Movies like Brothers of War

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Brothers of War (2015)
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Brothers of War (2015)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 108 min.
Story: When a bitter rivalry between two brothers finally erupts into bloody, life-changing violence it is younger bother Greg who signs up for frontline battle in France. Greg discovers a world of uncompromising brutality as we follow him on his journey through France at the outbreak of World War 2.
Style: psychological, suspense, tense, suspenseful, disturbing, romantic drama, historical drama, period drama
Plot: world war two, sibling relationship, sibling rivalry, violence, soldier, torture, brutality, german soldier, brother, enemy, british soldier, brother brother relationship, wartime, military, haunted by the past, confronting the past, human, war, world war, weapons, church, pregnant woman, father son relationship, fatherhood, shy man ...
Time: year 1939, year 1943, 1940s, 1930s, contemporary
Place: germany, united kingdom, england, france

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, tense, suspense and disturbing films with plots about world war two, soldier, military, war, world war, german soldier and wartime mostly in War, Drama and Action genres. Some movies like Brothers of War: Tombstone of the Fireflies (2008), Allies (2014), Oba: The Last Samurai (2011), The One (2015), Mosquito Squadron (1969). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Tombstone of the Fireflies (2008)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Set during World War II, the film follows a young brother and sister as they attempt to survive the aftermath of the firebombing of Kobe City.
Style: psychological, suspense, rough, touching, disturbing
Plot: world war two, sibling relationship, bombing, firefly, brother sister relationship, little girl, wartime, survival, struggle for survival, war, life is a bitch, kids in trouble ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
 5.1
 1K
Allies (2014)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: August 1944 two months after D-Day, the Allies are advancing across France. A team of British and American commandos are dropped behind enemy lines on a secret mission to ambush a German Officer and steal maps charting the location of the enemy ...
Style: captivating, tense, suspense, exciting
Plot: world war two, military, soldier, secret mission, survival, battles, friendship, danger, war, holocaust, occupied france, summer ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1944
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
Oba: The Last Samurai (2011)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 128 min.
Story: In 1944, the American military lands on the shores of Saipan. Refusing to commit suicide with his superiors or be forced into camps for prisoners of war, Captain Oba Sakae leads a group of his men and other similarly minded local residents into the ...
Style: tense, captivating, exciting, suspense, disturbing
Plot: world war two, military, honor, world war, soldier, battles, japanese army, commander, fight, heroic mission, wartime, war ...
Time: 1940s, year 1945, year 1944
Place: japan, pacific ocean, oceania
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
 5.9
 470
The One (2015)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 110 min.
Story: During WWII a Soviet artillery unit is fighting Nazis while trying to do everything to save lives of a group of deaf children near their position.
Style: touching, tense, emotional, sincere, captivating
Audience: boys' night, chick flick
Plot: world war two, military, wartime, killing an animal, deaf child, tank, monastery, weapons, soldier, girl, violence, death ...
Time: year 1944, 20th century, 1940s
Place: poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
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Mosquito Squadron (1969)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In WW2, a RAF squadron leader mourns the death of a comrade and receives a bombing mission against a secret Nazi V-2 rocket testing facility in France.
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: world war two, aviation, raf, world war, military, flying, aeroplane, space, zeppelin, wartime, luftwaffe, aerial combat ...
Time: year 1969, 20th century
Place: england, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
Unknown Soldier (2017)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Finland, Belgium, Iceland
Duration: 180 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: disturbing, realistic, psychological, captivating, sincere ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: world war two, military, eastern front, infantry, soldier, friendship, husband wife relationship, friend, insubordination, firing squad, battles, heroes ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1943, year 1941, year 1942 ...
Place: finland, germany, soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
Summer of '44 - The Lost Generation (2017)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Germany, Czech Republic
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Summer 1944, Schwäbisch Hall. Contrary to the war propaganda and the decreed heroism, the 16-year-old boys dream of Swing music, sex and freedom - and of Lore, the air force helper from the air base, who attracts all eyes in her red swimsuit. At ...
Style: suspenseful, psychological, suspense, touching, tense ...
Plot: world war two, coming of age, male pubic hair, friendship, nazi germany, public humiliation, father son relationship, boy, fall in love, friends, love and romance, youth ...
Time: year 1944, 1940s
Place: germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
 6.5
 920
Road to Berlin (2015)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A story about two young men during the last days of WWII.
Style: rough, exciting, captivating, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: world war two, military, male bonding, soldier, friendship, violence, society, fascism, friendship between men, war, world war, soviet army ...
Time: 1940s
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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Our Time Will Come (2017)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 130 min.
Story: In Japanese-occupied Hong Kong, a school teacher and her would-be-fiancé link up with Chinese guerrilla fighters, forging their own path to freedom.
Style: suspense, disturbing, tense, captivating
Plot: world war two, partisan, war, occupation, mother daughter relationship, soldier, family relations, arrest, military, life is a bitch, world war, martial arts ...
Place: hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
My Honor Was Loyalty (2016)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Captain Ludwig Herckel a devoted and patriotic soldier of the SS Leibstandarte fights in every major conflict from the Eastern front to the battle of the bulge. Fiercely loyal to his country and his brothers in arms, loved by his men, Herckel will ...
Style: thought provoking, heartbreaking, suspense, disturbing, bleak ...
Plot: german soldier, world war two, nazi, human relationship, friendship between men, wartime, cruelty, saving a life, brutality, selflessness, violence, nazism ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
The Forgotten Battle (2020)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Duration: 124 min.
Story: November 1944. On the flooded isle of Walcheren, Zeeland, thousands of Allied soldiers are battling the German army. Three young lives become inextricably connected. A Dutch boy fighting for the Germans, an English glider pilot and a girl from ...
Style: disturbing, suspense, captivating, tense, powerful
Plot: world war two, military, combat, war, british soldier, british military, killed in action, soldier, dam, shell shock, royal air force, british army ...
Time: 1940s, year 1944
Place: netherlands, germany, holland
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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 ⇓
55%
The Long Day's Dying (1968)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Three British soldiers and their German captive trek through the European countryside.
Style: realistic, serious
Plot: world war two, soldier, holocaust, captive, basic training, gory, captivity, prison, anti war, military life, battles, rescue ...
Time: 1940s
Place: europe, england, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
 7.5
 38K
Stalingrad (1993)
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, suspenseful, gloomy, rough ...
Plot: world war two, war, battles, nazism, soldier, eastern front, military, holocaust, starvation, survival, military life, winter ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1942, year 1943
Place: russia, germany, europe, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
 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 ⇓
53%
 5.3
 911
Only the Brave (2006)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A searing portrait of war and prejudice, 'Only the Brave' takes you on a haunting journey into the hearts and minds of the forgotten heroes of WWII - the Japanese-American 100th/442nd.
Style: exciting, tense, captivating, suspenseful, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: military, battles, soldier, survival, military life, society, daring rescue, danger, war, heroic mission, battle zone, world war ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: europe, usa, france, italy, hawaii
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Summer Solstice (2015)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Poland, Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Coming of Age Drama in rural Poland in the summer of 1943.
Style: captivating, psychological, disturbing, suspense, period piece
Plot: world war two, struggle for survival, nazi, male female relationship, wartime life, wartime, love affair, love story, war, tragic love, gendarmerie, skinny dipping ...
Time: 1940s
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Father of a Soldier (1964)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 87 min.
Story: During World War II, оld Georgian peasant wine-grower Georgy (Sergo Zakariadze) leaves his Georgian village and goes off to the front line, hoping to find his son. George should see and transfer a lot of things, he becomes a soldier and only in ...
Style: rough, tense, suspenseful, touching, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: great patriotic war, world war two, military, father son relationship, red army, soldier, dead son, fatherhood, wound, death of son, patriot, spirituality ...
Time: 1940s
Place: soviet union, ussr, caucasus, georgia, berlin germany ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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Calm at Sea (2011)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A teenager joins the resistance in Nazi-occupied France during World War II.
Style: rough, captivating, tense, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot: world war two, german soldier, repression, french resistance, communist, execution, nazi officer, suppression, concentration camp, hostage, assassination, wehrmacht ...
Time: year 1941, 1940s, 20th century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
A Bullet for Rommel (1969)
Genre: War, Drama
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 104 min.
Story: During World War II, a tough officer organizes a commando raid into Germany.
Style: macaroni combat
Plot: world war two, world war, commando, woman, german soldier, pilot, bunker, tank, mission, weapons, blood, train ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1944
Place: germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
 6.5
 17K
Blood & Gold (2023)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 98 min.
Story: At the end of World War II, a German soldier is looking for his daughter while an SS troop is looking for a Jewish treasure.
Style: brutal, period piece, suspenseful, tense, captivating ...
Plot: world war two, soldier, weapons, world war, bazooka, handgun, fight, gold, army, violence, treasure, mission ...
Time: 1940s, year 1945, 20th century
Place: germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Operation Mincemeat (2021)
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: captivating, disturbing, thought provoking, suspense, tense
Plot: world war two, military, world war, british secret service, army, secret mission, wartime, military life, military officer, wartime life, life is a bitch, reconnaissance ...
Time: 1940s, year 1943
Place: sicily, spain, london, greece, berlin germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 2.3
 941
Ardennes Fury (2014)
Genre: Action, War
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: As the Battle of the Bulge rages on, an American tank unit gets trapped behind Nazi lines. With just hours before the bombs of Operation Ardennes Fury fall, the tank's commander makes the risky decision to rescue an orphanage.
Style: exciting, serious, captivating, psychological, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: world war two, military, soldier, heroic mission, daring rescue, battles, danger, heroes, platoon, world war, scarecrow, tough heroes ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: germany, europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Natural Light (2021)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Hungary, Latvia, France, Germany
Duration: 103 min.
Story: World War II, occupied Soviet Union. István Semetka is a simple Hungarian farmer who serves as a Sub-Lieutenant in a special unit scouting for partisan groups. On their way to a remote village, his company falls under enemy fire. As the commander ...
Style: disturbing, suspense, captivating, tense
Plot: reconnaissance, partisan, soldier, spy, struggle for survival, soviet army, war, military officer, military, wartime, army, fight for supremacy ...
Place: germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 7.5
 12K
Brothers (2004)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Denmark, UK, Sweden, Norway
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A Danish officer, Michael (Thomsen), is sent away to the International Security Assistance Force operation in Afghanistan for three months. His first mission there is to find a young radar technician who had been separated from his squad some ...
Style: emotional, tense, disturbing, serious, melancholic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: family drama, courage, depression, brutality, politics, relationships, family relations, war, brothers, family problems, brother brother relationship, prisoner ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place: afghanistan, scandinavia, europe, denmark
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Strange Gardens (2003)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Lucien, 14, can’t understand why his father, a serious and respected teacher, makes a fool of himself by dressing up as a clown and giving a show. André, Lucien’s father’s best friend, feels for the teenager and decides to reveal something ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, captivating, tense
Plot: occupied france, world war two, french resistance, german occupation, nazi occupation, sabotage, resistance fighter, occupation, fighting the system, resistance, fight, war ...
Time: 1940s, year 2003
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 4.3
 4K
War Pigs (2015)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A rag tag unit of misfits known as the War Pigs must go behind enemy lines to exterminate Nazis by any means necessary.
Style: tense, captivating, perverse
Plot: world war two, nazi, nazi hunter, military, battles, soldier, behind enemy lines, u.s. army, american soldier, wartime, fight, swat ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1944
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 6.7
 4K
Murphy's War (1971)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Murphy is the sole survivor of his crew, that has been massacred by a German U-Boat in the closing days of World War II. He is rescued, and ends up at a forgotten mission station near the mouth of the Orinoco, and begins to plot his vengeance. He ...
Style: realistic, exciting, suspenseful, serious, independent film
Plot: submarine, world war two, torpedo, world war, boat, obsession, war, sole survivor, navy, aviation, murder, kriegsmarine ...
Time: 1940s, year 1971, 20th century, year 1945
Place: germany, ireland, south america, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
The Last Rescue (2015)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: World World II: Shortly after D-Day, three American soldiers and two Army Corps nurses are stranded behind enemy lines. They take a high-ranking German officer as their prisoner and try to orchestrate an escape.
Style: realistic, captivating, suspense, tense
Plot: world war two, rescue, evacuation, field hospital, d day, friendship, soldier, bravery, danger, rivalry, military, world war ...
Time: 1940s, year 1944, 20th century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 7.1
 1K
Habermann (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Germany, Czech Republic, Austria
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A story set in a small village in Sudetenland between 1937 and 1945. "Habermann" is based on true events.
Style: thought provoking, suspenseful, suspense, brutal, disturbing ...
Plot: world war two, wedding ceremony, nazi soldier, nazi, anti semitism, german soldier, nun, best friend, crucifix, execution, husband wife relationship, employer employee relationship ...
Time: 1940s, 1930s, 20th century
Place: europe, czechoslovakia
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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