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Movies like We Are Still The Same (2024)

The best movies like We Are Still The Same (2024) are Adventures of a Mathematician (2021), The Pentagon Papers (2003) and Oranges and Sunshine (2010). If We Are Still The Same hooked you with its drama and history, these 20 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.

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  1. Adventures of a Mathematician (2021)

    The warmhearted story of Polish immigrant and mathematician Stan Ulam, who moved to the U.S. in the 1930s. Stan deals with the difficult losses of family and friends all while helping to create the hydrogen bomb and the first computer.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & history

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  2. The Pentagon Papers (2003)

    This compelling political drama is based on the true story of high-ranking Pentagon official Daniel Ellsberg, who, during the Nixon era, strove to preserve American democracy by leaking top-secret documents to the New York Times and Washington Post. The documents in question would eventually become famous as the Pentagon Papers, which revealed the true reasons for U.S. involvement in Vietnam.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & history

  3. Oranges and Sunshine (2010)

    The story of Margaret Humphreys, a social worker from Nottingham, who uncovers one of the most significant social scandals in recent times – the forced migration of children from the United Kingdom to Australia and other Commonwealth countries. Almost singlehandedly, Margaret reunited thousands of families, brought authorities to account and worldwide attention to an extraordinary miscarriage of justice.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & history

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  4. Panther (1995)

    In this sprawling, fictionalized history of the Black Panthers, 1960s Oakland becomes a war zone as the Panthers battle for the right to exist.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & history

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  5. Suffragette (2015)

    Based on true events about the foot soldiers of the early feminist movement, women who were forced underground to pursue a dangerous game of cat and mouse with an increasingly brutal State.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & history

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  6. Salt of the Earth (1954)

    At New Mexico's Empire Zinc mine, Mexican-American workers protest the unsafe work conditions and unequal wages compared to their Anglo counterparts. Ramon Quintero helps organize the strike, but he is shown to be a hypocrite by treating his pregnant wife, Esperanza, with a similar unfairness. When an injunction stops the men from protesting, however, the gender roles are reversed, and women find themselves on the picket lines while the men stay at home.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & history

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  7. The Stanford Prison Experiment (2015)

    In 1971, Stanford's Professor Philip Zimbardo conducts a controversial psychology experiment in which college students pretend to be either prisoners or guards, but the proceedings soon get out of hand. Based on a true story.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & history

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  8. Plan A (2021)

    Germany 1945, Max, a Jewish Holocaust survivor, meets a radical group of Jewish resistance fighters, who, like him, lost all hope for their future after they were robbed of their existence and their entire families were killed by the Nazis. They dream of retaliation on an epic scale for the Jewish people. An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. Max starts identifying with the group's monstrous plans...

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & history

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  9. Outlaws - For Greater Glory (2012)

    A chronicle of the Cristeros War (1926-1929), which was touched off by a rebellion against the Mexican government's attempt to secularize the country.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both history & drama

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  10. Nightwatching (2007)

    An extravagant, exotic and moving look at Rembrandt's romantic and professional life, and the controversy he created by the identification of a murderer in the painting The Night Watch.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & history

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  11. The World Will Tremble (2025)

    The incredible, untold true story of how a group of prisoners attempt a seemingly impossible escape from the first Nazi death camp in order to provide the first eyewitness account of the Holocaust.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & history

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  12. King of Kings (1961)

    Who is Jesus, and why does he impact all he meets? He is respected and reviled, emulated and accused, beloved, betrayed, and finally crucified. Yet that terrible fate would not be the end of the story.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & history

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  13. Oslo (2021)

    The true story of negotiations between implacable enemies — the secret back-channel talks, unlikely friendships and quiet heroics of a small but committed group of Israelis, Palestinians and one Norwegian couple that led to the 1993 Oslo Peace Accords.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & history

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  14. Waiting for the Barbarians (2020)

    At an isolated frontier outpost, a colonial magistrate suffers a crisis of conscience when an army colonel arrives looking to interrogate the locals about an impending uprising, using cruel tactics that horrify the magistrate.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & history

  15. 7 Women (1965)

    In a mission in China in 1935, a group of women are preyed on by Mongolian bandits, led by Warlord chief Tunga Khan.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & history

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  16. Sergio (2020)

    A sweeping drama set in the chaotic aftermath of the US invasion of Iraq, where the life of top UN diplomat Brazilian Sérgio Vieira de Mello hangs in the balance during the most treacherous mission of his career.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

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  17. Hounddog (2008)

    A drama set in the American South, where a precocious, troubled girl finds a safe haven in the music and movement of Elvis Presley.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

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  18. The Experiment (2010)

    20 men are chosen to participate in the roles of guards and prisoners in a psychological study that ultimately spirals out of control.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

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  19. SAS: Red Notice (2021)

    An off-duty SAS soldier, Tom Buckingham, must thwart a terror attack on a train running through the Channel Tunnel. As the action escalates on the train, events transpire in the corridors of power that may make the difference as to whether Buckingham and the civilian passengers make it out of the tunnel alive.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

  20. Rogue Agent (2022)

    Conman Robert Freegard poses as an undercover MI5 agent and kidnaps countless victims amidst a high-stakes manhunt, until the woman who fell for him brings him to justice.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

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What are the best movies like We Are Still The Same?

The closest matches to We Are Still The Same are Adventures of a Mathematician (2021), The Pentagon Papers (2003) and Oranges and Sunshine (2010). Below are 17 more, each with the reason it matches.

What should I watch after We Are Still The Same?

Start with Adventures of a Mathematician (2021), the closest match to We Are Still The Same.

What is the highest-rated movie like We Are Still The Same?

Suffragette (2015), rated 7.2/10 by 1,696 TMDB users.

What is the newest movie like We Are Still The Same?

The World Will Tremble (2025) is the most recent release on this list.

How are movies similar to We Are Still The Same chosen?

First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside We Are Still The Same, 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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