Movies Like Max Havelaar: or, The Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company
If you liked Max Havelaar: or, The Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company (1976), a drama and history movie directed by Fons Rademakers, 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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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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The East (2021)
★ 6/10Also drama and historyA young Dutch soldier deployed to suppress post-WWII independence efforts in the Netherlands’ colony of Indonesia finds himself torn between duty and conscience when he joins an increasingly ruthless commander’s elite…
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Lord Jim (1965)
★ 6.8/10Also dramaAfter being discredited as a coward, a 19th century seaman lives for only one purpose: to redeem himself. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Sony Pictures Entertainment in 2000.
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The Lost City of Z (2017)
★ 6.4/10Also drama and historyA true-life drama in the 1920s, centering on British explorer Col. Percy Fawcett, who discovered evidence of a previously unknown, advanced civilization in the Amazon and disappeared whilst searching for it.
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Disgrace (2008)
★ 6.2/10Also dramaDisgrace is the story of a South African professor of English who loses everything: his reputation, his job, his peace of mind, his good looks, his dreams of artistic success, and finally even his ability to protect…
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Oranges and Sunshine (2010)
★ 6.9/10Also drama and historyThe story of Margaret Humphreys, a social worker from Nottingham, who uncovers one of the most significant social scandals in recent times – the forced migration of children from the United Kingdom to Australia and…
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Rising Sun (1993)
★ 6.2/10Also dramaWhen a prostitute is found dead in a Los Angeles skyscraper occupied by a large Japanese corporation, detectives John Connor and Web Smith are called in to investigate. Although Connor has previous experience working…
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Papillon (1973)
★ 7.8/10Also dramaA man befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence on a dreadful prison island, which inspires the man to plot his escape.
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The White Tiger (2021)
★ 7/10Also dramaAn ambitious Indian driver uses his wit and cunning to escape from poverty and rise to the top. An epic journey based on the New York Times bestseller.
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The Uprising (2026)
★ 7.8/10Also drama and historyAs war and plague devastate 14th-century England, a humble peasant ignites a rebellion, uniting an army of commoners to defy the King’s might in a desperate fight for justice and survival.
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The Last of the Mohicans (1992)
★ 7.4/10Also history and dramaIn war-torn colonial America, in the midst of a bloody battle between British, the French and Native American allies, the aristocratic daughter of a British Colonel and her party are captured by a group of Huron…
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Soldier of Orange (1977)
★ 7.1/10Also dramaThe lives of Erik Lanshof and five of his closest friends take different paths when the German army invades the Netherlands in 1940: fight and resistance, fear and resignation, collaboration and high treason.
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Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight (2013)
★ 6.4/10Also dramaMuhammad 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…
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The Devil's Double (2011)
★ 6.7/10Also dramaA chilling vision of the House of Saddam Hussein comes to life through the eyes of the man who was forced to become the double of Hussein's sadistic son.
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Outlaws - For Greater Glory (2012)
★ 7/10Also history and dramaA chronicle of the Cristeros War (1926-1929), which was touched off by a rebellion against the Mexican government's attempt to secularize the country.
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Riphagen the Untouchable (2016)
★ 6.5/10Also drama and historyAmsterdam, Netherlands, 1944, during World War II. Andries Riphagen, a powerful underworld boss, has made his fortune by putting his many criminal talents at the service of the Nazi occupiers. But the long battle is…
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Firebrand (2024)
★ 6.3/10Also drama and historyKatherine Parr, the sixth wife of King Henry VIII, is named regent while the tyrant battles abroad. When the king returns, increasingly ill and paranoid, Katherine finds herself fighting for her own survival.
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The Wind and the Lion (1975)
★ 6.5/10Also drama and historyAt the beginning of the 20th century an American woman is abducted in Morocco by Berbers, and the attempts to free her range from diplomatic pressure to military intervention.
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Silence (2016)
★ 7.1/10Also drama and historyIn the 17th century, two Portuguese Jesuit priests travel to Japan in an attempt to locate their mentor, who is rumored to have committed apostasy, and to propagate Catholicism.
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Killers of the Flower Moon (2023)
★ 7.4/10Also history and dramaWhen oil is discovered in 1920s Oklahoma under Osage Nation land, the Osage people are murdered one by one—until the FBI steps in to unravel the mystery.