Movies like 80 Jahre Kriegsende im Westen - Zwischen Trümmern und Hoffnung (2025)
The best movies like 80 Jahre Kriegsende im Westen - Zwischen Trümmern und Hoffnung (2025) are The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974), Amrum (2025) and A Midnight Clear (1992). If 80 Jahre Kriegsende im Westen - Zwischen Trümmern und Hoffnung hooked you, these 20 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
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- Highest ratedThey Shall Not Grow Old (2018)7.8/10 from 721 votes
- NewestAmrum (2025)Released 2025
- In GermanThe Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974)Also in German
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974)
The film follows Kaspar Hauser, who lived the first seventeen years of his life chained in a tiny cellar with only a toy horse to occupy his time, devoid of all human contact except for a man who wears a black overcoat and top hat who feeds him.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisAmrum (2025)
On Amrum Island in spring 1945, twelve-year-old Nanning hunts seals, fishes at night, and works the fields to help feed his family. When the war ends, his mother sinks into depression, and he must navigate new conflicts while struggling to find his own path.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisA Midnight Clear (1992)
In 1944 France, an American Intelligence Squad locates a German Platoon wishing to surrender rather than die in Germany's final war offensive. The two groups of men, isolated from the war at present, put aside their differences and spend Christmas together before the surrender plan turns bad and both sides are forced to fight the other.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisRosenstrasse (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
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisEscape to Victory (1981)
A group of POWs in a German prison camp during World War II play the German National Soccer Team in this powerful film depicting the role of prisoners during wartime.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTop Secret! (1984)
Popular and dashing American singer Nick Rivers travels to East Germany to perform in a music festival. When he loses his heart to the gorgeous Hillary Flammond, he finds himself caught up in an underground resistance movement. Rivers joins forces with Agent Cedric and Flammond to attempt the rescue of her father, Dr. Paul, from the Germans, who have captured the scientist in hopes of coercing him into building a new naval mine.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisCharlotte Gray (2001)
This is a drama set in Nazi-occupied France at the height of World War II. Charlotte Gray tells the compelling story of a young Scottish woman working with the French Resistance in the hope of rescuing her lover, a missing RAF pilot. Based on the best-selling novel by Sebastian Faulks.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAimée & Jaguar (1999)
In 1943, while the Allies are bombing Berlin and the Gestapo is purging the capital of Jews, a dangerous love affair blossoms between two women – one a Jewish member of the underground, the other an exemplar of Nazi motherhood.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisEdge of Darkness (1943)
The film pivots around the local Norwegian doctor and his family. The doctor's wife (Ruth Gordon) wants to hold on to the pretence of gracious living and ignore their German occupiers. The doctor, Martin Stensgard (Walter Huston), would also prefer to stay neutral, but is torn. His brother-in-law, the wealthy owner of the local fish cannery, collaborates with the Nazis. The doctor's daughter, Karen (Ann Sheridan), is involved with the resistance and with its leader Gunnar Brogge (Errol Flynn). The doctor's son has just returned to town, having been sent down from the university, and is soon influenced by his Nazi-sympathizer uncle. Captain Koenig (Helmut Dantine), the young German commandant of the occupying garrison, whose fanatic determination to do everything by the book and spoutings about the invincibility of the Reich hides a growing fear of a local uprising.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe 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
Worth the HypeMovies like thisFabian: Going to the Dogs (2021)
In 1930s Berlin, Dr. Jakob Fabian, who works by day in advertising for a cigarette company and by night wanders the streets of the city, falls in love with an actress. As her career begins to blossom, prospects for his future begin to wane.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Marriage of Maria Braun (1979)
Maria marries a young soldier in the last days of World War II, only for him to go missing in the war. She must rely on her beauty and ambition to navigate the difficult post-war years alone.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe 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
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisUnbroken (2014)
A chronicle of the life of Louis Zamperini, an Olympic runner who was taken prisoner by Japanese forces during World War II.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisOperation Valkyrie (2004)
In 1944, a group of high command officers plot an attempt against Hitler, and one of the leaders of the conspiracy, Stauffenberg, goes to a meeting with the Fuhrer in charge of exploding the place. However, Hitler survives and the officers are executed. This unsuccessful operation was called "Valkyrie Operation", and this realistic movie discloses this true event.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisEffi Briest (1974)
When 17-year-old Effi Briest marries the elderly Baron von Instetten, she moves to a small, isolated Baltic town and a house that she fears is haunted. Starved for companionship, Effi begins a friendship with Major Crampas, a charismatic womanizer.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTriumph of the Will (1935)
A showcase of German chancellor and Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler at the 1934 Nuremberg Rally.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Zookeeper's Wife (2017)
The account of keepers of the Warsaw Zoo, Jan and Antonina Zabinski, who helped save hundreds of people and animals during the Nazi invasion.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThey Shall Not Grow Old (2018)
A documentary about World War I with never-before-seen footage to commemorate the centennial of Armistice Day, and the end of the war.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies 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
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What are the best movies like 80 Jahre Kriegsende im Westen - Zwischen Trümmern und Hoffnung?
The closest matches to 80 Jahre Kriegsende im Westen - Zwischen Trümmern und Hoffnung are The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974), Amrum (2025) and A Midnight Clear (1992). Below are 17 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after 80 Jahre Kriegsende im Westen - Zwischen Trümmern und Hoffnung?
Start with The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974), the closest match to 80 Jahre Kriegsende im Westen - Zwischen Trümmern und Hoffnung.
What is the highest-rated movie like 80 Jahre Kriegsende im Westen - Zwischen Trümmern und Hoffnung?
They Shall Not Grow Old (2018), rated 7.8/10 by 721 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like 80 Jahre Kriegsende im Westen - Zwischen Trümmern und Hoffnung?
Amrum (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there German movies like 80 Jahre Kriegsende im Westen - Zwischen Trümmern und Hoffnung?
Yes: The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974), Amrum (2025) and Rosenstrasse (2003).
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