...
Time: 70s, 80s, year 1996, 20th century
Place: ireland, northern ireland, europe
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The Scarlet and the Black (1983)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA, UK, Italy
Duration: 143 min.
Story: Fr. Hugh O'Flaherty is a Vatican official in 1943-45 who has been hiding downed pilots, escaped prisoners of war, and Italian resistance families. His diplomatic status in a Catholic country prevents Colonel Kappler from openly arresting him, ...
Style: realistic, factual, tense, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: nazi, world war two, catholic, vatican, soldier, fighting the system, clergy, human spirit, uninhibited rivalry, military, survival, hopes ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: europe, rome italy, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
3rd Reich Mothers, in the Name of the Master Race (2012)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: France
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Two beautiful and different girls, Alice and Lisette are 17 years old, when forcibly removed from their Alsatian family to cooperate in the war effort in Germany. After spending six months in a indoctrination camp, they are both sent to a munitions ...
Style: captivating, tense, disturbing, suspense, political
Plot: world war two, military, accident, german officer, nazi, military life, women, life is a bitch, female protagonist, violence, fascist, fascism ...
Place: germany, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Nowhere in Africa (2001)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Germany
Duration: 141 min.
Story: A Jewish woman named Jettel Redlich flees Nazi Germany with her daughter Regina, to join her husband, Walter, on a farm in Kenya. At first, Jettel refuses to adjust to her new circumstances, bringing with her a set of china dishes and an evening ...
Style: sincere, touching, emotional, thought provoking, captivating ...
Plot: world war two, friendship, childhood, holocaust, exile, farm, culture clash, immigrant, family relations, wartime life, anti semitism, understanding ...
Time: 1930s, year 2002, 20th century, 1940s
Place: kenya, africa, germany, south africa, east africa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Lena: My 100 Children (1987)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: At the end of World War II Lena Kuchler arrives at a refuge camp in search of her disappeared family members. But at this place she can get no information in her case but only encounters hungry children.
Plot: children in wartime, school, world war two, children, religious intolerance, post war, gun
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Mother (1990)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Soviet Union, Italy
Duration: 200 min.
Story: The social ferment in late 19th century Russia which led to the 1917 Russian Revolution is movingly portrayed in this lengthy historical drama, which is very faithful to the 1907 novel The Mother by the celebrated Marxist writer Maxim Gorky ...
Plot: oedipus complex, protest, russian empire, political activist, socialist, publishing, forced suicide, demonstration, worker, communist, communism, murder of mother ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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