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The 12th Man (2017)
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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:
costume drama, suspense, serious, inspirational, entertaining, dark, action adventure, uplifting, motivational, beautiful
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
world war two, gestapo, nazi, resistance fighter, lone hero, ss, coping, survival, wilderness, winter, world war, nature, mountain, pursuit, life & death, one man army, spy, military, holocaust, manhunt, self mutilation, storytelling, beautiful scenery, saboteur, german occupation ...
Time:
1940s, year 1943, 20th century, year 1945, year 1940, year 1988, year 1947
Place:
germany, scotland, berlin germany
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, tense, serious and suspenseful films with plots about world war two, world war, nazi, war, military, nazi uniform and death mostly in Drama, War and History genres. Some movies like The 12th Man: Max Manus: Man of War (2008), Valkyrie (2008), Dunkirk (2017), Resistance (2020), Defiance (2008). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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:
factual, brutal, intense, melancholic, romantic ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
world war two, resistance, nazi, nazism, wartime, war, military, nazi occupation, gestapo, terrorist, courage, manhunt ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1940, post world war two
Place:
scotland, europe, eastern europe, scandinavia, finland ...
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Genre: Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Japan, USA
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:
bad ending, factual, tense, period piece, realistic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
world war two, nazi, nazism, nazi germany, conspiracy, war, hitler, german soldier, resistance, politics, wehrmacht, gestapo ...
Time:
1940s, year 2008, year 1944, year 1943, 20th century ...
Place:
germany, berlin germany, europe, munich germany, tunisia ...
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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:
atmospheric, dramatic, epic, cerebral, visually stunning ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
world war two, military, war, survival, wartime, evacuation, soldier, beach, military officer, shell shock, air attack, combat ...
Time:
1940s, year 1940, 2010s, 20th century, 90s ...
Place:
france, england, english channel, dover england, dunkirk ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance, 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:
costume drama, powerful
Plot:
french resistance, occupied france, nazi officer, world war two, orthodox jew, resistance, world war, nazi occupied france, shoah, love, secret, gestapo ...
Time:
1940s, year 1941, year 1942, year 1943, year 1939 ...
Place:
europe, berlin germany, munich germany, geneva switzerland, france ...
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100%
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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, period piece, epic, historical drama, dramatic ...
Audience:
manly, adult
Plot:
world war two, holocaust, war, nazi, genocide, partisan, shoah, judaism, world war, red army, hopes, rebellion ...
Time:
year 2008, 20th century, year 1941, 1940s, year 1942 ...
Place:
poland, germany, indiana, europe, russia ...
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, 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:
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Plot:
world war two, british intelligence, espionage, gestapo, female spy, strong female character, female secret agent, nazi, disguise, secret, female protagonist, lie ...
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year 1941, year 1942, year 1944
Place:
germany, london, paris france, europe, scotland ...
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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, costume drama, harsh, disturbing, epic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
world war two, hitler, nazi, war, nazism, suicide, fascism, holocaust, national socialism, dictatorship, third reich, paranoia ...
Time:
1940s, year 2004, 2000s, 20th century, year 1945 ...
Place:
germany, berlin germany, prague, europe, bavaria ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, 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:
emotional, factual, visually stunning, slasher, social ...
Plot:
world war two, nazi, conspiracy, gestapo, murderer, assassination, betrayal, nazi occupation, friendship between men, ss, suspicion, repression ...
Time:
1940s, 2010s, year 2016, 90s, y2k ...
Place:
germany, prague, central europe, munich germany, berlin germany ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Germany, France, UK
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, costume drama, enigmatic, suspenseful, factual ...
Plot:
nazi germany, gestapo, world war two, death of son, suicide, nazi, wartime, world war, holocaust, shoah, murder, german soldier ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1940, year 1943
Place:
berlin germany, germany, central europe
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100%
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, political, philosophical
Plot:
world war two, holocaust, nazi, nazi germany, genocide, concentration camp, holocaust survivor, mass murder, rebellion, pow, escape, killing ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
poland, germany, lithuania, soviet union
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67%
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:
erotic, psychological, tense, sexy, dramatic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, espionage, nazi, spy, nazism, resistance, female spy, occupation, gestapo, german soldier, war ...
Time:
1940s, year 1956, 1950s, year 2006, 20th century ...
Place:
netherlands, israel, holland, germany, belgium ...
Similarity:
100%
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, radio station, third reich, fencing, nazi, false evidence, world war, task force, fight, commando, torture, mission ...
Time:
year 1939, pre world war two, year 1938, 1930s
Place:
munich germany, poland, berlin germany, prague, germany ...
Similarity:
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Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: UK, USA
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:
period piece, visually stunning, tense, entertaining, sad ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, date night, adult
Plot:
world war one, trench warfare, race against time, soldier, british soldier, british army, death, battlefield, military, british military, dangerous mission, german soldier ...
Time:
year 1917, 1910s, 20th century, year 2019, 2010s
Place:
persia, los angeles, britain, europe, france
Similarity:
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: Spain
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Spanish photographer Francesc Boix, imprisoned in the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp, works in the SS Photographic Service. Between 1943 and 1945, he hides, with the help of other prisoners, thousands of negatives, with the purpose of showing ...
Style:
disturbing, thought provoking, costume drama, period piece, rough ...
Plot:
holocaust, nazi, nazism, concentration camp, world war two, nazi occupation, nazi concentration camp, shoah, nazi war criminal, slave labor, spanish civil war, concentration camp survivor ...
Time:
1940s, year 1943, year 1944, year 1945
Place:
spain, germany, central europe
Similarity:
100%
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:
realistic, serious, suspense, tense, historical drama ...
Plot:
world war two, french resistance, wartime life, female agent, resistance, rescue, betrayal, heroic mission, gestapo, hospital, espionage, military ...
Time:
1940s, year 1945, year 1944, post world war two
Place:
london, france, paris france, europe, england ...
Similarity:
100%
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:
realistic, emotional, disturbing, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
resistance fighter, nazi occupation, nazi, freedom fighter, resistance, world war two, sabotage, danger, heroes, showdown, wartime life, battles ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
denmark, germany, scandinavia
Similarity:
100%
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:
serious, realistic, rough, disturbing, sincere ...
Plot:
world war two, gestapo, resistance, ss officer, nazi, occupation, poet, danger, hopes, youth, heroes, human spirit ...
Time:
1940s, year 2009, 20th century, year 1942, post world war two
Place:
paris france, france
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
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, christian film, harsh ...
Audience:
manly, girls' night
Plot:
world war two, war, soldier, conscientious objector, survival, us military, combat, american soldier, religion, bible, military, pacifist ...
Time:
1940s, year 2016, 20th century, middle ages, year 1945 ...
Place:
okinawa japan, japan, tennessee, usa
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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, anti semitism, ss, family relations, danger, life is a bitch, confined, world war, spy ...
Time:
1940s, year 1948, year 1957, year 1939, year 1962 ...
Place:
europe, hungary, berlin germany, switzerland, budapest ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 167 min.
Story:
Inspired by true events, Olympic swimmer Harry Melchior defects from East Germany in the 1960s and hatches a daring plot to help his sister and others flee East Berlin through a 145-yard underground tunnel.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, political, compassionate, captivating ...
Plot:
berlin wall, tunnel, politics, communism, breast feeding, political unrest, cold war, wartime, heroes, danger, daring rescue, prison escape ...
Time:
ancient times, 60s, year 2001
Place:
east germany, germany, berlin germany, west berlin west germany, german democratic republic ...
Similarity:
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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:
emotional, sentimental, harsh, realistic, brutal ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
world war two, german soldier, child soldier, beach, prisoners of war, minefield, abuse of power, pow, boy, nazi, teenager, brutality ...
Time:
1940s, post world war two, year 2015, 2010s, year 2016 ...
Place:
denmark, germany
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, 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, breathtaking ...
Plot:
survival, wilderness, winter, world war two, aviation, air disaster, foe turned friend, luftwaffe, mountain, airplane shot down, snow, isolation ...
Time:
20th century, year 2012, 1940s, year 1940
Place:
europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: UK, Poland, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
The commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolf Höss, and his wife Hedwig, strive to build a dream life for their family in a house and garden next to the camp.
Style:
captivating, psychological, experimental, crying, period drama
Plot:
garden, auschwitz, holocaust, world war two, ss officer, nazi germany, husband wife relationship, concentration camp, swimming pool, nazi, genocide, nazi officer ...
Time:
1940s, year 1943, year 1944, 20th century, year 1942 ...
Place:
poland, berlin germany, hungary
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100%
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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:
factual, tense, serious, suspenseful, period piece ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
nazi, world war two, catholic, vatican, soldier, fighting the system, military, uninhibited rivalry, clergy, politics, hopes, survival ...
Time:
year 1943, 1940s, 20th century, 1930s
Place:
rome italy, europe, italy, germany, california
Similarity:
100%
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, costume drama, serious, emotional ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
world war two, pow, prison, holocaust, island, war crime, justice, friendship, women, women's prison, nazi, human spirit ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, year 1997, 20th century
Place:
japan, indonesia, asia, singapore, germany ...
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100%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
A group of disillusioned outsiders abandon modern society in search of a new beginning. Settling on a remote, uninhabited island, their utopian dream quickly unravels as they discover that the greatest threat isn’t the brutal climate or deadly ...
Style:
psychological thriller, suspenseful, dark, tense, bleak ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
male pubic hair, male nudity, island, sex scene, public nudity, female nudity, violence, isolation, power struggle, remote island, wilderness, betrayal ...
Time:
1930s, 1920s
Place:
ecuador, pacific ocean
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: USA, Argentina
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, costume drama, ambiguous ending, historical drama, tense ...
Plot:
war criminal, mossad, nazi hunter, world war two, holocaust, nazi, mission, world war, israeli, chase, manhunt, secret agent ...
Time:
year 1960, 1940s, year 1939, year 1954, year 1945 ...
Place:
israel, argentina, buenos aires argentina, germany, tel aviv israel ...
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23%
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:
period piece, sincere, realistic, atmospheric, tense ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
gestapo, world war two, wartime, spy, nazi, nazism, terrorist, world war, double agent, ethnic conflict, organized crime, greed ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, year 1940, year 1944, post world war two
Place:
denmark, germany, copenhagen, scandinavia, europe ...
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: UK, USA, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A German soldier tries to determine if the Dutch resistance has planted a spy to infiltrate the home of Kaiser Wilhelm in Holland during the onset of World War II, but falls for a young Jewish Dutch woman during his investigation.
Style:
sexy, suspense, captivating, tense, exciting ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
world war two, nazi germany, nazi officer, gestapo, german soldier, nazi occupation, royalty, espionage, conspiracy, german army, love, sex scene ...
Time:
1940s, year 1940, 1920s, year 1934
Place:
germany, berlin germany, poland, netherlands, holland
Similarity:
21%
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, bleak, disturbing, factual, harsh ...
Plot:
holocaust, nazi, world war two, concentration camp, redemption, nazi germany, auschwitz, ss, shoah, moral ambiguity, world war, tragedy ...
Time:
1940s, year 1944, 20th century, post world war two
Place:
poland, germany, europe, middle east, budapest ...
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