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Before It Ends (2023)
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Original name: Når befrielsen kommer
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Denmark
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
When a folk high school is turned into an internment camp for German refugees, the headmaster couple Jakob and Lis and their children are thrust into an impossible situation. Should the family help the refugees - or stand firm in the Danish resistance against the Germans?
Style:
psychological, serious, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, tense, bleak, period piece, historical drama, emotional ...
Plot:
liberation, refugee camp, occupation, refugee, resistance, moral dilemma, war, wartime, post war, wartime life, prisoner of war camp, world war, great war, survival, fear, mature, concentration camp, conscience, family drama, compassion, resistance movement, school, betrayal, courage, war crime ...
Time:
year 1945, 1940s
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out bleak, period piece, tense and captivating films with plots about world war two, survival, war, resistance, occupation, wartime and betrayal mostly in War, Drama and History genres. Some movies like Before It Ends: Out of the Darkness (2022), The Quality of Mercy (1994), Liten Ida (1981), The Garden of Redemption (1997), The Boys from St. Petri (1991). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Country: Denmark
Duration: 152 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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Duration: 105 min.
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama, War
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Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Time:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Duration: 111 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Duration: 130 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Country: Poland
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Country: Denmark
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Country: Russia
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
1940s
Place:
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Similarity:
54%
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Country: Russia
Duration: 88 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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Story:
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Duration: 111 min.
Story:
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Audience:
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Place:
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Duration: 148 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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Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Story:
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Audience:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Duration: 51 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, War
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Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Style:
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