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Lesson of a Dead Language (1979)
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Original name: Lekcja martwego języka
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
An officer stationed in a remote Galician outpost at the end of the First World War is dying of consumption. Suffering from feverish dreams and hallucinations, he begins to collect religious art and attends seances.
Style:
atmospheric, melancholic, period piece, historical drama, bleak, art house, existential horror, moody, tragic
Plot:
tuberculosis, loneliness, isolation, hallucination, existential crisis, small town, obsession, spiritualism, haunting, mysticism, occult, decadence, nazi, world war one, holocaust, prisoner, death, murder, hotel, concentration camp, flash forward, polish, dying, metaphor, lieutenant ...
Time:
1910s, 1940s
Place:
poland, galicia
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Most similar movies to Lesson of a Dead Language
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out period piece, bleak, historical drama and melancholic films with plots about world war two, survival, loss, small town, isolation, death and nazi mostly in Drama, War and Romance genres. Some movies like Lesson of a Dead Language: Holy Week (1995), Liten Ida (1981), Little Alexander (1981), Deborah (1995), Evening Bells (1986). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
245
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Poland, Germany, France
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
During the Nazi era, a Jewish woman on the run takes a trolley which passes near the Warsaw ghetto, where the uprising battle is taking place, and some passengers are struck by stray bullets. They take temporary refuge in an empty building, and ...
Style:
tension, period piece, bleak, historical drama, atmospheric ...
Plot:
world war two, holocaust, nazi occupation, suspicion, hiding, anti semitism, survival, fear, neighbor, moral ambiguity, memory, accomplice ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
poland, warsaw poland
Similarity:
95%
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:
83%
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:
79%
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
In a small Polish town in the summer of 1939, a married painter and a young Jewish woman begin an affair. Based on the novel by Marek Sołtysik.
Style:
historical drama, melancholic, period piece, emotional, tense ...
Plot:
world war two, forbidden love, tragic romance, small town, infidelity, intimacy, passion, interfaith relationship, loss, tragedy, adultery, betrayal ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
poland
Similarity:
70%
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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:
melancholic, historical drama, bleak, intellectual, atmospheric ...
Plot:
world war two, communism, moral dilemma, character study, trauma, identity crisis, occupation, political persecution, repression, persecution, loss, survival ...
Time:
1940s, 1950s
Place:
former yugoslavia, croatia, balkan
Similarity:
70%
Genre: Drama, Music, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Based on a true story of a Polish musician who survived the concentration camp only because he could play on the accordion the title melody.
Style:
intense, emotional, bleak, dark, melancholic ...
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, concentration camp, survival, nazi germany, auschwitz, oppression, loss, suffering, dehumanization, resilience, trauma ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
poland
Similarity:
65%
306
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy, Brazil, Hungary
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A man who grew up an orphan finally gets to meet his father: The psychopath Dr. Josef Mengele, the Auschwitz surgeon who performed genetic experiments on concentration camp refugees during WWII.
Style:
suspense, captivating, intense, serious, disturbing ...
Plot:
world war two, nazi, father son relationship, psychopath, family reunited, orphan, parent child relationship, experiment, father son reunion, war criminal, concentration camp, holocaust ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
brazil
Similarity:
62%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, War
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
In 1919, in a small town under the crushing heat of summer, a war hero is held prisoner in an abandoned barracks. Outside, his mangy dog barks night and day. Not far off in the countryside, an extraordinarily intelligent young woman works the land, ...
Style:
touching, captivating, disturbing, poignant, emotional ...
Plot:
world war one, pacifist, firing squad, dog, wartime, war hero, countryside, small town, moral ambiguity, isolation, prisoner, judge ...
Time:
year 1919
Similarity:
60%
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Romania, West Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
In 1916, shortly before Romania's entry in World War One Romanian Army Lieutenant Tudor Gheorghiu is posted to a border patrol unit on Romania's border with Austria-Hungary. Not receiving any news from his wife he persuades the commanding ...
Style:
tension, historical drama, intense, melancholic, romantic ...
Plot:
jealousy, infidelity, obsession, love triangle, romantic rivalry, jealous husband, betrayal, romantic obsession, inheritance, world war one, army, lieutenant ...
Time:
1910s, year 1916
Place:
romania
Similarity:
59%
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: Poland, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
No overview found.
Style:
historical drama, heartbreaking, bleak, grim, period piece ...
Plot:
world war two, holocaust, gypsy, genocide, discrimination, nazi occupation, loss, auschwitz, suffering, persecution, tragedy, ethnic cleansing ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
poland
Similarity:
57%
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:
57%
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A young, idealistic poet, turns his back on civilization and goes to small, backwood village, rents a bed in the house of an old woman, and decides to make his living as a lumberjack. Soon he realizes that the world around him is far from perfect.
Style:
existential, melancholic, bleak, art house, period piece
Plot:
lumberjack, outsider, alienation, loneliness, isolation, introspection, backwoods, small town, poet, frustration, self discovery, intimate ...
Place:
poetic realism, poland
Similarity:
57%
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:
56%
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:
53%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Hungary, France
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
In the horror of 1944 Auschwitz, a prisoner forced to burn the corpses of his own people finds moral survival trying to save from the flames the body of a boy he takes for his son.
Style:
cerebral, compassionate, melancholic, disturbing, philosophical ...
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, genocide, nazi concentration camp, tragedy, nazi, death, prison, shoah, courage, concentration camp, life & death ...
Time:
1940s, year 1944, 90s, year 2015
Place:
poland, germany, eastern europe, california
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A man returns to the place he once lived a passionate love affair with a woman who is now dead. So powerful are the emotions that seize him that he imagines she is still alive, and begins to live as if this were the case...
Style:
romantic drama, melancholic, atmospheric, art house, poetic ...
Plot:
loneliness, obsession, grief, mourning, passion, loss, memory, delusion, male protagonist, symbolism, haunting, flashback ...
Place:
india, france, normandy
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
In 1917 Crete, a humble peasant mother raises her orphaned nephew while trying to protect him from an absurd vendetta.
Style:
period piece, melancholic, grim, art house, bleak ...
Plot:
vendetta, motherhood, family drama, protection, revenge, sacrifice, orphan, violence, moral dilemma, social injustice, small town, survival ...
Time:
1910s, year 1917
Place:
crete
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
War drama directed by Jerzy Wojcik.
Style:
period piece, realistic, bleak, intense, medical drama
Plot:
frontline, world war one, field hospital, sacrifice, doctor, death, military, humanity, trauma, survival, cold, loss ...
Place:
poland
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria, West Germany, France, Italy
Duration: 153 min.
Story:
No overview found.
Style:
philosophical, art house, surreal, period drama, pre war
Plot:
sanitarium, tuberculosis, mountain, literary, isolation, melancholy, existential crisis, symbolism, mortality, existentialism, world war one, totalitarianism ...
Time:
1910s, pre world war one
Place:
swiss alps, alps
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A middle-aged man sets out on a symbolic journey through past, present, and future to learn why an old friend committed suicide, and learns much about his own life along the way.
Style:
reflective, existential, melancholic, bleak, philosophical ...
Plot:
suicide, memory, existential crisis, symbolism, loss, midlife crisis, self discovery, guilt, flashback, mature, regret, isolation ...
Place:
poland
Similarity:
47%
112
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Serbia, Hungary
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A story of a Jewish-Hungarian-Serbian family. The plot is centered about trying of an adult son to reconstruct his childhood dream of and memories. Looms, but a sunken world, the central European town with its figures, the way to experiencing deep ...
Style:
melancholic, poignant, atmospheric, tragicomedy, period piece ...
Plot:
father son relationship, memory, family drama, madness, loneliness, childhood, identity, sadness, nostalgia, intimate, humiliation, dream ...
Time:
year 1942
Place:
central europe, balkan
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
The main character in this effective, convincing drama is Witold (Tadeusz Bradecki) who is high in what later would be termed the "emotional quotient" or the ability to bounce back from adverse, tragic circumstances. Witold has been ...
Style:
existential, melancholic, bleak, intellectual, tragic
Plot:
corruption, grief, character study, moral dilemma, family drama, existential crisis, bureaucracy, frustration, social realism, betrayal, class struggle, anti hero ...
Time:
year 1980
Place:
eastern europe, poland, himalaya
Similarity:
42%
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:
40%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Peter is the dark brooding type. Leading a vacuous, shapeless life, he longs for the ideal woman, while at the same time, half heartedly continuing with his habitual girlfriend, Marusa , who is considerably older, a fact that Peter is quick to point ...
Style:
melancholic, psychological, romantic drama, black and white, existential ...
Plot:
character study, loneliness, identity crisis, bittersweet, desperation, alienation, frustration, obsession, small town, minimalism, slow burn, social realism ...
Place:
eastern europe, slovenia
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Mexico
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Analytical view of one of the least reported conflicts of national cinema: the Cristero movement that developed in the regions of western Mexico between 1926 and 1929, highlighting the inability to be faithful to both the Church and the State.
Style:
serious, historical drama, thought provoking, period piece, bleak ...
Plot:
mexican revolution, religious conflict, moral dilemma, mexican history, sacrifice, social commentary, power struggle, national identity, political repression, small town, martyrdom, class conflict ...
Time:
1920s
Similarity:
38%
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:
38%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
The story of Anne Frank, the Jewish girl who went into hiding with her family in Amsterdam and became a victim of the Holocaust.
Style:
heartbreaking, bleak, reflective, historical drama, tension ...
Plot:
world war two, nazi occupation, children in wartime, tragedy, persecution, holocaust, fear, loss, anti semitism, isolation, teenage protagonist, peril ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
amsterdam
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 61 min.
Story:
Locked away in the Jewish ghetto of an occupied Ukrainian town in 1941, a mother revisits her life in a last letter to her son.
Style:
bleak, poignant, historical drama, reflective, emotional ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
holocaust, persecution, world war two, jewish ghetto, anti semitism, mature, grief, loss, haunting, family tragedy, mother son relationship, witness ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
eastern europe, ukraine
Similarity:
36%
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:
34%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The film is set in 1943 in a mental asylum in the country. But this is an unusual hospital: there are several incurable schizophrenic cases, staff is bit strange and a writer has voluntarily entered the clinic because he is "peculiar" and ...
Plot:
world war two, renaissance, psychiatric hospital, european, psychiatric ward, mental disorder, doctor, nazi occupation, sudden ending, psychiatric patient, experiment, suicide by poison ...
Time:
1930s, year 1939
Place:
poland, eastern europe
Similarity:
34%
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