If You Liked The Zone of Interest, Watch These Next
Finished The Zone of Interest (2023) and want more of the same? These 20 movies are what its fans watched next, ranked by how often people who liked it also liked these. Like The Zone of Interest, most of them are drama, history, war.
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20 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.A Hidden Life(2019)
7.2HistoryDramaWarAlso history and drama
Austrian farmer Franz Jägerstätter faces the threat of execution for refusing to fight for the Nazis during World War II.
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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.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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5.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 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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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.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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10.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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11.A Call to Spy(2020)
6.7HistoryCrimeDramaAlso history and drama
The story of Vera Atkins, a crafty spy recruiter, and two of the first women she selects for Churchill's "secret army": Virginia Hall, a daring American undaunted by a disability and Noor Inayat Khan, a pacifist. These civilian women form an unlikely sisterhood while entangled in dangerous missions to turn the tide…
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12.Valkyrie(2008)
7.0DramaThrillerWarAlso drama and war
Wounded in Africa during World War II, Nazi Col. Claus von Stauffenberg returns to his native Germany and joins the Resistance in a daring plan to create a shadow government and assassinate Adolf Hitler. When events unfold so that he becomes a central player, he finds himself tasked with both leading the coup and…
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13.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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14.Alone in Berlin(2016)
6.7WarThrillerDramaAlso war and drama
Berlin in June of 1940. While Nazi propaganda celebrates the regime’s victory over France, a kitchen-cum-living room in Prenzlauer Berg is filled with grief. Anna and Otto Quangel’s son has been killed at the front. This working class couple had long believed in the ‘Führer’ and followed him willingly, but now they…
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15.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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16.A United Kingdom(2016)
6.6DramaHistoryAlso drama and history
The inspiring true story of Seretse Khama, the King of Bechuanaland (modern Botswana), and Ruth Williams, the London office worker he married in 1948 in the face of fierce opposition from their families and the British and South African governments. Seretse and Ruth defied family, Apartheid and empire - their love…
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17.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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18.Gods and Generals(2003)
6.4DramaHistoryWarAlso drama and history
Follows the personal and professional life of Thomas 'Stonewall' Jackson, a brilliant if eccentric Confederate general, from the outbreak of the American Civil War until its halfway point.
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19.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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20.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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