Movies like A Generation
If A Generation's mix of jewish ghetto, world war ii and black and white stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what A Generation's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Katyn
2007 · Directed by Andrzej Wajda · 122 min6.7
Why you'll like itAlso directed by Andrzej Wajda · Shares: world war ii · Also a Polish drama
On September 1st, 1939, Nazi Germany invades Poland, unleashing World War II. On September 17th, the Soviet Red Army crosses the border. The Polish army, unable to fight on two fronts, is defeated.
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Warsaw 44
2014 · Directed by Jan Komasa · 127 min6.7
Why you'll like itShares: world war ii, warsaw, poland · Also a Polish drama
City of Warsaw, Poland, August 1st, 1944. Citizens have experienced inhuman acts of terror and violence during five long years of Nazi occupation.
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Schindler's List
1993 · Directed by Steven Spielberg · 195 min8.6
Why you'll like itShares: world war ii, black and white · 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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Oppenheimer
2023 · Directed by Christopher Nolan · 181 min8.0
Why you'll like itShares: world war ii, communism · Also drama and war
The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer's role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II.
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The Pianist
2002 · Directed by Roman Polanski · 150 min8.4
Why you'll like itShares: world war ii · Also drama and war
The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. When the Jews of the city find themselves forced into a ghetto, Szpilman finds work playing in a café; and when his…
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Paths of Glory
1957 · Directed by Stanley Kubrick · 88 min8.3
Why you'll like itShares: black and white · Also war and drama · From the same decade (1950s)
A commanding officer defends three scapegoats on trial for a failed offensive that occurred within the French Army in 1916.
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Inglourious Basterds
2009 · Directed by Quentin Tarantino · 153 min8.2
Why you'll like itShares: world war ii · Also drama and war
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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The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
2008 · Directed by Mark Herman · 94 min7.8
Why you'll like itShares: world war ii · Also drama and war
When his family moves from their home in Berlin to a strange new house in Poland, young Bruno befriends Shmuel, a boy who lives on the other side of the fence where everyone seems to be wearing striped pajamas.
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White Bird
2023 · Directed by Marc Forster · 121 min7.8
Why you'll like itShares: world war ii · Also drama and war
After being expelled from Beecher Prep for his treatment of a classmate with a facial deformity, Julian has struggled to fit in at his new school.
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All Quiet on the Western Front
1930 · Directed by Lewis Milestone · 133 min7.8
Why you'll like itShares: black and white · Also drama and war
When a group of idealistic young men join the German Army during the Great War, they are assigned to the Western Front, where their patriotism is destroyed by the harsh realities of combat.
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The Six Triple Eight
2024 · Directed by Tyler Perry · 130 min7.6
Why you'll like itShares: world war ii · Also drama and war
During World War II, the US Army's only all-Black, all-women battalion takes on an impossible mission: sorting through a three-year backlog of 17 million pieces of mail that hadn't been delivered to American soldiers…
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The Guns of Navarone
1961 · Directed by J. Lee Thompson · 160 min7.3
Why you'll like itShares: world war ii · Also drama and war
A team of allied saboteurs are assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held island and destroy the two enormous long-range field guns that prevent the rescue of 2,000 trapped British soldiers.