Movies like Downfall
If Downfall's mix of nazi, clerk and dictator stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Downfall's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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13 Minutes
2015 · Directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel · 114 min6.8
Why you'll like itAlso directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel · Shares: nazi, world war ii · Also a German historical drama
The breathtaking story of a man who nearly would have changed the world. In 1939, when Hitler tricked millions of people at the height of his power, radical Georg Elser — disparaged as an assassin — is one of the…
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The Counterfeiters
2007 · Directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky · 98 min7.4
Why you'll like itShares: nazi, world war ii, 1940s · Also a German drama · From the same decade (2000s)
The story of Jewish counterfeiter Salomon Sorowitsch, who was coerced into assisting the Nazi operation of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp during World War II.
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The Tin Drum
1979 · Directed by Volker Schlöndorff · 162 min7.0
Why you'll like itShares: nazi, world war ii, 1940s · Also a German drama
In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of stairs and stops growing. In 1939, World War II breaks out.
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Fury
2014 · Directed by David Ayer · 135 min7.5
Why you'll like itShares: nazi, world war ii, 1940s · 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.
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Conspiracy
2001 · Directed by Frank Pierson · 96 min7.3
Why you'll like itShares: nazi, world war ii, 1940s · Also history and drama · 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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The Eagle Has Landed
1976 · Directed by John Sturges · 135 min6.7
Why you'll like itShares: nazi, world war ii, 1940s · Also drama and war
When the Nazi high command learns in late 1943 that Winston Churchill will be spending time at a country estate in Norfolk, it hatches an audacious scheme to kidnap the prime minister and spirit him to Germany for…
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Persian Lessons
2020 · Directed by Vadim Perelman · 127 min7.6
Why you'll like itShares: nazi, world war ii · Also a German war film
Occupied France, 1942. Gilles is arrested by SS soldiers alongside other Jews and sent to a camp in Germany. He narrowly avoids sudden execution by swearing to the guards that he is not Jewish, but Persian.
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Europa Europa
1990 · Directed by Agnieszka Holland · 112 min7.2
Why you'll like itShares: nazi, world war ii · Also a German historical drama
A Jewish boy separated from his family in the early days of WWII poses as a German orphan and is taken into the heart of the Nazi world as a 'war hero' and eventually becomes a Hitler Youth.
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The Captain
2018 · Directed by Robert Schwentke · 118 min7.2
Why you'll like itShares: world war ii, 1940s · Also a German war film
Germany, 1945. Soldier Willi Herold, a deserter of the German army, stumbles into a uniform of a Nazi captain abandoned during the last and desperate weeks of the Third Reich.
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Schindler's List
1993 · Directed by Steven Spielberg · 195 min8.6
Why you'll like itShares: nazi, world war ii · Also drama and history
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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Nuremberg
2025 · Directed by James Vanderbilt · 149 min7.6
Why you'll like itShares: world war ii, 1940s · Also history and drama
In postwar Germany, an American psychiatrist must determine whether Nazi prisoners are fit to go on trial for war crimes, and finds himself in a complex battle of intellect and ethics with Hermann Göring, Hitler's…
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Life Is Beautiful
1997 · Directed by Roberto Benigni · 116 min8.4
Why you'll like itShares: nazi, world war ii, national socialism
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…