Movies like The Pianist
If The Pianist's mix of concert, nazi and resistance stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what The Pianist's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Schindler's List
1993 · Directed by Steven Spielberg · 195 min8.6
Why you'll like itShares: nazi, holocaust (shoah), world war ii · Also drama and war
The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II.
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Conspiracy
2001 · Directed by Frank Pierson · 96 min7.3
Why you'll like itShares: nazi, holocaust (shoah), world war ii · Also drama and war · From the same decade (2000s)
At the Wannsee Conference on January 20, 1942, senior Nazi officials meet to determine the manner in which the so-called "Final Solution to the Jewish Question" can be best implemented.
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Inglourious Basterds
2009 · Directed by Quentin Tarantino · 153 min8.2
Why you'll like itShares: world war ii, jew persecution · Also drama and war · From the same decade (2000s)
In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Basterds" are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis.
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Life Is Beautiful
1997 · Directed by Roberto Benigni · 116 min8.4
Why you'll like itShares: nazi, holocaust (shoah), world war ii
A touching story of an Italian book seller of Jewish ancestry who lives in his own little fairy tale. His creative and happy life would come to an abrupt halt when his entire family is deported to a concentration camp…
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Unbroken
2014 · Directed by Angelina Jolie · 137 min7.4
Why you'll like itShares: world war ii, prisoner of war · Also drama and war
A chronicle of the life of Louis Zamperini, an Olympic runner who was taken prisoner by Japanese forces during World War II.
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Escape from Sobibor
1987 · Directed by Jack Gold · 169 min7.2
Why you'll like itShares: world war ii, poland · Also drama and war
The true story of WWII's notorious Sobibor Nazi death camp, where a courageous inmate orchestrates and leads the escape of over 300 prisoners.
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Resistance
2020 · Directed by Jonathan Jakubowicz · 120 min7.0
Why you'll like itShares: resistance, world war ii · Also war and drama
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.
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Lee
2024 · Directed by Ellen Kuras · 117 min7.0
Why you'll like itShares: holocaust (shoah), world war ii · Also drama and war
The true story of photographer Elizabeth "Lee" Miller, a fashion model who became an acclaimed war correspondent for Vogue magazine during World War II.
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Slaughterhouse-Five
1972 · Directed by George Roy Hill · 100 min6.5
Why you'll like itShares: world war ii, prisoner of war · Also drama and war
Billy Pilgrim, a veteran of the Second World War, finds himself mysteriously detached from time, so that he is able to travel, without being able to help it, from the days of his childhood to those of his peculiar life…
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Freedom Writers
2007 · Directed by Richard LaGravenese · 123 min7.9
Why you'll like itShares: holocaust (shoah), ghetto · From the same decade (2000s)
A young teacher inspires her class of at-risk students to learn tolerance, apply themselves, and pursue education beyond high school.
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Operation Finale
2018 · Directed by Chris Weitz · 124 min6.7
Why you'll like itShares: nazi, world war ii
In 1960, a team of Israeli secret agents is deployed to find Adolf Eichmann, the infamous Nazi architect of the Holocaust, supposedly hidden in Argentina, and get him to Israel to be judged.
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Fury
2014 · Directed by David Ayer · 135 min7.5
Why you'll like itShares: nazi, world war ii · Also war and drama
April, 1945. As the Allies make their final push in the European Theater, a battle-hardened army sergeant commands a Sherman tank with a five-man crew on a deadly mission behind enemy lines.