Top 20 movies like Žhavou stezkou
Top 20 Movies like Žhavou stezkou
- 1. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
- 2. Mário a kúzelník
- 3. The Day of the Locust
- 4. Před premiérou
- 5. Night Train to Munich
- 6. The Stolen Border
- 7. Prague at Zero Hour
- 8. Days of Betrayal
- 9. Neporažená armáda
- 10. Můj nezdolný lev
- 11. Hitler: A Career
- 12. V hodině nejtěžší...
- 13. St. Louis
- 14. I Betrayed Hitler
- 15. Stalin and the Katyn Massacre
- 16. The Eagle and the Lion: Hitler vs Churchill
- 17. The Dig
- 18. The Tobacconist
- 19. Od Mnichova k 15. březnu
- 20. There's No Business Like Show Business
1. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
London, England, on the eve of World War II. Guinevere Pettigrew, a strict governess who is unable to keep a job, is fired again. Lost in the hostile city, a series of fortunate circumstances lead her to meet Delysia LaFosse, a glamorous and dazzling American jazz singer whose life is a chaos ruled by indecision, a continuous battle between love and fame.
It has an average vote of 6.8 on TMDB.
2. Mário a kúzelník (Mário a kúzelník)
(Mário a kúzelník)
3. The Day of the Locust
Hollywood, 1930s. Tod Hackett, a young painter who tries to make his way as an art director in the lurid world of film industry, gets infatuated with his neighbor Faye Greener, an aspiring actress who prefers the life that Homer Simpson, a lone accountant, can offer her.
It has an average vote of 6.3 on TMDB.
5. Night Train to Munich
Czechoslovakia, March 1939, on the eve of World War II. As the German invaders occupy Prague, inventor Axel Bomasch manages to flee and reach England; but those who need to put his knowledge at the service of the Nazi war machine, in order to carry out their evil plans of destruction, will stop at nothing to capture him.
It has an average vote of 7.2 on TMDB.
6. The Stolen Border (Uloupená hranice)
Czech film tells the story of a border town in World War II. Family members and friends become enemies.
It has an average vote of 3 on TMDB.
7. Prague at Zero Hour (Praha nultá hodina)
Czech friends help refugees from Nazi Germany escape in 1939.
8. Days of Betrayal (Dny zrady)
This feature film based on the events of 1938 is a chronicle of the futile efforts of the Czechoslovak president Edvard Benes , politicians and ordinary citizens, to save the independence and the territorial integrity of the state from the advance of Hitler's Germany. On the 29th of March 1938 the leader of the Sudeten Germans Henlein has a meeting with Hitler . Hitler orders him to intensify pressure on the Czechoslovak government. On the 24th of April in Carlsbad, the Sudetendeutsche Partei decides upon eight demands that are unacceptable to the Czechoslovak President, since they would ultimately lead to the break-up of the Republic. Benes still shows a certain willingness to negotiate, and Henlein resents this. The Germans are determined to make further negotiations impossible through incidents and violence.
It has an average vote of 5 on TMDB.
9. Neporažená armáda (Neporažená armáda)
(Neporažená armáda)
10. Můj nezdolný lev (Můj nezdolný lev)
(Můj nezdolný lev)
11. Hitler: A Career (Hitler - Eine Karriere)
A keen chronicle of the unlikely rise to power of Adolf Hitler and a dissection of the Third Reich , but also an analysis of mass psychology and how the desperate crowd can be deceived and shepherded to the slaughterhouse.
It has an average vote of 7.3 on TMDB.
12. V hodině nejtěžší... (V hodině nejtěžší...)
(V hodině nejtěžší...)
13. St. Louis (Die Ungewollten – Die Irrfahrt der St. Louis)
Hamburg, Germany, 1939. Getting a passage aboard the passenger liner St. Louis seems to be the last hope of salvation for more than nine hundred German Jews who, desperate to escape the atrocious persecution to which they are subjected by the Nazi regime, intend to emigrate to Cuba.
It has an average vote of 6.833 on TMDB.
14. I Betrayed Hitler (Notre espion chez Hitler)
During the worst days of World War II, the British government asks the mathematician Alan Turing to unravel the mysteries of the German Enigma encryption machine, an impossible task to accomplish without the invaluable information that Hans-Thilo Schmidt, a disenchanted but greedy German citizen, had been handing over to the French secret services since 1931.
It has an average vote of 6.7 on TMDB.
15. Stalin and the Katyn Massacre (Les Bourreaux de Staline : Katyn, 1940)
The Katyn massacre, carried out by the Soviet NKVD in 1940, was only one of many unspeakable crimes committed by Stalin's ruthless executioners over three decades. The mass murder of thousands of Polish officers was part of a relentless purge, the secrets and details of which have only recently been partially revealed.
It has an average vote of 6.4 on TMDB.
16. The Eagle and the Lion: Hitler vs Churchill (Hitler et Churchill : le combat de l'aigle et du lion)
Winston Churchill, one of the most revered men of the twentieth century. Adolf Hitler, one of the most hated leaders in contemporary history. Between 1940 and 1945, these two enormously contradictory personalities faced each other in both politics and war. A clash of giants whose story begins in the trenches of the World War I and ends with the debacle of the World War II.
It has an average vote of 9.4 on TMDB.
17. The Dig
As WWII looms, a wealthy widow hires an amateur archaeologist to excavate the burial mounds on her estate. When they make a historic discovery, the echoes of Britain's past resonate in the face of its uncertain future.
It has an average vote of 6.87 on TMDB.
18. The Tobacconist (Der Trafikant)
Vienna, 1937, on the eve of the annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany. The young and inexperienced Franz Huchel begins to learn about both the joys and hardships of life by working as an apprentice to the mutilated war veteran Otto Trsnjek in a small tobacco shop, where he meets the famous psychiatrist Sigmund Freud, a regular customer, who will become a valuable friend in times of chaos and uncertainty.
It has an average vote of 6.6 on TMDB.
19. Od Mnichova k 15. březnu (Od Mnichova k 15. březnu)
(Od Mnichova k 15. březnu)
20. There's No Business Like Show Business
Molly and Terry Donahue, plus their three children, are The Five Donahues. Youngest son Tim meets hat-check girl Vicky and the family act begins to fall apart.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.