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Birth Certificate (1961)
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Birth Certificate (1961)
Original name: Świadectwo urodzenia
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Three separate stories depicting the tense everyday life during occupation, as seen through the eyes of children. In “On the Road,” the two main protagonists are lost in the September’s strife: a young boy, and a soldier transporting the valueless documents of his broken unit. In “Letter from the Concentration Camp” the story’s protagonists are young boys who help their mother during the hardships of the occupation. Their treasure is an officer uniform belonging their father who is being held in a prisoner of war camp. In “Blood Drop,” the Germans find a set of typical Aryan characteristics in this story’s protagonist – a Jewish girl, hiding in an orphanage.
Style: anthology
Plot: world war two, boy, wartime life, survival, children, soldier, pow, parents, girl, chaos, nazi officer, hiding place, child in peril, child's point of view, jewish girl, jewess, little boy, shot to death
Place: poland

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Most similar movies to Birth Certificate

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, captivating, serious and suspense films with plots about world war two, wartime life, soldier, nazi, war, holocaust and boy mostly in Drama, War and Adventure genres. Some movies like Birth Certificate: Joanna (2010), Holy Week (1995), Just Beyond This Forest (1991), The One (2015), Rose (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Joanna (2010)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 110 min.
Story: In an era in which it is difficult for the true emotion and excitement, Feliks Falk found the key to the human heart. How many of us love? How much we are able to self-sacrifice? Is there a price that can not pay, when it comes to life of a loved ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, captivating, sincere
Plot: world war two, nazi occupation, loneliness, officer, hiding place, secret, treason, holocaust, wartime life, girl, jewish girl, punishment ...
Place: poland
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95%
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Holy Week (1995)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Poland, Germany, France
Duration: 97 min.
Story: During the Nazi era, a Jewish woman on the run takes a trolley which passes near the Warsaw ghetto, where the uprising battle is taking place, and some passengers are struck by stray bullets. They take temporary refuge in an empty building, and ...
Plot: world war two, holocaust, wartime life, world war one, nazi occupation, underground movement, rebellion, jewish girl, ghetto, jewess, neighbor, love triangle ...
Place: poland, warsaw poland
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90%
Just Beyond This Forest (1991)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Set in 1942, The Jewish wife she worked for before the war hires her to take her young daughter to the countryside until the war is over.
Plot: world war two, holocaust, wartime life, jewish ghetto, jewess, elderly woman, soldier, mishap, empathy, little girl, train, sacrifice ...
Time: 1940s
Place: poland, warsaw poland
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85%
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The One (2015)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 110 min.
Story: During WWII a Soviet artillery unit is fighting Nazis while trying to do everything to save lives of a group of deaf children near their position.
Style: touching, tense, emotional, sincere, captivating
Audience: boys' night, chick flick
Plot: world war two, military, wartime, killing an animal, deaf child, tank, monastery, weapons, soldier, girl, violence, death ...
Time: year 1944, 20th century, 1940s
Place: poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
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Rose (2011)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 90 min.
Story: This harrowing tale of survival centers on Rose, a Masurian woman, whose German soldier husband was killed in the war, leaving her alone on their farm. A single woman had no defense against Russian soldiers who raped as a form of revenge, nor ...
Style: rough, realistic, tense, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: wartime life, sexual abuse, world war two, soldier, countryside, life is a bitch, military, danger, farm, occupation, rape, holocaust ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, post world war two, year 1945
Place: poland
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66%
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 ⇓
61%
Stones for the Rampart (2014)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 111 min.
Story: To be defeated and not be - a victory. This is the motto that life is guided by three young friends: Alek, Sophy and Rudy. Scouts, high school graduates high school in Warsaw drifting ambitious plans for the future broken through September 1939. ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, captivating, suspense ...
Plot: world war two, wartime life, against the odds, life is a bitch, daring rescue, danger, prospector, wartime, german occupation, resistance, resistance fighter, nazi occupation ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: europe, poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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Elysium (1987)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Hungary
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Film about the Holocaust. A Jewish family is allowed to keep the flat they have always lived in and to live a relatively normal life. One day their 10-year old son disappears. He has been sent to a deportation camp which seems like paradise except ...
Plot: world war two, medical experiment, death of child, children, nazi, concentration camp, boy, police, parents, swimming, air raid, chess ...
Place: eastern europe, hungary
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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Passenger (1963)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 62 min.
Story: The last film of Andrzej Munk, who died in a crash during the filming. A German woman on a ship coming back to Europe notices a face of another woman which brings recollections from the past. She tells her husband that she has been an overseer in ...
Style: experimental, odd
Plot: holocaust, world war two, auschwitz, female nudity, concentration camp, nazi, wartime life, prison, women, renaissance, love letter, identity ...
Time: year 1963
Place: poland, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Tombstone of the Fireflies (2008)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Set during World War II, the film follows a young brother and sister as they attempt to survive the aftermath of the firebombing of Kobe City.
Style: psychological, suspense, rough, touching, disturbing
Plot: world war two, sibling relationship, bombing, firefly, brother sister relationship, little girl, wartime, survival, struggle for survival, war, life is a bitch, kids in trouble ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
The Island on Bird Street (1997)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Denmark, UK, Germany, France
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Alex is an 11-year old boy who, during WWII, hides in the Jewish ghetto from Nazis after all the relatives have been sent to the concentration camp. The movie portrays the ghetto through his eyes.
Style: serious, realistic, tense, bleak, independent film ...
Plot: world war two, holocaust, jewish ghetto, youth, wartime life, ghetto, boy, nazi, children in wartime, coming of age, boy strangling, judaism ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: europe, poland, warsaw poland
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52%
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Squadron 303 (2018)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Poland, UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story: After the fall of the September Campaign of 1939, two Polish pilots are forced to fight for their nation in foreign battlefronts.
Style: sincere, exciting
Plot: aerial combat, air force, world war two, aviation, world war, politics, rescue, wartime life, military, battles, danger, soldier ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: poland, britain, europe
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50%
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The Crossing (2020)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, War
Country: Norway
Duration: 96 min.
Story: One day, just before Christmas in 1942, Gerda's and Otto's parents are arrested for being part of the Norwegian resistance movement during the Second World War, leaving the siblings on their own. Following the arrest, they discover two ...
Style: captivating, disturbing, suspense
Plot: world war two, german occupation, wartime life, jew persecution, escape, children, child, life is a bitch, wartime, jewish girl, war, child in peril ...
Time: 1940s
Place: germany
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42%
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The Blockhouse (1973)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A group of Slave workers, drafted by the Nazis to help construct their coastal defenses in 1944 are trapped in an underground bunker when the Allies land at Normandy on D-Day. They find huge dtores of food but not enough candles. The slow dying of ...
Style: grindhouse, bleak, suspenseful, gloomy, serious ...
Plot: world war two, chess, world war, bunker, d day, survival, claustrophobia, battles, holocaust, wartime life, prison, war ...
Time: 1940s
Place: france
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39%
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The Notebook (2013)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Hungary, Germany, Austria, France
Duration: 112 min.
Story: In a village on the Hungarian border, two young brothers grow up during war time with their cruel grandmother and must learn every trick of evil to survive in the absurd world of adults.
Style: rough, bleak, realistic, serious, sad ...
Plot: world war two, countryside, boy, holocaust, wartime life, starvation, teenage life, twins, life is a bitch, nazi, teenager, grandmother grandson relationship ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, year 1944
Place: hungary
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39%
The Burmese Harp (1985)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 133 min.
Story: In the War's closing days, when a conscience-driven Japanese soldier fails to get his countrymen to surrender to overwhelming force, he adopts the lifestyle of a Buddhist monk.
Style: odd
Plot: world war two, bird, prisoner, british army, buddhism, japanese army, soldier, pow
Time: 1940s
Place: burma, japan
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38%
The Long Day's Dying (1968)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Three British soldiers and their German captive trek through the European countryside.
Style: realistic, serious
Plot: world war two, soldier, holocaust, captive, basic training, gory, captivity, prison, anti war, military life, battles, rescue ...
Time: 1940s
Place: europe, england, germany
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37%
Cuckoo in a Dark Forest (1985)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Poland, Czechoslovakia
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Set in World War 2 as the Germans occupy Czechoslovakia, teenage Emilka's father is murdered by the Nazis, but she is selected for special treatment by virtue of being blonde. She is billeted with the commandant of a concentration camp near the ...
Style: freeze frame, crying
Plot: children, world war two, nazi, wartime life, young love, public nudity, vigilante justice, photography, nudity, bare butt, stroke, piano ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: poland, germany, prague, central europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Attack on Leningrad (2009)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Russia, UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story: When in 1941 Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union, their troops quickly besieged Leningrad. Foreign journalists are evacuated but one of them, Kate Davies, is presumed dead and misses the plane. Alone in the city she is helped by Nina Tsvetnova a ...
Style: serious, realistic, bleak, rough, gloomy
Audience: boys' night
Plot: world war two, siege, hunger, wartime life, battles, soldier, world war, danger, self sacrifice, female protagonist, military, heroic mission ...
Time: 1940s, year 1941, 20th century
Place: russia
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35%
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Venice (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 115 min.
Story: An atmospheric coming-of-age story featuring an imaginative young boy named Marek who dreams of escaping an increasingly dangerous Poland on the eve of war for beautiful Venice.
Style: atmospheric, psychological, captivating, inspirational, pre war
Audience: teens
Plot: world war two, coming of age, longing, imagination, journey, provincial life, boy, dream, conscription, society, magic realism, boyhood ...
Place: poland, venice
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33%
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Spring 1941 (2007)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Poland, Israel
Duration: 120 min.
Story: After Germany invades Poland and the Nazis order the confinement of all local Jews in the ghetto, medical doctor Artur Planck (Joseph Fiennes) manages to flee with his family, seeking refuge at the farm of Emilia (Kelly Harrison), their former ...
Style: captivating, serious, tense, emotional, realistic ...
Plot: world war two, wartime life, love triangle, family in danger, confined, love and romance, infidelity, dishonesty, couple relations, against humanity, couples, life is a bitch ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: middle east, eastern europe, poland, europe
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33%
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Hatred (2016)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 150 min.
Story: Summer of 1939. Zosia is a young Polish girl who is deeply in love with Ukrainian Petro. Their great love will be put to the test when her father decides to marry her to a wealthy widower Skiba. Right after wedding she is left alone because her ...
Style: tense, thought provoking, suspense, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot: genocide, world war two, war atrocity, massacre, murder, nazi occupation, wedding, torture, female protagonist, village, baby, husband wife relationship ...
Time: year 1943, year 1939, 1940s
Place: poland
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33%
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The Soldier (1966)
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, commander, battles, child with gun, combat, machine gun, dog, chicken, horse ...
Time: 1940s
Place: former yugoslavia, bosnia
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Sirius (1975)
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 ...
Plot: world war two, killer dog, boy, dog, animal death, village, sabotage, german occupation, young, train explosion
Time: 1940s
Place: czechoslovakia
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Empire of the Sun (1987)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 153 min.
Story: Jamie Graham, a privileged English boy, is living in Shanghai when the Japanese invade and force all foreigners into prison camps. Jamie is captured with an American sailor named Basie, who looks out for him while they are in the camp together. Even ...
Style: sad, emotional, heartbreaking, period piece, realistic ...
Audience: family friendly, family outing, teens, teen drama
Plot: world war two, child protagonist, coming of age, childhood, pow, captivity, japanese army, peasant, survival, child, young heroes, world war ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1987, year 1945
Place: china, japan, asia, indochina, hong kong ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
How to Be Loved (1963)
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: road movie
Plot: world war two, identity, wartime life, airplane, german soldier, rape, theater, murder suspect, flashback, tank, suicide, cigarette smoking ...
Place: poland, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Summer Solstice (2015)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Poland, Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Coming of Age Drama in rural Poland in the summer of 1943.
Style: captivating, psychological, disturbing, suspense, period piece
Plot: world war two, struggle for survival, nazi, male female relationship, wartime life, wartime, love affair, love story, war, tragic love, gendarmerie, skinny dipping ...
Time: 1940s
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Persian Lessons (2020)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Russia, Germany, Belarus
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Occupied France, 1942. Gilles is arrested by SS soldiers alongside other Jews and sent to a camp in Germany. He narrowly avoids sudden execution by swearing to the guards that he is not Jewish, but Persian. This lie temporarily saves him, but Gilles ...
Style: captivating, suspense, independent film
Plot: concentration camp, world war two, german soldier, military, lie, pretending to be someone else, labor camp, wartime life, holocaust, german officer, soldier, con trick ...
Time: 1940s, year 1942, year 1945, 20th century
Place: germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
The Dawns Here Are Quiet... (2015)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 175 min.
Story: It is late spring of 1942, and the Great Patriotic War is in full swing. A long way off from the front-line, at some God-forgotten junction, the Germans make an air landing operation in an attempt to get through to the Kirov railway and the White ...
Style: suspenseful, realistic, compassionate, serious, suspense ...
Plot: world war two, heroism, female soldier, military training, wartime life, soldier, war, battles, friendship, heroic mission, female friendship, human relationship ...
Place: soviet union, siberia
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Tobruk (1967)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA, Spain
Duration: 107 min.
Story: In September 1942, the German Afrika Korps under Rommel have successfully pushed the Allies back into Egypt. A counter-attack is planned, for which the fuel dumps at Tobruk are a critical impediment. In order to aid the attack, a group of British ...
Style: spectacular, realistic, serious, tense, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: world war two, military, soldier, desert, war, world war, espionage, tank, prisoner, commando, secret mission, great war ...
Time: 1940s, year 1967, year 1942, 20th century
Place: africa, libya, egypt
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30%
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