If You Liked Forbidden Games, Watch These Next
Finished Forbidden Games (1952) 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 Forbidden Games, most of them are drama, war.
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20 titles · updated 2nd October 2026
1.Au Revoir les Enfants(1987)
7.5DramaWarAlso drama and war
Au revoir les enfants tells a heartbreaking story of friendship and devastating loss concerning two boys living in Nazi-occupied France. At a provincial Catholic boarding school, the precocious youths enjoy true camaraderie—until a secret is revealed. Based on events from writer-director Malle’s own childhood, the…
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2.A Bag of Marbles(2017)
7.8WarDramaAlso war and drama
At the beginning of the 1940s, in a France occupied by Nazi forces, lived the Jewish Joffo family. Happy and tight-knit, she sees her future darken when all members of the family are forced to wear the yellow star. Fearing the worst, the parents organized their family to flee to the free zone in the south of the…
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3.Surviving with Wolves(2007)
6.3DramaAlso drama
In 1942, the young Jewish girl Misha, her Russian mother Gerusha and her German father Reuven hide from the Germans in a small house in Ardennes, Belgium. Misha is very connected to her mother that advises her that if one day a person comes to her saying "love of my life", she would follow him or her without any…
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4.The Future Awaits(2025)
7.5DramaHistoryWarAlso drama and war
In July 1942, during the Vel’ d’Hiv’ Roundup of Jewish families in Paris, 13 year old Tauba Birenbaum and her parents, who are Polish Jews, find refuge in a tiny room for the next 765 days. Living conditions are tough and they fear being discovered at any moment. But while her parents sink further into despair,…
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5.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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6.The House by the Sea(2017)
6.5DramaAlso drama
By a little bay near Marseille lies a picturesque villa owned by an old man. His three children have gathered by his side for his last days. It’s time for them to weigh up what they have inherited of their father’s ideals and the community spirit he created in this magical place. The arrival, at a nearby cove, of a…
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7.Hope and Glory(1987)
6.9DramaWarFamilyAlso drama and war
A middle-aged man recalls his childhood growing up in and around London during World War II.
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8.The Great Escaper(2023)
6.6HistoryDramaWarAlso drama and war
In the summer of 2014, a World War II veteran sneaks out of his care home to attend the 70th anniversary commemoration of the D-Day landings in Normandy.
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9.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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11.Hold Me Tight(2021)
6.4DramaAlso drama
At dawn, Clarisse takes a last look at her husband and two sleeping children, hesitates to leave a note, and hits the road. A desperate escape that gradually reveals its layers as Clarisse — who seems to have an extra-sensory connection to the family she has left behind — loses herself in the world.
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12.The Most Precious of Cargoes(2024)
7.7AnimationDramaHistoryAlso drama
Once upon a time, a poor woodcutter and his wife lived in a great forest. Cold, hunger, poverty, and a war raging all around them meant their lives were very hard. One day, the woodcutter's wife rescues a baby. A baby girl thrown from one of the many trains that constantly pass through the forest. This baby, this…
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13.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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14.The Dead Don't Hurt(2024)
6.5WesternDramaAlso drama
In the 1860s, fiercely independent French-Canadian Vivienne Le Coudy embarks on a journey with Danish immigrant Holger Olsen, attempting to forge a life together in the dusty town of Elk Flats, Nevada. When Holger decides to go fight for the Union in the burgeoning Civil War, Vivienne must fend for herself, which…
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15.See You Up There(2017)
7.8DramaCrimeWarAlso drama and war
In November 1918, a few days before the Armistice, when Lieutenant Pradelle orders a senseless attack, he causes a useless disaster; but his outrageous act also binds the lives of two soldiers who have nothing more in common than the battlefield: Édouard saves Albert, although at a high cost. They become companions…
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16.The Guardians(2017)
6.1DramaWarAlso drama and war
In this ensemble drama set in rural France, the women of the Paridier farm are left to run it by themselves while their men are off fighting in World War I. But things become complicated with the arrival of American troops.
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17.The Man Who Laughs(2012)
6.0DramaAlso drama
During a winter storm, Ursus offers shelter to two orphans, Gwynplaine and Déa; some years later, they are still living together. Gwynplaine has become a famous star, but his success threatens his relationships with Déa and Ursus.
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18.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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19.Nowhere Special(2020)
7.3DramaAlso drama
John, a 35-year-old window cleaner, has dedicated his life to bringing up his 4-year-old son, Michael, after the child's mother left them soon after giving birth. When John is given only a few months left to live, he attempts to find a new, perfect family for Michael, determined to shield him from the terrible…
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20.Dunkirk(2017)
7.5WarActionDramaAlso war and drama
The story of the miraculous evacuation of Allied soldiers from Belgium, Britain, Canada and France, who were cut off and surrounded by the German army from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk between May 26th and June 4th 1940 during World War II.
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