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Movies that feel likeTriumph of the Will (1935)

A showcase of German chancellor and Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler at the 1934 Nuremberg Rally.

If you loved Triumph of the Will, the closest films we have are Slaughterhouse-Five (1972), Advantageous (2015) and The War of the Worlds (1953). All three share Triumph of the Will's cerebral and bleak feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Testament (1983).

🍅 84% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.1 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Leni Riefenstahlunsettlingcerebralbleak
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Slaughterhouse-Five
1972 · dir. George Roy Hill
🍅 82%★ 6.8drama · science fiction · warPrime Video

Both land ideas and bleakness at once

The difference: Easier on the unease than Triumph of the Will

Billy Pilgrim, a veteran of the Second World War, finds himself mysteriously detached from time, so that he is able to travel, without being able to help it, from the days of his childhood to those of his peculiar life on a distant planet called Tralfamadore, passing through his bitter experience as a prisoner of war in the German city of Dresden, over which looms the inevitable shadow of an unspeakable tragedy.

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Advantageous
2015 · dir. Jennifer Phang
🍅 87%★ 6science fiction · drama

Documentary with a pulse of ideas, in both cases

The difference: Trades the unease of Triumph of the Will for an angle of its own

In a near-future city where soaring opulence overshadows economic hardship, Gwen and her daughter, Jules, do all they can to hold on to their joy, despite the instability surfacing in their world.

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The War of the Worlds
1953 · dir. Byron Haskin
★ 7science fiction · action

Bleak documentary, and it commits to that

The difference: Leans harder into science fiction than Triumph of the Will does

The residents of a small town are excited when a flaming meteor lands in the hills, until they discover it is the first of many transport devices from Mars bringing an army of invaders invincible to any man-made weapon, even the atomic bomb.

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Fahrenheit 451
1966 · dir. François Truffaut
🍅 82%★ 7.2drama · science fiction

Documentary built on ideas, twice over

The difference: Made in the 1960s, in a different era of the craft

In the future, the government maintains control of public opinion by outlawing literature and maintaining a group of enforcers, known as “firemen,” to perform the necessary book burnings. Fireman Montag begins to question the morality of his vocation…

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Metropolis
1927 · dir. Fritz Lang
🍅 97%★ 8.2drama · science fiction

A streak of bleakness through both

In a futuristic city sharply divided between the rich and the poor, the son of the city's mastermind meets a prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.

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THX 1138
1971 · dir. George Lucas
🍅 72%★ 6.6science fiction · drama

Reaching back to the 1970s for it

People in the future live in a totalitarian society. A technician named THX 1138 lives a mundane life between work and taking a controlled consumption of drugs that the government uses to make puppets out of people. As THX is without drugs for the first time he has feelings for a woman and they start a secret relationship.

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Rollerball
1975 · dir. Norman Jewison
🍅 55%★ 6.5science fiction

A 1970s answer to the same itch

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

In a corporate-controlled future, an ultra-violent sport known as Rollerball represents the world, and one of its powerful athletes is out to defy those who want him out of the game.

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Testament
1983 · dir. Lynne Littman
🍅 90%★ 6.9drama · science fiction

A 1980s cousin in spirit

It's just another day in the small town of Hamlin until something disastrous happens. Suddenly, news breaks that a series of nuclear warheads has been dropped along the Eastern Seaboard and, more locally, in California. As people begin coping with the devastating aftermath of the attacks — many suffer radiation poisoning — the Wetherly family tries to survive.

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Son of Frankenstein
1939 · dir. Rowland V. Lee
🍅 95%★ 7.1horror · science fiction

Both sit in the same unsettling register

One of the sons of late Dr. Henry Frankenstein finds his father's ghoulish creation in a coma and revives him, only to find out the monster is controlled by Ygor who is bent on revenge.

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Island of Lost Souls
1932 · dir. Erle C. Kenton
🍅 88%★ 7.3science fiction · horror

The shared currency is unease

An obsessed scientist conducts profane experiments in evolution, eventually establishing himself as the self-styled demigod to a race of mutated, half-human abominations.

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Paisan
1946 · dir. Roberto Rossellini
🍅 100%★ 7.6drama · warMax

A 1940s cousin in spirit

Six stories unfold in various regions, from Sicily to the northern Po Valley as American military personnel interact with a variety of Italian locals over eighteen months in the push north during the Italian Campaign of WWII as German forces retreat.

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Lifeboat
1944 · dir. Alfred Hitchcock
🍅 90%★ 7.6war · drama

Products of the same few years

During World War II, a small group of survivors is stranded in a lifeboat together after the ship they were traveling on is destroyed by a German U-boat.

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