20 movies like Race, ordered by similarity : #AnneFrank. Parallel Stories(2019), Darkest Hour(2017), My All American(2015), Unbroken: Path to Redemption(2018), The Zookeeper's Wife(2017), The Invisibles(2017), Schindler's List(1993), The Bleeder(2016), Unbroken(2014), The Army of Crime(2009), Woodlawn(2015), McFarland, USA(2015) ...
Biography, Drama, History
2016
134 Minutes
Stephan James Jason Sudeikis Eli Goree Shanice Banton Carice van Houten Jeremy Irons William Hurt Chantel Riley David Kross Jonathan Higgins Barnaby Metschurat
jesse owens runner coach olympic athlete nazi teammate brooding emotional inspiring ohio college track berlin dorm olympics racism nazis olympic games determination courage
Overcoming racism at home and abroad, track and field superstar Jesse Owens (Stephan James) competes for Olympic glory in 1936 Berlin.
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, Biography, Drama, History
UK|USA
2017
125 Minutes
Gary Oldman Kristin Scott Thomas Ben Mendelsohn Lily James Ronald Pickup Stephen Dillane Nicholas Jones Samuel West Richard Lumsden Charley Palmer Rothwell Hannah Steele
winston churchill nazi king soldier politician adolf hitler brooding rousing passionate striking tense spirited london great britain war zone nazi germany government building house of parliament world war ii nazi occupation
In May 1940, the fate of World War II hangs on Winston Churchill, who must decide whether to negotiate with Adolf Hitler, or fight on knowing that it could mean the end of the British Empire.
Biography, Drama
USA
2015
118 Minutes
Aaron Eckhart Finn Wittrock Robin Tunney Sarah Bolger Michael Reilly Burke Rett Terrell Juston Street
football coach football player college student college president teammate family member confident gripping emotional texas football field dorm locker room classroom college campus football college determination challenge teamwork
Freddie Steinmark, an underdog on the gridiron, faces the toughest challenge of his life after leading his team to a championship season.
Biography, Drama, History
USA
2018
98 Minutes
Samuel Hunt Merritt Patterson Bobby Campo David Sakurai Vincenzo Amato Maddalena Ischiale Gianna Simone Ali Eagle Will Graham Andrew Caldwell Gary Cole
veteran olympic athlete family member survivor wife captor inspiring incredible brutal brash emotional touching track boat olympics prison house hospital olympic games running
The next amazing chapter of Olympian and World War II hero Louis Zamperini's powerful true story of forgiveness, redemption, and amazing grace.
Biography, Drama, History
Czech Republic|UK|USA
2017
125 Minutes
Jessica Chastain Johan Heldenbergh Michael McElhatton Daniel Brühl Iddo Goldberg Anna Rust Brian Caspe Goran Kostic Shira Haas Efrat Dor
zookeeper wife polish man nazi zoologist fugitive emotional intense fascinating poland zoo basement concentration camp warsaw ghetto office helping others world war ii fugitives nazis extermination
Keepers of the Warsaw Zoo, Antonina and Jan Zabinski, must save hundreds of people and animals during the Nazi invasion in WWII Poland.
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, 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.
Biography, Drama, History
2016
101 Minutes
Liev Schreiber Elisabeth Moss Naomi Watts Ron Perlman Jim Gaffigan Morgan Spector Pooch Hall Wass Stevens Melo Ludwig Sadie Sink Michael Rapaport
boxer champion wife daughter trainer charming emotional inspiring sad new jersey boxing ring high school legends boxing fame art imitating life discovery pursuit quest underdog
Liquor salesman and part-time prizefighter Chuck Wepner gets the chance to take on Muhammad Ali in a highly publicized title fight, launching him to sudden fame.
Drama, War, History, Biography
USA
2014
137 Minutes
Jack O'Connell Domhnall Gleeson Garrett Hedlund Miyavi Finn Wittrock Jai Courtney Maddalena Ischiale Vincenzo Amato John Magaro Luke Treadaway Louis McIntosh
athlete olympic athlete crew member air force pilot prisoner of war prison guard uplifting patriotic inspiring japan pacific ocean air force base prison camp berlin world war ii prisoners of war olympic games survival air force airplane crash
After a near-fatal plane crash in WWII, Olympian Louis Zamperini spends a harrowing 47 days in a raft with two fellow crewmen before he's caught by the Japanese navy and sent to a prisoner-of-war camp.
War, Drama, History
USA
2009
139 Minutes
Simon Abkarian Virginie Ledoyen Robinson Stévenin Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet Lola Naymark Yann Trégouët Ariane Ascaride Jean-Pierre Darroussin Ivan Franek Adrien Jolivet Horatiu Malaele
resistance fighter wife bomber marksman volunteer nazi brooding gripping suspenseful france berlin countryside house resistance fighters husband/wife relationship nazi hunting world war ii vichy france nazi occupation revenge
Based on the true story of the double initial killings in Rochester, NY.
Drama, Biography, History
2015
123 Minutes
Sean Astin Nic Bishop Caleb Castille Sherri Shepherd Jon Voight C. Thomas Howell Richard Kohnke Lance E. Nichols Kevin Sizemore
african-american student football player principal family member brooding emotional uplifting birmingham, ala. high school football field house gym office racism teamwork love family trust beliefs
In 1973 Birmingham, Ala., football player Tony Nathan (Caleb Castille) and his teammates at Woodlawn High School utilize a message of hope and love to overcome racial prejudice.
Biography, Drama
USA
2015
129 Minutes
Kevin Costner Maria Bello Morgan Saylor Michael Aguero Sergio Avelar Hector Duran Rafael Martinez Martha Higareda Johnny Ortiz Carlos Pratts Ramiro Rodriguez
coach student runner teacher principal parent confident cool uplifting tense emotional california high school track gym car house track and field school winning
Jim White moves his family after losing his last job as a football coach, and at his new school he turns seven disappointing students into one of the best cross-country teams in the region.
Biography, Drama, History
Sweden|Denmark
2018
123 Minutes
Alba August Maria Bonnevie Trine Dyrholm Magnus Krepper Henrik Rafaelsen Björn Gustafson Sofia Karemyr Liv LeMoyne Mira Mitchell Maria Alm Norell
son lover adoptive mother author young woman doctor suspenseful emotional inspiring office copenhagen small town field family home sweden struggle life story unplanned pregnancy courage absence
Biopic of Swedish writer Astrid Lindgren, the author of numerous children's books and creator of Pippi Longstocking.
Anime, Biography, Drama, History
Japan
2015
93 Minutes
daughter father artist brooding charming creative engaging inspiring rousing japan town fame biography art career vs. family perseverance determination adventure discovery growing up
The life and works of Japanese artist and ukiyo-e painter Katsushika Hokusai, as seen from the eyes of his daughter, Katsushika O-Ei.
Documentary, War, Drama, History
France|UK
1985
561 Minutes
Simon Srebnik Michael Podchlebnik Richard Glazar Rudolf Vrba Inge Deutschkron Filip Müller
victim survivor nazi bystander guard brooding shocking disturbing auschwitz germany ghetto poland holocaust nazism horrors of war concentration camp fall discovery 1980s
Claude Lanzmann's epic documentary recounts the story of the Holocaust through interviews with witnesses - perpetrators as well as survivors.
Biography, Drama, History
UK|USA
2016
123 Minutes
Joel Edgerton Ruth Negga Marton Csokas Nick Kroll Terri Abney Alano Miller Jon Bass Michael Shannon Chris Greene Sharon Blackwood
black woman white man husband wife police officer supreme court justice brooding emotional intense virginia washington, d.c. house prison office courtroom interracial relationship racism bullying courage justice
The story of Richard and Mildred Loving, a couple whose arrest for interracial marriage in 1960s Virginia began a legal battle that would end with the Supreme Court's historic 1967 decision.
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.
War, Biography, Drama, History
Australia|USA
2016
139 Minutes
Andrew Garfield Sam Worthington Luke Bracey Teresa Palmer Hugo Weaving Rachel Griffiths Vince Vaughn Richard Roxburgh Luke Pegler Richard Pyros Firass Dirani
private conscientious objector soldier commander enemy president confident emotional uplifting tense moving raw okinawa, japan airplane ship bunker white house car conscience world war ii
World War II American Army Medic Desmond T. Doss, who served during the Battle of Okinawa, refuses to kill people, and becomes the first man in American history to receive the Medal of Honor without firing a shot.
Biography, Drama, History
USA|UK|Germany
2019
174 Minutes
August Diehl Valerie Pachner Maria Simon Tobias Moretti Bruno Ganz Matthias Schoenaerts Karin Neuhäuser Ulrich Matthes Franz Rogowski Karl Markovics Michael Nyqvist
farmer austrian pacifist bleak emotional inspiring incredible austria farm world war ii resistance nazis escape sacrifice 1940s
The Austrian Franz Jägerstätter, a conscientious objector, refuses to fight for the Nazis in World War II.
Biography, Drama, History
USA|China|Hong Kong
2017
118 Minutes
Chadwick Boseman Josh Gad Kate Hudson Sterling K. Brown Dan Stevens James Cromwell Keesha Sharp Roger Guenveur Smith Sophia Bush Jussie Smollett Marina Squerciati
thurgood marshall black man chauffeur lawyer confident emotional fiery gutsy connecticut town courtroom naacp sex crime court battles racial issues conservatism discovery fall pursuit rivalry
The story of Thurgood Marshall, the crusading lawyer who would become the first African-American Supreme Court Justice, as he battles through one of his career-defining cases.