20 movies like The Pianist, ordered by similarity : They Shall Not Grow Old(2018), This Is Congo(2017), The Invisibles(2017), #AnneFrank. Parallel Stories(2019), Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan(2019), Battle for Music(1945), Born to Be Blue(2015), Voyage of the Damned(1976), Downfall(2004), Wheeler(2017), The King's Choice(2016), The Captain(2017) ...
8.5/10
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.
8.3/10
Documentary, War, Drama, History
UK|New Zealand
2018
99 Minutes
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A documentary about World War I with never-before-seen footage to commemorate the centennial of the end of the war.
7.7/10
Documentary, War, Drama, History
USA|Congo
2017
93 Minutes
Mamadou Ndala
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An unfiltered look in to the lives of 3 characters surviving amongst the most recent cycle of conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo, otherwise known as the M23 rebellion.
7.1/10
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.
6.5/10
Documentary, Drama, History
Italy
2019
92 Minutes
Helen Mirren Anna Migotto Anne Frank
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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.
6.8/10
War, Drama, History
Australia
2019
118 Minutes
Travis Fimmel Luke Bracey Daniel Webber Richard Roxburgh Nicholas Hamilton Matt Doran Stephen Peacocke Myles Pollard Uli Latukefu Anthony Hayes Sam Parsonson
soldier friend enemy officer vietnamese man brooding engaging gripping intense vietnam war zone barracks war death power uncertainty hope strength discovery escape
In August 1966, in a Vietnamese rubber plantation called Long Tan, 108 young and inexperienced Australian and New Zealand soldiers are fighting for their lives against 2500 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong soldiers.
7.5/10
Drama
UK
1945
87 Minutes
Hay Petrie Joss Ambler Mavis Clarke
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A docu-drama about the troubles of the London Philharmonic Orchestra during World War II.
6.9/10
Romance, Drama, History, Biography, Music
Canada|UK
2015
97 Minutes
Ethan Hawke Carmen Ejogo Callum Keith Rennie Tony Nappo Janet-Laine Green Dan Lett Kedar Brown Kevin Hanchard Stephen McHattie
musician jazz musician trumpeter love interest moving emotional engaging charming brooding united states music jazz music business comeback romance biography rise 1960s
A re-imagining of jazz legend Chet Baker's musical comeback in the late '60s.
6.5/10
War, Drama
UK|USA
1976
158 Minutes
Faye Dunaway Max von Sydow Oskar Werner Malcolm McDowell Orson Welles James Mason Lee Grant Ben Gazzara Katharine Ross Luther Adler Paul Koslo
nazi captain jew sailor refugee brutal bleak disturbing boat cuba germany world war ii emigration death escape pursuit 1940s
The tragic 1939 voyage of SS St. Louis carrying hundreds of German Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany that seemingly no nation is willing to save from certain doom.
8.2/10
War, Drama, History
Germany|Austria|Italy
2004
154 Minutes
Bruno Ganz Alexandra Maria Lara Corinna Harfouch Ulrich Matthes Juliane Köhler Heino Ferch Christian Berkel Matthias Habich Thomas Kretschmann Ulrich Noethen Gotz Otto
dictator eva braun josef goebbels wife secretary nazi frightening bleak fascinating shocking germany berlin bunker office world war ii adolf hitler disillusionment traudl junge paranoia defeat
Traudl Junge, the final secretary for Adolf Hitler, tells of the Nazi dictator's final days in his Berlin bunker at the end of WWII.
5.9/10
Drama, Music
USA
2017
100 Minutes
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An aspiring musician from Kaufman, Texas travels to Nashville with the lifelong dream of trying his hand at country music.
7.1/10
War, Drama, History
Norway|Sweden|Denmark|Ireland
2016
133 Minutes
Jesper Christensen Anders Baasmo Christiansen Tuva Novotny Karl Markovics Katharina Schüttler Ketil Høegh Gerald Pettersen Hans Jacob Sand Erik Hivju Rolf Kristian Larsen Jan Frostad
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April 1940. Norway has been invaded by Germany and the royal family and government have fled into the interior. The German envoy to Norway tries to negotiate a peace. Ultimately, the decision on Norway's future will rest with the King.
4.8/10
War, Drama, History
USA
2017
118 Minutes
Max Hubacher Milan Peschel Frederick Lau Waldemar Kobus Alexander Fehling Samuel Finzi Wolfram Koch Britta Hammelstein Bernd Hölscher Sascha Alexander Gersak Blerim Destani
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After the tragic deaths of her husband and daughter, Sarah Doyle moves back to her childhood home with her estranged brother, Richard. It's not long before Sarah begins to experience ... See full summary »
7.7/10
Documentary
USA
2009
102 Minutes
american jew jewish immigrant holocaust survivor historian expert documentarian activist interviewee fascinating gripping moving emotional inspiring united states holocaust world war ii jewish culture jewish identity survival
'Against The Tide' examines the conflict that erupted in the American Jewish community over the best means to rescue the European Jews trying to escape the Holocaust. It tells the little ... See full summary »
3.2/10
War, Drama, History
UK
2020
103 Minutes
Mhairi Calvey Chris Wilson Laura Jean Marsh Justin Hayward Jennifer Martin Megan Tremethick Neal Ward Luke Junior
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A dwindling group of German soldiers battle to return to their lines on the harsh Eastern Front.
6.3/10
Biography, Drama, History
UK|France|Germany|USA
2020
120 Minutes
Jesse Eisenberg Ed Harris Edgar Ramírez Clémence Poésy Matthias Schweighöfer Félix Moati Géza Röhrig Karl Markovics Bella Ramsey Alicia von Rittberg
resistance fighter resistance leader child jewish child jewish man nazi bleak brooding engaging gutsy heartwarming intense moving quirky sad suspenseful tense thrilling touching france
The story of mime Marcel Marceau as he works with a group of Jewish boy scouts and the French Resistance to save the lives of ten thousand orphans during World War II.
8.2/10
War, Fantasy, Drama
Mexico|Spain
2006
120 Minutes
Sergi López Maribel Verdú Ivana Baquero Álex Angulo Doug Jones Ariadna Gil Federico Luppi Roger Casamajor Manolo Solo
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In the Falangist Spain of 1944, the bookish young stepdaughter of a sadistic army officer escapes into an eerie but captivating fantasy world.
6.7/10
War, Drama, History
USA
1969
115 Minutes
George Segal Robert Vaughn Ben Gazzara Bradford Dillman E.G. Marshall Peter Van Eyck Hans Christian Blech Heinz Reincke Joachim Hansen Sonja Ziemann
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As the Allied armies close in, the Germans decide to blow up the last Rhine bridge, trapping their own men on the wrong side. But will it happen?
Romance, War, Drama, History
1966
373 Minutes
Lyudmila Saveleva Sergei Bondarchuk Vyacheslav Tikhonov Oleg Tabakov Boris Zakhava Anatoliy Ktorov Anastasiya Vertinskaya Antonina Shuranova Viktor Stanitsyn
count countess military officer soldier wife socialite creative gripping passionate russia royal palace family home battlefield countryside war love marriage infidelity horrors of war love
7.2/10
War, Drama, History
USA
2008
136 Minutes
Daniel Craig Liev Schreiber Jamie Bell Alexa Davalos Allan Corduner Mark Feuerstein Tomas Arana Jodhi May Iddo Goldberg Iben Hjejle Martin Hancock
brother jewish man nazi refugee powerful profound brutal poland forest world war ii persecution survival nazis escape quest revenge 1940s
Jewish brothers in Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe escape into the Belarussian forests, where they join Russian resistance fighters, and endeavor to build a village, in order to protect themselves and about one thousand Jewish non-combatants.
7.6/10
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.
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