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The Pianist (2002)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, War
Country: France, Poland, Germany, UK, USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story: The true story of pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. When the Jews of the city find themselves forced into a ghetto, Szpilman finds work playing in a café; and when his family is deported in 1942, he ...
Style: emotional, harsh, bleak, reflective, heartbreaking ...
Audience: adult
Plot: holocaust, world war two, survival, genocide, nazi, classical music, wartime, war, nazism, pianist, nazi occupation, hunger ...
Time: 1940s, year 2002, 20th century, year 1945, 1930s ...
Place: poland, germany, europe, eastern europe, persia ...
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Berenshtein (2021)
Genre: Biography, History, War
Country: Israel
Duration: 105 min.
Story: The unbelievable story of Leonid Bernshtein, a young Jewish soldier who rose to become the leader and led the operation to destroy the secret facility of the notorious Nazi V2 ballistic missiles.
Style: thought provoking, suspense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing
Plot: world war two, soldier, great patriotic war, guerilla warfare, nazi occupation, military, life is a bitch, german officer, german soldier, moral dilemma, warrior, military life ...
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The Man in the High Castle (2015)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Based on Philip K. Dick's award-winning novel, The Man in the High Castle explores what it would be like if the Allied Powers had lost WWII, and Japan and Germany ruled the United States.
Style: suspenseful, serious, tense, apocalyptic, captivating ...
Audience: family friendly, adult
Plot: alternate reality, resistance, fascism, alternate history, assassination, espionage, political intrigue, multiverse, spy, time traveler, freedom fighter, betrayal ...
Time: 60s, post world war two, 20th century, year 1962
Place: japan, usa, berlin germany, new york, san francisco ...
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The Liberation of Skopje (2016)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Croatia, Finland
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Eight-year-old Zoran is the hero of this story set in Skopje during the German occupation of the city in World War II. Through his eyes, we experience all the cruelty, poverty and suffering of wartime. A love affair between his Macedonian mother and ...
Style: tense, thought provoking, suspense, rough, psychological
Plot: world war two, boy, liberation, arrest, german occupation, partisan, traitor, nazi occupation, assassination, german officer, prisoner, mother son relationship ...
Time: 1940s, year 1944, year 1943
Place: europe, former yugoslavia, macedonia, balkan
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Soldier of Orange (1977)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Duration: 155 min.
Story: This film depicts World War II through the eyes of several Dutch students. It follows them through the beginning of the war, the Nazi occupation and the liberation.
Style: tense, realistic, stylized, colorful, political thriller ...
Plot: world war two, nazi, war, gestapo, resistance, wartime, espionage, world war, betrayal, spy, tango, friendship ...
Time: 1940s, year 1977, 1930s
Place: netherlands, europe, london
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The Tobacconist (2018)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Austria, Germany
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Vienna, 1937, on the eve of the annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany. The young and inexperienced Franz Huchel begins to learn about both the joys and hardships of life by working as an apprentice to the mutilated war veteran Otto Trsnjek in a ...
Style: psychological, captivating, realistic, atmospheric
Plot: world war two, male nudity, psychiatrist, political repression, friendship, historical figure, friends, society, danger, wartime life, rivalry, psychology ...
Time: 1930s, year 1938
Place: germany, vienna, central europe
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The Young Guard (2015)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Russia
TV show
Story: A young partisan Viktor Tretyakov and his school friends decide to organize a resistance group to the fascists. They call it the "Young Guard" and attract familiar boys and girls to it. After a while, the Young Guards are joined by scouts ...
Style: captivating, suspense, tense, thought provoking
Plot: world war two, nazi, fascism, german soldier, occupation, showdown, german occupation, nazi occupation, heroes, military, saboteur, wartime ...
Time: 1940s
Place: soviet union, ussr
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Stones for the Rampart (2014)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 111 min.
Story: To be defeated and not be - a victory. This is the motto that life is guided by three young friends: Alek, Sophy and Rudy. Scouts, high school graduates high school in Warsaw drifting ambitious plans for the future broken through September 1939. ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, captivating, suspense ...
Plot: world war two, wartime life, against the odds, life is a bitch, daring rescue, danger, prospector, wartime, german occupation, resistance, resistance fighter, nazi occupation ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: europe, poland
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The Fifth Seal (1976)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Hungary
Duration: 111 min.
Story: In Budapest in 1944, a watchmaker, a book seller and a carpenter are drinking in a bar with the owner. They are joined by a stranger who asks a hypothetical question that will change their lives.
Style: political thriller, psychological, existential, philosophical, art house ...
Plot: world war two, existentialism, wartime, social criticism, conspiracy, nazi occupation, morality, bombing, philosophy, moral dilemma, fascism, torture ...
Place: eastern europe
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Marie's Children (2002)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story: During the German occupation of France, a young woman - Marie - finds a Jewish boy in her room. His parents and other Jewish neighbors have been just been deported, but Maurice (the boy) escaped. Marie decides to hide him, secretly.
Style: thrilling, captivating, psychological
Plot: world war two, nazi occupied france, life is a bitch, hiding, occupied france, jew persecution, child custody, occupation, nazi germany, female protagonist, relationships, nazi ...
Place: france
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Black Mercedes (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 110 min.
Story: In Nazi-occupied Warsaw, an investigator tries to unravel the mysterious murder of a prominent attorney's wife.
Style: suspense, disturbing, captivating, tense, enigmatic
Plot: investigation, jewish woman, world war two, crime solving, unsolved crime, murder investigation, crime investigation, police detective, murder, wartime, murder mystery, homicide detective ...
Place: warsaw poland, poland
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Echoes of the Past (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A lawyer, who represents the German government against the Greek reparation claims for Nazi crimes in World War II, travels to Greece and meets one of the remaining survivors of the Kalavryta massacre that took place in 1943.
Style: tense, captivating, suspenseful, thrilling, social ...
Plot: genocide, war crime, world war two, nazi occupation, german occupation, tragic past, investigation, troubled past, war violence, attorney, nazi, mass murder
Place: germany
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Arletty: A Guilty Passion (2015)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Covers the love affair between French actress Arletty and a high-ranking German officer during WWII in occupied France.
Style: captivating, disturbing
Plot: world war two, nazi occupied france, relationships, soldier, in love, male female relationship, love affair, fall in love, nazi occupation, occupation, actress, german soldier ...
Time: year 1940
Place: paris france
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Forest of the Gods (2005)
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: Lithuania, UK
Duration: 120 min.
Story: The story about one man - an artist and an intellectual - who was imprisoned by two brutal regimes, the Nazis and the Soviets. 'The Professor' is a man who lives by his own personal version of the Ten Commandments. After miraculously ...
Style: compassionate, captivating, disturbing, suspense
Plot: nazi, world war two, life is a bitch, scientist, artist, performer's life, writer's life, society, suppression, life turned upside down, totalitarian state, state affairs ...
Place: ussr
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Resistance (2014)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: France
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Story: Paris. 1940. Lili is 17 years old. In occupied France, she encounters war before love, and joins the Resistance. Through the interconnecting destinies of its teenage heroes, Resistance tells the story of young people going to any lengths to defend ...
Style: psychological, disturbing, suspense, captivating
Plot: world war two, french resistance, resistance, female protagonist, wartime, resistance fighter, occupied france, wartime life, historical event, youth, nazi occupation, occupation ...
Place: paris france
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Return to the Hiding Place (2013)
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: When a young resistance fighter witnesses atrocities towards the Jews, he's drawn into a web of espionage and clandestine activities. When he meets a young physics students and resistance journalist - Hans Poley - they embark on a hunt through ...
Style: disturbing, captivating, suspense, tense
Plot: world war two, nazi, jewish ghetto, christian, world war, jew persecution, resistance fighter, saving a life, resistance, nazi occupation, nazi soldier, nazism ...
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Spies of Warsaw (2013)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK, France, Poland, USA
Duration: 120 min.
TV show
Story: A military attaché at the French embassy is drawn into a world of abduction, betrayal and intrigue in the diplomatic salons and back alleys of Warsaw.
Style: captivating, romantic, suspense, tense, political ...
Audience: teens
Plot: spy, world war two, nazi, nazi germany, soviet spy, spy mission, nazi spy, interwar period, military, nazism, nazi soldier, world war ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century
Place: warsaw poland, czechoslovakia
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Winter in Wartime (2008)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Duration: 103 min.
Story: During World War II in the freezing Netherlands winter of 1944/1945 the western Netherlands are in the grip of a famine. Many people move east to provide for their families. Fourteen year old Michiel can't wait to join the Dutch resistance, to ...
Style: tense, exciting, realistic, serious, captivating ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: world war two, coming of age, resistance movement, children in wartime, resistance, nazi, wartime life, winter, execution, occupation, nazism, nazi occupation ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 2008
Place: netherlands, germany, europe, holland
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Mistral's Daughter (1984)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 390 min.
TV show
Story: Beautiful and naïve Maggy Lunel arrives in Paris completely broke. She becomes an artist's model and the toast of Paris, attracting the attention of Picasso-like painter Julien Mistral, an arrogant and selfish man who places his work above ...
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, sincere
Audience: date night
Plot: painter, world war two, artist, nazi occupation, art, age difference, art history, model, artist's model, love affair, social differences, infidelity ...
Time: 1920s, 1950s, 1940s, 1930s, 60s ...
Place: paris france, europe, france, provence, new york
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Days of Glory (2006)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: Algeria, France, Morocco, Belgium
Duration: 123 min.
Story: During WWII, four North African men enlist in the French army to liberate that country from Nazi oppression, and to fight French discrimination.
Style: realistic, emotional, rough, serious, political ...
Plot: war, battles, world war two, politics, justice, military, survival, muslim, brutality, racism, self esteem, ethnic conflict ...
Time: year 1945, year 1944, 50s, 20th century, 1940s ...
Place: france, africa, vichy, algeria, morocco ...
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Max Manus: Man of War (2008)
Genre: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: Norway, Denmark, Germany
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Max Manus is a Norwegian 2008 biographic war film based on the real events of the life of resistance fighter Max Manus (1914–96), after his contribution in the Winter War against the Soviet Union. The story follows Manus through the outbreak of ...
Style: tense, intense, factual, brutal, melancholic ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: world war two, resistance, nazi, nazism, war, wartime, military, nazi occupation, gestapo, courage, manhunt, terrorism ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1940
Place: scotland, europe, finland, stockholm sweden, scandinavia ...
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Massacre in Rome (1973)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: In the Nazi occupied city of Rome, an assault on an SS brigade draws retaliation from the military governship. "Massacre in Rome" is the true story of how this partisan attack led to the mass execution of Italian nationals under the orders ...
Style: contemplative, serious, realistic, thought provoking, captivating ...
Plot: world war two, world war, military, war, partisan, nazi occupation, holocaust, shoah, nazi, bureaucracy, fictional history, fascism ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: italy, rome italy, europe
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The Ninth Day (2004)
Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: Germany, Luxembourg, Czech Republic
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A drama loosely based on Jean Bernard's Nazi-era prison diary.
Style: serious, emotional, sincere, uplifting, psychological ...
Plot: holocaust, world war two, nazi, traitor, concentration camp, clergy, heroes, soldier, nazi occupation, human spirit, introspection, hopes ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, year 2004
Place: germany, france, berlin germany, switzerland, belgium ...
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When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit (2019)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Family, History, War
Country: Germany, Switzerland, Italy
Duration: 119 min.
Story: In 1933 in Berlin. Anna is only nine years old when her life changes from the ground up. To escape the Nazis, her father Arthur Kemper, a well-known Jewish journalist, has to flee to Zurich. His family, Anna, her twelve-year-old brother Max and her ...
Style: serious, sincere, touching, realistic
Plot: world war two, wartime life, oppression, refugee, anti semitism, heroes, human spirit, family in danger, girl, life turned upside down, nazism, danger ...
Time: year 2019, 1930s, year 1933
Place: germany, paris france, switzerland, berlin germany, swiss alps ...
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The Longest Day (1962)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 178 min.
Story: The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that ...
Style: epic, realistic, black and white, factual, harsh ...
Audience: manly
Plot: world war two, war, nazi, military, french resistance, d day, world war, courage, allies, resistance, beach, soldier ...
Time: year 1962, 20th century, year 1944, 1940s
Place: normandy, america, english channel, europe, france ...
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Inglourious Basterds (2009)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 153 min.
Story: In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Basterds" are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds, lead by Lt. ...
Style: suspense, absurd, atmospheric, captivating, tense ...
Audience: boys' night, manly, date night, chick flick, adult
Plot: world war two, vengeance, nazi, war, nazism, revenge, violent, dark humor, alternate history, violence, brutality, working undercover ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, 1940s, 20th century
Place: paris france, france, germany, america, europe
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The Yellow Rolls-Royce (1964)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 122 min.
Story: A classic car changes the lives of three sets of owners.
Style: anthology, retro, comedy drama, romantic comedy, vintage
Plot: world war two, car, border crossing, extramarital affair, age-gap relationship, unfaithfulness, world war, royal family, loneliness, erotica, nazi occupation, age difference ...
Time: year 1941, 1940s
Place: former yugoslavia, italy, europe
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What Did You Do in the War, Thanassi? (1971)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: Greece
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A wild tale of mistaken identity set during the Nazi occupation of Greece and starring the great Thanasis Vengos. Thanasis is called upon, during the Occupation, to testify at the trial of a tavern owner accused of serving cat meat to his customers. ...
Style: political
Plot: world war two, nazi occupation, fugitive, prison break, street prostitution, fighter, nazi, starvation, perjury, factory worker, guardian, commander ...
Time: 1940s, 70s
Place: greece, balkan, hellas, athens greece
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Dirty Hands (1989)
Genre: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 68 min.
Story: A political drama set in the fictional country of Illyria between 1943 and 1945, the story is about the assassination of a leading politician. The country, an ally of Nazi Germany, is on the verge of being annexed to the Eastern Bloc. ...
Style: intellectual
Plot: nazi occupation, assassination, politician, politics, revolution, jealousy, bomb, underground movement, political party, crimes of passion, anarchist, assassination attempt ...
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The Night of the Generals (1967)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, War
Country: UK, France
Duration: 148 min.
Story: An unusual World War II crime thriller about a Nazi investigation into the murder of a prostitute. Major Grau finds himself focusing on three suspects: the Generals Tanz, Kahlenberg and Seydlitz-Gabler – all three of whom, it seems, are also ...
Style: realistic, suspenseful, tense, suspense, serious ...
Plot: world war two, prostitute, investigation, murder, serial killer, war, conspiracy, nazi occupation, nazi, twists and turns, uncover truth, who done it ...
Time: 1940s, year 1967, 60s, year 1965, year 1944 ...
Place: france, paris france, poland, hamburg germany, warsaw poland ...
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