Movies like Der Grenzjäger (1930)
The best movies like Der Grenzjäger (1930) are Brand Upon the Brain! (2007), The One That Got Away (1957) and The Poker House (2008). If Der Grenzjäger hooked you with its drama, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Der Grenzjäger
Quick picks
- Highest ratedHands of Stone (2016)6.6/10 from 470 votes
- NewestCena Familiar (2026)Released 2026
- In German3 Days in Quiberon (2018)Also in German
Brand Upon the Brain! (2007)
After returning home to his long-estranged mother upon a request from her deathbed, a man raised by his parents in an orphanage has to confront the childhood memories that have long haunted him.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe One That Got Away (1957)
Based on the true story of Oberleutnant Franz von Werra, the only German prisoner of war captured in Britain to escape back to Germany during the Second World War.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Poker House (2008)
Agnes and her two sisters struggle through a day in a home overrun by gamblers, thieves, and johns.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHounddog (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
Popcorn FlickMovies like this3 Days in Quiberon (2018)
1981, Quiberon, a small village on the coast of Brittany, France. Hilde Fritsch arrives to visit her old friend who has retreated to a spa hotel to escape the daily pressures of her life. Her friend is world-famous star Romy Schneider, but together, they appear like two regular women who are just happy to be reunited. Yet it quickly becomes apparent that Hilde is supposed to offer the support the sensitive actress needs to be able to truly face her own demons.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWonderstruck (2017)
The story of a young boy in the Midwest is told simultaneously with a tale about a young girl in New York from fifty years ago as they both seek the same mysterious connection.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Girl in the Book (2015)
The story of a young writer's transformation when her past invades her present.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Fox (2023)
At the dawn of World War II, a young motorcycle courier in the Austrian army encounters a wounded fox cub and takes it with him to occupied France. The soldier and the fox develop an unlikely bond. Based on the true story of Franz Streitberger, director Adrian Goiginger’s great-grandfather.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Safety of Objects (2002)
In a suburban landscape, the lives of several families interlace with loss, despair and personal crisis. Esther Gold has lost focus on all but caring for her comatose son, Paul, and neglects her daughter and husband. Lawyer Jim Train is devoted to his career, not his family. Helen Christianson wants to find a new spark in life, while Annette Jennings tries to rebuild hers.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisEleanor the Great (2025)
94-year-old Eleanor Morgenstein tries to rebuild her life after the death of her best friend. As a result, she moves back to New York City after living in Florida for decades.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisXiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl (1998)
Young teen girl Xiu Xiu is sent away to a remote corner of the Sichuan steppes for manual labor in 1975 (sending young people to there was a part of Cultural Revolution in China). A year later, she agrees to go to even more remote spot with a Tibetan saddle tramp Lao Jin to learn horse herding.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisA Year Ago in Winter (2008)
A renowned artist must uncover a young dancer's secrets in order to truly capture her likeness for a commissioned work.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe State of Things (1982)
On location in Portugal, a film crew runs out of film while making their own version of Roger Corman's The Day the World Ended (1956). The producer is nowhere to be found and director Munro attempts to find him in hopes of being able to finish the film.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBastard Out of Carolina (1996)
A poor, struggling South Carolinian mother and daughter face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her tired mother, grow both closer and farther apart: Anney sees Glen as her last chance.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisHands of Stone (2016)
The legendary Roberto Duran and his equally legendary trainer Ray Arcel change each other's lives.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA Dry White Season (1989)
During the 1976 Soweto uprising, a white school teacher's life and values are threatened when he asks questions about the death of a young black boy who died in police custody.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFedora (1978)
Down-on-his-luck Hollywood producer Barry 'Dutch' Detweiler attempts to lure Fedora, a famous but reclusive film actress, out of retirement, only to discover the horrifying truth behind her success.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Trials of Cate McCall (2013)
In order to be reinstated to the bar and recover custody of her daughter, a hotshot lawyer, now in recovery and on probation, must take on the appeal of a woman wrongfully convicted of murder.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds (1972)
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 intelligent and idealistic Matilda seeks solace in her pets and school projects, including one designed to show how small amounts of radium affect marigolds.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisWaiting for Anya (2020)
During the harrows of WWII, Jo, a young shepherd along with the help of the widow Horcada, helps to smuggle Jewish children across the border from southern France into Spain.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisKingdom of Strangers (2022)
On the Pacific coast of Los Angeles, Ali and Yaffa struggle to remember the Arab Mediterranean cities they have left behind.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
April Fool (1954)
Ismail wants to grab his wife's Turkish money, claiming that he has the children of a former wife who died, and that he can not spend on them, but Ismail does not realize that this little lie has left him in an endless series of lies, Of each lie with a greater lie, and every time the wife deals with him in good faith.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
Hassan and Marika (1959)
Hassan and Marika An Egyptian film starring Ismail Yassin, Maha Sabri and Abdel Salam Nabulsi, written by Abu Al-Saud Al-Abiari. Hassan (Ismail Yassin) is in love with a Greek girl Marika (Maha Sabri), who eventually discovers that her father is an Egyptian, and Riyad al-Qasabji plays the role.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
Love at the Circus (1960)
The bell pepper and Shata are friends, the latter is orphaned, and he has taken his pepper and he works with him in the circus. His neighbor Pepper loves his mother, Chita, who works on one side, waiting for a better chance in the circus. Despite their love, Hassan is impressed by the stupidity of the circus when she comes, carrying a rose from her husband Hassan, and showing him good to work with him, the wife feels jealous, and advised him to go up together to the mind, on the other hand succeed pepper in his job as a runner, and earn a lot of Money, as he succeed in taming the Tigers, which draws attention to Bahia, and decides to marry him.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
The Marble Heart (1916)
Therese Roger, daughter of a West Indian planter, whose parents are murdered while she is a baby, becomes the adopted daughter of her aunt, Madame Roger, keeper of a haberdashery shop in one of the smaller villages in southern France. She grows up with Camille, Madame Roger's son, a sickly, sexless creature, whom she ultimately marries in deference to her aunt's wishes.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
Cena Familiar (2026)
Unable to accept their parents' death, Silvia decides to bring them back to life to celebrate one last family reunion.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
The Four Devils (1920)
One out of three silent adaptations of the novella "Les quatre diables" written by Danish author Herman Bang. The most famous one, although unfortunately lost, is without any doubt F.W. Murnau's "4 Devils". This German version, by Danish director A.W. Sandberg, was done eight years prior to Murnau's American one, and was a big success at the time.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
Poor Millionaire (1959)
The mayor sends Jaafar Effendi (with Ismail Yassin in turn) and with him 500 pounds to take him to Cairo to buy a net for his son. But he is robbed by a thief (Abbas Abbas, for his part). He is forced to work in a hotel. There, he meets a girl (Fayza Ahmed), who works in the communications department at the hotel, and they are very impressed.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
Il richiamo dell'Alpe splendente (1946)
To honor the memory of the famous guide Luigi Comici, two climbers climb a sixth grade wall of one of the Tre Cime di Lavaredo. The adventure of the two climbers, forced to stay overnight on the rocks, sometimes takes on dramatic aspects. During the break, one of the two mountaineers tells the other an episode of the First World War, which took place in those mountains. Two Italian Alpines, attacked by two Alpenjäger armed with hand grenades, repulsed them with stones. The film, originally titled 'Il richiamo dell'Alpe splendente' was distributed in 1949 by the Metro Goldwyn Mayer under the title of 'Cavalieri della montagna'.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Der Grenzjäger?
The closest matches to Der Grenzjäger are Brand Upon the Brain! (2007), The One That Got Away (1957) and The Poker House (2008). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Der Grenzjäger?
Start with Brand Upon the Brain! (2007), the closest match to Der Grenzjäger.
What is the highest-rated movie like Der Grenzjäger?
Hands of Stone (2016), rated 6.6/10 by 470 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Der Grenzjäger?
Cena Familiar (2026) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there German movies like Der Grenzjäger?
Yes: 3 Days in Quiberon (2018), The Fox (2023) and A Year Ago in Winter (2008).
How are movies similar to Der Grenzjäger chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Der Grenzjäger, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.