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The Last Note (2017)
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Original name: Το Τελευταίο Σημείωμα
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Greece
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
The execution of 200 Greek resistance fighters by the German occupiers on May 1st, 1944 in Kaisariani, as reprisal for the Greek Resistance ambush against Nazis.
Style:
touching, suspense, historical drama, psychological, sincere, rough, bleak, emotional, poignant, reflective ...
Plot:
world war two, nazi occupation, reprisal, resistance fighter, nazi officer, execution, greek history, martyrdom, political persecution, prisoner of war camp, tragedy, memory, heroism, sacrifice, war crime, biopic, nazi, resistance, prison life, resilience, solidarity, national identity, slow burn, spring, mass murder ...
Time:
1940s, year 1944
Place:
greece, athens greece, germany, europe, balkan
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Most similar movies to The Last Note
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out bleak, historical drama, suspense and period piece films with plots about world war two, nazi, survival, nazi occupation, resistance, heroism and tragedy mostly in Drama, War and History genres. Some movies like The Last Note: The Auschwitz Report (2021), Glory Sky (1962), The Grüninger File (2014), Hotel Meina (2007), Into the Darkness (2020). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Slovakia, Czech Republic, Poland, Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
This is the true story of Freddy and Walter – two young Slovak Jews, who were deported to Auschwitz in 1942. On 10 April 1944, after meticulous planning and with the help and the resilience of their inmates, they manage to escape. While the ...
Style:
suspense, disturbing, tense, social
Plot:
nazi, concentration camp, nazi occupation, escape, world war two, wartime life, wartime, jew persecution, war violence, life is a bitch, male pubic hair, nazi propaganda ...
Time:
1940s, year 1944
Place:
central europe, germany
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100%
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Greece
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Two stories set in northern Greece during World War II.
Style:
period piece, black and white, grim, bleak, psychological ...
Plot:
world war two, retreat, sacrifice, loss, tragedy, survival, desperation, battlefield, wounded, trauma, anti war, realism ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
greece
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Switzerland, Austria
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
1938. Austria has been annexed by Nazi Germany, and Switzerland has closed its borders for Jewish refugees - a death sentence for thousands. But not all Swiss officials observe this inhuman order.
Style:
historical drama, suspenseful, thrilling, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
world war two, nazi, border crossing, refugee, holocaust, immigration, moral dilemma, ethics, conscience, jewish history, nazi germany, border patrol ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
switzerland
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy, France, Serbia
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
How will the Germans react to the armistice of the 8th of September 1943, due to which Italy betrays them and sides with the allied forces? This is the distressing questions that a group of 16 Italian - Greek Jews evacuated at The Meina Hotel ask ...
Style:
historical drama, emotional, melancholic, period piece, tension ...
Plot:
world war two, holocaust, hotel, war crime, execution, tragedy, nazism, massacre, fear, ss officer, desperation, escape ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
italy
Similarity:
35%
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Denmark
Duration: 152 min.
Story:
Karlskov is a self made, successful owner of a large electronics factory, has a wife and five children. They live the good, privileged upper-class life on Strandvejen north of Copenhagen when the Nazis occupy Denmark in April 1940. Karl struggles to ...
Style:
bleak, rough, suspense, realistic, historical drama ...
Plot:
world war two, businessman, factory, conflict, german occupation, family relations, industry, nazi occupation, collaboration, money, industrialist, family drama ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
denmark, germany, copenhagen
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Greece
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
One of filmmaker and expatriate writer Adonis Kyrou's best-known quotes translates roughly as "I urge you: Learn to look at 'bad' films, they are so often sublime." The same could be said of Kyrou's own directorial work ...
Style:
historical drama, tension, suspense, political, controversial ...
Plot:
resistance, world war two, occupation, traitor, nazi, betrayal, moral dilemma, black market, survival, underground movement, collaboration, guilt ...
Time:
1940s
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Germany, Netherlands, Belarus, Russia, Latvia
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Western frontiers of the USSR, 1942. The region is under German occupation. A man is wrongly accused of collaboration. Desperate to save his dignity, he faces an impossible moral choice.
Style:
realistic, serious, bleak, captivating, aesthetic ...
Plot:
world war two, nazi occupation, false accusation, moral dilemma, human nature, danger, survival, life is a bitch, wartime life, fog, resistance fighter, nazi ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1942
Place:
soviet union, germany, latvia, russia, ussr
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Greece, Cyprus
Duration: 142 min.
Story:
Two brothers are fighting on opposite sides during the Greek Civil War.
Style:
historical drama, bleak, tense, melancholic, period piece ...
Plot:
greek civil war, brothers, civil war, brother vs brother, family drama, fanaticism, loss of innocence, family tragedy, national identity, tragedy, trauma, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
post world war two, 1940s
Place:
greece
Similarity:
32%
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
On Amrum Island in spring 1945, twelve-year-old Nanning hunts seals, fishes at night, and works the fields to help feed his family. When the war ends, his mother sinks into depression, and he must navigate new conflicts while struggling to find his ...
Style:
historical drama, poignant, period piece, atmospheric, melancholic ...
Plot:
world war two, island, coming of age, north sea, resilience, fishing, isolation, nature, mother son relationship, loss of innocence, wartime, family drama ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
germany
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
The incredible, untold true story of how a group of prisoners attempt a seemingly impossible escape from the first Nazi death camp in order to provide the first eyewitness account of the Holocaust.
Style:
historical drama, bleak, tense, intense, emotional ...
Plot:
holocaust, concentration camp, world war two, nazi germany, memories, prison escape, war crime, survival, resistance, biopic, sacrifice, forced labor ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Four young Jews survive the Third Reich in the middle of Berlin by living so recklessly that they become "invisible."
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, suspense, sincere, thought provoking ...
Plot:
holocaust, nazi officer, world war two, holocaust survivor, refugee, courage, resistance, hiding, nazi, feminist, military, biopic ...
Time:
1940s, year 1943, 20th century
Place:
germany, berlin germany
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Denmark
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
In the early morning of April 9th 1940 the Danish army is alerted. The Germans have crossed the border; Denmark is at war against Europe's strongest army. In Southern Jutland Danish bicycle- and motorcycle companies are ordered out, to against ...
Style:
serious, captivating, realistic, tense, suspense ...
Plot:
world war two, nazi occupation, wehrmacht, military, war, soldier, battles, danger, against the odds, nazi, world war, friendship ...
Time:
20th century, year 1940, 1940s
Place:
denmark, germany, europe
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Croatia
Duration: 200 min.
Story:
"Long Dark Night" follows the life of the fictional character Iva Kolar: his experiences as a Croatian University student, his role as a Partisan fighting Hitler's troops during W.W. II, his involvement in his nation's post-war ...
Style:
historical drama, bleak, period piece, grim, intense ...
Plot:
world war two, biopic, national identity, historical epic, university student, political intrigue, realism, occupation, fascism, tragedy, moral ambiguity, sacrifice ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
croatia, former yugoslavia
Similarity:
29%
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:
29%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
On January 20, 1942, the Wannsee Conference takes place in Berlin, a meeting that had only one item on the agenda: The Final Solution, the organization of the systematic mass murder of eleven million European Jews.
Style:
tense, disturbing, captivating, bleak, grim ...
Plot:
world war two, holocaust, nazi, nazism, ss officer, jew persecution, nazi officer, genocide, anti semitism, war crime, nazi germany, wartime ...
Time:
1940s, year 1942
Place:
berlin germany, germany
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
The story of the legendary battle through the eyes of Jedrek - a boy who went through the hell of the gulag and left Russia with the Polish Army as one of thousands of polish orphans. Soon a decisive attack on a monastery located on the hills of ...
Style:
dramatic, intense, historical drama, period piece, emotional ...
Plot:
world war two, soldier, battlefield, combat, heroism, frontline, orphan, coming of age, trauma, survival, tragedy, brotherhood ...
Time:
1940s
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A lawyer, who represents the German government against the Greek reparation claims for Nazi crimes in World War II, travels to Greece and meets one of the remaining survivors of the Kalavryta massacre that took place in 1943.
Style:
historical drama, captivating, tense, suspenseful, thrilling ...
Plot:
war crime, world war two, investigation, war violence, attorney, genocide, massacre, tragic past, troubled past, nazi occupation, german occupation, haunting ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
germany
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: China
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
A former spy in the Chinese Nationalist Party falls for an opium-dealing widow, as China is ravaged by war and revolution.
Style:
historical drama, captivating, suspense, disturbing, psychological ...
Plot:
world war two, social problems, wartime life, life is a bitch, wartime, couple relations, romantic relationship, loner, war, love story, in love, fall in love ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s
Place:
hong kong
Similarity:
28%
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Fact based drama about one of the internment camps used by the American military during World War II to detain some 100,000 Japanese Americans (most of them U.S. born) following Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor.
Style:
historical drama, bleak, emotional, educational, reflective ...
Plot:
world war two, concentration camp, american history, detention, identity, civil liberties, racism, trauma, evacuation, community, prejudice, coming of age ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
california
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
This war drama is dedicated to the victory in the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945). It revolves around Pavel Zubov, a school teacher whose village was occupied by the fascists. Being a teacher is his calling in life. He believes in such basic human ...
Style:
suspense, disturbing, captivating, realistic, intense ...
Plot:
moral dilemma, great patriotic war, german occupation, occupation, world war two, wartime, nazi occupation, war, wartime life, life is a bitch, struggle for survival, teacher ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
soviet union
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The tragic story of a group of prisoners, ordinary people, were detained in the camp at Lager in Naise at the beginning of WWII, after that mighty torture and abuse by the Germans, will try escape from the camp. A few succeeded.
Style:
bleak, tense, suspense, period piece
Plot:
world war two, concentration camp, escape, torture, prisoner of war camp, survival, nazi occupation, partisan, resistance, prisoners of war, execution, brutality ...
Time:
1940s, year 1941
Place:
former yugoslavia, eastern europe, serbia
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Denmark
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Fuglene Over Sundet is the gripping tale of the Danish Jews' escape to Sweden in October 1943.
Style:
exciting, unusual plot structure, thought provoking, touching, sincere
Plot:
nazi occupation, world war two, german soldier, brother sister relationship, husband wife relationship, world war, judaism, holocaust, mother, nazi soldier, boat, fisherman ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
scandinavia, denmark, copenhagen
Similarity:
24%
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Genre: Drama, History, Sport
Country: Russia
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Based on the true story of the "death match" where the Soviet team "Start" scored its second victory over the German team «Flakelf» on August 9, 1942
Style:
historical drama, suspense, captivating, period piece, bleak ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
football, world war two, soccer match, soccer, football team, sport team, contests and competitions, nazi occupation, professional rivalry, rivals, showdown, football player ...
Time:
year 1942, 1940s
Place:
soviet union, ukraine, ussr
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
The film is based on the true story of a regiment of nationalist troop fighting Japanese forces several times of their strength. Due to the political reasons, such historical topic is avoided in China, and even after the reform, the cautious ...
Style:
tension, patriotic, emotional, suspense, melancholic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
world war two, military, sacrifice, battles, heroism, protection, bravery, siege, patriotism, combat, tragedy, leadership ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s
Place:
shanghai, china
Similarity:
24%
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:
24%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
The remarkable true-life survival story of a Jewish boy hiding and being hunted in the forests of Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe, based on Maxwell Smart's memoir.
Style:
historical drama, suspenseful, thrilling, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
nazi occupation, holocaust, survival, holocaust survivor, world war two, fear, hiding, persecution, anti semitism, problem, nazism, nazi ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Biography, History, War
Country: Israel
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
The unbelievable story of Leonid Bernshtein, a young Jewish soldier who rose to become the leader and led the operation to destroy the secret facility of the notorious Nazi V2 ballistic missiles.
Style:
thought provoking, historical drama, disturbing, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
world war two, moral dilemma, soldier, guerilla warfare, nazi occupation, military, life is a bitch, holocaust, nazi germany, german officer, military life, german soldier ...
Time:
1940s
Similarity:
23%
159
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Russia, Belarus, Czech Republic, France, Poland, Israel, Ukraine
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
The film tells about the history of the Holocaust through the stories of its unwitting Witnesses.
Style:
tense, thought provoking, bleak, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot:
world war two, holocaust, ss officer, concentration camp, anti war, witness, war crime, genocide, atrocity, memory, anti semitism, auschwitz ...
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A group of school-mates form a resistance group in nazi-occupied Denmark.
Style:
historical drama, tense, period piece, bleak, suspenseful ...
Plot:
world war two, resistance, nazi occupation, children, political oppression, loss of innocence, coming of age, courage, moral ambiguity, underground movement, tragedy, escalation ...
Time:
1940s
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Father Alexander is trying to maintain peaceful life for his church amidst the Nazi occupation during WWII.
Style:
christian film, spiritual, rough, compassionate, sincere ...
Plot:
belief in god, religion, world war two, priest, children, church, brutality, human spirit, countryside, husband wife relationship, war, nazi occupation ...
Time:
1940s
Similarity:
22%
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