Movies like The Last Witness (2018)
The best movies like The Last Witness (2018) are Backstabbing for Beginners (2018), Mr. Jones (2019) and Anthropoid (2016). If The Last Witness hooked you with its history and thriller, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
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- Highest ratedThe Zookeeper's Wife (2017)7.3/10 from 1,596 votes
- NewestThe Last Temptation of Becky (2026)Released 2026
Backstabbing for Beginners (2018)
An idealistic young employee at the U.N. investigates the grisly murder of his predecessor – and uncovers a vast global conspiracy that may involve his own boss.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & history
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMr. Jones (2019)
In 1933, Welsh journalist Gareth Jones travels to Ukraine, where he experiences the horrors of a famine. Everywhere he goes he meets henchmen of the Soviet secret service who are determined to prevent news about the catastrophe from getting out. Stalin’s forced collectivisation of agriculture has resulted in misery and ruin—the policy is tantamount to mass murder.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & history
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAnthropoid (2016)
In December 1941, Czech soldiers Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš parachute into their occupied homeland to assassinate Nazi officer Reinhard Heydrich.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both history & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Secrets We Keep (2020)
In post-World War II America, a woman, rebuilding her life in the suburbs with her husband, kidnaps her neighbor and seeks vengeance for the heinous war crimes she believes he committed against her.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & history
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWe Go In at Dawn (2020)
When a high-ranking war planner is captured and held in a German prisoner of war camp, a team of specialists take on the dangerous mission of trying to break him out. Trouble is, he doesn't want to be rescued.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both history & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Catcher Was a Spy (2018)
Former major league baseball player Moe Berg lives a double life working for the Office of Strategic Services in World War II Europe.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & history
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisOperation Finale (2018)
In 1960, a team of Israeli secret agents is deployed to find Adolf Eichmann, the infamous Nazi architect of the Holocaust, supposedly hidden in Argentina, and get him to Israel to be judged.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both history & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBaltimore (2024)
Based on actual events that took place on 26 April 1974, former debutante turned IRA member Rose Dugdale and three comrades carried out an armed raid on Russborough House, Wicklow, in which nineteen masterpieces were stolen in an effort to support the IRA’s armed struggle. The film plays out over the course of the days following the raid, when Rose is in hiding in a remote cottage.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & history
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTruth & Treason (2025)
In 1941 Nazi Germany, 16-year-old Helmuth Hübener begins questioning the regime after learning the truth about the war and seeing his Jewish friend persecuted. With two friends, he secretly listens to banned foreign broadcasts and distributes leaflets exposing Nazi lies. As the Gestapo closes in, the teenagers face mounting danger for choosing conscience over obedience. Based on the true story of one of Germany’s youngest resistance fighters.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both history & thriller
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisThe Partisan (2025)
A Polish spy working for the British during World War II is betrayed and compromised in Warsaw, leaving her no other choice but to descend into a dangerous world of treachery and deception in order to survive.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & history
SnoozefestMovies like thisMunich - The Edge of War (2021)
At the tense 1938 Munich Conference, former friends who now work for opposing governments become reluctant spies racing to expose a Nazi secret.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both history
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAlone in Berlin (2016)
Berlin in June of 1940. While Nazi propaganda celebrates the regime’s victory over France, a kitchen-cum-living room in Prenzlauer Berg is filled with grief. Anna and Otto Quangel’s son has been killed at the front. This working class couple had long believed in the ‘Führer’ and followed him willingly, but now they realise that his promises are nothing but lies and deceit. They begin writing postcards as a form of resistance and in a bid to raise awareness: Stop the war machine! Kill Hitler! Putting their lives at risk, they distribute these cards in the entrances of tenement buildings and in stairwells. But the SS and the Gestapo are soon onto them, and even their neighbours pose a threat.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBefore It Ends (2023)
When a folk high school is turned into an internment camp for German refugees, the headmaster couple Jakob and Lis and their children are thrust into an impossible situation. Should the family help the refugees — or stand firm in the Danish resistance against the Germans?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both history
The Exception (2017)
Nothing is as it seems in this riveting World War 2 thriller as a wary soldier goes to investigate a mysterious German monarch at his secluded mansion, leading him into a web of deceit and a dangerous love affair with a local Jewish woman.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA Hidden Life (2019)
Austrian farmer Franz Jägerstätter faces the threat of execution for refusing to fight for the Nazis during World War II.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both history
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Wolf Hour (2019)
Once a known counterculture figure, June E. Leigh now lives in self-imposed exile in her South Bronx apartment during the incendiary '77 Summer of Sam. When an unseen tormentor begins exploiting June's weaknesses, her insular universe begins to unravel.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisReturn to the Hiding Place (2011)
When a young resistance fighter witnesses atrocities towards the Jews, he's drawn into a web of espionage and clandestine activities. When he meets a young physics students and resistance journalist - Hans Poley - they embark on a hunt through underground tunnels, Gestapo hijacks and daring rescues.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both history & thriller
Bonhoeffer: Pastor. Spy. Assassin (2024)
As the world teeters on the brink of annihilation, Dietrich Bonhoeffer joins a deadly plot to assassinate Hitler, risking his faith and fate to save millions of Jews from genocide.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both history
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: Fans watch both · both history
Worth the HypeMovies like thisShock and Awe (2017)
A group of journalists covering George Bush's planned invasion of Iraq in 2003 are skeptical of the presidents claim that Saddam Hussein has "weapons of mass destruction."
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both history & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBurning at Both Ends (2021)
The movie follows a group of resistance radio broadcasters in Nazi-occupied France as they evade capture alongside a Jewish family.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
Fog of War (2025)
With WWII raging around them, an injured pilot and his fiancée find themselves stranded on a remote estate. As the Allies plan the D-Day Invasion, the couple become aware of a Nazi spy hiding amongst them with stolen documents bound for Germany. Unsure of who to trust, and facing danger around every corner, they must uncover the spy’s identity as the outcome of the war hangs in the balance.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
Driven (2019)
FBI informant Jim Hoffman lures troubled automobile magnate John DeLorean to an undercover sting for cocaine trafficking.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & history
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Man with the Iron Heart (2017)
With the Third Reich at its peak in 1942, the Czech resistance in London plans the most ambitious military operation of WWII – Anthropoid. Two young recruits are sent to Prague to assassinate the most ruthless Nazi leader – Reinhard Heydrich, head of the Reich Security Main Office, the Gestapo and the architect of the Final Solution.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both history & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisEnemy Lines (2020)
In the frozen, war torn landscape of occupied Poland during World War II, a crack team of allied commandos are sent on a deadly mission behind enemy lines to extract a rocket scientist from the hands of the Nazis.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
The Last Temptation of Becky (2026)
Now working as a field agent for the CIA, Becky is sent undercover to Poland to infiltrate a family of innkeepers running a tourist venture at The Wolf's Lair, Hitler's WWII bunker. After learning that the father, Wilhelm Reuss, is on a mission to bring about the Fourth Reich, Becky takes matters into her own hands.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
Shooting Heroin (2020)
A small town community comes together to eradicate the heroin epidemic from its midst by whatever means necessary.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
Kill the Messenger (2014)
A reporter becomes the target of a vicious smear campaign that drives him to the point of suicide after he exposes the CIA's role in arming Contra rebels in Nicaragua and importing cocaine into California. Based on the true story of journalist Gary Webb.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller & history
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Promise (2016)
Set during the last days of the Ottoman Empire, a love triangle develops between Mikael, a brilliant medical student, the beautiful and sophisticated artist Ana, and Chris, a renowned American journalist based in Paris.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both history
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFatherland (1994)
Fictional account of what might have happened if Hitler had won the war. It is now the 1960s and Germany's war crimes have so far been kept a secret. Hitler wants to talk peace with the US president. An American journalist and a German homicide cop stumble into a plot to destroy all evidence of the genocide.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like The Last Witness?
The closest matches to The Last Witness are Backstabbing for Beginners (2018), Mr. Jones (2019) and Anthropoid (2016). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after The Last Witness?
People who watched The Last Witness most often go on to Backstabbing for Beginners (2018), Mr. Jones (2019) and Anthropoid (2016).
What is the highest-rated movie like The Last Witness?
The Zookeeper's Wife (2017), rated 7.3/10 by 1,596 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like The Last Witness?
The Last Temptation of Becky (2026) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like The Last Witness?
Yes: Backstabbing for Beginners (2018), Mr. Jones (2019) and Anthropoid (2016).
How are movies similar to The Last Witness chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside The Last Witness, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.