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Genre: Drama
Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, France, Serbia, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
The story of a boy from the orphanage for abandoned children who tried to find out the truth about his origins. Through the story of a boy Alen, it describes the consequences of war casualties and immense injustice that war brought most helpless, ...
Style:
emotional, melancholic, realistic, tense
Plot:
abandonment, orphan, post war, trauma, orphanage, identity, injustice, loss of innocence, loss, childhood, desperation, survival ...
Time:
90s, 2000s
Place:
bosnia herzegovina, sarajevo, bosnia, former yugoslavia, balkan
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Japan, UK, Poland, Singapore
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Dual timelines explore a Japanese widow's memories spanning post-war Nagasaki in 1950s and England during 1980s Cold War era, unraveling secrets that intertwine her past and present experiences across borders.
Style:
period piece, reflective, melancholic, atmospheric, historical drama ...
Plot:
widow, female protagonist, trauma, grief, memory, secrets, post war, mother and daughter, loss, regret, family secret, identity ...
Time:
1950s, 60s, 80s, 20th century, year 1982 ...
Place:
england
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Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
In a poor provincial town, the ragamuffin boys are frenziedly drilled for combat, and at nights the local elite, gathered in a pool room, boasts of fictitious biographies, while bands of boys amuse themselves with bloody fights on trashy vacant ...
Style:
period piece, bleak, atmospheric, melancholic
Audience:
kids
Plot:
post war, escape, survival, poverty, desperation, coming of age, loss of innocence, realism, childhood, adolescence, obsession, mafia ...
Place:
kazakhstan, ussr, soviet union
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Genre: Comedy, Western
Country: West Germany, Spain
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
German comedy/western from 1975
Style:
comedy drama, tragicomedy, spaghetti western, period drama
Plot:
post war, widow, independence, female empowerment, social change, getting home, social commentary, moral ambiguity, culture clash, law and order, marital strife, small town ...
Place:
southern usa, texas
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Comedy set in a refugee camp in occupied Austria after World War II. A shrewd multi-lingual interpreter who mediates between Russian and British military brass enters into a friendly rivalry with British Major Giles Burnside, who is in charge of ...
Style:
comedy drama, tense
Plot:
refugee camp, translator, world war two, post war, social commentary, survival, character study, diplomacy, soviet army, british military, negotiation, bureaucracy ...
Time:
1940s, post world war two, year 1969
Place:
austria
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Hungary
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
In the final days of World War II, a young Hungarian is making his way home, through countryside full of the debris of war, when he is captures and imprisoned by Russians. Left in the custody of a young Russian soldier, the two youths form a ...
Style:
lyrical, psychological, political, tension, reflective ...
Plot:
world war two, coming of age, young soldier, friendship, post war, pow, female nudity, survival, soviet soldier, teenage protagonist, countryside, minimalism ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
hungary
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Via the Chicago Reader: "After World War II an Italian soldier returns to his hometown near the Alps and, unable to find a job, hooks up with a crotchety hermit who scavenges buried shells and bombs for scrap metal."
Style:
melancholic, realistic, bleak, grim, art house ...
Plot:
survival, poverty, post war, mountain, frustration, salvation, black market, alienation, social realism, desperation, working class, trauma ...
Time:
1940s, 1950s, year 1945
Place:
alps, italy
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A boy feels neglected by his parents because they grieve for his older brother, who went missing in the aftermath of the second world war.
Style:
emotional, tense, unusual plot structure, humorous, sincere ...
Plot:
loss of son, family relations, traumatic experience, family business, guilty conscience, mourning, grief, family drama, post war, trauma, coming of age, isolation ...
Time:
50s, post world war two, 1940s, 1950s
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Serbia
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Ustanička ulica is a Serbian political thriller. Dušan Ilić (Gordan Kičić), employed at the Serbian state prosecutor's office, gets a top secret case to investigate a war crime committed by a disbanded paramilitary unit. He manages to ...
Style:
political thriller, suspenseful, exciting, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
investigation, memories, redemption, war crime, post war, father and son, investigator, father, ex soldier, son, father son relationship, crime investigation ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
serbia, balkan
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
It is 1945. Enrico Piaggio’s Pontedera factory is in ruins and the 12,000 people who worked there are condemned to unemployment and misery. Piaggio feels the enormous responsibility resting on his shoulders: the lives of so many families depend on ...
Style:
captivating, thought provoking, historical drama, inspirational, motivational ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
biopic, invention, design, entrepreneurship, post war, husband wife relationship, ambition, lifestyle, historical character, family relations, coping, historical figure ...
Time:
1950s, 1940s
Place:
italy
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Sri Lanka
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The film set, in post war Sri Lanka, brings us close to two characters who collide quite accidentally, and through them we experience the deep and seemingly unbridgeable chasm that conflict almost always creates. Will love help them cross the ...
Style:
poignant, psychological, touching, tense, suspense ...
Plot:
marriage proposal, husband wife relationship, marriage, secret, suicide, death of wife, post war, civil war, traumatic past, forbidden love, bittersweet, reconciliation ...
Place:
sri lanka
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Spain
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Anxo returns to his home village in the Galician countryside. There, he is greeted with concern by the victorious and the defeated, who see in him the danger of diving back into their silenced memories.
Style:
historical drama, atmospheric, melancholic, meditative, bleak ...
Plot:
political repression, dictatorship, post war, oppression, post civil war, authoritarianism, resistance, trauma, minimalism, forest, isolation, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
galicia
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Genre: Drama
Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina, France, UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
At the traditional Muslim funeral service for his father Fikret Varupa, sixteen year old boy from Sarajevo, learns that his father owes money to Hamid, a man he does not even know. The debt is considerable and Hamid does not want it to go to the ...
Style:
melancholic, realistic, poignant, bleak, tragicomedy ...
Plot:
post war, poverty, debt, corruption, innocence lost, social realism, adolescence, moral dilemma, survival, child protagonist, grief, social commentary ...
Place:
bosnia, sarajevo, balkan, former yugoslavia, bosnia herzegovina
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK, USA
TV show
Story:
As WWI ends, housewife Kate Galloway sets up a nightclub in Soho to support her daughters. But Kate must contend with a dangerous gangster family and the police to survive.
Style:
suspense, period drama
Plot:
nightclub, gangster, survival, resilience, female empowerment, post war, organized crime, single mother, ambition, danger, crime family, gender roles ...
Time:
1920s
Place:
london
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Anna discovers that has a brother that went to Canada because of the hunger on World War II
Style:
historical drama, emotional, dramatic, realistic, melancholic ...
Plot:
siblings, post war, family drama, lost child, identity, migration, family secret, grief, loss, empathy, intimate, poverty ...
Time:
1950s
Place:
canada, italy
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Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
A man who lost his wife and daughter in the Holocaust and a girl who lost her parents meet. Knowing each other′s emptiness, they become like father and daughter. It is the beginning of a sad love that the world cannot accept.
Style:
poignant, sad, touching, compassionate, sincere ...
Plot:
healing, loneliness, impossible love, power of love, gynecologist, healing power, trauma, loss, grief, survivor, holocaust, post war ...
Time:
post world war two, 1940s, 2010s
Place:
hungary, budapest
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
In the immediate post-war period, amidst the rubble of a poverty-ridden Naples, two kids, Carmine and Celestina, try to survive as best they can by helping each other out. One night, they secretly board a ship bound for New York to reach ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, neorealism, historical drama, period piece ...
Plot:
post war, journey, immigration, struggle, social realism, hopes, resilience, working class, poverty, coming of age, friendship, survival ...
Time:
1950s, 1940s
Place:
new york, naples italy, italy
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Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
TV show
Story:
Due to the Korean war, Oh Bok-Sil’s family becomes separated lose everything. Not to be defeated, they live with strength as they suffer great hardships.
Style:
dramatic, witty, suspenseful, captivating, period piece ...
Plot:
women, korean war, family drama, post war, family relations, relationships, male female relationship, female protagonist, parents and children, family problems, couples, husband wife relationship ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Poland
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
In 1960s Masuria a widower and ex-soldier wants to build a chapel to Virgin Mary for surviving the war. In the meantime, 20 female prisoners come to his village to work on the farm. One of them gets Mikolaj's attention.
Style:
reflective, melancholic, atmospheric, period piece
Plot:
ex soldier, village life, promise, chapel, faith, redemption, post war, miraculous event, widower, remorse, guilt, duty ...
Time:
60s
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Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: Iran
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
The story of Zeinal, a man who after 20 years of being a POW, tries to clear up his past.
Style:
realistic, tense, emotional, atmospheric, suspense
Plot:
post war, pow, dark past, military, betrayal, redemption, identity, justice, trauma, secrets, iraq iran war, honor ...
Place:
iran, iraq, persia
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Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Mystery
Country: South Korea
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Set in a teahouse in Myeong-dong, Seoul right after the end of the Korean War, The 12th Suspect follows the suffocating psychological showdown that takes place between a detective and the 11 suspects who find themselves caught up in a murder case.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, psychological thriller, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot:
murder investigation, murder, interrogation, post war, uncover truth, forensics, sleuth, police investigation, crime investigation, police detective, homicide detective, investigation ...
Time:
1950s
Place:
korea, seoul
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Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
TV show
Story:
Sr. Lt. Yuri Kozyrev, who served in the front-line reconnaissance is taken prisoner during the last few days of the 2nd World War. After the war ends, the Soviet authorities sentence him to life imprisonment, however, when his case is finally ...
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, serious, crime drama, period piece ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
friendship, courage, heroism, betrayal, world war two, life & death, military, fight, wartime life, police procedural, investigation, post war ...
Time:
1950s
Place:
soviet union, ussr
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Genre: Drama, History, Sport
Country: Russia
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Tells about the events of November 1945 when the first Post War championship of the USSR winners, Dynamo-Moscow, went on the historic tour of Britain. Soviet football players won not only on the football fields of England. They managed to win the ...
Style:
period piece, witty, captivating, exciting, inspirational ...
Plot:
football, football team, russian abroad, post war, professional sports, football player, soccer match, professional athlete, playing football, sport competition, sports fan, sports man ...
Place:
ussr, soviet union, britain, england, london
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Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
During the post-WW2 reconstruction in Russia, bald-headed technocrat Drozhdov equates communism with the empowerment of the ordinary man over the arrogant "specialness" of genius. Dedicated scientist Lopatkin takes refuge in Moscow with ...
Style:
disturbing, captivating, psychological, melancholic, period drama
Plot:
inventor, post war, dysfunctional marriage, family problems, male female relationship, military, relationship problems, husband wife relationship, world war two, invention, family relations, marital problem ...
Time:
post world war two
Place:
moscow russia
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Genre: Adventure, History
Country: Russia
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
An amazing story of tank crewmen who had gone through the war hand in hand and decided to celebrate the great victory in Paris. The friends, who had survived the dreadful experience of war, reached Berlin and set their eyes on a new course in life ...
Style:
not serious, humorous, buddy comedy, funny, entertaining
Plot:
world war two, escapades, post war, camaraderie, stupidity, drunkenness, buddies, machismo, brothel, friendship between men, plan gone awry, celebration ...
Place:
paris france
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Genre: Drama, Family, History, Mystery, Romance
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Follow the adventures of Darrell Rivers as she leaves home for the first time to attend an all-girls’ boarding school. Set in post-war Britain on the sun-drenched cliffs of the Cornish coast, the series explores a nostalgic world of midnight ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, captivating, spooky, period drama
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
boarding school, girls' school, teenage life, girls' boarding school, post war, lifestyle change, adolescence, teenager, teenage girl, coming of age, ghost, ancient ...
Time:
post world war two, 20th century, 1940s
Place:
britain
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A dramatization of the 1968 strike at the Ford Dagenham car plant, where female workers walked out in protest against sexual discrimination.
Style:
inspirational, touching, emotional, period piece, factual ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
gender, working class, politics, revolution, discrimination, women, idealism, workplace, hopes, boss and employee, feminist, injustice ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, year 1968, year 1966, year 1970 ...
Place:
england, london, europe, united kingdom, michigan ...
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 352 min.
TV show
Story:
The minister, his mistress, and her lover the spy. The story of the woman at the centre of one of the 20th century's biggest scandals – which changed Britain forever.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, captivating, political, period drama ...
Plot:
extramarital affair, sex scandal, british prime minister, scandal, political corruption, government, post war, political scandal, political unrest, sexual relations, female protagonist, british history ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
britain
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 174 min.
Story:
This is a family story that covers thirty years in the life of the Freytag family (narrated by the grandson, Robert). When his grandfather returns from Russia in 1949, he becomes part of the German "economic miracle" by producing garden ...
Style:
romantic, captivating
Plot:
post war germany, lesbian relationship, husband wife relationship, father son relationship, generation, infidelity, family problems, relationships, family relations, post war, marital problem, love and romance ...
Time:
post world war two, 1940s, 70s, 60s, 1950s ...
Place:
germany
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Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
The Valley of Light is a beautifully-filmed, sentimental movie of a young man's quest to make sense of his experiences and find new meaning in life. While this film deals with weighty material such as the suicide of Eleanor's husband and ...
Style:
touching, sincere, sentimental, emotional, melancholic ...
Plot:
post war, love and romance, fishing, love story, kindness, human spirit, in love, romanticism, province, happy ending, provincial life, angst ...
Time:
post world war two, 20th century, 1940s
Place:
usa, north carolina
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