Movies like Army of Shadows
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Army of Shadows (1969)
29K
Original name: L'Armée des ombres
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
Betrayed by an informant, Philippe Gerbier (Lino Ventura) finds himself trapped in a torturous Nazi prison camp. Though Gerbier escapes to rejoin the Resistance in occupied Marseilles, France, and exacts his revenge on the informant, he must continue a quiet, seemingly endless battle against the Nazis in an atmosphere of tension, paranoia and distrust.
Style:
noir, visually appealing, art house, bleak, captivating, realistic, stylized, political, visual, sincere ...
Plot:
french resistance, world war two, terrorist, espionage, nazi, resistance, spy, wartime, nazism, world war, betrayal, logic, resistance movement, underground, undercover, occupation, secret agent, friendly fire, great war, life is a bitch, gypsy, prisoner, death, soldier, hotel ...
Time:
1940s, year 1969, 20th century, year 1942, year 1943, 40s
Place:
paris france, vichy, lyon, marseille, europe, london, big ben london ...
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Most similar movies to Army of Shadows
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, harsh and gloomy films with plots about war, world war two, wartime, culture clash, runaway, idealism and death mostly in War, Drama and Thriller genres. Some movies like Army of Shadows: The Battle of Algiers (1966), Land and Freedom (1995), Black Book (2006), Female Agents (2008), Au Revoir les Enfants (1987). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy, Algeria
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Tracing the struggle of the Algerian Front de Liberation Nationale to gain freedom from French colonial rule as seen through the eyes of Ali from his start as a petty thief to his rise to prominence in the organisation and capture by the French in ...
Style:
black and white, political, philosophical, art house, cerebral ...
Plot:
revolution, colonialism, protest, torture, military, muslim, french algerian war, politics, terrorism, insurrection, independence, revolutionary ...
Time:
year 1957, 20th century, 50s, year 1954, year 1966 ...
Place:
africa, algeria, middle east, france, north africa ...
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100%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK, France, Italy, Germany, Spain
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
The movie narrates the story of David Carr, an unemployed worker and member of the Communist Party of Great Britain. In 1936 he decides to fight for the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War, an anti-fascist coalition of liberals, communists and ...
Style:
political, sad, hispanic, philosophical, social ...
Plot:
spanish civil war, politics, revolution, anarchist, working class, civil war, communist, trench warfare, anarchy, socialist, dictator, dictatorship ...
Time:
1930s, 90s, 20th century, year 1995, year 1937 ...
Place:
spain, catalonia, barcelona, europe, basque country ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: Netherlands, Germany, UK, Belgium
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
In the Nazi-occupied Netherlands during World War II, a Jewish singer infiltrates the regional Gestapo headquarters for the Dutch resistance.
Style:
erotic, psychological, tense, sexy, dramatic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, espionage, nazi, spy, nazism, resistance, female spy, occupation, gestapo, german soldier, war ...
Time:
1940s, year 1956, 1950s, year 2006, 20th century ...
Place:
netherlands, israel, holland, germany, belgium ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 148 min.
Story:
May 1944, a group of French servicewomen and resistance fighters are enlisted into the British Special Operations Executive commando group under the command of Louise Desfontaines and her brother Pierre. Their mission, to rescue a British army ...
Style:
realistic, serious, suspense, tense, historical drama ...
Plot:
world war two, french resistance, wartime life, female agent, resistance, rescue, betrayal, heroic mission, gestapo, hospital, espionage, military ...
Time:
1940s, year 1945, year 1944, post world war two
Place:
london, france, paris france, europe, england ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France, West Germany, Italy
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A French boarding school run by priests seems to be a haven from World War II until a new student arrives. He becomes the roommate of top student in his class. Rivals at first, the roommates form a bond and share a secret.
Style:
sad, heartbreaking, art house, depressing, reflective ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
nazi, friendship, world war two, nazism, childhood, french resistance, coming of age, holocaust, gestapo, lgbt teen, nazi occupation, anti semitism ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1987, year 1944
Place:
france, paris france, israel, europe, jerusalem ...
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100%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: France, USA
Duration: 173 min.
Story:
The title is Adolf Hitler's question to his chief of staff Alfred Jodl on the eve of the liberation of Paris (August 25): the military governor of Paris, General Dietrich von Choltitz, had been ordered to destroy Paris rather than let it fall ...
Style:
harsh, factual, tense, suspense, emotional ...
Plot:
french resistance, world war two, resistance, holocaust, nazi, ss, moral ambiguity, military, moral dilemma, totalitarianism, rescue, against the odds ...
Time:
1940s, year 1966, year 1944
Place:
france, paris france, europe, germany, warsaw poland
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
"Stalingrad" follows the progress of a German Platoon through the brutal fighting of the Battle of Stalingrad. After having half their number wiped out and after being placed under the command of a sadistic Captain, the Lieutenant of the ...
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, gloomy, epic ...
Plot:
world war two, war, battles, nazism, eastern front, soldier, german soldier, starvation, survival, military life, holocaust, winter ...
Time:
year 1942, year 1943, 1940s, 20th century
Place:
russia, germany, europe, italy, berlin germany ...
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100%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Poetic journey through the shards and shadows of one boy’s war-ravaged youth.
Style:
bleak, black and white, meditative, art house, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
world war two, orphan, coming of age, boy, espionage, childhood, war, child spy, courage, forest, great patriotic war, youth ...
Time:
1940s, year 1962, 20th century, year 1943
Place:
soviet union, ussr, russia, germany, europe ...
Similarity:
100%
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121K
Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 142 min.
Story:
The invasion of a village in Byelorussia by German forces sends young Florya into the forest to join the weary Resistance fighters, against his family's wishes. There he meets a girl, Glasha, who accompanies him back to his village. On ...
Style:
bleak, harsh, thought provoking, rough, brutal ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
world war two, genocide, war crime, against humanity, brutality, holocaust, nazi, atrocity, occupation, children in wartime, massacre, teenage girl ...
Time:
1940s, year 1943, 20th century, year 1985, near future ...
Place:
germany, persia, europe, soviet union, russia ...
Similarity:
100%
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, serious, realistic, visually appealing, sexy ...
Plot:
french resistance, world war two, gestapo, love, french history, resistance movement, nazi occupied france, biopic, resistance, male nudity, nazi, judaism ...
Time:
1940s, year 1997, 20th century, 19th century
Place:
france, lyon, california, england
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: West Germany
Duration: 149 min.
Story:
A German submarine hunts allied ships during the Second World War, but it soon becomes the hunted. The crew tries to survive below the surface, while stretching both the boat and themselves to their limits.
Style:
epic, suspense, atmospheric, realistic, factual ...
Plot:
submarine, world war two, naval battle, navy, military, ocean, war, nazi, survival, sea, courage, ship captain ...
Time:
year 1941, 20th century, 1940s, year 1942, year 1981
Place:
germany, atlantic ocean, mediterranean sea
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK, West Germany
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
It is 1943, and the German army, ravaged and demoralised, are hastily retreating from the Russian front. In the midst of all this madness, conflict brews between the aristocratic yet ultimately pusillanimous Captain Stransky and the courageous ...
Style:
freeze frame, political, cult classic, brutal, perverse ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
world war two, german soldier, eastern front, military, soldier, war, battlefield, german army, anti war, wehrmacht, nazi, blood ...
Time:
1940s, year 1943, 20th century, year 1977
Place:
bolivia, germany, siberia, france, russia ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
During the Algerian war for independence from France, a young Frenchman living in Geneva who belongs to a right-wing terrorist group and a young woman who belongs to a left-wing terrorist group meet and fall in love. Complications ensue when the man ...
Style:
black and white, political, political thriller, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
spy, algerian war, politics, assassin, assassination, fighting the system, identity, revolution, death, hotel, torture, terrorist group ...
Time:
year 1958, 1950s, 50s, 60s
Place:
algeria, switzerland, europe, france, geneva switzerland ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: France
Duration: 132 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, gestapo, nazi, women, world war, passion, anti semitism, love triangle, infidelity, wartime life, actor ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1942, year 1980
Place:
france, paris france, europe, montmartre paris, germany ...
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
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Style:
black and white, tense, bleak, historically accurate, noir ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
world war two, prison, military, brutality, desert, sadism, prison escape, military prison, world war, prison life, great war, wartime ...
Time:
1940s, year 1965, 20th century, 70s
Place:
africa, north africa, libya, germany, sahara
Similarity:
100%
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, bleak, disturbing, factual, harsh ...
Plot:
holocaust, nazi, world war two, concentration camp, redemption, nazi germany, auschwitz, ss, shoah, moral ambiguity, world war, tragedy ...
Time:
1940s, year 1944, 20th century, post world war two
Place:
poland, germany, europe, middle east, budapest ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A veteran sergeant of the World War I leads a squad in World War II, always in the company of the survivor Pvt. Griff, the writer Pvt. Zab, the Sicilian Pvt. Vinci and Pvt. Johnson in Vichy French Africa, Sicily, D-Day at Omaha Beach, Belgium and ...
Style:
bleak, realistic, semi autobiographical, cynical, political ...
Plot:
world war two, military, infantry, war, hospital, soldier, nazi soldier, world war, desert, great war, sniper, sergeant ...
Time:
1940s, year 1943, year 1942, year 1980, 1910s ...
Place:
africa, america, sicily, europe, normandy ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Hungary, France
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
In the horror of 1944 Auschwitz, a prisoner forced to burn the corpses of his own people finds moral survival trying to save from the flames the body of a boy he takes for his son.
Style:
cerebral, compassionate, melancholic, disturbing, philosophical ...
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, genocide, nazi concentration camp, tragedy, nazi, death, prison, shoah, courage, concentration camp, life & death ...
Time:
1940s, year 1944, 90s, year 2015
Place:
poland, germany, eastern europe, california
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
In a small town in Nazi-occupied Slovakia during World War II, decent but timid carpenter Tono is named "Aryan comptroller" of a button store owned by an old Jewish widow, Rozalie. Since the post comes with a salary and standing in the ...
Style:
sincere, atmospheric, emotional, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
world war two, holocaust, store, genocide, nazi, fascist, politics, fascism, rescue, human nature, against humanity, danger ...
Time:
1940s, year 1965, year 1942
Place:
slovakia, israel, eastern europe, czechoslovakia, europe ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Two Soviet partisans leave their starving band to get supplies from a nearby farm. The Germans have reached the farm first, so the pair must go on a journey deep into occupied territory, a voyage that will also take them deep into their souls.
Style:
cerebral, bleak, depressing, contemplative, philosophical ...
Plot:
world war two, partisan, cold weather, execution, betrayal, winter, torture, nazi, war, starvation, collaboration, nazi occupation ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1977, year 1942
Place:
ussr, soviet union, iraq, europe, russia
Similarity:
100%
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:
serious, realistic, rough, disturbing, sincere ...
Plot:
world war two, gestapo, resistance, ss officer, nazi, occupation, poet, danger, hopes, youth, heroes, human spirit ...
Time:
1940s, year 2009, 20th century, year 1942, post world war two
Place:
paris france, france
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: West Germany, France, Poland
Duration: 142 min.
Story:
Oskar is born in Germany in 1924 with an advanced intellect. Repulsed by the hypocrisy of adults and the irresponsibility of society, he refuses to grow older after his third birthday.
Style:
surreal, disturbing, controversial, clever, epic ...
Plot:
world war two, fascism, coming of age, boy, circus, nazi, wartime life, magic realism, cheating wife, extramarital affair, infidelity, beach ...
Time:
1930s, 1940s, 20th century, 1920s, year 1939 ...
Place:
germany, middle east, israel, europe, central europe ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Russia, Kazakhstan
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Based upon a short story by Leo Tolstoy, two Russian soldiers, Sacha and Vania, are ambushed by Muslim rebels in the grandly forbidding Caucasus and taken prisoner. Although complete understanding never fully emerges, their bittersweet ordeal ...
Style:
realistic, rough, suspenseful, serious, emotional ...
Plot:
pow, islam, russian soldier, hostage, drinking, violence, prison, confined, soldier, captivity, poverty, prisoner ...
Time:
year 1996, 90s, 21st century
Place:
russia, caucasus, chechnya, soviet union, asia ...
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
In Nazi occupied Czechoslovakia, a childless couple agree to hide a Jewish friend at great personal risk of discovery and execution.
Style:
surreal, compassionate, lyrical, uplifting, disturbing ...
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, nazi, survival, idealism, couples, nazi occupation, human spirit, self discovery, against humanity, wartime life, dishonesty ...
Time:
1940s, 2000s, 20th century, 1930s, year 1945
Place:
eastern europe, germany, poland, balkan, czech republic ...
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Action, Thriller, War
Country: France, Italy, USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
As the Allied forces approach Paris in August 1944, German Colonel Von Waldheim is desperate to take all of France's greatest paintings to Germany. He manages to secure a train to transport the valuable art works even as the chaos of retreat ...
Style:
black and white, realistic, suspenseful, retro, exciting ...
Plot:
train, world war two, french resistance, saboteur, art, art theft, sabotage, nazi, resistance, military, railway, resistance movement ...
Time:
year 1944, 1940s
Place:
paris france, germany, france, europe, berlin germany ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Ireland, UK, Germany, Italy, Spain, France, Switzerland
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
In 1920s Ireland young doctor Damien O'Donovan prepares to depart for a new job in a London hospital. As he says his goodbyes at a friend's farm, British Black and Tans arrive, and a young man is killed. Damien joins his brother Teddy in ...
Style:
sexy, political, bleak, bloody, period piece ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
rebellion, civil war, ira, politics, independence, resistance, rebel, war, injustice, abuse, occupation, debate ...
Time:
1920s, year 2006, 20th century, post world war one, 2000s ...
Place:
ireland, england, northern ireland, dublin ireland, europe ...
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Fourth-generation Army Col. William McNamara is imprisoned in a brutal German POW camp. Still, as the senior-ranking American officer, he commands his fellow inmates, keeping a sense of honor alive in a place where honor is easy to destroy, all ...
Style:
tense, realistic, harsh, factual, suspense ...
Plot:
world war two, nazi, racism, war, prison, prisoner of war camp, court martial, pow, moral dilemma, prison escape, soldier, propaganda ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 2002, post world war two
Place:
germany, europe, belgium, poland
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Line of Demarcation. is a 1966 film written and directed by Claude Chabrol. Its title in French is La Ligne de démarcation. It is based on upon the memoir Mémoires d'un agent secret de la France libre et La Ligne de démarcation by Gilbert ...
Style:
bleak, anthology, period drama
Plot:
french resistance, world war two, barber, nazi occupation, smuggler, doctor, resistance movement, occupation, occupied france, sacrifice, betrayal, escape ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
france
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy, France, Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Although liberated from Auschwitz on January 27, 1945, Levi did not reach Turin until October 19 of that year. After spending some time in a Soviet camp for former concentration camp inmates, he embarked on an arduous journey home in the company of ...
Style:
sincere, historical drama, captivating, uplifting, gloomy ...
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, concentration camp, children, holocaust survivor, prisoner, writers, biopic, political intrigue, world war, judaism, shoah ...
Time:
year 1997, 1940s, 20th century, post world war two, year 1945
Place:
italy, russia, europe, turin italy, venice
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Algeria, France, Morocco, Belgium
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
During WWII, four North African men enlist in the French army to liberate that country from Nazi oppression, and to fight French discrimination.
Style:
emotional, realistic, rough, serious, political ...
Plot:
battles, war, world war two, politics, brutality, justice, military, muslim, survival, racism, self esteem, ethnic conflict ...
Time:
year 1944, 50s, 20th century, 1940s, year 2006 ...
Place:
africa, algeria, morocco, italy, europe ...
Similarity:
19%
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