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Movies that feel likeThe Zone of Interest (2023)

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.

If you loved The Zone of Interest, the closest films we have are The Champion (2021), The Captain (2018) and T-34 (2018). All three share The Zone of Interest's contemplative and epic feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Katyn (2007).

🍅 93% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.3 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Jonathan Glazercontemplativeepicbleak
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The Champion
2021 · dir. Maciej Barczewski
★ 6.8drama · history · warPrime Video

Both are built on the same subject: concentration camp

It is 1940. The first transport of prisoners arrives at the newly created concentration camp Auschwitz. One of them is Tadeusz “Teddy” Pietrzykowski, pre-war boxing champion of Warsaw. The camp officers force him to fight in the ring for his and other prisoners’ lives. However, his every win strengthens the hope that Nazis are not invincible. Auschwitz officers notice the growing resistance. The confrontation with the authorities of the camp becomes inevitable.

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The Captain
2018 · dir. Robert Schwentke
🍅 83%★ 7.3war · drama · historyPrime Video

Two things both keep coming back to: world war ii and nazi officer

Germany, 1945. Soldier Willi Herold, a deserter of the German army, stumbles into a uniform of a Nazi captain abandoned during the last and desperate weeks of the Third Reich. Newly emboldened by the allure of a suit that he has stolen only to stay warm, Willi discovers that many Germans will follow the leader, whoever he is.

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T-34
2018 · dir. Alexey Sidorov
★ 6.8drama · history · warPrime Video

Both keep coming back to the same thing: nazi

In 1944, a courageous group of Russian soldiers managed to escape from German captivity in a half-destroyed legendary T-34 tank. Those were the times of unforgettable bravery, fierce fighting, unbreakable love, and legendary miracles.

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The Shadow in My Eye
2021 · dir. Ole Bornedal
★ 7.3war · drama · historyNetflix

One thread runs through both: a true story

On March 21st, 1945, the British Royal Air Force set out on a mission to bomb Gestapo's headquarters in Copenhagen. The raid had fatal consequences as some of the bombers accidentally targeted a school and more than 120 people were killed, 86 of whom were children.

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The King
2019 · dir. David Michôd
🍅 71%★ 7.3drama · history · warNetflix

Common ground: biography

England, 15th century. Hal, a capricious prince who lives among the populace far from court, is forced by circumstances to reluctantly accept the throne and become Henry V.

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🍅 52%★ 7.3war · history · drama

The same preoccupation in both: biography

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

An American Ambassador is killed during an attack at a U.S. compound in Libya as a security team struggles to make sense out of the chaos.

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Kalashnikov AK-47
2020 · dir. Konstantin Buslov
★ 6.6war · history · dramaPrime Video

Common ground: world war ii

A Russian military propaganda film about the tank commander Kalashnikov, severely injured in battle in 1941. The accident leaves him incapacitated and unable to return to the front line. While recovering in the hospital, he begins creating the initial sketches of what will become one of the world’s most legendary weapons. A self-taught inventor is only 29 when he develops the now iconic assault riffle — the AK-47. Shot in occupied Crimea.

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The Monuments Men
2014 · dir. George Clooney
🍅 30%★ 6.1war · drama · historyPrime Video

The same preoccupation in both: nazi

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 return them to their rightful owners. With the art hidden behind enemy lines, how could these guys hope to succeed?

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Napoleon
2023 · dir. Ridley Scott
🍅 58%★ 6.3history · war · dramaApple TV+

Both are built on the same subject: a true story

An epic that details the checkered rise and fall of French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte and his relentless journey to power through the prism of his addictive, volatile relationship with his wife, Josephine.

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The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
2008 · dir. Mark Herman
🍅 65%★ 7.7drama · war · history

Common ground: concentration camp

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, Bruno embarks on a dangerous journey inside the camp's walls.

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Katyn
2007 · dir. Andrzej Wajda
🍅 91%★ 7drama · history · war

The same mix in both: stillness, then scale

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 known several years later.

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Oppenheimer
2023 · dir. Christopher Nolan
🍅 93%★ 8.2drama · history · warPeacock

Both lean on bleakness more than on drama

The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer's role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II.

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