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Movies like Why Are You Crying, Antonio? (1988)

The best movies like Why Are You Crying, Antonio? (1988) are The Last Rifleman (2023), Six Minutes to Midnight (2020) and Operation Mincemeat (2022). If Why Are You Crying, Antonio? hooked you, these 20 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.

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  1. The Last Rifleman (2023)

    A WWII veteran escapes his care home in Northern Ireland and embarks on an arduous but inspirational journey to France to attend the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings, finding the courage to face the ghosts of his past.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  2. Six Minutes to Midnight (2020)

    Summer 1939. Influential families in Nazi Germany have sent their daughters to a finishing school in an English seaside town to learn the language and be ambassadors for a future looking National Socialist. A teacher there sees what is coming and is trying to raise the alarm. But the authorities believe he is the problem.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  3. Operation Mincemeat (2022)

    In 1943, two British intelligence officers concoct Operation Mincemeat, wherein their plan to drop a corpse with false papers off the coast of Spain would fool Nazi spies into believing the Allied forces were planning to attack by way of Greece rather than Sicily.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  4. The Way We Were (1973)

    Opposites attract when, during their college days, Katie Morosky, a politically active Jew, meets Hubbell Gardiner, a feckless WASP. Years later, in the wake of World War II, they meet once again and, despite their obvious differences, attempt to make their love for each other work.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  5. The Eagle Has Landed (1976)

    When the Nazi high command learns in late 1943 that Winston Churchill will be spending time at a country estate in Norfolk, it hatches an audacious scheme to kidnap the prime minister and spirit him to Germany for enforced negotiations with Hitler.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  6. Voyage of the Damned (1976)

    A luxury liner carries Jewish refugees from Hitler's Germany in a desperate fight for survival.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  7. 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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  8. Goebbels and the Führer (2024)

    As Minister of Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels creates films and pictures used to prepare the Germans for Total War and the Holocaust. When the war is lost, he conceives his last staging, the most radical propaganda act still possible to him.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  9. The Monuments Men (2014)

    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?

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  10. Downfall (2004)

    In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the east and the Allied Expeditionary Force attacking from the west. In Berlin, capital of the Third Reich, Adolf Hitler proclaims that Germany will still achieve victory and orders his generals and advisers to fight to the last man. When the end finally does come, and Hitler lies dead by his own hand, what is left of his military must find a way to end the killing that is the Battle of Berlin, and lay down their arms in surrender.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  11. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)

    Born under unusual circumstances, Benjamin Button springs into being as an elderly man in a New Orleans nursing home and ages in reverse. Twelve years after his birth, he meets Daisy, a child who flits in and out of his life as she grows up to be a dancer. Though he has all sorts of unusual adventures over the course of his life, it is his relationship with Daisy, and the hope that they will come together at the right time, that drives Benjamin forward.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  12. Titus (1999)

    Titus Andronicus returns from the wars and sees his sons and daughters taken from him, one by one. Shakespeare's goriest and earliest tragedy.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  13. A Good Woman (2004)

    Fleeing 1930s New York and leaving behind a chequered past, the giltzy divorcee Mrs Stella Erlynne travels to Italy's sun-dappled Amalfi coast. Mrs Erlynne's appearance causes a stir amongst the visiting aristocracy. Based on the Oscar Wilde play "Lady Windemere's Fan."

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  14. The Tin Drum (1979)

    In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of stairs and stops growing. In 1939, World War II breaks out.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  15. Cradle Will Rock (1999)

    A true story of politics and art in the 1930s USA, centered around a leftist musical drama and attempts to stop its production.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  16. Romeo + Juliet (1996)

    In this contemporary take on William Shakespeare's classic tragedy, the Montagues and Capulets have moved their ongoing feud to the sweltering suburb of Verona Beach, where Romeo and Juliet fall in love and secretly wed. Though the film is visually modern, the bard's dialogue remains.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  17. Julia (1977)

    At the behest of an old and dear friend, playwright Lillian Hellman undertakes a dangerous mission to smuggle funds into Nazi Germany.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  18. What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? (1966)

    A by-the-book Captain is ordered to capture a strategic village in Italy. The Italian soldiers are willing to surrender, if they can have a festival first. The lieutenant convinces the Captain this is the only way. Because of aerial reconnaissance, they must look like they are fighting. To sort this out an intelligence officer is sent in. Meanwhile the festival gets complicated with the Mayors daughter.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

  19. The Captain (2018)

    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.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  20. Julius Caesar (1970)

    All-star cast glamorizes this lavish 1970 remake of the classic William Shakespeare play, which portrays the assassination of Julius Caesar on the Ides of March, and the resulting war between the faction led by the assassins and the faction led by Mark Anthony.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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What are the best movies like Why Are You Crying, Antonio??

The closest matches to Why Are You Crying, Antonio? are The Last Rifleman (2023), Six Minutes to Midnight (2020) and Operation Mincemeat (2022). Below are 17 more, each with the reason it matches.

What should I watch after Why Are You Crying, Antonio??

Start with The Last Rifleman (2023), the closest match to Why Are You Crying, Antonio?.

What is the highest-rated movie like Why Are You Crying, Antonio??

Downfall (2004), rated 7.9/10 by 4,540 TMDB users.

What is the newest movie like Why Are You Crying, Antonio??

Goebbels and the Führer (2024) is the most recent release on this list.

Are there German movies like Why Are You Crying, Antonio??

Yes: Goebbels and the Führer (2024), Downfall (2004) and The Tin Drum (1979).

How are movies similar to Why Are You Crying, Antonio? chosen?

First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Why Are You Crying, Antonio?, 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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