20 movies like Hotel Berlin, ordered by similarity : The Invisibles(2017), Breakout(1959), The Fifth Horseman Is Fear(1965), Hotel(1967), #AnneFrank. Parallel Stories(2019), Army in the Shadows(1969), Seven Miles From Alcatraz(1942), Dunkirk(2017), Nowhere in Africa(2001), A Bag of Marbles(2017), Sobibor(2018), The Night of the Shooting Stars(1982) ...
Drama
USA
1945
98 Minutes
Helmut Dantine Andrea King Raymond Massey Faye Emerson Peter Lorre Alan Hale George Coulouris Henry Daniell Peter Whitney Helene Thimig Steven Geray
rebel actress general civilian informant hostess emotional gripping hotel berlin world war ii espionage emigration politics nazis escape underdog 1940s
In 1945, a strange mix of Germans, military personnel and civilians, pro-Nazi and anti-Nazi, celebrities and escaped prisoners, converges at a lavish hotel in heavily-bombed Berlin.
Drama, History
Germany
2017
110 Minutes
Aaron Altaras Max Mauff Alice Dwyer Ruby O. Fee Victoria Schulz Florian Lukas Andreas Schmidt Sergej Moya Lucas Reiber
jewish man jewish woman nazi german soldier tense suspenseful striking powerful moving engaging berlin nazi germany germany jewish people jewish identity nazis nazi occupation secret life world war ii escape
While Joseph Goebbels infamously declared Berlin "free of Jews" in 1943, 1,700 managed to survive in the Nazi capital through the end of WWII. The Invisibles traces the stories of four young people who learned to hide in plain sight.
Drama, War
UK
1959
99 Minutes
Richard Todd Richard Attenborough Bernard Lee Michael Wilding Dennis Price Donald Houston William Franklyn Vincent Ball Peter Arne Peter Jones Ronnie Stevens
prisoner of war prisoners military officer informant brutal engaging gripping gutsy patriotic suspenseful tense thrilling italy prison camp world war ii prisoners of war escape informing tunneling escape
In 1943, an Italian-administered P.O.W. camp for captured Allies goes through a series of failed escapes only to culminate in a daring plan for a dramatic mass escape.
War, Drama
1965
100 Minutes
Miroslav Machacek Olga Scheinpflugova Zdenka Prochazkova Jiri Adamira Josef Vinklar Ilja Prachar Jana Pracharová Jiri Vrstala
doctor teacher nazi rebel prostitute police officer brooding disturbing prague apartment brothel office horrors of war world war ii nazism politics redemption transformation 1940s
A Jewish physician sacrifices his safety when he treats a fugitive during the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia.
Drama
1967
124 Minutes
Rod Taylor Catherine Spaak Karl Malden Melvyn Douglas Richard Conte Michael Rennie Merle Oberon Kevin McCarthy
hotel owner hotel manager thief duke duchess guest frenetic melodramatic new orleans hotel lobby hotel room office louisiana scandal blackmail schemes financial troubles drunken driving robbery
The manager (Rod Taylor) of a posh New Orleans hotel handles a hostile takeover, a scandal and a thief (Karl Malden).
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.
War, Drama, History
France|Italy
1969
140 Minutes
Lino Ventura Paul Meurisse Jean-Pierre Cassel Paul Crauchet Claude Mann Christian Barbier Simone Signoret Serge Reggiani Alain Libolt
engineer rebel traitor nazi intense gritty passionate paris marseilles, france london france submarine prison french resistance world war ii prisoners of war nazism underdog sacrifice 1940s
An account of underground resistance fighters in Nazi-occupied France.
Drama
USA
1942
62 Minutes
James Craig Bonita Granville Frank Jenks Cliff Edwards George Cleveland Erford Gage Tala Birell John Banner Otto Reichow
convict gangster lighthouse keeper young woman spy nazi suspenseful patriotic gripping tense alcatraz island jail lighthouse island fugitives prison break espionage hostage situation patriotism nazis
After Pearl Harbor, convicts at Alcatraz prison live in fear of bomb attacks, driving Champ Larkin and his pal Jimbo to a desperate escape attempt which lands them on a tiny lighthouse ... See full summary »
War, Drama, History
UK|Netherlands|France|USA
2017
107 Minutes
Fionn Whitehead Tom Glynn-Carney Jack Lowden Harry Styles Aneurin Barnard James D'Arcy Barry Keoghan Kenneth Branagh Cillian Murphy Mark Rylance Tom Hardy
soldier enemy captain pilot chilling emotional gripping inspiring intense beach europe boat world war ii invasion escape battle rescue survival escape rescue
Allied soldiers from Belgium, the British Empire, and France are surrounded by the German Army and evacuated during a fierce battle in World War II.
Drama
2001
138 Minutes
Juliane Köhler Merab Ninidze Matthias Habich Sidede Onyulo Lea Kurka Karoline Eckertz Gerd Heinz Hildegard Schmahl Maritta Horwarth Regine Zimmermann Gabrielle Odinis
lawyer wife daughter cook soldier brooding uneasy emotional germany kenya farm hotel nairobi world war ii emigration culture clash africa adultery separation escape
A Jewish lawyer (Merab Ninidze), his wife (Juliane Köhler) and their 5-year-old daughter move to Kenya in 1938 to escape Nazi persecution.
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, Biography, War
Russia|Germany|Lithuania|Poland
2018
120 Minutes
Konstantin Khabensky Christopher Lambert Felice Jankell Dainius Kazlauskas Sergey Godin Roman Ageev
prisoner of war soviet soldier concentration camp survivor lieutenant nazi sergeant dark chilling intense disturbing frightening raw poland concentration camp survival nazis prisoners of war world war ii concentration camp uprising
Soviet officer Alexander Pechersky organizes a revolt and mass escape of prisoners from Sobibór extermination camp in October 1943.
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.
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.
Drama
1964
99 Minutes
Andrew Mollo Pauline Murray Sebastian Shaw Nicolette Bernard
nurse friend ss officer rebel patient disturbing bleak eerie emotional ireland london hospital village alternate reality world war ii fascism grief brainwashing rebellion medicine
A British nurse (Pauline Murray) joins the underground after a supposed Nazi takeover of England in 1943.
Drama
USA
1958
98 Minutes
Dana Wynter Mel Ferrer Dolores Michaels Margaret Hayes Theodore Bikel Luis Van Rooten Helmut Dantine Herbert Berghof James Edwards Ivan Triesault Blandine Ebinger
prisoner of war lonely woman pimp nazi cousin father suspenseful melodramatic emotional uneasy berlin brothel attic house world war ii women during wartime sex trade desperation gratitude unusual romance
A Nazi's fiancee helps an escaped U.S. soldier, then meets him in postwar Berlin.
Drama
2001
100 Minutes
Kenneth Branagh Stanley Tucci David Threlfall Colin Firth Barnaby Kay Peter Sullivan Claire Bullus Simon Markey
reinhard heydrich adolf eichmann nazi general military officer dark germany conference room lake concentration camp genocide nazis meeting world war ii final solution wretched excess 1940s
In 1942, officials of the Third Reich gather in Wannsee, near Berlin, Germany to plan the extermination of an entire race.
Drama
Hong Kong|Taiwan
1989
158 Minutes
Tony Leung Hsin Shu-fen Chen Sown-yung
photographer soldier gangster rebel powerful disturbing sad gripping taiwan small town mountain rebellion political coup crime war family transformation sacrifice love 1940s
A beautiful, historical film based upon the complex lives of four brothers.
Drama, War
USA
1956
107 Minutes
Jack Palance Eddie Albert Lee Marvin Robert Strauss Richard Jaeckel Buddy Ebsen Jon Shepodd Peter Van Eyck Jimmy Goodwin Steven Geray Jud Taylor
soldier lieutenant german troops coward captain suspenseful gripping patriotic belgium battlefield war world war ii arrogance battle of the bulge revenge escape rivalry 1940s
In 1945, an American Infantry company sets up an artillery observation post, but tensions between Captain Cooney and Lieutenant Costa run high.
Drama
USA
1942
102 Minutes
Humphrey Bogart Ingrid Bergman Paul Henreid Claude Rains Conrad Veidt Peter Lorre Sydney Greenstreet Dooley Wilson Marcel Dalio S.Z. Sakall Joy Page
expatriates nightclub owner resistance fighter nazi spy sad cool gripping casablanca paris nightclub airport world war ii rebellion virtue love triangle sacrifice 1940s
A cynical expatriate American cafe owner struggles to decide whether or not to help his former lover and her fugitive husband escape the Nazis in French Morocco.
Drama, History
USA
1993
195 Minutes
Liam Neeson Ben Kingsley Ralph Fiennes Caroline Goodall Jonathan Sagall Embeth Davidtz Malgoscha Gebel Shmulik Levy Mark Ivanir Beatrice Macola
oskar schindler worker nazi businessperson brooding emotional krakow, poland auschwitz factory office world war ii nazism concentration camp horrors of war freedom transformation discovery rescue 1940s
In German-occupied Poland during World War II, industrialist Oskar Schindler gradually becomes concerned for his Jewish workforce after witnessing their persecution by the Nazis.