Movies like That Summer of White Roses

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That Summer of White Roses (1989)
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That Summer of White Roses (1989)
Original name: Đavolji raj
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK, Yugoslavia
Duration: 100 min.
Story: World War II finally reaches a Yugoslavian lake, where a lifeguard shelters a refugee and her son.
Plot: world war two, partisan, love, wartime, nazi occupation, lifeguard, summer, peace, mother and son, refugee, widow, arranged marriage, coming of age, nazi officer, irony, rescue from drowning, war, young, vignette, white rose, summertime
Time: year 1944
Place: former yugoslavia, yugoslavia

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Most similar movies to That Summer of White Roses

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out crying, epic, black and white and psychological films with plots about world war two, partisan, nazi, death, machine gun, battles and fear mostly in War, Drama and Action genres. Some movies like That Summer of White Roses: The Garden of Redemption (1997), Outrage (1982), Evening Bells (1986), Uomini e no (1980), Operation Stadium (1977). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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
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95%
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Outrage (1982)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 82 min.
Story: After the end of World War II, a young partisan falls in love with a German secretary who is captured and imprisoned by partisans. He decides to free her and escape with her.
Plot: partisan, world war two, third reich, nazi occupation, love, skinny dipping, female nudity, nudity, slaughter, nazi, church, ss ...
Time: year 1944
Place: former yugoslavia, serbia
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86%
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Evening Bells (1986)
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.
Plot: world war two, partisan, communist, fascism, legs, stockings
Place: balkan, former yugoslavia
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67%
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 44
Uomini e no (1980)
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 ...
Plot: world war two, partisan, nazi occupation, resistance, italian history, resistance movement, fascist, italian fascism, love
Time: 1940s
Place: italy, turin italy, milan italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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Operation Stadium (1977)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 90 min.
Story: This movie tells a true story about events in Zagreb in 1941. Nazis and their collaborators organized the great gathering of students on Dubrava stadium. The intention was to publicly separate Jews from them which would lead to future pogrom. The ...
Plot: partisan, world war two, invasion, stadium, firearm
Time: year 1941
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
The Demolition Squad (1967)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 81 min.
Story: The Germans held the strategically important airport, where planes were taking off to bombard partisans positions. Headquarters of one a partisan unit sent a few commandos to blow up airplanes and airport in the air.
Plot: partisan, world war two, army, commando, cave, air raid, mission, mountain, nazi, machine gun, train, hostage ...
Place: former yugoslavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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 ⇓
50%
 7.3
 79
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 ⇓
47%
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Escapes (1968)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Political prisoners imprisoned in Yugoslavia will try to escape from prison by digging a channel under the ground and join the partisans.
Plot: world war two, partisan, prisoner, fight, traitor, cold, escape, hunger, political prisoner, sick, girl, prison ...
Place: former yugoslavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 7.2
 35
The Verdict (1977)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 110 min.
Story: In the conflict with the enemy in one battle lost in advance, the risk to die in vain, partisan Mitko Angelov, fleeing from the battlefield. He climbs onto the train and goes to see his mother, who has just returned from internment. When he returned ...
Plot: partisan, world war two, nazi, mountain, patrol, motorcycle, mythology, deserter, river, commissioner, battles, commander ...
Place: former yugoslavia, macedonia
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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The Feast (1967)
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: black and white
Plot: partisan, black, world war two, slaughtered, commander, banquet, blood, snow, escape, death, murder, christmas ...
Place: balkan, serbia, former yugoslavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Wild Wind (1985)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: August 1943, Europe. The tentacles of the German octopus have begun to recoil. As the Nazis retreat, their concern focuses on the supply of oil from the refineries of Romania. Without the flow of "black gold", Germany's doom is ...
Plot: world war two, partisan, hanged man, nazi, river, violence, machine gun, death, train, murder, blood, traitor ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Orchestra of One Youthhood (1985)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 102 min.
Story: True story about the brass band of a fire brigade during WW2.
Plot: world war two, partisan, orchestra, brass band, nudity, prostitute, female nudity, machine gun, river, execution, nazi, army ...
Place: former yugoslavia, serbia
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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First to Fight (1967)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Jack is the sole survivor of a Japanese attack on his squad at Guadalcanal. Because of his heroism and the fact that he is still alive, he becomes a Medal of Honor hero. He returns to train new recruits for the Marines and falls for a girl named ...
Plot: world war two, combat, usa history, wartime, pacific war, bare chested male, cowardice, sergeant, war hero, japanese army, marriage, widow ...
Time: year 1967, year 1943
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 6.2
 58
Wedding (1973)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia, Soviet Union
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Beginning in 1943. year. The tragic story of the prisoners... partisans and others who were found in a prison in Montenegro at the time when the Chetniks and the occupiers at all costs they want to crush the uprising in Yugoslavia.
Plot: world war two, partisan, wedding, liberation, escape, prisoner, girl, prison, murder, death, fear, cold the temperature ...
Time: year 1943
Place: former yugoslavia, montenegro
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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The Bombers (1973)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Two best friends, former Partisans, must face new challenges after the war.
Plot: world war two, partisan, mountain, bomber, battles, mission, night, river, commando, nazi, train, fear ...
Time: post world war two
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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The Trek (1968)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A story of a farmer and his calf, the only survivors of the German WW2 punitive expeditions that passed through their village. While evading before the dangers of war, the farmer develops a deep attachment to his calf and tries to save it at all ...
Style: black and white
Plot: world war two, partisan, farmer, calf, fate, hiding place, death, escape, fear, murder, blood, massacre ...
Time: year 1943
Place: serbia, former yugoslavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Looking Into the Eyes of the Sun (1966)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Four partisans in the mountains and suffering from typhus are slowly destroyed.
Style: light, epic
Plot: partisan, world war two, typhus, winter, horse, fever, hunger, snow, cow, mountain, nazi, delirium
Place: croatia
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
The First Day of Freedom (1964)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Freed Polish soldiers are trapped in a small town in Germany during the last days of World War II. After a doctor's daughter is raped by a concentration camp worker, the Poles allow her and her father to stay in the house that is their ...
Plot: world war two, partisan, group, doctor, father daughter relationship, bell, end of war, post war, shooting
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Great Transport (1983)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 134 min.
Story: This WW2 epic was one of the last movies of that kind made in former Yugoslavia. It tells the true story of great transport of Partizans from Vojvodina to Bosnia in 1943.
Style: epic
Plot: world war two, partisan, woods, battles, gypsy, ambush, convoy, tragedy, tank, ss, river, bombing ...
Place: former yugoslavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Silent Gunpowder (1990)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Silent Gunpowder (Serbo-Croatian: Gluvi barut) is a Yugoslavian war film Based on a novel by Branko Ćopić and set during World War II, the film tells the story of a Serbian village in the mountains of Bosnia and its villagers who found themselves ...
Style: silent
Plot: partisan, world war two, communist, mountain, civil war, communism, tragic event, church, lieutenant, mission, rock, execution ...
Place: bosnia herzegovina, former yugoslavia, bosnia
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Fliers of the Open Skies (1977)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Poetic parable of children in war and their sacrifice.
Plot: world war two, partisan, pigeon, looting, rocky, teacher, exhaustion, fear, friend, school, arrest, bird ...
Place: croatia, former yugoslavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Sokol Did Not Love Him (1988)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 86 min.
Story: The story begins in a small rural village in Ladimirevci, Eastern Croatia in 1943, where a land owner Sima is helping the Partisan Movement and the official Ustasha regime in order to save the life of his son Beneš, who is enlisted in the German ...
Style: road movie
Plot: world war two, partisan, landowner, nudity, rural setting, countryside, soldier, celebration, fear, death, horse, priest ...
Time: 1940s, year 1943, year 1944
Place: croatia, europe, former yugoslavia, balkan
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
The Liberation of Skopje (2016)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Croatia, Finland
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Eight-year-old Zoran is the hero of this story set in Skopje during the German occupation of the city in World War II. Through his eyes, we experience all the cruelty, poverty and suffering of wartime. A love affair between his Macedonian mother and ...
Style: tense, thought provoking, suspense, rough, psychological
Plot: world war two, boy, liberation, arrest, german occupation, partisan, traitor, nazi occupation, assassination, german officer, prisoner, mother son relationship ...
Time: 1940s, year 1944, year 1943
Place: europe, former yugoslavia, macedonia, balkan
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Three (1965)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 80 min.
Story: In this episodic WW II drama, a Yugoslavian youth attempts to escape from German soldiers. In the first scene, he stands amongst a group of refugees waiting for a train. One man, with no identification papers is accused of a petty crime and the ...
Style: black and white
Plot: partisan, world war two, black, death, fugitive, revolutionary, swamp, air raid, false accusation, mountain, shooting, execution ...
Place: serbia, balkan, eastern europe, former yugoslavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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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 ⇓
34%
Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (1983)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK, New Zealand, Japan
Duration: 123 min.
Story: In 1942, British soldier Jack Celliers comes to a japanese prison camp. The camp is run by Yonoi, who has a firm belief in discipline, honour and glory. In his view, the allied prisoners are cowards when they chose to surrender instead of commiting ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, realistic, bleak, experimental ...
Plot: world war two, prison, pow, war crime, christmas, anti war, war, samurai, japanese occupation, imperial japan, prison escape, prisoner of war camp ...
Time: 1940s, year 1983, year 1936, 20th century, year 1946 ...
Place: asia, southeast asia, britain, japan, australia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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July 13th (1982)
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, battles, water, fascist, reprisal, rock, motorcycle, tragic event, italian soldier, resistance ...
Time: year 1941
Place: montenegro, former yugoslavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Check Passed: No Mines (1965)
Genre: War
Country: Yugoslavia, Soviet Union
Duration: 88 min.
Story: October 20, 1944, Belgrade was liberated by Red Army and Tito's partisans. But the capital of Yugoslavia is still fraught with danger - retreating aggressor mined the city . A special partisan squad goes into underground maze of tunnels to find ...
Plot: red army, world war two, partisan, landmine, danger, soldier, army, minefield, military uniform, uniform
Time: year 1944
Place: belgrade serbia
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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