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The Chronicles of Melanie (2016)
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The Chronicles of Melanie (2016)
Original name: Melānijas hronika
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Latvia, Czech Republic, Finland
Duration: 120 min.
Story: The 14th of June 1941, Soviet-occupied Latvia: Without warning, the authorities break into the house of Melanie and her husband Aleksandr and force them to leave everything behind. Together with more than 15 000 Latvians, Melanie and her son get deported to Siberia. In her fight against cold, famine and cruelty, she only gains new strength through the letters she writes to Aleksandr, full of hope for a free Latvia and a better tomorrow.
Style: rough, bleak, suspense, disturbing, black and white, period piece
Plot: deportation, world war two, gulag, survival, labor camp, politics, grief, cruelty, political prisoner, life is a bitch, mother son relationship, world war one, communism, totalitarian regime, post soviet, cold, male nudity, hunger, forced labor, winter, train, cat, snow, prisoner, death ...
Time: 1940s, year 1957, 1950s, year 1941, 50s
Place: latvia, soviet union, russia, siberia, ussr
Keyword: german, operation

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, serious, realistic and disturbing films with plots about world war two, biopic, life is a bitch, politics, society, death and train mostly in Drama, History and Biography genres. Some movies like The Chronicles of Melanie: Within the Whirlwind (2009), In the Crosswind (2014), Curtiz (2018), The Inner Circle (1991), Schindler's List (1993). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Within the Whirlwind (2009)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Germany, Poland, Belgium
Duration: 90 min.
Story: During Stalin's reign of terror, Evgenia Ginzburg, a literature professor, was sent to 10 years hard labor in a gulag in Siberia. Having lost everything, and no longer wishing to live, she meets the camp doctor and begins to come back to life.
Style: captivating, psychological, suspense, disturbing, historical drama
Plot: political repression, jailed, male female relationship, gulag, political prisoner, political persecution, political unrest, love story, relationships, love affair, wartime, wartime life ...
Time: year 1934
Place: siberia, ussr, soviet union
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In the Crosswind (2014)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Estonia
Duration: 90 min.
Story: June 14, 1941, 3 a.m. Over 40000 people from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are deported by Soviets to Siberia. Among them is a philosophy student Erna, a happily married mother of a little girl. Separated from her husband Erna and her daughter are ...
Style: realistic, serious, atmospheric, bleak, black and white ...
Plot: stalinism, deportation, world war two, hunger, ethnic cleansing, wartime life, getting home, life is a bitch, family in danger, separation from family, family relations, danger ...
Time: year 1941, 1940s, 1950s, 20th century
Place: siberia, soviet union, baltics, europe, russia ...
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Curtiz (2018)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Hungary
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Hollywood, 1942. The US government pressures Hungarian-born film director Michael Curtiz, who is about to finish shooting Casablanca, to accentuate the film's propaganda message in order to sway public opinion in favor of the country's ...
Style: suspense, captivating, tense, psychological, disturbing ...
Plot: world war two, father daughter relationship, director, life is a bitch, political unrest, family relations, relationship problems, father and daughter, family problems, hollywood, movie business, filmmaking ...
Time: 1940s
Place: hungary
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
The Inner Circle (1991)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Mystery
Country: Italy, Soviet Union, USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story: The true story of Ivan Sanchin, the KGB officer who was Stalin's private film projectionist from 1939 until the dictator's death. Told from Sanchin's view, the sympathetic but tragically flawed hero maintains unwavering faith in his ...
Style: realistic, disturbing, thought provoking, serious, political ...
Plot: stalinism, projectionist, world war two, dictatorship, politics, political unrest, injustice, state affairs, head of state, love, communism, filmmaking ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1991, 1930s, 50s
Place: ussr, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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Schindler's List (1993)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 195 min.
Story: The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II.
Style: touching, emotional, heartbreaking, realistic, thought provoking ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, adult
Plot: holocaust, world war two, genocide, nazi, war, wartime, storytelling, concentration camp, brutality, nazism, against humanity, survival ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1993, 90s, ancient times ...
Place: poland, germany, persia, iran, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
The Auschwitz Report (2021)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Slovakia, Czech Republic, Poland, Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story: This is the true story of Freddy and Walter – two young Slovak Jews, who were deported to Auschwitz in 1942. On 10 April 1944, after meticulous planning and with the help and the resilience of their inmates, they manage to escape. While the ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, tense, social
Plot: nazi, concentration camp, nazi occupation, world war two, male pubic hair, wartime life, male nudity, wartime, war violence, prisoner of war camp, prisoners of war, life is a bitch ...
Time: 1940s, year 1944
Place: germany, central europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
23rd March 1931: Shaheed (2002)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: India
Duration: 188 min.
Story: Bhagat Singh, a freedom fighter, is arrested for killing the British official responsible for the death of his mentor Lala Lajpatrai. He is ultimately hanged for his misdeed.
Style: disturbing, rough, realistic, serious, captivating
Plot: prison, prison life, vengeance, politics, life sentence, legal, life is a bitch, rebelliousness, trial, police brutality, torture, police officer killed ...
Time: 1920s, 1930s, 20th century, year 1931
Place: india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Eternal Winter (2018)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Hungary
Duration: 110 min.
Story: The true story of an unlikely romance in a Soviet labor camp.
Style: beautiful
Plot: world war two, stalinism, world war, landscape, gulag, coal mine, christmas, train, romantic relationship, wolf attack, communism, survival ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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Haven (2001)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 180 min.
Story: This is the true story of a woman named Ruth Gruber who travels to Europe to help escort 1000 Jewish War victims to the United States. She comes to love and feel sorry for them all, and fights for their rights to live in America.
Style: emotional, disturbing, sincere, realistic, serious ...
Plot: holocaust, world war two, wartime life, survival, rescue, deportation, anti semitism, immigrant, fighting the system, human spirit, idealism, heroic mission ...
Time: 1940s, 1930s
Place: europe, chicago, harvard university, vienna, belgrade ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
The Pilot: A Battle for Survival (2021)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 105 min.
Story: December of 1941, Northwestern Front. A German tank column is moving towards Moscow. During a mission to stop the enemy advance, Nikolai Komlev's IL-2 is shot down. Komlev manages to crash-land his plane in a remote forest clearing. He's ...
Style: rough, tense, suspense, suspenseful, patriotic ...
Plot: military, warplane, world war two, airplane, courage, fight, soldier, survival, life & death, aviation, miraculous event, war ...
Time: year 1941
Place: soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
A Bag of Marbles (2017)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: France, Canada, Czech Republic
Duration: 110 min.
Story: In occupied France, Maurice and Joseph, two young Jewish brothers left to their own devices demonstrate an incredible amount of cleverness, courage, and ingenuity to escape the enemy invasion and to try to reunite their family once again.
Style: suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot: world war two, brother brother relationship, holocaust, ss, nazi occupation, nazi, german occupation, german soldier, soldier, military, danger, machismo ...
Time: 1940s, year 2017, year 1943, year 1942, year 1944
Place: paris france, nice france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Fat Man and Little Boy (1989)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 127 min.
Story: This film reenacts the Manhattan Project, the secret wartime project in New Mexico where the first atomic bombs were designed and built.
Style: factual, suspense, intense, serious, realistic ...
Plot: world war two, nuclear bomb, atomic bomb, scientist, military, biopic, idealism, politics, scientific research, nuclear, ego clash, moral dilemma ...
Time: 1940s, year 1945, 20th century
Place: usa, new mexico, bay area
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
12 Years a Slave (2013)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: In the pre-Civil War United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery. Facing cruelty as well as unexpected kindnesses Solomon struggles not only to stay alive, but to retain his dignity. In ...
Style: motivational, heartbreaking, disturbing, harsh, bleak ...
Audience: teens
Plot: slavery, racism, survival, civil rights, torture, african american, freedom, american history, life is a bitch, black history, interracial relations, kidnapping ...
Time: 19th century, year 2013, 2010s, victorian era, ancient times ...
Place: louisiana, new orleans, america, africa, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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De Gaulle (2020)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: France
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Paris, June 1940. The de Gaulle couple is confronted with the military and political collapse of France. Charles de Gaulle joins London while Yvonne, his wife, finds herself with her three children on the road of the exodus.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, captivating, psychological, interesting
Plot: world war two, french history, husband wife relationship, french president, politician, political leader, politics, political unrest, world politics, philosopher, flashback, male pubic hair ...
Time: 1940s, year 1940
Place: france, paris france, brittany, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Edge (2010)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 124 min.
Story: The action takes place shortly after the end of the Second World War in the Siberian hinterland, among Russians and Germans with damaged personal stories and a strange transformation: the victors seem to be crawling into the skins of the defeated, ...
Style: realistic, captivating, bleak, tense, exciting ...
Plot: gulag, soldier, rivalry, prison life, prisoner of war camp, captivity, pow, world war two, wilderness, danger, confined, winter ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1945, post world war two
Place: russia, soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
The Last Emperor (1987)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: China, Italy, UK, France
Duration: 163 min.
Story: A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign in the Forbidden City, the object of worship by half a billion people; through his abdication, his decline and dissolute lifestyle; his exploitation ...
Style: visually stunning, epic, political, breathtaking, visually appealing ...
Plot: childhood, world war two, biopic, chinese history, revolution, empress, prison, drug addiction, emperor, interrogation, politics, eunuch ...
Time: 1950s, 1930s, 1920s, 1940s, 1910s ...
Place: china, beijing china, asia, japan, east asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe (2016)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Austria, Germany, France
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Before Dawn charts the years of exile in the life of famous Jewish Austrian writer Stefan Zweig, his inner struggle for the "right attitude" towards the events in war torn Europe and his search for a new home.
Style: exciting, thought provoking, captivating, sincere, touching ...
Plot: writers, literature, husband wife relationship, exile, world war two, writing a book, ex husband ex wife relationship, judaism, art, sociology, politics, biopic ...
Time: 1940s, 1930s, year 1941, year 1942, year 1936
Place: germany, new york, buenos aires argentina, brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
The Hiding Place (1975)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story: The Hiding Place is an account of a Dutch family who risk their lives by offering a safe haven for Jews during World War II
Style: bleak, spiritual, independent film, christian film, uplifting ...
Plot: holocaust, concentration camp, world war two, nazi concentration camp, christian, faith, christianity, jew persecution, religion, christian faith, shoah, fictional history ...
Time: 1940s, year 1975
Place: holland, europe, netherlands
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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Andrei Rublev (1966)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 205 min.
Story: An expansive Russian drama, this film focuses on the life of revered religious icon painter Andrei Rublev. Drifting from place to place in a tumultuous era, the peace-seeking monk eventually gains a reputation for his art. But after Rublev witnesses ...
Style: atmospheric, breathtaking, art house, black and white, philosophical ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: artist, painter, religion, art, biopic, monk, human spirit, medieval, painting, christianity, hunger, art history ...
Time: middle ages, 15th century, medieval times, year 1966, ancient times ...
Place: russia, soviet union, ussr, moscow russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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Oppenheimer (2023)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 180 min.
Story: The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer’s role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II.
Style: epic, dramatic, captivating, exciting, serious ...
Audience: adult
Plot: nuclear, world war two, atomic bomb, scientist, american politics, historical event, mastermind, top secret, physics, moral dilemma, guilt, arizona desert ...
Time: 1940s, year 1945, year 1943, 1950s, year 1954 ...
Place: new mexico, netherlands, germany
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51%
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In the Fog (2012)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Germany, Netherlands, Belarus, Russia, Latvia
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Western frontiers of the USSR, 1942. The region is under German occupation. A man is wrongly accused of collaboration. Desperate to save his dignity, he faces an impossible moral choice.
Style: realistic, bleak, serious, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: world war two, nazi occupation, false accusation, moral dilemma, danger, survival, life is a bitch, human nature, wartime life, resistance fighter, nazi, underground ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1942
Place: soviet union, germany, latvia, russia, ussr
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (2019)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK, Malawi
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Against all the odds, a thirteen year old boy in Malawi invents an unconventional way to save his family and village from famine.
Style: motivational, rough, inspirational, disturbing, factual ...
Audience: family outing, family friendly, date night, teens
Plot: farming, hunger, childhood, teenage boy, teacher, school, bicycle, chief, school expulsion, desperation, hopes, life is a bitch ...
Time: year 2019, 2010s
Place: africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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Charlatan (2020)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Czech Republic, Poland, Ireland, Slovakia
Duration: 118 min.
Story: The breathtaking story of a man gifted with exceptional abilities set against the background of the events of the totalitarian fifties.
Style: non-linear, contemplative, tense, psychological, unusual plot structure ...
Plot: closeted homosexual, gay, closeted gay, healer, lgbt, diagnosis, politics, arrested, gay lead character, gay interest, mistrust, traumatized man ...
Time: year 1935, 1950s, year 1942, 1930s, 1940s ...
Place: central europe, prague
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51%
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Triumph of the Spirit (1989)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Sport, War
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Fact based story about a former Greek Olympic boxer who was taken as a prisoner during World war II and placed in the Auschwitz prison camp. There he was permitted to survive as long as he fought for the amusement of his captors. His father and ...
Style: disturbing, independent film, tense, realistic, serious ...
Plot: holocaust, world war two, boxing, prison, ss, boxer, prison escape, fight, nazi, biopic, war, shoah ...
Time: 1940s, 1930s, 20th century, year 1943
Place: middle east, poland, europe, greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
 6.9
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Süskind (2012)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 118 min.
Story: In Nazi-occupied Amsterdam, Walter Süskind is a member of the Dutch Jewish Council who rescues hundreds of children from the concentration camps.
Style: captivating, serious, emotional, realistic, bleak
Plot: ss, holocaust, wartime life, world war two, nazi occupation, human spirit, selflessness, children, idealism, rescue, deportation, danger ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: europe, amsterdam, holland
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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Priest Daens (1992)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Belgium, France, Netherlands
Duration: 138 min.
Story: In the 1890s, Father Adolf Daens goes to Aalst, a textile town where child labor is rife, pay and working conditions are horrible, the poor have no vote, and the Catholic church backs the petite bourgeoisie in oppressing workers. He writes a few ...
Style: bleak, sincere, disturbing, gloomy, realistic ...
Plot: religion, revolution, politics, fighting the system, biopic, liberation theology, belgian history, justice, strike, labor, unemployment, corruption ...
Time: 19th century, 20th century, 1890s, 1900s, turn of the century
Place: belgium, europe, flanders
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
The Little Comrade (2018)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Estonia
Duration: 99 min.
Story: In the midst of Stalinist tyranny, six-year-old Leelo's mother is sent to a prison camp. Haunted by her mother's last words telling her to be a good kid, Leelo vows to be on her best behaviour in the confusing grown-up world in the hope ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, captivating, psychological
Plot: child, society, stalinism, pow, promise, adult child friendship, children, life is a bitch, social problems
Place: estonia, ussr, soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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Rasputin (1981)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 151 min.
Story: Details the life of the Russian monk Rasputin. The film shows his rise to power and how it corrupted him. His sexual perversions and madness ultimatly leads to his gruesome assasination.
Style: realistic, serious, disturbing, atmospheric, spiritual ...
Plot: royal family, world war one, clergy, intrigue, imperial russia, russian history, psychopath, tragic hero, ambition, revolution, rebelliousness, betrayal ...
Time: 1910s, year 1916, year 1917, year 1981
Place: soviet union, st. petersburg russia, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Coming Out of the Ice (1982)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Victor and his family moved to the USSR in the mid '30's. When he refused to sign his skydiving accomplishment as a citizen of the USSR, he was not tried but simply sent to prison. His horrific imprisonment, beating and torture culminated ...
Plot: gulag, communism, biopic, immigrant, teenager
Time: 1930s, 1940s
Place: siberia, soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Eleanor, First Lady of the World (1982)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Biography of former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt, who forged a new role for herself in the years after her husband's death.
Style: realistic, serious, uplifting, captivating
Plot: grief, real life, female leader, aging, ship, couples, human spirit, couple relations, dealing with death, idealism, politics, state affairs ...
Time: 1940s, 1930s, 20th century, 50s, 1950s
Place: paris france, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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