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Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The Political drama shows the denunciation and persecution of the 19-year-old Sanne in the Nazi state. After she falls in love with her cousin, Sanne is betrayed by her jealous aunt to the Gestapo.
Style:
historical drama, bleak, period piece, tension, gloomy ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
female nudity, accusation, gestapo, jealousy, love, political persecution, political oppression, victimization, totalitarianism, nazi germany, forbidden love, social injustice ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
germany
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: West Germany
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Starting in late May 1944, during the German retreat on the Eastern Front, Captain Stransky (Helmut Griem) orders Sergeant Steiner (Richard Burton) to blow up a railway tunnel to prevent Russian forces from using it. Steiner's platoon fails in ...
Plot:
world war two, eastern front, world war, ss, nazi, german soldier, military, occupied france, holocaust, revolution, war, revolutionary ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1944, year 1979
Place:
normandy, france, paris france
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 148 min.
Story:
May 1944, a group of French servicewomen and resistance fighters are enlisted into the British Special Operations Executive commando group under the command of Louise Desfontaines and her brother Pierre. Their mission, to rescue a British army ...
Style:
realistic, serious, suspense, tense, historical drama ...
Plot:
world war two, french resistance, wartime life, female agent, resistance, rescue, betrayal, heroic mission, gestapo, hospital, espionage, military ...
Time:
1940s, year 1945, year 1944, post world war two
Place:
london, france, paris france, europe, england ...
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK, West Germany
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
It is 1943, and the German army, ravaged and demoralised, are hastily retreating from the Russian front. In the midst of all this madness, conflict brews between the aristocratic yet ultimately pusillanimous Captain Stransky and the courageous ...
Style:
freeze frame, political, cult classic, brutal, perverse ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
world war two, german soldier, eastern front, military, soldier, war, battlefield, german army, anti war, wehrmacht, nazi, blood ...
Time:
1940s, year 1943, 20th century, year 1977
Place:
bolivia, germany, siberia, france, russia ...
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Genre: Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Japan, USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Wounded in Africa during World War II, Nazi Col. Claus von Stauffenberg returns to his native Germany and joins the Resistance in a daring plan to create a shadow government and assassinate Adolf Hitler. When events unfold so that he becomes a ...
Style:
bad ending, factual, tense, period piece, realistic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
world war two, nazi, nazism, nazi germany, conspiracy, war, hitler, german soldier, resistance, politics, wehrmacht, gestapo ...
Time:
1940s, year 2008, year 1944, year 1943, 20th century ...
Place:
germany, berlin germany, europe, munich germany, tunisia ...
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: France, West Germany, Italy
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A French boarding school run by priests seems to be a haven from World War II until a new student arrives. He becomes the roommate of top student in his class. Rivals at first, the roommates form a bond and share a secret.
Style:
sad, heartbreaking, art house, depressing, reflective ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
nazi, friendship, world war two, nazism, childhood, french resistance, coming of age, holocaust, gestapo, lgbt teen, nazi occupation, anti semitism ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1987, year 1944
Place:
france, paris france, israel, europe, jerusalem ...
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, War
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A true story shot in a German Impressionistic style. In France during the Nazi occupation, Dr. Petiot (Michel Serrault) offered to help Jews escape the Nazis. They would come to his house, and he would kindly give them lethal ...
Style:
anthology, freeze frame, neurotic
Plot:
serial killer, world war two, chess, true crime, doctor, killing spree, killer, mass murder, stolen goods, criminal as protagonist, elderly woman, murderer ...
Time:
1940s, year 1942, year 1943, 20th century
Place:
france, paris france
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Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: Germany, Italy
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
The breath-taking story of a man who nearly would have changed the world. 1939, when Hitler tricked millions of people at the height of his power, one said a radical No: Georg Elser, disparaged as an assassin, is one of the greatest resistance ...
Style:
realistic, serious, tense, suspenseful
Audience:
kids
Plot:
hitler, nazi germany, world war two, gestapo, resistance fighter, battered woman, bolshevik, nazi, hitler youth, assassination attempt, anti fascist, third reich ...
Time:
year 1939, 1930s, pre world war two, year 1929, year 1932 ...
Place:
germany, munich germany, europe, switzerland, berlin germany
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Genre: Drama, Horror, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Set during the Nazi occupation of Poland, in which Michal witnesses the murder of his mother, wife and child. He is hurled into a life that literally is not his own; a surreal world littered with trapdoors, doppelgängers and wormholes. It also ...
Style:
surreal, disturbing, bleak, psychological, psychedelic ...
Plot:
world war two, nazi occupation, dead child, nun, lice, surrealism, blood, father son relationship, philosophy, bible, insanity, experiment ...
Place:
poland, eastern europe
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Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: UK, Japan
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Max is a handsome young man who, after a fateful tryst with a German soldier, is forced to run for his life. Eventually Max is placed in a concentration camp where he pretends to be Jewish because in the eyes of the Nazis, gays are the lowest form ...
Style:
sexy, homoerotic, disturbing, brutal, serious ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night
Plot:
gay, holocaust, lgbtq, gay interest, sex scene, gay love, nazi, making love, glbt, homosexuality, lgbt, gay slur ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, year 1944, year 1997, 20th century ...
Place:
europe, berlin germany, poland, germany, london
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Germany, Austria, Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
In 1944, a group of high command officers plot an attempt against Hitler, and one of the leaders of the conspiracy, Stauffenberg (Sebastian Koch), goes to a meeting with the Fuhrer in charge of exploding the place. However, Hitler survives and the ...
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating
Plot:
hitler, world war two, assassination attempt, nazi, national socialism, war, conspiracy, plan gone wrong, wartime life, leadership, military, danger ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, post world war two
Place:
germany
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
World War II drama about covert organisation Lifeline helping allied airmen escape after being shot down in occupied Europe, working with the Resistance and hiding from the Gestapo.
Style:
costume drama, tension, period piece, suspense, grim ...
Plot:
world war two, resistance, escape, gestapo, luftwaffe, underground movement, nazi germany, occupation, sacrifice, survival, courage, heroism ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
belgium, brussels, brussels belgium
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Arch of Triumph is a 1985 British made-for-television film based on the novel Arch of Triumph by Erich Maria Remarque, which was previously adapted in 1948 for a film of the same name with Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer. Dr. Ravic (Anthony ...
Style:
noir, emotional, gloomy, sincere, realistic ...
Plot:
world war two, nazi, concentration camp, wartime, doctor, intrigue, against humanity, unfulfillment, war, vengeance, life is a bitch, couple relations ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
paris france, france, europe, germany
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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, tense, apocalyptic, serious, captivating ...
Audience:
family friendly, adult
Plot:
espionage, alternate reality, alternate history, fascism, resistance, multiverse, freedom fighter, assassination, political intrigue, politics, undercover, seppuku ...
Time:
60s, post world war two, 20th century, year 1962
Place:
japan, berlin germany, usa, san francisco, cuba ...
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Early in 1939 Sir Robert Thorndyke takes aim at Adolf Hitler with a high powered rifle, but the shot misses its mark. Captured and tortured by the Gestapo and left for dead, Sir Robert makes his way back to England where he discovers the Gestapo has ...
Style:
noir, realistic, serious, exciting, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
world war two, persecution, sauna, gestapo, torture, pursuit, loss of loved one, uncle nephew relationship, black cat, hunting, hunter, on the run ...
Time:
1930s, year 1939
Place:
england, europe, london, germany
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
A romantic drama set in 1930's England, Paris, and Spain. Gilda Bessé shares her Paris apartment with an Irish schoolteacher, Guy Malyon, and Mia, a refugee from Spain. As the world drifts toward war, Gilda defiantly pursues her hedonistic ...
Style:
romantic, sexy, sentimental, captivating, erotic ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
world war two, lesbian, love triangle, bisexual woman, spanish civil war, sexual relations, orgy, sex scene, nazi, love story, nazi occupation, fascism ...
Time:
1940s, year 1944, 1920s, 1930s, year 1938 ...
Place:
paris france, spain, france, england, germany ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
In 1944 Poland, a Jewish shop keeper named Jakob is summoned to ghetto headquarters after being caught out after curfew. While waiting for the German Kommondant, Jakob overhears a German radio broadcast about Russian troop movements. Returned to the ...
Style:
sad, cult classic, emotional, uplifting, semi serious ...
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, jewish ghetto, shoah, nazi, gestapo, world war, radio, judaism, hopes, lie, death ...
Time:
1940s, year 1999, 20th century, year 1942, year 1939 ...
Place:
poland, germany, europe, russia
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
This is rural France. It's the summer of 1943, the weather is fine and sunny and life is sweet. On one of these beautiful days, Nanette, a fourteen-year-old peasant girl, meets a slightly injured young man near the farm she lives on. Her life ...
Style:
crying, neurotic
Plot:
world war two, female pubic hair, revenge, older man younger woman relationship, older man younger woman romance, love hate relationship, french resistance, parachutist, rural setting, male pubic hair, bare chested male, public nudity ...
Time:
1940s, year 1943
Place:
germany, france
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Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Lithuania, USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
When loyalty to country becomes loyalty to a lie, one teen risks everything to expose the truth. With the Gestapo closing in, he must decide what it really means to be a good German.
Style:
historical drama, intense, tension, period piece, bleak ...
Plot:
nazi germany, oppression, moral dilemma, resistance, totalitarianism, world war two, gestapo, conscience, friendship, loss of innocence, fear, propaganda ...
Time:
1940s, year 1941
Place:
germany, hamburg germany
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
1944. Resistance-fighter Bakker gets send to a prison in Leeuwarden by the Gestapo. There he and other resistance-fighters are about to be rescued in a giant prison escape by their companions
Style:
tension, historical drama, realistic, heroic, grim
Plot:
world war two, resistance movement, prison break, rescue mission, gestapo, bravery, prisoner of war camp, prison escape, nazi, pow, sacrifice, ruse ...
Place:
netherlands
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Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
December 1942. Julia, a young schoolteacher, watches powerlessly as her husband Paul, a resistant fighter, is arrested by the Gestapo. Thrust into an underground resistance network determined to rescue Paul, Julia must accept a highly dangerous ...
Style:
historical drama, psychological, romantic drama, thrilling, romantic ...
Plot:
female protagonist, love triangle, gestapo, french resistance, world war two, love story, relationships, male female relationship, romantic relationship, family relations, resistance fighter, fall in love ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 200 min.
TV show
Story:
An American writer on the Riviera courts a Russian singer who is spying on Nazis for revenge.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, romantic, romantic drama, atmospheric ...
Plot:
world war two, revenge, vengeance, double agent, gestapo, espionage, betrayal, secrets, undercover agent, intrigue, glamour, love triangle ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
monte carlo, french riviera, riviera
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Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: West Germany, Austria
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A true story about Johann Georg Elser, a quiet carpenter who tried to assassinate Hitler with an explosive device in 1939.
Style:
historical drama, bleak, political thriller, period piece, melancholic ...
Plot:
world war two, nazi, nazi germany, assassination attempt, biopic, gestapo, sacrifice, courage, resistance, moral ambiguity, investigation, underdog ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century
Place:
germany, munich germany
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Berlin 1943/44 ("The Battle of Berlin"). Felice, an intelligent and courageous Jewish woman who lives under a false name, belongs to an underground organization. Lilly, a devoted mother of four, though an occasional unfaithful wife, is ...
Style:
erotic, romantic, sexual, romantic drama, historical drama ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
lesbian, lesbian relationship, lesbian love, lgbtq, lesbian interest, holocaust, gays and lesbians, woman in danger, nazi, society, forbidden love, couples ...
Time:
ancient times, year 1999, 1940s, 20th century, year 1943 ...
Place:
germany, europe, berlin germany
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 830 min.
TV show
Story:
The series is based on a true story of a Russian spy Colonel Isaev (Stirlitz) in Fascist Germany during 17 days in very end of WWII. Stirlitz has worked his way to the very top of the Fascist hierarchy without being caught. However, his ...
Style:
serious, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
world war two, spy, nazi, danger, nazi germany, espionage, state affairs, undercover agent, gestapo, undercover, working undercover, intrigue ...
Time:
1940s, year 1945, 20th century
Place:
soviet union, ussr, germany, europe, switzerland ...
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
In this highly speculative historical thriller, Colonel Franz Ritter (George C. Scott), a former hero pilot now working for military intelligence, is assigned to the great Hindenburg airship as its chief of security. As he races against the clock to ...
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, realistic, serious, detective ...
Plot:
disaster, aviation, natural disaster, zeppelin, terrorist, gestapo, conspiracy, world war two, nazi, technology, investigation, flying ...
Time:
1930s, year 1975, 20th century, year 1937, future ...
Place:
new jersey, usa, europe, new york, frankfurt germany ...
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Genre: Biography, History, War
Country: France
Story:
The story of Jean Moulin, a French civil servant and resistant who succeeded in unifying the main networks of the French Resistance in World War II, and who served as the first President of the National Council of the Resistance during the German ...
Style:
tense, bleak, poignant, educational, suspenseful ...
Plot:
heroism, biopic, resistance movement, nazi germany, world war two, sacrifice, occupation, french resistance, patriotism, leadership, martyrdom, interrogation ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
france, paris france
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Michel Jussieu, a film producer, returns one morning to the cabaret where he forgot his sweater. He discovers the corpse of an extreme right-wing journalist, but immediately he is knocked out. He wakes up in the police station ...
Style:
historical drama, suspense, noir, period drama
Plot:
world war two, murder, accusation, moral dilemma, collaboration, moral ambiguity, guilt, betrayal, interrogation, resistance movement, memory, character study ...
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Finland, Estonia, Sweden, Austria, Germany
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
1942. The State of Finland has formed an alliance with Nazi Germany. An elderly man single-handedly tries to stop a secret attempt by the Finnish State Police to hand over Jewish refugees directly to the Gestapo.
Style:
historical drama, suspenseful, bleak, period piece, tension ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
world war two, anti semitism, persecution, collaboration, moral dilemma, secret police, resistance, danger, courage, gestapo, risk, survival ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
finland
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Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
This is a tale of how the angel of life was confronted by the angel of death. Set in Auschwitz Birkenau, 1944.
Style:
bleak, captivating, suspense, disturbing, psychological ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
world war two, concentration camp, midwife, auschwitz, war criminal, atrocity, holocaust, life is a bitch, abortionist, jew persecution, wartime, female protagonist ...
Time:
1940s
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