20 movies like The Ogre, ordered by similarity : Veteran(2015), Inkaar(2013), Antony and Cleopatra(1972), One Potato, Two Potato(1964), The Killers(1946), They Shall Not Grow Old(2018), Mudbound(2017), Ashes and Diamonds(1958), The Pianist(2002), Fateless(2005), Intruder in the Dust(1949), Katyn(2007) ...
Drama
1996
117 Minutes
John Malkovich Armin Mueller-Stahl Gottfried John Marianne Sagebrecht Volker Spengler Heino Ferch Dieter Laser Agnès Soral Sasha Hanau Caspar Salmon Daniel Smith
frenchman recruiter powerful disheartening bavaria training camp third reich power pursuit 1940s
A simple Parisian's (John Malkovich) love of children involves him in a Nazi scheme to kidnap boys and train them as SS troops during World War II.
Comedy, Action, Crime, Drama
South Korea
2015
124 Minutes
Jeong-min Hwang Yu Ah-in Hae-jin Yoo Dal-su Oh Man-shik Jeong Woong-in Jeong Yoon-ju Jang Shi-hoo Kim
investigator detective criminal millionaire young man heir confident cool engaging gripping intense powerful city street south korea crime abuse of power determination investigation wealth
A honest cop seeks justice for a common man against all odds. A rich boy seeks revenge on the cop.
Drama, Romance
India
2013
125 Minutes
Arjun Rampal Chitrangda Singh Vipin Sharma Mithun Rodwittiya Asheesh Kapur Akanksha Nehra
young woman young man boss executive co-worker engaging gripping powerful thrilling india city office house sexual harassment power games quest pursuit 2010s
At a leading ad agency, the battle for the top job between Rahul Verma, the advertising CEO, and Maya Luthra, his ambitious protégée, takes an ugly turn when Maya files a sexual harassment complaint against Rahul.
Drama, History
UK|Spain|Switzerland
1972
160 Minutes
Charlton Heston Hildegard Neil Eric Porter John Castle Fernando Rey Juan Luis Galiardo
queen egyptian lover rival roman seducer brooding emotional gripping intense moving powerful egypt kingdom chamber desert love sacrifice rivalry power
After the murder of her lover Caesar, Egypt's queen Cleopatra needs a new ally. She seduces his probable successor Mark Antony. This develops into real love and slowly leads to a war with the other possible successor: Octavius.
Drama
USA
1964
92 Minutes
Barbara Barrie Bernie Hamilton Richard Mulligan Harry Bellaver Marti Mericka Robert Earl Jones Vinnette Carroll Anthony Spinelli
mother man father judge ex-husband child disheartening touching powerful ohio court factory farm race relations family court battles love custody quest forbidden love
Study of interracial marriage in the 1960's. A white divorcée falls in love with and marries an African-American man. When her ex-husband sues for custody of her child, arguing that a mixed... See full summary »
Crime, Drama
USA
1946
105 Minutes
Burt Lancaster Ava Gardner Edmond O'Brien Albert Van Dekker Sam Levene Virginia Christine John Miljan Vince Barnett Charles D. Brown Donald MacBride
gas station attendant detective insurance investigator hitman femme fatale boxer dark brooding gritty powerful small town diner brentwood, n.j. city robbery crime deception love murder mystery
Hit men kill an unresisting victim, and investigator Reardon uncovers his past involvement with beautiful, deadly Kitty Collins.
Documentary, War, Drama, History
UK|New Zealand
2018
99 Minutes
soldier army recruit british officer british soldier british soldiers german soldier german troops bleak emotional moving patriotic powerful sad somber war zone france belgium united kingdom trenches training camp
A documentary about World War I with never-before-seen footage to commemorate the centennial of the end of the war.
Drama, History
USA
2017
134 Minutes
Carey Mulligan Jason Clarke Jason Mitchell Mary J. Blige Rob Morgan Garrett Hedlund Jonathan Banks Frankie Smith Kennedy Derosin Kelvin Harrison Jr. Kerry Cahill
mother farmer child brother-in-law soldier sharecropper emotional profound disturbing powerful mississippi farm field racism racial issues life after wartime social issues pursuit love discovery
Two men return home from World War II to work on a farm in rural Mississippi, where they struggle to deal with racism and adjusting to life after war.
Drama
1958
103 Minutes
Zbigniew Cybulski Ewa Krzyzewska Waclaw Zastrzezynsky Adam Pawlikowski Bogumil Kobiela Jan Ciecierski Stanislaw Milski Artur Mlodnicki
assassin soldier commanding officer barmaid son hotel desk clerk dark brooding powerful gripping poland warsaw, poland church tavern ruins world war ii war crime communism independence moral dilemma
A Communist commandant finds himself surrounded by the Polish resistance during the closing days of World War II.
War, Drama, History
UK|France|Poland|Germany|USA
2002
148 Minutes
Adrien Brody Thomas Kretschmann Frank Finlay Maureen Lipman Emilia Fox Ed Stoppard Julia Rayner Jessica Kate Meyer Ruth Platt
musician pianist military officer jew bleak powerful disturbing warsaw radio station attic holocaust music world war ii adaptation escape pursuit 1940s
A Polish Jewish musician struggles to survive the destruction of the Warsaw ghetto of World War II.
Drama, History
Hungary|Germany|UK|Israel|France|USA
2005
136 Minutes
Marcell Nagy Áron Dimény András M. Kecskés József Gyabronka Endre Harkányi Daniel Craig Béla Dóra Bálint Péntek Zsolt Dér János Bán Judit Schell
teen boy father jew prisoner soldier young girl somber powerful budapest, hungary auschwitz bus train holocaust family survival friendship deception transformation growing up 1940s
14-year-old György's life is torn apart in WWII Hungary, as he is deported first to Auschwitz and then to Buchenwald, where he is forced to become a man in the midst of hatred, and what it really means to be Jewish.
Drama
USA
1949
89 Minutes
David Brian Claude Jarman Jr. Juano Hernandez Porter Hall Elizabeth Patterson Charles Kemper Will Geer David Clarke Elzie Emanuel Lela Bliss Harry Hayden
wrongly accused teenager police officer lawyer powerful gripping small town mississippi racism mistaken identity murder pursuit mystery growing up 1940s
In 1940s Mississippi, two teenage boys and an elderly woman combine forces to prevent a miscarriage of justice and clear a black man of a murder charge.
Drama
Poland
2007
121 Minutes
Joachim Paul Assböck Waldemar Barwinski Stanislawa Celinska Andrzej Chyra Magdalena Cielecka Maja Ostaszewska
lieutenant wife daughter soldier prisoner of war russian soldier bleak disheartening powerful emotional poland pow camp forest graveyard battlefield world war ii cover-up massacre marriage nazis
An examination of the Soviet slaughter of thousands of Polish officers and citizens in the Katyn forest in 1940.
Biography, Drama
Mexico|USA|UK
2002
123 Minutes
Salma Hayek Alfred Molina Geoffrey Rush Ashley Judd Antonio Banderas Edward Norton Valeria Golino Mia Maestro Roger Rees Patricia Reyes Spíndola Saffron Burrows
painter husband critic patron fiery powerful mexico new york city apartment ambition art husband/wife relationship frida kahlo quest 1940s
A biography of artist Frida Kahlo, who channeled the pain of a crippling injury and her tempestuous marriage into her work.
Drama
UK
1947
92 Minutes
Oscar Homolka Derek Farr Muriel Pavlow Kenneth Griffith Manning Whiley Kathleen Harrison Diana Dors
antique dealer blackmailer violinist frenchman refugee murderer bleak chilling melodramatic intense powerful uneasy antique shop london blackmail murder father/daughter relationship antiques crime protection
In Britain, a man with a shady past uses his antiquities shop as a front for smuggled diamonds but his young shop-assistant starts blackmailing him, leading to murder and to a police investigation.
Drama, Romance
South Africa|India
2016
98 Minutes
Nicola Breytenbach Andrew Govender Leleti Khumalo Deon Lotz Terwadkar Rajiv Rolanda Marais Quentin Krog Paul Eilers Bobby Van Jaarsveld
woman indian man love interest family rival police officers major terrorist disheartening disturbing emotional gripping moving powerful south africa town hometown love forbidden love
A random act of kindness sparks a forbidden love affair between a white girl and an Indian man during the Apartheid system in South Africa.
Drama
Denmark
1990
97 Minutes
D.B. Sweeney Kelly Wolf Daniel Benzali Tovah Feldshuh Ole Lemmeke Kim Rømer Anders Peter Bro Morten Suurballe Jens Arentzen Ken Vedsegaard Lily Weiding
resistance fighter accountant jew daughter guard nazi powerful intense denmark factory family home nazism world war ii invasion resistance escape pursuit quest 1940s
This story, based on fact, is about the movement of Danish Jews out of Denmark to neutral Sweden in the 1940's. It focuses on a single family and tells of their involvement with the ... See full summary »
War, Action, Drama, History
Yugoslavia|USA|Liechtenstein
1974
90 Minutes
Rod Taylor Adam West Brioni Farrell Peter Carsten Olivera Katarina Velimir `Bata' Zivojinovic Branko Plesa
partisan german officer captain colonel general nazi powerful engaging tense intense dark gutsy yugoslavia world war ii nazism former yugoslavia war heroes battle life during wartime pursuit
Partisans in Yugoslavia clash with the Germans that have invaded their homeland in several confrontations until the climactic battle at Hell River.
Drama
UK|Spain
1995
92 Minutes
Gena Rowlands Jacob Tierney Diana Scarwid Drake Bell Denis Leary Leo Burmester Frances Conroy Peter McRobbie Joan Glover Dana Dick Virgil Graham Hopkins
teen boy young boy father mother aunt evangelist dreamy powerful calm sad georgia family home small town church train childhood trauma memory family dysfunction loneliness small-town life
While on a train, a teenage boy thinks about his life and the flamboyant aunt whose friendship acted as an emotional shield from his troubled family. This film evokes the haunting quality ... See full summary »
Mystery & Thriller, Action, Biography, Drama
Belgium|Netherlands
2011
109 Minutes
Dominic Cooper Ludivine Sagnier Mimoun Oaïssa Raad Rawi Philip Quast Mem Ferda Khalid Laith Dar Salim Nasser Memarzia Selva Rasalingam Pano Masti
soldier saddam hussein body double powerful emotional dark mission baghdad power doppelganger underdog 19th century
A chilling vision of the House of Saddam Hussein comes to life through the eyes of the man who was forced to become the double of Hussein's sadistic son.
Drama
UK
2019
92 Minutes
Emilia Jones Sienna Guillory Oliver Coopersmith George MacKay Noriko Sakura Steve Waddington
mother daughter half brother brooding bleak confident dark disheartening gritty melancholy powerful sad wales nuclear power plant domestic violence nuclear energy nuclear safety nuclear waste delusion hallucinations
Following an act of violence committed by her own brother, Emma escapes with her mother to wild, open country, where they find refuge in an isolated retreat in the shadow of a nuclear power station.