Movies Like Thou Shalt Not Kill

If you liked Thou Shalt Not Kill (1961), a drama movie directed by Claude Autant-Lara, 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
A Hidden Life (2019)
★ 7.2/10Also drama
Austrian farmer Franz Jägerstätter faces the threat of execution for refusing to fight for the Nazis during World War II.
2
Bonhoeffer: Pastor. Spy. Assassin (2024)
★ 6.7/10Also drama
As the world teeters on the brink of annihilation, Dietrich Bonhoeffer joins a deadly plot to assassinate Hitler, risking his faith and fate to save millions of Jews from genocide.
3
The Cardinal (1963)
★ 6.5/10Also drama
A young Catholic priest from Boston confronts bigotry, Nazism, and his own personal conflicts as he rises to the office of cardinal.
4
Hacksaw Ridge (2016)
★ 8.2/10Also drama
WWII American Army Medic Desmond T. Doss, who served during the Battle of Okinawa, refuses to kill people and becomes the first Conscientious Objector in American history to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor.
5
Cross of Iron (1977)
★ 7.1/10Also drama
It is 1943, and the German army—ravaged and demoralised—is hastily retreating from the Russian front. In the midst of the madness, conflict brews between the aristocratic yet ultimately pusillanimous Captain Stransky…
6
The Secrets We Keep (2020)
★ 6/10Also drama
In 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.
7
Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight (2013)
★ 6.4/10Also drama
Muhammad Ali’s historic Supreme Court battle from behind closed doors. When Ali was drafted into the Vietnam War at the height of his boxing career, his claim to conscientious objector status led to a controversial…
8
Inglourious Basterds (2009)
★ 8.2/10Also drama
In 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…
9
Fatima (2020)
★ 7.2/10Also drama
In 1917, outside the parish of Fátima, Portugal, a 10-year-old girl and her two younger cousins witness multiple visitations of the Virgin Mary, who tells them that only prayer and suffering will bring an end to World…
10
The Round Up (2010)
★ 7.5/10Also drama
A faithful retelling of the 1942 "Vel' d'Hiv Roundup" and the events surrounding it.
11
Defiance (2008)
★ 6.8/10Also drama
Based 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…
12
Outlaws - For Greater Glory (2012)
★ 7/10Also drama
A chronicle of the Cristeros War (1926-1929), which was touched off by a rebellion against the Mexican government's attempt to secularize the country.
13
Grand Illusion (1937)
★ 7.9/10Also drama
A group of French soldiers, including the patrician Captain de Boeldieu and the working-class Lieutenant Maréchal, grapple with their own class differences after being captured and held in a World War I German prison…
14
Doubt (2008)
★ 7.2/10Also drama
In 1964 Bronx, two Catholic school nuns question the new priest's ambiguous relationship with a troubled African-American student.
15
Dead Man Walking (1995)
★ 7.3/10Also drama
A death row inmate turns for spiritual guidance to a local nun in the days leading up to his scheduled execution for the murders of a young couple.
16
The 25th Hour (1967)
★ 7.6/10Also drama
A Romanian peasant fights to get back to his family after he's imprisoned by the Nazis.The picture is based on real events. It includes Hungary's government in collaboration with the Nazis, the encroachment of Romania…
17
Irena's Vow (2024)
★ 7.7/10Also drama
19 year old Irena Gut is promoted to housekeeper in the home of a highly respected Nazi officer in Poland when she finds out that the Jewish ghetto is about to be liquidated. Determined to help twelve Jewish workers…
18
A Man Escaped (1956)
★ 8/10Also drama
A captured French Resistance fighter during World War II engineers a daunting escape from prison.
19
A Bag of Marbles (2017)
★ 7.8/10Also drama
At the beginning of the 1940s, in a France occupied by Nazi forces, lived the Jewish Joffo family. Happy and tight-knit, she sees her future darken when all members of the family are forced to wear the yellow star…
20
Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1957)
★ 6.9/10Also drama
A Roman Catholic nun and a hard-bitten US Marine are stranded together on a Japanese-occupied island in the South Pacific during World War II. Under constant threat of discovery by a ruthless enemy, they hide in a cave…