Movies like 1945

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1945 (2017)
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1945 (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 91 min.
Story: An unsettling feeling overwhelms a small Hungarian town when two orthodox Jews arrive with a mysterious trunk. As residents begin to speculate on the purpose of the visit of these two strangers, order starts to crumble in town with some pursuing devious plans and others finding remorse in their hearts.
Style: black and white, tense, art house, grim, motivational
Plot: holocaust, world war two, guilt, train, villain, cemetery, fire, church, suicide, nazism, judaism, moral dilemma, marriage, dilemma, world war, orthodox jew, village, betrayal, priest, neighbor, fear, confession, secret, train station, walking ...
Time: year 1945, post world war two, 1940s
Place: hungary
Keyword: jewish

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, bleak and tense films with plots about world war two, holocaust, nazi, anti semitism, judaism, concentration camp and world war mostly in Drama, War and Romance genres. Some movies like 1945: The Revolt of Job (1983), Out of the Ashes (2003), I'm Alive and I Love You (1998), Cold Days (1966), Welcome in Vienna (1986). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Revolt of Job (1983)
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 105 min.
Story: "The Revolt of Job" tells the story of a childless Jewish couple in WWII-era Hungary who adopt a Hungarian boy. They raise him with their values and traditions. Unfortunately, the Nazis eventually come and round up all Jewish families in ...
Style: thought provoking, gloomy, emotional, bleak, touching ...
Plot: world war two, holocaust, coming of age, boy, judaism, israeli, orphan, family relations, deportation, renegade, against humanity, society ...
Time: 1940s
Place: eastern europe, israel, hungary, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Out of the Ashes (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: The real-life story of Gisella Perl, a Jewish Hungarian doctor imprisoned in the notorious Auschwitz death camp of World War II.
Style: realistic, serious, touching, contemplative, captivating ...
Plot: holocaust, concentration camp, wartime life, holocaust survivor, world war two, auschwitz, human spirit, anti semitism, life is a bitch, starting over, danger, moral dilemma ...
Time: 1940s
Place: hungary, europe, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
I'm Alive and I Love You (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Drama - During World War II, a woman aboard a railroad car full of deportees slips French railway worker Julien (Jérôme Deschamps) a note with an address and a simple message: "I am alive, and I love you," and he decides to track down ...
Plot: world war two, judaism, train station, family relations, nazi, courage, train, father son relationship, man boy relationship, german occupation, railway station
Time: 1940s
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Cold Days (1966)
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Andras Kovacs' film, considered one of the most important Hungarian films of the 1960's, centers around four men who await trial for their involvement in the massacre of several thousand Jewish and Serbian people of Novi Sad in 1942. Each ...
Style: epic
Plot: world war two, train station, murder of a family, harassment, looting, bloodbath, train, prison, flashback, singing, jealousy, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 1940s, year 1942
Place: former yugoslavia, central europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Welcome in Vienna (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria, West Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 127 min.
Story: In the conclusion of Axel Corti's trilogy (following God Does Not Believe In Us Anymore and Santa Fe) Freddy, a Viennese Jew who emigrated to New York after Hitler's invasion, and Adler, a left-wing intellectual originally from Berlin, ...
Style: bilingual
Plot: world war two, jewish life, trafficking, theater, skating, frontline, black market, actress, christmas eve, american soldier, deserter, treason ...
Time: year 1945, 1940s, year 1986, year 1944, post world war two
Place: vienna
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Gruber's Journey (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary, Romania
Duration: 100 min.
Story: On 22 June 1941, Germany and Romania attack Soviet Russia. Several days later, Curzio Malaparte, the Italian writer who would one day pen the novel « Kaputt », a war correspondent for « Corriere de la Sera », arrives in Iasi, in the north of ...
Plot: world war two, holocaust, anti semitism, war correspondent, mass murder
Place: romania
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Jonah Who Lived in the Whale (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France, Hungary
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The story of the Holocaust, seen as Jonah, a young jewish boy living in Amsterdam at the onset of WW II, who with his family is taken by the Nazis to a concentration camp. (Based on the book 'Childhood' by Jona Oberski.)
Plot: holocaust, world war two, traumatic childhood, youth, concentration camp, parents, madness, nazi concentration camp, nazism, child in peril, childhood memory, deportation ...
Place: amsterdam
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Hidden in Silence (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Poland 1939, shortly before invasion of the German troops. To save their belongings from the Nazis, the Jewish family Diamant transfers them to their 17-year-old catholic maid Fusia. In return Fusia provides them with food until the ghetto is ...
Plot: world war two, nazi, holocaust, catholic, world war one, christian, world war, rat, teenager, christmas eve, house, attic ...
Time: 1940s
Place: poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Ida (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland, Denmark, France, UK
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Anna, a young novitiate in 1960s Poland, is on the verge of taking her vows when she discovers a family secret dating back to the years of the German occupation.
Style: black and white, art house, emotional, melancholic, visually stunning ...
Plot: nun, world war two, faith, family secret, anti semitism, judaism, holocaust, religion, character study, orphan, suicide, self discovery ...
Time: 60s, 2010s, year 2014, year 2013, year 2016 ...
Place: poland, israel, eastern europe, europe, denmark
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979)
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Near the end of World War II, Maria marries Hermann, who is immediately sent off to battle. When the war concludes, Maria believes that Hermann is dead. She starts working at an Allied bar, where she meets American soldier Bill. They start a ...
Style: psychological, emotional, touching, surreal, realistic ...
Plot: marriage, world war two, infidelity, wartime life, lovers reunited, rise to the top, couples, life is a bitch, love and romance, danger, human nature, survival ...
Time: 1940s, year 1979, post world war two, 20th century, 1950s ...
Place: germany, berlin germany, europe, west germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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The Pawnbroker (1964)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A Jewish pawnbroker, a victim of Nazi persecution, loses all faith in his fellow man until he realizes too late the tragedy of his actions.
Style: depressing, realistic, emotional, bleak, heartbreaking ...
Plot: holocaust, world war two, holocaust survivor, survival, concentration camp, haunted by the past, life philosophy, redemption, flashback, nazi, against humanity, life is a bitch ...
Place: new york, usa, germany, israel, harlem ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Signs of Life (1968)
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story: During World War II, three German soldiers are withdrawn from combat when one of them, Stroszek, is wounded. They are assigned to a small coastal community on the Greek island of Kos while Stroszek recuperates. The men become increasingly stir crazy ...
Style: serious, psychological, realistic, tense, atmospheric ...
Plot: world war two, soldier, german soldier, world war, psychiatry, nazi, war, summer, mental illness, island, driven mad, dull life ...
Time: 1940s, year 1968, 20th century
Place: greece, germany, europe, mediterranean sea, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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The Execution (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The members of a San Diego Wednesday night womens' mah jongg club are five survivors of a Nazi concentration camp. They recognize the owner of a local restaurant, Walter Grossman, as a doctor from the camp who performed experiments on them as ...
Style: surprise ending
Plot: rape, homicide, doctor, secret, world war two, revenge, murder, lawyer, torture, rape and revenge, execution, concentration camp ...
Time: post world war two, 1940s
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 5.0
 65
Tsili (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, France, Italy
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Tsili is a young girl caught in the middle of World War II. After her family is taken to a concentration camp, Tsili hides in the forest, free from hatred and men, until the arrival of Marek, a stranger who speaks to her in Yiddish.
Style: realistic, serious, bleak, disturbing, tense
Plot: holocaust, world war two, survival, holocaust survivor, youth, against humanity, danger, woods, hiding, coming of age, violinist, rainstorm ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Dry Summer (1963)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A scheming tobacco farmer sets out to ruin his competition by diverting the local water to his own property.
Style: art house, educational, black and white, tense, realistic ...
Plot: brother brother relationship, summer, social commentary, muslim, animal abuse, water, prison, drought, rural setting, farmer, village, siblings relations ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: middle east, turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
The Last Train (2006)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Germany, Czech Republic
Duration: 123 min.
Story: A group of people are imprisoned in a rail car bound from Berlin to a concentration camp in 1945.
Style: disturbing, serious, realistic, bleak, captivating ...
Audience: date night
Plot: holocaust, nazism, nazi, gestapo, anti semitism, danger, pow, life is a bitch, nazi germany, war, confined, world war ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1943
Place: germany, israel, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Son of Saul (2015)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Hungary
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: compassionate, melancholic, disturbing, grim, cerebral ...
Plot: holocaust, world war two, nazi concentration camp, genocide, tragedy, nazi, prison, shoah, courage, concentration camp, brutality, life & death ...
Time: 1940s, year 1944, year 2015, 90s
Place: poland, germany, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
The Night Porter (1974)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 118 min.
Story: In this unsettling drama from Italian filmmaker Liliana Cavani, a concentration camp survivor discovers her former torturer and lover working as a porter at a hotel in postwar Vienna. When the couple attempt to re-create their sadomasochistic ...
Style: psychological, serious, controversial, disturbing, art house ...
Audience: adult
Plot: world war two, hotel, sadomasochism, nazi, eroticism, guilt, dangerous attraction, bdsm, haunted by the past, sexual perversion, holocaust, sexual abuse ...
Time: 1950s, 50s, 1940s, post world war two, 20th century ...
Place: hungary, germany, vienna, italy, frankfurt germany ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Tall Tales (2019)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Hungary
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Shortly after the end of World War II, a con man on the run finds himself in a passionate love affair that may well cost him his life.
Style: captivating, tense, suspense, disturbing, neo noir ...
Plot: passion, runaway, intrigue, con artists, male female relationship, couple relations, world war two, hunting, seduction, lust, husband wife relationship, memory ...
Time: 1940s, year 1945
Place: budapest, central europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
The Day the Clown Cried (1972)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A circus clown is imprisoned by the Nazis and goes with Jewish children to their deaths.
Style: emotional, controversial, independent film, weird
Plot: holocaust, clown, children, commander, nazi concentration camp, world war two, concentration camp, circus, nazi, gestapo, political prisoner, gas chamber ...
Time: 1940s
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Monsieur Batignole (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In 1942, in an occupied Paris, the apolitical grocer Edmond Batignole lives with his wife and daughter in a small apartment in the building of his grocery. When his future son-in-law and collaborator of the German Pierre-Jean Lamour calls the Nazis ...
Style: realistic, serious, tense, captivating, exciting
Plot: holocaust, world war two, nazism, child, wartime life, soldier, anti semitism, against humanity, life is a bitch, confined, society, resistance ...
Time: 1940s, year 2002, year 1942
Place: france, paris france, switzerland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Islands in the Stream (1977)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: An isolated sculptor is visited by his three sons just before the start of WWII.
Style: realistic, serious
Plot: world war two, sculptor, world war, father son relationship, fishing, art, hidden treasure, estranged father, fishing boat, island, sibling relationship, bittersweet ...
Time: 1940s, 1930s
Place: bahamas
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Miriam (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Heart-wrenching story of a woman who takes another's identity to survive the most horrible time of the 20th Century. Miriam is the triumphant story of one woman's survival and success, which takes place in Lithuania over a period of forty ...
Style: captivating, suspenseful, suspense, disturbing
Plot: survival, world war two, survivor, holocaust, life is a bitch, struggle for survival, new identity, female protagonist, fight, prison, soldier, suffering ...
Time: 1940s
Place: lithuania
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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The Gold Rimmed Glasses (1987)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France, Yugoslavia
Duration: 110 min.
Story: In this tragic romance set in Ferrara, Italy in 1938, and at a nearby seaside resort, a wealthy Jewish boy is thwarted in marrying the girl he loves when Mussolini's race laws (enacted to cement the regime's growing alliance with Germany) ...
Style: lgbt cinema, freeze frame, gay cinema
Plot: gay, world war two, lgbt, gay interest, fascism, holocaust, lgbtq, gays and lesbians, judaism, glbt, fascist, homosexual ...
Time: 1930s, year 1938
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
The Man in the Glass Booth (1975)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Arthur Goldman is a rich Jewish industrialist, living in luxury in a Manhattan high-rise. He banters with his assistant Charlie, often shocking Charlie with his outrageousness and irreverence about aspects of Jewish life. Nonetheless, Charlie is ...
Style: sad, independent film, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: holocaust, courtroom, world war two, mossad, nazi, lawyer, law, judaism, terrorism, legal, genocide, courtroom drama ...
Time: year 1975
Place: israel, middle east, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
The 25th Hour (1967)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France, Italy, Yugoslavia
Duration: 130 min.
Story: A Romanian peasant fights to get back to his family after he's imprisoned by the Nazis.The picture is based on real events. It includes Hungary's government in collaboration with the Nazis, the encroachment of Romania by Stalin's ...
Plot: world war two, nazi, world war, racism, wartime, war, peasant, jew persecution, village, deportation, volunteer, holocaust ...
Time: 1940s, year 1967
Place: romania, hungary
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
The Sea and Poison (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Downed American fliers in WW II are vivisected by Japanese surgeons in medical experiments.
Style: retro
Plot: world war two, mental disorder, nurse, torture, bomber, vivisection, air force, doctor
Time: 1940s, year 1945
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 5.2
 46
Secret (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Ksawery is a young gay man who performs as drag queen in a Warsaw nightclub. Karolina is Jewish and seems to be his agent. Jan is Ksawery's lonely grandfather, who's been hiding a dark secret which the couple wants to reveal.
Plot: lgbt, holocaust, drag queen, family relations, couples, relatives, poem, agent, wedding party, countryside, male nudity, accusation ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 6.0
 3K
Plenty (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: David Hare's account of a one-time French freedom fighter who gradually realizes that her post-war life is not meeting her expectations.
Style: independent film, contemplative, tense, thought provoking, psychological ...
Plot: world war two, french resistance, memory, mental illness, world war, rock, women, parachute, one night stand, love and romance, hopes, introspection ...
Time: 1940s, 1950s, year 1985, post world war two, 20th century ...
Place: england, france, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 7.2
 2K
The Chosen (1981)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: The Chosen follows the story of two teenage boys determined to remain friends despite the deep differences between their two families. Set in New York during the 1940s, this provocative film follows the son of an orthodox rabbi and the son of a ...
Style: realistic, touching, thinking, contemplative, serious ...
Audience: kids, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, orthodox jew, religion, jewish culture, judaism, friendship, father son relationship, culture clash, chosen one, holocaust, family drama, traumatic childhood ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, 80s, year 1981, year 1944
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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