Films like Rome, Open City

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   The Children's Train

   Film · 2024 · also drama

   In late 1940s Italy, a mother makes the difficult decision to send her son to the north, where he catches glimpses of a new life away from poverty.

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   Paisan

   Film · 1946 · also drama and war

   Six stories unfold in various regions, from Sicily to the northern Po Valley as American military personnel interact with a variety of Italian locals over eighteen months...

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3. 3

   Uprising

   Film · 2001 · also drama and war

   In the Warsaw ghetto in 1943, Jews rise against the Nazis.

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4. 4

   Hitler: The Last Ten Days

   Film · 1973 · also drama and war

   Hitler: The Last Ten Days takes us into the depths of der Furher’s Berlin bunker during his final days. Based on the book by Gerhard Boldt, it provides a bleak look at th...

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5. 5

   The Truce

   Film · 1997 · also drama and war

   After the liberation of Auschwitz, an Italian prisoner of War begins a torturous voyage home to Turin, through a Europe caught between war and peace.

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   The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

   Film · 2008 · also drama and war

   When his family moves from their home in Berlin to a strange new house in Poland, young Bruno befriends Shmuel, a boy who lives on the other side of the fence where every...

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   Two Women

   Film · 1960 · also drama and war

   A young widow flees from Rome during WWII and takes her lonely twelve-year-old-daughter to her rural hometown but the horrors of war soon catch up with them.

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   The Skin

   Film · 1981 · also drama and war

   Based on the memoirs of author Curzio Malaparte, diplomatic liaison between the Allied and Italian forces after the defeat of the Nazis in Italy, The Skin follows the col...

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   Escape to Victory

   Film · 1981 · also drama and war

   A group of POWs in a German prison camp during World War II play the German National Soccer Team in this powerful film depicting the role of prisoners during wartime.

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    The Boy in the Woods

    Film · 2023 · also drama and war

    The remarkable true-life survival story of a Jewish boy hiding and being hunted in the forests of Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe, based on Maxwell Smart's memoir.

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