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Movies Like The Zitar Family

If you liked The Zitar Family (1990), a drama and tv movie movie directed by Aloiz Brench, 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. 1Dogville

    Dogville (2003)

    ★ 7.7/10Also drama

    A woman on the run from the mob is reluctantly accepted in a small Colorado community in exchange for labor, but when a search visits the town, she learns that their support has a price.

  2. 2Escape from Sobibor

    Escape from Sobibor (1987)

    ★ 7.2/10Also drama and tv movie

    The true story of WWII's notorious Sobibor Nazi death camp, where a courageous inmate orchestrates and leads the escape of over 300 prisoners.

  3. 3Uprising

    Uprising (2001)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama and tv movie

    In the Warsaw ghetto in 1943, Jews rise against the Nazis.

  4. 4National Theatre Live: Hamlet

    National Theatre Live: Hamlet (2015)

    ★ 7.5/10Also drama

    As a country arms itself for war, a family tears itself apart. Forced to avenge his father's death but paralyzed by the task ahead, Hamlet rages against the impossibility of his predicament, threatening both his sanity…

  5. 5Schindler's List

    Schindler's List (1993)

    ★ 8.6/10Also drama

    The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II.

  6. 6Anne of Green Gables

    Anne of Green Gables (1985)

    ★ 8.1/10Also drama

    Anne Shirley, an orphan, is fostered by farmer Matthew Cuthbert and his sister Marilla, who were expecting a boy to be sent them to help with their farm work. They accept Anne, who quickly endears herself to them and…

  7. 7The Guns of Navarone

    The Guns of Navarone (1961)

    ★ 7.3/10Also drama

    A team of allied saboteurs are assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held island and destroy the two enormous long-range field guns that prevent the rescue of 2,000 trapped British soldiers.

  8. 8The Last Samurai

    The Last Samurai (2003)

    ★ 7.6/10Also drama

    Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, which finds him learning to respect the samurai and the honorable principles that rule them. Pressed to destroy the…

  9. 9Braveheart

    Braveheart (1995)

    ★ 7.9/10Also drama

    Enraged at the slaughter of Murron, his new bride and childhood love, Scottish warrior William Wallace slays a platoon of the local English lord's soldiers. This leads the village to revolt and, eventually, the entire…

  10. 10Miracle at St. Anna

    Miracle at St. Anna (2008)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama

    Miracle at St. Anna chronicles the story of four American soldiers who are members of the all-black 92nd "Buffalo Soldier" Division stationed in Tuscany, Italy during World War II.

  11. 11Snow Queen

    Snow Queen (2002)

    ★ 6.1/10Also tv movie

    Since a bitter winter storm stole the life of Gerda's mother, she and her father have sadly continued to run the remote hotel they call home. Lonely and isolated, Gerda's only joy is Kai, the handsome bellboy. A…

  12. 12A Hidden Life

    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.

  13. 13The Blue Max

    The Blue Max (1966)

    ★ 6.8/10Also drama

    A young pilot in the German air force of 1918, disliked as lower-class and unchivalrous, tries ambitiously to earn the medal offered for 20 kills.

  14. 14Since You Went Away

    Since You Went Away (1944)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama

    In 1943, several people enter, re-enter, and exit the difficult life of a Midwestern family whose patriarch has been called up to war, leaving behind his wife and two teen daughters.

  15. 15The Miniaturist

    The Miniaturist (2017)

    ★ 7.1/10Also drama and tv movie

    A woman moves to live with her new husband in 17th century Amsterdam, but soon discovers that not everything is what it seems.

  16. 16The Young Lions

    The Young Lions (1958)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama

    The lives of three young men, a German and two Americans, during WWII.

  17. 17The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc

    The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999)

    ★ 6.4/10Also drama

    In 1429, a French teenager stood before her King with a message she claimed came from God; that she would defeat the world's greatest army and liberate her country from its political and religious turmoil. As she…

  18. 18The Birth of a Nation

    The Birth of a Nation (1915)

    ★ 5.9/10Also drama

    Two families, abolitionist Northerners the Stonemans and Southern landowners the Camerons, intertwine. When Confederate colonel Ben Cameron is captured in battle, nurse Elsie Stoneman petitions for his pardon. In…

  19. 19The Godfather

    The Godfather (1972)

    ★ 8.7/10Also drama

    Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch, Vito Corleone barely survives an attempt on his life, his youngest son…

  20. 20David

    David (1997)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama and tv movie

    A distinguished military leader whose reign was touched by great scandal, shocking betrayals and rousing victories. A simple shepherd boy chosen to be king, under the watchful eyes of prophet Samuel.

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