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 8.1
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Changi (2001)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance, War
Country: Australia
TV show
Story: Changi is a six-part Australian television miniseries broadcast by ABC TV in 2001. It originally aired from 14 October 2001 to 18 November 2001.
Style: serious, realistic, psychological, tense, contemplative
Plot: world war two, pow, war crime, survival, prisoner of war camp, military, friendship, prison life, wartime life, against humanity, buddies, isolation ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: singapore, japan, australia
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 7.2
 15K
Amen. (2002)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, War
Country: France, Germany, Romania
Duration: 132 min.
Story: The film "Amen." examines the links between the Vatican and Nazi Germany. The central character is Kurt Gerstein, a member of the Institute for Hygiene of the Waffen-SS who is horrified by what he sees in the death camps. Moreover, he is ...
Style: political, thought provoking, disturbing, sincere, bleak ...
Plot: holocaust, genocide, world war two, concentration camp, pope, politics, christian, conscience, ss, nazi, war, priest ...
Time: 1940s, year 2002, 1930s, 20th century
Place: germany, poland, italy, czechoslovakia, austria ...
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One Day You'll Understand (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Germany, Israel
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A man endeavors to collect memories of his grandparents who died in a concentration camp during the Holocaust.
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, touching, contemplative ...
Plot: world war two, holocaust, war crime, haunted by the past, family relations, family life, death in the family, parents and children, against humanity, love and romance, society, trial ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: paris france, germany, middle east, france, europe
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 7.1
 12K
Hannah Arendt (2012)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Germany, Luxembourg, France, Israel
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Hannah Arendt is a portrait of the genius that shook the world with her discovery of “the banality of evil.” After she attends the Nazi Adolf Eichmann’s trial in Jerusalem, Arendt dares to write about the Holocaust in terms no one has ever ...
Style: psychological, realistic, thought provoking, philosophical, political ...
Plot: holocaust, philosopher, nazi, strong female character, feminist, philosophy, strong female lead, biopic, world war two, war crime, legal, legal action ...
Time: 20th century, year 2012, 60s, year 1961
Place: israel, germany, jerusalem, usa, new york
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 6.1
 471
Danny Boy (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Soldier Brian Wood, is accused of war crimes in Iraq by the human rights lawyer Phil Shiner. The two men go head to head in a legal and moral conflict that takes us from the battlefield, at so-called Checkpoint Danny Boy, to the courtroom and one of ...
Style: tense, suspenseful, captivating, disturbing, suspense
Plot: iraq war, american soldier, war crime, ex soldier, accused of murder, military, framed for a crime, military officer, soldier, framed for murder, accusation, war violence ...
Place: united kingdom
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The Last Samurai (2003)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA, New Zealand, Japan
Duration: 154 min.
Story: Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, which finds him learning to respect the samurai and the honorable principles that rule them. Pressed to destroy the samurai's way of life in the ...
Style: epic, breathtaking, serious, exciting, captivating ...
Audience: girls' night, manly, adult
Plot: samurai, sword fight, military, battles, war, japanese history, courage, warrior, katana, self discovery, pride and honor, human spirit ...
Time: 19th century, year 2003, victorian era, 1800s, middle ages ...
Place: japan, asia, africa, san francisco, tokyo ...
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Paradise Road (1997)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Paradise Road is a 1997 film which tells the story of a group of English, American, Dutch and Australian women who are imprisoned in Sumatra during World War II. It was directed by Bruce Beresford and stars Glenn Close as beatific Adrienne Pargiter, ...
Style: touching, harsh, serious, uplifting, emotional ...
Plot: world war two, pow, holocaust, war, prison, island, friendship, justice, war crime, nazi, women, human spirit ...
Time: 1940s, year 1997, 1930s, 20th century
Place: japan, indonesia, asia, singapore
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Walk on Water (2004)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Israel, Sweden
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Eyal, an Israeli Mossad agent, is given the mission to track down and kill the very old Alfred Himmelman, an ex-Nazi officer, who might still be alive. Pretending to be a tourist guide, he befriends his grandson Axel, in Israel to visit his sister ...
Style: tense, captivating, suspenseful, sincere, suspense ...
Plot: gay, mossad, hitman, lgbt, male pubic hair, redemption, murder, israeli, family secret, judaism, machismo, gay slur ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: israel, germany, middle east, berlin germany, argentina ...
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 6.7
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Herstory (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 121 min.
Story: A true story of a six-year-long legal conflict of 10 comfort women and 13 attorneys against 200 Fukuoka supporters association.
Style: disturbing, psychological, captivating, tense, suspense
Plot: war crime, courtroom, legal action, life is a bitch, rape victim, court, social problems, society, lawsuit, legal investigation, female victim, hunting ...
Time: 90s
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 7.6
 24K
Conspiracy (2001)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The historical recreation of the 1942 Wannsee Conference, in which Nazi and SS leaders gathered in a Berlin suburb to discuss the "Final Solution to the Jewish Question". Lead by SS-General Reinhard Heydrich, this group of high ranking ...
Style: political, factual, disturbing, bleak, atmospheric ...
Plot: holocaust, world war two, genocide, nazi, politics, nazism, third reich, ss officer, war crime, anti semitism, racism, ss ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1942
Place: berlin germany, germany, europe
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The Hunting Party (2007)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Mexico
Duration: 101 min.
Story: An emerging journalist (Jesse Eisenberg), an experienced cameraman (Terrence Howard), and a discredited reporter (Richard Gere) find their bold plan to capture Bosnia's top war criminal quickly spiraling out of control when a UN representative ...
Style: intense, emotional, serious, talky, tense ...
Plot: journalism, journalist, cia, spy, war crime, civil war, revenge, bosnian war, danger, war, friendship, vacation ...
Time: 20th century, year 2007, 90s, 2000s
Place: bosnia, serbia, former yugoslavia, europe, new york ...
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 6.5
 11K
Triage (2009)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, War
Country: Ireland, Spain, Belgium, France, Austria, Cayman Islands
Duration: 99 min.
Story: The wife of a photojournalist sets out to discover why he came home from a recent assignment without his colleague.
Style: realistic, tense, bleak, serious, psychological ...
Plot: photojournalist, photograph, twists and turns, war correspondent, war photographer, photography, war crime, life is a bitch, haunted by the past, homecoming, war zone, photographer ...
Time: 80s, year 2009, 20th century
Place: ireland, kurdistan, iraq, bosnia, europe ...
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 6.4
 29K
Beyond Borders (2003)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance, War
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Beyond Borders is an epic tale of the turbulent romance between two star-crossed lovers set against the backdrop of the world's most dangerous hot spots. Academy Award winner Angelina Jolie stars as Sarah Jordan, an American living in London in ...
Style: touching, emotional, romantic, captivating, sincere ...
Audience: date night
Plot: charity, unfaithful wife, un, war, abroad, love, brutality, corruption, survival, starvation, surgery, life & death ...
Time: 80s, year 2003, 90s, year 1988, year 1989 ...
Place: africa, cambodia, london, england, europe ...
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This Must Be the Place (2011)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, France, Ireland
Duration: 118 min.
Story: A bored, retired rock star sets out to find his father's executioner, an ex-Nazi war criminal who is a refugee in the U.S.
Style: road movie, dark comedy, surreal, melancholic, touching ...
Plot: goth, self discovery, rock, redemption, holocaust, relationships, on the road, eccentricity, existentialism, reconciliation, obsessive quest, parent child relationship ...
Time: year 2011, 21st century
Place: ireland, new mexico, michigan, usa, dublin ireland ...
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The Quiet American (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: UK, Germany, USA, Vietnam, Australia, France, Canada, New Zealand
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A stylish political thriller where love and war collide in Southeast Asia. Set in early 1950s Vietnam, a young American becomes entangled in a dangerous love triangle when he falls for the beautiful mistress of a British journalist. As war is waged ...
Style: realistic, political, talky, intense, atmospheric ...
Plot: politics, older man younger woman relationship, journalism, war, cia, moral ambiguity, tragedy, complex characters, communism, reporter, cold war, political unrest ...
Time: 1950s, 50s, year 2002, 2000s, year 1952 ...
Place: vietnam, southeast asia, indochina, asia, hong kong ...
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Machine Gun Preacher (2011)
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, realistic, touching, biblical ...
Plot: lone hero, gunfight, christian, christianity, religion, civil war, children, child in peril, atrocity, protector, army, biopic ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 2003, 21st century
Place: uganda, africa, sudan, pennsylvania
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Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 169 min.
Story: As U.S. troops storm the beaches of Normandy, three brothers lie dead on the battlefield, with a fourth trapped behind enemy lines. Ranger captain John Miller and seven men are tasked with penetrating German-held territory and bringing the boy home.
Style: realistic, epic, breathtaking, captivating, tense ...
Audience: manly, chick flick, kids, date night, adult
Plot: war, world war two, military, courage, battles, self sacrifice, sniper, friendship, nazi, army, d day, rescue ...
Time: 1940s, year 1944, year 1998, 90s, 20th century ...
Place: normandy, poland, germany, france, europe ...
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 50K
The Report (2019)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: The story of Daniel Jones, lead investigator for the US Senate’s sweeping study into the CIA's Detention and Interrogation Program, which was found to be brutal, immoral and ineffective. With the truth at stake, Jones battled tirelessly to ...
Style: political, uplifting, ambiguous ending, psychological, enigmatic ...
Plot: investigation, cia, politics, torture, corruption, spy, u.s. government, war crime, government corruption, truth, justice, humiliation ...
Time: year 2019
Place: washington d.c., san francisco
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Bruc, the Manhunt (2010)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Spain
Duration: 85 min.
Story: 1808. The Napoleonic Army suffers its first defeat at the hands of a single man: a drummer boy who used the Montserrat mountains to echo his drums and send the enemy troops into a panicked retreat. When the news reaches Napoleon, he furiously orders ...
Style: tense, serious, suspense, exciting, perverse ...
Plot: napoleonic wars, soldier, military, on the run, rebelliousness, rivalry, vengeance, folk hero, escapades, chases and races, war crime, medieval ...
Time: 19th century, 1800s
Place: catalonia, spain, europe
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 6.4
 14K
Red Joan (2018)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story: The story of Joan Stanley, who was exposed as the KGB's longest-serving British spy.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, factual, realistic, depressing ...
Plot: woman, world war two, atomic bomb, propaganda, female spy, politics, kgb, soviet spy, oppression, russian spy, spanish civil war, female secret agent ...
Time: year 1945, 20th century, year 2019, 2000s, 1940s ...
Place: soviet union, hiroshima japan, russia, canada, montreal ...
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 6.3
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Word of Honor (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Prompted by a just-published book that holds ex-lieutenant Ben Tyson accountable for a hushed-up massacre committed by his platoon in a Hue hospital 18 years before, the army recalls Tyson to stand trial for murder. Tyson, confronted by an army ...
Style: rough, suspenseful, tense, serious, bleak ...
Plot: vietnam war, courtroom drama, army investigation, uncover truth, protagonist as suspect, rebellion, military, dedicated lawyer, legal, law enforcement, society, dishonesty ...
Place: vietnam, asia
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The Night Porter (1974)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 118 min.
Story: In this unsettling drama from Italian filmmaker Liliana Cavani, a concentration camp survivor discovers her former torturer and lover working as a porter at a hotel in postwar Vienna. When the couple attempt to re-create their sadomasochistic ...
Style: psychological, serious, controversial, disturbing, art house ...
Audience: adult
Plot: world war two, hotel, sadomasochism, nazi, eroticism, guilt, dangerous attraction, bdsm, haunted by the past, sexual perversion, holocaust, sexual abuse ...
Time: 1950s, 50s, 1940s, post world war two, 20th century ...
Place: hungary, germany, vienna, italy, frankfurt germany ...
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 9K
Far from Men (2014)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A French teacher in a small Algerian village during the Algerian War forms an unexpected bond with a dissident who is ordered to be turned in to the authorities.
Style: serious, captivating, realistic, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot: teacher, journey, algerian war, french algerian war, forced into action, prisoner, hostage, danger, on the run, misfit partners, political unrest, on the road ...
Time: 20th century, year 2014, 1950s, year 1954, 50s
Place: algeria, france, nebraska, africa
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Under the North Star (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Finland
Duration: 193 min.
Story: Perustuu Väinö Linnan samannimiseen romaanitrilogiaan, joka on yksi suomalaisen kirjallisuuden tärkeimmistä teoksista.
Style: family saga, epic, serious, captivating
Plot: revolution, class differences, rebel, trial, working class, class conflict, family history, socialism, war crime, socialist, husband wife relationship, brother brother relationship ...
Time: 1910s, 1900s, turn of the century, 1890s
Place: finland
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The Einstein Tower (2019)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Suicides have spiked in New Tokyo. Investigating a former lover's death, an ex-pat American returns to the city he was banished from. With a past filled with mistakes and jobs undone, Alec Barker is determined to finish what he starts. Even if ...
Style: captivating, exciting, suspense, suspenseful
Plot: distopia, suicide, technology, war crime, hi-tech, medical, brainwashing, police, computer, hospital, nightmare, weapons ...
Place: japan, korea, tokyo
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Rules of Engagement (2000)
Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: UK, Germany, Canada, USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Part war movie, part courtroom thriller, this gripping drama finds a war hero put on trial for a rescue mission gone terribly wrong with only his doubtful friend and fellow marine to represent him.
Style: political, tense, intense, serious, rough ...
Plot: lawyer, courtroom drama, vietnam war, courtroom, war, army investigation, military, marines, court, court case, investigation, gulf war ...
Time: y2k, 90s, 20th century, 60s
Place: middle east, usa, washington d.c., vietnam
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Below (2002)
Genre: Action, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story: In the dark silence of the sea during World War II, the submarine U.S.S. Tiger Shark prowls on what should be a routine rescue mission. But for the shell-shocked crew, trapped together in the sub's narrow corridors and constricted spaces, this ...
Style: suspense, clever, intense, psychological, scary ...
Audience: date night, boys' night
Plot: submarine, underwater, world war two, ghost, shipwreck, navy, survival, isolation, supernatural, paranoia, wartime, brutality ...
Time: year 2002, 20th century, 1940s, year 1943
Place: atlantic ocean
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The Seasoning House (2012)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The Seasoning House - where young girls are prostituted to the military. An orphaned deaf mute is enslaved to care for them. She moves between the walls and crawlspaces, planning her escape. Planning her ingenious and brutal revenge.
Style: rough, serious, realistic, bleak, tense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: kidnapping, revenge, strong violent content, rapist, confinement indoors, sexual abuse, rape and revenge, male nudity, dehumanization, danger, vengeance, escape attempt ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 2010s
Place: balkan, europe
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QB VII (1974)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 390 min.
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Story: A physician sues a novelist for publishing statements implicating the doctor in Nazi war crimes.
Style: contemplative, serious, realistic, thought provoking, gloomy ...
Plot: holocaust, world war two, courtroom drama, war crime, writers, lawsuit, post war, polish, courtroom, lawyer, obsessive quest, legal action ...
Time: 1940s, 60s
Place: europe, england, london
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 16K
Lore (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Australia, Germany, UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story: After her Nazi parents are imprisoned, Lore leads her younger siblings across a war-torn Germany in 1945. Amidst the chaos, she encounters mysterious Jewish refugee Thomas, who shatters her fragile reality with hatred and desire. To live, she must ...
Style: disturbing, tense, bleak, suspense, psychological ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: nazi, world war two, survival, holocaust, coming of age, nazism, youth, war, children, hitler, child as adult, world war ...
Time: 1940s, year 2012, 90s, year 1945, post world war two ...
Place: germany, hamburg germany, russia
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