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The Crossing 2 (2015)
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The Crossing 2 (2015)
Original name: 太平轮(下):彼岸
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 131 min.
Story: A story of three couples and their intertwining love stories set in 1940s Taiwan and Shanghai, centered around the 1949 sinking of Taiping.
Style: tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
Plot: historical event, chinese civil war, shipwreck, sinking ship, struggle for survival, sea disaster, ship, relationships, sailor, crash, relationship problems, couple relations, karate, ancient, post war, chinese history, world war, revolution, world war two, castaway, boat accident, war
Time: 1940s
Place: ancient china, taiwan

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, captivating, disturbing and tense films with plots about world war two, world war, war, military, soldier, wartime and nazi mostly in Drama, War and History genres. Some movies like The Crossing 2: Red Cliff II (2009), The Amber Amulet (2004), A Tale of Three Cities (2015), Battle for Sevastopol (2015), The Sinking of Van Der Wijck (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Crossing (2014)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: China, USA, Hong Kong
Duration: 129 min.
Story: During the Chinese Revolution in 1949, three couples flee from China to an island of Taiwan.
Style: captivating, realistic, intense, tense, suspense ...
Plot: revolution, refugee, historical event, military, danger, survival, camp, post war, karate, world war, chinese history, chinese civil war ...
Time: 1940s
Place: taiwan, china, ancient china
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Red Cliff II (2009)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, War
Country: China, Hong Kong, Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, USA
Duration: 142 min.
Story: The battle of Red Cliff continues and the alliance between Xu and East Wu is fracturing. With Cao Cao's massive forces on their doorstep, will the kingdoms of Xu and East Wu survive?
Style: epic, stylized, saga, scenic, visual ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, master warrior, soldier, battles, chinese history, ancient history, horse, historical event, war, wuxia, military, life is a bitch ...
Time: year 2009, year 2008, medieval times, ancient times
Place: china, ancient china, east asia, asia
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28%
The Amber Amulet (2004)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 2 min.
Story: Summer of 1944. Young baroness Barbara is getting married. Her husband, Alexander, leaves to the war and disappears after giving Barbara the amber amulet as symbol of their love. Soviet soldiers, commanded by Major Belyaev are placed in the estate ...
Style: captivating, suspense, psychological, disturbing
Plot: world war two, forbidden love, unfulfilled love, family problems, male female relationship, relationships, tragic love, love affair, wartime, captivity, love interest, marital problem ...
Place: germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
A Tale of Three Cities (2015)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 130 min.
Story: A former spy in the Chinese Nationalist Party falls for an opium-dealing widow, as China is ravaged by war and revolution.
Style: suspense, captivating, disturbing, psychological
Plot: loner, male female relationship, wartime life, war, romantic relationship, wartime, fall in love, couple relations, life is a bitch, world war two, social problems, relationships ...
Time: 1930s
Place: hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Battle for Sevastopol (2015)
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Ukraine, Russia
Duration: 110 min.
Story: The breakout of the war shatters the world of a young student, Lyudmila Pavlichenko, forcing her to enlist in the army in 1941. The maiden turns out to be a natural-born sniper, her impressive skill and prowess make her stand out among men and women ...
Style: dramatic, rough, realistic, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: sniper, world war two, female protagonist, female soldier, nazi, wartime, war, female warrior, wartime life, enemy, strong female lead, great patriotic war ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: soviet union, ukraine, chicago, usa, odessa ukraine ...
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The Sinking of Van Der Wijck (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 164 min.
Story: When a young man leaves home to fulfill the wishes of his late father, he meets and falls in love with a woman from a very different background.
Style: captivating, thrilling, psychological, suspenseful, social ...
Plot: ship, problem, love story, male female relationship, sinking ship, shipwreck, couple relations, love and romance, love affair, relationships, love interest, chaos ...
Time: 1930s
Place: indonesia
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The Eight Hundred (2020)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: China
Duration: 149 min.
Story: In 1937, eight hundred Chinese soldiers fight under siege from a warehouse in the middle of the Shanghai battlefield, completely surrounded by the Japanese army.
Style: bleak, suspense, suspenseful
Audience: adult
Plot: chinese history, sino japanese war, japanese soldier, world war two, chinese army, siege, military, warehouse, military life, war, blood, military officer ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, year 1937
Place: shanghai, china
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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 ⇓
24%
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The Warlords (2007)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 126 min.
Story: A heroic tale of three blood brothers and their struggle in the midst of war and political upheaval. It is based on "The Assassination of Ma," a Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) story about the killing of general Ma Xinyi.
Style: sincere, suspenseful, epic, serious, rough ...
Plot: war, martial arts, fight, soldier, ambition, civil war, kung fu, battles, pow, political unrest, treason, society ...
Time: 19th century, 1860s, medieval times, 1800s, year 2007 ...
Place: china, east asia, ancient china, asia, beijing china
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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
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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 ...
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Warsaw 44 (2014)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 130 min.
Story: A beautiful story about youth, love, friendship and the pursuit of adventure during the bloody and brutal reality of the Warsaw Uprising.
Style: realistic, romantic, captivating, tense, psychological ...
Plot: world war two, nazi occupation, love and romance, rebel army, nazism, death, world war, friendship, war, love affair, relationships, young love ...
Time: year 1944, 20th century, 1940s
Place: poland, warsaw poland
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The Shadow in My Eye (2021)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Denmark, Belgium
Duration: 107 min.
Story: On March 21st, 1945, the British Royal Air Force set out on a mission to bomb Gestapo's headquarters in Copenhagen. The raid had fatal consequences as some of the bombers accidentally targeted a school and more than 120 people were killed, 86 ...
Style: disturbing, suspense
Plot: world war two, nazi, nazism, air raid, bombing, gestapo, military, nordic, murder, aerial bombardment, chaos, killings ...
Time: year 1945, 1940s
Place: copenhagen
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: China
Duration: 138 min.
Story: The Founding of a Republic is a Chinese historical film commissioned by China's film regulator and made by the state-owned China Film Group (CFG) to mark the 60th anniversary of the People's Republic of China. The film retells the tale of ...
Style: serious, captivating, realistic, disturbing, rough ...
Plot: politics, medieval, communist party, military, assassination, state affairs, revolution, political unrest, chinese history, ambition, heroes, battles ...
Time: year 1947, year 1949, year 1948, year 1945
Place: china, taiwan, shanghai, beijing china
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Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 96 min.
Story: September 1941. In a turn of events young lovebirds Kostya and Nastya find themselves on board of a barge that will evacuate people from sieged Leningrad. At night the barge gets into the storm. When it starts sinking, enemy planes - but not ...
Style: disturbing, exciting, suspenseful, thought provoking, suspense
Audience: adult
Plot: world war two, historical event, life is a bitch, death, hopes, danger, murder, society, love and romance, rescue, world war, friendship ...
Time: year 1941
Place: ussr
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Genre: Drama, History, War
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Duration: 93 min.
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Style: serious, captivating, realistic, tense, suspense ...
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Time: 20th century, 1940s, year 1940
Place: denmark, germany, europe
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22%
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 ⇓
22%
Into the Darkness (2020)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Denmark
Duration: 152 min.
Story: Karlskov is a self made, successful owner of a large electronics factory, has a wife and five children. They live the good, privileged upper-class life on Strandvejen north of Copenhagen when the Nazis occupy Denmark in April 1940. Karl struggles to ...
Style: suspense, realistic, bleak, rough
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Time: 1940s
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Genre: History, Thriller, War
Country: Sweden, Germany, Norway
Duration: 106 min.
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Style: captivating, suspenseful, tense, suspense, disturbing
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Time: year 1939
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Genre: History, Romance, War
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Duration: 97 min.
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Style: sincere, captivating, touching, suspense, sentimental
Plot: interracial romance, widow, world war two, forbidden love, aviator, airplane shot down, fall in love, wartime life, male female relationship, relationship problems, soldier, bombing ...
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Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: China
Duration: 131 min.
Story: Directed by Shen Dong and starring Ray Lui, An Yixuan and Yuan Wenkang, Death and Glory in Changde recalls one of the most cruel and controversial battles during China's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression (1937-45), Changde Battle, ...
Style: captivating, disturbing, tense
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The Legions (2019)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 140 min.
Story: A universal story about entering adulthood in difficult times, growing up to the community. The great history is the background for the love story unfolding in the foreground: Józek, a deserter from the tsarist army who joins the emerging Legions, ...
Style: serious, rough, disturbing, tense, suspense
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 176 min.
Story: At a Dresden hospital in 1945, nurse Anna Mauth (Felicitas Woll) cares for badly injured British pilot Robert Newman (John Light), whom Anna believes to be a German deserter. As Allied forces close in, Anna grows close to Robert despite her ...
Style: captivating, tense, serious, touching, period piece ...
Plot: world war two, war, bombing, moral dilemma, survival, military, love affair, wartime life, behind enemy lines, danger, fall in love, military life ...
Time: 1940s
Place: germany, europe
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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 ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
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Style: disturbing, emotional, sincere, captivating, realistic ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: interracial romance, racism, nazi germany, world war two, hitler youth, concentration camp, nazi concentration camp, overcoming, interracial couple, biracial, young love, white male black female relationship ...
Time: 1940s, ancient times
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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
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Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 90 min.
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Style: suspenseful, disturbing, exciting, suspense, bleak
Plot: world war two, death, historical event, danger, murder, life & death, friendship, hopes, family problems, society, heroes, rescue ...
Time: year 1942, 1940s, 20th century
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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
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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
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The Island of Lies (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, Argentina, Portugal
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Galicia, northern Spain, January 2, 1921. The steamship Santa Isabel, sailing towards Argentina with more than two hundred emigrants on board, sinks off the coast of Sálvora Island. Three island women, María, Josefa and Cipriana, who have bravely ...
Style: captivating, psychological, suspense, disturbing
Plot: shipwreck, castaway, ship, secret, island life, rescue, saving a life, problem, sinking ship, investigative reporter, island
Time: 1920s
Place: galicia
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19%
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