Movies Like A Stowaway on the Ship of Fools
If you liked A Stowaway on the Ship of Fools (2016), a drama and history movie directed by Goran Marković, 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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Benediction (2021)
★ 6.1/10Also drama and historyPoet Siegfried Sassoon survived the horrors of fighting in the First World War and was decorated for his bravery, but became a vocal critic of the government's continuation of the war when he returned from service…
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Testament of Youth (2015)
★ 7.2/10Also history and dramaTestament of Youth is a powerful story of love, war and remembrance, based on the First World War memoir by Vera Brittain, which has become the classic testimony of that war from a woman’s point of view. A searing…
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The Professor and the Madman (2019)
★ 7.1/10Also history and dramaProfessor James Murray begins work compiling words for the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary in the mid 19th century, and receives over 10,000 entries from a patient at Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum…
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Savior (1998)
★ 7.1/10Also history and dramaA hardened mercenary in the Foreign Legion begins to find his own humanity when confronted with atrocities during the fighting in Bosnia.
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Girl in the Box (2016)
★ 6.7/10Also drama and tv movieThe true story of 20-year-old Colleen Stan, a hitchhiking woman abducted by a young couple and held captive for seven years, during which time she's tortured and forced to live as a slave to her captors.
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (2017)
★ 6.3/10Also drama and historyAn African-American woman becomes an unwitting pioneer for medical breakthroughs when her cells are used to create the first immortal human cell line in the early 1950s.
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All Quiet on the Western Front (1979)
★ 6.7/10Also drama and tv movieAt the start of World War I, Paul Baumer is a young German patriot, eager to fight. Indoctrinated with propaganda at school, he and his friends eagerly sign up for the army soon after graduation. But when the horrors…
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Beneath Hill 60 (2010)
★ 6.8/10Also drama and historyThe true story of Australia's cat-and-mouse underground mine warfare—one of the most misunderstood, misrepresented and mystifying conflicts of WW I. It was secret struggle BENEATH the Western Front that combined daring…
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The Last Rifleman (2023)
★ 6.6/10Also drama and historyA WWII veteran escapes his care home in Northern Ireland and embarks on an arduous but inspirational journey to France to attend the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings, finding the courage to face the ghosts of his…
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Walking with the Enemy (2014)
★ 6.3/10Also drama and historyRegent Horthy is the leader of Hungary and a German ally, but his favorable standing with Hitler changes as the war comes to an end. Forced to cede Hungary’s power or else witness the execution of his son, Regent…
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Confirmation (2016)
★ 6.9/10Also drama and historyJudge Clarence Thomas' nomination to the United States' Supreme Court is called into question when former colleague, Anita Hill, testifies that he had sexually harassed her.
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The Great War (2019)
★ 6.5/10Also history and dramaIn November of 1918 as World War I was ending, a unit of American soldiers goes behind enemy lines to find a lost platoon of African American soldiers.
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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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War Horse (2011)
★ 7.3/10Also history and dramaOn the brink of the First World War, Albert's beloved horse Joey is sold to the Cavalry by his father. Against the backdrop of the Great War, Joey begins an odyssey full of danger, joy, and sorrow, and he transforms…
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Welcome to Sarajevo (1997)
★ 6.5/10Also drama and historyFollow a group of international journalists into the heart of the once cosmopolitan city of Sarajevo—now a danger zone of sniper and mortar attacks where residents still live. While reporting on an American aid worker…
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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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Einstein and Eddington (2008)
★ 6.8/10Also history and dramaBrilliant physicist Albert Einstein, and English scientist Arthur Eddington form an unlikely friendship during World War I, which leads to the creation of the relativity theory.
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Suffragette (2015)
★ 7.2/10Also drama and historyBased on true events about the foot soldiers of the early feminist movement, women who were forced underground to pursue a dangerous game of cat and mouse with an increasingly brutal State.
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Prizefighter: The Life of Jem Belcher (2022)
★ 6.2/10Also history and dramaAt the turn of the 19th century, Pugilism was the sport of kings and a gifted young boxer fought his way to becoming champion of England.
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Mr. Turner (2014)
★ 6.6/10Also history and dramaEccentric British painter J.M.W. Turner lives his last 25 years with gusto and secretly becomes involved with a seaside landlady, while his faithful housekeeper bears an unrequited love for him.