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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Inspired by a true story about a young German woman prepares to leave her war-ravaged city to begin a new life in America with her G.I. fiance. But standing between her and a hopeful future is a relentless police inspector, determined to prevent her ...
Style:
emotional, tense, realistic, serious, historical drama ...
Plot:
haunted by the past, hidden identity, uncover truth, love and romance, dishonesty, hopes, starting over, post war, escape, female protagonist, police inspector, guilt ...
Time:
1940s, post world war two, 20th century
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
When his destituite widowed sister-in-law—whom he had never stopped harbouring feelings for—and her ne'er-do-well son come to live with him after World War II, a mentally-ill farmer who spends all his time destroying unexploded ordnance ...
Style:
semi serious, psychological, satirical, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot:
family drama, character study, post war, loneliness, kids and family, changing lives, male female relationship, family life, family relations, lifestyle, satire, lifestyle change ...
Time:
post world war two, 1950s
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Germany, Italy
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
A group of men and women have been brought together after World War II, when Italy regained its national and territorial unity. They make up a primitive community which seeks to erase not only the distress created by the war but also the hardships ...
Style:
reflective, period piece, bleak, melancholic, light
Plot:
post war, worker, working class, solidarity, community, survival, hopes, social change, village life, resilience, trauma, poverty ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
italy
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Genre: Drama
Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Germany, France, Turkey
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A microcosm of the fathomless suffering that remains more than 16 years since the siege of Sarajevo ended, writer-director Aida Begic’s follow-up to her 2008 Cannes Critics’ Week Grand Prize-winning debut Snow tells the story of two orphaned ...
Style:
thought provoking, realistic, serious, bleak, grim ...
Plot:
life is a bitch, orphan, society, social decay, youth, siblings relations, post war, siblings, survival, trauma, friendship, resilience ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
bosnia, sarajevo, balkan, bosnia herzegovina, former yugoslavia
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Based on Valentin Rasputin's story of the same title. The winter of 1945. In a village on the Angara embankment the women wait the return of their husbands from the front. The young soldier Andrei Guskov, who fled from the hospital, returns as ...
Style:
psychological, bleak, exciting, serious, captivating ...
Plot:
world war two, deserter, pregnancy, dishonesty, life risking, village, loneliness, social misfits, love, winter, post war, moral dilemma ...
Place:
soviet union, siberia
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279K
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
The gripping, decades-spanning inside story of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the Prime Ministers who shaped Britain's post-war destiny.
The Crown tells the inside story of two of the most famous addresses in the world – Buckingham ...
Style:
atmospheric, serious, costume drama, clever, period piece ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
royal family, british royal family, queen, monarchy, monarch, british history, royalty, winston churchill, queen elizabeth ii, british monarchy, prime minister, politics ...
Time:
50s, 2000s, 1940s, 1950s, 70s ...
Place:
england, buckingham palace, london, wales, syria ...
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65K
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Poland, UK, France, Belgium, India
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A Cold War-era love story follows the passionate love affair between a mismatched couple.
Style:
black and white, thought provoking, romantic, sad, art film ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
cold war, musician, love story, communism, audition, female singer, loveless marriage, poet, border crossing, concert, marriage, older man younger woman relationship ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, year 1952, year 1957, year 1949 ...
Place:
poland, paris france, former yugoslavia, east berlin, warsaw poland ...
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Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Based on a true story. Shortly after World War II, Preston Tucker is a dynamic engineer and an enthusiastic showman who envisions the car of the future. Against mighty odds he manages to build a fleet of them - only to have his factory shut down by ...
Style:
talky, intense, sentimental, feel good, realistic ...
Plot:
entrepreneur, business, marketing, underdog, car, corruption, dalmatian, police investigation, biopic, twists and turns, justice, entrepreneurship ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, future, year 1948, year 1988 ...
Place:
chicago, michigan, washington d.c., detroit, usa ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Germany, Italy, UK, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
It is the end of World War I and the young Italian soldiers are making their way back to San Giovanni Rotondo, a land of poverty, with a tradition of violence and submission to the iron-clad rule of the church and its wealthy landowners. Families ...
Style:
thrilling, psychological, captivating, period drama
Plot:
catholic, world war one, social problems, life is a bitch, social issues, post war, male nudity, catholic priest, branding iron, suffering, female nudity, nudity ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
Country: Italy
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
In post-war Italy, the family of typical housewife Delia is in turmoil over the impending engagement of beloved firstborn Marcella. The arrival of a mysterious letter, however, will ignite Delia's courage to face her abusive husband and imagine ...
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, dark comedy, period drama
Plot:
housewife, patriarchy, abusive husband, post war, lifestyle change, changing lives, marriage, working class, narcissism, blacks and whites, female empowerment, domestic violence ...
Time:
1940s, year 1946
Place:
rome italy, italy
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Germany
Duration: 300 min.
TV show
Story:
The life of three sisters shortly before the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, political
Plot:
german politics, berlin wall, iron curtain, anti communism, relationships, sisters, sister, family life, world war two, family relations, post war, sister sister relationship ...
Place:
east berlin, berlin germany, germany
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
This film is the story of the last years of the life of T.E. Lawrence - Lawrence of Arabia - a scholar, writer, soldier and reluctant hero. Retiring to his cottage in Dorset he hopes to escape his past but is pulled into political intrigue. While ...
Style:
historical drama, captivating, thrilling, disturbing, period piece ...
Plot:
heroes, world war one, character study, biopic, political intrigue, troubled past, confronting the past, family drama, hidden identity, war, post war, social differences ...
Place:
middle east, britain
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
The editor-in-chief of a literary magazine who is popular with women sets up a fake wife and bids farewell to his mistresses.
Style:
humorous, captivating, entertaining, light, feel good ...
Plot:
relationships, male female relationship, social issues, lifestyle, marital problem, husband wife relationship, post war, society, social relations, relationship problems, humour, japanese woman ...
Time:
post world war two
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 15 min.
TV show
Story:
Umechan Sensei is a Japanese television drama series. It debuted on April 2, 2012. It is about a girl named Umeko Shimomura who, despite being overshadowed by her talented older brother and sister, and despite being thought of as a clumsy child, ...
Style:
asadora, disturbing, captivating, inspirational, historical drama ...
Plot:
determination, medical, resilience, post war japan, post war, life is a bitch, female doctor, doctor, female protagonist, family problems, courage, coming of age ...
Place:
japan, tokyo
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115
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, History, Romance, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 15 min.
TV show
Story:
Okuhara Natsu was born in Tokyo in 1937. In 1945, she loses both parents to war and becomes an orphan, but her father’s comrade, Shibata Takeo, takes her in and moves to Tokachi in Hokkaido. In an unfamiliar land surrounded by unfamiliar people, ...
Style:
sincere, captivating, humorous, sentimental, asadora ...
Plot:
animator, post war japan, coming of age, changing lives, workplace, new job, career, post war, orphan, female protagonist, slice of life, resilience ...
Time:
post world war two
Place:
tokyo
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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 ...
Style:
suspenseful, captivating, psychological, serious, disturbing ...
Plot:
liberation, refugee camp, resistance, refugee, moral dilemma, occupation, world war, great war, wartime, prisoner of war camp, wartime life, war ...
Time:
year 1945, 1940s
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Genre: Drama
Country: Romania
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Devastated by the First World War and plunged into political controversy, Romania's every hope accompanies its Queen on her mission to Paris, to lobby for its great unification's international recognition at the 1919 Peace Talks.
Style:
captivating, disturbing, epic
Plot:
world war one, female protagonist, royalty, queen, politics, world politics, marriage, historical figure, lifestyle, post war, political intrigue, women ...
Time:
1910s, year 1919, post world war one
Place:
romania, london, transylvania, paris france
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Japan
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
Leaving her provincial home, teenage Mutsuko arrives in Tokyo by train to take a job in a major automotive company but finds that she is employed by a small auto repair shop owned by Norifumi Suzuki. Suzuki's hair-trigger temper is held ...
Style:
captivating, sincere, period piece, feel good, manga ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
leaving home, illegitimate son, writers, neighborhood, new job, teenager, social problems, neighbor neighbor relationship, post war japan, social relations, aspiration, ambitious man ...
Time:
1950s, 20th century, year 1958, 50s
Place:
tokyo, japan
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 148 min.
Story:
Hisako loses her home in Tokyo to Allied bombing. With her husband fighting somewhere in Asia, she and her two children evacuate to a suburb of Kobe, where they share a house with Hisako's cousin, Kyoko. Kobe is bombed and Kyoko is killed. ...
Style:
thought provoking, suspense, captivating, anime
Plot:
starvation, brother sister relationship, grownups, wartime, tragic event, loss of father, family tragedy, life is a bitch, loss of family, loss of mother, adolescence vs adulthood, war ...
Time:
post world war two
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262
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Helen, Rose and Lili have survived the Holocaust and have never seen each other since the war has ended. In 1960, they meet again in Berck, France. They learn to enjoy together simple pleasures in life: nice meals, ballads on the beach, playing in ...
Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, touching, captivating ...
Plot:
auschwitz, starting over, haunted by the past, friendship, hopes, human spirit, girlfriend, reunited friends, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, post war, lifestyle, age-gap relationship ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 50s, 60s
Place:
france, europe
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Set in the 1960's. Joo-Goo (Park Yong-Woo) is viewed as Korea's best sculptor, but he suffers from a disease which will slowly paralyze his body. He gives up interests in the arts and just spends his days meaninglessly. His wife, Jung-sook ...
Style:
sentimental, psychological, realistic, captivating
Plot:
sculptor, model, nude model, artist, illness, jealousy, love, painting, fall in love, couples, post war, painter ...
Place:
south korea
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Genre: Family, Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A story about one summer from the life of 7 years old Marin.
Style:
reflective, period piece, emotional, realistic, period drama
Plot:
grownups, childhood, coming of age, island, family drama, bittersweet, summer, post war, innocence, house, melancholy, intimate ...
Time:
1940s
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117
Genre: Comedy, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
This 1974 made-for-TV sequel to Skin Game (1971) brings back Lou Gossett, Jr. as Jason, with Larry Hagman taking over the role of Quince, played by James Garner in the first film. On the lam from their most recent scam, Quince and Jason find ...
Style:
buddy comedy, light hearted, funny, satirical
Plot:
con artists, post civil war, post war, vigilantism, scheming, mistaken identity, bounty hunter, interracial relations, african american protagonist, bank robbery, moral dilemma, hostage situation ...
Time:
19th century, 1850s
Place:
southern usa
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Greece
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
The years of the storm are Greek historical - dramatic - adventurous film of 1984, directed and directed by Giorgos Tzimas . Starring Michalis Stamatakis Katerina Koutroupida and Menelaos Daflos. Two fighters, cut up in the mountains, after the ...
Style:
historical drama, tense, period piece, bleak, grim ...
Plot:
greek civil war, greek history, post war, guerilla warfare, trauma, survival, escape, brotherhood, isolation, moral ambiguity, survivalist, exile ...
Time:
1940s, 1950s
Place:
greece
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 56 min.
TV show
Story:
The story of the love of an Italian actress and a Soviet pilot during World War II and in the first post-war years.
Style:
sentimental, suspenseful, harsh, touching, historical drama ...
Plot:
war, dating show, love, past life, life is a bitch, love and romance, danger, world war two, ex wife, daughter, male female relationship, post war ...
Time:
1940s, 1950s
Place:
ussr, japan, italy, soviet union
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Yoshida’s first big-budget production and colour film is a haunting tale of unrequited love and postwar disillusion. The story of the fatal attraction between a spineless intellectual and a strong woman is conventional, but its enactment is ...
Style:
romantic drama, emotional, period piece, reflective, tension ...
Plot:
illness, tuberculosis, bittersweet, tragic romance, innkeeper, melancholy, post war, character study, mourning, intimacy, loss, loneliness ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
japan
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Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
1955, un internat en Belgique. Laurent Matagne, 17 ans, croit discerner sous l'identité de son professeur de français surnommé "Vapeur", son père disparu lors d'un raid aérien pendant la guerre 40. Vapeur est excentrique, ...
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, realistic, serious, unusual plot structure ...
Plot:
boarding school, investigation, school, minimal dialogue, coming of age, tough guy, orphan, world war two, identity, post war, adolescence, friendship ...
Time:
50s, 1950s, 20th century
Place:
belgium
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Genre: Drama, History, Sport
Country: Turkey
Duration: 157 min.
Story:
The days when Istanbul was occupied as a result of the Armistice of Mudros after the First World War and the Fenerbahce football team won the "Harington Cup".
Style:
captivating, psychological, inspirational, patriotic, emotional ...
Plot:
soccer, football, football team, victory, occupation, turkish history, football player, sports man, identity, courage, post war, triumph ...
Time:
year 1919, 1920s, 1910s
Place:
istanbul turkey, turkey, ottoman empire
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Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
1916. Julien Delaunay is reported missing in action during the Great War. His wife, Julie, refuses to believe he is dead. 1919. When a photo of an amnesic drifter appears in the press, Julie immediately recognizes him as her beloved husband. They ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, period piece, emotional, historical drama ...
Plot:
amnesia, world war one, memory, male female relationship, vanished man, relationships, repressed memory, amnesiac, memory lapse, memory loss, family relations, life is a bitch ...
Time:
year 1919
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Slovenia, Ireland, Finland, Sweden
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
A man stays alone with his children in a half demolished house in the middle of a desolate field. His wife has just been killed by a grenade in a military battle. He is expecting a new attack. Instead a wandering caravan called Circus Fantasticus ...
Style:
surreal, touching, stylized, serious, atmospheric ...
Plot:
circus, hopes, wartime life, human spirit, performer's life, parents and children, family relations, life is a bitch, death in the family, magic realism, grief, mourning ...
Place:
poetic realism
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