Movies Like The German Doctor
If you liked The German Doctor (2013), a drama and thriller movie directed by Lucía Puenzo, 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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Zama (2017)
★ 6.5/10Also drama and historyIn a remote South American colony in the late 18th century, officer Zama of the Spanish crown waits in vain for a transfer to a more prestigious location. He suffers small humiliations and petty politicking as he…
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The Truth About Emanuel (2013)
★ 6/10Also drama and thrillerA troubled young woman becomes obsessed with her mysterious new neighbor, who bears a striking resemblance to the girl's dead mother.
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Plan A (2021)
★ 6.2/10Also thriller and dramaGermany 1945, Max, a Jewish Holocaust survivor, meets a radical group of Jewish resistance fighters, who, like him, lost all hope for their future after they were robbed of their existence and their entire families…
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The Movie Teller (2023)
★ 6.5/10Also drama and historyMaría Margarita is the youngest of four siblings in a family living in a mining town in the Atacama Desert (Chile). The most special time of the week for this family is Sunday, when they all go to the movies to enjoy…
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The Grey Zone (2001)
★ 6.6/10Also drama and historyThe story of Auschwitz's twelfth Sonderkommando — one of the thirteen consecutive "Special Squads" of Jewish prisoners placed by the Nazis in the excruciating moral dilemma of assisting in the extermination of fellow…
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A Twelve-Year Night (2018)
★ 7.3/10Also drama and historyUruguay, 1973. Having been crushed by the military dictatorship, surviving members of the Tupamaro guerillas are imprisoned and tortured. They must find a way to endure the coming 12 years.
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Barreda (2026)
★ 7.2/10Also drama and historyA fictionalized drama film based on one of the most shocking crimes in Argentina's history. In 1992, Ricardo Barreda was an unassuming dentist, brutally murdered his wife, mother-in-law, and two adult daughters in…
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A Dry White Season (1989)
★ 6.7/10Also drama and thrillerDuring the 1976 Soweto uprising, a white school teacher's life and values are threatened when he asks questions about the death of a young black boy who died in police custody.
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Nuremberg (2025)
★ 7.6/10Also history and dramaIn postwar Germany, an American psychiatrist must determine whether Nazi prisoners are fit to go on trial for war crimes, and finds himself in a complex battle of intellect and ethics with Hermann Göring, Hitler's…
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Conspiracy (2001)
★ 7.3/10Also history and dramaAt the Wannsee Conference on January 20, 1942, senior Nazi officials meet to determine the manner in which the so-called "Final Solution to the Jewish Question" can be best implemented.
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The Red Virgin (2024)
★ 7.1/10Also drama and historyHildegart is conceived and educated by her mother Aurora to be the woman of the future, to become one of the most brilliant minds of Spain in the 1930s and one of the European references on female sexuality.
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Operation Finale (2018)
★ 6.7/10Also drama and historyIn 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.
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Truth & Treason (2025)
★ 8.1/10Also history and dramaIn 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…
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The Quietude (2018)
★ 6/10Also thriller and dramaAgainst the backdrop of a military dictatorship, Eugenia is reunited with her estranged family following her father’s stroke and is forced to confront dark secret.
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The Good Neighbor (2022)
★ 6.7/10Also thriller and dramaA nightmarish evening unfolds for neighbors David and Robert when they accidentally hit a woman on her bike and flee the scene. While David is increasingly plagued by feelings of guilt, Robert shows no remorse and…
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The Corpse of Anna Fritz (2015)
★ 6.8/10Also drama and thrillerAnna Fritz is a beautiful and famous actress. Suddenly her body is found in a hotel and the news of her death goes around the planet. The young, shy caretaker Pau works at the hospital where they carried the body of…
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The World Will Tremble (2025)
★ 7.5/10Also drama and historyThe incredible, untold true story of how a group of prisoners attempt a seemingly impossible escape from the first Nazi death camp in order to provide the first eyewitness account of the Holocaust.
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Pacto de Fuga (2020)
★ 7.5/10Also drama and thrillerDuring the last years of Pinochet's military regime, a group of militants from the "Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front" plan a prison break of political prisoners, through a tunnel that will take them 18 months to dig.
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Waiting for the Barbarians (2020)
★ 5.9/10Also drama and historyAt an isolated frontier outpost, a colonial magistrate suffers a crisis of conscience when an army colonel arrives looking to interrogate the locals about an impending uprising, using cruel tactics that horrify the…
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Escape from Sobibor (1987)
★ 7.2/10Also drama and thrillerThe true story of WWII's notorious Sobibor Nazi death camp, where a courageous inmate orchestrates and leads the escape of over 300 prisoners.