Movies like Munich: The Edge of War

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Munich: The Edge of War (2021)
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Munich: The Edge of War (2021)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: At the tense 1938 Munich Conference, former friends who now work for opposing governments become reluctant spies racing to expose a Nazi secret.
Style: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, dramatic, political
Plot: world war two, nazi, politics, nazi germany, spy, emergency, conspiracy, political conspiracy, political unrest, political intrigue, government conspiracy, holocaust, soldier, communism, mission, diplomacy, secrets, secret mission, interwar period, civil war, espionage, business, hitler, community, civil servant ...
Time: 1930s, year 1938, 20th century
Place: germany, munich germany, europe
Keyword: german

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Most similar movies to Munich: The Edge of War

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, captivating and disturbing films with plots about world war two, nazi, holocaust, world war, war, nazi germany and military mostly in Drama, History and War genres. Some movies like Munich: The Edge of War: Valkyrie (2008), Conspiracy (2001), The White Rose (1982), The Counterfeit Traitor (1962), Operation Valkyrie (2004). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Valkyrie (2008)
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: USA, Germany, Italy, Spain, France, Japan, UK
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Wounded in Africa during World War II, Nazi Col. Claus von Stauffenberg returns to his native Germany and joins the Resistance in a daring plan to create a shadow government and assassinate Adolf Hitler. When events unfold so that he becomes a ...
Style: factual, bad ending, tense, captivating, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: world war two, nazi, nazism, war, nazi germany, hitler, conspiracy, resistance, german soldier, politics, wehrmacht, espionage ...
Time: 1940s, year 2008, year 1944, year 1943, 20th century
Place: germany, berlin germany, europe, bavaria, tunisia ...
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100%
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Conspiracy (2001)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The historical recreation of the 1942 Wannsee Conference, in which Nazi and SS leaders gathered in a Berlin suburb to discuss the "Final Solution to the Jewish Question". Lead by SS-General Reinhard Heydrich, this group of high ranking ...
Style: political, factual, disturbing, bleak, atmospheric ...
Plot: holocaust, world war two, genocide, nazi, politics, nazism, third reich, ss officer, war crime, anti semitism, racism, ss ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1942
Place: berlin germany, germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
The White Rose (1982)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: West Germany
Duration: 125 min.
Story: During the Second World War, a small group of students at Munich University begin to question the decisions and sanity of Germany's Nazi government. The students form a resistance cell which they name the "White Rose" after a ...
Style: bleak, realistic, serious, disturbing, emotional ...
Plot: world war two, nazi, resistance, anti fascist, war, rebellion, death sentence, resistance movement, fascism, totalitarian state, world war, german history ...
Time: year 1982, year 1943, 1940s, 20th century
Place: germany, europe, munich germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
The Counterfeit Traitor (1962)
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 140 min.
Story: Blacklisted in modern day WW2, a Swedish oil trader opts to assist British Allies, by means of infiltrating and surveying Nazi Germany.
Style: retro, political thriller, captivating, tense, serious ...
Plot: world war two, espionage, nazi, dominatrix, politics, international relations, wartime, youth, nazi germany, secret agent, forgery, dishonesty ...
Time: year 1962, 20th century, 1940s, year 1942
Place: germany, europe, hamburg germany, copenhagen, berlin germany ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Operation Valkyrie (2004)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Germany, Austria, Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story: In 1944, a group of high command officers plot an attempt against Hitler, and one of the leaders of the conspiracy, Stauffenberg (Sebastian Koch), goes to a meeting with the Fuhrer in charge of exploding the place. However, Hitler survives and the ...
Style: realistic, serious, captivating
Plot: hitler, world war two, nazi, national socialism, plan gone wrong, conspiracy, military, leadership, wartime life, rebelliousness, state affairs, against humanity ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
The Zookeeper's Wife (2017)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Czech Republic, UK, USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: The account of keepers of the Warsaw Zoo, Jan and Antonina Zabinski, who helped save hundreds of people and animals during the Nazi invasion.
Style: factual, rough, sad, costume drama, suspense ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: holocaust, zoo, nazi, world war two, hiding place, marriage, women, zookeeper, nazi occupied poland, world war, shoah, biopic ...
Time: 1930s, year 2017, 1940s
Place: warsaw poland, poland, germany, central europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
The Gathering Storm (2002)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A love story offering an intimate look inside the marriage of Winston and Clementine Churchill during a particularly troubled, though little-known, moment in their lives.
Style: sincere, realistic, serious, talky, political ...
Plot: world war two, british history, politics, winston churchill, biopic, state affairs, head of state, rise to the top, society, couple relations, husband wife relationship, world war ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, year 1934
Place: england, britain, europe, germany, united kingdom
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Hitler: The Last Ten Days (1973)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: UK, Italy
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Hitler: The Last Ten Days takes us into the depths of der Furher’s Berlin bunker during his final days. Based on the book by Gerhard Boldt, it provides a bleak look at the goings-on within, and without.
Style: independent film, contemplative, serious, realistic, disturbing ...
Plot: world war two, nazi, third reich, military, world war, bunker, ss, biopic, suicide, history lesson, eastern front, holocaust ...
Time: year 1945, 20th century, 1940s
Place: germany, europe, berlin germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Wallenberg: A Hero's Story (1985)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: USA, Yugoslavia
Duration: 200 min.
Story: The story of Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat responsible for saving thousands of lives from the Nazi Holocaust.
Plot: world war two, holocaust, world war, nazi, spy, revolutionary war, diplomacy, revolutionary, struggle, freedom, revolution, lifesaver ...
Time: 20th century
Place: germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
The Pentagon Papers (2003)
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: This compelling political drama is based on the true story of high-ranking Pentagon official Daniel Ellsberg, who, during the Nixon era, strove to preserve American democracy by leaking top-secret documents to the New York Times and Washington Post. ...
Style: disturbing, sincere, serious, realistic, captivating ...
Plot: whistleblower, politics, uncover truth, dishonesty, fighting the system, military, soldier, state affairs, head of state, introspection, political conspiracy, political corruption ...
Place: usa, asia, vietnam, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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The Bunker (1981)
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: realistic, bleak, serious, psychological, disturbing ...
Plot: world war two, hitler, nazi germany, nazi, against humanity, suicide, life is a bitch, downfall, confined, state affairs, confinement indoors, wartime life ...
Time: year 1945, 20th century, 1940s
Place: germany, berlin germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Day One (1989)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA, Canada
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: tense, thought provoking, captivating, realistic, serious
Plot: atomic bomb, world war two, nuclear war, nuclear holocaust, super weapon, nuclear, cold war, holocaust, terrorism, war, atomic weapons, politics ...
Time: 1930s, 1940s, 20th century
Place: usa, new mexico, london, hiroshima japan, chicago ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Backstabbing for Beginners (2018)
Genre: Drama, History, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Denmark, Canada, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: An idealistic young employee at the U.N. investigates the grizzly murder of his predecessor – and uncovers a vast global conspiracy that may involve his own boss.
Style: disturbing, suspenseful, cynical, suspense, captivating ...
Plot: politics, conspiracy, corruption, dishonesty, manipulation, political intrigue, political conspiracy, diplomat, society, coworker, political unrest, relationship problems ...
Place: iraq
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Hitler: The Rise of Evil (2003)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 186 min.
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Story: A unique slant, profiling the life of Adolf Hitler as a child and his rise through the ranks of the National German Workers' Party prior to World War II.
Style: serious, captivating, realistic, bleak, disturbing ...
Plot: world war two, hitler, nazism, fascism, against humanity, racism, political unrest, dictatorship, nazi, politics, historical character, ruler ...
Time: 1920s, 1930s, 20th century, 1910s
Place: germany, europe, austria
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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 ⇓
28%
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Olga (2004)
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, serious, realistic, emotional, contemplative ...
Plot: world war two, nazi germany, holocaust, concentration camp, wartime life, life is a bitch, biopic, love affair, revolution, confined, society, couple relations ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: germany, rio de janeiro, europe, brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
The People vs. Fritz Bauer (2015)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 105 min.
Story: It is the late 1950s. Flourishing under the economic miracle, Germany grows increasingly apathetic about confronting the horrors of its recent past. Nevertheless, Fritz Bauer doggedly devotes his energies to bringing the Third Reich to justice. One ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, rough, tense, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night, chick flick
Plot: nazi, war criminal, mossad, holocaust, shoah, courtroom, world war two, nazi hunter, nazi war criminal, death threat, justice, gay affair ...
Time: 1950s, 20th century, 60s
Place: germany, west germany, buenos aires argentina, jerusalem, israel ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Inside the Third Reich (1982)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 240 min.
Story: A dramatization of the life of Albert Speer, Hitler's young architect and onetime confidant, and his meteoric rise into the Nazi hierarchy. Based upon Speer's own monograph of the same title.
Plot: world war two, nazi, hitler, autobiography, third reich
Time: 1940s, 1930s
Place: germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Georg Elser – Einer aus Deutschland (1989)
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: West Germany, Austria
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A true story about Johann Georg Elser, a quiet carpenter who tried to assassinate Hitler with an explosive device in 1939.
Style: independent film
Plot: world war two, nazi, manhunt, world war, holocaust, anti nazi, bomb, waitress, assassin, gestapo, nazi germany, timebomb
Time: 20th century
Place: germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Thirteen Days (2000)
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 145 min.
Story: Dramatisation of the Cuban Missile Crisis, the nuclear standoff with the USSR sparked by the discovery by the Americans of missle bases established on the Soviet allied island of Cuba. Shown from the perspective of the US President, John F Kennedy, ...
Style: political, suspenseful, tense, thought provoking, disturbing ...
Plot: cold war, politics, president, political intrigue, un, race against time, diplomacy, nuclear, spy, conspiracy, cuban missile crisis, leadership ...
Time: 60s, year 2000, y2k, 20th century, year 1962
Place: cuba, ussr, the philippines, usa, new york ...
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27%
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Reunion (1989)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: France, West Germany, UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Two young boys from very different backgrounds become friends in 1933 Stuttgart. However, they don't realize how different they are until much later as one is the son of a well-to-do Jewish doctor and the other the son of a German aristocrat. ...
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, disturbing, thought provoking
Plot: world war two, anti semitism, friendship, nazi, friendship between boys, against humanity, confined, society, youth, coming of age, religions or cults, homecoming ...
Time: 1940s, year 1989, 1930s
Place: europe, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Killing Reagan (2016)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Killing Reagan explores the events surrounding the assassination attempt on president Ronald Reagan by John Hinckley Jr. Based on the best-selling book, the film begins in the final months leading up to the 1980 presidential election, and explores ...
Style: disturbing, tense, captivating, thought provoking
Plot: president, conspiracy, usa president, assassination attempt, politician, love story, u.s. president, politics, attempted murder, assassination plot, political unrest, historical figure ...
Time: 80s, year 1981
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27%
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Hidden Blade (2023)
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Follows the story of underground workers who risked their lives to send intelligence and defend the motherland, set after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor when the Wang Jingwei regime declared war on Britain and the U.S.
Style: captivating, thrilling, tense, period drama
Plot: japanese occupation of china, undercover agent, special agent, spy mission, espionage, secret mission, mission, war, underground movement, soldier, agent, spy ...
Time: 1940s
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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The King's Choice (2016)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Ireland
Duration: 133 min.
Story: On 9 April 1940, German soldiers arrive in the city of Oslo. The King of Norway faces a choice that will change his country forever. The King's Choice is a story about the three most dramatic days in Norway's history, the royal ...
Style: exciting, suspenseful, suspense, tense, melancholic ...
Plot: world war two, royal family, invasion, evacuation, democracy, wehrmacht, german occupation, king, hitler, crown prince, young soldier, world war ...
Time: 1940s, year 1940
Place: germany, scandinavia, eastern europe, oslo norway
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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One Life (2023)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story: British stockbroker Nicholas Winton visits Czechoslovakia in the 1930s and forms plans to assist in the rescue of Jewish children before the onset of World War II, in an operation that came to be known as the Kindertransport.
Plot: world war two, jewish history, nazi occupation, nazi germany, jewish family, little girl, flashback, swimming pool, baby, train, restaurant, photograph ...
Time: 1930s, year 1938, 20th century, 1940s
Place: czechoslovakia, central europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Enigma (2001)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: UK, USA, Germany, Netherlands
Duration: 119 min.
Story: A romantic thriller based around the World War 2 project to crack the codes behind the Enigma machine, used by the Germans to encrypt messages sent to their submarines.
Style: factual, tricky, clever, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot: world war two, nazi, code breaking, espionage, submarine, wartime, war, mathematics, conspiracy, secret service, cryptography, idealism ...
Time: 1940s, year 2001, 20th century
Place: poland, scotland, europe, big ben london, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Operation Finale (2018)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: In 1960, a team of Israeli secret agents is deployed to find Adolf Eichmann, the infamous Nazi architect of the Holocaust, supposedly hidden in Argentina, and get him to Israel to be judged.
Style: period piece, ambiguous ending, historical drama, tense, art house ...
Plot: war criminal, mossad, nazi hunter, world war two, nazi, holocaust, world war, chase, manhunt, israeli, secret agent, spy ...
Time: 60s, 1940s, year 1954, year 1960, year 1945 ...
Place: israel, argentina, buenos aires argentina, germany, tel aviv israel ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Schindler's List (1993)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 195 min.
Story: The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II.
Style: touching, emotional, heartbreaking, realistic, thought provoking ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, adult
Plot: holocaust, world war two, genocide, nazi, war, wartime, storytelling, concentration camp, brutality, nazism, against humanity, survival ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1993, 90s, ancient times ...
Place: poland, germany, persia, iran, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank (1988)
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, serious, realistic, bleak, disturbing
Plot: holocaust, world war two, nazi, world war, anti semitism, journal, biopic, injustice, against humanity, hopes, confined, human spirit ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, 1930s
Place: holland, europe, amsterdam
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
The Conference (2022)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 108 min.
Story: On January 20, 1942, the Wannsee Conference takes place in Berlin, a meeting that had only one item on the agenda: The Final Solution, the organization of the systematic mass murder of eleven million European Jews.
Style: thought provoking, disturbing, captivating, tense
Plot: nazi, world war two, nazism, holocaust, ss officer, jew persecution, nazi officer, war, military officer, wartime, murder, nazi uniform ...
Time: year 1942, 1940s
Place: berlin germany, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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