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Georg Elser – Einer aus Deutschland (1989)
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Georg Elser – Einer aus Deutschland (1989)
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: West Germany, Austria
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A true story about Johann Georg Elser, a quiet carpenter who tried to assassinate Hitler with an explosive device in 1939.
Style: independent film
Plot: world war two, nazi, holocaust, manhunt, world war, assassin, nazi germany, gestapo, bomb, waitress, anti nazi, timebomb, human
Time: 20th century
Place: germany
Keyword: german

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, disturbing and tense films with plots about world war two, nazi, holocaust, world war, war, nazi germany and life is a bitch mostly in Drama, History and War genres. Some movies like Georg Elser – Einer aus Deutschland: Sobibor (2018), Inside the Third Reich (1982), Wallenberg: A Hero's Story (1985), Everyone Dies Alone (1976), Never Forget (1991). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Sobibor (2018)
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: Russia, Germany, Lithuania
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Based on the true story, international historical project “Sobibor” is dedicated to the heroism of the Soviet o cer Alexander Pechersky. During the great Patriotic war, being in a Nazi concentration camp Sobibor he managed to do the impossible ...
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Place: germany, poland, lithuania, soviet union
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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
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Wallenberg: A Hero's Story (1985)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: USA, Yugoslavia
Duration: 200 min.
Story: The story of Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat responsible for saving thousands of lives from the Nazi Holocaust.
Plot: world war two, holocaust, world war, nazi, spy, revolutionary war, diplomacy, revolutionary, struggle, freedom, revolution, lifesaver ...
Time: 20th century
Place: germany
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Everyone Dies Alone (1976)
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 ...
Time: 1940s, year 1940
Place: central europe
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Never Forget (1991)
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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 ...
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The White Rose (1982)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: West Germany
Duration: 125 min.
Story: During the Second World War, a small group of students at Munich University begin to question the decisions and sanity of Germany's Nazi government. The students form a resistance cell which they name the "White Rose" after a ...
Style: bleak, realistic, serious, disturbing, emotional ...
Plot: world war two, nazi, resistance, anti fascist, war, rebellion, death sentence, resistance movement, fascism, totalitarian state, world war, german history ...
Time: year 1982, year 1943, 1940s, 20th century
Place: germany, europe, munich germany
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Day One (1989)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 141 min.
Story: Hungarian physicist Leo Szilard leaves Europe, eventually arriving in the United States. With the help of Einstein, he persuades the government to build an atomic bomb. The project is given to no-nonsense Gen. Leslie Groves who selects physicist J. ...
Style: tense, thought provoking, captivating, realistic, serious
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Thriller
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Duration: 130 min.
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Style: tense, disturbing, captivating, suspense, dramatic ...
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Time: 1930s, year 1938, 20th century
Place: germany, munich germany, europe
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Entrusted (2003)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, France
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Hoping to entrap Maria von Gall, who runs a courageous underground railroad for Jews in France, the Nazis kidnap her son Thomas, a brilliant 11-year-old chess master. An exchange arrangement goes awry and he sees her die in a hail of bullets; but he ...
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The Counterfeit Traitor (1962)
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller, War
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Duration: 140 min.
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Genre: Drama, History
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Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
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Genre: Drama, History, War
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