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Plot Summary:
The last hours in the lives of Hitler and his associates.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 453
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: black and white
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Eiszeit (1975)
Plot Summary:
Based on a very successful play of the same name by Tankred Dorst, this film tells a story about Norwegian author Knut Hamsun (here played by O.E. Hasse), a Nobel prizewinner for literature who was notorious for having collaborated with the Nazi regime. After the war, rather than hand him over for prosecution, he was sent to a retirement home. A young man, bitter about the war, tracks him down and begins to harass him in various ways. The author handles everything that comes to him with remarkable dignity, which eventually removes some of the taint from his actions.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 57
Genere: Drama
Country: West Germany, Norway
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags:
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The Queen and I (2018)
Plot Summary:
A new republican prime minister strips the British monarch and her family of their money and assets, and forces them to live on a rundown council estate.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 406
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags:
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Egomania: Island Without Hope (1986)
Plot Summary:
There will be no other end to the world: fierce battles full of hatred and love for incest and wealth.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 326
Genere: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: experimental
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Two Marines and a General (1965)
Plot Summary:
In May 1943, two American soldiers, Joe and Frank, of Italian descent are searching the North African desert for a German general called Von Kassler, when they are captured by Von Kassler aide Inge Schultze who lets them escape with fake war plans, only Joe and Frank steal the real war plans which pave way for the Allied victory. Months later, the duo once again come up against Von Kassler when they are captured at Anzio and try to outwit the Nazis a second time.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 234
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: macaroni combat
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Adolf and Marlene (1977)
Plot Summary:
When Hitler watches Marlene Dietrich in a movie, he falls in love with her. He persuades her to come back to Germany to be with him, but upon her arrival she constantly insults and provokes him until he eventually, on her command, bites the carpet to bits.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 71
Genere: Comedy
Country: West Germany
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags:
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The Toth Family (1969)
Plot Summary:
The Toth family resides in Northern Hungary. The couple has a daughter and a son, the latter a member of the armed forces. When his weary major is ordered to take a vacation, the son talks him into a visit to his family home. Comedy ensues when the Toths go overboard trying to make things pleasant for the visiting major in hopes of an easier life for their son the soldier.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: cult classic, black comedy, dark comedy, cult film
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The Tango of Our Childhood (1985)
Plot Summary:
The film is about the hard lot of a woman with an extraordinary character, who tries to raise her children and win back her husband, who left family for another woman, after return from the war.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 216
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags:
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If I Had a Gun (1971)
Plot Summary:
Vlado, an intelligent boy living in a small village, has fantasies that take him away from his humdrum life. But as the Nazi occupation begins to encroach on the townsfolk his fantasies and reality begin to merge.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 197
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Les Patates (1969)
Plot Summary:
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 Clovis rapidly becomes obsessed with storing the precious tubers.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 127
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Io non scappo... fuggo (1970)
Plot Summary:
In the confusion of combat, two Italian get separated from their squadron and become hopelessly lost. As they wander the countryside attempting to find their lost comrades, they have to adopt all manner of outrageous disguises to avoid death at the hands of whomever holds the reigns of control.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 17
Genere: Comedy, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags:
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University of Laughs (2004)
Plot Summary:
In pre-war Japan, a government censor tries to make the writer for a theater troupe alter his comedic script. As they work with and against each other, the script ends up developing in unexpected ways.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags:
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The Ceremony (1971)
Plot Summary:
Oshima’s magisterial epic, centering on the ambivalent surviving heir of the Sakurada clan, uses ritual and the microcosm of the traditional family to trace the rise and fall of militaristic Japan across several decades.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: spiritual, avant garde, cult film
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Everyone Dies Alone (1976)
Plot Summary:
When they start losing family members and neighbors due to WWII and the Nazi government's policies, a quiet married couple becomes disillusioned and begins spreading leaflets against the government - a crime punishable by death.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 262
Genere: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags:
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The Sea and Poison (1986)
Plot Summary:
Downed American fliers in WW II are vivisected by Japanese surgeons in medical experiments.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 309
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: retro
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Sour Grape (1974)
Plot Summary:
Two years after receiving news of his father’s death in WWII a young boy continues to wait for trains from the front. The boy lives with his crippled uncle rather than with his mother, who has remarried and has another child. Then one day the father returns.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 89
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags:
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The Soldier and the Elephant (1978)
Plot Summary:
Soldier Armenak is given an extraordinary task: to transport an elephant from Germany to the Yerevan Zoo.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 102
Genere: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags:
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I'm Alive and I Love You (1998)
Plot Summary:
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 the intended recipients. When he finds the woman's Jewish family, he is inspired to do what he can to protect them from the Nazi atrocities. This compelling drama from director Roger Kahane co-stars Dorian Lambert. - Jérôme Deschamps, Dorian Lambert, Agnès Soral.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 81
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Signs of Life (1968)
Plot Summary:
During World War II, three German soldiers are withdrawn from combat when one of them, Stroszek, is wounded. They are assigned to a small coastal community on the Greek island of Kos while Stroszek recuperates. The men become increasingly stir crazy in their uneventful new assignment. Stroszek eventually goes mad.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, atmospheric, serious, realistic, black and white, avant garde
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Little Alexander (1981)
Plot Summary:
May of 1945. Soviet soldiers conducting an operation to rescue the children in a small town in the territory of Germany.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 114
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union, East Germany
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags:
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Valiant Hearts (2021)
Plot Summary:
In August 1942, during the Second World War, Six Jewish children are trying to escape the Nazis. They are hidden by the resistance in the Chambord Castle, where paintings from Le Louvre are being stored as well. The Nazis are looking for paintings from private collections that would be hidden there as well.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 83
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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The Two of Us (1967)
Plot Summary:
A story of the caring friendship formed between a crusty, old anti-Semite and an eight-year-old Jewish boy who goes to live with him during World War II.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: anthology, cult classic, semi autobiographical, sentimental, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, contemplative
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A Self-Made Hero (1996)
Plot Summary:
Set in France at the end of World War II Albert Dehousse finds out his father wasn't a war hero and his mother is a collaborator.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, biting, suspense
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I Can Speak (2017)
Plot Summary:
A grumpy old woman befriends a young civil servant and learns English from him. She then reveals to him her shocking past.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, humorous, captivating, satirical, cult film
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Stroszek (1977)
Plot Summary:
Bruno Stroszek is released from prison and warned to stop drinking. He has few skills and fewer expectations: with a glockenspiel and an accordion, he ekes out a living as a street musician. He befriends Eva, a prostitute down on her luck and they join his neighbor, Scheitz, an elderly eccentric, when he leaves Germany to live in Wisconsin.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: road movie, surreal, dark, depressing, dark comedy, mind bending, psychedelic, political, sad, artsy
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About a Girl (2014)
Plot Summary:
Charleen is 15, melodramatic, mega depressed, and Kurt Cobain’s biggest fan. Her best friend Isa is getting really boring, her dad is out of the picture, and her mom has hooked up with her biology teacher. Even though she has an apprenticeship preparing bodies for funerals, which is pretty cool, her musical idols are all dead. It’s about time Charleen was, too.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 889
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, satirical, disturbing, semi serious, feel good
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Mother Kusters Goes to Heaven (1975)
Plot Summary:
Frau Kusters is preparing dinner late one seemingly ordinary afternoon in her seemingly ordinary kitchen in Frankfurt, Germany. Mrs. Kusters wants to add canned sausages to the stew, her annoying daughter-in-law thinks otherwise. The point, we soon find out, is moot: Mr. Kusters has murdered the personnel director at the soap factory where he works before committing suicide.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: art house, black comedy, thought provoking, serious, realistic, disturbing, controversial, cynical, biting, suspense
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Europa (1991)
Plot Summary:
An American, Leopold Kessler, goes to post-war Germany in 1945 to work as a railroad conductor for the Zentropa Rail Line instead of going into the Army because he feels its a more valuable thing to do for the state of the world. He meets Katharina Hartmann, the daughter of the railroad owner and they fall in love.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Denmark, Sweden, France, Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: art house, surreal, bleak, psychological, gloomy, black and white, atmospheric, suspenseful, noir, cerebral
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Look Who's Back (2015)
Plot Summary:
Adolf Hitler wakes up in a vacant lot in Berlin, with no knowledge of anything that happened after 1945. Homeless and destitute. Although everyone recognizes him, nobody believes that he is Hitler; instead, they think he is either a comedian, or a method actor.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 49000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Germany
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: political, realistic, absurd, stylized, psychological, controversial, visually appealing, road movie, intellectual, social
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My Führer (2007)
Plot Summary:
Hitler no longer believes in himself, and can barely see himself as an equal to even his sheep dog. But to seize the helm of the war he would have to create one of his famous fiery speeches to mobilize the masses. Goebbels therefore brings a Jewish acting teacher Grünbaum and his family from the camps in order to train the leader in rhetoric. Grünbaum is torn, but starts Hitler in his therapy.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, suspense, offbeat, humorous, controversial, not serious, slapstick comedy, slapstick
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Inside the Third Reich (1982)
Plot Summary:
A dramatization of the life of Albert Speer, Hitler's young architect and onetime confidant, and his meteoric rise into the Nazi hierarchy. Based upon Speer's own monograph of the same title.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 678
Genere: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 240 min
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