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Echoes of the Past (2021)
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Original name: Καλάβρυτα 1943
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A lawyer, who represents the German government against the Greek reparation claims for Nazi crimes in World War II, travels to Greece and meets one of the remaining survivors of the Kalavryta massacre that took place in 1943.
Style:
historical drama, tense, captivating, suspenseful, thrilling, bleak, emotional, atmospheric, intense, reflective ...
Plot:
war crime, world war two, investigation, attorney, war violence, genocide, massacre, german occupation, tragic past, troubled past, nazi occupation, memories, confronting the past, haunting, greek history, female protagonist, human rights, moral ambiguity, occupation, resistance, small town, nazi, investigative journalism, courtroom, mountain village ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
germany
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out bleak, suspenseful, tense and emotional films with plots about investigation, moral ambiguity, world war two, slow burn, biopic, resistance and war crime mostly in Drama, History and War genres. Some movies like Echoes of the Past: Cefalonia (2005), Land of Happiness (2024), Herstory (2018), Thimmarusu: Assignment Vali (2021), Bones of Crows (2022). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 210 min.
Story:
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Style:
brutal, intense, emotional, bleak, realistic ...
Plot:
world war two, italian army, surrender, tragedy, massacre, war crime, execution, atrocity, island, truce, german army, loss ...
Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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292
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
A true story of a six-year-long legal conflict of 10 comfort women and 13 attorneys against 200 Fukuoka supporters association.
Style:
historical drama, suspense, tense, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
busan
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
After a cab driver is found dead, a young pub employee is framed for the murder and is sent to jail for 8 years. When he comes out on parole, a young lawyer takes up the case to prove his innocence.
Style:
tense, captivating, thrilling, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot:
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Time:
2020s
Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 720 min.
Story:
Raoul Wallenberg born 1912 Stockholm is send to Budapest 1944 July. His job is to save Jewish from Holocaust, his methods are non conventional. January 1945 arrested by Russians at Budapest Siege. Man who saved lives never returns home.
Style:
tragic ending, captivating, emotional, tense, inspirational ...
Plot:
holocaust, spy, historical figure, sacrifice, world war two, biopic, heroism, humanitarian, arrested, salvation, saving a life, life ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
budapest, hungary, stockholm sweden
Similarity:
76%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Cree matriarch Aline Spears survives a childhood in Canada’s residential school system to continue her family’s generational fight in the face of systemic starvation, racism, and sexual abuse. She uses her uncanny ability to understand and ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, suspenseful, thrilling, family saga ...
Plot:
indigenous people, world war two, matriarchy, survival, trauma, resilience, colonialism, oppression, social problems, confronting the past, violence, social issues ...
Time:
20th century
Similarity:
75%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, psychological, thrilling, captivating, emotional ...
Plot:
anti semitism, coming of age, problem, holocaust, neo nazi, nazism, nationalism, life is a bitch, female protagonist, nazi, racial discrimination, tragic past ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
68%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy, France, Serbia
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
How will the Germans react to the armistice of the 8th of September 1943, due to which Italy betrays them and sides with the allied forces? This is the distressing questions that a group of 16 Italian - Greek Jews evacuated at The Meina Hotel ask ...
Style:
historical drama, emotional, melancholic, period piece, tension ...
Plot:
world war two, holocaust, hotel, war crime, execution, tragedy, nazism, massacre, fear, ss officer, desperation, escape ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
italy
Similarity:
61%
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394
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A little known episode from the life of Stalinist security police office Julia Brystiger. Her nickname Bloody Luna was a reference to her incredibly brutal methods of interrogation. In the early 1960s, she appears in a centre for the blind on the ...
Style:
psychological, political, thrilling, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
stalinism, torture, catholic, character study, biopic, faith, physical torture, problem, male female relationship, abuse of power, interrogation, totalitarianism ...
Time:
60s
Place:
poland, eastern europe
Similarity:
59%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A young man, Stevie, awakes on a wasteland overlooking Bradford, still bleeding from a brutal attack that has left him with severe memory loss. Recent events are a total blank; his more distant memories are a blur. He slowly begins to piece together ...
Style:
psychological, dark, thrilling, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
identity, amnesia, memory loss, character study, repressed memory, tragic past, confronting the past, assault, amnesiac, life is a bitch, memory lapse, moral ambiguity ...
Place:
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Similarity:
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512
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Soldier Brian Wood, is accused of war crimes in Iraq by the human rights lawyer Phil Shiner. The two men go head to head in a legal and moral conflict that takes us from the battlefield, at so-called Checkpoint Danny Boy, to the courtroom and one of ...
Style:
tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot:
iraq war, war crime, american soldier, ex soldier, human rights, military, accused of murder, framed for a crime, framed for murder, military officer, soldier, war violence ...
Place:
united kingdom
Similarity:
59%
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.
Style:
historical drama, tense, period piece, bleak, suspenseful ...
Plot:
world war two, resistance, nazi occupation, children, political oppression, loss of innocence, coming of age, courage, moral ambiguity, underground movement, tragedy, escalation ...
Time:
1940s
Similarity:
58%
406
Genre: Drama
Country: Sri Lanka
Story:
The film follows Dr. Manorani Saravanamuttu's relentless pursuit of justice after the tragic abduction and murder of her son, Richard de Zoysa, a journalist, writer, and human rights activist, in 1990.
Style:
emotional, bleak, tense, historical drama, political thriller ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
human rights, family tragedy, political violence, biopic, courage, abduction, activism, assassination, journalism, investigation, trauma, social justice ...
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 61 min.
Story:
Locked away in the Jewish ghetto of an occupied Ukrainian town in 1941, a mother revisits her life in a last letter to her son.
Style:
bleak, poignant, historical drama, reflective, emotional ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
holocaust, persecution, world war two, jewish ghetto, anti semitism, mature, grief, loss, haunting, family tragedy, mother son relationship, witness ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
eastern europe, ukraine
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Downed American fliers in WW II are vivisected by Japanese surgeons in medical experiments.
Style:
serious, bleak, historical drama, disturbing, intense ...
Plot:
world war two, nurse, vivisection, guilt, accomplice, mature, atrocity, moral ambiguity, ethical dilemma, war crime, mental disorder, trauma ...
Time:
1940s, year 1945
Place:
japan
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
dark, emotional, intense, realistic, bleak ...
Plot:
teenage girl, trauma, assault, abuse of power, social injustice, female protagonist, women's rights, family drama, juvenile detention, courtroom, mother daughter relationship, corrupt judge ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
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Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, thrilling, captivating, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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268
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
maine
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Greece
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
The execution of 200 Greek resistance fighters by the German occupiers on May 1st, 1944 in Kaisariani, as reprisal for the Greek Resistance ambush against Nazis.
Style:
historical drama, suspense, touching, sincere, psychological ...
Plot:
world war two, nazi occupation, reprisal, resistance fighter, nazi officer, greek history, execution, prisoner of war camp, martyrdom, political persecution, tragedy, sacrifice ...
Time:
1940s, year 1944
Place:
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Similarity:
51%
159
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Judith decides to go on her own to the salsa-dancing night, even though her boyfriend, with whom she goes there every week, can’t accompany her. A stranger, with whom she briefly dances, offers to walk her home. Next morning, upon returning home, ...
Style:
psychological, tense, disturbing, serious, captivating ...
Plot:
female protagonist, rape victim, sexual assault, trauma, problem, violence, sexual abuse, rape, violent, unsettling, justice, moral ambiguity ...
Place:
germany
Similarity:
51%
299
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Dives into the often ignored seedy underbelly of Maine and it follows Emma Maddox as she returns to her hometown years following the mysterious death of her brother, Mikey. As she reconnects with his best friend Tommy, the two rekindle their flame ...
Style:
suspenseful, tense, captivating, psychological, thrilling ...
Plot:
redemption, revenge, small town, problem, bereavement, life is a bitch, lie, getting home, investigation, betrayal, friendship, coastal town ...
Place:
maine
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
The incredible, untold true story of how a group of prisoners attempt a seemingly impossible escape from the first Nazi death camp in order to provide the first eyewitness account of the Holocaust.
Style:
historical drama, bleak, tense, intense, emotional ...
Plot:
holocaust, concentration camp, world war two, nazi germany, memories, prison escape, war crime, survival, resistance, biopic, sacrifice, forced labor ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Style:
tense, historical drama, realistic, intense, political ...
Plot:
prison, courtroom, riot, injustice, social commentary, trial, violence, lawyer, defense attorney, civil rights, corruption, racial tension ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
50%
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24
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
Thessaloniki, Greece, 1948. The American journalist George Washington Polk, who works for CBS, walks into a restaurant. During his meal he discovers that he has already been murdered. A journey through the reflections of time and memory begins. The ...
Style:
historical drama, reflective, bleak, atmospheric, political thriller ...
Plot:
greek civil war, investigative journalism, assassination, journalism, political intrigue, post war, true crime, memory, investigation, character study, biopic, reflection ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
greece
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Story:
Following the showdown with his arch nemesis Ando, Detective Ango Ishikawa takes on a new case with his uncanny ability to communicate with the dead.
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, detective, thrilling, captivating ...
Plot:
supernatural, haunting, ghost, macabre, guilt, good versus evil, moral ambiguity, medium, redemption, investigation, police procedural, revenge ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
tokyo
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
THE BRIGHT DAY weaves a story that has its roots in the complexity of Iran’s draconian laws governing capital punishment. A kindergarten teacher hopes to aid the father of one of her young students, a man accused of manslaughter, by convincing ...
Style:
suspenseful, captivating, thrilling, psychological, emotional ...
Plot:
investigation, social commentary, corruption, death penalty, death sentence, framed for a crime, secret, female protagonist, accused of murder, framed for murder, private investigation, accusation ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
iran, tehran
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary, Romania
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
bleak, grim, historical drama, period piece, tense
Plot:
world war two, holocaust, anti semitism, war correspondent, deportation, indifference, accomplice, police brutality, ethical dilemma, corruption, moral ambiguity, investigation ...
Place:
romania
Similarity:
46%
262
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Colombian girl, who studies law in France, arrives to Sarajevo in order to write a study about the War Crimes Tribunal. Unexpectedly she finds herself in the center of the intimate tragedy of her new friend, a native woman.
Style:
thrilling, psychological, captivating, bleak, emotional ...
Plot:
problem, female protagonist, relationship problems, grief, loss, war crime, european, mature, bosnian war, female friendship, memory, friendship ...
Place:
sarajevo, bosnia herzegovina
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Its 1959. German Public Prosecutor Bauer is convinced he has found the long sought Nazi criminal Adolf Eichmann in Argentina. This tense drama shows his struggle to have him brought to justice against the power jielded by old Nazi functionaries in ...
Style:
serious, historical drama, bleak, tense, period piece ...
Plot:
mossad, post war germany, investigation, justice, cold war, realism, legal battle, biopic, nazi, courtroom, conspiracy, investigative journalism ...
Time:
1950s, 50s
Place:
west germany
Similarity:
43%
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:
historical drama, bleak, political thriller, period piece, melancholic ...
Plot:
world war two, nazi, nazi germany, assassination attempt, biopic, gestapo, sacrifice, courage, resistance, moral ambiguity, investigation, underdog ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century
Place:
germany, munich germany
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42%
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