Movies like The Reader
If The Reader's mix of germany, war crimes and world war ii stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what The Reader's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Conspiracy
2001 · Directed by Frank Pierson · 96 min7.3
Why you'll like itShares: war crimes, world war ii, complex · 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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Schindler's List
1993 · Directed by Steven Spielberg · 195 min8.6
Why you'll like itWith Ralph Fiennes · Shares: world war ii, disheartening
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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Anatomy of a Murder
1959 · Directed by Otto Preminger · 161 min7.8
Why you'll like itShares: trial, courtroom drama
Semi-retired Michigan lawyer Paul Biegler takes the case of Army Lt. Manion, who murdered a local innkeeper after his wife claimed that he raped her.
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Shining Through
1992 · Directed by David Seltzer · 132 min6.5
Why you'll like itShares: germany · Also drama and romance
Spirited New Yorker Linda Voss goes to work for international lawyer and secret Office of Strategic Services operative Ed Leland just before World War II.
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The Aftermath
2019 · Directed by James Kent · 108 min6.4
Why you'll like itShares: world war ii · Also drama and romance
In the aftermath of World War II, a British colonel and his wife are assigned to live in Hamburg during the post-war reconstruction, but tensions arise with the German widower who lives with them.
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Nuremberg
2025 · Directed by James Vanderbilt · 149 min7.6
Why you'll like itShares: world war ii
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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Unbroken
2014 · Directed by Angelina Jolie · 137 min7.4
Why you'll like itShares: world war ii
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
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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Slaughterhouse-Five
1972 · Directed by George Roy Hill · 100 min6.5
Why you'll like itShares: world war ii
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…