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Jojo Rabbit (2019)
483K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: New Zealand, USA, Czech Republic
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A World War II satire that follows a lonely German boy whose world view is turned upside down when he discovers his single mother is hiding a young Jewish girl in their attic. Aided only by his idiotic imaginary friend, Adolf Hitler, Jojo must confront his blind nationalism.
Style:
black comedy, cute, sad, dark comedy, funny, breathtaking, period piece, satirical, psychological, tense ...
Audience:
kids, teens, family friendly, adult
Plot:
world war two, nazi germany, boy, nazi, satire, jewish girl, coming of age, nazism, first love, hitler youth, hitler, imaginary friend, child, orphan, rabbit, dancing, racism, jew persecution, friendship, american soldier, friendship between boys, swastika, 10 year old, hanged woman, love hate relationship ...
Time:
1940s, 2010s, year 1945, year 2019, year 1944
Place:
germany, los angeles, europe, central europe
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Most similar movies to Jojo Rabbit
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, dramatic, touching and harsh films with plots about world war two, death, world war, friendship, wartime life, holocaust and nazi mostly in Drama, War and Comedy genres. Some movies like Jojo Rabbit: Life Is Beautiful (1997), Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016), The Boys (1962), Inglourious Basterds (2009), The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2008). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A touching story of an Italian book seller of Jewish ancestry who lives in his own little fairy tale. His creative and happy life would come to an abrupt halt when his entire family is deported to a concentration camp during World War II. While ...
Style:
touching, inspirational, emotional, sentimental, poignant ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, family friendly, kids, adult
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, nazi, concentration camp, human spirit, life & death, life philosophy, self sacrifice, nazism, life lesson, destiny, ss ...
Time:
1940s, year 1997, 20th century, 90s, 1930s ...
Place:
italy, poland, europe, tuscany
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88%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Ricky is a defiant young city kid who finds himself on the run with his cantankerous foster uncle in the wild New Zealand bush. A national manhunt ensues, and the two are forced to put aside their differences and work together to survive.
Style:
visually stunning, bloody, sweet, independent film, scenic ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly, teens, girls' night
Plot:
coming of age, nature, adoption, wilderness, boy, hunting, juvenile delinquent, fat boy, manhunt, childhood, sarcasm, dog ...
Time:
year 2016, 2010s
Place:
new zealand, indiana, persia, oceania
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: Finland
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
When Continuation War started in Summer 1941, German soldiers arrived to Oulu. With their charm they conquered women and town boys. Finnish boys communicated with them on many levels: had trades, worked as interpreters, rotated business, spied on ...
Style:
crying, black and white
Plot:
world war two, boy, teenage boy, teenager, thunderstorm, schoolboy, lightning, wartime life, little boy, control, russo finnish war, childhood ...
Time:
1940s, year 1942, year 1941, year 1943, year 1944
Place:
finland
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 153 min.
Story:
In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Basterds" are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds, lead by Lt. ...
Style:
suspense, breathtaking, inspirational, atmospheric, witty ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night, chick flick, date night, adult
Plot:
world war two, nazism, nazi, war, vengeance, dark humor, alternate history, working undercover, violence, dialogue, violent, blood ...
Time:
year 2009, 2000s, 1940s, 20th century, post world war two
Place:
paris france, france, germany, america, europe
Similarity:
77%
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
When his family moves from their home in Berlin to a strange new house in Poland, young Bruno befriends Shmuel, a boy who lives on the other side of the fence where everyone seems to be wearing striped pajamas. Unaware of Shmuel's fate as a ...
Style:
emotional, touching, heartbreaking, sad, sentimental ...
Audience:
teens, family friendly, family outing, kids, teen drama ...
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, concentration camp, war, children, friendship, childhood, nazi, nazism, gas chamber, boy, morality ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, ancient times, year 2008, year 1941 ...
Place:
germany, poland, europe, berlin germany, switzerland
Similarity:
64%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Germany, USA, UK
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
While subjected to the horrors of WWII Germany, young Liesel finds solace by stealing books and sharing them with others. Under the stairs in her home, a Jewish refuge is being sheltered by her adoptive parents.
Style:
touching, sentimental, emotional, serious, sad ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, teens, family outing, adult
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, childhood, nazi, adoption, nazi germany, war, human spirit, against humanity, death, youth, nazism ...
Time:
1940s, year 2013, ancient times, year 1941, 2010s ...
Place:
germany, europe
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58%
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK, USA, Belgium
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Germany, 1944. Leyna, the 15-year old daughter of a white German mother and a black African father, meets Lutz, a compassionate member of the Hitler Youth whose father is a prominent Nazi solider, and they form an unlikely connection in this quickly ...
Style:
disturbing, emotional, sincere, captivating, realistic ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
interracial romance, racism, nazi germany, hitler youth, world war two, concentration camp, interracial couple, nazi concentration camp, overcoming, brutality, biracial, interracial love ...
Time:
1940s, ancient times
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Sport, Thriller, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
In 1942, Friedrich Weimer's boxing skills get him an appointment to a National Political Academy (NaPolA) – high schools that produce Nazi elite. Over his father's objections, Friedrich enrolls. During his year in seventh ...
Style:
melancholic, emotional, disturbing, harsh, touching ...
Plot:
boxing, nazi, friendship, nazi germany, boarding school, german soldier, anti semitism, pow, boys' school, youth, military school, gestapo ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1942, post world war two
Place:
germany, europe, berlin germany, cape town south africa, london ...
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, War
Country: Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, France, Germany, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary
Duration: 167 min.
Story:
Black marketeers Marko and Blacky manufacture and sell weapons to the Communist resistance in WWII Belgrade, living the good life along the way. Marko's surreal duplicity propels him up the ranks of the Communist Party, and he eventually ...
Style:
black comedy, epic, satirical, cynical, art house ...
Plot:
world war two, communism, satire, surrealism, genocide, brutality, greed, lie, culture clash, imagination, tragedy, propaganda ...
Time:
90s, 1940s, year 1995, year 1941, 60s ...
Place:
former yugoslavia, serbia, balkan, eastern europe, europe ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France, West Germany, Italy
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A French boarding school run by priests seems to be a haven from World War II until a new student arrives. He becomes the roommate of top student in his class. Rivals at first, the roommates form a bond and share a secret.
Style:
sad, heartbreaking, art house, depressing, reflective ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
nazi, friendship, world war two, nazism, childhood, french resistance, coming of age, holocaust, gestapo, lgbt teen, nazi occupation, anti semitism ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1987, year 1944
Place:
france, paris france, israel, europe, jerusalem ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: West Germany, France, Poland
Duration: 142 min.
Story:
Oskar is born in Germany in 1924 with an advanced intellect. Repulsed by the hypocrisy of adults and the irresponsibility of society, he refuses to grow older after his third birthday.
Style:
surreal, disturbing, controversial, clever, epic ...
Plot:
world war two, fascism, coming of age, boy, circus, nazi, wartime life, magic realism, cheating wife, extramarital affair, infidelity, beach ...
Time:
1930s, 1940s, 20th century, 1920s, year 1939 ...
Place:
germany, middle east, israel, europe, central europe ...
Similarity:
100%
962
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia, Denmark
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Story of a small boy is forced to move out of Prague during World War 2 to a small village of Slavonice where he meets the rest of his family. He needs to make new friends and get used to a new life which is immensely different from what this city ...
Style:
suspenseful, sentimental, touching, sincere, suspense ...
Plot:
world war two, boy, family relations, social outcast, child protagonist, end of war, death, husband wife relationship, countryside, wartime life, brother brother relationship, gambler ...
Time:
1940s, year 1945, year 1944, year 1943
Place:
prague, central europe
Similarity:
100%
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%
31K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
It's 1984, and Michael Jackson is king - even in Waihau Bay, New Zealand. Here we meet Boy, an 11-year-old who lives on a farm with his gran, a goat, and his younger brother, Rocky (who thinks he has magic powers). Shortly after Gran leaves for ...
Style:
touching, humorous, visually appealing, unusual plot structure, surreal ...
Plot:
coming of age, childhood, absent father, daydreamer, youth, small town, beach, family relations, father son relationship, mischievous children, parents and children, boy ...
Time:
year 1984, year 2010, 2010s, 80s, 20th century ...
Place:
new zealand, oceania, tokyo
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
In 1944 Poland, a Jewish shop keeper named Jakob is summoned to ghetto headquarters after being caught out after curfew. While waiting for the German Kommondant, Jakob overhears a German radio broadcast about Russian troop movements. Returned to the ...
Style:
sad, cult classic, emotional, uplifting, semi serious ...
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, jewish ghetto, shoah, nazi, gestapo, world war, radio, judaism, hopes, lie, death ...
Time:
1940s, year 1999, 20th century, year 1942, year 1939 ...
Place:
poland, germany, europe, russia
Similarity:
38%
28K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
A bombardier in World War II tries desperately to escape the insanity of the war. However, sometimes insanity is the only sane way to cope with a crazy situation. Catch-22 is a parody of a "military mentality" and of a bureaucratic society ...
Style:
dark comedy, black comedy, absurd, surreal, grim ...
Plot:
world war two, anti war, satire, military, bomber, male nudity, soldier, aviation, social commentary, literary, wartime, world war ...
Time:
1940s, year 1970, year 1944, 20th century, 70s
Place:
rome italy, alexandria egypt, sardinia, mediterranean sea, new york ...
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Poetic journey through the shards and shadows of one boy’s war-ravaged youth.
Style:
bleak, black and white, meditative, art house, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
world war two, orphan, coming of age, boy, espionage, childhood, war, child spy, courage, forest, great patriotic war, youth ...
Time:
1940s, year 1962, 20th century, year 1943
Place:
soviet union, ussr, russia, germany, europe ...
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 153 min.
Story:
Jamie Graham, a privileged English boy, is living in Shanghai when the Japanese invade and force all foreigners into prison camps. Jamie is captured with an American sailor named Basie, who looks out for him while they are in the camp together. Even ...
Style:
epic, sad, period piece, crying, emotional ...
Audience:
family friendly, family outing, teens, teen drama
Plot:
world war two, coming of age, child protagonist, childhood, survival, pow, boy, japanese army, prisoner, young heroes, captivity, starvation ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1945, year 1987
Place:
china, hong kong, japan, asia, indochina ...
Similarity:
37%
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 169 min.
Story:
As U.S. troops storm the beaches of Normandy, three brothers lie dead on the battlefield, with a fourth trapped behind enemy lines. Ranger captain John Miller and seven men are tasked with penetrating German-held territory and bringing the boy home.
Style:
breathtaking, realistic, captivating, tense, inspirational ...
Audience:
manly, date night, chick flick, kids, adult
Plot:
war, world war two, military, courage, battles, self sacrifice, sniper, friendship, nazi, combat, army, machine gun ...
Time:
1940s, year 1944, year 1998, 90s, year 2013 ...
Place:
normandy, france, germany, poland, europe ...
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
In 1944 Lucien Lacombe, a young peasant in the Lot region is refused permission to join the French Resistance. Instead, the opposing "French Gestapo" obtain from him information about an underground leader and recruit him into their ...
Style:
anthology, art house, postmodern, visual, controversial ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
world war two, french resistance, occupation, gestapo, nazi occupation, children in wartime, resistance, resistance movement, nazi, wartime life, world war, holocaust ...
Time:
1940s, year 1974, 20th century, year 1944
Place:
vichy, france, israel, europe, germany
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
In Nazi occupied Czechoslovakia, a childless couple agree to hide a Jewish friend at great personal risk of discovery and execution.
Style:
surreal, compassionate, lyrical, uplifting, disturbing ...
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, nazi, survival, idealism, couples, nazi occupation, human spirit, self discovery, against humanity, wartime life, dishonesty ...
Time:
1940s, 2000s, 20th century, 1930s, year 1945
Place:
eastern europe, germany, poland, balkan, czech republic ...
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Germany, France, Poland
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A Jewish boy separated from his family in the early days of WWII poses as a German orphan and is taken into the heart of the Nazi world as a 'war hero' and eventually becomes a Hitler Youth. Although improbabilities and happenstance are ...
Style:
political, retro, realistic, surreal, psychedelic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
holocaust, nazi, circumcision, male nudity, woman peeing, hitler youth, children in wartime, physical exam, war, coming of age, genocide, nazi germany ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 90s, year 1990, 1930s
Place:
germany, poland, berlin germany, eastern europe, latvia ...
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, War
Country: East Germany, Czechoslovakia
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A Jewish ghetto in the east of Europe, 1944. By coincidence, Jakob Heym eavesdrops on a German radio broadcast announcing the Soviet Army is making slow by steady progress towards central Europe. In order to keep his companion in misfortune, Mischa, ...
Style:
emotional, realistic, tense, uplifting, gloomy ...
Plot:
holocaust, judaism, world war two, shoah, nazi, death, friendship, gestapo, hopes, genocide, holocaust survivor, military ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1944, 70s
Place:
east germany, israel, poland, germany, europe ...
Similarity:
35%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 142 min.
Story:
The invasion of a village in Byelorussia by German forces sends young Florya into the forest to join the weary Resistance fighters, against his family's wishes. There he meets a girl, Glasha, who accompanies him back to his village. On ...
Style:
bleak, harsh, thought provoking, rough, brutal ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
world war two, genocide, war crime, against humanity, brutality, holocaust, nazi, atrocity, occupation, children in wartime, massacre, teenage girl ...
Time:
1940s, year 1943, 20th century, year 1985, near future ...
Place:
germany, persia, europe, soviet union, russia ...
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, War
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
In a small town still occupied by the Germans as World War II's tide is turning toward the Allies, apprentice train-watcher Milos is oblivious to the war. Instead, he is obsessed with having his first sexual experience. Despite the favors of ...
Style:
erotic, atmospheric, talky, touching, realistic ...
Plot:
world war two, coming of age, satire, resistance, storytelling, stallion, politics, occupation, communism, village life, wartime life, partisan ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, year 1966, 1930s
Place:
czech republic, eastern europe, europe, czechoslovakia, prague ...
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Czech Republic, USA, Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
An ailing communist reflects on a young boy childhood in Stalinist Yugoslavia.
Style:
atmospheric, serious, realistic, touching, contemplative
Plot:
orphan, youth, orphanage, friendship, betrayal, prison, coming of age, soldier, idealism, haunted by the past, injustice, politics ...
Time:
year 1945, post world war two, 1940s
Place:
macedonia, former yugoslavia, europe, soviet union, ussr ...
Similarity:
34%
132K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Two quirky, cynical teenaged girls try to figure out what to do with their lives after high school graduation. After they play a prank on an eccentric, middle aged record collector, one of them befriends him, which causes a rift in the girls' ...
Style:
black comedy, thought provoking, teen, independent film, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, friendship, age difference, graduation, adolescence, older man younger woman relationship, teenage girl, teenage life, teen angst, blues, best friend, high school student ...
Time:
year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, indiana, los angeles
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: Austria, Luxembourg
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Poland 1943: An unlikely pair - a concentration camp prisoner and a captain in Hitler's notorious SS - free themselves from the wreckage of a crashed SS airplane. The two appear to be strangely familiar with each other and the extent of their ...
Style:
serious, captivating, tense, contemplative, realistic ...
Plot:
world war two, friends, friendship, military, life is a bitch, soldier, wartime life, moral dilemma, holocaust, against humanity, concentration camp, nazi ...
Time:
20th century, 1930s, 1940s
Place:
germany, europe, poland, austria
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK, Sweden, France
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
During the Blitz of World War II, a female screenwriter (Gemma Arterton) works on a film celebrating England's resilience as a way to buoy a weary populace's spirits. Her efforts to dramatise the true story of two sisters (Lily Knight and ...
Style:
costume drama, period piece, historical drama, rom com, thought provoking ...
Plot:
world war two, filmmaking, bomb shelter, screenwriter, war propaganda, world war, cinema, friendship, lie, writers, feminism, woman ...
Time:
1940s, year 1940, 20th century
Place:
united kingdom, england, london, america, dunkirk ...
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
In a small town in California's San Joaquin Valley, 14-year-old Homer Macauley is determined to be the best and fastest bicycle telegraph messenger anyone has ever seen. His older brother has gone to war, leaving Homer to look after his widowed ...
Style:
captivating, thought provoking, realistic, tense, freeze frame ...
Plot:
world war two, coming of age, brother brother relationship, promise, friendship, family relations, death of brother, fear, husband wife relationship, jealousy, teenage boy, anti war ...
Time:
1940s, year 1942, 20th century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
34%
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