Movies Like Wake Up, Mate, Don't You Sleep
If you liked Wake Up, Mate, Don't You Sleep (2003), a drama and comedy movie directed by Miklós Jancsó, 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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Fateless (2005)
★ 6.9/10Also dramaA Hungarian youth comes of age at Buchenwald during World War II. György Köves is 14, the son of a merchant who's sent to a forced labor camp. After his father's departure, György gets a job at a brickyard; his bus is…
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Escape from Sobibor (1987)
★ 7.2/10Also dramaThe true story of WWII's notorious Sobibor Nazi death camp, where a courageous inmate orchestrates and leads the escape of over 300 prisoners.
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Stalag 17 (1953)
★ 7.7/10Also comedy and dramaAfter two American prisoners are killed by guards in the act of escaping from a German POW camp in World War II, barracks black marketeer J.J. Sefton is suspected of being an informer.
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The Survivor (2022)
★ 6.8/10Also dramaHarry Haft is a boxer who fought fellow prisoners in the concentration camps to survive. Haunted by the memories and his guilt, he attempts to use high-profile fights against boxing legends like Rocky Marciano as a way…
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Walking with the Enemy (2014)
★ 6.3/10Also dramaRegent 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 Last Castle (2001)
★ 7.2/10Also dramaA court-martialed general rallies together 1200 inmates to rise against the system that put him away.
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Nowhere to Run (1993)
★ 6.6/10Also dramaEscaped convict Sam Gillen single-handedly takes on ruthless developers who are determined to evict a widow with two young children.
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The Round-Up (1966)
★ 7.2/10Also dramaAfter the failure of the Kossuth's revolution of 1848, people suspected of supporting the revolution are sent to prison camps. Years later, partisans led by outlaw Sándor Rózsa still run rampant. Although the…
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The Match (2021)
★ 6.1/10Also dramaInspired by true events from the spring of 1944 when the Nazis organized a football match between a team of camp inmates and an elite Nazi team on Adolf Hitler's birthday. A match the prisoners are determined to win…
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Defiance (2008)
★ 6.8/10Also dramaBased on a true story, during World War II, four Jewish brothers escape their Nazi-occupied homeland of West Belarus in Poland and join the Soviet partisans to combat the Nazis. The brothers begin the rescue of roughly…
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Be Kind Rewind (2008)
★ 6.3/10Also drama and comedyA man whose brain becomes magnetized unintentionally destroys every tape in his friend's video store. In order to satisfy the store's most loyal renter, an aging woman with signs of dementia, the two men set out to…
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The Colditz Story (1955)
★ 6.8/10Also dramaThe Germans believed that no man could escape from Colditz Castle, set as it was in the heart of the Reich, 400 miles from any neutral frontier. This film, based on Pat Reid's epic novel, tells the story of how the…
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The Secret of Santa Vittoria (1970)
★ 6.9/10Also comedy and dramaDuring World War II, Italian villagers hide their wine from the German army.
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Playing for Time (1980)
★ 6.9/10Also dramaWhen a Jewish songstress is plucked from the stage and sent to Auschwitz, she and other musicians find themselves assigned to a terrible task—using their talents to soothe fellow prisoners who are sentenced to die in…
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In Hell (2003)
★ 6.7/10Also dramaA man must survive a prison where hardened criminals battle to the death for the warden's entertainment.
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Inglourious Basterds (2009)
★ 8.2/10Also dramaIn Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Basterds" are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The…
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The Big Red One (1980)
★ 6.7/10Also dramaA veteran sergeant of World War I leads a squad in World War II, always in the company of the survivor Pvt. Griff, the writer Pvt. Zab, the Sicilian Pvt. Vinci and Pvt. Johnson, in Vichy French Africa, Sicily, D-Day at…
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Treasure (2024)
★ 6.5/10Also drama and comedyA music journalist accompanies her father, a charmingly stubborn Holocaust survivor, on a journey to his homeland. While she's eager to make sense of her family's past, her dad has an agenda of his own.
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Cadence (1990)
★ 6.7/10Also dramaAs punishment for drunken, rebellious behavior, a young white soldier is thrown into a stockade populated entirely by black inmates. But instead of falling victim to racial hatred, the soldier joins forces with his…
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Son of Saul (2015)
★ 7.1/10Also dramaIn the horror of 1944 Auschwitz, a prisoner forced to burn the corpses of his own people finds moral survival trying to save from the flames the body of a boy he takes for his son, seeking to give him a proper Jewish…