If You Liked A Generation, Watch These Next
Finished A Generation (1955) 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 A Generation, most of them are war, drama.
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19 titles · updated 2nd October 2026
1.Warsaw 44(2014)
6.7DramaHistoryWarAlso drama and war
City of Warsaw, Poland, August 1st, 1944. Citizens have experienced inhuman acts of terror and violence during five long years of Nazi occupation. As the Soviet Army relentlessly approaches, the youngest and bravest among them rise up as one and face tyranny fighting street by street, but the price to pay will be…
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2.Katyn(2007)
6.7DramaHistoryWarAlso drama and war
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. Thousands of Polish men, both military and government officials, are captured by the invaders. Their fate will only be…
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3.The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas(2008)
7.8DramaWarHistoryAlso 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. Unaware of Shmuel's fate as a Jewish prisoner or the role his own Nazi father plays in his imprisonment,…
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4.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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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.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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7.The Book Thief(2013)
7.5DramaAlso drama
While subjected to the horrors of WWII Germany, young Liesel finds solace by stealing books and sharing them with others. Under the stairs in her home, a Jewish refugee is being sheltered by her adoptive parents.
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8.The Pianist(2002)
8.4DramaWarAlso 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 family is deported in 1942, he stays behind, works for a while as a laborer, and eventually goes into…
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9.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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10.Night Train to Munich(1940)
7.2DramaThrillerWarAlso drama and war
Czechoslovakia, March 1939, on the eve of World War II. As the German invaders occupy Prague, inventor Axel Bomasch manages to flee and reach England; but those who need to put his knowledge at the service of the Nazi war machine, in order to carry out their evil plans of destruction, will stop at nothing to capture…
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11.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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12.Force 10 from Navarone(1978)
6.2DramaAdventureWarAlso drama and war
World War II, 1943. Mallory and Miller, the heroes who destroyed the guns of Navarone, are sent to Yugoslavia in search of a ghost from the past.
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13.Twelve O'Clock High(1949)
7.2WarActionDramaAlso war and drama
In the early days of daylight bombing raids over Germany, General Frank Savage must take command of a 'hard luck' bomber group. Much of the story deals with his struggle to whip his group into a disciplined fighting unit in spite of heavy losses, and withering attacks by German fighters over their targets.
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14.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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15.All Quiet on the Western Front(1930)
7.8DramaWarAlso 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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16.The Zone of Interest(2023)
7.0DramaHistoryWarAlso drama and war
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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17.Kanal(1957)
7.6WarDramaAlso war and drama
In the last few days of the Warsaw Uprising during World War II, a modest group of Resistance members remains. The band must take refuge in the sewers under the orders of leader Zadra, but it's only a matter of time before they will have to emerge. However, when they try, they are met only with intense hostility from…
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18.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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19.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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