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The Partisans (1963)
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The Partisans (1963)
Original name: Sissit
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Finland
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Lieutenant Takala meets his fellow partisans of 20th division many year after the war. With flashbacks we see the events of summer 1944.
Style: black and white
Plot: world war two, conservative, russo finnish war, friendship, partisan, religion, female nudity, sex scene, priest, male nudity, officer, post war, war hero, hallucination, morality, war veteran, male female relationship, military officer, guerilla warfare, sauna, post traumatic stress, russian soldier, pessimism, battlefield, behind enemy lines ...
Time: 1940s, 60s, 1960s
Place: finland, soviet union, ussr

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, captivating, serious and rough films with plots about world war two, soldier, eastern front, russo finnish war, war, nazi and world war mostly in Drama, War and History genres. Some movies like The Partisans: The Unknown Soldier (1985), Silence (2011), Abandoned Houses, Empty Homes (2000), The Interrogation (2009), Unknown Soldier (2017). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Unknown Soldier (1985)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Finland
Duration: 197 min.
Story: Second silver screen adaption of the Finnish war book by Väinö Linna. The story is based on Linna's experiences as an infantry man in the Finnish army during the so called "Continuation War" (1941-1944).
Style: realistic, exciting, captivating, serious, rough
Plot: world war two, war, female nudity, eastern front, russo finnish war, conservative, world war one, infantry, battles, heroes, military, state affairs ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1943, year 1942, year 1941 ...
Place: finland, europe, eastern europe
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95%
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Silence (2011)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Finland
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A drama between people under unconventional circumstances. In the Second World War Finland was the only nation who brought casualties killed-in-action back to be buried at home. These actions were carried out by men and women working in assembly ...
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, suspenseful, sad ...
Plot: world war two, military, wartime life, life is a bitch, heroes, idealism, heroism, death of son, russo finnish war, eastern front, soldier, nervous breakdown ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1944
Place: finland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
94%
Abandoned Houses, Empty Homes (2000)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Finland
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A war movie that takes place in Finnish Karelia in 1944.
Style: serious, suspenseful, disturbing, realistic, touching
Plot: world war two, male female relationship, family relations, refugee, deserter, evacuation, soldier, baby, military hospital, bombing, battles, truck ...
Time: 1940s, year 1944
Place: finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
91%
The Interrogation (2009)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Finland
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Nuori nainen on saanut kutsun saapua poliisin kuultavaksi. Hän pelkää joutuvansa ansaan. Hän on täydellistä suomenkieltä puhuva Neuvosto-desantti, joka on varomattomuuttaan jättänyt vakoiluradionsa pesulaan säilytettäväksi.
Plot: russo finnish war, police interrogation, humanist, spying, convict, soviet spy, military officer, russian spy, socialist, cell, female spy, breakdown ...
Time: 1940s, year 1942, year 1943, year 1944
Place: soviet union, finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
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Unknown Soldier (2017)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Finland, Belgium, Iceland
Duration: 180 min.
Story: The film follows Finnish army machine gun company in Continuation War against Soviet Union, 1941–1944. Based on Väinö Linna's best selling novel Tuntematon Sotilas (The Unknown Soldier) and the novel's uncensored version, Sotaromaani ...
Style: disturbing, realistic, psychological, captivating, sincere ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: world war two, military, eastern front, infantry, soldier, friendship, husband wife relationship, friend, insubordination, firing squad, battles, heroes ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1943, year 1941, year 1942 ...
Place: finland, germany, soviet union
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78%
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Ambush (1999)
Genre: War, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 123 min.
Story: It is the summer of 1941 and the Finnish army has been mobilized along the border with Russia. A platoon led by Lt. Eero Perkola is waiting for orders to go on the offensive. The platoon receives orders for a recon mission through the wilderness ...
Style: realistic, suspense, intense, sincere, disturbing ...
Plot: world war two, military, ethnic conflict, courage, culture clash, justice, visceral, behind enemy lines, lone hero, battles, danger, military life ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, 90s
Place: russia, finland, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
Sign of the Beast (1981)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Finland
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Set during the Second World War in the Finnish war zone.
Plot: world war two, nazi germany, war propaganda, frustration, male nudity, anti war, suicide, wedding, deserter, fistfight, wedding party, torture ...
Time: 1940s, 1930s
Place: finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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The Boys (1962)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: Finland
Duration: 106 min.
Story: When Continuation War started in Summer 1941, German soldiers arrived to Oulu. With their charm they conquered women and town boys. Finnish boys communicated with them on many levels: had trades, worked as interpreters, rotated business, spied on ...
Style: crying, black and white
Plot: world war two, boy, control, russo finnish war, wartime life, childhood, children in wartime, male female relationship, troubled youth, tunnel, coming of age, underage drinking ...
Time: 1940s, year 1941, year 1943, year 1942, year 1944
Place: finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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Promise (2005)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Finland
Duration: 112 min.
Story: The film tells about members of Finnish women's Lotta Service during the Second World War through the eyes of three young women.
Style: patriotic
Plot: world war two, russo finnish war, gender, eastern front, veterinarian, letter, surveillance, bombing, loss of sister, loss of friend, air raid, wounded animal ...
Place: finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
Under the North Star II (2010)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Finland
Duration: 138 min.
Story: Akseli Koskela returns from prison and tries to learn living again. He's not allowed to take part in politics anymore, but he sees a lot of injustice around him. He raises a family with his wife Elina while another war is around the corner...
Style: suspense, psychological, touching, family saga, epic
Plot: family relations, world war two, communism, soldier, village life, family history, village, communist, post war, working class, grudge, lower class ...
Time: 1900s, 1940s, 1920s, 1930s
Place: finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
The Winter War (1989)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Finland
Duration: 199 min.
Story: Russia attacked Finland in late November 1939. This film tells the story of a Finnish platoon of reservists from the municipality of Kauhava in the province of Pohjanmaa/Ostrobothnia who leave their homes and go to war. The film focuses on the ...
Style: realistic, epic, tense, bleak, captivating ...
Plot: war, world war two, winter, wartime, military, world war, invasion, cold weather, battlefield, tank, politics, great war ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, 1930s, year 1939
Place: finland, russia, baltics, europe, soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Front in the Rear of the Enemy (1982)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia
Duration: 161 min.
Story: A final episode in the trilogy about the Russian partisan's resistance during WWII. The film is set in 1944, when Russian partisans are making progress in their fighting against the Nazi occupation of Russia, Poland and Czechoslovakia. Lt. ...
Style: patriotic
Plot: world war two, patriot, partisan, great patriotic war, nazi occupation, soviet army, firearm
Place: soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
At War as at War (1969)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 90 min.
Story: To the young lieutenant Maleshkin the war is a minor obstacle, if compared to his personal battle to command his subordinates, while conducting an armored vehicle at the same time he's trying to impress his superior Soviet officers who put him ...
Style: thought provoking, realistic, captivating, disturbing, patriotic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: soviet army, world war two, great patriotic war, military, soldier, heroism, friendship, battles, leadership, transformation, heroes, adaptation ...
Time: 1940s, year 1943
Place: soviet union, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
The Garden of Redemption (1997)
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.
Plot: world war two, wartime, love, resistance movement, partisan, nazi occupation, priest, resistance, fascism
Time: 1940s
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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The Hot Snow (1972)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 99 min.
Story: In November, 1942, near the Volga, Stanlingrad is under siege of Commander Friederich Paulus and his 330,000 men. The Russian high command unleashes an operation to protect the Mishkova River to avoid that about four hundred tanks join Paulus' ...
Plot: eastern front, artillery, world war two, world war, soviet army, female soldier, tank, military officer, soldier, nurse, russian soldier, red army ...
Time: year 1942
Place: soviet union, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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The Ascent (1977)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Two Soviet partisans leave their starving band to get supplies from a nearby farm. The Germans have reached the farm first, so the pair must go on a journey deep into occupied territory, a voyage that will also take them deep into their souls.
Style: bleak, depressing, cerebral, sincere, sad ...
Plot: world war two, partisan, cold weather, execution, betrayal, nazi, winter, christian, woman, father, politics, spirituality ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1977, year 1942
Place: soviet union, ussr, iraq, europe, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Little Alexander (1981)
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.
Audience: kids
Plot: world war two, death, poverty, concentration camp, hunger, post war
Time: 1940s
Place: germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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King Rat (1965)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: When Singapore surrendered to the Japanese in 1942 the Allied POWs, mostly British but including a few Americans, were incarcerated in Changi prison. This was a POW detention center like no other. There were no walls or barbed-wire fences for the ...
Style: black and white, realistic, bleak, sad, serious ...
Plot: world war two, prison, prisoner of war camp, world war, prisoners of war, military, friendship, bullying, great war, prisoner, prison life, british ...
Time: 1940s, year 1945
Place: japan, asia, singapore
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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1944 The Final Defence (2007)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Finland
Duration: 117 min.
Story: The Soviet army breaks through the Finnish defences on the Karelian Isthmus in June 1944, advancing with overwhelming force. Somehow, the Finnish troops must find the strength to fight back, with all odds against them. The Battle of Tali-Ihantala ...
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot: world war two, soldier, military, battles, against the odds, heroes, wartime life, war, rivalry, tank, battlefield, eastern front ...
Time: 1940s, year 1944
Place: finland, europe, russia, soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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
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41%
The Ring with a Crowned Eagle (1992)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Poland, France, UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A Polish Resistance fighter who survived the Nazi years cannot accept the new Communist power.
Plot: world war two, renaissance, post war, vodka, nazism, resistance, anti communist, ss, partisan, communism, nkvd, polish history ...
Time: 1940s, year 1944
Place: eastern europe, poland
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40%
They Fought for Their Country (1975)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 158 min.
Story: In July 1942, in the Second World War, the rearguard of the Russian army protects the bridgehead of the Don River against the German army while the retreating Russian troops cross the bridge. While they move back to the Russian territory through the ...
Style: heroic, sentimental, rough, tense, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: world war two, red army, heroism, world war, life & death, war, camaraderie, military, nazi, retreat, eastern front, soviet soldier ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1942
Place: soviet union, ussr, russia
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40%
Akseli and Elina (1970)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Finland
Duration: 137 min.
Story: A former Red Rebellion leader returns home after being imprisoned for his participation in the Finnish Civil War, but soon finds out that wartime mindsets still linger in the heads of people.
Style: family saga, epic, pre war
Plot: family relations, progress, countryside, farm, car, society, socialist, farmer, village, family history, communism, death of son ...
Time: 1940s, 1920s, 1930s
Place: finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Trial on the Road (1986)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A Russian POW joins the partisan guerrillas and proves his loyalty fighting the Nazis.
Style: political, black and white
Plot: world war two, great patriotic war, nazi, partisan, prisoners of war, prisoner, world war, underground, redemption, eastern front, collaborator, suspicion ...
Time: 1940s
Place: soviet union, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Black Birds (1967)
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.
Plot: world war two, partisan, nazi concentration camp, group, death, escape, cruelty, civil war, nazi, prison
Time: 1940s
Place: croatia
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Shadow of the Deceased (2005)
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 ...
Plot: czech history, revenge killing, sanitarium, shoah, nun, exhumation, war violence, knight, political prisoner, convent, communist, german officer ...
Time: 1940s, 60s, 1950s
Place: africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
The Last Winter (1976)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Albania
Duration: 51 min.
Story: Germans come amid snow and winter. In the village only people remained are women, that fight until wounded partisans, sheltered in the village, will retreat deeper and snow will cover their tracks. Face to face with the Germans and their control of ...
Style: black and white
Plot: world war two, village, winter, war, battles, family relations, german army, german soldier, german occupation, partisan, nazi, husband wife relationship
Time: 1940s
Place: albania
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Beyond the Front Line (2004)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Finland
Duration: 127 min.
Story: A movie based on real wartime diaries tells the story of the Swedish speaking Finns' infantry regiment 61. The story follows the regiment during the Continuation War from 1942 to 1944 and from Syväri to the Karelian Isthmus where they faced ...
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, tense
Plot: world war two, military, soldier, wartime life, heroic mission, against humanity, chaos and mayhem, battles, politics, state affairs, war, russo finnish war ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1943, year 2002, year 1942 ...
Place: finland, russia, europe, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Klim Voroshilov-2 Tank (1990)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Tank Klim Voroshilov 2
Style: suspense, disturbing, sincere, exciting, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: great patriotic war, world war two, death, tank, nazi soldier, battlefield, soldier, eastern front, danger, german soldier, wartime life, nazi ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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