Five Branded Women

Five Branded Women

All The Savage Ravishing Passions of War!

Directed by Martin Ritt

Produced by Paramount Pictures, DDL Cinematografica

1960115 min6.1 / 10

A wartime drama about ostracized women who transform from victims of public shame into armed survivors, grappling with betrayal, survival, and reclaimed agency amid the brutality of occupation.

Five Yugoslav women who consorted with the German occupiers are publicly humiliated and banished by the Yugoslav partisans but they take up arms to fend for themselves.

Questions people ask

  • Is Five Branded Women sad? Yes. More sad than 88% of films.

  • Is Five Branded Women scary? Yes. More frightening than 76% of films.

  • Is Five Branded Women easy watching? Not especially. Less comforting than 74% of films.

  • Is Five Branded Women violent? Somewhat. More violent than 71% of films.

  • Does Five Branded Women end with hope? About average. Almost exactly mid-range.

These describe how the film comes across, measured across the whole film and compared with other well-known films. They are not a content list — nothing here was counted or checked scene by scene, so for age-suitability or specific content use a classification board or a dedicated content-warning service.

23/ 100

Cinnamon Score

How much this film gives you that nothing else will, and whether it delivers.

Conventional, and it does not land.

Rarity21

How unlike any other film this one feels

Surprise23

How much more it delivers than it promises

Love25

How much audiences actually like it

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Ensemble

Like Five Branded Women

Nearest across the full emotional profile.

Same Mood as Five Branded Women

Nearest on what's most distinctive about this one.

Like Five Branded Women, But Darker

Similar, pushed toward heavier and more intense.

Like Five Branded Women, But Lighter

Similar, pushed toward warmer and easier.

Like Five Branded Women, But Less Popular

Same territory, far fewer people have seen it.

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