Movies like Evening Bells
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Evening Bells (1986)
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Original name: Večernja zvona
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Trials and tribulations of a Croatian Communist intellectual in the turbulent years before, during and after WW2.
Style:
intellectual, bleak, melancholic, historical drama, atmospheric, art house, reflective, period piece, tense, political drama
Plot:
world war two, communism, moral dilemma, character study, repression, occupation, loss, identity crisis, political persecution, trauma, persecution, survival, betrayal, memory, resistance, urban, social realism, partisan, exile, small town, activism, collaboration, fascism, communist, censorship ...
Time:
1940s, 1950s
Place:
former yugoslavia, croatia, balkan, yugoslavia
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Most similar movies to Evening Bells
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out period piece, historical drama, bleak and melancholic films with plots about world war two, resistance, survival, betrayal, occupation, partisan and sacrifice mostly in War, Drama and History genres. Some movies like Evening Bells: Long Dark Night (2004), Uomini e no (1980), The Garden of Redemption (1997), Liten Ida (1981), Little Alexander (1981). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: East Germany
Duration: 178 min.
Story:
East German film about the history of Red Orchestra, a real life German pro-Soviet spy ring created after the rise of Hitler that turned into a resistance movement led by a leftist Nazi officer, Harro Schulze-Boysen, and Arvid Harnack.
Style:
political, bleak, suspenseful, tension, period drama ...
Plot:
resistance, anti fascist, world war two, spy, espionage, nazism, underground movement, betrayal, surveillance, biopic, propaganda, spying ...
Time:
year 1970
Place:
berlin germany, europe, east germany
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100%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Croatia
Duration: 200 min.
Story:
"Long Dark Night" follows the life of the fictional character Iva Kolar: his experiences as a Croatian University student, his role as a Partisan fighting Hitler's troops during W.W. II, his involvement in his nation's post-war ...
Style:
historical drama, bleak, period piece, grim, intense ...
Plot:
world war two, biopic, national identity, historical epic, university student, political intrigue, realism, occupation, fascism, tragedy, moral ambiguity, sacrifice ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
croatia, former yugoslavia
Similarity:
77%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
In Milan, in the winter of 1944, the ruthless Cane Nero leads the fascists against the partisans. Enne 2, one of the leading figures of the C.N.L., meets Berta, whom he loved three years ago, but Berta refuses to leave her husband for him. Enne 2 is ...
Style:
historical drama, serious, tension, bleak, atmospheric ...
Plot:
world war two, fascism, political conflict, occupation, persecution, moral ambiguity, oppression, betrayal, fear, violence, sacrifice, pursuit ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
milan italy, italy, turin italy
Similarity:
62%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A priest struggles with his religious beliefs as he sees his countrymen murdered in Nazi occupied Italy and as he becomes attracted to a woman operating in the resistance.
Style:
bleak, period piece, historical drama, tense, suspense ...
Plot:
world war two, nazi occupation, conscience, redemption, religious conflict, moral dilemma, guilt, sacrifice, forbidden love, church, political persecution, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
italy
Similarity:
59%
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166
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Norway, Sweden
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Little Ida's mother is working for the Germans during WW2, and she is also having a relationship with a German SS-officer. Ida is experiencing the problems of having a mother who is involved with the enemy, without being old enough to ...
Style:
historical drama, period piece, melancholic, realistic, bleak ...
Plot:
world war two, mother daughter relationship, collaboration, family drama, loss of innocence, trauma, betrayal, guilt, intimate, identity, haunting, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
1940s
Similarity:
59%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union, East Germany
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
May of 1945. Soviet soldiers conducting an operation to rescue the children in a small town in the territory of Germany.
Style:
historical drama, period piece, bleak, atmospheric, melancholic
Audience:
kids
Plot:
world war two, children, realism, post war germany, rescue mission, survival, military operation, duty, loss, trauma, small town, hopes ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
berlin germany, germany
Similarity:
58%
248
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
In a Serbian village on Christmas Day in 1943, the Chetniks accept two downed American pilots and give them hospitality. However, finding out that the Germans are looking for pilots, the Chetniks change their attitude towards them.
Style:
historical drama, suspense, black and white, art house, period drama
Plot:
world war two, partisan, christmas, village, betrayal, moral ambiguity, occupation, escape, holiday, deception, cover up, tragedy ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
serbia, balkan, former yugoslavia
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
September the 8th 1943, Rome, that crucial day, the armistice, in the town many life change their way. Danilo escapes the fascist enlist, while Michele succeeded to leave his administration moving from Rome. On the way to come back Rome the two ...
Style:
historical drama, period piece, realistic, bleak, tense
Plot:
world war two, fascism, sabotage, heroism, resistance movement, sacrifice, nazi, occupation, courage, german occupation, bravery, tragedy ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
italy, rome italy
Similarity:
57%
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Summer 1943, Piedmont, Italy. Milton loves Fulvia who plays with his love: she only likes the depth of his thought and the letters he writes to her. One year later, Milton has joined the Resistance and fights beside other partisans. He learns during ...
Style:
art house, suspense, historical drama, disturbing, psychological ...
Plot:
world war two, unrequited love, resistance, partisan, family problems, love triangle, male female relationship, couple relations, wartime, war, relationship problems, political conflict ...
Time:
1940s
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Four partisans in the mountains and suffering from typhus are slowly destroyed.
Style:
grim, bleak, psychological, intense, melancholic ...
Plot:
typhus, partisan, mountain, survival, suffering, disease, struggle, world war two, death, isolation, realism, illness ...
Place:
former yugoslavia, croatia
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Greece
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
One of filmmaker and expatriate writer Adonis Kyrou's best-known quotes translates roughly as "I urge you: Learn to look at 'bad' films, they are so often sublime." The same could be said of Kyrou's own directorial work ...
Style:
historical drama, tension, suspense, political, controversial ...
Plot:
resistance, world war two, occupation, traitor, nazi, betrayal, moral dilemma, black market, survival, underground movement, collaboration, guilt ...
Time:
1940s
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The tragic story of a group of prisoners, ordinary people, were detained in the camp at Lager in Naise at the beginning of WWII, after that mighty torture and abuse by the Germans, will try escape from the camp. A few succeeded.
Style:
bleak, tense, suspense, period piece
Plot:
world war two, concentration camp, escape, torture, prisoner of war camp, survival, nazi occupation, partisan, resistance, prisoners of war, execution, brutality ...
Time:
1940s, year 1941
Place:
former yugoslavia, eastern europe, serbia
Similarity:
50%
149
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
This is a movie about the start of people's uprising in Montenegro in World War II. After the capitulation of the Yugoslav Royal Army in April 1941, the Italians managed to infiltrate their puppet regime in Montenegro. However, people ...
Style:
crying, epic
Plot:
world war two, partisan, mountain, reprisal, murder, train, betrayal, bomb, wine, machine gun, death, celebration ...
Time:
year 1941
Place:
montenegro, former yugoslavia
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Destinies of two friends-fighters during WW2.
Style:
bleak, period piece, tense, atmospheric, melancholic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
world war two, sacrifice, friendship, occupation, resistance, partisan, survival, underground movement, loss, courage, fighter, duty ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
albania, kosovo, former yugoslavia
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Lucien, 14, can’t understand why his father, a serious and respected teacher, makes a fool of himself by dressing up as a clown and giving a show. André, Lucien’s father’s best friend, feels for the teenager and decides to reveal something ...
Style:
suspense, disturbing, tense, captivating, poignant ...
Plot:
world war two, occupied france, occupation, sabotage, resistance, french resistance, friendship, nazi occupation, german occupation, father son relationship, family secret, fight ...
Time:
1940s, year 2003
Place:
france
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK, Yugoslavia
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
World War II finally reaches a Yugoslavian lake, where a lifeguard shelters a refugee and her son.
Style:
historical drama, suspense, melancholic, period piece, political ...
Plot:
world war two, partisan, refugee, nazi, summer, lifeguard, ethical dilemma, occupation, danger, river, widow, coming of age ...
Time:
year 1944
Place:
former yugoslavia
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
WW2 story about group of prisoners who are trying to escape the death camp, run by local pro-Nazi militia.
Style:
tension, dark, suspense, grim, bleak ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
world war two, escape, concentration camp, prisoner, survival, oppression, war crime, tragedy, resistance, execution, escape plan, brutality ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
croatia, former yugoslavia
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy, France, West Germany, Yugoslavia
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
In WWII, Lieut. Martino and his men are assigned to lead a group of prostitutes through the mountainous ways to serve in brothels for Italian soldiers in Albania.
Style:
controversial, bleak, period piece, art house, melancholic ...
Plot:
world war two, prostitution, brothel, journey, moral ambiguity, abuse of power, violence, military, trauma, mountain, realism, desperation ...
Place:
albania, greece, athens greece
Similarity:
46%
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144
Genre: Crime, Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia, France
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
An experimental film about peaceful and carefree life in a small Dalmatian town, which turns into bloodshed and horror on the Eve of Italian occupation of the country.
Style:
experimental, atmospheric, political, tense, bleak ...
Plot:
world war two, occupation, wartime, bloodbath, social commentary, small town, loss of innocence, unsettling, resistance, coastal town, moral ambiguity, isolation ...
Time:
60s
Place:
croatia, poetic realism, mediterranean sea
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Croatia
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A young American is trying to find a man from her past, but he is never to be found, during the largest conflict on European soil since World War II – the battle of Vukovar. It is a search of identity and truth at a place where truth is selective, ...
Style:
captivating, thrilling, psychological, reflective, emotional ...
Plot:
identity, obsessive quest, problem, conflict, identity crisis, waking up, trauma, quest, freedom, truth, redemption, connection ...
Place:
croatia
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
In 1943, Vincenzio and Maria take their children to his father's Tuscan farm. Vincenzio commutes to Rome where he's a physician and, in the hospital basement, prints an anti-Fascist paper. His brother is in the Resistance; his father ...
Style:
historical drama, period piece, suspense, tension, poignant ...
Plot:
world war two, fascism, anti fascism, german occupation, war violence, coming of age, innocence lost, survival, revenge, trauma, brotherhood, high school life ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
rome italy, tuscany, italy
Similarity:
43%
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 ...
Style:
historical drama, period piece, bleak, tension
Plot:
world war two, winter, escape, war crime, manhunt, persecution, survival, fear, barbarism, desperation, holocaust, collaboration ...
Place:
austria
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
The nurse Helga meets Baltic nobleman Arno when he's wounded in the Russo-Finnish war. They have a short but passionate affair before Arno is called back to the front and dies. Helga has a daughter, Dorli, as a result of the affair and they ...
Style:
historical drama, family saga, bleak, dramatic, period piece ...
Plot:
mother daughter relationship, tragedy, survival, loss, secret police, post war, political persecution, war trauma, torture, humiliation, exile, occupation ...
Time:
1940s, 1950s, 60s, 50s
Place:
czechoslovakia, africa
Similarity:
41%
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Finland, Estonia, Sweden, Austria, Germany
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
1942. The State of Finland has formed an alliance with Nazi Germany. An elderly man single-handedly tries to stop a secret attempt by the Finnish State Police to hand over Jewish refugees directly to the Gestapo.
Style:
historical drama, suspenseful, bleak, period piece, tension ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
world war two, anti semitism, persecution, collaboration, moral dilemma, secret police, resistance, danger, courage, gestapo, risk, survival ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
finland
Similarity:
41%
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 ...
Style:
bleak, emotional, medical horror, period piece, historical drama
Audience:
adult
Plot:
world war two, concentration camp, suffering, holocaust, jewish family, persecution, oppression, survival, deportation, anti war, loss of innocence, family drama ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
europe, eastern europe, hungary
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
An unassuming young lawyer leads a fight against the Nazis near the end of the Second World War.
Style:
bleak, tension, suspense, period drama
Plot:
world war two, nazi, european, occupation, courage, determination, heroism, sacrifice, loss, resistance, ethical dilemma, ruthlessness ...
Time:
1940s
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Denmark
Duration: 152 min.
Story:
This Danish movie "Out of The Darkness" ( in Danish 'De Forbandede år 2' ) is a continuation of the popular WW II drama "Into The Darkness" ( in Danish 'De forbandede år' ) and it portraits the Danish ...
Style:
suspenseful, dramatic, captivating, serious, historical drama ...
Plot:
world war two, occupation, german occupation, resistance, freedom fighter, world war, wartime, nazism, war, fight, nazi soldier, nazi ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
denmark, copenhagen
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
In Japanese-occupied Hong Kong, a school teacher and her would-be-fiancé link up with Chinese guerrilla fighters, forging their own path to freedom.
Style:
suspense, historical drama, captivating, disturbing, tense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
japanese occupation, world war two, mother daughter relationship, sacrifice, courage, resistance, military, arrest, family relations, life is a bitch, occupation, partisan ...
Place:
hong kong
Similarity:
39%
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.
Style:
historical drama, tense, period piece, bleak, suspenseful ...
Plot:
world war two, resistance, nazi occupation, children, political oppression, loss of innocence, coming of age, courage, moral ambiguity, underground movement, tragedy, escalation ...
Time:
1940s
Similarity:
39%
Genre: War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
When a warrior dies, a star is born, a company of us die when born to a group of stars. Small children are fascinated by ancient legends and stories of old people, people replace their signature ready to be shot and put yourself in front of the ...
Style:
epic, bleak, poetic, melancholic, reflective ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
partisan, world war two, warrior, sacrifice, heroism, legend, folklore, death, mythology, symbolism, memories, tradition ...
Time:
year 1941
Place:
former yugoslavia, serbia
Similarity:
39%
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