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The Shadow in My Eye (2021)
 7.3
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The Shadow in My Eye (2021)
Original name: Skyggen i mit øje
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 of whom were children.
Style: suspense, disturbing
Plot: world war two, nazi, nazism, air raid, bombing, gestapo, military, murder, nordic, killings, chaos, aerial bombardment, eye, children in wartime, foreigner, mental health, biopic, world war, royal air force, mosquito, torture, nun, boy, girl, resistance movement ...
Time: year 1945, 1940s
Place: copenhagen, copenhagen denmark

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, disturbing, serious and captivating films with plots about world war two, nazi, world war, war, military, holocaust and wartime life mostly in Drama, War and History genres. Some movies like The Shadow in My Eye: Naked Among Wolves (2015), Attack on Leningrad (2009), Land of Mine (2015), Warsaw 44 (2014), The Conference (2022). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Naked Among Wolves (2015)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Naked Among Wolves (German: Nackt unter Wölfen) is a German drama film directed by Philipp Kadelbach in 2015. It is based on the novel of the same name by Bruno Apitz, which was published in 1958 by the East German Publishing house. It was created ...
Style: captivating, tense, realistic, psychological, independent film ...
Plot: holocaust, concentration camp, nazi, world war two, nazi concentration camp, liberation, world war, little boy, resistance, death, death threat, race against time ...
Time: year 1945, 1940s
Place: germany, switzerland
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100%
Attack on Leningrad (2009)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Russia, UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story: When in 1941 Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union, their troops quickly besieged Leningrad. Foreign journalists are evacuated but one of them, Kate Davies, is presumed dead and misses the plane. Alone in the city she is helped by Nina Tsvetnova a ...
Style: serious, realistic, bleak, rough, gloomy
Audience: boys' night
Plot: world war two, siege, hunger, wartime life, battles, soldier, world war, danger, self sacrifice, female protagonist, military, heroic mission ...
Time: 1940s, year 1941, 20th century
Place: russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.8
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Land of Mine (2015)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Denmark, Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In the days following the surrender of Germany in May 1945, a group of young German prisoners of war were handed over to the Danish authorities and subsequently sent out to the West Coast, where they were ordered to remove the more than two million ...
Style: harsh, emotional, realistic, sentimental, brutal ...
Audience: teens
Plot: world war two, german soldier, child soldier, prisoners of war, beach, minefield, survival, nazi, boy, childhood, war crime, pow ...
Time: 1940s, post world war two, year 2015, 2010s, 90s ...
Place: denmark, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.6
 7K
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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 ⇓
50%
Churchill and the Generals (1979)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min.
Story: The complicated relationship between Winston Churchill and the leaders of the British army during World War II.
Style: historical drama
Plot: world war two, winston churchill, british military, political leader, military, politics, nazi, strategy
Time: 1940s
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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 ⇓
55%
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Gaston's War (1997)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Denmark, Belgium, Netherlands
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Gaston Vandermeerssche is a young, resourceful Flemish action hero of the Belgian resistance during World War II: he coaches surviving allied pilots trough occupied Belgium and France to Spain so they can regain England, each time a dangerous ...
Plot: world war two, heroism, resistance, brothel, prison, pilot, prospector, intelligence agency, gestapo, railway, train travel, double agent ...
Time: year 1942, year 1945, 1940s
Place: london, belgium, france, holland, spain ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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
Plot: world war two, factory, german occupation, conflict, industry, family relations, businessman, money, world war, economist, family conflict
Time: 1940s
Place: denmark, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Return to the Hiding Place (2013)
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: When a young resistance fighter witnesses atrocities towards the Jews, he's drawn into a web of espionage and clandestine activities. When he meets a young physics students and resistance journalist - Hans Poley - they embark on a hunt through ...
Style: disturbing, captivating, suspense, tense
Plot: world war two, nazi, jewish ghetto, christian, world war, jew persecution, resistance fighter, saving a life, resistance, nazi occupation, nazi soldier, nazism ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
The Boys from St. Petri (1991)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A group of school-mates form a resistance group in nazi-occupied Denmark.
Plot: world war two, children, wartime life, world war, war, nazi, sabotage, resistance, high school, teenager
Time: 1940s
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
The Scarlet and the Black (1983)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA, UK, Italy
Duration: 143 min.
Story: Fr. Hugh O'Flaherty is a Vatican official in 1943-45 who has been hiding downed pilots, escaped prisoners of war, and Italian resistance families. His diplomatic status in a Catholic country prevents Colonel Kappler from openly arresting him, ...
Style: realistic, factual, tense, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: nazi, world war two, catholic, vatican, soldier, fighting the system, clergy, human spirit, uninhibited rivalry, military, survival, hopes ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: europe, rome italy, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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 ⇓
51%
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 ⇓
51%
Army of Crime (2009)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: France
Duration: 139 min.
Story: This gripping historical drama recounts the story of Armenian-born Missak Manouchian, a woodworker and political activist who led an immigrant laborer division of the Parisian Resistance on 30 operations against the Nazis in 1943. The Nazis branded ...
Style: rough, realistic, serious, disturbing, sincere ...
Plot: world war two, resistance, gestapo, nazi, ss officer, poet, rebelliousness, danger, war, life is a bitch, idealism, human spirit ...
Time: 1940s, year 2009, 20th century, year 1942
Place: paris france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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 ⇓
51%
 6.8
 2K
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 ⇓
50%
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Narvik: Hitler's First Defeat (2022)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Norway
Duration: 108 min.
Story: April, 1940. The eyes of the world are on Narvik, a small town in northern Norway, a source of the iron ore needed for Hitler's war machine. Through two months of fierce winter warfare, the German leader is dealt with his first defeat.
Style: dramatic, serious, suspenseful, captivating
Plot: winter, world war two, world war, military, war, cold weather, french soldier, battles, small town, hitler, defeat, young girl ...
Time: year 1940
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Johnny the Partisan (2000)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 135 min.
Story: After the 8th September 1943 north of Italy is occupied by Germans. Italian army collapsed and the soldiers are escaped to the mountains trying to set up a resistance. Many civilians did the same and Johnny, an English literature student, is among ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, exciting, bleak
Plot: resistance, world war two, resistance movement, partisan, murder, war zone, fascism, wartime life, italian history, nazi, world war, holocaust ...
Time: 1940s
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
 7.0
 17K
Katyn (2007)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 122 min.
Story: An examination of the Soviet slaughter of thousands of Polish officers and citizens in the Katyn forest in 1940.
Style: disturbing, heartbreaking, sentimental, realistic, sad ...
Plot: world war two, war crime, nazism, polish history, survival, ethnic conflict, holocaust, massacre, murder, courage, idealism, nazi ...
Time: 1940s, year 2007, 20th century, year 1940
Place: poland, eastern europe, europe, russia, soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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 ⇓
49%
The Battle of the Eagles (1979)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 130 min.
Story: The first Yugoslav Partisan air force unit. Loosely based on historical facts.
Style: epic
Plot: world war two, world war, aviation, luftwaffe, partisan, combat, air battle, mountain, horse, truck, train, murder ...
Time: year 1942, 20th century, 1940s
Place: former yugoslavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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 6.4
 6K
Sobibor (2018)
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: Russia, Germany, Lithuania
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Based on the true story, international historical project “Sobibor” is dedicated to the heroism of the Soviet o cer Alexander Pechersky. During the great Patriotic war, being in a Nazi concentration camp Sobibor he managed to do the impossible ...
Style: rough, factual, suspenseful, philosophical, political
Plot: world war two, holocaust, nazi, nazi germany, genocide, holocaust survivor, mass murder, rebellion, pow, killings, military, world war ...
Time: 1940s
Place: germany, poland, lithuania, soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Paradise Road (1997)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Paradise Road is a 1997 film which tells the story of a group of English, American, Dutch and Australian women who are imprisoned in Sumatra during World War II. It was directed by Bruce Beresford and stars Glenn Close as beatific Adrienne Pargiter, ...
Style: touching, harsh, serious, uplifting, emotional ...
Plot: world war two, pow, holocaust, war, prison, island, friendship, justice, war crime, nazi, women, human spirit ...
Time: 1940s, year 1997, 1930s, 20th century
Place: japan, indonesia, asia, singapore
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Battle of the Bulge (1965)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 167 min.
Story: In the winter of 1944, the Allied Armies stand ready to invade Germany at the coming of a New Year. To prevent this occurrence, Hitler orders an all out offensive to re-take French territory and capture the major port city of Antwerp. "The ...
Style: epic, factual, tense, exciting, serious ...
Audience: manly
Plot: world war two, war, tank, nazi, military, world war, u.s. military, battles, heroic mission, campaign, danger, wartime ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, year 1944
Place: belgium, america, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Alone in Berlin (2016)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: UK, France, Germany
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Berlin in June of 1940. While Nazi propaganda celebrates the regime’s victory over France, a kitchen-cum-living room in Prenzlauer Berg is filled with grief. Anna and Otto Quangel’s son has been killed at the front. This working class couple had ...
Style: period piece, factual, suspenseful, enigmatic, realistic ...
Plot: nazi germany, gestapo, world war two, nazi, death of son, suicide, holocaust, world war, murder, torture, robbery, bereavement ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1943, year 1940
Place: berlin germany, germany, central europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
 7.0
 11K
The Grey Zone (2001)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A Nazi doctor, along with the Sonderkomando Jews – who are forced to work in the crematoria of Auschwitz against their fellow-Jews – find themselves in a moral grey zone.
Style: depressing, disturbing, bleak, factual, emotional ...
Plot: holocaust, nazi, concentration camp, world war two, nazi germany, redemption, war, nazi concentration camp, moral ambiguity, world war, tragedy, auschwitz ...
Time: 1940s, year 1944, 20th century
Place: germany, poland, europe, middle east, budapest
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
 4.9
 1K
The Bridge (2008)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A group of German boys is ordered to protect a small bridge in their home village during the waning months of the second world war. Truckloads of defeated, cynical Wehrmacht soldiers flee the approaching American troops, but the boys, full of ...
Style: realistic, serious, bleak, rough
Plot: world war two, military, heroic mission, soldier, left to die, young heroes, danger, american soldier, combat casualty, world war, nazi, german history ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, year 1945
Place: germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
 5.5
 2K
Squadron 303 (2018)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Poland, UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story: After the fall of the September Campaign of 1939, two Polish pilots are forced to fight for their nation in foreign battlefronts.
Style: sincere, exciting
Plot: aerial combat, air force, world war two, aviation, world war, politics, rescue, wartime life, military, battles, danger, soldier ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: poland, britain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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