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The 12th Man (2017)
 7.3
 29K
The 12th Man (2017)
Original name: Den 12. mann
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: Norway
Duration: 135 min.
Story: After a failed anti-Nazi sabotage mission leaves his 11 comrades dead, Norwegian resistance fighter Jan Baalsrud finds himself fleeing from the Gestapo through the snowbound reaches of Scandinavia.
Style: uplifting, suspense, serious, motivational, inspirational, entertaining, dark, costume drama, action adventure, beautiful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: world war two, gestapo, nazi, resistance fighter, survival, coping, wilderness, winter, world war, ss, nature, war, pursuit, life & death, one man army, spy, military, holocaust, manhunt, self mutilation, storytelling, lone hero, beautiful scenery, mountain, snow ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1943, year 1945, year 1947, year 1940, year 1988
Place: germany, scotland
Keyword: norwegian, norway, german, sweden, challenge

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, suspenseful and tense films with plots about world war two, world war, nazi, war, holocaust, military and death mostly in War, Drama and History genres. Some movies like The 12th Man: Max Manus: Man of War (2008), Dunkirk (2017), Sobibor (2018), Valkyrie (2008), Defiance (2008). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Max Manus: Man of War (2008)
Genre: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: Norway, Denmark, Germany
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Max Manus is a Norwegian 2008 biographic war film based on the real events of the life of resistance fighter Max Manus (1914–96), after his contribution in the Winter War against the Soviet Union. The story follows Manus through the outbreak of ...
Style: tense, intense, factual, brutal, melancholic ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: world war two, resistance, nazi, nazism, war, wartime, military, nazi occupation, gestapo, courage, manhunt, terrorism ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1940
Place: scotland, europe, finland, stockholm sweden, scandinavia ...
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Dunkirk (2017)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: UK, Netherlands, France, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: The story of the miraculous evacuation of Allied soldiers from Belgium, Britain, Canada and France, who were cut off and surrounded by the German army from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk between May 26th and June 4th 1940 during World War II.
Style: epic, dramatic, atmospheric, suspense, visually stunning ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: world war two, military, survival, war, wartime, soldier, evacuation, military officer, beach, shell shock, air attack, combat ...
Time: 1940s, year 1940, year 2017, 2010s, 20th century ...
Place: france, england, english channel, dover england, britain ...
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Sobibor (2018)
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: Russia, Germany, Lithuania
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Based on the true story, international historical project “Sobibor” is dedicated to the heroism of the Soviet o cer Alexander Pechersky. During the great Patriotic war, being in a Nazi concentration camp Sobibor he managed to do the impossible ...
Style: rough, factual, suspenseful, philosophical, political
Plot: world war two, holocaust, nazi, nazi germany, genocide, holocaust survivor, mass murder, rebellion, pow, killings, military, world war ...
Time: 1940s
Place: germany, poland, lithuania, soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.1
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Valkyrie (2008)
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: USA, Germany, Italy, Spain, France, Japan, UK
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Wounded in Africa during World War II, Nazi Col. Claus von Stauffenberg returns to his native Germany and joins the Resistance in a daring plan to create a shadow government and assassinate Adolf Hitler. When events unfold so that he becomes a ...
Style: factual, bad ending, tense, captivating, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: world war two, nazi, nazism, war, nazi germany, hitler, conspiracy, resistance, german soldier, politics, wehrmacht, espionage ...
Time: 1940s, year 2008, year 1944, year 1943, 20th century
Place: germany, berlin germany, europe, bavaria, tunisia ...
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Defiance (2008)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story: Based on a true story, during World War II, four Jewish brothers escape their Nazi-occupied homeland of West Belarus in Poland and join the Soviet partisans to combat the Nazis. The brothers begin the rescue of roughly 1,200 Jews still trapped in ...
Style: sincere, epic, period piece, dramatic, realistic ...
Audience: manly, adult
Plot: world war two, holocaust, war, nazi, judaism, genocide, partisan, world war, survival, rebellion, red army, military ...
Time: year 2008, 20th century, 1940s, year 1941, year 1942
Place: poland, germany, indiana, europe
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Resistance (2020)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: UK, France, Germany, USA, China
Duration: 120 min.
Story: The story of a group of Jewish Boy Scouts who worked with the French Resistance to save the lives of ten thousand orphans during World War II.
Style: powerful, costume drama
Plot: french resistance, occupied france, nazi officer, world war two, orthodox jew, world war, secret, love, husband wife relationship, saving a life, mother daughter relationship, anti semitism ...
Time: 1940s, year 1942, year 1938, year 1943, year 1939 ...
Place: europe, swiss alps, geneva switzerland, munich germany, switzerland ...
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A Call to Spy (2019)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA, Hungary
Duration: 123 min.
Story: The story of Vera Atkins, a crafty spy recruiter, and two of the first women she selects for Churchill's "secret army": Virginia Hall, a daring American undaunted by a disability and Noor Inayat Khan, a pacifist. These civilian women ...
Style: rough, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, islamic
Plot: world war two, british intelligence, espionage, spy, gestapo, female spy, strong female character, female secret agent, nazi, disguise, female protagonist, secret ...
Time: year 1941, year 1942, year 1944
Place: germany, vichy, paris france, europe, scotland ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.2
 54K
Anthropoid (2016)
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, History, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: UK, France, USA, Czech Republic
Duration: 120 min.
Story: In December 1941, Czech soldier Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš parachute into their occupied homeland to assassinate Nazi officer Reinhard Heydrich
Style: factual, realistic, emotional, clever, social ...
Plot: nazi, world war two, assassination, gestapo, nazi occupation, conspiracy, torture, friendship between men, suspicion, holocaust, ss, third reich ...
Time: 1940s, year 2016, y2k, 90s, 2010s ...
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Hacksaw Ridge (2016)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Australia, USA, UK, China
Duration: 139 min.
Story: WWII American Army Medic Desmond T. Doss, who served during the Battle of Okinawa, refuses to kill people and becomes the first Conscientious Objector in American history to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor.
Style: inspirational, touching, sentimental, harsh, motivational ...
Audience: manly
Plot: world war two, war, soldier, conscientious objector, combat, religion, survival, american soldier, military, us military, bible, u.s. army ...
Time: 1940s, year 2016, 2010s, 20th century, year 1945 ...
Place: okinawa, okinawa japan, japan, tennessee, usa
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 7.7
 80K
Black Book (2006)
Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: Netherlands, Germany, UK, Belgium
Duration: 145 min.
Story: In the Nazi-occupied Netherlands during World War II, a Jewish singer infiltrates the regional Gestapo headquarters for the Dutch resistance.
Style: tense, erotic, psychological, realistic, dramatic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: world war two, holocaust, espionage, spy, nazism, nazi, war, revenge, resistance, occupation, gestapo, ss ...
Time: 1940s, 1950s, year 2006, 20th century, y2k ...
Place: netherlands, holland, germany, israel, amsterdam ...
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100%
 8.2
 373K
Downfall (2004)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Germany, Austria, Italy
Duration: 156 min.
Story: In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the east and the Allied Expeditionary Force attacking from the west. In Berlin, capital of the Third Reich, Adolf Hitler proclaims that Germany will still ...
Style: psychological, bleak, dramatic, disturbing, harsh ...
Audience: adult
Plot: world war two, hitler, nazism, suicide, nazi, war, holocaust, fascism, third reich, national socialism, nazi germany, dictatorship ...
Time: 1940s, year 1945, year 2004, 20th century, 2000s ...
Place: germany, berlin germany, prague, europe, frankfurt germany ...
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The Gleiwitz Case (1961)
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: East Germany
Duration: 70 min.
Story: Re-enacted true story of successful assault by Nazis, posing as Poles, on a German border radio station so that Hitler could "justify" thereby his invasion of Poland.
Plot: world war two, fencing, nazi, third reich, radio station, world war, false evidence, police officer, sniper, pharmacist, nazi officer, nazi occupation ...
Time: pre world war two, year 1939, year 1938, 1930s
Place: germany, prague, berlin germany, munich germany, poland ...
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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
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Female Agents (2008)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 148 min.
Story: May 1944, a group of French servicewomen and resistance fighters are enlisted into the British Special Operations Executive commando group under the command of Louise Desfontaines and her brother Pierre. Their mission, to rescue a British army ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspense, tense, historical drama ...
Plot: world war two, french resistance, wartime life, resistance, female agent, rescue, spy, betrayal, heroic mission, d day, hospital, military ...
Time: 1940s, year 1945, year 1944
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Army of Crime (2009)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: France
Duration: 139 min.
Story: This gripping historical drama recounts the story of Armenian-born Missak Manouchian, a woodworker and political activist who led an immigrant laborer division of the Parisian Resistance on 30 operations against the Nazis in 1943. The Nazis branded ...
Style: rough, realistic, serious, disturbing, sincere ...
Plot: world war two, resistance, gestapo, nazi, ss officer, poet, rebelliousness, danger, war, life is a bitch, idealism, human spirit ...
Time: 1940s, year 2009, 20th century, year 1942
Place: paris france, france
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Walking with the Enemy (2013)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Romania, Hungary, Canada, USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Regent Horthy is the leader of Hungary and a German ally, but his favorable standing with Hitler changes as the war comes to an end. Forced to cede Hungary’s power or else witness the execution of his son, Regent Horthy gives up control of his ...
Style: realistic, bleak, emotional, costume drama, political thriller ...
Plot: holocaust, concentration camp, world war two, defiant, family relations, danger, life is a bitch, ss, confined, world war, spy, nazi ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1946, year 2010, year 1957 ...
Place: europe, hungary, budapest, switzerland, new york ...
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Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (2005)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 120 min.
Story: True story of Germany's most famous anti-Nazi heroine brought to thrilling, dramatic life. Sophie Scholl stars Julia Jentsch in a luminous performance as the fearless activist of the underground student resistance group, The White Rose. Armed ...
Style: touching, tense, sincere, suspenseful, emotional ...
Audience: teens
Plot: nazism, politics, world war two, nazi germany, nazi, death sentence, resistance, gestapo, historical character, trial, lawyer, rebellion ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 2005, 2000s, year 1943
Place: germany, munich germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Land of Mine (2015)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Denmark, Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In the days following the surrender of Germany in May 1945, a group of young German prisoners of war were handed over to the Danish authorities and subsequently sent out to the West Coast, where they were ordered to remove the more than two million ...
Style: harsh, emotional, realistic, sentimental, brutal ...
Audience: teens
Plot: world war two, german soldier, child soldier, prisoners of war, beach, minefield, survival, nazi, boy, childhood, war crime, pow ...
Time: 1940s, post world war two, year 2015, 2010s, 90s ...
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Paradise Road (1997)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Paradise Road is a 1997 film which tells the story of a group of English, American, Dutch and Australian women who are imprisoned in Sumatra during World War II. It was directed by Bruce Beresford and stars Glenn Close as beatific Adrienne Pargiter, ...
Style: touching, harsh, serious, uplifting, emotional ...
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: UK, France, Germany
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Berlin in June of 1940. While Nazi propaganda celebrates the regime’s victory over France, a kitchen-cum-living room in Prenzlauer Berg is filled with grief. Anna and Otto Quangel’s son has been killed at the front. This working class couple had ...
Style: period piece, factual, suspenseful, enigmatic, realistic ...
Plot: nazi germany, gestapo, world war two, nazi, death of son, suicide, holocaust, world war, murder, torture, robbery, bereavement ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1943, year 1940
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Into the White (2012)
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Norway, Sweden, France
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Into the White is an anti-war movie. High above the harsh Norwegian wilderness, English and German pilots shoot each other to the ground after a violent chance encounter. Isolated, they must fight to survive the brutal winter. Though war has made ...
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, exciting, suspenseful ...
Plot: survival, wilderness, winter, world war two, war, air disaster, aviation, foe turned friend, luftwaffe, airplane shot down, snow, isolation ...
Time: 20th century, year 2012, 1940s, year 1940
Place: europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Scarlet and the Black (1983)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA, UK, Italy
Duration: 143 min.
Story: Fr. Hugh O'Flaherty is a Vatican official in 1943-45 who has been hiding downed pilots, escaped prisoners of war, and Italian resistance families. His diplomatic status in a Catholic country prevents Colonel Kappler from openly arresting him, ...
Style: realistic, factual, tense, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: nazi, world war two, catholic, vatican, soldier, fighting the system, clergy, human spirit, uninhibited rivalry, military, survival, hopes ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
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⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Children of Huang Shi (2008)
Genre: Drama, War
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Duration: 125 min.
Story: About young British journalist, George Hogg, who with the assistance of a courageous Australian nurse, saves a group of orphaned children during the Japanese occupation of China in 1937.
Style: touching, sincere, captivating, serious, inspirational ...
Plot: survival, orphan, selflessness, self discovery, rescue, heroes, society, daring rescue, escapades, soldier, danger, invasion ...
Time: 1940s, 1930s, 20th century, year 2008, year 1945 ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Birdcatcher (2019)
Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: Norway, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Norway, 1942, during World War II. After being separated from her family, Esther, a young Jewish girl from Trondheim, arrives at an isolated farm where she must assume a new identity in order to survive the Nazi persecution.
Style: suspense, tense, thought provoking, suspenseful, heartbreaking ...
Plot: world war two, gender disguise, nazi occupation, woman dressed as man, holocaust, holocaust survivor, pretending to be someone else, cross dressing, false identity, fascism, war violence, world war ...
Time: year 1942, 1940s
Place: scandinavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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This Life (2012)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Denmark
Duration: 122 min.
Story: The true story of the Fiil's a family of innkeepers who during Nazi-Germany's occupation of Denmark took up arms against the German occupiers. But in the fight for freedom, some must die so that others may live.
Style: disturbing, emotional, realistic, captivating, tense ...
Plot: resistance fighter, nazi, world war two, freedom fighter, resistance, nazi occupation, sabotage, danger, heroes, wartime, showdown, self sacrifice ...
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Place: denmark, germany, scandinavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
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1917 (2019)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: UK, USA, India, Spain
Duration: 119 min.
Story: At the height of the First World War, two young British soldiers, Schofield and Blake are given a seemingly impossible mission. In a race against time, they must cross enemy territory and deliver a message that will stop a deadly attack on hundreds ...
Style: tense, period piece, entertaining, sad, visually stunning ...
Audience: boys' night, date night, teens, adult
Plot: world war one, trench warfare, race against time, british soldier, british army, death, soldier, military, battlefield, british military, survival, dangerous mission ...
Time: year 1917, 1910s, 2010s, 20th century, year 2019
Place: persia, britain, los angeles, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Operation Finale (2018)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: In 1960, a team of Israeli secret agents is deployed to find Adolf Eichmann, the infamous Nazi architect of the Holocaust, supposedly hidden in Argentina, and get him to Israel to be judged.
Style: period piece, ambiguous ending, historical drama, tense, art house ...
Plot: war criminal, mossad, nazi hunter, world war two, nazi, holocaust, world war, chase, manhunt, israeli, secret agent, spy ...
Time: 60s, 1940s, year 1954, year 1960, year 1945 ...
Place: israel, argentina, buenos aires argentina, germany, tel aviv israel ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 7.2
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Flame & Citron (2008)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: Denmark, Germany, Norway, France, Sweden, Finland, Czech Republic
Duration: 130 min.
Story: During Nazi occupation, red-headed Bent Faurschou-Hviid ("Flame") and Jørgen Haagen Schmith ("Citron"), assassins in the Danish resistance, take orders from Winther, who's in direct contact with Allied leaders. One shoots, ...
Style: realistic, sincere, period piece, atmospheric, factual ...
Audience: date night
Plot: world war two, gestapo, wartime, betrayal, spy, nazi, nazism, world war, double agent, resistance, war, organized crime ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, year 1940, year 1944
Place: denmark, germany, copenhagen, scandinavia, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Grey Zone (2001)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A Nazi doctor, along with the Sonderkomando Jews – who are forced to work in the crematoria of Auschwitz against their fellow-Jews – find themselves in a moral grey zone.
Style: depressing, disturbing, bleak, factual, emotional ...
Plot: holocaust, nazi, concentration camp, world war two, nazi germany, redemption, war, nazi concentration camp, moral ambiguity, world war, tragedy, auschwitz ...
Time: 1940s, year 1944, 20th century
Place: germany, poland, europe, middle east, budapest
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
The Counterfeiters (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, History, War
Country: Austria, Germany
Duration: 99 min.
Story: The story Jewish counterfeiter, Salomon Sorowitsch, coerced into assisting the Nazi operation of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp during World War II.
Style: tense, bleak, brutal, harsh, serious ...
Plot: holocaust, nazi, concentration camp, world war two, nazi germany, prison, brutality, counterfeit money, war crime, war, racial slur, world war ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, 1930s, year 2008, year 2007 ...
Place: germany, europe, poland, austria, vienna ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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