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Goodbye, Children (1987)
 8.0
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Goodbye, Children (1987)
Original name: Au revoir les enfants
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, christian film, depressing, art house, sentimental, touching, emotional, realistic, sincere ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: nazi, world war two, nazism, french resistance, friendship, childhood, coming of age, schoolboy, children, gestapo, school, teacher, resistance, holocaust, german occupation, nazi occupation, adolescence, boy, child, wartime life, european, children in wartime, wartime, betrayal, religion ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1987, 40s
Place: france, israel, paris france, vichy, europe, jerusalem, germany ...
Keyword: jewish, german, french, dutch, watching a movie, russian, american, latin, reading, mass, operation

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, emotional and sincere films with plots about world war two, wartime life, death, nazi, war, life is a bitch and holocaust mostly in Drama, War and Thriller genres. Some movies like Goodbye, Children: Before the Fall (2004), Europa Europa (1990), The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2008), Black Book (2006), The Army of Shadows (1969). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Before the Fall (2004)
Genre: Drama, Sport, Thriller, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story: In 1942, Friedrich Weimer's boxing skills get him an appointment to a National Political Academy (NaPolA) – high schools that produce Nazi elite. Over his father's objections, Friedrich enrolls. During his year in seventh ...
Style: melancholic, harsh, disturbing, emotional, sentimental ...
Plot: boxing, nazi, friendship, nazi germany, boarding school, anti semitism, world war two, pow, youth, bullying, military school, against humanity ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1942
Place: germany, europe, berlin germany, cape town south africa, london ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.6
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Europa Europa (1990)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Germany, France, Poland
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A Jewish boy separated from his family in the early days of WWII poses as a German orphan and is taken into the heart of the Nazi world as a 'war hero' and eventually becomes a Hitler Youth. Although improbabilities and happenstance are ...
Style: political, realistic, mind bending, psychedelic, surreal ...
Audience: date night
Plot: nazi, holocaust, hitler youth, circumcision, war, coming of age, genocide, childhood, survival, wartime, judaism, world war two ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, 90s, year 1990, 1930s
Place: germany, poland, berlin germany, eastern europe, latvia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2008)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: When his family moves from their home in Berlin to a strange new house in Poland, young Bruno befriends Shmuel, a boy who lives on the other side of the fence where everyone seems to be wearing striped pajamas. Unaware of Shmuel's fate as a ...
Style: emotional, touching, sad, heartbreaking, tear jerker ...
Audience: kids, teens, family outing, family friendly, teen drama ...
Plot: world war two, holocaust, concentration camp, war, children, childhood, nazi, friendship, nazism, gas chamber, boy, morality ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, ancient times, year 2008
Place: germany, poland, europe, berlin germany, switzerland
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.7
 80K
Black Book (2006)
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: tense, erotic, psychological, realistic, dramatic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: world war two, holocaust, espionage, spy, nazism, nazi, war, revenge, resistance, occupation, gestapo, ss ...
Time: 1940s, 1950s, year 2006, 20th century, y2k ...
Place: netherlands, holland, germany, israel, amsterdam ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Army of Shadows (1969)
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 ...
Style: noir, visually appealing, art house, captivating, stylized ...
Plot: french resistance, world war two, espionage, terrorist, nazi, resistance, spy, wartime, world war, betrayal, nazism, secret agent ...
Time: 1940s, year 1969, 20th century, year 1943, year 1942
Place: paris france, vichy, marseille, lyon, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Battle of Algiers (1966)
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: political, black and white, art house, realistic, bleak ...
Plot: revolution, freedom, colonialism, protest, torture, military, muslim, terrorism, french algerian war, revolutionary, resistance, insurrection ...
Time: year 1957, 20th century, 50s, year 1966, year 1954 ...
Place: algeria, africa, middle east, france, maghreb ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.5
 142K
The Book Thief (2013)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story: While subjected to the horrors of WWII Germany, young Liesel finds solace by stealing books and sharing them with others. Under the stairs in her home, a Jewish refuge is being sheltered by her adoptive parents.
Style: sentimental, touching, emotional, serious, captivating ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, family outing, teens, adult
Plot: world war two, holocaust, nazi, childhood, adoption, war, nazi germany, human spirit, life is a bitch, against humanity, teenage girl, youth ...
Time: 1940s, year 2013, ancient times, 2010s, 20th century ...
Place: germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Ivan's Childhood (1962)
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, disturbing, meditative, black and white, art house ...
Audience: kids, teens
Plot: orphan, world war two, war, courage, boy, youth, great patriotic war, coming of age, childhood, children in wartime, adolescence, death ...
Time: 1940s, year 1962, 20th century, year 1943
Place: russia, soviet union, ussr, europe, berlin germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 7.9
 437K
Jojo Rabbit (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: Czech Republic, New Zealand, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A World War II satire that follows a lonely German boy whose world view is turned upside down when he discovers his single mother is hiding a young Jewish girl in their attic. Aided only by his idiotic imaginary friend, Adolf Hitler, Jojo must ...
Style: sad, dark comedy, black comedy, funny, psychological ...
Audience: kids, teens, family friendly, adult
Plot: world war two, nazi, boy, satire, nazi germany, jewish girl, nazism, first love, hitler, violence, coming of age, hitler youth ...
Time: 1940s, year 1945, 2010s, year 2019, year 1944
Place: germany, los angeles, central europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Edges of the Lord (2001)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA, Poland
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A 12-year-old Jewish boy hides with a family of Catholic peasant farmers to escape the Nazis.
Style: touching, sentimental, emotional, realistic, contemplative ...
Audience: date night, family outing
Plot: holocaust, world war two, wartime life, catholic, nazi, coming of age, human spirit, survival, hidden identity, fish out of water, anti semitism, lifesaver ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: poland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 ...
Audience: date night
Plot: gay, holocaust, gay relationship, gay couple, gay love, world war two, nazi, lgbtqi, betrayal, lgbt, lgbtq, traitor ...
Time: 1940s
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Lacombe, Lucien (1974)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 138 min.
Story: In 1944 Lucien Lacombe, a young peasant in the Lot region is refused permission to join the French Resistance. Instead, the opposing "French Gestapo" obtain from him information about an underground leader and recruit him into their ...
Style: anthology, art house, postmodern, visual, controversial ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: world war two, french resistance, occupation, collaborator, children in wartime, gestapo, nazi occupation, resistance, nazi, wartime life, resistance movement, world war ...
Time: year 1944, 1940s, year 1974, 20th century
Place: france, vichy, israel, europe, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Mother of Mine (2005)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Finland, Sweden
Duration: 111 min.
Story: 1943: Nine-year-old Eero whose father is killed during the war is brought to Sweden to foster parents to his protection like thousands of other Finnish children. Eero feels lost, particularly as his foster mother Signe behaves very unfriendly. She ...
Style: emotional, touching, melancholic, bleak, realistic ...
Plot: world war two, coming of age, secrets, children, boy, loneliness, wartime, life is a bitch, family relations, wartime life, adoption, human spirit ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Empire of the Sun (1987)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 153 min.
Story: Jamie Graham, a privileged English boy, is living in Shanghai when the Japanese invade and force all foreigners into prison camps. Jamie is captured with an American sailor named Basie, who looks out for him while they are in the camp together. Even ...
Style: sad, emotional, heartbreaking, period piece, realistic ...
Audience: family friendly, family outing, teens, teen drama
Plot: world war two, child protagonist, coming of age, childhood, pow, captivity, japanese army, peasant, survival, child, young heroes, world war ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1987, year 1945
Place: china, japan, asia, indochina, hong kong ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 7.0
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Fateless (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Hungary, Germany, UK, Israel, France, USA
Duration: 140 min.
Story: An Hungarian youth comes of age at Buchenwald during World War II. György Köves is 14, the son of a merchant who's sent to a forced labor camp. After his father's departure, György gets a job at a brickyard; his bus is stopped and its ...
Style: sincere, emotional, serious, disturbing, gloomy ...
Audience: teens, date night, teen drama
Plot: holocaust, concentration camp, world war two, nazi, survival, youth, life is a bitch, orthodox jew, confined, estrangement, world war, danger ...
Time: 1940s, year 2005
Place: hungary, eastern europe, germany, europe, slovakia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
The Ninth Day (2004)
Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: Germany, Luxembourg, Czech Republic
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A drama loosely based on Jean Bernard's Nazi-era prison diary.
Style: serious, emotional, sincere, uplifting, psychological ...
Plot: holocaust, world war two, nazi, traitor, concentration camp, clergy, heroes, soldier, nazi occupation, human spirit, introspection, hopes ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, year 2004
Place: germany, france, berlin germany, switzerland, belgium ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 6.6
 2K
The Truce (1997)
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, realistic, serious, gloomy ...
Plot: holocaust, world war two, concentration camp, children, prisoner, shoah, political intrigue, world war, biopic, writers, judaism, refugee ...
Time: year 1997, 1940s, 20th century, post world war two, year 1945
Place: italy, russia, europe, turin italy, venice
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 7.5
 26K
The Tin Drum (1979)
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, controversial, disturbing, art house, harsh ...
Plot: world war two, fascism, coming of age, nazi, circus, boy, wartime life, magic realism, life is a bitch, political unrest, beach, against humanity ...
Time: 1930s, 1940s, 20th century, 1920s, year 1979 ...
Place: germany, middle east, israel, europe, central europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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 10K
Butterfly (1999)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Spain
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The film centres on Moncho and his coming-of-age experience in Galicia in 1936. Moncho develops a close relationship with his teacher Don Gregorio who introduces the boy to different things in the world. While the story centres on Moncho's ...
Style: sentimental, touching, realistic, compassionate, political ...
Audience: teens
Plot: spanish civil war, coming of age, friendship, civil war, children, teacher, fascism, childhood, depression, anarchist, family relations, parents and children ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, 90s, year 1999
Place: spain, iberian peninsula, barcelona, europe, galicia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
All My Loved Ones (1999)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Told from the perspective of man reflecting on his childhood in Prauge in the early years of World War 2 and the eventual destruction of his family as the Nazis rise to power. The storyline focuses heavily on Jewish-Czech Silberstein family members. ...
Style: contemplative, captivating, touching, emotional, serious ...
Plot: world war two, coming of age, hopes, life is a bitch, escapades, society, life turned upside down, election, youth, judaism, circus, starvation ...
Time: 80s, 1940s, 1930s, 20th century
Place: slovakia, europe, czech republic, central europe, palestine ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 7.0
 747
Red Cherry (1995)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: China
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Based on a true story, this horrifying tale follows two orphaned friends as they struggle to survive during World War II.
Style: serious, touching, bleak, mesmerizing, saga ...
Plot: world war two, monastery, tattoo, orphan, military, innocence lost, life is a bitch, youth, war, society, anti war, boarding school life ...
Time: 1940s, year 1941
Place: russia, china, moscow russia, soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Life Is Beautiful (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A touching story of an Italian book seller of Jewish ancestry who lives in his own little fairy tale. His creative and happy life would come to an abrupt halt when his entire family is deported to a concentration camp during World War II. While ...
Style: touching, inspirational, emotional, sentimental, tragicomedy ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, kids, family friendly, adult
Plot: holocaust, world war two, concentration camp, nazi, human spirit, life & death, life philosophy, self sacrifice, nazism, fascism, war, courage ...
Time: 1940s, year 1997, 20th century, 90s, 1930s ...
Place: italy, europe, tuscany
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 8.4
 95K
Come and See (1985)
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, disturbing, rough, thought provoking, political ...
Audience: adult
Plot: world war two, genocide, war crime, against humanity, brutality, holocaust, atrocity, occupation, anti war, nazi, war, military ...
Time: 1940s, year 1943, 20th century, year 1985, near future
Place: germany, ussr, persia, europe, russia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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 7.3
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In Darkness (2011)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Poland, Germany, Canada
Duration: 145 min.
Story: A dramatization of one man's rescue of Jewish refugees in the Nazi-occupied Polish city of Lvov. In Darkness tells the true story of Leopold Soha who risks his own life to save a dozen people from certain death. Initially only interested in his ...
Style: harsh, disturbing, uplifting, sincere, social ...
Plot: holocaust, nazi, world war two, atrocity, survival, refugee, genocide, judaism, world war, human spirit, sewer, mistrust ...
Time: 1940s, 2010s, 20th century, 2000s, year 2008 ...
Place: poland, germany, eastern europe, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 6.6
 169
David (1979)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: West Germany
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Although members of the Hitler Youth chant anti-Semitic paroles in front of his house during the Purim festival, Rabbi Singer is still profoundly convinced that Germany will stay a safe country for him, his family, and his fellow believers. But ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, emotional, rough ...
Plot: holocaust, world war two, nazi, chess, boy, family relations, rabbi, survival, anti semitism, hitler youth, against humanity, youth ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, 1940s
Place: germany, europe, black sea, vienna, new york ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
The Great Water (2004)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Czech Republic, USA, Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story: An ailing communist reflects on a young boy childhood in Stalinist Yugoslavia.
Style: atmospheric, serious, realistic, touching, contemplative
Plot: youth, orphan, friendship, prison, betrayal, coming of age, haunted by the past, idealism, soldier, homecoming, racism, anti semitism ...
Time: 1940s, year 1945, post world war two
Place: former yugoslavia, macedonia, europe, soviet union, serbia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 7.3
 24K
Little Boy (2015)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: An eight-year-old boy is willing to do whatever it takes to end World War II so he can bring his father home. The story reveals the indescribable love a father has for his little boy and the love a son has for his father.
Style: sentimental, emotional, touching, sad, sweet ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: world war two, faith, spirituality, wartime life, childhood, wartime, coming of age, racial discrimination, christian, survival, boy, courage ...
Time: year 2015, 1940s, 20th century
Place: japan, germany, usa, hiroshima japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 7.2
 15K
Amen. (2002)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, War
Country: France, Germany, Romania
Duration: 132 min.
Story: The film "Amen." examines the links between the Vatican and Nazi Germany. The central character is Kurt Gerstein, a member of the Institute for Hygiene of the Waffen-SS who is horrified by what he sees in the death camps. Moreover, he is ...
Style: political, thought provoking, disturbing, sincere, bleak ...
Plot: holocaust, genocide, world war two, concentration camp, pope, politics, christian, conscience, ss, nazi, war, priest ...
Time: 1940s, year 2002, 1930s, 20th century
Place: germany, poland, italy, czechoslovakia, austria ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 7.0
 9K
The Round Up (2010)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: France, Germany, Hungary
Duration: 115 min.
Story: 1942. Joseph is eleven. And this June morning, he must go to school, a yellow star sown on his chest. He receives the support of a goods dealer. The mockery of a baker. Between kindness and contempt, Jo, his Jewish friends, their families, learn of ...
Style: emotional, disturbing, thought provoking, bleak, realistic ...
Plot: holocaust, concentration camp, nazism, german occupation, holocaust survivor, world war two, nazi, world war, against humanity, injustice, genocide, nazi concentration camp ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, year 2009, post world war two, year 1942
Place: france, vichy, paris france, middle east, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 7.5
 38K
Stalingrad (1993)
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, suspenseful, gloomy, rough ...
Plot: world war two, war, battles, nazism, soldier, eastern front, military, holocaust, starvation, survival, military life, winter ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1942, year 1943
Place: russia, germany, europe, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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