Movies like The Rotterdam Bombing
If you like "The Rotterdam Bombing" you are looking for realistic, touching and serious movies about / with world war two, bombing, wartime life, wedding planning, social differences, society and german occupation themes of Drama, History and War genre shot in Netherlands.
Find your next favorite and similar movies in two steps:
1. Identify all themes of interest from this film (block below).
2. Look for them in the presented list.
The Rotterdam Bombing (2012)
2K
Original name: Het Bombardement
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 centre of Rotterdam is bombed and the young lovers lose sight of each other.
Style:
realistic, touching, serious, emotional, suspenseful, captivating
Plot:
world war two, bombing, wartime life, wedding planning, social differences, society, german occupation, unfulfillment, forbidden love, brother sister relationship, impossible love, boxing, nazi germany, dutch history, world war, arranged marriage, sibling relationship, secret love, love and romance, love affair, boxer, female nudity, male nudity, wedding dress, car ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, 40s
Place:
europe, holland, rotterdam netherlands
Movie in categories
Most similar movies to The Rotterdam Bombing
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, captivating and emotional films with plots about world war two, wartime life, war, life is a bitch, world war, nazi and society mostly in Drama, War and History genres. Some movies like The Rotterdam Bombing: Warsaw 44 (2014), Testament of Youth (2014), Here Below (2012), The Edelweiss Pirates (2004), The Sleeping Voice (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
A beautiful story about youth, love, friendship and the pursuit of adventure during the bloody and brutal reality of the Warsaw Uprising.
Style:
realistic, romantic, captivating, psychological, tense ...
Plot:
world war two, rebel army, nazi occupation, love and romance, nazism, death, world war, shoah, friendship, love story, friends, relationships ...
Time:
year 1944, 20th century, 1940s
Place:
poland, warsaw poland
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: UK, Denmark, USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Testament of Youth is a powerful story of love, war and remembrance, based on the First World War memoir by Vera Brittain, which has become the classic testimony of that war from a woman’s point of view. A searing journey from youthful hopes and ...
Style:
touching, period piece, captivating, costume drama, sad ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, teens
Plot:
world war one, wartime, death, aspiring writer, women, war, nurse, poetry, wartime life, love and romance, love affair, adaptation ...
Time:
1910s, 20th century, edwardian era, year 1918, 1920s ...
Place:
england, london, oxford university, france, yorkshire ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The true story of a nun who betrayed a network of Resistance fighters after having a passionate but doomed love affair with a priest during the Second World War.
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, emotional, gloomy
Plot:
impossible love, nun, german occupation, love affair, wartime life, forbidden love, fall in love, clergy, dishonesty, society, life is a bitch, betrayal ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
100%
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:
100%
Movie in collections
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Spain
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Pepita travels to Madrid to be near her sister Hortensia who is pregnant and in prison. Hortensia is sentenced to death. The execution will not be carried out until after the baby is delivered. Pepita tries everything to stay the execution, but when ...
Style:
captivating, serious, emotional, suspenseful, political ...
Plot:
spanish civil war, wartime life, fall in love, franco regime (francoism), impossible love, political unrest, woman in danger, life is a bitch, sister sister relationship, civil war, family relations, false accusation ...
Time:
1930s, 1940s, 20th century
Place:
spain, europe, madrid
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Brazil
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A dramatic novel that presents the submission in a relationship between an Italian settler and a Brazilian woman in 1932. Luiza is a generation of women who were sent to convents to be educated, many of the high cost of permanency option ran out and ...
Style:
serious, realistic, emotional, touching, gloomy ...
Plot:
love affair, forbidden love, couples, revolution, love and romance, life is a bitch, rivalry, society, vengeance, wartime life, war, unsupportive spouse ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century
Place:
brazil, latin america
Similarity:
100%
4K
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK, USA, West Germany
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
During WWII, the United States set up army bases in Great Britain as part of the war effort. Against their proper sensibilities, many of the Brits don't much like the brash Yanks, especially when it comes to the G.I.s making advances on the ...
Style:
serious, realistic, emotional, touching, historical drama ...
Plot:
world war two, soldier, wartime life, forbidden love, premarital sex, american abroad, prejudice, racism, infidelity, couple relations, love affair, world war ...
Time:
1940s, year 1979, 20th century, year 1942
Place:
england, yorkshire, northern england, europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Finland
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
The Soviet army breaks through the Finnish defences on the Karelian Isthmus in June 1944, advancing with overwhelming force. Somehow, the Finnish troops must find the strength to fight back, with all odds against them. The Battle of Tali-Ihantala ...
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot:
world war two, soldier, military, battles, against the odds, heroes, wartime life, rivalry, war, tank, battlefield, all male cast ...
Time:
1940s, year 1944
Place:
finland, europe, russia, soviet union, ussr
Similarity:
100%
Movie in collections
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
In a Dutch village during the German occupation, a small group of badly organized resistance fighters attempt to assassinate a collaborator.
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, factual, rough, disturbing ...
Plot:
world war two, life is a bitch, rebelliousness, human nature, social relations, resistance, execution, war, torture, robbery, nazi occupation, dutch history ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
holland, europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
To be defeated and not be - a victory. This is the motto that life is guided by three young friends: Alek, Sophy and Rudy. Scouts, high school graduates high school in Warsaw drifting ambitious plans for the future broken through September 1939. ...
Style:
captivating, realistic, suspenseful, serious, suspense ...
Plot:
world war two, wartime life, wartime, against the odds, life is a bitch, danger, daring rescue, german occupation, prospector, nazi occupation, resistance fighter, resistance ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
europe, poland
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 191 min.
Story:
Guy Crouchback joins the war effort during World War 2, an idealistic quest to join the forces of good in the fight against evil. But his efforts is not rewarded, he never has any chance to join any real fighting, circumstances always prevent it. ...
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, touching, semi autobiographical ...
Plot:
world war two, military, fighting the system, love triangle, life is a bitch, soldier, betrayal, love and romance, military life, haunted by the past, basic training, society ...
Time:
future, 1940s
Place:
europe, england
Similarity:
100%
4K
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:
100%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Denmark
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
In the early morning of April 9th 1940 the Danish army is alerted. The Germans have crossed the border; Denmark is at war against Europe's strongest army. In Southern Jutland Danish bicycle- and motorcycle companies are ordered out, to against ...
Style:
serious, captivating, realistic, tense, suspense ...
Plot:
world war two, nazi occupation, wehrmacht, military, war, soldier, battles, danger, against the odds, nazi, world war, friendship ...
Time:
20th century, year 1940, 1940s
Place:
denmark, germany, europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Family, History, War
Country: Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Tuur and Lambert are best friends. But the war is closing in and is about to change their lives forever. Tuurs dad joined the resistance and even his big brother seems so be part of it. Lamberts family on the other hand choose to obey the Germans. ...
Style:
emotional, captivating, serious, realistic, touching ...
Plot:
friendship between boys, children in wartime, friendship, youth, coming of age, teenager, child, best friend, life is a bitch, unfulfillment, village life, world war two ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, year 1943
Place:
holland
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, War
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Waldemar Nods, a young man from Suriname, meets the older Dutch woman Rika van der Lans and they fall in love. In pre-WWII Netherlands they could not be more different. The one black, the other white, 17 years between them and on top of that Rika ...
Style:
sincere, touching, captivating, sentimental, emotional ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
interracial relations, world war two, unlikely couple, coming of age, parents and children, society, love affair, racism, family relations, couples, bittersweet, forceful separation ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, 20th century, 1920s
Place:
holland, europe
Similarity:
100%
1K
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Sweden
Duration: 193 min.
Story:
When the war breaks out, Annika lives with her parents in Värmland, close to the border to Norway. Her cousin Harald is a dealer in the black market but has to escape from the police to Norway. Annika moves to Stockholm and gets a job as a ...
Style:
captivating, serious, realistic, touching, f word
Plot:
world war two, love, couples, friends, life is a bitch, crumbling marriage, unfulfillment, war, best friend, young love, marriage as hell, black market ...
Time:
1930s, year 1939, 1940s, 20th century
Place:
europe, stockholm sweden, eastern europe
Similarity:
100%
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, realistic, emotional, bleak
Plot:
ss, holocaust, wartime life, nazi occupation, human spirit, world war two, children, selflessness, rescue, idealism, hopes, deportation ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
holland, europe, amsterdam
Similarity:
100%
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:
100%
Movie in collections
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
During World War II in the freezing Netherlands winter of 1944/1945 the western Netherlands are in the grip of a famine. Many people move east to provide for their families. Fourteen year old Michiel can't wait to join the Dutch resistance, to ...
Style:
tense, sexy, exciting, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
world war two, coming of age, resistance movement, occupation, resistance, children in wartime, nazi, wartime life, execution, winter, nazism, nazi occupation ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 2008, post world war two
Place:
netherlands, germany, europe, holland
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%
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
In the days following the D-Day invasion in Normandy, France, a British platoon leader named Saul (Gabriel Byrne) and his corporal (Paul Wyett) reach an isolated farmhouse and encounter a beautiful French girl named Belle (Marianne Basler). Love ...
Style:
realistic, serious, tense, emotional
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
world war two, impossible love, soldier, love affair, war, love and romance, couples, unfulfilled love, wartime life, woman in danger, love, love triangle ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
france, europe, normandy
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:
100%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Unable to serve in World War II because of a heart condition, a barber moves his family adjacent to a Wisconsin army base and prisoner-of-war camp to provide his services. But even in rural America -- far from the frontline -- the war finds victims.
Style:
realistic, touching, serious, historical drama, heartfelt ...
Plot:
world war two, family relations, wartime life, life is a bitch, parents and children, family in crisis, against humanity, couple relations, family problems, couples, family drama, empathy ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
usa, wisconsin
Similarity:
100%
Movie in collections
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
At the dawn of World War 2, a Rabbi's daughter and a disenchanted German soldier fall in love and are separated by the war. They struggle on a perilous journey to find one another.
Style:
realistic, disturbing, emotional, serious, gloomy ...
Plot:
forbidden love, sexual content, world war two, soldier, couples, war, family relations, against humanity, age difference, wartime, rabbi, wartime life ...
Time:
20th century, 1930s, 1940s, year 1939, year 1940
Place:
poland, europe, russia
Similarity:
34%
241
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Based on a true story its the untold story of Italian World War II POW"S in Jan 1946. Luca Zingaretti stars as one of over 50,000 Italian Prisoners of War detained at POW camps in the U.S. Roy Schneider stars as Colonel Gartner, the Commander ...
Style:
rough, disturbing, suspenseful, realistic, exciting ...
Plot:
fascism, world war two, military, military life, genocide, confined, danger, captivity, prison life, wartime life, isolation, prison ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
usa, texas
Similarity:
34%
550
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA, Canada, UK
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
Hungarian physicist Leo Szilard leaves Europe, eventually arriving in the United States. With the help of Einstein, he persuades the government to build an atomic bomb. The project is given to no-nonsense Gen. Leslie Groves who selects physicist J. ...
Style:
captivating, tense, thought provoking, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
atomic bomb, world war two, nuclear holocaust, nuclear war, super weapon, nuclear, cold war, bombing, holocaust, war, terrorism, atomic weapons ...
Time:
1930s, 1940s, 20th century
Place:
usa, new mexico, london, hiroshima japan, chicago ...
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama
Country: Bulgaria, Israel
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
the story of two adolescents, Moni and Zhozho, who meet 17-year-old Zheni in 1943 and with whom both fell in love. The events that follow unfold while Bulgaria has to decide on the deportation of 11 343 Jewish citizens in Macedonia and Thrace.
Style:
emotional, captivating, touching, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot:
wartime life, fall in love, on the run, teenage love, friendship, holocaust, anti semitism, society, teenage life, youth, love and romance, coming of age ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
bulgaria
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: France, Germany, Hungary
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
1942. Joseph is eleven. And this June morning, he must go to school, a yellow star sown on his chest. He receives the support of a goods dealer. The mockery of a baker. Between kindness and contempt, Jo, his Jewish friends, their families, learn of ...
Style:
emotional, disturbing, realistic, serious, bleak ...
Plot:
holocaust, concentration camp, nazism, holocaust survivor, german occupation, world war two, nazi, genocide, nazi concentration camp, shoah, world war, injustice ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, year 2009, post world war two, year 1942
Place:
paris france, vichy, france, middle east, europe ...
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A Gypsy family travels the French roads during the Second World War, followed by Little Claude, a young boy seeking a new family after his parents "left and never returned". Upon reaching a town where they traditionally stop for a few ...
Style:
realistic, atmospheric, captivating, emotional, serious ...
Plot:
world war two, gypsy, french resistance, racism, holocaust, moral dilemma, life is a bitch, social differences, rebellion, family in danger, concentration camp, rebelliousness ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, year 2009
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: France, USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
Dramatization depicting the events surrounding Adolf Hitler's last weeks in and around his underground bunker in Berlin before and during the battle for the city.
Style:
bleak, realistic, captivating, disturbing, serious ...
Plot:
world war two, hitler, nazi germany, nazi, against humanity, suicide, confinement indoors, wartime life, life is a bitch, state affairs, downfall, confined ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, year 1945
Place:
germany, berlin germany, europe
Similarity:
34%
Related movie lists
