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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Hungary, West Germany, Austria
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
A man's story parallels Hitler's rise. Austrian Klaus Schneider, wounded in World War I, recovers in the care of Dr. Emil Bettleheim. Bettleheim discovers that Schneider possesses powers of empathy and of clairvoyance, such that could aid ...
Style:
spiritual, intelligent, esoteric, sad, realistic ...
Plot:
homoeroticism, nazi occultism, world war one, world war two, uncover truth, nazi, swastika, german soldier, german history, interwar period, occult, social commentary ...
Time:
1920s, 1930s
Place:
germany, eastern europe, berlin germany
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Norway
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
April, 1940. The eyes of the world are on Narvik, a small town in northern Norway, a source of the iron ore needed for Hitler's war machine. Through two months of fierce winter warfare, the German leader is dealt with his first defeat.
Style:
dramatic, captivating, suspenseful, serious
Plot:
world war, winter, world war two, military, french soldier, cold weather, bombing, young girl, small town, hitler, defeat, battles ...
Time:
year 1940
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
The film shows the history of the Neapolitan popular revolt against the invading Germans, during the second world war. During the four days in Naples the revolt turns over in just few hours. Neapolitans slinged on rifles and guns, and they armed ...
Style:
historical drama, epic war, political drama
Plot:
world war two, fascism, war, resistance movement, nazi soldier, anti nazi, german army, partisan, italian history, civil war, resistance, boy ...
Time:
1940s, year 1962, year 1943
Place:
italy, naples italy
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Yugoslavia, USA
Duration: 410 min.
TV show
Story:
George C. Scott, Lee Grant, Virginia Madsen, Raul Julia, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio and Gabriel Byrne star in this Emmy-nominated program about the rise and fall of Italy's fascist dictator Benito Mussolini. Recounting his life with his wife, ...
Style:
family saga, historical drama, political drama
Plot:
fascism, world war two, world war, italian fascism, rape, tyrant, villain as protagonist, italian politics, son in law, ss, adultery, father daughter relationship ...
Time:
1920s, 1930s, year 1937, 1940s, post world war one ...
Place:
milan italy, austria, switzerland, italy
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA, UK, Italy
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
Fr. Hugh O'Flaherty is a Vatican official in 1943-45 who has been hiding downed pilots, escaped prisoners of war, and Italian resistance families. His diplomatic status in a Catholic country prevents Colonel Kappler from openly arresting him, ...
Style:
factual, tense, serious, suspenseful, period piece ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
nazi, world war two, catholic, vatican, soldier, fighting the system, military, uninhibited rivalry, clergy, politics, hopes, survival ...
Time:
year 1943, 1940s, 20th century, 1930s
Place:
rome italy, europe, italy, germany, california
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Genre: Biography, Comedy
Country: Sweden
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Already in his childhood, Pablo Picasso shows talent for painting and is sent to the Academy of Arts in Madrid. He becomes a painter but has to live in Paris in poverty. But one day he is discovered by a rich American millionaire and starts to earn ...
Style:
surreal, saga, semi serious, humorous, slapstick ...
Plot:
painter, art, artist, painting, art history, female nudity, famous, world war one, modernism, military, nude girl, couples ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
new york, montmartre paris, paris france, spain, europe ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: France, Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
The story of Robert Hughes-Lambert, who was captured by Nazis when his active homosexuality was discovered during the filming of Mermoz (1943).
Style:
realistic, semi serious, bleak, disturbing, biting ...
Plot:
filmmaking, world war two, biopic, wartime life, artists and showbiz, against humanity, state affairs, showbiz, life is a bitch, politics, society, actor's life ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
vichy, paris france, france
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Albania
Duration: 51 min.
Story:
Germans come amid snow and winter. In the village only people remained are women, that fight until wounded partisans, sheltered in the village, will retreat deeper and snow will cover their tracks. Face to face with the Germans and their control of ...
Style:
tense, historical drama, grim, suspenseful, black and white ...
Plot:
winter, world war two, village, nazi, occupation, resistance, cold, snow, solidarity, courage, survival, sacrifice ...
Time:
1940s, year 1970
Place:
albania
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A Russian POW joins the partisan guerrillas and proves his loyalty fighting the Nazis.
Style:
political, black and white
Plot:
world war two, partisan, great patriotic war, nazi, prisoners of war, prisoner, pow, redemption, collaborator, suspicion, nazi occupation, eastern front ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
soviet union, russia, ussr
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, USA, UK
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Czechoslovakia, 1942. Three brave Czech patriots risk everything to rid their country of its brutal Nazi leader, SS-General Reinhard Heydrich.
Style:
dramatic, realistic, serious, suspenseful, bleak
Plot:
world war two, czech history, spy, world war, holocaust, nazi, espionage, secret mission, parachutist, double suicide, nazi occupation, traitor ...
Time:
1940s, year 1941, year 1975, 20th century, year 1942
Place:
prague, europe, england, czechoslovakia, czech republic ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: Sweden, Hungary
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Swedish account of Raoul Wallenberg, the man responsible for the largest rescue of Jews during World War II.
Style:
contemplative, bleak, emotional, uplifting, thought provoking ...
Plot:
world war two, politics, genocide, rescue, nazi, nazi soldier, world war, struggle, revolutionary, revolutionary war, shoah, judaism ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
israel, hungary, europe, moscow russia, stockholm sweden ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Drama - During World War II, a woman aboard a railroad car full of deportees slips French railway worker Julien (Jérôme Deschamps) a note with an address and a simple message: "I am alive, and I love you," and he decides to track down ...
Style:
poignant, historical drama, bleak, suspense, tension ...
Plot:
world war two, occupied france, courage, holocaust, nazi occupation, jewish family, deportation, rescue, loss, tragedy, sadness, diary ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
france
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Genre: Drama, History, Music, War
Country: Greece
Duration: 230 min.
Story:
This expansive Greek drama follows a troupe of theater actors as they perform around their country during World War II. While the production that they put on is entitled "Golfo the Shepherdess," the thespians end up echoing scenes from ...
Style:
contemplative, slow cinema, aesthetic, art film, road movie ...
Plot:
world war two, masturbation, greek, greek civil war, resistance, male nudity, rape, dream, holocaust, worker, holocaust survivor, greek history ...
Time:
1940s, 1950s, 1930s, year 1975, year 1939 ...
Place:
greece, europe, ancient greece
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Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Doctor Galipeau has a brother, Emile, whose wife has just given birth to a baby boy and who dreams of owning a house. He has just examined Louis Martinet, an old man who, according to him, is in the last stages. That is why he advises Emile to ...
Style:
cult classic, anthology
Plot:
attempted murder, old man, family history, world war two, country house, house, girl scout, funeral, doctor patient relationship, innocence, television, false accusation ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, 1950s, 60s, 70s ...
Place:
saint tropez, riviera, provence, paris france
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Genre: Action, Thriller, War
Country: France, Italy, USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
As the Allied forces approach Paris in August 1944, German Colonel Von Waldheim is desperate to take all of France's greatest paintings to Germany. He manages to secure a train to transport the valuable art works even as the chaos of retreat ...
Style:
black and white, realistic, suspenseful, retro, exciting ...
Plot:
train, world war two, french resistance, saboteur, art, art theft, sabotage, nazi, resistance, military, railway, resistance movement ...
Time:
year 1944, 1940s
Place:
paris france, germany, france, europe, berlin germany ...
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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, realistic, serious, captivating, thought provoking ...
Plot:
world war two, world war, partisan, nazi occupation, military, holocaust, nazi, german soldier, fascism, fictional history, bureaucracy, shoah ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
rome italy, italy, europe
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Genre: Comedy, War
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The second part of the Seventh Company adventures.
Style:
buddy comedy, period piece, slapstick, lighthearted, funny ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
world war two, escape, pow, occupied france, disguise, captivity, mistaken identity, satire, train, officer, prison escape, resistance ...
Time:
1940s
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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: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: France, Germany, Spain
Duration: 170 min.
Story:
The film is about the French film industry from 1942 to 1944 during the Nazi occupation. The film focuses on assistant director and resistance fighter Jean Devaivre and screenwriter Jean Aurenche. Aurenche is on the move so that he doesn't have ...
Style:
emotional, suspenseful, touching, contemplative, thought provoking ...
Plot:
world war two, politics, hopes, nazi occupation, survival, human spirit, couples, love and romance, couple relations, lifestyle, society, escapades ...
Time:
1940s, year 2002, 20th century, post world war two
Place:
paris france, france, europe, vichy
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: France
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
A glimpse at the life of French singer Serge Gainsbourg, from growing up in 1940s Nazi-occupied Paris through his successful song-writing years in the 1960s to his death in 1991 at the age of 62.
Style:
surreal, atmospheric, sincere, lyrical, visually appealing ...
Plot:
musician, jazz, biopic, sex, songwriter, music, success, artist, female nudity, musician's life, art, introspection ...
Time:
60s, 80s, 20th century, 70s, 1940s ...
Place:
paris france, france, israel, europe, tokyo
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Ireland, UK, France, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
The quirky story of a young boy's adventures growing up with his stunningly beautiful mother and the two very different men who love her.
Style:
talky, serious, realistic, psychological, touching ...
Plot:
forbidden love, family relations, mother son relationship, family life, self discovery, love triangle, death in the family, parents and children, couple relations, unfulfillment, love and romance, human nature ...
Time:
post world war two
Place:
ireland, texas, austin texas, europe, france
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Three generations of a wealthy Bordeaux family are caught in the crossfire when Anne decides to run for mayor, thanks to a political pamphlet that revives an old murder scandal.
Style:
psychological, tense, suspenseful, political thriller, suspense ...
Plot:
forbidden love, incest, politics, cousins in love, haunted by the past, womanizer, murder, bourgeoisie, society, family problems, parents and children, love and romance ...
Time:
year 2003
Place:
vichy, france
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Genre: Action, Adventure, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
12 American military prisoners in World War II are ordered to infiltrate a well-guarded enemy château and kill the Nazi officers vacationing there. The soldiers, most of whom are facing death sentences for a variety of violent crimes, agree to the ...
Style:
tense, exciting, intense, suspense, serious ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night
Plot:
world war two, redemption, military, behind enemy lines, psychopath, shootout, soldier, squad, commando, nazi, world war, machismo ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, year 1967, year 1944
Place:
america, france, europe, london, brittany ...
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Genre: Action, War
Country: USA, Croatia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Learning of a Nazi plot to attack Washington, D.C. with a deadly nerve gas, Major Wright leads twelve convicts on a suicide mission deep into occupied France to destroy the secret factory where the poison is made.
Style:
exciting, realistic, captivating, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
nazi occupation, soldier, military, danger, rescue, heroes, heroic mission, world war two, anti hero, world war, french resistance, abbey ...
Time:
1940s, year 1944
Place:
france
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Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: France
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Occupied France; Lebrac leads a play war between two rival kid gangs, but a girl he likes, who's Jewish, is in danger of being discovered by local Nazi sympathisers. Lebrac and the village must now respond to the reality of what's ...
Style:
feel good, sentimental, semi serious, humorous, realistic ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, teens, pre-teens
Plot:
jewish girl, youth, friendship, world war two, mischievous children, village, young heroes, fall in love, coming of age, disorder, social relations, life is a bitch ...
Time:
1940s, year 2012, 20th century, year 1944
Place:
france, europe
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Genre: Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: Norway
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
After a failed anti-Nazi sabotage mission leaves his 11 comrades dead, Norwegian resistance fighter Jan Baalsrud finds himself fleeing from the Gestapo through the snowbound reaches of Scandinavia.
Style:
costume drama, suspense, serious, dark, inspirational ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
world war two, gestapo, nazi, resistance fighter, lone hero, ss, coping, survival, wilderness, winter, world war, nature ...
Time:
1940s, year 1943, 20th century, year 1940, year 1988 ...
Place:
germany, berlin germany, scotland
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Lucien, 14, can’t understand why his father, a serious and respected teacher, makes a fool of himself by dressing up as a clown and giving a show. André, Lucien’s father’s best friend, feels for the teenager and decides to reveal something ...
Style:
suspense, disturbing, tense, captivating, poignant ...
Plot:
world war two, occupied france, occupation, sabotage, resistance, french resistance, friendship, nazi occupation, german occupation, father son relationship, family secret, fight ...
Time:
1940s, year 2003
Place:
france
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A bad Polish actor is just trying to make a living when Poland is invaded by the Germans in World War II. His wife has the habit of entertaining young polish officers while he's on stage, which is also a source of depression to him. When one of ...
Style:
parody, humorous, entertaining, light, funny ...
Plot:
satire, farce, dark humor, world war two, disorder, german occupation, theater, actor, daring rescue, nazi, gay, gay slur ...
Time:
20th century, year 1983, 50s, 1950s, 1930s
Place:
poland, england, germany, middle east, europe
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Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story:
Four 21st century treasure seekers are transported back into the middle of a WWII battles in Soviet Union...
Style:
exciting, serious, rough
Plot:
time travel, world war two, danger, courage, friendship, battles, survival, imaginary, male nudity, war, battle zone, soldier ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
soviet union, russia, ussr
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Genre: Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
In the aftermath of World War II, a former Czech soldier takes charge of a manor formerly owned by a German family. He falls in love with the daughter, who is now a maid, and is forced to confront the stress between his love and his conscience when ...
Style:
surreal, atmospheric, touching, captivating, realistic ...
Plot:
forbidden love, world war two, military, holocaust, girl, forest, locomotive, comeback, post war, soldier, estate, haunted by the past ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
czechoslovakia, germany, czech republic
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