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Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: USA, Germany
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, breathtaking, inspirational, atmospheric, witty ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night, chick flick, date night, adult
Plot:
world war two, nazism, nazi, war, vengeance, dark humor, alternate history, working undercover, violence, dialogue, violent, blood ...
Time:
year 2009, 2000s, 1940s, 20th century, post world war two
Place:
paris france, france, germany, america, europe
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: Norway, Sweden, Belgium
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Sonja Wigert, Scandinavia's most acclaimed female movie star, enlists as a spy for Swedish intelligence but ends up becoming entangled with the German Reichskommissar Terboven.
Style:
historical drama, suspense, tension, period piece
Plot:
world war two, espionage, spy, double agent, deception, female protagonist, female spy, moral ambiguity, nazi germany, betrayal, danger, political intrigue ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
stockholm sweden, oslo norway
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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, History, War
Country: Norway, Sweden
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
During World War II, millions of Jews from all over Europe are deported and killed in German concentration camps. When the German troops invade Norway, the Norwegian Jews feel safe and protected. But anti-Semitism knows no borders and as the war ...
Style:
historical drama
Plot:
world war two, refugee, police, boxer, jewish family, nazi collaborator, female nudity, german occupation, jew persecution, resistance fighter, bare chested male, bureaucrat ...
Time:
year 1942, year 1939, year 1940, 1940s
Place:
oslo norway
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
Betrayed by an informant, Philippe Gerbier (Lino Ventura) finds himself trapped in a torturous Nazi prison camp. Though Gerbier escapes to rejoin the Resistance in occupied Marseilles, France, and exacts his revenge on the informant, he must ...
Style:
noir, visually appealing, art house, captivating, stylized ...
Plot:
french resistance, world war two, terrorist, espionage, nazi, resistance, spy, wartime, nazism, world war, betrayal, resistance movement ...
Time:
1940s, year 1969, 20th century, year 1943, year 1942
Place:
paris france, vichy, lyon, marseille, europe ...
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
The night of August 24, 1944. The fate of Paris is in the hands of General von Choltitz, governor of Grand Paris, who is preparing, on Hitler’s orders, to blow up the French capital. The descendent of a long line of Prussian military men, the ...
Style:
realistic, captivating, serious, talky, political
Plot:
world war two, diplomacy, soldier, german occupation, wartime life, danger, disobey, race against time, nazi, sabotage, french resistance, obedience ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1944, year 2014
Place:
paris france, germany, france, europe
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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: 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:
captivating, realistic, suspenseful, serious, suspense ...
Plot:
world war two, wartime life, wartime, against the odds, life is a bitch, danger, daring rescue, german occupation, prospector, nazi occupation, resistance fighter, resistance ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
europe, poland
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Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
In the occupied Netherlands during World War II, banker Walraven van Hall (Barry Atsma) is asked to use his financial contacts to help the Dutch resistance. He doesn’t have to think about it for long. With his brother Gijs van Hall (Jacob Derwig), ...
Style:
thought provoking, suspense, captivating, touching, disturbing ...
Plot:
world war two, resistance, soldier, war hero, nazi, sibling relationship, german occupation, shoah, friends, dictatorship, dictator, society ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1942, year 1944
Place:
netherlands, amsterdam
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Belgium, Netherlands, Poland
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Two young police officers find themselves torn between collaboration and resistance as they navigate the Nazi-occupied Antwerp during World War II.
Style:
period drama
Plot:
drunken man, suicide, little girl, wartime, corpse, ss, swastika, nazi occupation, murder, police officer, accidental death, aunt nephew relationship ...
Time:
year 1942
Place:
antwerp
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
During a shaky 24-hour holiday truce amid the Battle of the Bulge, American Captain John Myers and a Belgian farm girl, Alina, fall in love. Forced to separate when fighting resumes, the couple vows to reunite, under a bell tower, the first ...
Style:
romantic, sincere, suspenseful, captivating, disturbing ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
christmas, world war two, parachuting, truce, military, christmas spirit, male female relationship, coping, against the odds, forbidden love, true love, end of war ...
Time:
1940s, year 1945, year 1944
Place:
belgium
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Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The four sequences in the film cover four days in a life of young Warsaw lad in September 1938, 1939, 1943 and 1944. In the first sequence Jurek decides not to study in the Sorbonne but enlists in a Polish military school instead. In the second ...
Plot:
world war two, nazi occupation, bird, rebellion, autobiography, bribe, resistance, stepmother stepson relationship, german occupation, coming of age, rich, tragic event ...
Time:
1940s, year 1939, 1930s, year 1944, year 1943 ...
Place:
poland, warsaw poland
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Greece
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
One of filmmaker and expatriate writer Adonis Kyrou's best-known quotes translates roughly as "I urge you: Learn to look at 'bad' films, they are so often sublime." The same could be said of Kyrou's own directorial work ...
Style:
historical drama, tension, suspense, political, controversial ...
Plot:
resistance, world war two, occupation, traitor, nazi, betrayal, moral dilemma, black market, survival, underground movement, collaboration, guilt ...
Time:
1940s
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Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
This film, chronicling the last days of Czech resistance fighter Maruska Kuderikova (played by Magda Vasaryova), is based on her diaries. Though she was tortured and eventually executed by the Nazis, her diaries indicate that she was optimistic for ...
Style:
erotic, freeze frame, period drama
Plot:
world war two, czech history, renaissance, women's prison, female protagonist, european history, rural setting, female friendship, jail cell, bravery, german occupation, imprisonment ...
Time:
1940s, year 1942, 20th century
Place:
eastern europe, czechoslovakia, europe, central europe
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Greece
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Two stories set in northern Greece during World War II.
Style:
period piece, black and white, grim, bleak, psychological ...
Plot:
world war two, retreat, sacrifice, loss, tragedy, survival, desperation, battlefield, wounded, trauma, anti war, realism ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
greece
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301
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 269 min.
TV show
Story:
Despite rumors of impending war, the majestic ship Normandie makes its transatlantic voyage from Washington D.C., to France. Aboard is beautiful, American-born Liane De Villiers, devoted to her much-older husband, the French ambassador to the United ...
Style:
romantic drama, suspense, period drama
Plot:
world war two, infidelity, love triangle, love, moral ambiguity, ocean liner, ambassador, betrayal, diplomacy, tragic romance, high society, nazi occupation ...
Place:
france, usa, europe, san francisco, paris france
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Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
A communist journalist from Prague is sent to Ravensbruck concentration camp.
Style:
crying, freeze frame, period drama
Plot:
world war two, concentration camp, prisoner, biopic, cooking, sadistic woman, evil mother, czech german relations, dead child, wound, factory worker, masseuse ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1942, 1930s
Place:
europe, central europe, czechoslovakia, prague
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Genre: Action, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
The assassination of Heydrich in Prague during WWII.
Style:
political thriller, period drama
Plot:
world war two, nazi, paratrooper, parachutist, man on a mission, czech history, swordplay, cycling, shootout, woods, horse riding, hiding place ...
Time:
year 1942, year 1941, 1940s
Place:
czech republic, prague, berlin germany, central europe, czechoslovakia
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Norway
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
When is an enemy not an enemy, when is an ally not an ally? The answer to these questions determines the fate of a man. Simons struggle is played out against the rugged landscape of northern Norway. Raised in a close-knit community, he bears the ...
Style:
offbeat
Plot:
world war two, boat, traitor, nato, espionage, communism, fishing, nazi, fishing boat, fisherman, spy hero, german occupation ...
Time:
1940s, post world war two
Place:
soviet union, ussr
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
In a village in the Ardennes, during the German occupation, finding rations is becoming almost impossible. Clovis, an ordinary labourer, decides to cross the occupied zone to bring back enough potatoes to feed his family. His plan is a success but ...
Style:
historical drama, melancholic, tense, grim, period drama
Plot:
world war two, nazi occupation, starvation, survival, french countryside, desperation, character study, obsession, village life, risk, agriculture, smuggling ...
Time:
1940s
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Genre: War, Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
The year is 1965. Natasa Arseni visits Dachau, the place where she was found by the Americans at the end of the World War II. She returns to Greece, and during the train ride she recalls those past events. Before the beginning of the Greek-Italian ...
Plot:
world war two, resistance fighter, world war, performer, captive, forgiveness, impersonation, ruins, soldier, greek, nazi, concentration camp ...
Time:
1940s, year 1940, 70s
Place:
greece, athens greece, hellas
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Genre: Comedy, Music, War
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
It is 1943 in Paris. Like so many others, the Bourbelle family's home has been taken over by the Germans and they now live in their cellar. Little do they know that the son, Guy-Hubert Bourdelle, is far from being the cowardly hairdresser he ...
Style:
cult classic, parody, spoof
Plot:
world war two, lgbt, satire, french resistance, german officer, musician, singer, debate, widow, revenge, half brother, gestapo ...
Time:
1940s, 70s
Place:
france, paris france
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 50 min.
Story:
In SIRIUS, a young boy whose most cherished companion is his loyal German shepherd devises his own form of resistance when the Nazis arrest his father, then order the confiscation of local canines, including his pet, to be retrained as attack dogs ...
Style:
historical drama, tense, bleak, period piece, tragic ...
Plot:
world war two, human animal relationship, loyalty, german shepherd, nazi occupation, resistance, child protagonist, grief, empathy, political repression, loss of innocence, animal cruelty ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
czechoslovakia, central europe, europe
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Genre: Drama, Music, Romance, War
Country: UK, France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A young refugee travels from Russia to America in search of her lost father and falls in love with a gypsy horseman.
Style:
visually stunning, lyrical, intense, serious, touching ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
love story, culture clash, gypsy, world war two, anti semitism, secrets, wartime, adaptation, adoption, family relations, holocaust, love and romance ...
Time:
1930s, 1920s, 20th century
Place:
russia, england, paris france, france, poland ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 210 min.
Story:
In this sexually frank French drama, the aimless young Alexandre juggles his relationships with his girlfriend, Marie, and a casual lover named Veronika. The dialogue-heavy film focuses intently on the love triangle, with Marie increasingly jealous ...
Style:
sexual, sexy, black and white, serious, psychological ...
Plot:
sex scene, cafe, love triangle, friendship, infidelity, obsession, introspection, love and romance, love affair, tragic love, hopes, lifestyle ...
Time:
20th century, year 1973, year 1972, 70s, 60s
Place:
france, paris france, new york, hamburg germany, europe ...
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Algeria, France, Morocco, Belgium
Duration: 120 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:
emotional, realistic, rough, serious, political ...
Plot:
battles, war, world war two, politics, brutality, justice, military, muslim, survival, racism, self esteem, ethnic conflict ...
Time:
year 1944, 50s, 20th century, 1940s, year 2006 ...
Place:
africa, algeria, morocco, italy, europe ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: UK, Germany, Australia, USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
This is a drama set in Nazi-occupied France at the height of World War II. Charlotte Gray tells the compelling story of a young Scottish woman working with the French Resistance in the hope of rescuing her lover, a missing RAF pilot. Based on the ...
Style:
sexy, sentimental, romantic, captivating, realistic ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
espionage, war, french resistance, nazi, holocaust, world war two, wartime life, women, resistance, wartime, secret agent, world war ...
Time:
1940s, year 2001, 20th century, post world war two
Place:
france, london, paris france, europe, scotland ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Nine years ago two strangers met by chance and spent a night in Vienna that ended before sunrise. They are about to meet for the first time since. Now they have one afternoon to find out if they belong together.
Style:
philosophical, emotional, sentimental, romantic, sexy ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot:
relationships, couples, dialogue, love story, lovers reunited, love and romance, true love, chance meeting, one day, lovers, passion, destiny ...
Time:
year 2004, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
paris france, france, europe, new york, warsaw poland ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
While the Nazis occupied most of France, Jacques (Vincent Perez) has been active in the liberation underground. Now that the Allies have freed a significant portion of their country from German control, he and his buddy Michel (Matthieu Roze) can ...
Style:
captivating, realistic, serious, emotional
Plot:
world war two, war, love triangle, friendship, concierge, couples, friends, love and romance, military, couple relations, soldier, buddies ...
Time:
1940s, year 1944
Place:
paris france, france
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
On the night of 16 July 1942, ten year old Sarah and her parents are being arrested and transported to the Velodrome d'Hiver in Paris where thousands of other jews are being send to get deported. Sarah however managed to lock her little brother ...
Style:
emotional, sexy, disturbing, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
holocaust, jewish family, nazism, shoah, separation from family, occupation, death, guilt, suicide of mother, investigation, journalism, haunted by the past ...
Time:
year 1942, 20th century, 2000s, year 2010, 1940s ...
Place:
manhattan new york city, paris france, france, new york, middle east ...
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