If You Liked The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, Watch These Next
Finished The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2008) and want more of the same? These 19 movies are what its fans watched next, ranked by how often people who liked it also liked these. Like The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, most of them are drama, war, history.
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19 titles · updated 2nd October 2026
1.The Boy in the Woods(2023)
6.9DramaWarHistoryAlso drama and war
The remarkable true-life survival story of a Jewish boy hiding and being hunted in the forests of Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe, based on Maxwell Smart's memoir.
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2.Empire of the Sun(1987)
7.5DramaHistoryWarAlso drama and history
Jamie Graham, a privileged English boy, is living in Shanghai when the Japanese invade and force all foreigners into prison camps. Jamie is captured with an American sailor, who looks out for him while they are in the camp together. Even though he is separated from his parents and in a hostile environment, Jamie…
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3.Hitler: The Last Ten Days(1973)
6.2DramaWarHistoryAlso drama and war
Hitler: The Last Ten Days takes us into the depths of der Furher’s Berlin bunker during his final days. Based on the book by Gerhard Boldt, it provides a bleak look at the goings-on within, and without.
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4.The Island on Bird Street(1997)
7.3DramaWarAlso drama and war
Alex is an 11-year old boy who, during WWII, hides in the Jewish ghetto from Nazis after all his relatives have been sent to the concentration camp. The movie portrays the ghetto through his eyes.
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5.The Zone of Interest(2023)
7.0DramaHistoryWarAlso drama and history
The commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolf Höss, and his wife Hedwig, strive to build a dream life for their family in a house and garden next to the camp.
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6.The Monuments Men(2014)
6.1WarDramaHistoryAlso war and drama
Based on the true story of the greatest treasure hunt in history, The Monuments Men is an action drama focusing on seven over-the-hill, out-of-shape museum directors, artists, architects, curators, and art historians who went to the front lines of WWII to rescue the world’s artistic masterpieces from Nazi thieves and…
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7.The Great Escape(1963)
7.9AdventureDramaWarAlso drama and war
The Nazis, exasperated at the number of escapes from their prison camps by a relatively small number of Allied prisoners, relocate them to a high-security 'escape-proof' camp to sit out the remainder of the war. Undaunted, the prisoners plan one of the most ambitious escape attempts of World War II. Based on a true…
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8.White Bird(2023)
7.8DramaWarAlso 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. To transform his life, Julian's grandmother finally reveals her own story of courage of her youth in Nazi-occupied France, where a classmate shelters her from mortal danger.
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9.The Way Back(2010)
7.0DramaAdventureHistoryAlso drama and history
A small band of multicultural convicts stages a daring escape from a WWII-era Siberian gulag, and embarks on a treacherous journey across five countries in a desperate race for freedom and survival.
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11.Shepherd: The Story of a Jewish Dog(2020)
6.8FamilyDramaWarAlso drama and war
Follow the perilous journey to freedom when a young boy and his dog attempt to escape a concentration camp during World War II. Based on true events.
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12.The Best of Enemies(2019)
7.4DramaHistoryAlso drama and history
Centers on the unlikely relationship between Ann Atwater, an outspoken civil rights activist, and C.P. Ellis, a local Ku Klux Klan leader who reluctantly co-chaired a community summit, battling over the desegregation of schools in Durham, North Carolina during the racially-charged summer of 1971. The incredible…
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13.The Guns of Navarone(1961)
7.3AdventureDramaWarAlso 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.
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14.The Six Triple Eight(2024)
7.6DramaWarHistoryAlso 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 and finish within six months.
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15.The Bunker(1981)
6.3WarDramaAlso war and drama
Dramatization depicting the events surrounding Adolf Hitler's last weeks in and around his underground bunker in Berlin before and during the battle for the city.
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16.Escape to Victory(1981)
6.9DramaWarAlso drama and war
A group of POWs in a German prison camp during World War II play the German National Soccer Team in this powerful film depicting the role of prisoners during wartime.
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17.God on Trial(2008)
6.8HistoryWarDramaAlso history and war
In the Jewish tradition of arguing with God, Jewish prisoners in Auschwitz decide to put God on Trial.
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18.Bonhoeffer: Pastor. Spy. Assassin(2024)
6.7HistoryDramaWarAlso history and drama
As the world teeters on the brink of annihilation, Dietrich Bonhoeffer joins a deadly plot to assassinate Hitler, risking his faith and fate to save millions of Jews from genocide.
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19.Paradise Road(1997)
6.3WarDramaHistoryAlso war and drama
A group of English, American, Dutch and Australian women creates a vocal orchestra while being imprisoned in a Japanese POW camp on Sumatra during World War II.
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