20 movies like The Night of the Shooting Stars, ordered by similarity : #AnneFrank. Parallel Stories(2019), Tea With Mussolini(1999), The Garden of the Finzi-Continis(1971), A Man About the House(1947), Carol(2015), I Knew Her Well(1966), A Bag of Marbles(2017), Woodpeckers(2017), Hatred(2016), Fool for Love(1985), Conspiracy of Hearts(1960), Europa, Europa(1990) ...
Drama
Italy
1982
106 Minutes
Omero Antonutti Margarita Lozano Claudio Bigagli Micol Guidelli Massimo Bonetti Enrica Maria Modugno Sabina Vannucchi Giorgio Naddi
villager girl nazi priest italian fascist italian partisan bleak brutal gripping emotional italy tuscany, italy world war ii fascism faith escape love pursuit quest 1940s
In 1944, the residents of a small Italian town under Axis control flee their homes to seek out the liberating Allied forces.
Documentary, Drama, History
Italy
2019
92 Minutes
Helen Mirren Anna Migotto Anne Frank
anne frank jew nazi nazi collaborator holocaust survivor bleak chilling dark disheartening disturbing emotional engaging gripping incredible melancholy moving amsterdam concentration camp hideout holocaust
It is based on five women who did survive the Holocaust but shared her same fate of "deportation, suffering and being denied their childhood and adolescence," according to promotional materials.
Comedy, Drama
Italy|UK
1999
116 Minutes
Cher Judi Dench Joan Plowright Maggie Smith Lily Tomlin Baird Wallace Charlie Lucas Massimo Ghini Paolo Seganti Paul Checquer Tessa Pritchard
expatriate artist businessman archaeologist young boy widow charming emotional moving florence, italy austria italy tuscany, italy fascist italy expatriates adolescence motherhood world war ii female bonding sacrifice
An orphaned Italian boy is raised amongst a circle of British and American women living in Mussolini's Italy before and during World War II.
War, Drama
Italy|West Germany
1971
95 Minutes
Helmut Berger Lino Capolicchio Dominique Sanda Fabio Testi Romolo Valli Camillo Cesarei Inna Alexeieff Barbara Pilavin Katina Morisani Ettore Geri Camillo Angelini-Rota
brother sister friend lover passionate spirited italy estate countryside fascism friendship love triangle wealth young love world war ii growing up forbidden love discovery fall 1940s
The story of the Finzi-Continis, a noble family of Ferrara, during the Jewish persecution in Italy's 1930s.
Drama
UK|Italy
1947
99 Minutes
Margaret Johnston Dulcie Gray Kieron Moore Guy Middleton Felix Aylmer Lilian Braithwaite Jone Salinas Marisa Finiani
spinster british woman sister husband italian doctor bleak disturbing gripping intense italy coast house cliff villa strange behavior marriage illness plot rightful ownership
Agnes and Ellen Isit, two poor English sisters, unexpectedly inherit from their uncle a rich estate near Naples, complete with big villa and manly Italian majordomo. The latter, Salvatore, ... See full summary »
Gay & Lesbian, Romance, Drama
UK|USA|Australia
2015
118 Minutes
Cate Blanchett Rooney Mara Sarah Paulson Jake Lacy John Magaro Cory Michael Smith Carrie Brownstein Kevin Crowley Nik Pajic Kyle Chandler
woman love interest divorcée romantic interest lover daughter mother photographer gay/lesbian emotional engaging endearing sad powerful tense united states manhattan new york new york city department store
An aspiring photographer develops an intimate relationship with an older woman in 1950s New York.
Drama
Italy|France|West Germany
1966
97 Minutes
Stefania Sandrelli Nino Manfredi Ugo Tognazzi Joachim Fuchsberger Franco Fabrizi Turi Ferro Franco Nero Jean-Claude Brialy Mario Adorf Enrico Maria Salerno Solvi Stubing
young girl young woman aspiring actress failed actress lover love interest emotional engaging melodramatic sad passionate heartwarming italy rome village ambition exploitation relationships difficult decision tragic love
Adriana, a naive Italian country girl, moves to Rome to become a movie star and experiences the dark side of the business.
Drama
France|Canada|Czech Republic
2017
110 Minutes
Dorian Le Clech Batyste Fleurial Patrick Bruel Elsa Zylberstein Bernard Campan Kev Adams Christian Clavier César Domboy Ilian Bergala Emile Berling Jocelyne Desverchere
young boy jewish child brother nazi moving emotional bleak gutsy inspiring intense concentration camp nazi germany france escape nazi occupation nazis concentration camp survival brother relationship sacrifice
In occupied France, Maurice and Joseph, two young Jewish brothers left to their own devices demonstrate an incredible amount of cleverness, courage, and ingenuity to escape the enemy invasion and to try to reunite their family once again.
Drama
2017
106 Minutes
Jean Jean Ramón Emilio Candelario Judith Rodriguez Jose Cruz Manuel Raposo Karina Valdez Aleja Johnson Carlota Carretero Keunis Álvarez Orestes Amador
prison guard prisoner prisoners messenger gangsters love interest romantic interest romantic rival rival dark disturbing emotional engaging gripping intense moving passionate powerful raw tense
Incarcerated in the Dominican Republic, an inmate uses sign language to communicate with his imprisoned girlfriend at an adjacent institution.
War, Drama
Poland
2016
150 Minutes
Michalina Labacz Arkadiusz Jakubik Wasyl Wasylik Adrian Zaremba Izabela Kuna Jacek Braciak Maria Sobocinska Oleksandr Zbarazkyi
young woman young man widower sister father villager dark disturbing emotional gripping intense village poland wedding market world war ii young love ethnic tension war crimes massacre
Despite being in love with a Ukrainian boy from the same village, Polish girl named Zosia is forced into marrying a wealthy widower. Soon World War II begins and ethnic tensions arise. Amidst the war chaos Zosia tries to survive.
Drama
USA
1985
105 Minutes
Sam Shepard Kim Basinger Harry Dean Stanton Randy Quaid Martha Crawford Louise Egolf Sura Cox Jonathan Skinner April Russell Deborah McNaughton Lon Hill
woman man half brother lover ex-boyfriend adult brash dark intense emotional melodramatic gripping united states motel las vegas love relationships incest fighting past loves
May is waiting for her boyfriend in a run-down American motel, when an old flame turns up and threatens to undermine her efforts and drag her back into the life that she was running away from. The situation soon turns complicated.
Drama
UK
1960
111 Minutes
nun nazi priest jew child mother superior inspiring emotional somber suspenseful convent italy concentration camp world war ii holocaust resistance religion helping others faith rescue
Catholic nuns risk their lives to help Jewish children in an Italian internment camp escape to Palestine during World War II.
War, Drama, History
Germany|France|Poland
1990
115 Minutes
Marco Hofschneider Julie Delpy André Wilms Ashley Wanninger Hanns Zischler Klaus Kowatsch Halina Labonarska Delphine Forest René Hofschneider Jorg Schnass Nathalie Schmidt
teenager nazi girlfriend father bleak emotional suspenseful germany poland russia orphanage nazism holocaust world war ii survival deception growing up forbidden love 1940s
A boy in Nazi Germany, trying to conceal that he is Jewish, joins the Hitler Youth.
Romance, Crime, Drama
2014
93 Minutes
Jessica Sula Lucien Laviscount Naomi Ryan Lauren Johns Tosin Cole Ntonga Mwanza Danielle Vitalis Savannah Gordon-Liburd Modupe Adeyeye
teen girl gang leader gang member teen boy bully bleak brutal dark emotional gripping powerful tense uneasy london united kingdom school street gangs revenge passion
Layla, a 15-year-old living in Brixton, becomes involved with a gang and must set up a boy to be killed.
Romance, Drama
Germany
2008
98 Minutes
Ursula Werner Horst Rehberg Horst Westphal Steffi Kühnert
woman man couple lover cheeky confident emotional engaging heartwarming germany home apartment lake love love triangle loveless marriage lovers old age love forbidden love
A romantic drama about a woman who enters into an affair after 30 years of marriage.
Drama
Canada
2007
96 Minutes
Jonathan Scarfe Nina Dobrev Zachary Bennett Kim Coates Colm Feore Daryl Hannah Sebastian Pigott Lara Daans
jew bride rabbi nazi polish man undercover agent chilling disheartening emotional moving passionate raw poland war zone bedroom woods yearning for love young love world war ii writing
At the dawn of World War 2, a Rabbi's daughter and a disenchanted German soldier fall in love and are separated by the war. They struggle on a perilous journey to find one another.
Drama
USA|UK
1996
162 Minutes
Ralph Fiennes Juliette Binoche Willem Dafoe Kristin Scott Thomas Naveen Andrews Colin Firth Julian Wadham Jürgen Prochnow Kevin Whately Clive Merrison Nino Castelnuovo
englishwoman count husband nurse soldier former lover emotional gripping endearing suspenseful passionate powerful cairo italy monastery cave sahara desert big city affair world war ii
At the close of World War II, a young nurse tends to a badly-burned plane crash victim. His past is shown in flashbacks, revealing an involvement in a fateful love affair.
Romance, Drama
India
2011
160 Minutes
Ranbir Kapoor Shammi Kapoor Aditi Rao Hydari Piyush Mishra Nargis Fakhri Shikha Jain Jaideep Ahlawat
young woman young man father mother singer love interest gripping intense emotional moving sad india house bungalow valley wedding reception love interest love at first sight friendship relationships
Janardhan Jakhar chases his dreams of becoming a big Rock star, during which he falls in love with Heer.
Romance, Drama, History
UK
2018
122 Minutes
Amandla Stenberg George MacKay Abbie Cornish Christopher Eccleston Tom Sweet Will Attenborough Alec Newman Tom Goodman-Hill Tim Faraday
young girl hitler youth teenager young boy love interest officer emotional gripping intense sad somber touching germany labor camp war zone home berlin following your heart war consequences
A rites of passage story of a bi-racial teen struggling for survival in Nazi Germany.
Drama, Romance
India
2001
190 Minutes
young man young woman driver muslim music teacher bleak brutal disheartening emotional heartwarming patriotic india pakistan bungalow house college love family patriotism riots
Set during the Partition of India in 1947, a Sikh truck driver falls in love with a Muslim girl belonging to an aristocratic family.
Drama
Italy
1962
113 Minutes
Marcello Mastroianni Jacques Perrin Sylvie Salvo Randone Valeria Ciangottini Liliana Campa Capodaglio Serena Vergano Marco Guglielmi
journalist man grandmother nun butler italian emotional bleak somber engaging heartwarming endearing florence, italy rome italy italian neighborhood brotherhood death family journalism
A man recollects the life of his late younger brother.