20 movies like A Hidden Life, ordered by similarity : My Name Is Sara(2019), Resistance(2020), A Bag of Marbles(2017), The Land Girls(1998), #AnneFrank. Parallel Stories(2019), Dunkirk(2017), The King's Choice(2016), The Zookeeper's Wife(2017), Sunset Song(2015), Papillon(2017), The Southerner(1945), Free State of Jones(2016) ...
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
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The Austrian Franz Jägerstätter, a conscientious objector, refuses to fight for the Nazis in World War II.
Drama, Biography, History
USA
2019
111 Minutes
Zuzanna Surowy Pawe? Królikowski Michalina Olszanska Eryk Lubos Aleksandra Pisula Ksawery Szlenkier
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Sara is a a 13 year-old Polish Jew who finds refuge and is taken in by a farmer and his wife. She soon discovers the dark secrets of her employers' marriage, compounding the greatest secret she must strive to protect, her true identity.
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
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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.
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
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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, History
1998
110 Minutes
Catherine McCormack Rachel Weisz Anna Friel Steven Mackintosh Tom Georgeson Maureen O'Brien Lucy Akhurst Paul Bettany
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While British men are fighting World War II, three female volunteers (Catherine McCormack, Rachel Weisz, Anna Friel) labor on an elderly man's farm.
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.
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
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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.
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.
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
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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
UK|Luxembourg
2015
135 Minutes
Agyness Deyn Peter Mullan Kevin Guthrie Jack Greenlees Ian Pirie Hugh Ross Niall Greig Fulton Douglas Rankine
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The daughter of a Scottish farmer comes of age in the early 1900s.
Adventure, History, Biography, Drama
USA|Czech Republic|Spain
2017
133 Minutes
Charlie Hunnam Rami Malek Roland Møller Nina Senicar Tommy J. Flanagan Eve Hewson Christopher Fairbank Brian Vernel
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Wrongfully convicted for murder, Henri Charriere forms an unlikely relationship with fellow inmate and quirky convicted counterfeiter Louis Dega, in an attempt to escape from the notorious penal colony on Devil's Island.
Drama
USA
1945
91 Minutes
Zachary Scott Betty Field Beulah Bondi J. Carrol Naish Norman Lloyd Jay Gilpin Estelle Taylor Percy Kilbride Blanche Yurka
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The life of the poor Tucker family, that worked as cotton pluggers and decided to get their own ground, but nature is against them.
War, Biography, Drama, History
USA
2016
139 Minutes
Matthew McConaughey Gugu Mbatha-Raw Mahershala Ali Keri Russell Brendan Gleeson Christopher Berry Sean Bridgers Jacob Lofland Kirk Bovill Manny Penton Thomas Francis Murphy
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A disillusioned Confederate army deserter returns to Mississippi and leads a militia of fellow deserters and women in an uprising against the corrupt local Confederate government.
Biography, Drama, History
Cambodia|USA
2017
136 Minutes
Sareum Srey Moch Phoeung Kompheak Sveng Socheata Tharoth Sam
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Cambodian author and human rights activist Loung Ung recounts the horrors she suffered as a child under the rule of the deadly Khmer Rouge.
Drama
UK
1960
111 Minutes
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Catholic nuns risk their lives to help Jewish children in an Italian internment camp escape to Palestine during World War II.
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
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An account of underground resistance fighters in Nazi-occupied France.
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
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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.
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
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A boy in Nazi Germany, trying to conceal that he is Jewish, joins the Hitler Youth.
Crime, Drama
USA
1942
90 Minutes
Ann Sheridan Ronald Reagan Richard Whorf George Tobias Gene Lockhart Alan Hale Betty Brewer Donald MacBride Howard da Silva Willard Robertson Faye Emerson
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Danny and Steve are migrant farm workers who wind up in Cat Tail, Florida. Cat Tail is run by Madden Packing and Danny works for Madden while Steve works for the underdog farmer named Nick.... See full summary »
Adventure, Biography, Drama
USA
2007
147 Minutes
Emile Hirsch Marcia Gay Harden William Hurt Jena Malone Catherine Keener Brian Dierker Vince Vaughn Zach Galifianakis Kristen Stewart Kyle Kwon Hal Holbrook
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After graduating from Emory University, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless abandons his possessions, gives his entire $24,000 savings account to charity and hitchhikes to Alaska to live in the wilderness. Along the way, Christopher encounters a series of characters that shape his life.
Drama, History
UK|Belgium
2020
109 Minutes
Noah Schnapp Thomas Kretschmann Frederick Schmidt Tómas Lemarquis Elsa Zylberstein Gilles Marini Jean Reno Anjelica Huston
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During the harrows of WWII, Jo, a young shepherd along with the help of the widow Horcada, helps to smuggle Jewish children across the border from southern France into Spain.