Movies like Werewolf 2018

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Werewolf (2018)
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Werewolf (2018)
Original name: Wilkołak
Genre: Drama, Horror, War
Country: Poland, Netherlands, Germany
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Summer of 1945. A temporary orphanage is established in an abandoned palace surrounded by forests for the eight children liberated from the Gross-Rosen camp. Hanka, also a former inmate, becomes their guardian. After the atrocities of the camp, the protagonists slowly begin to regain what is left of their childhood but the horror returns quickly. Camp Alsatians roam the forests around. Released by the SS earlier on, they have gone feral and are starving. Looking for food they besiege the palace. The children are terrified and their camp survival instinct is triggered.
Style: perverse, scary, psychological, rough, thought provoking, melancholic, suspenseful, disturbing, suspense, crying
Plot: concentration camp, bully, dog, world war two, holocaust, dog training, killed by a dog, escape, soldier, bullying, escape attempt, rape, fight, bunker, sexual abuse, rat, teenage girl, rivalry, blood, little girl, teenage boy, humiliation, strangulation, little boy, coming of age ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1945
Place: europe, central europe, germany, poland

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, disturbing and bleak films with plots about world war two, holocaust, nazi, death, world war, violence and war mostly in War, Drama and Horror genres. Some movies like Werewolf: The Painted Bird (2019), The Photographer of Mauthausen (2018), The Ninth Day (2004), Adam Resurrected (2008), Lacombe, Lucien (1974). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
The Painted Bird (2019)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller, War
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia, Ukraine
Duration: 169 min.
Story: A young Jewish boy in Poland seeks refuge in the forest during World War II where he encounters many different characters.
Style: disturbing, captivating, exciting, visual, controversial ...
Plot: holocaust, world war two, man boy relationship, intolerance, abuse of power, sexual abuse, existentialism, little boy, child protagonist, zoophilia, survival, abuse ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, 2010s, 1930s
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The Photographer of Mauthausen (2018)
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
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The Ninth Day (2004)
Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: Germany, Luxembourg, Czech Republic
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A drama loosely based on Jean Bernard's Nazi-era prison diary.
Style: serious, emotional, sincere, contemplative, uplifting ...
Plot: holocaust, world war two, nazi, concentration camp, hopes, clergy, gestapo, catholic, nazi occupation, soldier, heroes, introspection ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, year 2004, post world war two
Place: germany, belgium, switzerland, france, berlin germany ...
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Adam Resurrected (2008)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Israel, Germany, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Before the war, in Berlin, Adam was an entertainer- cabaret impresario, magician, musician-loved by all until he finds himself in a concentration camp, confronted by Commandant Klein. Adam survives the camp by becoming the Klein's ...
Style: touching, contemplative, serious, realistic, bleak ...
Plot: holocaust, nazi, world war two, survival, haunted by the past, against humanity, life is a bitch, mental illness, circus, concentration camp, patient, circus performer ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, year 1936, year 2008, 60s ...
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Lacombe, Lucien (1974)
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
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The Last Circus (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror, War
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Duration: 107 min.
Story: The journey of Javier, the obese Sad Clown, starts during his childhood in the midst of the Spanish civil war in 1937. His father, one of Spain’s most prominent jesters, is detained and tortured by the fascist regime.
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Duration: 127 min.
Story: Occupied France, 1942. Gilles is arrested by SS soldiers alongside other Jews and sent to a camp in Germany. He narrowly avoids sudden execution by swearing to the guards that he is not Jewish, but Persian. This lie temporarily saves him, but Gilles ...
Style: captivating, independent film, suspense, period drama
Plot: concentration camp, world war two, german soldier, labor camp, nazi officer, military, lie, wartime life, holocaust, german officer, sex, soldier ...
Time: year 1942, 1940s, 20th century, year 1945
Place: germany
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In Darkness (2011)
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Duration: 145 min.
Story: A dramatization of one man's rescue of Jewish refugees in the Nazi-occupied Polish city of Lvov. In Darkness tells the true story of Leopold Soha who risks his own life to save a dozen people from certain death. Initially only interested in his ...
Style: harsh, sincere, uplifting, social, tense ...
Plot: holocaust, nazi, world war two, atrocity, shoah, survival, genocide, outside help, hitler youth, judaism, world war, sewer ...
Time: 1940s, 2010s, 20th century, 2000s, year 1945 ...
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Duration: 90 min.
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Plot: world war two, german soldier, repression, communist, french resistance, execution, suppression, nazi officer, concentration camp, hostage, assassination, wehrmacht ...
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Plot: concentration camp, world war two, hospital, execution, war, starving child, prison, world war, nazi, rural setting, dead body, homicide ...
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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
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Duration: 80 min.
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Style: independent film, crying
Plot: rape, murder, male camaraderie, war crime, brutality, military, sexual frustration, cycling, watching sex, teenage girl, arrogant man, loss of virginity ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
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Duration: 90 min.
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Style: rough, realistic, tense, captivating, psychological ...
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Style: tension, poignant, grim, bleak, black and white ...
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Time: 1940s, 20th century
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Ilsa: She Wolf of the SS (1975)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller, War
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Duration: 96 min.
Story: Ilsa is a warden at a Nazi death camp that conducts experiments on prisoners. Ilsa's goal is to prove that woman can withstand more pain and suffering than men and should be allowed to fight on the front lines
Style: grindhouse, erotic, controversial, sexy, rough ...
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Style: extreme horror, controversial, bleak, brutal, rough ...
Plot: world war two, gory, torture, japanese history, dehumanization, extreme, violence, violent, experiment, hardcore, chinese history, sino japanese war ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
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Auschwitz (2011)
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Duration: 73 min.
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Style: disturbing, thought provoking, controversial, bleak, rough ...
Plot: concentration camp, nazi, holocaust, world war two, shoah, mass murder, anti semitism, against humanity, life is a bitch, society, genocide, gas chamber ...
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Duration: 96 min.
Story: Lise Cohen is taken to a special prisoner-of-war camp for female Jews, a camp run as a bordello to entertain the German officers and troops going in to battle. The camp is run with an iron fist by Commandant Starker and his minion Alma. Starker ...
Style: disturbing, sensual, grindhouse, sexual, perverse ...
Audience: adult
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Time: 1940s
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The Bunker (2001)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller, War
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Duration: 88 min.
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Style: disturbing, spooky, serious, psychological, psychotronic ...
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The Grey Zone (2001)
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Time: 1940s, year 2005, post world war two
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David (1979)
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Duration: 125 min.
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Style: realistic, serious, emotional, rough, bleak ...
Plot: holocaust, world war two, nazi, holocaust survivor, boy, chess, hitler youth, little boy, rabbi, family relations, survival, anti semitism ...
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Straight Into Darkness (2004)
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Plot: world war two, wartime life, soldier, battle zone, military life, survival, military, against humanity, danger, battles, psychopath, genocide ...
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Deadgirl (2008)
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Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
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Style: disturbing, psychological, sexy, creepy, erotic ...
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Jojo Rabbit (2019)
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 ...
Style: black comedy, cute, sad, dark comedy, funny ...
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Plot: world war two, nazi germany, boy, nazi, satire, jewish girl, coming of age, nazism, first love, hitler youth, hitler, imaginary friend ...
Time: 1940s, 2010s, year 1945, year 2019, year 1944
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Fanny's Journey (2016)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Fanny is a Jewish girl in a French orphanage in 1943. When she and her friends are no longer safe from the Nazis, they try to flee to Switzerland. After their guide disappears, Fanny has to take the lead and help the other kids make it over the ...
Style: psychological, rough, thought provoking, touching, suspense
Audience: kids
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