Movies like A Call to Spy
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A Call to Spy (2019)
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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 form an unlikely sisterhood while entangled in dangerous missions to turn the tide of the war.
Style:
rough, bleak, suspenseful
Plot:
world war two, gestapo, british intelligence, spy, espionage, female spy, strong female character, prisoner, lie, female protagonist, secret, british soldier, disguise, reconnaissance, women, suspense, nazi, war, lesbian, intelligence agency, disabled character, world war, female group, prison, airplane ...
Time:
year 1941, year 1942, year 1944
Place:
germany, paris france, france, london, scotland, europe, vichy
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, tense, realistic and serious films with plots about cigarette smoking, world war two, photograph, murder, war, suspense and nazi mostly in Drama, War and Thriller genres. Some movies like A Call to Spy: The Courier (2020), The Aryan Couple (2004), Operation Finale (2018), Black Book (2006), Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (2005). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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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tense, captivating, touching, dramatic, scary ...
Plot:
spy, cold war, russian spy, reconnaissance, cuban missile crisis, counter intelligence, suspense, politics, undercover, interrogation, secret agents, agent ...
Time:
year 1964, year 1962, year 1960, 60s, 50s ...
Place:
germany, langley virginia, moscow russia, ussr, london ...
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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.
Style:
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
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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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ambiguous ending, tense, art house, inspirational, thought provoking ...
Plot:
war criminal, nazi hunter, mossad, world war two, nazi, holocaust, chase, manhunt, spy, military, mission, life risking ...
Time:
60s, 1940s, year 1945, year 1954, year 1939 ...
Place:
israel, argentina, buenos aires argentina, germany, austria ...
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71%
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:
tense, psychological, erotic, realistic, dramatic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
world war two, holocaust, jewish, spy, war, espionage, betrayal, revenge, occupation, nazi, nazism, resistance ...
Time:
1940s, post world war two, 50s, year 1944, year 1956 ...
Place:
netherlands, holland, germany, israel, poland ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
True story of Germany's most famous anti-Nazi heroine brought to thrilling, dramatic life. Sophie Scholl stars Julia Jentsch in a luminous performance as the fearless activist of the underground student resistance group, The White Rose. Armed ...
Style:
touching, tense, sincere, suspenseful, emotional ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
politics, nazism, world war two, resistance, death sentence, nazi germany, gestapo, historical character, nazi, lawyer, rebellion, fighting the system ...
Time:
1940s, post world war two, year 1943, 20th century
Place:
germany, poland, berlin germany, east germany, munich germany ...
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64%
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Genre: Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: Norway
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
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.
Style:
uplifting, serious, dark, entertaining, inspirational ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
world war two, gestapo, nazi, resistance fighter, survival, coping, winter, war, chase, one man army, life & death, suspense ...
Time:
1940s, year 1943, year 1947, year 1988, year 1945 ...
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norway, germany, scotland, sweden
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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 ...
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political, disturbing, suspenseful, thought provoking, serious ...
Plot:
world war two, suspense, nazism, against humanity, controversy, political unrest, allies, ideology, escape plan, courage, secret agents, showdown ...
Time:
1930s, year 1939
Place:
england, europe, united kingdom, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
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 ...
Style:
sexy, sentimental, romantic, captivating, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
world war two, espionage, resistance, war, nazi, spy, wartime life, holocaust, women, jewish, french resistance, secret agents ...
Time:
1940s, post world war two, 20th century
Place:
france, london, germany, england, paris france ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: UK, France, Germany, USA, China
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
The story of a group of Jewish Boy Scouts who worked with the French Resistance to save the lives of ten thousand orphans during World War II.
Plot:
french resistance, world war two, occupied france, nazi officer, french, secret, love, refugee, escape, mother daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, chase ...
Time:
1940s, year 1938, year 1942, year 1939, year 1945 ...
Place:
germany, europe, berlin germany, switzerland, france ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Romania, Hungary, Canada, USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Regent Horthy is the leader of Hungary and a German ally, but his favorable standing with Hitler changes as the war comes to an end. Forced to cede Hungary’s power or else witness the execution of his son, Regent Horthy gives up control of his ...
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realistic, bleak, emotional, serious
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, concentration camp, defiant, family relations, war, life is a bitch, confined, spy, nazi, betrayal, diplomacy ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1975, year 1980, year 1957 ...
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europe, hungary, budapest, new york, switzerland ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Thriller
Country: Poland, UK, Ukraine
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
In 1933, Welsh journalist Gareth Jones travels to Ukraine, where he experiences the horrors of a famine. Everywhere he goes he meets henchmen of the Soviet secret service who are determined to prevent news about the catastrophe from getting out. ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
cannibalism, journalist, journalism, communism, hunger, genocide, reporter, world war two, spy, writers, russian, kidnapping ...
Time:
year 1933, year 1935, year 1957, 1930s, pre world war two
Place:
ukraine, russia, berlin germany, london, germany ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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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 ⇓
60%
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: Germany, Italy
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
The breath-taking story of a man who nearly would have changed the world. 1939, when Hitler tricked millions of people at the height of his power, one said a radical No: Georg Elser, disparaged as an assassin, is one of the greatest resistance ...
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, tense
Plot:
nazi germany, hitler, nazi, battered woman, world war two, gestapo, resistance fighter, anti fascist, assassination attempt, corporal punishment, infidelity, public speaking ...
Time:
year 1939, 1930s, pre world war two, year 1932, year 1934 ...
Place:
germany, munich germany, europe, switzerland, berlin germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
Genre: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: Norway, Denmark, Germany
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Max Manus is a Norwegian 2008 biographic war film based on the real events of the life of resistance fighter Max Manus (1914–96), after his contribution in the Winter War against the Soviet Union. The story follows Manus through the outbreak of ...
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intense, tense, brutal, factual, light ...
Audience:
boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
world war two, resistance, nazi, nazism, war, military, escape, gestapo, courage, manhunt, terrorism, sacrifice ...
Time:
1940s, post world war two, 20th century
Place:
norway, scotland, germany, africa, russia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Eric O'Neill, a computer specialist who wants to be made an agent is assigned to clerk for Robert Hanssen, a senior agent with 25 years in the FBI, and to write down everything Hanssen does. O'Neill's told it's an investigation ...
Style:
tense, realistic, suspenseful, intense, dramatic ...
Plot:
espionage, investigation, spy, fbi, intrigue, double agent, cia, betrayal, manipulation, suspense, conspiracy, suspicion ...
Time:
year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, ussr, moscow russia, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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Genre: Action, Drama, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
In 1942, an intelligence officer in North Africa encounters a female French Resistance fighter on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. When they reunite in London, their relationship is tested by the pressures of war.
Style:
sexy, emotional, exciting, tense, scenic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
world war two, spy, espionage, nazi, french, love, double agent, female agent, suspense, soldier, betrayal, war ...
Time:
1940s, future, year 1942
Place:
london, france, england, berlin germany, paris france ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, War
Country: France, Germany, Romania
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
The film "Amen." examines the links between the Vatican and Nazi Germany. The central character is Kurt Gerstein, a member of the Institute for Hygiene of the Waffen-SS who is horrified by what he sees in the death camps. Moreover, he is ...
Style:
political, thought provoking, disturbing, sincere, bleak ...
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, genocide, priest, politics, christian, conscience, ss, nazi, war, concentration camp, pope ...
Time:
1940s, post world war two, 1930s, 20th century
Place:
vatican, germany, rome italy, poland, czechoslovakia ...
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58%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, War
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Paris, 1942. Robert Klein cannot find any fault with the state of affairs in German-occupied France. He has a well-furnished flat, a mistress, and business is booming. Jews facing discrimination because of laws edicted by the French government are ...
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slasher, art house, realistic, psychological, serious ...
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world war two, mistaken identity, art dealer, anti semitism, adultery, prostitute, female nudity, nazi occupation, art collector, french resistance, doppelganger, french history ...
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1940s, 20th century, year 1942
Place:
paris france, germany, france, vichy, algeria ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Nate Foster, a young, idealistic FBI agent, goes undercover to take down a radical white supremacy terrorist group. The bright up-and-coming analyst must confront the challenge of sticking to a new identity while maintaining his real principles as ...
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disturbing, suspenseful, political, realistic, intense ...
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skinhead, racism, terrorism, neo nazi, fbi, gangsters, gang, undercover, organized crime, fascism, investigation, genocide ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: USA, UK, India
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A cover-up that spanned four U.S. Presidents pushed the country's first female newspaper publisher and a hard-driving editor to join an unprecedented battle between journalist and government. Inspired by true events.
Style:
political, tense, inspirational, thought provoking, factual ...
Plot:
journalism, expose, newspaper office, newspaper, cover up, truth, lie, wartime, journalist, freedom of the press, u.s. government, new york times ...
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70s, year 1965, year 1971, year 1966, year 1949 ...
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washington d.c., usa, vietnam
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Genre: Action, Drama, History, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: Denmark, Germany, Norway, France, Sweden, Finland, Czech Republic
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
During Nazi occupation, red-headed Bent Faurschou-Hviid ("Flame") and Jørgen Haagen Schmith ("Citron"), assassins in the Danish resistance, take orders from Winther, who's in direct contact with Allied leaders. One shoots, ...
Style:
realistic, sincere, factual, tense, atmospheric ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
war, world war two, gestapo, resistance, betrayal, spy, nazi, dishonesty, nazism, wartime, double agent, organized crime ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, post world war two, year 1940, year 1944
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denmark, germany, poland, copenhagen, europe ...
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58%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
Betrayed by an informant, Philippe Gerbier (Lino Ventura) finds himself trapped in a torturous Nazi prison camp. Though Gerbier escapes to rejoin the Resistance in occupied Marseilles, France, and exacts his revenge on the informant, he must ...
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visually appealing, art house, captivating, bleak, stylized ...
Plot:
french resistance, world war two, war, terrorist, espionage, spy, resistance, intrigue, nazi, gangsters, betrayal, undercover ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1942, year 1943
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paris france, france, marseille, vichy, europe ...
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57%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: Germany, Italy
Duration: 189 min.
Story:
Inspired by real events and spanning three eras of German history, film tells the story of Kurt, a young art student who falls in love with fellow student, Ellie. Ellie’s father, Professor Seeband, a famous doctor, is dismayed at his daughter’s ...
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exciting, captivating, sincere, art house, intellectual ...
Audience:
date night
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painter, art gallery, nazism, artist, father daughter relationship, world war two, forced abortion, pregnancy, sex scene, nazi, romantic relationship, struggling artist ...
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1940s, 1930s, 20th century, year 1937, 60s ...
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east germany, germany, berlin germany, west berlin west germany, west germany ...
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56%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA, Ireland
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
Michael Collins plays a crucial role in the establishment of the Irish Free State in the 1920s, but becomes vilified by those hoping to create a completely independent Irish republic.
Style:
political, brutal, harsh, intense, factual ...
Plot:
politics, war, terrorism, fight, civil war, irish history, fighting the system, irish republican army, british empire, irish, secret service, treason ...
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1920s, 1910s, 20th century, 70s, post world war one
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ireland, england, northern ireland, london, israel ...
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56%
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.
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tense, brutal, bleak, harsh, serious ...
Plot:
holocaust, nazi, concentration camp, jewish, war, world war two, counterfeit money, nazi germany, survival, german, forgery, prison ...
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1940s, 20th century, 1930s, post world war two, year 1945 ...
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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 ...
Style:
tense, realistic, serious, suspenseful, clever ...
Plot:
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:
england, london, europe
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56%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: UK, France, Germany
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Berlin in June of 1940. While Nazi propaganda celebrates the regime’s victory over France, a kitchen-cum-living room in Prenzlauer Berg is filled with grief. Anna and Otto Quangel’s son has been killed at the front. This working class couple had ...
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enigmatic, heartbreaking, realistic, disturbing, suspenseful ...
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gestapo, nazi germany, war, world war two, murder, death of son, torture, suicide, bereavement, mechanic, robbery, violence ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1943, year 1940
Place:
berlin germany, germany, central europe
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55%
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK, USA, Germany, Belgium
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A German soldier tries to determine if the Dutch resistance has planted a spy to infiltrate the home of Kaiser Wilhelm in Holland during the onset of World War II, but falls for a young Jewish Dutch woman during his investigation.
Style:
captivating, tense, exciting, suspenseful, sexy ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
world war two, spy, espionage, german soldier, nazi germany, gestapo, nazi officer, nazi occupation, nazi, conspiracy, german army, third reich ...
Time:
1940s, year 1940, year 1934, 1920s
Place:
germany, berlin germany, netherlands, poland, holland
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55%
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:
world war two, spy, military, war, army, operation, secret mission, life is a bitch, wartime, military life, mission, wartime life ...
Time:
year 1943, 1940s
Place:
spain, sicily, greece, berlin germany, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
In post-World War II America, a woman, rebuilding her life in the suburbs with her husband, kidnaps her neighbor and seeks vengeance for the heinous war crimes she believes he committed against her.
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emotional, suspenseful, psychological, tense, rough ...
Plot:
holocaust, suspense, concentration camp, husband wife relationship, captive, gypsy, war crime, vengeance, rape, revenge, murder, tragic past ...
Time:
post world war two, year 1959, year 1946
Place:
romania, bucharest, virginia, colorado, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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