Movies like The Guardians

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The Guardians (2017)
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The Guardians (2017)
Original name: Les Gardiennes
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France, Switzerland, Belgium
Duration: 138 min.
Story: Women are left behind to work a family farm during the Great War.
Style: psychological, touching, bleak, suspense, disturbing, novela, anamorphic
Audience: chick flick, boys' night
Plot: world war one, farm, countryside, mother daughter relationship, farming, little girl, love, life philosophy, great war, friendship, family relations, life is a bitch, disorder, railway, landscape, chaos, rural area, horse, winter, pregnancy, young woman, snow, female nudity, sex scene, death ...
Time: year 1917, year 1919, 1910s, year 1915, post world war one, contemporary
Place: france
Keyword: mass

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, psychological and touching films with plots about world war one, family relations, war, death, soldier, world war two and great war mostly in Drama, War and Romance genres. Some movies like The Guardians: Little Forest (2018), The Fear (2015), Company K (2004), Gilles' Wife (2004), Under the North Star II (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Little Forest (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A young woman leaves the city to return to her hometown in the countryside. Seeking to escape the hustle and bustle of the city, she becomes self-sufficient in a bid to reconnect with nature.
Style: sincere, sad, captivating, disturbing, psychological ...
Audience: chick flick, teens
Plot: countryside, cooking, farming, female protagonist, childhood friend, food, young woman, friendship, love, pet dog, winter, male female relationship ...
Place: south korea
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100%
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The Fear (2015)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A young soldier testifies of his thoughts about the first world war, between disillusion, fear and hate, following his path through the letters he sends to his lover.
Style: psychological, suspenseful, rough
Plot: world war one, soldier, military, bombing, self mutilation, death of friend, desperation, wounded, trench warfare, hiding, youth, love ...
Time: 1910s, year 1914, year 1916, year 1915, year 1917
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
 5.4
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Company K (2004)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Based on the popular World War I novel by author William March, director Robert Clem's COMPANY K follows a veteran of the first great conflict as he finishes a book about his wartime experiences and reflects on how a man's true character ...
Style: serious, psychological, captivating, disturbing, epic ...
Plot: world war one, veteran, soldier, wartime life, battles, state affairs, military, life is a bitch, politics, prison life, haunted by the past, military life ...
Time: 20th century, 1930s, year 1917
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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Gilles' Wife (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Luxembourg, Italy, Switzerland
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Gilles' wife, Elise, who smiles when she thinks of him, cooks and scrubs and cheerfully makes love to him, suspects during her third pregnancy that he is having an affair with her coquettish younger sister, Victorine. Elise suffers, usually in ...
Style: psychological, serious, sincere, touching, realistic ...
Plot: love triangle, betrayal, infidelity, sister sister relationship, jealousy, dysfunctional family, love affair, society, dishonesty, crumbling marriage, human nature, family problems ...
Time: year 2004, 1930s, pre world war two
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
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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 ⇓
61%
Private Peaceful (2012)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Set in the fields of Devon and the WW1 battlefields of Flanders, two brothers fall for the same girl while contending with the pressures of their feudal family life, the war, and the price of courage and cowardice.
Style: serious, touching, realistic, emotional, weeping ...
Audience: teens
Plot: world war one, war, soldier, love triangle, family relations, military, teenage love, siblings relations, social relations, family life, great war, world war two ...
Time: 20th century, year 2012, 1910s
Place: england, europe, belgium
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
The Land Girls (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK, France
Duration: 111 min.
Story: During World War II, the organisation "The Women's Land Army" recruited women to work on British farms while the men were off to war. Three such "land girls" of different social backgrounds - quiet Stella, young hairdresser ...
Style: period piece, touching, sentimental, realistic, historical drama ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: world war two, friendship, love, wartime life, working class, war, countryside, farm, woman, women, wine, world war ...
Time: 1940s, year 1998, 20th century
Place: england, united kingdom, english channel, europe, britain ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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Journey's End (2017)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Set in a dugout in Aisne in 1918, a group of British officers, led by the mentally disintegrating young officer Stanhope, variously await their fate.
Style: suspense, psychological, period piece, thought provoking, captivating ...
Audience: date night
Plot: world war one, trench warfare, war, great war, british army, mentally unstable, army, officer, world war two, battles, fear, nightmare ...
Time: year 1918, 1910s, future
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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Mother of Men (1975)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 94 min.
Style: sincere, suspenseful, rough, bleak, touching
Audience: boys' night
Plot: children, world war two, mother, heroine, kindness, survival, village, young woman, hunger, danger, life is a bitch, parents and children ...
Time: 1940s, year 1943, year 1942
Place: soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
The Ottoman Lieutenant (2017)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Turkey, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Lillie, a determined American woman, ventures overseas to join Dr. Jude at a remote medical mission in the Ottoman Empire (now Turkey). However, Lillie soon finds herself at odds with Jude and the mission’s founder, Woodruff, when she falls for ...
Style: disturbing, thought provoking, tense, captivating, retro ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: world war one, great war, soldier, self discovery, female protagonist, friendly fire, danger, nurse, tragic love, revolution, strength, lovers ...
Time: 1910s, victorian era, year 1914
Place: ottoman empire, istanbul turkey, philadelphia, turkey, america
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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Sunset Song (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Luxembourg
Duration: 135 min.
Story: The daughter of a Scottish farmer comes of age in the early 1900s.
Style: captivating, psychological, realistic, tense, historical drama ...
Plot: world war one, farmer, father daughter relationship, love, shepherd, female protagonist, marriage proposal, father son relationship, sex scene, village, execution, death of father ...
Time: 1910s, edwardian era, 2010s
Place: scotland, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
Missing in America (2005)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A haunted Vietnam veteran, living in exile in the forests of the Pacific Northwest, is faced with a life-changing decision after he is visited by a former platoon member and his young Amerasian daughter.
Style: psychological, realistic, emotional, touching, captivating ...
Plot: vietnam veteran, friendship, homecoming, exile, solitary, life is a bitch, society, orphan, redemption, farm, family relations, children ...
Place: usa, asia, vietnam
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
Burnt by the Sun (1994)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Russia, France
Duration: 135 min.
Story: Russia, 1936: revolutionary hero Colonel Kotov is spending an idyllic summer in his dacha with his young wife and six-year-old daughter Nadia and other assorted family and friends. Things change dramatically with the unheralded arrival of Cousin ...
Style: touching, stylized, captivating, sad, political ...
Plot: politics, communism, stalinism, communist, father daughter relationship, nkvd, repression, symbolism, revolution, countryside, redemption, world war two ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, year 1994, year 1936
Place: soviet union, russia, ussr
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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 10K
Butterfly (1999)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Spain
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The film centres on Moncho and his coming-of-age experience in Galicia in 1936. Moncho develops a close relationship with his teacher Don Gregorio who introduces the boy to different things in the world. While the story centres on Moncho's ...
Style: sentimental, touching, realistic, compassionate, political ...
Audience: teens
Plot: spanish civil war, coming of age, friendship, civil war, children, teacher, fascism, childhood, depression, anarchist, family relations, parents and children ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, 90s, year 1999
Place: spain, iberian peninsula, barcelona, europe, galicia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
Captain Conan (1996)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Bulgaria near the end of World War I: Conan, warrior and wolf, leads a band of 50 ruthless French fighters who love hand-to-hand combat. Their motto: "We forgot to take prisoners, Captain." At war's end, the unit goes to Bucharest, ...
Style: rough, serious, realistic, suspense
Plot: world war one, french army, military life, brutality, society, heroism, great war, insubordination, danger, interwar period, world war, european ...
Time: year 1918, 20th century, year 1996, 1910s, year 1919 ...
Place: macedonia, bulgaria, romania, europe, balkan ...
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59%
Johnny Got His Gun (1971)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Joe, a young American soldier, is hit by a mortar shell on the last day of World War I. He lies in a hospital bed in a fate worse than death - a quadruple amputee who has lost his arms, legs, eyes, ears, mouth and nose. Unbeknown to his doctors, he ...
Style: depressing, disturbing, thought provoking, surreal, political ...
Plot: anti war, hospital, disability, dream, haunted by the past, mute, amputation, patient, freak, isolation, soldier, world war one ...
Time: year 1971, near future, 1920s, 1900s, 1910s ...
Place: france, colorado, los angeles, europe, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
The Water Diviner (2014)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: In 1919, Australian farmer Joshua Connor travels to Turkey to discover the fate of his three sons, reported missing in action. Holding on to hope, Joshua must travel across the war-torn landscape to find the truth and his own peace.
Style: touching, reflective, emotional, dramatic, compassionate ...
Plot: world war one, war, redemption, missing person, courage, family drama, great war, parents and children, family relations, escapades, military, wartime ...
Time: 1910s, year 1919, year 2014, 2010s, 1920s ...
Place: australia, gallipoli, turkey, istanbul turkey, ottoman empire
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
The Great War (2019)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: In November of 1918 as World War I was ending, a unit of American soldiers goes behind enemy lines to find a lost platoon of African American soldiers.
Style: captivating, serious
Audience: boys' night
Plot: world war one, trench warfare, military, soldier, rescue mission, battles, military life, infantrymen, death, army, wartime life, battlefield ...
Time: 1910s, 20th century, year 1918
Place: europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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Coup de grâce (1976)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A countess loves her brother's Prussian-officer friend in the 1919 Baltic area.
Style: serious, stylized, realistic, bleak, black and white ...
Plot: love triangle, soldier, betrayal, evacuation, tragic love, tragic hero, world war one, wartime life, political unrest, love and romance, destructive relationship, couple relations ...
Time: year 1976, 1910s, 1920s, post world war one
Place: latvia, europe, baltics, lithuania, prussia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Notebook (2013)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Hungary, Germany, Austria, France
Duration: 112 min.
Story: In a village on the Hungarian border, two young brothers grow up during war time with their cruel grandmother and must learn every trick of evil to survive in the absurd world of adults.
Style: rough, bleak, realistic, serious, sad ...
Plot: world war two, countryside, boy, holocaust, wartime life, starvation, teenage life, twins, life is a bitch, nazi, teenager, grandmother grandson relationship ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, year 1944
Place: hungary
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
A Sunday in the Country (1984)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In France, before WWI. As every Sunday, an old painter living in the country is visited by his son Gonzague, coming with his wife and his three children. Then his daugther Irene arrives. She is always in a hurry, she lives alone and does not come so ...
Style: realistic, sentimental, serious, touching, intellectual ...
Plot: countryside, art, painter, artist, father daughter relationship, aging, dance, painting, elderly man, family relations, automobile, french countryside ...
Time: 1910s, year 1984
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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 ⇓
58%
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Eternity (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 115 min.
Story: The story of the women and relationships that define a family across a century.
Style: sincere, touching, melancholic, sentimental, family saga
Plot: eternity, birth, family relations, family history, love, life & death, family values, loss of child, loss of spouse, storytelling, widow, beauty ...
Time: 19th century, 20th century
Place: paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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Lacombe, Lucien (1974)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 138 min.
Story: In 1944 Lucien Lacombe, a young peasant in the Lot region is refused permission to join the French Resistance. Instead, the opposing "French Gestapo" obtain from him information about an underground leader and recruit him into their ...
Style: anthology, art house, postmodern, visual, controversial ...
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Time: year 1944, 1940s, year 1974, 20th century
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Tombstone of the Fireflies (2008)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Set during World War II, the film follows a young brother and sister as they attempt to survive the aftermath of the firebombing of Kobe City.
Style: psychological, suspense, rough, touching, disturbing
Plot: world war two, sibling relationship, bombing, firefly, brother sister relationship, little girl, wartime, survival, struggle for survival, war, life is a bitch, kids in trouble ...
Place: japan
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Genre: Drama
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Duration: 107 min.
Story: Twenty-year-old David lives in the moment. He juggles a variety of different odd jobs and continues to put off – just for a while longer – the time to make more serious decisions. This solitary daydreamer succumbs to the charm of Lena, a newly ...
Style: psychological, disturbing, sincere, captivating, social
Audience: boys' night, chick flick
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Time: 2010s, year 2015
Place: paris france, france, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
The Green Room (1978)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Based on the Henry James short story "The Altar of the Dead", in which a man becomes obsessed with the many dead people in his life and builds a memorial to honor them. This film is also based on other short story by Henry James, "The ...
Style: spiritual, emotional, atmospheric, gloomy, serious ...
Plot: death, tragic love, memory, spirituality, love story, reporter, amor, trauma, dying and death, world war one, love and romance, investigation ...
Time: year 1978, 1920s
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
Life and Nothing But (1989)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 135 min.
Story: January, 1920. 350,000 French soldiers remain missing in action. Major Dellaplane tirelessly matches the dead and the wounded with families' descriptions. Honor and ethics drive him; he hates the idea of "the unknown soldier." Into ...
Style: anthology, realistic, serious, gloomy
Plot: world war one, war, great war, post war, interwar period, time travel, anti war, research, missing person, obsessive quest, military, soldier ...
Time: 1920s, year 1989, 1910s, post world war one
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
The Last Full Measure (2019)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: The incredible true story of Vietnam War hero William H. Pitsenbarger, a U.S. Air Force Pararescuemen medic who personally saved over sixty men. Thirty-two years later, Pentagon staffer Scott Huffman investigates a Congressional Medal of Honor ...
Style: tense, captivating, sincere, psychological, disturbing ...
Audience: boys' night
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Time: year 1999, year 1969
Place: vietnam, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
All Quiet on the Western Front (1979)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: At the start of World War I, Paul Baumer is a young German patriot, eager to fight. Indoctrinated with propaganda at school, he and his friends eagerly sign up for the army soon after graduation. But when the horrors of war soon become too much to ...
Style: bleak, historical drama, suspenseful, sad, sincere ...
Plot: world war one, war, great war, soldier, combat, world war two, intrigue, literary, world war, military, battles, hospital ...
Time: 20th century, year 1918, 1910s
Place: europe, germany, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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