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The Match (2020)
 5.8
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The Match (2020)
Genre: Drama, History, Sport, War
Country: Croatia, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Inspired by true events from the spring of 1944 when the Nazis organized a football match between a team of camp inmates and an elite Nazi team on Adolf Hitler's birthday. A match the prisoners are determined to win, no matter what happens.
Style: tense, suspense, historical drama
Plot: world war two, football, concentration camp, soccer, sport team, soccer match, prisoner of war camp, nazi, prisoners of war, military, football player, teamwork, football team, prisoner, nazi concentration camp, escape, nazi germany, starvation, bribery, anti semitism, german army, new year's eve party, colonel, commander, political prisoner ...
Time: year 1944
Keyword: sport, german

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, tense, captivating and realistic films with plots about world war two, nazi, world war, military, war, holocaust and escape mostly in Drama, War and History genres. Some movies like The Match: Match (2012), Two Half-Times in Hell (1961), Victory (1981), The Auschwitz Report (2021), Escape from Sobibor (1987). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Match (2012)
Genre: Drama, History, Sport
Country: Russia
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Based on the true story of the "death match" where the Soviet team "Start" scored its second victory over the German team «Flakelf» on August 9, 1942
Style: suspense, captivating
Plot: football, world war two, soccer match, sport team, contests and competitions, showdown, football player, football team, professional rivalry, rivals, social problems, rivalry ...
Time: year 1942
Place: soviet union, ukraine
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100%
Two Half-Times in Hell (1961)
Genre: Drama, Sport, War
Country: Hungary
Duration: 140 min.
Story: To celebrate Hitler's birthday, a soccer match is organized between the Germans and prisoners of war.
Style: thought provoking, black and white
Plot: world war two, soccer, football, escape, prison, machine gun, battlefield, musician, escape plan, abuse of power, death sentence, communist ...
Time: 1940s, year 1944
Place: ukraine
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 6.6
 33K
Victory (1981)
Genre: Drama, Sport, War
Country: UK, USA, Italy
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A group of POWs in a German prison camp during World War II play the German National Soccer Team in this powerful film depicting the role of prisoners during wartime.
Style: inspirational, serious, exciting, suspenseful, cult classic ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, kids
Plot: world war two, prison, soccer, football, nazi, war, human spirit, escape, contests and competitions, against the odds, world war, rivalry ...
Time: year 1981, 20th century
Place: germany, france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
The Auschwitz Report (2021)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Slovakia, Czech Republic, Poland, Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story: This is the true story of Freddy and Walter – two young Slovak Jews, who were deported to Auschwitz in 1942. On 10 April 1944, after meticulous planning and with the help and the resilience of their inmates, they manage to escape. While the ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, tense, social
Plot: nazi, concentration camp, nazi occupation, world war two, male pubic hair, wartime life, male nudity, wartime, war violence, prisoner of war camp, prisoners of war, life is a bitch ...
Time: 1940s, year 1944
Place: germany, central europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Escape from Sobibor (1987)
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, suspenseful, rough, serious ...
Plot: concentration camp, escape, world war two, holocaust, pow, against humanity, genocide, military, brutality, captivity, nazi, prison ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: poland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
1944: Forced to Fight (2015)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Estonia, Finland
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The events of the war in 1944, from the Blue Hills to Sõrve Peninsula. Shown through the eyes of Estonian soldiers who had to pick sides and fight against fellow brothers. Choices have to be made, not only by the soldiers, but also by their loved ...
Style: tense, psychological, suspense, captivating
Plot: world war two, nazi, military, eastern front, nazi soldier, german army, soldier, enemy, death, retreat, world war, war ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1944
Place: estonia, europe, soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 6.3
 138
Witnesses (2018)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Russia, Belarus, Czech Republic, France, Poland, Israel, Ukraine
Duration: 104 min.
Story: The film tells about the history of the Holocaust through the stories of its unwitting Witnesses.
Style: tense, thought provoking, disturbing, captivating
Plot: world war two, holocaust, ss officer, concentration camp, anti war, society, nazi concentration camp, german shepherd, nazi, violin, shoes
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 6.8
 460
Broken Promise (2009)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Family, Sport, War
Country: Slovakia, Czech Republic, USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: In the face of insurmountable odds, one man will risk everything to take back his country. Czechoslovakia, 1943, and the world is enveloped by the dark clouds of war. Showing unimaginable bravery, a Jewish teenager manages to escape the clutches of ...
Style: captivating, suspense, suspenseful, exciting, student film
Plot: football, nazi occupation, brother brother relationship, football player, monastery, christian, world war, dictatorship, dictator, soccer, shoah, military ...
Place: slovakia, czechoslovakia
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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 6.6
 6K
April 9th (2015)
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, military, war, soldier, battles, danger, against the odds, wehrmacht, nazi, world war, friendship ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, year 1940
Place: denmark, germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Escape of the Birdmen (1971)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: During WWII an American soldier sent to Norway to help with the escape of a scientist working on the atomic bomb for the Germans. Before they can escape they are captured and sent to a POW prison camp in an alpine castle. Cook must find a way to ...
Plot: world war two, escape, world war, prison escape, military prison, historical event, caper, prisoner, castle, broken leg, chess, prisoner of war camp ...
Time: year 1943
Place: germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
The Boxer and Death (1963)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Concentration camp commander Kraft finds out that prisoner Kominek is a former professional boxer. Overnight, the prisoner is made Kraft's exercise partner and unwillingly rises to a privileged position at the camp. His anger over the death of ...
Plot: world war two, boxing, boxer, nazi, prisoner, escape, concentration camp, starvation, nazism, prizefight, fighting
Place: eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 3.2
 2K
Auschwitz (2011)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Canada, Germany
Duration: 73 min.
Story: Auschwitz is a hard-hitting war film which shows life as it really was at the death camp.
Style: disturbing, thought provoking, rough, realistic, bleak ...
Plot: nazi, holocaust, world war two, concentration camp, anti semitism, mass murder, against humanity, life is a bitch, society, genocide, gas chamber, exploitation ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: europe, poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 7.0
 11K
The Grey Zone (2001)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A Nazi doctor, along with the Sonderkomando Jews – who are forced to work in the crematoria of Auschwitz against their fellow-Jews – find themselves in a moral grey zone.
Style: depressing, disturbing, bleak, factual, emotional ...
Plot: holocaust, nazi, concentration camp, world war two, nazi germany, redemption, war, nazi concentration camp, moral ambiguity, world war, tragedy, auschwitz ...
Time: 1940s, year 1944, 20th century
Place: germany, poland, europe, middle east, budapest
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Churchill and the Generals (1979)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min.
Story: The complicated relationship between Winston Churchill and the leaders of the British army during World War II.
Style: historical drama
Plot: world war two, winston churchill, british military, political leader, military, politics, nazi, strategy
Time: 1940s
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Naked Among Wolves (2015)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Naked Among Wolves (German: Nackt unter Wölfen) is a German drama film directed by Philipp Kadelbach in 2015. It is based on the novel of the same name by Bruno Apitz, which was published in 1958 by the East German Publishing house. It was created ...
Style: captivating, tense, realistic, psychological, independent film ...
Plot: holocaust, concentration camp, nazi, world war two, nazi concentration camp, liberation, world war, little boy, resistance, death, death threat, race against time ...
Time: year 1945, 1940s
Place: germany, switzerland
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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 992
D-Day (2019)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Some people called it a suicide, but for the Rangers of the 2nd Battalion, that's another word for mission. When an elite group of American soldiers are ordered to take out a series of German machine gun nests, they find themselves blindly ...
Style: tense, suspense, mockbuster
Plot: world war two, military, d day, war violence, historical event, gunfight, mission, battles, risk, wartime, fight, soldier ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
A Life for Football (2014)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Sport
Country: Germany
Story: The story of former Bayern Munich president Kurt Landauer, a Bavarian jew ousted by the National Socialists and brought to the concentration camp of Dachau, where he survived to come back and start to rebuild his old club after World War II.
Style: suspense, psychological, tense, thought provoking, captivating
Plot: soccer, football player, racial slur, friendship, sports history, football team, german history, loss of family, holocaust survivor, soccer match, nazi germany, marriage proposal ...
Time: post world war two, year 1943, year 1947, year 1932
Place: germany, bavaria, munich germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
The Quality of Mercy (1994)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Austria, Germany
Duration: 105 min.
Story: It is the beginning of 1945 during WW2 in former Austria. 500 Russian prisoners of war who have refused to fight on the side of the Germans against their country were moved to the concentration camp in Mauthausen awaiting execution. They decide to ...
Plot: world war two, world war, winter, escape, prisoner, death, murder, resistance, war crime, execution, nazi, manhunt ...
Place: austria
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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The Battle on the River Neretva (1969)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Yugoslavia, Italy, West Germany, USA, France
Duration: 175 min.
Story: In January 1943 the German army, afraid of an Allied invasion of the Balkans, launched a great offensive against Yugoslav Partisans in Western Bosnia. The only way out for the Partisan forces and thousands of refugees was the bridge on the river ...
Style: epic, exciting, captivating, serious, realistic ...
Plot: world war two, partisan, battles, military, war, machine gun, tank, world war, revolutionary war, judaism, struggle, freedom ...
Time: 1940s, year 1969, year 1943
Place: former yugoslavia, croatia, bosnia, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Battle of the Bulge (1965)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 167 min.
Story: In the winter of 1944, the Allied Armies stand ready to invade Germany at the coming of a New Year. To prevent this occurrence, Hitler orders an all out offensive to re-take French territory and capture the major port city of Antwerp. "The ...
Style: epic, factual, tense, exciting, serious ...
Audience: manly
Plot: world war two, war, tank, nazi, military, world war, u.s. military, battles, heroic mission, campaign, danger, wartime ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, year 1944
Place: belgium, america, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 7.8
 45K
Land of Mine (2015)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Denmark, Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In the days following the surrender of Germany in May 1945, a group of young German prisoners of war were handed over to the Danish authorities and subsequently sent out to the West Coast, where they were ordered to remove the more than two million ...
Style: harsh, emotional, realistic, sentimental, brutal ...
Audience: teens
Plot: world war two, german soldier, child soldier, prisoners of war, beach, minefield, survival, nazi, boy, childhood, war crime, pow ...
Time: 1940s, post world war two, year 2015, 2010s, 90s ...
Place: denmark, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Persian Lessons (2020)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Russia, Germany, Belarus
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, suspense, independent film
Plot: concentration camp, world war two, german soldier, military, lie, pretending to be someone else, labor camp, wartime life, holocaust, german officer, soldier, con trick ...
Time: 1940s, year 1942, year 1945, 20th century
Place: germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
The Third Half (2012)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, Sport, War
Country: Czech Republic, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Spitz is the German-Jewish coach of the football team Macedonia during World War II. Under his leadership, the team fights to become the champion of Bulgaria's National Football League
Style: uplifting, captivating, sentimental, romantic, serious ...
Audience: date night
Plot: soccer, world war two, true love, holocaust, ambition, forbidden love, family disapproval, human spirit, love affair, contests and competitions, rivalry, fall in love ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: macedonia, former yugoslavia, europe, bulgaria
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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 6.3
 55K
Hart's War (2002)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Fourth-generation Army Col. William McNamara is imprisoned in a brutal German POW camp. Still, as the senior-ranking American officer, he commands his fellow inmates, keeping a sense of honor alive in a place where honor is easy to destroy, all ...
Style: realistic, tense, harsh, factual, suspense ...
Plot: world war two, war, nazi, prison, racism, soldier, prison escape, ethnic conflict, pow, propaganda, torture, prisoner of war camp ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, year 2002
Place: germany, europe, belgium
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
American Traitor: The Trial of Axis Sally (2021)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: The life of American woman Mildred Gillars and her lawyer, who struggles to redeem her reputation. Dubbed “Axis Sally” for broadcasting Nazi propaganda to American troops during World War II, Mildred’s story exposes the dark underbelly of the ...
Style: tense, captivating, disturbing, inspirational
Plot: nazi, world war two, military dictatorship, collaborator, political propaganda, wartime, propaganda, female protagonist, national socialism, nazi propaganda, cop, world war ...
Time: 1940s
Place: berlin germany, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 6.4
 6K
Sobibor (2018)
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: Russia, Germany, Lithuania
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Based on the true story, international historical project “Sobibor” is dedicated to the heroism of the Soviet o cer Alexander Pechersky. During the great Patriotic war, being in a Nazi concentration camp Sobibor he managed to do the impossible ...
Style: rough, factual, suspenseful, philosophical, political
Plot: world war two, holocaust, nazi, nazi germany, genocide, holocaust survivor, mass murder, rebellion, pow, killings, military, world war ...
Time: 1940s
Place: germany, poland, lithuania, soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler (2009)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: USA, Latvia, Poland, Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Irena Sendler is a Catholic social worker who has sympathized with the Jews since her childhood, when her physician father died of typhus contracted while treating poor Jewish patients. When she initially proposes saving Jewish children from the ...
Style: emotional, realistic, serious, suspense, tense ...
Audience: family outing, date night
Plot: holocaust, nazi germany, world war two, ghetto, social worker, rescue, wartime life, nazi, world war, against humanity, life is a bitch, historical figure ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: poland, europe, warsaw poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Return to the Hiding Place (2013)
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: When a young resistance fighter witnesses atrocities towards the Jews, he's drawn into a web of espionage and clandestine activities. When he meets a young physics students and resistance journalist - Hans Poley - they embark on a hunt through ...
Style: disturbing, captivating, suspense, tense
Plot: world war two, nazi, jewish ghetto, christian, world war, jew persecution, resistance fighter, saving a life, resistance, nazi occupation, nazi soldier, nazism ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Farewell to Manzanar (1976)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Fact based drama about one of the internment camps used by the American military during World War II to detain some 100,000 Japanese Americans (most of them U.S. born) following Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor.
Plot: world war two, usa history, concentration camp, japanese american
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Eleven Silent Men (2022)
Genre: Drama, History, Sport
Country: Russia
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Tells about the events of November 1945 when the first Post War championship of the USSR winners, Dynamo-Moscow, went on the historic tour of Britain. Soviet football players won not only on the football fields of England. They managed to win the ...
Style: period piece, captivating, exciting, witty
Plot: russian abroad, sport team, football, professional athlete, sports man, football team, sports fan, sporting event, football player, playing football, soccer match, professional sports ...
Place: ussr
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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