Movies like A History of Protection (2025)
The best movies like A History of Protection (2025) are Der Fuehrer's Face (1943), Clockwatchers (1997) and The Arrangement (1969). If A History of Protection hooked you, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
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- Highest ratedAn Officer and a Gentleman (1982)7.0/10 from 1,248 votes
- NewestShatak (2026)Released 2026
Der Fuehrer's Face (1943)
A marching band of Germans, Italians, and Japanese march through the streets of swastika-motif Nutziland, serenading "Der Fuehrer's Face." Donald Duck, not living in the region by choice, struggles to make do with disgusting Nazi food rations and then with his day of toil at a Nazi artillery factory. After a nervous breakdown, Donald awakens to find that his experience was in fact a nightmare.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisClockwatchers (1997)
Four female temps working for a credit company find their friendship threatened by the arrival of a new hire, who lands a permanent position one of the women was vying for.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Arrangement (1969)
An adman attempts to rebuild his shattered life after suffering a nervous breakdown.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisEducation for Death: The Making of the Nazi (1943)
A propaganda film during World War II about a boy who grows up to become a Nazi soldier.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Battle of San Pietro (1945)
This documentary movie is about the battle of San Pietro, a small village in Italy. Over 1,100 US soldiers were killed while trying to take this location, that blocked the way for the Allied forces from the Germans. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2005.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCaptain Horatio Hornblower R.N. (1951)
Captain Horatio Hornblower leads his ship HMS Lydia on a perilous transatlantic voyage, during which his faithful crew battle both a Spanish warship and a ragged band of Central American rebels.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisPope Joan (2009)
A 9th century woman of English extraction born in the German city of Ingelheim disguises herself as a man and rises through the Vatican ranks.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPutney Swope (1969)
Swope—the only black man on the executive board of an advertising firm—is accidentally put in charge after the death of the chairman.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSwitch (1991)
Steve Brooks, a sexist womanizer, is killed by a group of his angry former lovers. In heaven, he makes a bargain with God for redemption and agrees to return to Earth. Once there, he must have a sincere relationship with a female and make her fall in love with him. If not, Steve's soul will become the property of the devil. But the devil hedges his bet, and Steve is reincarnated as a woman named Amanda Brooks.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
SnoozefestMovies like thisCrazy People (1990)
A bitter ad executive, who has reached his breaking point, finds himself in a mental institution, where his career actually begins to thrive with the help of the hospital's patients.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
SnoozefestMovies like thisTaking Care of Business (1990)
An uptight advertising exec has his entire life in a filofax organizer which mistakenly ends up in the hands of a friendly convict who poses as him.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDesperately Seeking Susan (1985)
A bored New Jersey suburban housewife's fascination with a free-spirited woman she has read about in the personal columns leads to her being mistaken for the woman herself and into a chaotic adventure of amnesia and self-discovery.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAny Given Sunday (1999)
A star quarterback gets knocked out of the game and an unknown third stringer is called in to replace him. The unknown gives a stunning performance and forces the aging coach to reevaluate his game plans and life. A new co-owner/president adds to the pressure of winning. The new owner must prove herself in a male dominated world.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWill Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957)
To save his career, an ad man wants a sex symbol to endorse a lipstick but in exchange, she wants him to pretend to be her lover.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAn Officer and a Gentleman (1982)
Zack Mayo is an aloof, taciturn man who aspires to be a navy pilot. Once he arrives at training camp for his 13-week officer's course, Mayo runs afoul of abrasive, no-nonsense drill Sergeant Emil Foley. Mayo is an excellent cadet, but a little cold around the heart, so Foley rides him mercilessly, sensing that the young man would be prime officer material if he weren't so self-involved. Zack's affair with a working girl is likewise compromised by his unwillingness to give of himself.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisHow to Get Ahead in Advertising (1989)
Pressure from his boss and a skin-cream client produces a talking boil on a British adman's neck.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLee (2024)
The true story of photographer Elizabeth "Lee" Miller, a fashion model who became an acclaimed war correspondent for Vogue magazine during World War II.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTheir Finest (2017)
During the Blitz of World War II, a female screenwriter works on a film celebrating England's resilience as a way to buoy a weary populace's spirits. Her efforts to dramatise the true story of two sisters who undertook their own maritime mission to rescue wounded soldiers are met with mixed feelings by a dismissive all-male staff.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisRun the Race (2019)
Reeling from his mother’s death and his father’s abandonment, Zach, an All-State athlete, finds glory on the football field, working to earn a college scholarship and the brothers’ ticket out of town. When a devastating injury puts Zach—and his dreams—on the sidelines, David laces up his track cleats to salvage their future and point Zach toward hope.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisImpractical Jokers: The Movie (2020)
The story of a humiliating high school mishap from 1992 that sends the Impractical Jokers on the road competing in hidden-camera challenges for the chance to turn back the clock and redeem three of the four Jokers.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWMD: Weapons of Mass Deception (2004)
There were two wars in Iraq--a military assault and a media war. The former was well-covered; the latter was not. Until now... Independent filmmaker, Emmy-award winningTV journalist, author and media critic, Danny Schechter turns the cameras on the role of the media. His new film, WMD, is an outspoken assessment of how Pentagon propaganda and media complicity misled the American people...
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Sky Hunter (2017)
An elite group of Chinese pilots must take part in a dangerous mission to thwart a terrorist plot and resolve a hostage situation.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCultural Marxism: The Corruption of America (2010)
A love affair with collectivist ideologies has lead to ever bigger government and the welfare-warfare state. Lead by a Marxist splinter group called the "Frankfurt School" -- "the long march through the institutions" has infiltrated every corner of Western culture to corrupt traditional Christian values with "political correctness," another name for "cultural Marxism." The ultimate goal of cultural Marxism is to first destroy American free-enterprise capitalism by undermining its economic engine, the Middle Class and this will lead -- they hope -- to the destruction of the basic building block of society: the Family Unit.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Pulgasari (1986)
In feudal Korea, a group of starving villagers grow weary of the orders handed down to them by their controlling king and set out to use a deadly monster under their control to push his armies back.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Atomic Cafe (1982)
A disturbing collection of 1940s and 1950s United States government-issued propaganda films designed to reassure Americans that the atomic bomb was not a threat to their safety.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Worth the HypeMovies like thisSalesmanship (1960)
Socialist industry manufactures only those products absolutely required by workers, citizens purchase only those items essential for their everyday lives – claims the film, thereby differentiating the operational principles of domestic industry and trade from those of capitalist countries.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Shatak (2026)
The narrative covers a century of institutional history, revealing how a small group expanded its mission and membership to achieve widespread influence.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
A Few Quick Facts: Japan (1945)
Short cartoon made for US military soldiers during World War Two.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
49th Parallel (1941)
In the early days of World War II, a German U-boat is sunk in Canada's Hudson Bay. Hoping to evade capture, a small band of German soldiers led by commanding officer Lieutenant Hirth attempts to cross the border into the United States, which has not yet entered the war and is officially neutral. Along the way, the German soldiers encounter brave men such as a French-Canadian fur trapper, Johnnie, a leader of a Hutterite farming community, Peter, an author, Philip and a soldier, Andy Brock.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Worth the HypeMovies like thisIn the 11th Festival of Song (1971)
No one knows why for certain, but from 1968 to 1973 communist Albania enjoyed a brief liberalisation in the arts. Banned books and Beatles records changed hands. Albania’s Nobel-nominated novelist Ismail Kadare wrote two of his most famed masterpieces, Kështjella (The Castle) (1970) and Kronikë në gur (Chronicle in Stone) (1971) during this period. The rock'n'roll and jazz arrangements featured in this concert documentary were the pretext that brought about the end to the artistic thaw. Several performers seen in the festival were sent to prison or internal exile. The portly, smiling music conductor, Gasper Çurçia, was later accused of forging bus tickets and executed.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like A History of Protection?
The closest matches to A History of Protection are Der Fuehrer's Face (1943), Clockwatchers (1997) and The Arrangement (1969). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after A History of Protection?
Start with Der Fuehrer's Face (1943), the closest match to A History of Protection.
What is the highest-rated movie like A History of Protection?
An Officer and a Gentleman (1982), rated 7.0/10 by 1,248 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like A History of Protection?
Shatak (2026) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like A History of Protection?
Yes: Der Fuehrer's Face (1943), Clockwatchers (1997) and The Arrangement (1969).
How are movies similar to A History of Protection chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside A History of Protection, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.