Movies Like Professional Janine

If you liked Professional Janine (1979), a history movie directed by Gunter Otto, 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
Goltzius & the Pelican Company (2012)
★ 6.1/10Also history
Goltzius and the Pelican Company tells the story of Hendrik Goltzius, a late 16th century Dutch printer and engraver of erotic prints. A contemporary of Rembrandt and, indeed, more celebrated during his life, Goltzius…
2
Original Sin (2001)
★ 6.2/10Also history
A young man is plunged into a life of subterfuge, deceit and mistaken identity in pursuit of a femme fatale whose heart is never quite within his grasp.
3
The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981)
★ 6.5/10Also history
In this story-within-a-story, Anna is an actress starring opposite Mike in a period piece about the forbidden love between their respective characters, Sarah and Charles. Both actors are involved in serious…
4
The Devils (1971)
★ 7.5/10Also history
In 1634 France, charismatic Father Urbain Grandier becomes the target of sexually depraved Sister Jeanne's accusations of witchcraft, which corrupt officials of church and state are all too happy to…
5
The Krays (1990)
★ 6.1/10Also history
Twins Ronnie and Reggie Kray are raised in east London, under the influence of their hateful but doting mother Violet. As they grow up, Ronnie's violent nature takes over, and Reggie follows his brother's lead. The two…
6
Dolemite Is My Name (2019)
★ 7/10Also history
The story of Rudy Ray Moore, who created the iconic big screen pimp character Dolemite in the 1970s.
7
Inside Deep Throat (2005)
★ 6.4/10Also history
In 1972, a seemingly typical shoestring budget pornographic film was made in a Florida hotel: "Deep Throat," starring Linda Lovelace. This film would surpass the wildest expectation of everyone involved to become one…
8
Rommel (2012)
★ 6/10Also history
The story of the final seven months in the life of German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel.
9
The Devil's Bath (2024)
★ 6.6/10Also history
In 1750 Austria, a deeply religious woman named Agnes has just married her beloved, but her mind and heart soon grow heavy as her life becomes a long list of chores and expectations. Day after day, she is increasingly…
10
Fanny Lye Deliver'd (2019)
★ 6.3/10Also history
On an isolated English farm in 1657, Fanny lives a quiet life with her oppressive husband John and their young son. One day their life is rocked with the arrival of young couple Thomas and Rebecca who claim to have…
11
Hinterland (2021)
★ 6.2/10Also history
Vienna, 1920. The Austro-Hungarian Empire has collapsed. Peter Perg returns home from the Great War, after years of captivity. But the Vienna he comes home to is nothing like the place he once knew. The new Austrian…
12
The Baader Meinhof Complex (2008)
★ 7/10Also history
When German police viciously quell a protest against the shah of Iran, popular journalist Ulrike Meinhof rebels against her dishonest marriage, walks away from her children and joins radical anarchist Andreas Baader…
13
Nightwatching (2007)
★ 6.2/10Also history
An extravagant, exotic and moving look at Rembrandt's romantic and professional life, and the controversy he created by the identification of a murderer in the painting The Night Watch.
14
Pork Chop Hill (1959)
★ 6.7/10Also history
Korean War, April 1953. Lieutenant Clemons, leader of the King company of the United States Infantry, is ordered to recapture Pork Chop Hill, occupied by a powerful Chinese Army force, while, just seventy miles away…
15
Gangs of New York (2002)
★ 7.3/10Also history
In early 1860s New York, Irish immigrant Amsterdam Vallon is released from prison and returns to the Five Points, seeking revenge against his father's killer, William Cutting, a powerful anti-immigrant gang leader. He…
16
Lisztomania (1975)
★ 6/10Also history
In 19th-century Hungary, Romantic composer/pianist Franz Liszt struggles to end his hedonistic ways but keeps getting sucked back in by his seductive fellow composer, Richard Wagner.
17
The Stanford Prison Experiment (2015)
★ 6.8/10Also history
In 1971, Stanford's Professor Philip Zimbardo conducts a controversial psychology experiment in which college students pretend to be either prisoners or guards, but the proceedings soon get out of hand. Based on a true…
18
Miles Ahead (2016)
★ 6.4/10Also history
An exploration of the life and music of Miles Davis.
19
Mark of the Devil (1970)
★ 6.1/10Also history
In 1700s Austria, a witch-hunter's apprentice has doubts about the righteousness of witch-hunting when he witnesses the brutality, the injustice, the falsehood, the torture and the arbitrary killing that go with the job.
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Mountains of the Moon (1990)
★ 6.6/10Also history
The story of Captain Richard Francis Burton's and Lt. John Hanning Speke's expedition to find the source of the Nile river in the name of Queen Victoria's British Empire.