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Plot Summary:
Melodrama set in Czech Republic during the Germain occupation.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 168
Genere: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: sentimental, romantic, captivating, melancholic, suspenseful, crying
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The Teacher (2016)
Plot Summary:
The principal of an elementary school calls a special parents meeting after it’s alleged that the seemingly empathetic and kindly-looking teacher Mrs. Drazděchová uses her students to manipulate their parents.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Slovakia, Czech Republic
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: touching, melancholic, tense, captivating, dark comedy, allegory, non-linear
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A Different Story (1978)
Plot Summary:
A gay man and a lesbian enter into a marriage of convenience in order to prevent his deportation, and then gradually fall in love with one another.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 473
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: lgbt cinema, crying, independent film, freeze frame, gay cinema
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Honeymoon (2013)
Plot Summary:
A wedding is supposed to be a joyous occasion, but things can go awry. When an uninvited guest turns up at the church and later at the reception as well, the newly-weds’ day turns sour. Shadows of the past can blight the most sumptuous of banquets and rend the most affectionate of embraces.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 519
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, disturbing
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Storyteller (2014)
Plot Summary:
A loose adaption of Bára Nesvadbová's novel of the same name. A novel that lacks a dramatic line and concentrates on the flow of emotions and feelings of two injured and beloved women, two women that the aging lothario Mára came between. The theme of the entire book is the degree and limit of love, a right and ability to love several people simultaneously while hurting them at the same time. Written by Czech Film Center.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 115
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Czech Republic
Duration:
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, suspense, melancholic, suspenseful, disturbing, non-linear, detective
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Cuckoo in a Dark Forest (1985)
Plot Summary:
Set in World War 2 as the Germans occupy Czechoslovakia, teenage Emilka's father is murdered by the Nazis, but she is selected for special treatment by virtue of being blonde. She is billeted with the commandant of a concentration camp near the Baltic coast, where his kindness towards her provokes his wife's jealousy, but is compromised when Emilka witnesses his brutality towards the prisoners.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 110
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Poland, Czechoslovakia
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: crying, freeze frame
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Appeal to Your Love (1989)
Plot Summary:
A sad story about love between Czech boy and German girl during 1944.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 142
Genere: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: period piece
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A Journal for Jordan (2021)
Plot Summary:
Based on the true story of First Sergeant Charles Monroe King, a soldier deployed to Iraq begins to keep a journal of love and advice for his infant son. Back at home, senior New York Times editor Dana Canedy revisits the story of her unlikely, life-altering relationship with King and his enduring devotion to her and their child.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min
Plot tags: romantic
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Story of Women (1988)
Plot Summary:
During World War II, in occupied France, a woman of limited schooling raises two children in a ratty flat.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, History, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: anthology, sincere, thought provoking, bleak, serious, realistic, disturbing, crying, eighties
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Lacombe, Lucien (1974)
Plot Summary:
In 1944 Lucien Lacombe, a young peasant in the Lot region is refused permission to join the French Resistance. Instead, the opposing "French Gestapo" obtain from him information about an underground leader and recruit him into their organization.Lucien enjoys his power and inclusion as a member of the German Police (Milice française) but soon falls in love with a Jewish girl. Forcing himself upon her family, Lucien becomes personally involved with the very people some of his collaborators and superiors are, in part, employed to oppress.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, War
Country: France, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags: anthology, art house, postmodern, visual, psychological, sincere, serious, realistic, disturbing, controversial
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Divided We Fall (2000)
Plot Summary:
In Nazi occupied Czechoslovakia, a childless couple agree to hide a Jewish friend at great personal risk of discovery and execution.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: surreal, compassionate, lyrical, uplifting, touching, disturbing, serious, realistic, gloomy, light
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Free Men (2011)
Plot Summary:
In Paris during WWII, an Algerian immigrant is inspired to join the resistance by his unexpected friendship with a Jewish man. Based on not very known facts about the Muslim community in Paris during WWII, when the Paris Mosque and its dynamic leader played a pivotal role in supporting the resistance and rescuing Jews.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: France
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, serious, realistic
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25 Fireman's Street (1973)
Plot Summary:
On one hot summer night, the residents of a Hungarian apartment house slated for demolition restlessly revisit their haunted pasts as they face an uncertain future. In a gently turning kaleidoscope of dream imagery, regret-laden nostalgia and painstakingly intimate detail, the looming wrecking ball pales in significance to the accumulated experiences each dreamer revisits. Pre-war prejudice, occupying Nazis and Stalinist deprivations all come and go as each tenant’s backward glance yields moments of aching sensuality, infectious exuberance and catastrophic loss.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 342
Genere: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Hungary
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, surreal, contemplative, talky, crying, pre war
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Warsaw 44 (2014)
Plot Summary:
A beautiful story about youth, love, friendship and the pursuit of adventure during the bloody and brutal reality of the Warsaw Uprising.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: realistic, romantic, captivating, psychological, tense, suspense, social
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The White Countess (2005)
Plot Summary:
The last movie from the team of Ismail Merchant, James Ivory, and Kazuo Ishiguro. Set in 1930s Shanghai, "The White Countess" is both Sofia (Natasha Richardson), a fallen member of the Russian aristocracy, and a nightclub created by a blind American diplomat named Jackson (Ralph Fiennes), who asks Sofia to be the centerpiece of the world he wants to create.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: UK, Germany, China, USA
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: romantic, sentimental, emotional, atmospheric, period piece, costume drama, touching, lyrical, romantic drama, sincere
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Sunshine (1999)
Plot Summary:
The film follows a Jewish family living in Hungary through three generations, rising from humble beginnings to positions of wealth and power in the crumbling Austro-Hungarian Empire. The patriarch becomes a prominent judge but is torn when his government sanctions anti-Jewish persecutions. His son converts to Christianity to advance his career as a champion fencer and Olympic hero, but is caught up in the Holocaust. Finally, the grandson, after surviving war, revolution, loss and betrayal, realizes that his ultimate allegiance must be to himself and his heritage.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Hungary, Germany, Canada, Austria, France, UK, USA
Duration: 181 min
Plot tags: costume drama, erotic, family saga, sincere, romantic, sad, saga, art film, historical drama, epic
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Zelary (2003)
Plot Summary:
A nurse and her surgeon-lover are part of a resistance movement in 1940s Czechoslovakia. When they are discovered, her lover flees and she must find a place to hide. A patient whose life she saved, a man from a remote mountain village where time stopped 150 years ago, agrees to hide her as his wife.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia, Austria
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: touching, emotional, realistic, sincere, contemplative, epic, mysterious, serious, sentimental, romantic
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Frantz (2016)
Plot Summary:
In the aftermath of WWI, a young German who grieves the death of her fiancé in France meets a mysterious French man who visits the fiance’s grave to lay flowers.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, black and white, inspirational, captivating, romantic, sexy, independent film, postmodern, costume drama
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Beloved Sisters (2014)
Plot Summary:
A love triangle forms between post-Enlightenment writer Friedrich Schiller and two sisters -- one who became his wife, and the other, his biographer.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Germany, Austria, Switzerland
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags: romantic, emotional, realistic, touching, serious, captivating, sexy, period piece, costume drama, gloomy
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Operation Silver A (2007)
Plot Summary:
Based on actual events. Late 1941, Group Silver A are dropped into occupied Czechoslovakia on an SOE mission to set up a Radio communications centre for the resistance, and contact a German Army officer whom is forwarding information to the British.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 94
Genere: Drama, History, War
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 149 min
Plot tags: sentimental, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, compassionate, crying
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The Exception (2016)
Plot Summary:
A German soldier tries to determine if the Dutch resistance has planted a spy to infiltrate the home of Kaiser Wilhelm in Holland during the onset of World War II, but falls for a young Jewish Dutch woman during his investigation.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK, USA, Germany, Belgium
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, exciting, tense, suspenseful, historical drama, sexy, romantic drama, action drama, ambiguous ending
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Dark Blue World (2001)
Plot Summary:
Lt. Franta Slama is a top pilot in the Czech Air Force who is assigned to train a promising young flier, Karel Vojtisek, and they soon become friends. When Nazi Germany invades Czechoslovakia in 1939, they both reject the authority of their new leaders and escape to England where they join other Czech exiles in the RAF. While flying a mission over England, Karel crash lands and happens upon the farmhouse of Susan, a young woman whose husband is in the Navy. Karel soon falls head over heels for Susan but, while they enjoy a brief fling, in time Susan decides she prefers the company of the older and more worldly Franta. As Franta and Karel struggle to maintain their friendship despite their romantic rivalry.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: War, Drama, Action, Romance
Country: Czech Republic, UK, Germany, Denmark, Italy, France, USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: sentimental, intense, sincere, captivating, serious, realistic, non-linear, gloomy, independent film, crying
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All My Loved Ones (1999)
Plot Summary:
Told from the perspective of man reflecting on his childhood in Prauge in the early years of World War 2 and the eventual destruction of his family as the Nazis rise to power. The storyline focuses heavily on Jewish-Czech Silberstein family members. Drama was filmed on the real events as a tribute to Mr. Nicholas Winton, the British humanitarian who organized the rescue of 669 children, most of them Jewish, from Czechoslovakia on the eve of the Second World War in an operation later known as the Czech Kindertransport from German-occupied Czechoslovakia and likely death in the Holocaust.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 570
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, captivating, emotional, realistic, contemplative, crying
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The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1970)
Plot Summary:
In late 1930s Ferrara, Italy, the Finzi-Continis are a leading family: wealthy, aristocratic, and urbane; they are also Jewish. Their adult children, Micol and Alberto, gather a diverse circle of friends for tennis and parties at their villa with its lovely grounds, and try to keep the rest of the world at bay. But tensions between them all grow as anti-Semitism rises in Fascist Italy, and even the Finzi-Continis will have to confront the Holocaust.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, History, War
Country: Italy, West Germany
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: disturbing, compassionate, breathtaking, emotional, talky, sentimental, thought provoking, touching, serious, captivating
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Walking with the Enemy (2013)
Plot Summary:
Regent Horthy is the leader of Hungary and a German ally, but his favorable standing with Hitler changes as the war comes to an end. Forced to cede Hungary’s power or else witness the execution of his son, Regent Horthy gives up control of his country to the Nazis, who quickly move Hungarians to ghettos and death camps, with no hope in sight. But the despair changes when a young man named Elek emerges. Separated from his family during the relocations and aided by the woman he loves , Elek defies the enemy by becoming one of them. In a race against time, disguised as a Nazi Officer he embarks on a mission to save his family and thousands of his countrymen.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Romania, Hungary, Canada, USA
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: bleak, emotional, realistic, political thriller, costume drama, serious, independent film
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The Aftermath (2019)
Plot Summary:
In the aftermath of World War II, a British colonel and his wife are assigned to live in Hamburg during the post-war reconstruction, but tensions arise with the German widower who lives with them.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Germany, UK
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: melancholic, realistic, philosophical, serious, psychological, sentimental, sincere, romantic, disturbing, feel good
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Operation: Daybreak (1975)
Plot Summary:
Czechoslovakia, 1942. Three brave Czech patriots risk everything to rid their country of its brutal Nazi leader, SS-General Reinhard Heydrich.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, History, War
Country: Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Europa Europa (1990)
Plot Summary:
A Jewish boy separated from his family in the early days of WWII poses as a German orphan and is taken into the heart of the Nazi world as a 'war hero' and eventually becomes a Hitler Youth. Although improbabilities and happenstance are cornerstones of the film, it is based upon a true story.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Drama, History, War
Country: Germany, France, Poland
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: political, realistic, retro, mind bending, psychedelic, surreal, epic, tense, thought provoking, serious
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Bent (1997)
Plot Summary:
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 of human being. But it takes a relationship with an openly gay prisoner to teach Max that without the love of another, life is not worth living.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: UK, Japan
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: sexy, brutal, disturbing, bleak, serious, emotional, erotic, lgbt cinema, sad, homoerotic
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Devil's Mistress (2016)
Plot Summary:
A film about the black-and-white era actress Lída Baarová and her doomed love affair.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: captivating, touching, suspense, disturbing, meta, crying, freeze frame
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Anthropoid (2016)
Plot Summary:
In December 1941, Czech soldier Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš parachute into their occupied homeland to assassinate Nazi officer Reinhard Heydrich.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 53000
Genere: Action, Biography, Drama, History, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: UK, France, USA, Czech Republic
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: factual, clever, emotional, realistic, slasher, social, visually stunning, intense, crying, freeze frame