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Tears of April (2008)
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Original name: Käsky
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Finland, Germany, Greece
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
There is civil war in Finland. Between whites vs reds. A woman soldier of reds is captured by the whites. She is ordered to be executed.
Style:
realistic, disturbing, bleak, serious, captivating, epic
Plot:
adultery, political unrest, politics, forbidden love, soldier, military, destiny, rebellion, tragic love, opposites attract, wartime life, life is a bitch, anti war, social differences, military life, dishonesty, state affairs, finnish civil war, serial rape, war crime, love triangle, female protagonist, cuckolded husband, unrequited love, peeping ...
Time:
1910s, 20th century, year 1918
Place:
finland
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Most similar movies to Tears of April
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, bleak and captivating films with plots about war, soldier, wartime life, military, state affairs, life is a bitch and battles mostly in Drama, War and Romance genres. Some movies like Tears of April: Company K (2004), Unknown Soldier (2017), The Winston Affair (1964), Talk of Angels (1998), Half of a Yellow Sun (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Based on the popular World War I novel by author William March, director Robert Clem's COMPANY K follows a veteran of the first great conflict as he finishes a book about his wartime experiences and reflects on how a man's true character ...
Style:
psychological, serious, captivating, disturbing, epic ...
Plot:
world war one, veteran, soldier, wartime life, battles, life is a bitch, military, state affairs, politics, military life, haunted by the past, prison life ...
Time:
20th century, 1930s, year 1917
Place:
france
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Finland, Belgium, Iceland
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
The film follows Finnish army machine gun company in Continuation War against Soviet Union, 1941–1944. Based on Väinö Linna's best selling novel Tuntematon Sotilas (The Unknown Soldier) and the novel's uncensored version, Sotaromaani ...
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, thought provoking, captivating, disturbing ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
world war two, infantry, military, eastern front, soldier, friendship, friend, husband wife relationship, insubordination, firing squad, battles, heroes ...
Time:
1940s, year 1941, year 1942, year 1943, 20th century ...
Place:
finland, germany, soviet union, ussr
Similarity:
92%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
In a remote jungle outpost in the Far Eastern theater of World War II, a hotheaded American soldier murders an allied British sergeant in cold blood. Stalwart American Lt. Colonel Barney Adams (Mitchum) is dispatched to defend him in the ensuing ...
Style:
serious, captivating, bleak, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot:
world war two, courtroom drama, murder, soldier, legal investigation, dedicated lawyer, world war, court martial, mentally unstable, legal action, society, politics ...
Place:
india, asia
Similarity:
84%
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
This is the story of a young Irish woman who comes to Spain to escape from the pressures she feels about her impending marriage to a political activist in Ireland. But in Spain in the 1930's, taking a job of governess in a wealthy family, she ...
Style:
serious, realistic, emotional, touching, sincere ...
Plot:
infidelity, forbidden love, politics, fall in love, social differences, love triangle, society, couples, love affair, spanish civil war, extramarital affair, war ...
Time:
year 1998, 1930s, year 1936
Place:
ireland, europe, madrid, spain
Similarity:
80%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Nigeria, UK
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
An epic love story: Olanna and Kainene are glamorous twins, living a privileged city life in newly independent 1960s Nigeria. The two women make very different choices of lovers, but rivalry and betrayal must be set aside as their lives are swept up ...
Style:
bleak, serious, realistic, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot:
genocide, against humanity, political unrest, revolution, life is a bitch, wartime life, hopes, fall in love, rebellion, evacuation, african, sister sister relationship ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, 70s
Place:
nigeria, africa, iraq, indiana
Similarity:
78%
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:
76%
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
The film, 'The Spring Of Life', brings to light a little-known operation of the Nazi SS, started just before the outbreak of World War II. Through the careful selection and re-education of young women, it was the Nazi's mad dream to ...
Style:
disturbing, realistic, serious, bleak, rough
Plot:
world war two, holocaust, ss, racism, nazi, anti semitism, genocide, wartime life, society, against humanity, life is a bitch, war ...
Time:
1940s
Similarity:
76%
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Italy, UK, USA
Duration: 197 min.
Story:
Doctor Zhivago is the filmed adapation of the Russian novel by Boris Pasternak from director David Lean that was an international success and today deemed a classic. Omar Sharif and Julie Christie play two protagonists who in fact love each other ...
Style:
costume drama, epic, period piece, breathtaking, visually stunning ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
world war one, revolution, war, communism, love story, train, forbidden love, rape, poet, deportation, love triangle, wartime ...
Time:
1910s, 20th century, 1920s, 1940s, ancient times ...
Place:
russia, soviet union, moscow russia, ussr
Similarity:
75%
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In 1939, Sakura Nishi is a young army nurse who is sent to the field hospitals in China during the Sino-Japanese war. She has to assist the surgeon Dr. Okabe with an incredible number of amputations. In the crowded wards, she gives sympathy to some ...
Style:
disturbing, controversial, serious, realistic, gloomy ...
Plot:
world war two, medical, nurse, sexual dysfunction, amputation, sensuality, japanese soldier, japanese military, medicine, darkness, military hospital, anti war ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century
Place:
china
Similarity:
74%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Hungary, Soviet Union
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In 1919, Hungarian Communists aid the Bolsheviks' defeat of Czarists, the Whites. Near the Volga, a monastery and a field hospital are held by one side then the other.
Style:
political, contemplative, black and white, experimental, art house ...
Plot:
revolution, world war one, struggle, execution, revolutionary, equestrian, skinny dipping, revolutionary war, great war, time travel, nude girl, international relations ...
Time:
year 1967, 20th century, 1910s, year 1919
Place:
soviet union, europe, hungary, russia
Similarity:
73%
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Romania, France
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
In 1925 Romania, young Marie-Therese Von Debretsy refuses the flirtatious advances of her husband's commanding officer. As a result, the cosmopolitan family is reassigned to a brutally bleak and dangerous outpost on the Bulgarian/Romanian ...
Style:
meditative, talky, light, melancholic, atmospheric ...
Plot:
politics, military, soldier, military life, political unrest, wartime life, moral dilemma, state affairs, injustice, basic training, anti war, family life ...
Time:
year 1994, 1920s, 1950s, 50s
Place:
bucharest, eastern europe, tokyo, rio de janeiro, japan
Similarity:
73%
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A sergeant must deal with his desires to save the lives of young soldiers being sent to Vietnam. Continuously denied the chance to teach the soldiers about his experiences, he settles for trying to help the son of an old army buddy.
Style:
realistic, intense, harsh, bleak, serious ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
vietnam war, military, war, politics, soldier, casualty of war, justice, military life, civil war, wartime, dialogue, life is a bitch ...
Time:
20th century, year 1987, 60s, year 1968
Place:
washington d.c., vietnam, usa, indochina, iraq
Similarity:
72%
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Estonia, Finland
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Based on an acclaimed 1935 novel about the War of Liberation (1918-1920) that ensured Estonia's independence, the film tells about a group of young schoolboys heading to the front to fight the army of Soviet Russia.
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, period drama
Plot:
anti communist, military, heroes, battles, soldier, independence movement, world war one, wartime life, wartime, war for independence, showdown, frontline ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
estonia, russia, europe
Similarity:
71%
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Disappointed by the marriage of her lover to a woman he does not love, prostitute Harumi drifts from the city to a remote Japanese outpost in Manchuria to work in a "comfort house," or brothel, during the Sino-Japanese war. The commanding ...
Style:
sex comedy, erotic, serious, realistic, bleak ...
Plot:
world war two, prostitute, prostitution, soldier, whore, sex, wartime, nude girl, street walker, call girl, japanese history, world war ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s
Place:
japan, china, mexico, asia
Similarity:
70%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Lionel Chetwynd's film documents the horrific struggles that faced American POWs held in the North Vietnamese prison Hoa Lo -- more infamously known as the Hanoi Hilton -- between 1964 and 1975. Williamson (Michael Moriarty) leads a group of ...
Style:
political, grindhouse, independent film, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
manly
Plot:
vietnam war, military, prison, cannon, pow, electric torture, conservative, cold war era, prison escape, military prison, war trauma, escape ...
Time:
year 1987, 20th century
Place:
vietnam, indochina
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
"Stalingrad" follows the progress of a German Platoon through the brutal fighting of the Battle of Stalingrad. After having half their number wiped out and after being placed under the command of a sadistic Captain, the Lieutenant of the ...
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, gloomy, epic ...
Plot:
world war two, war, battles, nazism, eastern front, soldier, german soldier, starvation, survival, military life, holocaust, winter ...
Time:
year 1942, year 1943, 1940s, 20th century
Place:
russia, germany, europe, italy, berlin germany ...
Similarity:
65%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
This is a story of a great love facing the greatest drama of the history of Russia. Admiral Kolchak is a true war hero and beloved husband and father. One day he meets Anna, the love of his life and the wife of his best friend. The revolution in his ...
Style:
realistic, serious, dramatic, touching, tragic ending ...
Plot:
world war one, political unrest, russian history, battles, military, heroes, wartime life, russian empire, destiny, warship, against the odds, great war ...
Time:
1910s, 20th century, year 1917
Place:
soviet union, russia, st. petersburg russia
Similarity:
65%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
The first U.S.-made film drama set during the Iraq war, THE SITUATION chronicles the tragic death of an Iraqi teenager at the hands of U.S. soldiers. The incident sets off an "investigation," a cover-up, and complications involving Iraqi ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, realistic, rough, extraordinary
Plot:
iraq war, photograph, danger, assassination, racism, soldier, terrorism, media, battles, state affairs, military, life is a bitch ...
Time:
year 2006
Place:
iraq, middle east
Similarity:
61%
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: France
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
The first days of WWI. Adrien, a young and handsome lieutenant, is wounded by a piece of shrapnel. He will spend the entire wartime at the Val-de-Grâce Hospital, in Paris. Five long years, and his life will change forever...
Style:
touching, serious, disturbing, realistic, psychological ...
Plot:
world war one, hopes, anti war, military, wartime, soldier, starting over, life turned upside down, wartime life, human spirit, war, bravery ...
Time:
year 2001, year 1918, 1910s, year 1914, post world war one
Place:
france, paris france, europe, brittany
Similarity:
61%
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A countess loves her brother's Prussian-officer friend in the 1919 Baltic area.
Style:
serious, stylized, realistic, bleak, political ...
Plot:
closeted homosexual, aunt nephew relationship, gay soldier, tragic love, love triangle, betrayal, soldier, evacuation, tragic hero, world war one, political unrest, wartime life ...
Time:
year 1976, 1910s, 1920s, year 1919, post world war one
Place:
latvia, europe, baltics, prussia, lithuania ...
Similarity:
60%
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:
59%
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Brazil
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Based on the novel's trilogy of the same name, by Erico Verissimo, Time and the Wind follows 150 years of family Terra Cambará and their opponent Amaral family. The history of struggles between the two families begins in the missions and runs ...
Style:
emotional, realistic, captivating, serious, epic ...
Plot:
true love, love affair, love triangle, wartime life, political unrest, rivalry, state affairs, hopes, forbidden love, love and romance, uninhibited rivalry, family relations ...
Time:
19th century, 18th century
Place:
brazil
Similarity:
59%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A tale of power, passion and obsession set in a politically torn Eastern European country.
Style:
sensual, political, realistic, serious, talky ...
Plot:
romanian revolution, obsession, vengeance, forbidden love, revolution, couples, introspection, dangerous attraction, rebelliousness, soldier, love and romance, society ...
Time:
90s
Place:
romania, europe, bucharest, eastern europe, new york ...
Similarity:
58%
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: France, Italy, Tunisia
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
In 1956, the professional army of France lacks the manpower to keep the peace in Algeria, the colony which the country is determined to hold on to at any price. For this reason, reservists are called up and subject to an intense period of training ...
Style:
tense, captivating, serious, realistic, rough ...
Plot:
french algerian war, prostitute, soldier, pacifist, idealist, deserter, french army, communist, platoon, military training, anti war protest, male nudity ...
Time:
1950s, 20th century, 50s
Place:
algeria, africa, france
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Finland
Duration: 197 min.
Story:
Second silver screen adaption of the Finnish war book by Väinö Linna. The story is based on Linna's experiences as an infantry man in the Finnish army during the so called "Continuation War" (1941-1944).
Style:
realistic, serious, exciting, captivating, rough ...
Plot:
infantry, russo finnish war, world war two, female nudity, nude girl, conservative, eastern front, world war one, soldier, escapades, state affairs, danger ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1941, year 1942, year 1943 ...
Place:
finland, europe, eastern europe, tokyo
Similarity:
58%
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:
56%
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
During the Bosnian War, Danijel, a soldier fighting for the Serbs, re-encounters Ajla, a Bosnian who's now a captive in his camp he oversees. Their once promising connection has become ambiguous as their motives have changed.
Style:
sexy, realistic, serious, emotional, erotic ...
Plot:
bosnian war, prisoner, forbidden love, rape, soldier, food, sex, muslim, love affair, war, couples, sister sister relationship ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
sarajevo, bosnia, former yugoslavia, bosnia herzegovina, europe
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Based on the diary of an unknown Viet Cong soldier, this film provides a sympathetic look at a Viet Cong soldier who protected a captured American soldier whom he believed did not kill him when the American had the opportunity. Written by John ...
Style:
realistic, rough, suspenseful, serious, exciting ...
Plot:
vietnam war, confined, captivity, military life, battles, life is a bitch, rebellion, on the run, espionage, political unrest, anti war, wartime life ...
Time:
year 1989
Place:
vietnam, asia, indochina
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK, Germany, Hungary
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A teenage orphan fights against the Red Army at the end of WWII and in the aftermath is 'adopted' by a Commissar. Years later he is sent to London during the Cold war to work for the KGB, where he questions his life.
Style:
serious, disturbing, captivating, realistic, political ...
Plot:
world war two, kgb, anal rape, secret agent, introspection, betrayal, haunted by the past, political unrest, undercover, dishonesty, moral dilemma, state affairs ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, year 1945, post world war two
Place:
russia, london, england, soviet union, ussr
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 144 min.
Story:
An American professional gambler named Jack Weil (Redford) decides to visit Havana, Cuba to gamble. On the boat to Havana, he meets Roberta Duran (Olin), the wife of a revolutionary, Arturo (Julia). Shortly after their arrival, Arturo is taken away ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, serious, atmospheric, stylized ...
Plot:
gambling, gambler, politics, cuban revolution, political unrest, cons and scams, society, rebelliousness, casino, poker, diamond, revolution ...
Time:
20th century, year 1958, 1950s, 50s, year 1963 ...
Place:
cuba, caribbean, latin america, australia, key west florida ...
Similarity:
54%
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