If You Liked The Pianist, Watch These Next
Finished The Pianist (2002) and want more of the same? These 18 movies are what its fans watched next, ranked by how often people who liked it also liked these. Like The Pianist, most of them are drama, war.
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18 titles · updated 3rd October 2026
1.Schindler's List(1993)
8.6DramaHistoryWarAlso 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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2.The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler(2009)
7.3DramaWarAlso drama and war
Irena Sendler is a Catholic social worker who has sympathized with the Jews since her childhood, when her physician father died of typhus contracted while treating poor Jewish patients. When she initially proposes saving Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto, her idea is met with skepticism by fellow workers, her…
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3.Irena's Vow(2024)
7.7WarDramaHistoryAlso war and drama
19 year old Irena Gut is promoted to housekeeper in the home of a highly respected Nazi officer in Poland when she finds out that the Jewish ghetto is about to be liquidated. Determined to help twelve Jewish workers, she decides to shelter them in the safest place she can think of – the basement of the German Major's…
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4.The World Will Tremble(2025)
7.4DramaWarHistoryAlso drama and war
The incredible, untold true story of how a group of prisoners attempt a seemingly impossible escape from the first Nazi death camp in order to provide the first eyewitness account of the Holocaust.
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5.Adam Resurrected(2008)
6.1DramaWarAlso drama and war
After again attempting to commit murder, a Jewish man with a mysterious past and extraordinary intelligence, charisma, and body control returns to an insane asylum, where he makes a startling discovery.
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6.Freedom Writers(2007)
7.9CrimeDramaAlso drama
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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7.The Zookeeper's Wife(2017)
7.3DramaHistoryWarAlso drama and war
The account of keepers of the Warsaw Zoo, Jan and Antonina Zabinski, who helped save hundreds of people and animals during the Nazi invasion.
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8.Resistance(2020)
7.0WarHistoryDramaAlso 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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9.The Grey Zone(2001)
6.6DramaWarHistoryAlso drama and war
The story of Auschwitz's twelfth Sonderkommando — one of the thirteen consecutive "Special Squads" of Jewish prisoners placed by the Nazis in the excruciating moral dilemma of assisting in the extermination of fellow Jews in exchange for a few more months of life.
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10.Inglourious Basterds(2009)
8.2DramaThrillerWarAlso 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. The Basterds, lead by Lt. Aldo Raine soon cross paths with a French-Jewish teenage girl who runs a movie…
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11.Truth & Treason(2025)
7.9HistoryDramaThrillerAlso drama
When loyalty to country becomes loyalty to a lie, one teen risks everything to expose the truth. With the Gestapo closing in, he must decide what it really means to be a good German.
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12.The Pawnbroker(1965)
7.1DramaAlso drama
A Jewish pawnbroker, a victim of Nazi persecution, loses all faith in his fellow man until he realizes too late the tragedy of his actions.
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13.Triumph of the Spirit(1989)
6.5DramaWarHistoryAlso drama and war
During World War II, Salamo Arouch, a passionate boxer, is arrested and sent to a concentration camp. Soon, he is forced to box against his fellow prisoners for the sake of entertainment.
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14.The Railway Man(2013)
6.8DramaHistoryAlso drama
A victim from World War II's "Death Railway" sets out to find those responsible for his torture. A true story.
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17.Slaughterhouse-Five(1972)
6.5DramaScience FictionWarAlso 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 on a distant planet called Tralfamadore, passing through his bitter experience as a prisoner of war…
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