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Here Below (2012)
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Original name: Ici-bas
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, captivating, emotional, realistic, gloomy
Plot:
impossible love, nun, catholic church, german occupation, forbidden love, love affair, wartime life, betrayal, life is a bitch, fall in love, society, clergy, dishonesty, strong female presence, religions or cults, resistance, french resistance, world war two, hospital, love and romance, female nudity, convent, female full frontal nudity
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 40s
Place:
france, europe
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, captivating and emotional films with plots about love and romance, society, life is a bitch, fall in love, family relations, love affair and world war two mostly in Drama, Romance and History genres. Some movies like Here Below: The Rotterdam Bombing (2012), Cet amour-là (2001), Amnesty (2011), Bulgarian Rhapsody (2014), Restless (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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 ...
Style:
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Plot:
world war two, wartime life, life is a bitch, bombing, social differences, society, german occupation, unfulfillment, brother sister relationship, wedding planning, dutch history, boxing ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
holland, europe, rotterdam netherlands
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95%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Cet Amour-là is an intimate portrait of a legendary love affair. Set against the beauty of the Breton seaside, it is also a film that revels in the insights that Marguerite Duras' writing affords.
Style:
psychological, emotional, captivating, serious, sincere ...
Plot:
destiny, wartime life, soldier, lifestyle, love and romance, fall in love, hopes, couple relations, family relations, couples, culture clash, love affair ...
Time:
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Place:
france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
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226
Genre: Drama
Country: Albania, Greece, France
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Amnesty is a 2011 Albanian movie directed by Buyar Alimani. It’s a story about two people who meet up in jail when they come for monthly visits of their spouses. They fall in love after becoming witnesses to a wedding in jail but relationship has ...
Style:
serious, realistic, atmospheric, touching, erotic ...
Plot:
prison, forbidden love, infidelity, love affair, couples, love and romance, couple relations, life is a bitch, fall in love, dishonesty, pardon, legislation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
albania, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
92%
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:
touching, emotional, captivating, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot:
friendship, wartime life, fall in love, on the run, teenage love, holocaust, youth, love and romance, society, teenage life, anti semitism, coming of age ...
Time:
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Place:
bulgaria
⇓ similarity ⇓
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107
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Maurice (Michel Piccoli) is a composer, and a longtime member of the resistance. By chance, he shares a house with his teenager granddaughter. Claire, at 17, is eager to experience all sorts of things and the sooner the better, and rebels against ...
Style:
touching, realistic, serious, captivating, gloomy
Plot:
love and romance, couples, teenage life, family relations, haunted by the past, youth, teenage love, estrangement, elderly, relationship vs career, aging, first love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France, Germany
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
The Benedetti family's wealth comes from gold stolen from the French army during the 18th century. When Jean (Michael Vartan), the lieutenant guarding the coins -- and lover of Elisabette Benedetti (Galatea Ranzi) -- is executed for a crime he ...
Style:
emotional, serious, realistic, saga
Plot:
children, wartime life, female nudity, summer, rivalry, soldier, betrayal, politics, dishonesty, fall in love, vengeance, love and romance ...
Time:
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Place:
italy, paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Place:
france
⇓ similarity ⇓
91%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Netherlands
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, serious, suspense, captivating
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
belgium, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
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Country: West Germany, Spain
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
In the aftermath of World War II, a former Czech soldier takes charge of a manor formerly owned by a German family. He falls in love with the daughter, who is now a maid, and is forced to confront the stress between his love and his conscience when ...
Style:
surreal, realistic, touching, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot:
world war two, military, forbidden love, holocaust, girl, locomotive, forest, comeback, post war, estate, soldier, society ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
In eighteenth-century France, a girl is forced against her will to take vows as a nun. Three mothers superior treat her in radically different ways, ranging from maternal concern, to sadistic persecution, to lesbian desire.
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
122
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
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Duration: 127 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
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Duration: 82 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
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Genre: Drama
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Duration: 78 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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paris france, africa, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
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Country: France, UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
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Duration: 123 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
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Story:
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86%
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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