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A Rose in Winter (2018)
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
The true story of Edith Stein, a German Jewish philosopher and feminist who converted to Christianity and became a nun, and died in Auschwitz to became Saint and Martyr, the Patron of Europe with the name Saint Theresa Benedicta of the Cross.
Style:
psychological, captivating, disturbing, bleak, poignant, religious drama, inspirational, philosophical, thought provoking, period drama
Plot:
holocaust, women's rights, world war two, biopic, auschwitz, nazi germany, tragedy, nazism, oppression, european history, martyrdom, persecution, life is a bitch, society, social problems, female protagonist, lifestyle, civil rights, civil rights movement, jewish woman, injustice, sacrifice, catholicism, religious faith, spiritual journey ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
germany
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Most similar movies to A Rose in Winter
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, psychological, disturbing and emotional films with plots about biopic, life is a bitch, world war two, female protagonist, society, social problems and sacrifice mostly in Drama, Thriller and War genres. Some movies like A Rose in Winter: My Best Friend Anne Frank (2021), The Angel of Auschwitz (2019), My Daughter, Anne Frank (2015), The Day the Clown Cried (1972), Mary, Mother of the Son of God (2003). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Based on the real-life friendship between Anne Frank and Hannah Goslar, from Nazi-occupied Amsterdam to their harrowing reunion in a concentration camp.
Style:
disturbing, captivating, psychological, entertaining
Plot:
world war two, memories, nazi occupation, friend, best friend, life is a bitch, childhood memory, friendship, occupation, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, women, friends ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
netherlands
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
This is a tale of how the angel of life was confronted by the angel of death. Set in Auschwitz Birkenau, 1944.
Style:
bleak, captivating, suspense, disturbing, psychological ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
world war two, concentration camp, midwife, auschwitz, war criminal, atrocity, holocaust, life is a bitch, abortionist, jew persecution, wartime, female protagonist ...
Time:
1940s
Similarity:
84%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The name Anne Frank stands for courage and confidence in hopeless times. But also for the cheeky and unsparing view of an adolescent on her family and her environment. Millions of people around the world know her diary, she wrote it while hiding ...
Style:
poignant, bleak, emotional, period piece, captivating ...
Plot:
world war two, jewish history, world war, jewish girl, courage, hiding, holocaust, anti semitism, diary, tragedy, memories, biopic ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
amsterdam
Similarity:
77%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Based on a true story about an extraordinary woman, who after a traumatizing rape, refuses to remain a victim. Wendy Crewson stars as Jane Doe (as she must legally be called), a woman who discovers she was the fifth victim of a serial rapist ...
Style:
realistic, thrilling, captivating, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot:
serial rapist, female protagonist, rape victim, rape, rapist, fight for justice, social injustice, attempted rape, fighting the system, life is a bitch, social problems, injustice ...
Place:
toronto ontario canada, canada
Similarity:
76%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A circus clown is imprisoned by the Nazis and goes with Jewish children to their deaths.
Style:
controversial, emotional, tragic ending, grim, disturbing ...
Plot:
clown, holocaust, nazi, auschwitz, concentration camp, oppression, innocence lost, accomplice, haunting, tragedy, guilt, prison ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
europe
Similarity:
74%
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Maria Auxiliadora is a 24 year-old woman very poor, that she lives Joana, her 7 year-old daughter close to. Needing go look for the result of Joana's exam in the hospital, Maria asks the priest of the local church that takes care of her to ...
Style:
religious drama, sincere, disturbing, captivating, psychological ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
jesus, faith, female protagonist, priest, motherhood, christianity, religious faith, church, mother child relationship, bible, mother and daughter, sick child ...
Similarity:
70%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Switzerland, Austria
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Benjamin Levi (Bruno Cathomas) is a Bavarian cattle dealer traveling to pre-World War II Germany on his annual trip to a remote farming village. Levi hopes to do some business and, more importantly, win the hand of the lovely Lisbeth (Caroline ...
Style:
thought provoking, biting, bleak, emotional, disturbing ...
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, society, survival, life is a bitch, injustice, village life, social differences, isolation, wartime life, village, countryside ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
germany, europe
Similarity:
69%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The story about Mirella Antonione Casale who got inspired by her handicapped daughter to lead the fight for including all pupils in public schools in Italy.
Style:
inspirational, psychological, captivating, disturbing, emotional ...
Plot:
school, fighting the system, mother daughter relationship, disabled child, handicapped, parents and children, disability, social problems, female protagonist, schoolgirl, social issues, civil rights movement ...
Place:
italy
Similarity:
66%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland, UK, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
On the eve of the Second World War, two of the greatest minds of the twentieth century, C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud converge for their own personal battle over the existence of God. The film interweaves the lives of Freud and Lewis, past, present, ...
Style:
philosophical, thought provoking, psychological, captivating, thrilling ...
Plot:
belief in god, philosophy, existentialism, psychology, psychoanalysis, social problems, social issues, religion, intimate, doubt, character study, slow burn ...
Time:
1930s, 1940s
Place:
vienna, london
Similarity:
66%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The beautiful daughter of the Roman governor during a time of fierce Christian persecution is a nonbeliver. But when a slave raised alongside her like a sister is condemned to death for her Christian faith, she valiantly attempts to save her.
Style:
historical drama, psychological, captivating, thrilling, dramatic ...
Plot:
father daughter relationship, saint, christianity, female protagonist, religious, lifestyle, relationships, religious faith, changing lives, relationship problems, faith, family disapproval ...
Similarity:
59%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
An African country teeters on the edge of civil war. A society prepares to drive out its colonial present and claim an independent future. Racial tensions boil over. Tshembe, returned home from England for his father’s funeral, finds himself in ...
Style:
captivating, thrilling, psychological, thought provoking, tense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
colonialism, african, civil war, racial injustice, interracial relations, racial tension, life is a bitch, social problems, post colonialism, british colonialism, colony, choice ...
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
The story of missionary Graham Staines who was martyred in India in 1999. “The Least of These” shares the story leading up to the murders of the Australian Christian missionary and his sons, Philip, 10, and Timothy, 6, who were helping a ...
Style:
christian film, serious, suspense, disturbing, psychological ...
Plot:
investigation, journalist, forgiveness, religious persecution, moral dilemma, faith, missionary, investigative journalism, christian, investigative reporter, problem, private investigation ...
Time:
90s
Place:
india
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: Spain, UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
January 1942, in Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II. Thousands of Jews have been confined to the Warsaw ghetto for more than a year. Outside, life goes on; inside, they struggle to survive another day. Still, on a cold winter night, a group of ...
Style:
historical drama, poignant, disturbing, captivating, thought provoking ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
world war two, holocaust, theatre group, jew persecution, jewish culture, nazi occupied poland, confined, survival, tragedy, persecution, social problems, life is a bitch ...
Place:
poland, iberian peninsula
Similarity:
54%
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:
war crime, courtroom, rape victim, trial, justice, survivor, women's rights, legal action, life is a bitch, lawsuit, female victim, legal investigation ...
Time:
90s
Place:
busan
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Depiction of the life of St. Anthony, beginning with his initial calling to the priesthood as a young Portugese nobleman, and following him as he becomes a Franciscan monk and preaches across Africa and Europe.
Style:
disturbing, thought provoking, captivating, psychological, period piece ...
Plot:
saint, catholic, religious, faith, religion, franciscan, priest, medieval, catholicism, biopic, loyalty, christianity ...
Time:
13th century
Place:
italy, portugal, europe, africa
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Nazi occupied Poland, during the World War II. Hans, a former brilliant student, has become an SS officer stationed at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. When he is commissioned by his superior officer to build an efficient gas chamber, ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, captivating, historical drama, bleak ...
Plot:
world war two, holocaust, ss officer, nazi, auschwitz, nazi officer, nazism, nazi germany, genocide, war crime, anti semitism, wartime ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
poland, germany
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 192 min.
Story:
The life of Saint Francis, a saint who was born rich, in the medieval Tuscany, and abandoned all his goods to live closer to the population and is nowadays remembered as the saint protector of Italy.
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, contemplative, educational ...
Plot:
saint, medieval, faith, franciscan, loyalty, spiritual journey, religious, biopic, catholicism, lifestyle, rich, religious faith ...
Time:
13th century
Place:
tuscany, italy
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
'Give Them Wings' is based on the true story of severely disabled football fan Paul Hodgson.
Style:
inspirational, emotional, psychological, captivating, disturbing ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
disability, man in a wheelchair, physical disability, disabled person, biopic, empathy, moving, life is a bitch, wheelchair bound, handicapped, lifestyle, direction and purpose ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
47%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A Canadian doctor finds her sympathies sorely tested while working in the conflict ravaged Palestinian territories.
Style:
thought provoking, realistic, disturbing, emotional, serious ...
Plot:
israeli palestinian conflict, doctors and patients, political unrest, injustice, society, wartime life, friendship, life is a bitch, doctor, terrorism, tragedy, israeli ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
palestine, middle east, israel, palestinian authority, jerusalem
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
France, beginning of World War II. Hélène Studler is a nun who has been dedicated to the care of orphans and the abandoned people. But the times have changed, the people are living a whole revolt, the Germansoldiers have entered their city and the ...
Style:
captivating, disturbing, psychological, suspense
Plot:
french resistance, convent, resistance, nazi officer, nun, wartime, occupation, wartime life, soldier, female protagonist, world war two, military life ...
Place:
france
Similarity:
46%
475
Genre: Drama
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
Tells the story of a Communist Party's early history during the turbulent era, examining the remarkable Chinese revolutionary leaders' zeal and contrition for the ascension of the Chinese people.
Style:
political, thought provoking, captivating, disturbing, patriotic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
chinese history, communist party, communism, communist propaganda, revolutionary, political activism, communist, society, politics, political intrigue, social issues, political unrest ...
Place:
china
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
Sudhi, a clerk in a school, struggles in his life as he is suffering from dysarthria. His life takes a new turn after meeting Kalyani, a speech therapist.
Style:
inspirational, captivating, thought provoking, disturbing, psychological ...
Plot:
stuttering, speech impediment, stutterer, society, lifestyle, social problems, personal growth, character study, self discovery, redemption, healing, coming of age ...
Place:
india
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
The story of Mafalda is like the one of Cinderella, just the other way round. The dramatic real story of a Italian princess, born and raised in the comforts of a golden court, who will be forced by war to share the fate of ordinary people in a ...
Style:
thrilling, suspenseful, psychological, captivating, period piece ...
Plot:
fascism, concentration camp, italian history, princess, world war two, nazism, courage, imprisonment, oppression, persecution, biopic, injustice ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
germany, italy, europe
Similarity:
44%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Malta, Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Known as Saul the Butcher, the stoning of Stephen was said to have shattered Saul's faith in the Temple and its denial of Christ as the Messiah. His conversion to Christianity and baptism as Paul changed the history of the world.
Style:
biblical, disturbing, psychological, captivating, thought provoking ...
Plot:
christianity, faith, bible, religious, religious conversion, religious fundamentalism, bible story, changing lives, religion, religious intolerance, religious faith, change of heart ...
Place:
jerusalem
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Rosario Castellanos is an introverted university student who doesn't seem to belong to her time. In the early 1950s in Mexico City, she is fighting to have voice heard in a society run by men. She is about to become one of the biggest female ...
Style:
captivating, psychological, art film, hispanic, period drama
Plot:
biopic, social relations, society, relationships, lifestyle change, life is a bitch, male female relationship, female protagonist, social problems, family relations, changing lives, writer's life ...
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Heart-wrenching story of a woman who takes another's identity to survive the most horrible time of the 20th Century. Miriam is the triumphant story of one woman's survival and success, which takes place in Lithuania over a period of forty ...
Style:
captivating, disturbing, suspenseful, suspense
Plot:
survival, world war two, survivor, holocaust, struggle for survival, new identity, life is a bitch, female protagonist, soldier, prison, fight, suffering ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
lithuania
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
The film is divided into two segments, both set in Europe during WWII.
Style:
emotional, historical drama, tension, inspirational, bleak ...
Plot:
persecution, courage, holocaust, bravery, rescue, world war two, sacrifice, nazi occupation, resistance, european, occupation, world war ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
france, poland
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Doris soon was out of the Nazi's hands and met up with her family.
Style:
captivating, thought provoking, uplifting, tense, emotional ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
world war two, holocaust, aftermath, world war, anti semitism, life is a bitch, confined, survival, danger, war, society, escapades ...
Place:
denmark, europe
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Fifteen-year-old Heidi Schreck earned her college tuition by winning Constitutional debate competitions across the United States. In this hilarious, hopeful, and achingly human show, Heidi resurrects her teenage self in order to trace the profound ...
Style:
political, thought provoking, captivating, thrilling, heartfelt ...
Plot:
american history, feminism, civil rights movement, equality, storytelling, autobiography, stage play, female protagonist, politics, social issues, social problems, political activism ...
Time:
20th century, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama
Country: Cameroon
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
A 12-year old girl - Ekah (Faith Fidel) is inspired by the story of the youngest Noble Peace Prize Winner - Malala Yousafzai's. She is determined to go to school in a village of fisherman where the education of a girl child is considered to be ...
Style:
disturbing, captivating, psychological, inspirational
Plot:
social problems, women's rights, father daughter relationship, father daughter conflict, social issues, family problems, society, teenage life, family secret, small village, social differences, secret ...
Similarity:
42%
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