Movies Like The Boxer and Death
If you liked The Boxer and Death (1963), a drama movie directed by Peter Solan, 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 Great Escape (1963)
★ 7.9/10Also dramaThe Nazis, exasperated at the number of escapes from their prison camps by a relatively small number of Allied prisoners, relocate them to a high-security 'escape-proof' camp to sit out the remainder of the war…
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The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2008)
★ 7.8/10Also dramaWhen his family moves from their home in Berlin to a strange new house in Poland, young Bruno befriends Shmuel, a boy who lives on the other side of the fence where everyone seems to be wearing striped pajamas. Unaware…
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The Zone of Interest (2023)
★ 7/10Also dramaThe 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.
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The Hurricane (1999)
★ 7.4/10Also dramaThe story of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, a boxer wrongly imprisoned for murder, and the people who aided in his fight to prove his innocence.
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The Way Back (2010)
★ 7/10Also dramaA small band of multicultural convicts stages a daring escape from a WWII-era Siberian gulag, and embarks on a treacherous journey across five countries in a desperate race for freedom and survival.
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Rocky IV (1985)
★ 7.1/10Also dramaRocky Balboa holds the world heavyweight championship, but a new challenger has stepped forward: Drago, a six-foot-four, 261-pound fighter who has the backing of the Soviet Union. This time, Rocky's training regimen…
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Escape to Victory (1981)
★ 6.9/10Also dramaA 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.
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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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The Power of One (1992)
★ 7.4/10Also dramaPK, an English orphan terrorized for his family's political beliefs in Africa, turns to his only friend, a kindly world-wise prisoner, Geel Piet. Geel teaches him how to box with the motto “fight with your fists and…
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The Monuments Men (2014)
★ 6.1/10Also dramaBased 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…
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A Hidden Life (2019)
★ 7.2/10Also dramaAustrian farmer Franz Jägerstätter faces the threat of execution for refusing to fight for the Nazis during World War II.
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The Island on Bird Street (1997)
★ 7.3/10Also dramaAlex is an 11-year old boy who, during WWII, hides in the Jewish ghetto from Nazis after all his relatives have been sent to the concentration camp. The movie portrays the ghetto through his eyes.
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Resurrecting the Champ (2007)
★ 6.3/10Also dramaUp-and-coming sports reporter rescues a homeless man ("Champ") only to discover that he is, in fact, a boxing legend believed to have passed away. What begins as an opportunity to resurrect Champ's story and escape the…
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The Zookeeper's Wife (2017)
★ 7.3/10Also dramaThe account of keepers of the Warsaw Zoo, Jan and Antonina Zabinski, who helped save hundreds of people and animals during the Nazi invasion.
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Champion (1949)
★ 6.7/10Also dramaAn unscrupulous boxer fights his way to the top, but eventually alienates all of the people who helped him on the way up.
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The Railway Man (2013)
★ 6.8/10Also dramaA victim from World War II's "Death Railway" sets out to find those responsible for his torture. A true story.
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Empire of the Sun (1987)
★ 7.5/10Also dramaJamie Graham, a privileged English boy, is living in Shanghai when the Japanese invade and force all foreigners into prison camps. Jamie is captured with an American sailor, who looks out for him while they are in the…
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The Six Triple Eight (2024)
★ 7.6/10Also dramaDuring World War II, the US Army's only all-Black, all-women battalion takes on an impossible mission: sorting through a three-year backlog of 17 million pieces of mail that hadn't been delivered to American soldiers…
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Hitler: The Last Ten Days (1973)
★ 6.2/10Also dramaHitler: The Last Ten Days takes us into the depths of der Furher’s Berlin bunker during his final days. Based on the book by Gerhard Boldt, it provides a bleak look at the goings-on within, and without.
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