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Europa Europa (1990), Before Night Falls (2000), A City of Sadness (1989), The Diary of Anne Frank (1959), The Last Metro (1980), Fanny's Journey (2016), The Rose Garden (1989) ... Let's take a look at the following list...

Europa Europa (1990)

Europa Europa (1990)

7.6/10 War, Drama, History

A boy in Nazi Germany, trying to conceal that he is Jewish, joins the Hitler Youth.

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Before Night Falls (2000)

Before Night Falls (2000)

7.2/10 Romance, Drama, Biography

The life of Cuban poet and novelist, Reinaldo Arenas.

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A City of Sadness (1989)

A City of Sadness (1989)

7.9/10 Drama

The story of a family embroiled in the "White Terror" that was wrought on the Taiwanese people by the Kuomintang government after their arrival from mainland China in the late 1940s.

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The Diary of Anne Frank (1959)

The Diary of Anne Frank (1959)

7.4/10 War, Drama, Family, Biography, History

During World War II, a teenage Jewish girl named Anne Frank and her family are forced into hiding in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands.

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The Last Metro (1980)

The Last Metro (1980)

7.4/10 War, Romance, Drama

In occupied Paris, an actress married to a Jewish theater owner must keep him hidden from the Nazis while doing both of their jobs.

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Fanny's Journey (2016)

Fanny's Journey (2016)

7.0/10 Drama

Fanny and her sisters attempt to escape Nazi occupied France but many dangers are ahead of them.

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The Rose Garden (1989)

The Rose Garden (1989)

6.9/10 Drama

In Germany, an old man attacks another old man and is arrested. The attacker refuses to speak. A female lawyer is appointed to him. She discovers that the attacker has numbers tattooed on his arm and the attacked man was a German officer.

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Safe Conduct (2002)

Safe Conduct (2002)

6.8/10 Drama, History

In occupied France, German-run Continental Films calls the shots in the movie business. Assistant director and Resistance activist Jean Devaivre works for Continental, where he can get "in between the wolf's teeth and avoid being chewed up". Fast-living screenwriter Jean Aurenche uses every possible argument to avoid working for the enemy. For both, wartime is a battl...Read all

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Borstal Boy (2000)

Borstal Boy (2000)

6.8/10 Drama

Irish teenager political activist and future writer Brendan Behan is befriended in a British borstal (reformatory) by a liberal warden.

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Wunderkinder (2011)

Wunderkinder (2011)

6.8/10 Drama

Three musically talented children look to the future, but their hopes crumble when Germany and Russia enter into war.

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Another Mother's Son (2017)

Another Mother's Son (2017)

6.7/10 Drama

Based on the true story of Louisa Gould, the drama is set during World War II on the Nazi-occupied island of Jersey. Lou took in an escaped Russian POW and hid him over the war's course. The tension mounts as it becomes clear that Churchill will not risk an assault to recapture the British soil, and the island-community spirit begins to fray under pressures of hunger,...Read all

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Bless You, Prison (2003)

Bless You, Prison (2003)

10.0/10 Drama

Wrongfully accused of espionage, a Romanian woman (Maria Ploae) spends four years at a Communist labor camp.

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Seven Women (1966)

Seven Women (1966)

10.0/10 Drama

In 1935 China, a group of American missionaries must tolerate the obsessive, self-righteous leader of the mission, Agatha Andrews (Margaret Leighton). However, when the forthright Dr. D.R. Cartwright (Anne Bancroft) joins the mission, she is not afraid to come into direct conflict with the humorless Andrews, which earns her the respect of the other missionaries. Apart from the mounting tension within, the group must put aside their differences when Mongolian bandits attack.

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Resistance (2020)

Resistance (2020)

6.3/10 Biography, Drama, History

The story of mime Marcel Marceau as he works with a group of Jewish boy scouts and the French Resistance to save the lives of ten thousand orphans during World War II.

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The Man Who Cried (2000)

The Man Who Cried (2000)

6.2/10 Drama, Music, Romance, War

A young refugee traveling from Russia to America in search of her lost father falls for a gypsy horseman.

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The History of Love (2016)

The History of Love (2016)

6.2/10 Fantasy, Romance, Drama

A lost book mysteriously reappears and connects an old man searching for his son with a girl seeking a companion for her lonely mother.

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A Tale of Love and Darkness (2015)

A Tale of Love and Darkness (2015)

6.0/10 Biography, Drama, History

The story of Amos Oz's youth, set against the backdrop of the end of the British Mandate for Palestine and the early years of the State of Israel. The film details the young man's relationship with his mother and his beginnings as a writer, while looking at what happens when the stories we tell become the stories we live.

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The Promise (2016)

The Promise (2016)

5.9/10 Action, Adventure, Drama, History, War

Set during the last days of the Ottoman Empire, The Promise follows a love triangle between Michael, a brilliant medical student, the beautiful and sophisticated Ana, and Chris - a renowned American journalist based in Paris.

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