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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Belgium, France, Lebanon
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A mother attempts to keep her family safe as war rages and a sniper lies in wait outside her home.
Style:
thought provoking, atmospheric, suspense, emotional, compassionate ...
Plot:
fear, terrorist, strong female lead, coping, self sacrifice, lawlessness, strong female character, mother, rescue attempt, wartime life, desperation, survival ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
syria, middle east
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Genre: Action, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
Based on a true story, during World War II, four Jewish brothers escape their Nazi-occupied homeland of West Belarus in Poland and join the Soviet partisans to combat the Nazis. The brothers begin the rescue of roughly 1,200 Jews still trapped in ...
Style:
sincere, period piece, epic, historical drama, dramatic ...
Audience:
manly, adult
Plot:
world war two, holocaust, war, nazi, genocide, partisan, shoah, judaism, world war, red army, hopes, rebellion ...
Time:
year 2008, 20th century, year 1941, 1940s, year 1942 ...
Place:
poland, germany, indiana, europe, russia ...
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
North Carolina 1863, the Civil War is raging. In this inspired story of tragedy and love we follow the lives of Melody, a precocious seven-year old, and her young mother Sarah as they struggle on their farm to survive during the Civil War.
Style:
realistic, tense, serious, touching, suspense ...
Plot:
american civil war, u.s. civil war, wartime life, danger, fall in love, life is a bitch, parents and children, soldier, battles, hopes, farm, destiny ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Peter is an American freedom fighter in Nazi-occupied Europe at the outset of World War II. He partners with the Lost Boys, a ragtag group of orphans, to combat the Nazi threat, led by SS Captain Haken (aka Captain Hook).
Style:
semi serious, stylized, captivating, tense, anime ...
Plot:
orphan, wartime life, heroes, military, fascism, against humanity, survival, soldier, rivalry, escapades, danger, life is a bitch ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
france
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Rachel is a widow during the Civil War who holds the South responsible for her husband's death. When a wounded enemy soldier takes refuge in her barn, Rachel reluctantly helps him. As she gets to know him more, she realizes she must protect him ...
Style:
realistic, captivating, touching, serious, tension ...
Plot:
american civil war, family relations, wartime life, fall in love, hopes, parents and children, hapless soldier, life is a bitch, soldier, love and romance, civil war, farm ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era
Place:
usa
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Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance, War
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
During the First World War, Camille (Sylvie Testud), a young woman whose husband is away fighting at the front, receives a short letter of break-up from him. Distraught, she decides to go to join him, but is driven back by the rule of the time which ...
Style:
captivating, serious, realistic, stylized, sexual
Plot:
world war one, gender disguise, male female relationship, soldier, wartime life, hidden identity, obsessive quest, couple relations, love and romance, couples, battles, war ...
Place:
france, europe
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: South Korea
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
The Korean war does not start well for the US. They are being routed by the North Koreans and In July 1950, the early stage of the Korean War, at the Jugok Village in the middle of the Korean Peninsula, Chang-yee and his friends grow excited over ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, realistic, rough, bleak ...
Plot:
military, survival, captivity, wartime life, korean war, confined, homecoming, anti war, against humanity, genocide, isolation, danger ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
north korea, korea
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Genre: Drama
Country: Bulgaria, Israel
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
the story of two adolescents, Moni and Zhozho, who meet 17-year-old Zheni in 1943 and with whom both fell in love. The events that follow unfold while Bulgaria has to decide on the deportation of 11 343 Jewish citizens in Macedonia and Thrace.
Style:
emotional, captivating, touching, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot:
wartime life, fall in love, on the run, teenage love, friendship, holocaust, anti semitism, society, teenage life, youth, love and romance, coming of age ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
bulgaria
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK, Poland
TV show
Story:
At the outbreak of war, two teenage boys defy their parents to sign up.
Style:
historical drama, epic, realistic, serious, captivating ...
Plot:
world war one, military, wartime life, soldier, life is a bitch, hopes, battles, great war, friendship, danger, bittersweet, war ...
Time:
1910s, 20th century
Place:
europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Switzerland, Italy, Portugal, Bulgaria, Germany
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Thirteen European directors explore the theme of Sarajevo; what this city has represented in European history over the past hundred years, and what Sarajevo stands for today in Europe. These eminent filmmakers of different generations and origins ...
Style:
anthology, disturbing, realistic, serious, art house ...
Plot:
politics, wartime life, haunted by the past, state affairs, society, anti war, political unrest, european history, memory, reflection, post war, trauma ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
balkan, bosnia, sarajevo, bosnia herzegovina
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
In order to recover the body of her son lost during the war in Bosnia, a grieving, but strong-willed Muslim woman, Halima, must track down her estranged niece, who we find carries a mysterious connection to him.
Style:
touching, emotional, realistic, serious
Plot:
un, adoption, wartime life, loss of son, parents and children, family relations, life is a bitch, muslim, bodies, missing person, adopted son, birth mother ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, 90s
Place:
bosnia, eastern europe, bosnia herzegovina, croatia, balkan
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
After being granted a questionable transfer that will keep him stateside as his National Guard unit deploys for Iraq, Lieutenant Danny Sefton becomes embroiled in a last minute AWOL attempt by one of his soldiers — forcing him to choose between ...
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, serious, tense, independent film ...
Plot:
military, soldier, friendship, military base, moral dilemma, military life, on the run, wartime life, iraq war, life is a bitch, family problems, chases and races ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
iraq, usa
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: South Korea
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Romances end in blood and the frail hopes of individuals are torn apart in a vile karmic continuity of colonialism, civil war and occupation. After surviving Japanese colonization, Korea became the first war zone of the Cold War. The legacy of war ...
Style:
sincere, psychological, rough, serious, controversial ...
Plot:
soldier, haunted by the past, teenage life, wartime life, life is a bitch, rebellion, society, couple relations, social misfits, love and romance, family relations, youth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
south korea, east asia, asia, korea
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, War
Country: Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Germany
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
This film follows two Belgrade youths on their rise to gangster legends in a decaying society.
Style:
realistic, serious, rough, disturbing, suspense ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, youth, teenage life, murder, life is a bitch, wartime life, battles, friends, organized crime, male nudity, masturbation, blood ...
Time:
90s
Place:
former yugoslavia, europe, belgrade, eastern europe, balkan ...
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Genre: Comedy, Romance, Music, Drama, War
Country: Serbia, France, Italy
Duration: 155 min.
Story:
Set during the Bosnian war in the early 1990s, Luka is a mild-mannered railway clerk whose life is turned upside down, not just by the outbreak of the war, but when his wife runs off with a local musician. Then Luka's son is conscripted and ...
Style:
uplifting, semi serious, witty, humorous, social ...
Plot:
fall in love, life is a bitch, wartime life, society, moral dilemma, unlikely couple, love affair, unrequited love, love and romance, male female relationship, marital problem, family relations ...
Time:
year 2004, 90s, 20th century
Place:
serbia, bosnia, europe, balkan
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Netherlands
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
The epic tale of an American reconnaissance pilot downed in occupied Belgium at the height of World War II. Hidden by resistance fighters, the pilot falls in love with the wife of the man who will save him. When their affair is exposed, an act of ...
Style:
realistic, serious, suspense, captivating
Plot:
world war two, resistance movement, forbidden love, french resistance, crash landing, betrayal, military, love triangle, wartime life, soldier, leadership, danger ...
Time:
year 1945, year 1944
Place:
belgium, europe
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Denmark, UK, Czech Republic, Netherlands
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Jonah Ludovic (Sam Neill) is a custodian at a small municipal zoo. After a night of heavy shelling Ludovic arrives at his job to find the staff abandoning the zoo. He joins a skeleton crew that includes an elderly guard and a veterinarian (Om ...
Style:
tense, atmospheric, rough, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot:
fighting the system, tragic hero, survival, wartime life, society, rebellion, life is a bitch, danger, political unrest, politics, zookeeper, dystopia ...
Place:
eastern europe, bosnia herzegovina, sarajevo
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Genre: Documentary, War
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Fighting for Life is a very different movie about war and medicine, a real-life "M*A*S*H" for our times about the doctors and nurses fighting on the front lines. The film interweaves stories of military doctors, nurses, and medics who are ...
Style:
serious, realistic, uplifting, thought provoking, contemplative ...
Plot:
soldier, survival, military life, wartime life, state affairs, society, danger, life is a bitch, military, doctors and patients, homecoming, battles ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
iraq, middle east, washington d.c.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
In Nazi occupied Czechoslovakia, a childless couple agree to hide a Jewish friend at great personal risk of discovery and execution.
Style:
surreal, compassionate, lyrical, uplifting, disturbing ...
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, nazi, survival, idealism, couples, nazi occupation, human spirit, self discovery, against humanity, wartime life, dishonesty ...
Time:
1940s, 2000s, 20th century, 1930s, year 1945
Place:
eastern europe, germany, poland, balkan, czech republic ...
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: UK, USA, Canada
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Varian Fry rescues more than 2,000 artists from Nazi persecution during World War II.
Style:
tense, serious, emotional, sincere, realistic
Plot:
world war two, wartime life, hidden identity, uncover truth, politics, life is a bitch, moral dilemma, state affairs, rescue, danger, escapades, against humanity ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
france, europe, usa, marseille
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
In 1999, a British mine clearance engineer working for the Taliban government in Afghanistan must flee the country when he becomes embroiled in a deadly game of intrigue and betrayal.
Style:
serious, tense, suspense, disturbing, informative ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
life turned upside down, wartime life, life is a bitch, state affairs, escapades, danger, manhunt, chase, disorder, intrigue, weapons, war in afghanistan ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
afghanistan, middle east
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Genre: Drama, History, Romance, Sport, War
Country: Hungary
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Children of Glory will commemorate Hungary's heroic Revolution of 1956, and takes place in Budapest and at the Melbourne Olympic Games in October and November of that year. While Soviet tanks were destroying Hungary, the Hungarian water polo ...
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, rough, emotional ...
Plot:
female warrior, politics, olympics, rebellion, human spirit, wartime life, resistance, athlete's life, ambition, contests and competitions, state affairs, life is a bitch ...
Time:
year 1956, 1950s, 20th century, 50s
Place:
hungary, europe, australia, oceania, melbourne ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, History, War
Country: Austria, Germany
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
The story Jewish counterfeiter, Salomon Sorowitsch, coerced into assisting the Nazi operation of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp during World War II.
Style:
harsh, tense, brutal, bleak, serious ...
Plot:
holocaust, nazi, concentration camp, world war two, nazi germany, counterfeit money, brutality, forgery, counterfeiter, prison, nazi concentration camp, war crime ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 1930s, year 1936, year 2008 ...
Place:
germany, europe, poland, austria, canada ...
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Genre: Drama, History, War, Western
Country: Mexico
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
A chronicle of the Cristeros War (1926-1929), which was touched off by a rebellion against the Mexican government's attempt to secularize the country.
Style:
epic, serious, realistic, sincere, christian film ...
Plot:
catholic, religious persecution, mexican revolution, faith, civil war, saint, chicano, battles, military, rebellion, fighting the system, rebelliousness ...
Time:
20th century, 1920s
Place:
mexico, latin america, north america
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 177 min.
Story:
Jews rise up in the Warsaw Ghetto against the Nazis in 1943.
Style:
captivating, rough, serious, political, tense ...
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, heroism, resistance, jewish ghetto, nazi, survival, politics, rebellion, shoah, wartime life, against humanity ...
Time:
year 2001, 1940s, 20th century, year 1943, post world war two
Place:
germany, europe, warsaw poland, poland
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Genre: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
The true story of Sam Childers, a former drug-dealing biker who finds God and became a crusader for hundreds of Sudanese children who've been kidnapped and pressed into duty as soldiers.
Style:
inspirational, heroic, touching, realistic, biblical ...
Plot:
christian, child in peril, violence, christianity, civil war, religion, gunfight, lone hero, children, brutality, atrocity, biopic ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 2003, 21st century
Place:
sudan, uganda, africa, pennsylvania, california
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Germany, Netherlands
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
When Ruth's husband dies in New York, in 2000, she imposes strict Jewish mourning, which puzzles her children. A stranger comes to the house - Ruth's cousin - with a picture of Ruth, age 8, in Berlin, with a woman the cousin says helped ...
Style:
uplifting, serious, emotional, touching, contemplative ...
Plot:
holocaust, nazi germany, world war two, anti semitism, nazi, wartime life, human spirit, hopes, couple relations, society, world war, strong female character ...
Time:
1940s, year 1943, 20th century, post world war two
Place:
berlin germany, germany, europe, new york, usa
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Spain, Portugal
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Carol, a 12 year old Spanish-American girl from New York, travels with her mother to Spain in the spring of 1938, at the height of the Civil War. Separated from her beloved father, Carol arrives in her mother's home village and transforms the ...
Style:
serious, touching, emotional, sentimental, realistic
Plot:
spanish civil war, forbidden love, tomboy, youth, coming of age, friendship, village, wartime life, human nature, culture clash, parents and children, single parent ...
Time:
1930s, year 1938
Place:
new york, spain, europe, usa, galicia ...
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Genre: War, Drama, Action, Romance
Country: Czech Republic, UK, Germany, Denmark, Italy, France, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Lt. Franta Slama is a top pilot in the Czech Air Force who is assigned to train a promising young flier, Karel Vojtisek, and they soon become friends. When Nazi Germany invades Czechoslovakia in 1939, they both reject the authority of their new ...
Style:
sentimental, intense, sincere, captivating, gloomy ...
Plot:
world war two, aviation, friendship, air battle, culture clash, aerial combat, love triangle, wartime life, battle zone, prison, luftwaffe, world war ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, post world war two, year 2001, year 1950 ...
Place:
london, england, czech republic, europe, central europe ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 176 min.
Story:
At a Dresden hospital in 1945, nurse Anna Mauth (Felicitas Woll) cares for badly injured British pilot Robert Newman (John Light), whom Anna believes to be a German deserter. As Allied forces close in, Anna grows close to Robert despite her ...
Style:
tense, captivating, serious, touching, period piece ...
Plot:
world war two, bombing, war, survival, military, moral dilemma, love affair, wartime life, behind enemy lines, fall in love, danger, military life ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
germany, europe
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