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Movies like Herzsprung (2021)

The best movies like Herzsprung (2021) are Woman in Gold (2015), Escape from Sobibor (1987) and Naked Among Wolves (2015). If Herzsprung hooked you, these 20 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.

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  1. Woman in Gold (2015)

    Maria Altmann, an octogenarian Jewish refugee, takes on the government to recover artwork she believes rightfully belongs to her family.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  2. Escape from Sobibor (1987)

    The true story of WWII's notorious Sobibor Nazi death camp, where a courageous inmate orchestrates and leads the escape of over 300 prisoners.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  3. Naked Among Wolves (2015)

    Taking place at the Concentration camp Buchenwald at the end of March 1945, prisoner Hans Pippig discovers in a carrying case of an incoming prisoner a Jewish child. If reported the three-year-old is sure to die. On the other hand, a violation of the rules of the camp would threaten the long prepared uprising of the concentration camp prisoners against the SS.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  4. Nuremberg (2025)

    In postwar Germany, an American psychiatrist must determine whether Nazi prisoners are fit to go on trial for war crimes, and finds himself in a complex battle of intellect and ethics with Hermann Göring, Hitler's right-hand man.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  5. Tower (2016)

    Combining archival footage with rotoscopic animation, Tower reveals the action-packed untold stories of the witnesses, heroes and survivors of America's first mass school shooting, when the worst in one man brought out the best in so many others.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  6. The Devil's Arithmetic (1999)

    An American-born Jewish adolescent, Hannah Stern, is uninterested in the culture, faith and customs of her relatives. However, she begins to revaluate her heritage when she has a supernatural experience that transports her back to a Nazi death camp in 1941. There she meets a young girl named Rivkah, a fellow captive in the camp. As Rivkah and Hannah struggle to survive in the face of daily atrocities, they form an unbreakable bond.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  7. Camp Confidential: America's Secret Nazis (2021)

    Camp Confidential: America's Secret Nazis, is a documentary short featuring animation that focuses on the story of a top secret POW camp that was classified for over 5 decades. In the midst of WWII, a group of young Jewish refugees are assigned to guard a top secret POW camp near Washington D.C. The Jewish soldiers soon discover that their prisoners are no other than Hitler's top scientists - What starts out as an intelligence mission to gather information from the Nazis, soon gets a shocking twist when the Jewish soldiers are tasked with a very different mission altogether. A mission that would question their moral values - exposing a dark secret from America's past.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  8. The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2008)

    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.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  9. Bent (1997)

    Max is a handsome young man who, after a fateful tryst with a German soldier, is forced to run for his life. Eventually Max is placed in a concentration camp where he pretends to be Jewish because in the eyes of the Nazis, gays are the lowest form of human being. But it takes a relationship with an openly gay prisoner to teach Max that without the love of another, life is not worth living.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  10. Operation Finale (2018)

    In 1960, a team of Israeli secret agents is deployed to find Adolf Eichmann, the infamous Nazi architect of the Holocaust, supposedly hidden in Argentina, and get him to Israel to be judged.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  11. Diary of a Wimpy Kid (2021)

    Greg Heffley is a scrawny but ambitious kid with an active imagination and big plans to be rich and famous – he just has to survive middle school first.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  12. Truth & Treason (2025)

    In 1941 Nazi Germany, 16-year-old Helmuth Hübener begins questioning the regime after learning the truth about the war and seeing his Jewish friend persecuted. With two friends, he secretly listens to banned foreign broadcasts and distributes leaflets exposing Nazi lies. As the Gestapo closes in, the teenagers face mounting danger for choosing conscience over obedience. Based on the true story of one of Germany’s youngest resistance fighters.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  13. The People vs. Fritz Bauer (2015)

    It is the late 1950s. Flourishing under the economic miracle, Germany grows increasingly apathetic about confronting the horrors of its recent past. Nevertheless, Fritz Bauer doggedly devotes his energies to bringing the Third Reich to justice. One day Bauer receives a letter from Argentina, written by a man who is certain that his daughter is dating the son of Adolph Eichmann. Excited by the promising lead, and mistrustful of a corrupt judiciary system where Nazis still lurk, Bauer journeys to Jerusalem to seek alliance with Mossad, the Israeli secret service. To do so is treason — yet committing treason is the only way Bauer can serve his country.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  14. Riot in Cell Block 11 (1954)

    A prisoner leads his counterparts in a protest for better living conditions which turns violent and ugly.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  15. Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)

    In 1947, four German judges who served on the bench during the Nazi regime face a military tribunal to answer charges of crimes against humanity. Chief Justice Haywood hears evidence and testimony not only from lead defendant Ernst Janning and his defense attorney Hans Rolfe, but also from the widow of a Nazi general, an idealistic U.S. Army captain and reluctant witness Irene Wallner.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  16. Uprising (2001)

    In the Warsaw ghetto in 1943, Jews rise against the Nazis.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  17. God on Trial (2008)

    In the Jewish tradition of arguing with God, Jewish prisoners in Auschwitz decide to put God on Trial.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  18. Rosenstrasse (2003)

    When Ruth's husband dies in New York, in 2000, she imposes strict Jewish mourning, which puzzles her children. A stranger comes to the house - Ruth's cousin - with a picture of Ruth, age 8, in Berlin, with a woman the cousin says helped Ruth escape. Hannah, Ruth's daughter engaged to a gentile, goes to Berlin to find the woman, Lena Fisher, now 90. Posing as a journalist investigating intermarriage, Hannah interviews Lena who tells the story of a week in 1943 when the Jewish husbands of Aryan women were detained in a building on Rosenstrasse. The women gather daily for word of their husbands. The film goes back and forth to tell Ruth and Lena's story. How will it affect Hannah?

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  19. Schindler's List (1993)

    The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  20. Conspiracy (2001)

    At the Wannsee Conference on January 20, 1942, senior Nazi officials meet to determine the manner in which the so-called "Final Solution to the Jewish Question" can be best implemented.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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Frequently asked questions

What are the best movies like Herzsprung?

The closest matches to Herzsprung are Woman in Gold (2015), Escape from Sobibor (1987) and Naked Among Wolves (2015). Below are 17 more, each with the reason it matches.

What should I watch after Herzsprung?

Start with Woman in Gold (2015), the closest match to Herzsprung.

What is the highest-rated movie like Herzsprung?

Schindler's List (1993), rated 8.6/10 by 18,170 TMDB users.

What is the newest movie like Herzsprung?

Nuremberg (2025) is the most recent release on this list.

Are there German movies like Herzsprung?

Yes: Naked Among Wolves (2015), The People vs. Fritz Bauer (2015) and Rosenstrasse (2003).

How are movies similar to Herzsprung chosen?

First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Herzsprung, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.

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