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Arch of Triumph (1984)
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Arch of Triumph (1984)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Arch of Triumph is a 1985 British made-for-television film based on the novel Arch of Triumph by Erich Maria Remarque, which was previously adapted in 1948 for a film of the same name with Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer. Dr. Ravic (Anthony Hopkins) is an Austrian doctor who helps Jews escape from the Nazis. In 1939, he meets Joan Madou (Lesley-Anne Down), a woman he saves from suicide, and their relationship flourishes until he is arrested as a refugee without documentation and realizes he has some unfinished business with the Nazis. After a prolonged separation, without explanation, the two are finally reunited and struggle to put their relationship back on the right course as mayhem breaks out all around them.
Style: noir, sincere, serious, emotional, realistic, gloomy, eighties
Plot: world war two, nazi, doctor, wartime, intrigue, concentration camp, war, love and romance, life is a bitch, love affair, vengeance, on the run, unfulfilled love, wartime life, haunted by the past, against humanity, unfulfillment, couple relations, revenge, escape, torture, undercover agent, singer, surgeon, gestapo ...
Time: 1930s, 30s
Place: paris france, france, europe, germany
Keyword: jewish

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, emotional and captivating films with plots about world war two, wartime life, war, life is a bitch, nazi, world war and love and romance mostly in Drama, War and Romance genres. Some movies like Arch of Triumph: A Soldier's Tale (1989), November Moon (1985), The Last Train (1973), Lili Marleen (1981), Hanover Street (1979). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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A Soldier's Tale (1989)
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, soldier, love affair, war, love and romance, couples, impossible love, unfulfilled love, woman in danger, wartime life, love, love triangle ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: france, europe, normandy
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November Moon (1985)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: West Germany, France
Duration: 108 min.
Story: "November Moon" is a timeless and compelling love story set against the backdrop of Nazi-occupied France. On the brink of war and in the face of escalating anti-Jewish activity, November has fled her native Germany for the relative safety ...
Style: captivating, serious, realistic, rough, sincere ...
Plot: lesbian, lesbian love, world war two, lgbt, world war, holocaust, strong female presence, love triangle, wartime life, woman in danger, gays and lesbians, love and romance ...
Time: 20th century, 1930s
Place: paris france, france, europe, germany
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The Last Train (1973)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Two people, a Frenchman Julien Maroyeur and a Jewish German woman (Anna Kupfer) met on a train while escaping the German army entering France.
Style: road movie, sincere, sentimental, touching, emotional ...
Plot: world war two, train, french resistance, world war, love, railway, unhappy ending, nazi, judaism, wartime, occupied france, refugee ...
Time: 1940s, year 1940, year 1943
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
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Lili Marleen (1981)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance, War
Country: West Germany
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Lili Marleen is the story of a German singer named Wilkie who while working in Switzerland falls in love with a Jewish composer named Robert who’s family is helping people to flee from the Nazis. Roberts family is skeptical of Walkie thinking she ...
Style: clever, witty, stylized, art house, romantic drama ...
Plot: nazi germany, nazi, world war two, wartime, women, world war, wartime life, nazism, dictatorship, dictator, love, judaism ...
Time: 1940s, year 1981, 20th century, 1930s, year 1938
Place: germany, berlin germany, europe, zurich switzerland, munich germany ...
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Hanover Street (1979)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Margaret is a nurse in England during WW2, and married to a secret agent. Things get complicated when she falls for David, an American pilot.
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, sincere, period piece ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: world war two, secret mission, aviation, war, secret agent, couples, infidelity, love triangle, couple relations, fall in love, danger, love and romance ...
Time: 20th century, year 1979, 1940s
Place: london, france, england, europe
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Forever Nevermore (2014)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Brazil
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A dramatic novel that presents the submission in a relationship between an Italian settler and a Brazilian woman in 1932. Luiza is a generation of women who were sent to convents to be educated, many of the high cost of permanency option ran out and ...
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, touching, gloomy ...
Plot: forbidden love, love affair, couples, revolution, vengeance, rivalry, society, love and romance, life is a bitch, wartime life, war, unsupportive spouse ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century
Place: brazil, latin america
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Sword of Honour (2001)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 208 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, love triangle, fighting the system, love and romance, betrayal, haunted by the past, life is a bitch, military life, soldier, basic training, society ...
Time: future, 1940s
Place: england, europe
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55%
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Twin Sisters (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Netherlands, Luxembourg
Duration: 137 min.
Story: Twin Sisters is an epic love story based on the Dutch bestseller by Tessa de Loo that has been read by more than 3.5 million readers in Holland and Germany.
Style: captivating, thought provoking, serious, realistic, touching ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: world war two, twins, wartime life, family reunited, family relations, ss officer, life is a bitch, culture clash, orphan, society, human nature, reconciliation ...
Time: 1940s, 1930s, 20th century, 1920s
Place: germany, europe, holland, netherlands
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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The Assault (1986)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 141 min.
Story: At the end of WW II the Dutch resistance kills a German officer in front of the house of a Dutch family. Years after the war the young boy who witnessed the killing runs into the members of the resistance who committed the killing.
Style: cult classic, grindhouse, political, contemplative, gloomy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: world war two, coming of age, holocaust, world war, wartime life, fictional history, terrorism, nazi, cannon, dutch history, post war, gestapo ...
Time: 20th century, 50s, 80s, 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Adam Resurrected (2008)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Germany, Israel, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Before the war, in Berlin, Adam was an entertainer- cabaret impresario, magician, musician-loved by all until he finds himself in a concentration camp, confronted by Commandant Klein. Adam survives the camp by becoming the Klein's ...
Style: touching, contemplative, serious, realistic, bleak ...
Plot: holocaust, nazi, world war two, survival, haunted by the past, against humanity, life is a bitch, mental illness, concentration camp, circus, patient, circus performer ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, year 2008, 60s, 1930s ...
Place: europe, israel, middle east, berlin germany, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
The Night Watch (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Set against the turbulent backdrop of London in the 1940s, this adaptation of Sarah Waters' bestselling novel, The Night Watch, follows four young Londoners inextricably linked by their wartime experiences. In a time when the barriers of sexual ...
Style: touching, emotional, stylized, serious, deep ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: lgbt, love affair, couples, life is a bitch, love and romance, haunted by the past, sexual relations, wartime life, war, love, lgbtq, gay ...
Time: 1940s, post world war two, 20th century
Place: london, england, europe
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50%
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Remembrance (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Hannah, a young Jewish girl, is rescued from a concentration camp by her Polish boyfriend, and believes he died after their perilous escape. More than 30 years later, the married Hannah faces an emotional crisis when she learns he's alive.
Style: realistic, serious, tense, exciting, captivating ...
Plot: concentration camp, holocaust, world war two, life is a bitch, love affair, against the odds, on the run, couple relations, wartime life, couples, nazi, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, germany, poland
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 7.3
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The Last Metro (1980)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: France
Duration: 131 min.
Story: In occupied Paris, an actress married to a Jewish theater owner must keep him hidden from the Nazis while doing both of their jobs.
Style: sincere, art house, thought provoking, anthology, manga ...
Plot: world war two, theater, nazi, gestapo, women, world war, wartime life, infidelity, anti semitism, love triangle, actor, life is a bitch ...
Time: 1940s, year 1980, 20th century, year 1942
Place: france, paris france, europe, montmartre paris
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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 ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
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Style: serious, psychological, emotional, sincere, bleak ...
Plot: world war two, concentration camp, dysfunctional family, memory, cruelty, doctor, parents and children, holocaust, haunted by the past, nazi, experiment, human nature ...
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All Quiet on the Western Front (1979)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: At the start of World War I, Paul Baumer is a young German patriot, eager to fight. Indoctrinated with propaganda at school, he and his friends eagerly sign up for the army soon after graduation. But when the horrors of war soon become too much to ...
Style: bleak, historical drama, suspenseful, sad, sincere ...
Plot: world war one, war, great war, soldier, combat, world war two, intrigue, literary, world war, military, battles, hospital ...
Time: 20th century, year 1918, 1910s
Place: europe, germany, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Dresden (2006)
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 ...
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Time: 1940s
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⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Spring 1941 (2007)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Poland, Israel
Duration: 120 min.
Story: After Germany invades Poland and the Nazis order the confinement of all local Jews in the ghetto, medical doctor Artur Planck (Joseph Fiennes) manages to flee with his family, seeking refuge at the farm of Emilia (Kelly Harrison), their former ...
Style: captivating, serious, tense, emotional, realistic ...
Plot: world war two, wartime life, love triangle, family in danger, confined, love and romance, infidelity, dishonesty, couple relations, against humanity, couples, life is a bitch ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Downtrodden wife and mother Nella's life takes an unexpected turn for the better after she joins the Women's Voluntary Service office in Barrow-in-Furness during the Second World War. However, her new-found happiness is shattered when her ...
Style: captivating, touching, sincere, emotional, realistic ...
Plot: world war two, wartime life, society, love and romance, life is a bitch, parent grown child relationship, female protagonist, heroes, voice over narration, family home, unhappy marriage, christmas ...
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Hitler's S.S.: Portrait in Evil (1985)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story: The two-part TV movie Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil crystallizes that evil by concentrating on two Berlin brothers. In 1931, Helmut Hoffman (Bill Nighy) a brilliant student and self-styled opportunist, joins Hitler's SS. At the same time, ...
Style: bleak, disturbing, captivating, serious, realistic
Plot: world war two, nazi, gestapo, hitler, combat, world war, concentration camp, ss, third reich, nazism, cabaret, wartime life ...
Time: 1930s, 1940s
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41%
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In Tranzit (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
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Duration: 113 min.
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: UK, France, Canada, Belgium, USA
Duration: 107 min.
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Style: emotional, realistic, romantic, period piece, serious ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: world war two, forbidden love, nazi occupation, german officer, german soldier, war, fall in love, wartime life, occupied france, nazi occupied france, adultery, nazi officer ...
Time: 1940s, year 1940, ancient times, 20th century
Place: france, europe, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
A Love to Hide (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A young Jewish girl, Sarah, is looking to escape the clutches of the Third Reich after seeing her parents and sister brutally slain by a smuggler who betrayed them while attempting to escape to England. Terrified, she is sheltered by her childhood ...
Style: emotional, serious, touching, sad, lgbt cinema ...
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Plot: gay, holocaust, gay relationship, gay couple, gay love, world war two, nazi, lgbtqi, betrayal, lgbt, lgbtq, traitor ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Lucie Aubrac (1997)
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A love story or a tale of the resistance, this poignant movie tells both the haunting story of a French resistance cell in Lyon but also the love of Lucie Aubrac for her husband...
Style: emotional, realistic, serious
Plot: french resistance, world war two, occupied france, gestapo, love, resistance movement, french history, biopic, resistance, judaism, nazi, nudity ...
Time: 1940s, year 1997, 20th century
Place: france, lyon
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 6.4
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Charlotte Gray (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: UK, Australia, Germany
Duration: 121 min.
Story: This is a drama set in Nazi-occupied France at the height of World War II. Charlotte Gray tells the compelling story of a young Scottish woman working with the French Resistance in the hope of rescuing her lover, a missing RAF pilot. Based on the ...
Style: sexy, sentimental, romantic, captivating, realistic ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: world war two, espionage, french resistance, war, nazi, holocaust, spy, wartime life, resistance, women, wartime, secret agent ...
Time: 1940s, year 2001, 20th century
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36%
Story of a Prostitute (1965)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 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, rough ...
Plot: world war two, prostitute, prostitution, soldier, female nudity, desertion, crazy love, wartime, sex, whore, japanese history, world war ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Stones for the Rampart (2014)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 111 min.
Story: To be defeated and not be - a victory. This is the motto that life is guided by three young friends: Alek, Sophy and Rudy. Scouts, high school graduates high school in Warsaw drifting ambitious plans for the future broken through September 1939. ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, captivating, suspense ...
Plot: world war two, wartime life, against the odds, life is a bitch, daring rescue, danger, prospector, wartime, german occupation, resistance, resistance fighter, nazi occupation ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: europe, poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 7.2
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Madame Rosa (1977)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Madame Rosa lives in a sixth-floor walkup in the Pigalle; she's a retired prostitute, Jewish and an Auschwitz survivor, a foster mom to children of other prostitutes. Momo is the oldest and her favorite, an Algerian lad whom she raises as a ...
Style: gloomy, sincere, emotional, realistic, serious ...
Plot: youth, old woman, world war two, sex, gay, israeli, prostitute, concentration camp, adoption, mental illness, wartime life, holocaust ...
Place: israel, paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 7.2
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Freedom (2009)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A Gypsy family travels the French roads during the Second World War, followed by Little Claude, a young boy seeking a new family after his parents "left and never returned". Upon reaching a town where they traditionally stop for a few ...
Style: emotional, captivating, realistic, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot: world war two, gypsy, holocaust, racism, moral dilemma, life is a bitch, social differences, family in danger, rebelliousness, rebellion, concentration camp, on the run ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, year 2009
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
My Best Enemy (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: Austria, Luxembourg
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Poland 1943: An unlikely pair - a concentration camp prisoner and a captain in Hitler's notorious SS - free themselves from the wreckage of a crashed SS airplane. The two appear to be strangely familiar with each other and the extent of their ...
Style: thought provoking, captivating, tense, serious, contemplative ...
Plot: concentration camp, world war two, friends, friendship, military, wartime life, soldier, life is a bitch, moral dilemma, against humanity, holocaust, nazi ...
Time: 20th century, 1930s, 1940s
Place: germany, poland, europe, austria
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33%
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