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White Courage (2024)
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White Courage (2024)
Original name: Biała odwaga
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 115 min.
Story: The film tells the story of two Highlander brothers – Maciek and Andrzej. After the death of their father, which Andrzej contributed to, and the loss of his beloved Bronka, Andrzej leaves the family home. On his way, he meets the mysterious Wolfram, an anthropologist and climber. He shares with him his mountaineering technique and knowledge about the Prague origins of the highlanders. Andrzej returns to Zakopane, war breaks out. To protect the Highlanders from wartime destruction, he wants to persuade them to cooperate with the Germans. Andrzej and Maciek are standing on opposite sides of the barricade. The brothers' confrontation is bloody and painful.
Style: psychological, captivating, thrilling, intense, tension, bleak, emotional, dark, art house, period drama
Plot: world war two, brothers, conflict, family conflict, brotherhood, anthropologist, collaboration, war, dysfunctional family, brother, brother brother relationship, feud, family feud, brother brother conflict, mountain, betrayal, tragedy, occupation, grief, loss, moral dilemma, guilt, revenge, resistance, tradition ...
Time: 1940s
Place: poland, eastern europe

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out bleak, historical drama, period piece and tension films with plots about world war two, survival, betrayal, occupation, resistance, sacrifice and loss mostly in Drama, War and Romance genres. Some movies like White Courage: The First Day of Freedom (1964), The roundup (1965), Birth Certificate (1961), Chosen (2016), Berlin kaputt (1981). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
The First Day of Freedom (1964)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Freed Polish soldiers are trapped in a small town in Germany during the last days of World War II. After a doctor's daughter is raped by a concentration camp worker, the Poles allow her and her father to stay in the house that is their ...
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Plot: world war two, post war, trauma, violence, moral dilemma, pow, moral ambiguity, mistrust, conflict, revenge, survival, occupation ...
Place: germany
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The roundup (1965)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Greece
Duration: 74 min.
Story: One of filmmaker and expatriate writer Adonis Kyrou's best-known quotes translates roughly as "I urge you: Learn to look at 'bad' films, they are so often sublime." The same could be said of Kyrou's own directorial work ...
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Plot: resistance, world war two, occupation, traitor, nazi, betrayal, moral dilemma, black market, survival, underground movement, collaboration, guilt ...
Time: 1940s
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Birth Certificate (1961)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 99 min.
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Style: tension, poignant, grim, bleak, black and white ...
Plot: world war two, children, orphanage, brutality, fear, hiding, occupation, concentration camp, soldier, trauma, loss, realism ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: poland, europe, central europe
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Chosen (2016)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
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Style: bleak, tension, suspense, period drama
Plot: world war two, nazi, european, occupation, courage, determination, heroism, sacrifice, loss, resistance, ethical dilemma, ruthlessness ...
Time: 1940s
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 85 min.
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Plot: world war two, partisan, women, character study, conflict, resistance, survival, loss, moral ambiguity, intimate, fate, urban ...
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Duration: 103 min.
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Style: bleak, tension, existential, art house, period drama
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Time: 1940s
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Denmark
Duration: 152 min.
Story: This Danish movie "Out of The Darkness" ( in Danish 'De Forbandede år 2' ) is a continuation of the popular WW II drama "Into The Darkness" ( in Danish 'De forbandede år' ) and it portraits the Danish ...
Style: suspenseful, dramatic, captivating, serious, historical drama ...
Plot: world war two, occupation, german occupation, resistance, freedom fighter, world war, wartime, nazism, war, fight, nazi soldier, nazi ...
Time: 1940s
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Duration: 100 min.
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Plot: liberation, refugee camp, resistance, refugee, moral dilemma, occupation, world war, great war, wartime, prisoner of war camp, wartime life, war ...
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Holy Week (1995)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Poland, Germany, France
Duration: 97 min.
Story: During the Nazi era, a Jewish woman on the run takes a trolley which passes near the Warsaw ghetto, where the uprising battle is taking place, and some passengers are struck by stray bullets. They take temporary refuge in an empty building, and ...
Style: tension, period piece, bleak, historical drama, atmospheric ...
Plot: world war two, holocaust, nazi occupation, suspicion, hiding, anti semitism, survival, fear, neighbor, moral ambiguity, memory, accomplice ...
Time: 1940s
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Uomini e no (1980)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story: In Milan, in the winter of 1944, the ruthless Cane Nero leads the fascists against the partisans. Enne 2, one of the leading figures of the C.N.L., meets Berta, whom he loved three years ago, but Berta refuses to leave her husband for him. Enne 2 is ...
Style: historical drama, serious, tension, bleak, atmospheric ...
Plot: world war two, fascism, political conflict, occupation, persecution, moral ambiguity, oppression, betrayal, fear, violence, sacrifice, pursuit ...
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The White Bird Marked with Black (1971)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Colourful 'optimistic tragedy' of a poor family in Ukraine, living in the Carpathian mountains near the Romanian border, during the Second World War. This epic, which won the grand prize at the Moscow Film Festival in 1971, chronicles a ...
Style: historical drama, emotional, bleak, period piece, melancholic ...
Plot: world war two, survival, tragedy, family drama, poverty, occupation, family bonds, political conflict, loss, identity, loss of innocence, nationalism ...
Time: 1940s
Place: ukraine, soviet union, romania, poland, ussr
Similarity:
62%
The Reconciliation (2017)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 87 min.
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Style: captivating, disturbing, suspense
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Glory Sky (1962)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Greece
Duration: 87 min.
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Style: period piece, black and white, grim, bleak, psychological ...
Plot: world war two, retreat, sacrifice, loss, tragedy, survival, desperation, battlefield, wounded, trauma, anti war, realism ...
Time: 1940s
Place: greece
Similarity:
58%
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Genre: Drama, War
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Style: historical drama, bleak, period piece, grim, intense ...
Plot: world war two, biopic, national identity, historical epic, university student, political intrigue, realism, occupation, fascism, tragedy, moral ambiguity, sacrifice ...
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Time: 1940s
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Similarity:
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Hunting the Gauletier (2012)
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Duration: 50 min.
TV show
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Audience: boys' night
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Time: 1940s
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 2K
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Genre: Drama, War
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TV show
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Audience: adult
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Time: 1940s
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Time: 1940s
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47%
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The Favorite (2019)
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Country: USA
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Style: bleak, dark, psychological, suspense, art house ...
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