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Six Minutes to Midnight (2020)
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Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Summer 1939. Influential families in Nazi Germany have sent their daughters to a finishing school in an English seaside town to learn the language and be ambassadors for a future looking National Socialist. A teacher there sees what is coming and is trying to raise the alarm. But the authorities believe he is the problem.
Style:
political, disturbing, thought provoking, serious, suspenseful, microfilm, bilingual
Plot:
world war two, suspense, nazism, against humanity, controversy, courage, ideology, escape plan, allies, political unrest, survival, fight, german, secret agents, society, dictatorship, victim, showdown, german politics, war, teenager, wartime life, bus driver, british secret service, seaside town ...
Time:
1930s, year 1939
Place:
england, europe, united kingdom, germany
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, suspenseful, serious and tense films with plots about cigarette smoking, world war two, suspense, war, photograph, german and murder mostly in Drama, War and Thriller genres. Some movies like Six Minutes to Midnight: Glorious 39 (2009), A Call to Spy (2019), Valkyrie (2008), Black Book (2006), The Aryan Couple (2004). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, History, Mystery, Thriller, War
Country: UK
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
A mysterious tale set around a traditional British family on the eve of World War Two. Oblivious to the looming shadow of World War II, the wealthy Keyes maintain a confident façade in the British countryside until daughter Anne becomes an ...
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world war two, spy, life turned upside down, disorder, uncover truth, adoption, secret movement, war, betrayal, confined, conspiracy, government agent ...
Time:
year 1939, 1930s, 20th century, pre world war two
Place:
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, 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 ...
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bleak, rough, suspenseful
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world war two, gestapo, british intelligence, spy, espionage, strong female character, female spy, female protagonist, disguise, british soldier, prisoner, secret ...
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germany, scotland, europe, france, vichy ...
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Genre: Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: USA, Germany, Italy, Spain, France, Japan, UK
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:
factual, tense, bad ending, suspenseful, captivating ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
world war two, nazi, war, nazism, hitler, conspiracy, nazi germany, suspense, resistance, politics, german soldier, wehrmacht ...
Time:
1940s, year 1944, post world war two, year 1943, 20th century
Place:
germany, berlin germany, africa, poland, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
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.
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tense, psychological, erotic, realistic, dramatic ...
Audience:
date night
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world war two, holocaust, jewish, spy, war, espionage, betrayal, revenge, occupation, nazi, nazism, resistance ...
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1940s, post world war two, 50s, year 1944, year 1956 ...
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netherlands, holland, germany, israel, poland ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A WWII Drama about a German/Jewish industrialist who, in order to ensure his family's safe passage out of Germany, is forced to hand over his business to the Nazis.
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psychological, serious, captivating, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot:
concentration camp, world war two, holocaust, genocide, anti semitism, uncover truth, undercover, hidden identity, life is a bitch, survival, moral dilemma, forbidden love ...
Time:
1940s, post world war two, year 1944
Place:
germany, hungary, switzerland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
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Genre: Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: Norway
Duration: 135 min.
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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.
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uplifting, serious, dark, entertaining, inspirational ...
Audience:
boys' night
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world war two, gestapo, nazi, resistance fighter, survival, coping, winter, war, chase, one man army, life & death, suspense ...
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norway, germany, scotland, sweden
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80%
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: UK, Australia, Germany
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
This is a drama set in Nazi-occupied France at the height of World War II. Charlotte Gray tells the compelling story of a young Scottish woman working with the French Resistance in the hope of rescuing her lover, a missing RAF pilot. Based on the ...
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sexy, sentimental, romantic, captivating, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
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world war two, espionage, resistance, war, nazi, spy, wartime life, holocaust, women, jewish, french resistance, secret agents ...
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1940s, post world war two, 20th century
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france, london, germany, england, paris france ...
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73%
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Cold War spy Greville Wynne and his Russian source try to put an end to the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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Plot:
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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 ...
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1940s, year 1943, 20th century
Place:
germany, ussr, poland, europe, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: UK
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
When the Nazi high command learns in late 1943 that Winston Churchill will be spending time at a country estate in Norfolk, it hatches an audacious scheme to kidnap the prime minister and spirit him to Germany for enforced negotiations with Hitler.
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exciting, intense, tense, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
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1940s, 20th century, year 1943
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
In 1943, two British intelligence officers concoct Operation Mincemeat, wherein their plan to drop a corpse with false papers off the coast of Spain would fool Nazi spies into believing the Allied forces were planning to attack by way of Greece ...
Style:
tense, captivating, thought provoking, disturbing
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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:
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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.
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: USA
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.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: France
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Isabelle Adjani and Gerard Depardieu star in director Jean-Paul Rappenau's amusing farce set on the eve of World War II, which follows the intersecting lives of four Parisians as they cope with the impending invasion of their city by German ...
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Plot:
world war two, spy, war, politics, wartime life, german, manipulation, lie, top secret, writers, chase, jewish ...
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1940s, 1930s, 20th century
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france, paris france, england, london, germany ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: West Germany
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Although members of the Hitler Youth chant anti-Semitic paroles in front of his house during the Purim festival, Rabbi Singer is still profoundly convinced that Germany will stay a safe country for him, his family, and his fellow believers. But ...
Style:
realistic, serious, rough, emotional, bleak ...
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holocaust, world war two, boy, nazi, rabbi, family relations, survival, anti semitism, confined, against humanity, escapades, war ...
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, West Germany
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
After reading the diary of an elderly Jewish man who committed suicide, freelance journalist Peter Miller begins to investigate the alleged sighting of a former SS-Captain who commanded a concentration camp during World War II. Miller eventually ...
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60s, 70s, 20th century, year 1963, post world war two ...
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Country: Canada, Hungary
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: Italy, UK
Duration: 117 min.
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Country: UK, Netherlands, France, USA
Duration: 106 min.
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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.
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Duration: 107 min.
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Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: Norway, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Duration: 109 min.
Story:
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Duration: 107 min.
Story:
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Country: Germany, India, USA
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Story:
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