Movies Like Hannah Arendt

If you liked Hannah Arendt (2012), a drama movie directed by Margarethe von Trotta, 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.

1
The Devil's Arithmetic (1999)
★ 6.8/10Also drama
An American-born Jewish adolescent, Hannah Stern, is uninterested in the culture, faith and customs of her relatives. However, she begins to revaluate her heritage when she has a supernatural experience that transports…
2
The Zone of Interest (2023)
★ 7/10Also drama
The commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolf Höss, and his wife Hedwig, strive to build a dream life for their family in a house and garden next to the camp.
3
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
★ 8/10Also drama
In 1947, four German judges who served on the bench during the Nazi regime face a military tribunal to answer charges of crimes against humanity. Chief Justice Haywood hears evidence and testimony not only from lead…
4
Denial (2016)
★ 6.8/10Also drama
Acclaimed writer and historian Deborah E. Lipstadt must battle for historical truth to prove the Holocaust actually occurred when David Irving, a renowned denier, sues her for libel.
5
The Eichmann Show (2015)
★ 6.7/10Also drama
The behind-the-scenes true life story of a groundbreaking producer, Milton Fruchtman, and blacklisted TV director Leo Hurwitz who, overcoming enormous obstacles, set out to capture the testimony of one of the war's…
6
The Invisibles (2017)
★ 7.1/10Also drama
Four young Jews survive the Third Reich in the middle of Berlin by living so recklessly that they become "invisible."
7
The Zookeeper's Wife (2017)
★ 7.3/10Also drama
The account of keepers of the Warsaw Zoo, Jan and Antonina Zabinski, who helped save hundreds of people and animals during the Nazi invasion.
8
Voyage of the Damned (1976)
★ 6/10Also drama
A luxury liner carries Jewish refugees from Hitler's Germany in a desperate fight for survival.
9
The Diary of Anne Frank (1959)
★ 7.2/10Also drama
The true, harrowing story of a young Jewish girl who, with her family and their friends, is forced into hiding in an attic in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam.
10
Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (2005)
★ 7.1/10Also drama
In 1943, as Hitler continues to wage war across Europe, a group of college students mount an underground resistance movement in Munich. Dedicated expressly to the downfall of the monolithic Third Reich war machine…
11
White Bird (2023)
★ 7.8/10Also drama
After being expelled from Beecher Prep for his treatment of a classmate with a facial deformity, Julian has struggled to fit in at his new school. To transform his life, Julian's grandmother finally reveals her own…
12
The Conference (2022)
★ 6.7/10Also drama
On January 20, 1942, the Wannsee Conference takes place in Berlin, a meeting that had only one item on the agenda: The Final Solution, the organization of the systematic mass murder of eleven million European Jews.
13
Gentleman's Agreement (1947)
★ 7/10Also drama
A magazine writer poses as a Jew to expose anti-Semitism.
14
Rosenstrasse (2003)
★ 6.4/10Also drama
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…
15
Origin (2023)
★ 6.2/10Also drama
While investigating the global phenomenon of caste and its dark influence on society, a journalist faces unfathomable personal loss and uncovers the beauty of human resilience.
16
The Boy in the Woods (2023)
★ 7/10Also drama
The remarkable true-life survival story of a Jewish boy hiding and being hunted in the forests of Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe, based on Maxwell Smart's memoir.
17
The Last Train (2006)
★ 7.2/10Also drama
A group of people are imprisoned in a rail car bound from Berlin to a concentration camp in 1945.
18
The Diary of Anne Frank (2016)
★ 7.2/10Also drama
The story of Anne Frank, the Jewish girl who went into hiding with her family in Amsterdam and became a victim of the Holocaust.
19
Woman in Gold (2015)
★ 7.3/10Also drama
Maria Altmann, an octogenarian Jewish refugee, takes on the government to recover artwork she believes rightfully belongs to her family.
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The Tasters (2025)
★ 6.7/10Also drama
In autumn 1943, in Gross-Partsch, 26-year-old Rosa, who had come from Berlin to stay with the parents of her husband Gregor, who was fighting on the Russian front, was taken by the SS to a mysterious place. Forced to…