If You Liked Germany, Year Zero, Watch These Next
Finished Germany, Year Zero (1948) 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 Germany, Year Zero, most of them are drama.
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20 titles · updated 2nd October 2026
1.Alone in Berlin(2016)
6.7WarThrillerDramaAlso 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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2.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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3.The Children's Train(2024)
7.4DramaAlso drama
In late 1940s Italy, a mother makes the difficult decision to send her son to the north, where he catches glimpses of a new life away from poverty.
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4.The Island on Bird Street(1997)
7.3DramaWarAlso drama
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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5.Rome, Open City(1945)
8.0DramaWarAlso drama
During the Nazi occupation of 1944 Rome, Resistance leader Giorgio Manfredi is pursued by the Nazis as he seeks refuge and a means of escape.
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6.The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas(2008)
7.8DramaWarHistoryAlso drama
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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7.Hitler: The Last Ten Days(1973)
6.2DramaWarHistoryAlso drama
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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8.The Bunker(1981)
6.3WarDramaAlso 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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9.Escape to Victory(1981)
6.9DramaWarAlso drama
A group of POWs in a German prison camp during World War II play the German National Soccer Team in this powerful film depicting the role of prisoners during wartime.
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10.The Bourne Supremacy(2004)
7.3ActionDramaThrillerAlso drama
A CIA operation to purchase classified Russian documents is blown by a rival agent, who then shows up in the sleepy seaside village where Bourne and Marie have been living. The pair run for their lives and Bourne, who promised retaliation should anyone from his former life attempt contact, is forced to once again…
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11.Swing Kids(1993)
6.7MusicDramaAlso drama
The story of a close-knit group of young kids in Nazi Germany who listen to banned swing music from the US. Soon dancing and fun leads to more difficult choices as the Nazis begin tightening the grip on Germany. Each member of the group is forced to face some tough choices about right, wrong, and survival.
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12.Despair(1978)
6.5DramaThrillerAlso drama
Berlin, 1930, during the rise of Nazism. Hermann Hermann, a Russian emigrant and chocolate manufacturer, married to the capricious Lydia, loses his temper more and more every day when dealing with his workers and other businessmen; until he meets Felix, a vagrant, who seems to be physically identical to him; a…
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13.Valkyrie(2008)
7.0DramaThrillerWarAlso drama
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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14.The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds(1972)
7.3DramaAlso drama
Middle-aged widow Beatrice Hunsdorfer and her daughters Ruth and Matilda are struggling to survive in a society they barely understand. Beatrice dreams of opening an elegant tea room but does not have the wherewithal to achieve her lofty goal. Epileptic Ruth is a rebellious adolescent, while shy but highly…
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15.The Garden of the Finzi-Continis(1970)
7.0DramaHistoryAlso drama
In 1930s Italy, a wealthy Jewish family tries to maintain their privileged lifestyle, hosting friends for tennis and parties at their villa. As anti-Semitism intensifies under Fascism, they must ultimately face the horrors of the Holocaust.
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17.I Am David(2003)
6.8DramaAdventureAlso drama
A 12-year-old boy manages to flee a Communist concentration camp on his own, through sheer will and determination. All he has in his possession is a loaf of bread, a letter to deliver to someone in Denmark, and a compass to help get him there.
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18.Hope and Glory(1987)
6.9DramaWarFamilyAlso drama
A middle-aged man recalls his childhood growing up in and around London during World War II.
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19.The Zone of Interest(2023)
7.0DramaHistoryWarAlso drama
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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20.The Boy in the Woods(2023)
6.9DramaWarHistoryAlso drama
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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