Movies Like Fanon
If you liked Fanon (2025), a history and drama movie directed by Jean-Claude Barny, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.
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The Stranger (2025)
★ 6.8/10Also dramaAlgiers, 1938. Meursault, a quiet and unassuming employee in his early thirties, attends his mother's funeral without shedding a tear. The next day, he begins a casual affair with Marie, a work colleague. He quickly…
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Days of Glory (2006)
★ 6.7/10Also drama and history1943. They have never stepped foot on French soil but because France was at war, Said, Abdelkader, Messaoud and Yassir enlist in the French Army, along with 130,000 other “indigenous” soldiers, to liberate the…
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Intimate Enemies (2007)
★ 6.4/10Also drama and historyA drama following a French platoon during Algeria's war of independence.
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Dalíland (2022)
★ 5.9/10Also history and dramaIn 1973, a young gallery assistant goes on a wild adventure behind the scenes as he helps aging genius Salvador Dali prepare for a big show in New York.
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Disgrace (2008)
★ 6.2/10Also dramaDisgrace is the story of a South African professor of English who loses everything: his reputation, his job, his peace of mind, his good looks, his dreams of artistic success, and finally even his ability to protect…
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Escape from Pretoria (2020)
★ 7.2/10Also drama and historySouth Africa, 1978. Tim Jenkin and Stephen Lee, two white political activists from the African National Congress imprisoned by the apartheid regime, put a plan in motion to escape from the infamous Pretoria Prison.
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Prizefighter: The Life of Jem Belcher (2022)
★ 6.2/10Also history and dramaAt the turn of the 19th century, Pugilism was the sport of kings and a gifted young boxer fought his way to becoming champion of England.
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Sometimes in April (2005)
★ 7.1/10Also drama and historyTwo brothers are divided by marriage and fate during the 100 horrifying days of the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
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Mr. Turner (2014)
★ 6.6/10Also history and dramaEccentric British painter J.M.W. Turner lives his last 25 years with gusto and secretly becomes involved with a seaside landlady, while his faithful housekeeper bears an unrequited love for him.
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Farewell, Mr. Haffmann (2022)
★ 6.9/10Also history and dramaParis 1942. François Mercier is an ordinary man who only aspires to start a family with the woman he loves, Blanche. He is also the employee of a talented jeweler, Mr. Haffmann. But faced with the German occupation…
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Outlaws - For Greater Glory (2012)
★ 7/10Also history and dramaA chronicle of the Cristeros War (1926-1929), which was touched off by a rebellion against the Mexican government's attempt to secularize the country.
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Walking with the Enemy (2014)
★ 6.3/10Also drama and historyRegent Horthy is the leader of Hungary and a German ally, but his favorable standing with Hitler changes as the war comes to an end. Forced to cede Hungary’s power or else witness the execution of his son, Regent…
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The Secrets We Keep (2020)
★ 6/10Also history and dramaIn 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.
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Glory (1989)
★ 7.5/10Also drama and historyRobert Gould Shaw leads the US Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices of both his own Union army and the Confederates.
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Beneath Hill 60 (2010)
★ 6.8/10Also drama and historyThe true story of Australia's cat-and-mouse underground mine warfare—one of the most misunderstood, misrepresented and mystifying conflicts of WW I. It was secret struggle BENEATH the Western Front that combined daring…
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The Siege of Jadotville (2016)
★ 7.1/10Also dramaIrish Commandant Pat Quinlan leads a stand off with troops against French and Belgian Mercenaries in the Congo during the early 1960s.
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Battleground (1949)
★ 6.7/10Also dramaMembers of the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division are fighting for their country amidst the rugged terrain of Bastogne, Belgium, in December 1944. Holley and his American compatriots have already seen one of their…
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Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle (2021)
★ 7.1/10Also drama and historyJapan, 1944. Trained for intelligence work, Hiroo Onoda, 22 years old, discovers a philosophy contrary to the official line: no suicide; stay alive whatever happens; the mission is more important than anything else…
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Son of the South (2021)
★ 6.5/10Also history and dramaIn civil rights era Montgomery, Alabama, Klansman's grandson Bob Zellner must choose which side of history to be on during the Movement. Defying his family and white Southern norms, he fought against social injustice…
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DNA (2020)
★ 5.9/10Also dramaA woman has a close bond with her beloved Algerian grandfather, who protected her from a toxic home life as a child; his death triggers a deep identity crisis as tensions between her extended family members escalate…