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Süskind (2012)
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
In Nazi-occupied Amsterdam, Walter Süskind is a member of the Dutch Jewish Council who rescues hundreds of children from the concentration camps.
Style:
serious, captivating, emotional, realistic, bleak
Plot:
ss, holocaust, wartime life, nazi occupation, human spirit, world war two, children, selflessness, rescue, idealism, life is a bitch, danger, deportation, escape attempt, against humanity, hopes, escapades, nazi, judaism, dutch history, discrimination, child in peril, train, death, boy ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 40s
Place:
europe, amsterdam, holland
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, captivating and bleak films with plots about world war two, wartime life, nazi, holocaust, life is a bitch, war and danger mostly in Drama, War and History genres. Some movies like Süskind: A Bag of Marbles (2017), The Rotterdam Bombing (2012), When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit (2019), Run Boy Run (2013), The Diary of Anne Frank (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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:
tense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological ...
Plot:
world war two, holocaust, brother brother relationship, ss, nazi occupation, nazi, german occupation, children in wartime, german soldier, shoah, military, soldier ...
Time:
1940s, year 2017, year 1943, year 1942, year 1944
Place:
paris france, nice france, france
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A thrilling love story between the young boxer Vincent and the German Eva, who soon has to marry with the middle-aged Dirk to save her family. While the war starts in the Netherlands their impossible love inflames. May 14, 1940, the day that the ...
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, emotional, touching ...
Plot:
world war two, bombing, wartime life, wedding planning, social differences, society, german occupation, unfulfillment, forbidden love, brother sister relationship, impossible love, nazi germany ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
holland, europe, rotterdam netherlands
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Germany, Switzerland, Italy
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
In 1933 in Berlin. Anna is only nine years old when her life changes from the ground up. To escape the Nazis, her father Arthur Kemper, a well-known Jewish journalist, has to flee to Zurich. His family, Anna, her twelve-year-old brother Max and her ...
Style:
sincere, realistic, serious, touching
Plot:
world war two, wartime life, anti semitism, refugee, heroes, life is a bitch, against humanity, teenage life, life turned upside down, family in danger, crime against humanity, danger ...
Time:
year 2019, 1930s, year 1933
Place:
germany, switzerland, berlin germany, paris france, swiss alps ...
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Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, War
Country: Germany, France, Poland
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Run Boy Run is the true story of Jurek, an eight-year-old boy, who escapes from the Warsaw ghetto, then manages to survive in the woods and working as a farmhand, disguising himself as a Polish orphan. He encounters people who will betray him for a ...
Style:
touching, captivating, serious, bleak, realistic ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, boy, children in wartime, youth, human spirit, corporal punishment, medical examination, young heroes, on the run, hidden identity, anti semitism ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
germany, poland
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
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Story:
Called the most accurate adaptation of Anne Frank’s moving diary, the film chronicles the Frank family as they flee from the Nazis in Amsterdam. Hiding behind a bookcase in a secret annex with random bombs exploding, Anne faces friction with her ...
Style:
sincere, touching, realistic, serious, historical drama ...
Plot:
holocaust, nazism, against humanity, world war two, diary, wartime life, survival, human spirit, oppression, danger, confined, youth ...
Time:
1940s, 1900s, 20th century
Place:
holland, europe, netherlands, amsterdam
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
In the Nazi occupied city of Rome, an assault on an SS brigade draws retaliation from the military governship. "Massacre in Rome" is the true story of how this partisan attack led to the mass execution of Italian nationals under the orders ...
Style:
contemplative, realistic, serious, captivating, thought provoking ...
Plot:
world war two, world war, partisan, nazi occupation, military, holocaust, nazi, german soldier, fascism, fictional history, bureaucracy, shoah ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
rome italy, italy, europe
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: UK
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
During WWII, the death camp at Treblinka had an escape, causing the Commandant at a similar camp in Sobibor to vow (actually threaten) that his camp would never experience the same thing. But those who were its captives, the Jewish laborers that had ...
Style:
tense, realistic, thought provoking, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot:
concentration camp, world war two, pow, holocaust, escape, shoah, against humanity, genocide, military, captivity, nazi, hopes ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
poland, europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: France
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Starting in 1944 in the wake of the Liberation and continuing into the '60s, 'houses of hope' were established to lend a semblance of continuity to youngsters orpahaned by the war. Nina's Home takes place between September 1944 ...
Style:
uplifting, captivating, serious, emotional, touching ...
Plot:
adoption, survival, holocaust, confined, family relations, society, danger, against humanity, anti semitism, frame up, religions or cults, orphan ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
paris france, france
Similarity:
100%
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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:
serious, realistic, bleak, captivating, entertaining ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
holocaust, nazism, nazi, gestapo, nazi germany, anti semitism, danger, life is a bitch, pow, war, confined, world war ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1943, post world war two
Place:
germany, israel, europe
Similarity:
75%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 177 min.
Story:
Jews rise up in the Warsaw Ghetto against the Nazis in 1943.
Style:
captivating, rough, serious, political, tense ...
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, heroism, resistance, jewish ghetto, nazi, survival, politics, rebellion, shoah, wartime life, against humanity ...
Time:
year 2001, 1940s, 20th century, year 1943, post world war two
Place:
germany, europe, warsaw poland, poland
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: 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:
harsh, tense, brutal, bleak, serious ...
Plot:
holocaust, nazi, concentration camp, world war two, nazi germany, counterfeit money, brutality, forgery, counterfeiter, prison, nazi concentration camp, war crime ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 1930s, year 1936, year 2008 ...
Place:
germany, europe, poland, austria, canada ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Italy, France, Sweden, Hungary
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
It is the real story of Giorgio Perlasca (Luca Zingaretti). During the 1920s he was an Italian Fascist supporter, fighting in Africa an in the Spanish civil war where he deserved a safe conduct for Spanish embassies. After some years, disillusioned ...
Style:
disturbing, serious, emotional, captivating, realistic ...
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, nazism, idealism, genocide, fascism, deportation, concentration camp, hopes, nazi occupation, wartime life, political unrest ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, 1920s, 80s, 20th century ...
Place:
hungary, budapest, italy, spain
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Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
TV show
Story:
Holocaust is an American television miniseries broadcast in four parts in 1978 on the NBC television network. The series tells the story of the Holocaust from the perspective of the Weiss family of German Jews and that of a rising member of the SS, ...
Style:
historical drama, anthology, depressing, captivating, emotional ...
Plot:
holocaust, concentration camp, shoah, nazi, world war two, ss officer, world war, holocaust survivor, nazi germany, civil engineer, zionism, nazi occupied poland ...
Time:
year 1935, 1930s, 1940s, 20th century, year 1943 ...
Place:
germany, poland, berlin germany, europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
During the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam, Otto Frank decides to hide his family, who are Jewish, after his daughter Margot is called to appear for transport to a Nazi labour camp. Miep Gies, Otto Frank's office assistant hides them in the attic ...
Style:
thought provoking, realistic, serious, disturbing, bleak
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, nazi, world war, anti semitism, journal, biopic, injustice, on the run, human spirit, war, life is a bitch ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, 20th century
Place:
holland, europe, amsterdam
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Germany, Netherlands
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Im Kölner Stadtteil Ehrenfeld lebt eine Gruppe von Arbeiterkindern kurz vor Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs ihren ganz eigenen Alltag. Die selbsternannten „Edelweißpiraten“ träumen von einer gerechten Welt und sehnen sich nach der unbeschwerten ...
Style:
tense, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot:
resistance, wartime life, world war two, nazi germany, human spirit, rebellion, young heroes, captivity, rebelliousness, life is a bitch, against humanity, idealism ...
Time:
1940s, year 1944, 20th century, post world war two
Place:
europe, germany
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: UK, Italy
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Hitler: The Last Ten Days takes us into the depths of der Furher’s Berlin bunker during his final days. Based on the book by Gerhard Boldt, it provides a bleak look at the goings-on within, and without.
Style:
independent film, contemplative, serious, realistic, disturbing ...
Plot:
nazi, world war two, third reich, bunker, ss, military, world war, eastern front, biopic, hitler, suicide, holocaust ...
Time:
year 1945, 20th century, 1940s
Place:
germany, europe, berlin germany
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 200 min.
Story:
This is a true story about forty Jewish children on their way to Palestine, who were blocked by the German and Italian occupation of Yugoslavia in 1941. Before finding a haven at Villa Emma in Nonantola in northern Italy, where they arrived on June ...
Style:
uplifting, touching, sentimental, emotional, realistic ...
Plot:
holocaust, survival, orphan, rescue, hopes, youth, society, fugitives, against humanity, danger, life is a bitch, wartime life ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
italy, europe, switzerland, slovenia
Similarity:
27%
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Germany, Netherlands
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
When Ruth's husband dies in New York, in 2000, she imposes strict Jewish mourning, which puzzles her children. A stranger comes to the house - Ruth's cousin - with a picture of Ruth, age 8, in Berlin, with a woman the cousin says helped ...
Style:
uplifting, serious, emotional, touching, contemplative ...
Plot:
holocaust, nazi germany, world war two, anti semitism, nazi, wartime life, human spirit, hopes, couple relations, society, world war, strong female character ...
Time:
1940s, year 1943, 20th century, post world war two
Place:
berlin germany, germany, europe, new york, usa
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: Norway
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Norwegian war drama. The old sea-captain retires, but the next day German WWII occupation of Norway begins. He then kisses his wife good-bye and is off to Army HQ. There he finds a lack of leadership and morale that offends him. They even laugh at ...
Style:
contemplative, captivating, sincere, emotional, serious ...
Plot:
world war two, world war, holocaust, violent content, battles, soldier, rebelliousness, idealism, human spirit, danger, state affairs, war ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
germany
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: USA, Canada, Poland, Latvia
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Irena Sendler is a Catholic social worker who has sympathized with the Jews since her childhood, when her physician father died of typhus contracted while treating poor Jewish patients. When she initially proposes saving Jewish children from the ...
Style:
serious, realistic, emotional, period piece, suspense ...
Audience:
family outing, date night
Plot:
holocaust, nazi germany, world war two, ghetto, social worker, rescue, wartime life, nazi, historical figure, world war, against humanity, life is a bitch ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
poland, europe, warsaw poland
Similarity:
13%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: UK, USA, Canada
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Varian Fry rescues more than 2,000 artists from Nazi persecution during World War II.
Style:
tense, serious, emotional, sincere, realistic
Plot:
world war two, wartime life, hidden identity, uncover truth, politics, life is a bitch, moral dilemma, state affairs, rescue, danger, escapades, against humanity ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
france, europe, usa, marseille
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Drama, based on the book "Retter in der Nacht", in which Marga Spiegel tells her memories: In Westfalia of 1943 Marga Spiegel, her husband and her daughter are about to be deported. Yet westfalian farmers help the jewish family, grant ...
Style:
serious, emotional, tense, realistic, bleak
Plot:
survival, holocaust, false identity, friendship, hidden identity, injustice, genocide, woman in danger, life is a bitch, hopes, wartime life, farm ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
europe, france, germany
Similarity:
26%
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Genre: History, War
Country: Germany, Lithuania
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
In 1942, in Vilna, the Nazi annihilate 55,000 Jews and squeeze the 15,000 survivors in a seven blocks ghetto. The twenty-two year old sadistic commander Kittel is assigned to administrate the ghetto in the capital of Lithuania, becoming the master ...
Style:
realistic, serious, bleak, emotional, rough ...
Plot:
genocide, holocaust, war, world war two, anti semitism, survival, moral dilemma, heroes, confined, lifesaver, against humanity, world war ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, post world war two
Place:
europe, baltics
Similarity:
25%
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:
25%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
The story of a 13-year-old Jewish girl and her family who are forced into hiding by the Nazis during World War II.
Style:
gloomy, sincere, emotional, touching, uplifting ...
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, world war, nazi, writers, poet, anti semitism, teenage life, family in danger, attic, wartime life, family life ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
amsterdam, holland, europe
Similarity:
25%
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:
25%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Brazil
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
Based upon the true story of Olga Benário, the German-born wife of Brazilian communist leader Luís Carlos Prestes. During the dictatorship of Getúlio Vargas (1930-1945) she was arrested and sent to Nazi Germany, where she was put to death in a ...
Style:
captivating, realistic, serious, emotional, contemplative ...
Plot:
nazi germany, world war two, concentration camp, holocaust, wartime life, life is a bitch, dictatorship, biopic, love affair, revolution, politics, confined ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
germany, rio de janeiro, europe, brazil
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
With the Nazi takeover of Europe underway, the Reich Protector Reinhard Heydrich arrives in Prague and his underlings begin enforcing his authority in the towns and villages across the occupied country. In Lidice, the film's main protagonist, ...
Style:
disturbing, realistic, emotional, serious, bleak ...
Plot:
nazi occupation, political repression, world war two, mass murder, genocide, holocaust, life is a bitch, heroic mission, wartime life, social relations, against humanity, haunted by the past ...
Time:
1940s, year 1942, 20th century
Place:
prague, czech republic, czechoslovakia
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Sport
Country: France, Israel, Bulgaria, UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Victor Perez was a Jewish boxer who became world flyweight champion in 1931 and 1932, but was transported to Auschwitz concentration camp when Paris fell to the Nazi s in 1943. While there he was forced into slave labour and made to participate in ...
Style:
realistic, serious, tense, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
boxing, anti semitism, hopes, holocaust, contests and competitions, ambition, life is a bitch, human spirit, danger, rivalry, society, violence ...
Time:
20th century, 1930s, 1940s
Place:
africa, europe
Similarity:
23%
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