Movies and TV shows like Jenny's War

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Jenny's War (1985)
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Jenny's War (1985)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 198 min.
TV show
Story: This fact-based story follows a woman who launches a rescue of her Royal Air Force pilot son, who was shot down over Germany in 1941. Getting no help from the underground, she sets up her own rescue mission.
Plot: world war two, capture, luftwaffe, woman in jeopardy, nazi, escape, pilot, gestapo, pow, behind enemy lines, prisoner of war camp, royal air force, mother son relationship, woman in danger, raf, search
Time: post world war two
Place: germany

Most similar movies to Jenny's War

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, captivating, realistic and period drama films and TV series with plots about world war two, nazi, world war, war, military, soldier and escape mostly in Drama, War and History genres. Some movies like Jenny's War: Secret Army (1977), 12 O'Clock High (1964), Piece of Cake (1988), Masters of the Air (2024), Colditz (2005). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Secret Army (1977)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: World War II drama about covert organisation Lifeline helping allied airmen escape after being shot down in occupied Europe, working with the Resistance and hiding from the Gestapo.
Style: costume drama, period drama
Plot: world war two, nazism, nazi, german occupation, french resistance, resistance, cafe, ss officer, prospector, gestapo, escape, nazi occupation ...
Time: 1940s
Place: belgium, brussels belgium
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95%
12 O'Clock High (1964)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: This series chronicles the adventures--in the air and on the ground--of the men of the 918th Bombardment Group of the U.S. Eighth Air Force. First commanded by irascible General Frank Savage--and later by Colonel Joe Gallagher, the son of a Pentagon ...
Style: vintage
Plot: world war two, luftwaffe, military, bomber, fighter plane, aviation, world war, team, sacrifice, sergeant, soldier, american soldier ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
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82%
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Piece of Cake (1988)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 312 min.
TV show
Story: The lives and loves of the men of RAF Hornet Squadron who are transferred to France at the outbreak of World Wat II in September 1939. For the most part the men are competent fliers but there is little action in the first several months. The men ...
Style: costume drama, captivating, exciting, realistic, serious ...
Plot: world war two, aerial combats, battles, aviation, luftwaffe, world war, wartime, royal air force, friends, danger, heroes, military ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
Masters of the Air (2024)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
TV show
Story: During World War II, airmen risk their lives with the 100th Bomb Group, a brotherhood forged by courage, loss, and triumph.
Style: period drama
Plot: world war two, aerial combat, world war one, war propaganda, bomber, propaganda, aircraft, pow, bombing, commando, military, soldier ...
Time: 1940s, year 1943, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
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Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years (1981)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years is an 8-part 1981 drama serial based on the life of Winston Churchill, and particularly his years in enforced exile from political position during the 1920s and 30s. It was written and directed by Ferdinand ...
Style: historical drama, period drama
Plot: world war two, winston churchill, exile, british history, british politics, prime minister, member of parliament, british soldier, political leader
Time: 1930s, 1920s
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69%
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Colditz (2005)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 240 min.
TV show
Story: Three prisoners, Jack Rose, Tom Willis and Nick McGrade, embark on an heroic plan to escape from a World War Two POW camp. As Rose And Willis are recaptured by the Germans, McGrade manages to traverse their clutches and travels to London to inform ...
Style: realistic, serious, touching, tense, exciting ...
Plot: world war two, military, pow, soldier, love and romance, battles, love triangle, prison life, nazism, world war, danger, confined ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1939
Place: london, europe, germany, warsaw poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
The Winds of War (1983)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 883 min.
TV show
Story: In the late 1930s, world politics begin to head in a dangerous direction. In Europe, Germany expands and rearms and proceeds to annex several border countries into the Reich. Meanwhile, Italy attempts to establish a Facist Colonial Empire under ...
Style: epic, sentimental, contemplative, serious, realistic ...
Plot: world war two, holocaust, luftwaffe, military, world war, cheating wife, wartime, cavalry, navy, politics, refugee, behind enemy lines ...
Time: 1940s, 1930s, 20th century
Place: germany, italy, japan, berlin germany, china ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
Inside the Third Reich (1982)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 240 min.
Story: A dramatization of the life of Albert Speer, Hitler's young architect and onetime confidant, and his meteoric rise into the Nazi hierarchy. Based upon Speer's own monograph of the same title.
Plot: world war two, nazi, hitler, autobiography, third reich
Time: 1940s, 1930s
Place: germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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The Cowra Breakout (1984)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: Australia
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: In August 1944, 1104 Japanese prisoners of war at the Australian POW camp at Cowra stage a mass breakout. Four guards are killed in the escape, and 231 prisoners die by wounds sustained or suicide, while 334 prisoners are recaptured over the ...
Plot: world war two, prison, pow, prisoner of war camp, hanging, machine gun, mass suicide, drawing, farm, diary, suicide, escape ...
Place: australia
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56%
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The Shop (1998)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 273 min.
TV show
Story: A story about Matt family life in Germany between 20-ies and 40-ies. based on the novel by Erwin Strittmatter.
Style: family saga
Plot: world war two, love, nazi, coming of age, german history, sexual awakening, affection, female nudity, nudity, public nudity, breasts, nipples ...
Place: germany
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53%
The Quality of Mercy (1994)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Austria, Germany
Duration: 105 min.
Story: It is the beginning of 1945 during WW2 in former Austria. 500 Russian prisoners of war who have refused to fight on the side of the Germans against their country were moved to the concentration camp in Mauthausen awaiting execution. They decide to ...
Plot: world war two, world war, winter, escape, prisoner, death, murder, resistance, war crime, execution, nazi, manhunt ...
Place: austria
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
A Town Like Alice (1981)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Australia
Duration: 301 min.
TV show
Story: Set against the brutal chaos of World War II, a love story begins that will take two lovers through a living nightmare of captivity, across three continents and two decades. From the steamy jungles of Malaya to the dusty and desolate outback of ...
Style: vintage, period drama
Plot: world war two, love, post war, prisoner, wartime, jungle, skating, pow, japanese army, australian outback, inheritance, british ...
Time: post world war two, 1940s
Place: australia, malaysia
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
War and Remembrance (1988)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 1620 min.
TV show
Story: War and Remembrance is an American miniseries based on the novel of the same name by Herman Wouk. It is the sequel to highly successful The Winds of War.
Style: historical drama, saga, captivating, exciting, realistic ...
Plot: world war two, war, holocaust, nazi germany, military, world war, submarine, nazi, wartime, conservative, cavalry, winston churchill ...
Time: 1940s
Place: asia, japan, europe, pacific ocean, pearl harbor ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Seventeen Moments of Spring (1973)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 830 min.
TV show
Story: The series is based on a true story of a Russian spy Colonel Isaev (Stirlitz) in Fascist Germany during 17 days in very end of WWII. Stirlitz has worked his way to the very top of the Fascist hierarchy without being caught. However, his ...
Style: serious, captivating, tense, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: world war two, spy, nazi, danger, nazi germany, espionage, state affairs, undercover agent, war, undercover, gestapo, intrigue ...
Time: 1940s, year 1945, 20th century
Place: soviet union, ussr, germany, europe, switzerland ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Escape of the Birdmen (1971)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: During WWII an American soldier sent to Norway to help with the escape of a scientist working on the atomic bomb for the Germans. Before they can escape they are captured and sent to a POW prison camp in an alpine castle. Cook must find a way to ...
Plot: world war two, escape, world war, prison escape, military prison, historical event, caper, prisoner, castle, broken leg, chess, prisoner of war camp ...
Time: year 1943
Place: germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Farewell to Manzanar (1976)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Fact based drama about one of the internment camps used by the American military during World War II to detain some 100,000 Japanese Americans (most of them U.S. born) following Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor.
Plot: world war two, usa history, concentration camp, japanese american
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44%
No Man is an Island (1962)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: The true story of George Tweed, an American sailor who became the only serviceman on the island of Guam to avoid capture by the Japanese during the early years of World War II.
Style: independent film
Plot: world war two, stranded, shipwreck, u.s. navy, behind enemy lines, priest, bare chested male, scorpion
Time: year 1962
Place: pacific ocean, minneapolis minnesota, pearl harbor, japan
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43%
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Tenko (1981)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Australia, UK
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: Based on real-life experiences, Tenko remains one of the most fondly remembered and acclaimed BBC dramas of the early 1980s. It follows a group of women, formerly comfortably well-off ex-pats living in Singapore, as they are captured by the Japanese ...
Style: costume drama, historical drama, period drama
Audience: kids
Plot: world war two, jungle, military prison, prisoners of war, women's prison, soldier, prison, war, pow, prisoner of war camp, death, torture ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: singapore
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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The Heroes (1989)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Australia
Duration: 208 min.
TV show
Story: Based on a true story, The Heroes follows one of the most extraordinary and heroic exploits of World War II. After months of rigorous training in the north of Australia, a team of 14 men, most barely out of their teens, set sail from Cairns on ...
Plot: world war two, revolutionary, revolution, struggle, freedom, revolutionary war, male nudity, naked in public, canoe, male objectification, heroism, behind enemy lines ...
Time: year 1943, 1940s
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Batallions Ask for Fire (1985)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 285 min.
TV show
Story: A story of a several days of intense fighting on the Eastern Front during one of the Soviet offensives in WWII.
Style: suspenseful, disturbing, suspense, rough
Audience: boys' night
Plot: world war two, red army, war, military, battles, heroic mission, life & death, great patriotic war, betrayal, patriotism, red herring, heroism ...
Time: 1940s, year 1942
Place: ussr
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
The Saboteurs (2015)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Norway, Denmark, UK, Czech Republic, Sweden
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: The story about the heavy water war unfolds during the prolouge, eruption and the end of the second world war. We follow the story of the the key personnel in the race of who develops the atomic bomb first.
Style: serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot: world war two, atomic bomb, bomb, resistance, chemistry, danger, ambition, inventions and discoveries, heroic mission, soldier, military, moral dilemma ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, 1930s
Place: europe, germany, scotland
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
The Great Escape II: The Untold Story (1988)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 178 min.
Story: Allied prisoners tunnel out of a stalag, then return to avenge fellow escapees executed by the Nazis.
Plot: world war two, prison, revolutionary war, military prison, prisoner, freedom, revolution, struggle, prison escape, pow, escape, nazi ...
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39%
A Midnight Clear (1992)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Set in 1944 France, an American Intelligence Squad locates a German Platoon wishing to surrender rather than die in Germany's final war offensive. The two groups of men, isolated from the war at present, put aside their differences and spend ...
Style: bleak, realistic, christmas classics, scenic, sexy ...
Plot: world war two, world war, nazi, military, war, innocence lost, friendship, violence, tragedy, great war, friendly fire, cold ...
Time: 1940s, year 1992, year 1944
Place: germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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The Shadow in My Eye (2021)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Denmark, Belgium
Duration: 107 min.
Story: On March 21st, 1945, the British Royal Air Force set out on a mission to bomb Gestapo's headquarters in Copenhagen. The raid had fatal consequences as some of the bombers accidentally targeted a school and more than 120 people were killed, 86 ...
Style: disturbing, suspense
Plot: world war two, nazi, nazism, air raid, bombing, gestapo, military, nordic, murder, aerial bombardment, chaos, killings ...
Time: year 1945, 1940s
Place: copenhagen
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Forbidden (1984)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: West Germany, UK
Duration: 114 min.
Story: In Berlin in the early 1940s, romance is forbidden between the young countess who is studying veterinary medicine and a young man she meets at the home of a former professor. But they fall in love. She gets involved in helping Jews escape from the ...
Style: independent film
Plot: world war two, ruins, voice over narration, escape, train, forbidden love, bombing, nazi, high society, nazi germany, holocaust, stock footage
Time: 1940s
Place: berlin germany
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39%
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War Sailor (2023)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Norway, Germany, Malta
Duration: 175 min.
TV show
Story: When WWII erupts, two sailors on a Norwegian merchant ship face brutal conditions as they fight to survive a conflict they were never asked to join. Based on true stories of Norwegian merchant sailors and their families during and after World War II.
Style: captivating, tense, suspenseful, serious
Plot: world war two, world war, sailor, ocean, war, danger, wartime, ocean voyage, frontline, ship, sea, survival ...
Place: atlantic ocean
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39%
SAS: Rogue Heroes (2022)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: UK
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Story: The dramatised account of how the world’s greatest Special Forces unit, the SAS, was formed under extraordinary circumstances in the darkest days of World War Two.
Style: captivating, tense, thrilling, satirical
Plot: world war two, military, british army, soldier, pilot, british soldier, mission, battles, wartime life, fight, special agent, fight for supremacy ...
Time: 1940s
Place: cairo egypt, north africa, libya, egypt
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37%
Fortunes of War (1987)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 407 min.
TV show
Story: Fortunes of War is a 1987 BBC television adaptation of Olivia Manning's cycle of novels Fortunes of War. It stars Kenneth Branagh as Guy Pringle, lecturer in English Literature in Bucharest during the early part of the Second World War, and ...
Style: contemplative, realistic, serious, captivating, tense ...
Plot: world war two, world war, diplomacy, spy, resistance, activist, infidelity, lecturer, intrigue, opposites attract, life is a bitch, crumbling marriage ...
Time: 1940s
Place: greece, europe, africa, romania, middle east ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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The Cazalets (2001)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 360 min.
TV show
Story: The Cazalets is a 2001 six-episode television drama series (5 episodes when broadcast in the US) about the life of a large privileged family in the years 1937 to 1942.[1] Most of the action takes place in London, and at the family's large ...
Style: captivating, historical drama
Plot: world war two, family relations, affair, parents and children, family problems, family life, large family, mother daughter relationship, eccentric family, lifestyle, kids and family, wartime ...
Time: edwardian era
Place: england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Victory (1981)
Genre: Drama, Sport, War
Country: UK, USA, Italy
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A group of POWs in a German prison camp during World War II play the German National Soccer Team in this powerful film depicting the role of prisoners during wartime.
Style: inspirational, serious, exciting, suspenseful, cult classic ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, kids
Plot: world war two, prison, soccer, football, nazi, war, human spirit, escape, contests and competitions, against the odds, world war, rivalry ...
Time: year 1981, 20th century
Place: germany, france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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