If You Liked Funan, Watch These Next
Finished Funan (2019) 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 Funan, most of them are animation, drama, history.
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19 titles · updated 2nd October 2026
1.The Most Precious of Cargoes(2024)
7.7AnimationDramaHistoryAlso animation and 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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3.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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4.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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5.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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6.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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7.Bilal: A New Breed of Hero(2016)
6.8AnimationActionAdventureAlso animation and history
A thousand years ago, one boy with a dream of becoming a great warrior is abducted with his sister and taken to a land far away from home. Thrown into a world where greed and injustice rule all, Bilal finds the courage to raise his voice and make a change. Inspired by true events, this is a story of a real hero who…
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8.Josep(2020)
7.4AnimationDramaHistoryAlso animation and drama
February 1939. Overwhelmed by the flood of Republicans fleeing Franco's dictatorship, the French government's solution consists in confining the Spanish refugees in concentration camps where they have no other choice than to build their own shelters, feed off the horses which have carried them out of their country,…
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9.The Swallows of Kabul(2019)
7.7AnimationDramaAlso animation and drama
Summer 1998—Kabul under Taliban rule. Zunaira and Mohsen are young and in love. Despite the daily violence and misery, they hope for a better future. One day, a foolish gesture causes life to take an irrevocable turn.
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10.Big George Foreman(2023)
7.6HistoryDramaAlso history and drama
Fueled by an impoverished childhood, George Foreman channeled his anger into becoming an Olympic Gold medalist and World Heavyweight Champion, followed by a near-death experience that took him from the boxing ring to the pulpit. But when he sees his community struggling spiritually and financially, Foreman returns to…
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11.The Innocents(2016)
7.1DramaHistoryAlso drama and history
Poland, 1945. Mathilde, a young French Red Cross doctor, is on a mission to help the war survivors. When a nun seeks for her help, she is brought to a convent where several pregnant sisters are hiding, unable to reconcile their faith with their pregnancy. Mathilde becomes their only hope.
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12.Seven Years in Tibet(1997)
7.2AdventureDramaHistoryAlso drama and history
Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer journeys to the Himalayas without his family to head an expedition in 1939. But when World War II breaks out, the arrogant Harrer falls into Allied forces' hands as a prisoner of war. He escapes with a fellow detainee and makes his way to Lhasa, Tibet, where he meets the…
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13.The Boy in the Woods(2023)
6.9DramaWarHistoryAlso drama and history
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 Young Karl Marx(2017)
6.8HistoryDramaAlso history and drama
26 year-old Karl Marx embarks with his wife, Jenny, on the road to exile. In 1844 in Paris, he meets Friedrich Engels, an industrialist’s son, who has been investigating the sordid birth of the British working class. Engels, the dandy, provides the last piece of the puzzle to the young Karl Marx’s new vision of the…
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15.The Impossible(2012)
7.4DramaThrillerHistoryAlso drama and history
In December 2004, close-knit family Maria, Henry and their three sons begin their winter vacation in Thailand. But the day after Christmas, the idyllic holiday turns into an incomprehensible nightmare when a terrifying roar rises from the depths of the sea, followed by a wall of black water that devours everything in…
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16.Wake of the Red Witch(1948)
5.8AdventureDramaHistoryAlso drama and history
Captain Ralls fights Dutch shipping magnate Mayrant Sidneye for the woman he loves, Angelique Desaix, and for a fortune in gold aboard the Red Witch.
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17.The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind(2019)
7.9DramaHistoryAlso drama and history
Against all the odds, a thirteen year old boy in Malawi invents an unconventional way to save his family and village from famine.
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18.The Diving Bell and the Butterfly(2007)
7.6DramaHistoryAlso drama and history
Jean-Dominique Bauby, editor-in-chief of French fashion bible Elle magazine, has a devastating stroke at age 43. The damage to his brain stem results in locked-in syndrome, with which he is almost completely paralyzed and only able to communicate by blinking an eye. Bauby painstakingly dictates his memoir via the…
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19.The Boys in the Boat(2023)
7.2DramaHistoryAlso drama and history
The triumphant underdog story of the University of Washington men's rowing team, who stunned the world by competing at the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
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