20 movies like Foxtrot, ordered by similarity : They Shall Not Grow Old(2018), The Other Son(2012), Two for Joy(2018), Paisan(1946), The Stopover(2016), In Her Name(2016), Congo: White King, Red Rubber, Black Death(2005), Leave No Trace(2018), Menashe(2017), Restrepo(2010), The Levelling(2016), The Farewell Party(2014) ...
Drama
2017
112 Minutes
Lior Ashkenazi Sarah Adler Gefen Barkai Dekel Adin Shaul Amir Itay Exlroad Danny Isserles Itamar Rotschild Roi Miller Yehuda Almagor Shira Haas
parent soldier israeli soldier bleak melodramatic outpost checkpoint grief tragic death tragedy mystery 2010s
A knock on the door leads to unfathomable grief as a man and his wife learn that their son died in the line of duty as a soldier.
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
France
2012
105 Minutes
Emmanuelle Devos Pascal Elbé Jules Sitruk Mehdi Dehbi Areen Omari Khalifa Natour Mahmud Shalaby Diana Zriek Marie Wisselmann Bruno Podalydès Ezra Dagan
israeli palestinian parent biological father biological mother friend melodramatic engaging heartwarming intense emotional israel palestine switched identities identity crisis new life cultural differences family politics adventure
Two young men, one Israeli and one Palestinian, discover they were accidentally switched at birth.
Drama
UK
2018
90 Minutes
Billie Piper Samantha Morton Bella Ramsey Emilia Jones Daniel Mays Grace Hogg-Robinson David Elliot Badger Skelton
teen girl brother single mother bleak brooding sultry raw gritty intense seaside small town estate family dysfunction crime youth grief death vacation escape growing up
A troubled family's problems come to a head during a stay in a seaside town.
Drama, War
1946
134 Minutes
Carmela Sazio Robert Van Loon Dotts Johnson Alfonsino Maria Michi Gar Moore Harriet Medin Renzo Avanzo William Tubbs Dale Edmonds Carlo Pisacane
soldier nurse prostitute chaplain nazi street urchin bleak engaging gripping italy sicily massacre theft resistance world war ii death rivalry fall rise 1940s
Six vignettes from Roberto Rossellini focusing on American soldiers' experiences in World War II Italy.
Drama
France|Greece
2016
102 Minutes
Soko Muriel Coulin Ariane Labed Ginger Romàn Karim Leklou Andreas Konstantinou Efthymis Papadimitriou Jeremie Laheurte Alexis Manenti Robin Barde Sylvain Loreau
soldier bleak dark profound raw afghanistan cyprus hotel resort tourism hotel war war aftermath war in afghanistan wretched excess metamorphosis 2010s
Two young French soldiers take a three-day leave in Cyprus after finishing their tour of duty in Afghanistan.
Drama
2016
87 Minutes
Daniel Auteuil Sebastian Koch Marie-Josée Croze Christelle Cornil Lila-Rose Gilberti Emma Besson Christian Kmiotek Serge Feuillard
man frenchman daughter teenager mother boyfriend engaging gripping emotional thrilling melodramatic sad france vacation home bedroom unexpected death father/daughter relationship grief fight for justice justice
Documentary, Drama, History
2005
75 Minutes
Elie Lison Roger May Steve Driesen Tshilombo Imhotep Annette Kelly
king soldier african native historian bleak frightening solemn belgian congo village greed death historical events rubber business king leopold ii ivory trade wretched excess pursuit 1920s
In the late 19th century, King Leopold II uses the Congo -- part of his newly established kingdom, the Belgian Free State -- as a rubber and ivory mecca and uses troops to brutally dispose of anyone who refuses to retrieve the valuable materials.
Drama
USA|Canada
2018
108 Minutes
Ben Foster Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie Jeff Kober Dale Dickey Isaiah Stone Michael Draper Dana Millican Ayanna Berkshire
father daughter homeless person ex-soldier social worker young girl emotional engaging gripping inspiring intense moving portland, ore. park house woods family isolation alternative lifestyles outsiders
A father and his thirteen-year-old daughter are living an ideal existence in a vast urban park in Portland, Oregon when a small mistake derails their lives forever.
Comedy, Drama
USA
2017
82 Minutes
Menashe Lustig Ruben Niborski Yoel Weisshaus Meyer Schwartz Yoel Falkowitz Mirka Hermoza Laznik Abraham Bresky Jorge Cea
hasidic jew grocer father son widower emotional moving spirited tender new york city grocery store house park cemetery temple judaism single parents single life parent/child relationship love
Within Brooklyn's ultra-orthodox Jewish community, a widower battles for custody of his son. A tender drama performed entirely in Yiddish, the film intimately explores the nature of faith and the price of parenthood.
Drama
UK
2016
83 Minutes
Ellie Kendrick David Troughton Jack Holden Joe Blakemore
father daughter brooding bleak raw solemn countryside england farm small town death grief family dysfunction transformation 2010s
Somerset, October 2014. When Clover Catto (Ellie Kendrick) receives a call telling her that her younger brother Harry (Joe Blakemore) is dead, she must return to her family farm and face ... See full summary »
Comedy, Drama
Israel|Germany
2014
90 Minutes
Tal Granit Ilan Dar Levana Finkelstein Ze'ev Revach Hanna Rieber Aliza Rosen Rafi Tabor Yosef Carmon Ruth Geller Michael Koresh Idit Teperson
israeli terminally ill person senior citizen death veterinarian teamwork spirited gutsy positive inspiring retirement home israel unlikely allies honor life story moral dilemma free will mortality 2010s
Residents of a retirement home build a machine for self-euthanasia in order to help their terminally ill friend, though they are faced with a series of dilemmas when rumors of the machine begin to spread.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
1944
124 Minutes
Emeric Pressburger Eric Portman Sheila Sim John Sweet Dennis Price Esmond Knight Charles Hawtrey Hay Petrie
soldier sergeant shopkeeper criminal lighthearted suspenseful amusing cathedral england small town hotel world war ii traveling mystery friendship discovery transformation mystery pursuit 1940s
A U.S. soldier (John Sweet), a British sergeant and a London girl (Sheila Sim) see minor miracles and catch a prude (Eric Portman).
Mystery & Thriller, Fantasy, Drama, War
France|Belgium
2015
100 Minutes
Jérémie Renier Swann Arlaud Marc Robert Kévin Azaïs Finnegan Oldfield Christophe Tek Clément Bresson Sâm Mirhosseini Edouard Court Steve Tientcheu
soldier insurgent gripping frightening thrilling creepy eerie brooding gritty afghanistan war military life missing persons mission escape mystery fall 2010s
While on a mission in Afghanistan, French captain Antarès Bonassieu's men start vanishing one by one without explanation.
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.
Drama, History
France|Germany
2016
113 Minutes
Pierre Niney Paula Beer Ernst Stötzner Marie Gruber Johann von Bülow Anton von Lucke Cyrielle Claire Alice De Lencquesaing
widow veteran mysterious man soldier confident dreamy emotional intense france house lake train station world war i grief love friendship love triangle life after wartime love discovery
In the aftermath of WWI, a young German who grieves the death of her fiancé in France meets a mysterious Frenchman who visits the fiancé's grave to lay flowers.
Drama
Israel
2012
90 Minutes
Hadas Yaron Yiftach Klein Irit Sheleg Chaim Sharir Hila Feldman Renana Raz Yael Tal Michael David Weigl Ido Samuel Neta Moran Melech Thal
orthodox jew jew religious person bride sister brother-in-law melodramatic heartwarming engaging sad intense moving israel family home hasidic judaism jewish culture jewish tradition family tragedy difficult decision new life
When the older sister of Shira, an 18-year-old Hasidic Israeli, dies suddenly in childbirth, Shira must decide if she can and should marry her widowed brother-in-law, which also generates tensions within her extended family.
Drama, History
Austria|Luxembourg|Germany
2014
96 Minutes
Christian Friedel Birte Schnoeink Stephan Grossmann Katharina Schüttler Sebastian Hülk Sandra Hüller Eva-Maria Kurz Hana Sofia Lopes
poet cousin wife woman death intense emotional melodramatic touching passionate spirited berlin death romance poetry love forbidden love temptation rise fall
Berlin, the Romantic Era. Young poet Heinrich wishes to conquer the inevitability of death through love, yet is unable to convince his skeptical cousin Marie to join him in a suicide pact. ... See full summary »
Drama
India
2014
159 Minutes
Tabu Shahid Kapoor Shraddha Kapoor Kay Kay Menon Narendra Jha Kulbhushan Kharbanda Ashish Vidyarthi Aamir Bashir Sumit Kaul Rajat Bhagat Irrfan Khan
young man father missing person mother uncle lover engaging emotional melodramatic suspenseful bleak intense india secret past relationships attraction secret family dysfunction murder adventure
A young man returns to Kashmir after his father's disappearance to confront his uncle, whom he suspects of playing a role in his father's fate.
Drama
China|Hong Kong
1994
125 Minutes
You Ge Gong Li Niu Ben Tao Guo Jiang Wu Ni Dabong Liu Tianchi Deng Fei
chinese man gambler wife peasant soldier daughter bleak emotional tender china village house field war zone chinese cultural revolution starting over family poverty tragedy gambling
After Fugui and Jiazhen lose their personal fortunes, they raise a family and survive difficult cultural changes during 1940s to 1970s China.