Movies Like Kontakt!

If you liked Kontakt! (1956), a documentary and drama movie directed by Nils R. Müller, 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
For Sama (2019)
★ 8.2/10Also documentary and war
A love letter from a young mother to her daughter, the film tells the story of Waad al-Kateab’s life through five years of the uprising in Aleppo, Syria as she falls in love, gets married and gives birth to Sama, all…
2
Standard Operating Procedure (2008)
★ 6.8/10Also documentary and war
Investigating the infamous Abu Ghraib scandal, Errol Morris interviews American guards and Iraqi prisoners who were at the military jail before images of prisoner torture emerged in 2004. One female guard, who posed…
3
Notes on Blindness (2016)
★ 6.9/10Also drama and documentary
After losing sight in 1983, John Hull began keeping an audio diary, a unique testimony of loss, rebirth and renewal, excavating the interior world of blindness. Following on from the Emmy Award-winning short film of…
4
To Be or Not to Be (1942)
★ 7.8/10Also war
During the Nazi occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's efforts to track down a German spy.
5
Decision Before Dawn (1951)
★ 6.8/10Also war
WWII is entering its last phase: Germany is in ruins, but does not yield. The US army lacks crucial knowledge about the German units operating on the opposite side of the Rhine, and decides to send two German prisoners…
6
Atonement (2007)
★ 7.6/10Also drama
A young girl irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit.
7
Triple Cross (1966)
★ 6.1/10Also war
Safecracker Eddie Chapman is languishing in prison on the island of Jersey when the Nazis arrive. An adept manipulator of situations, Chapman convinces the Germans to use him to spy on the British. And when the…
8
A Voice From Mauthausen (2014)
Also drama
One of the first ‘frogmen’ in the Navy Reserve fights to survive missions behind enemy lines and his own capture at the Mauthausen concentration camp.
9
Echo on the Seashore (1966)
★ 8/10Also war and drama
World War II. Patriot Jonuz Bruga has troubles with his young son, Selim, who leads an immoral lifestyle and does not support the anti-fascist war, while his brothers fight in the city's guerrilla units.
10
The Ambush (1968)
★ 10/10Also war and drama
A film set during World War II - a small partisan unit must ambush a German convoy.
11
We Won't Go to the Woods Anymore (1969)
★ 8/10Also drama
In the spring of 1944, in the Woëvre forest of Lorraine, a group of young maquisards takes in four German deserters. led by Saint-Brice is based in the Woevre forest. Lise, a nineteen-year-old girl, is their liaison…
12
Fort Saganne (1984)
★ 6/10Also war and drama
In 1911, a willful and determined man from peasant stock named Charles Saganne enlists in the military and is assigned to the Sahara Desert under the aristocratic Colonel Dubreuilh.
13
Wings Up (1943)
★ 5.7/10Also documentary
Clark Gable stars in this propaganda short about the Officers Candidate School of the Army Air Forces.
14
Barefoot Gen (1983)
★ 7.7/10Also drama and war
A story about the effect of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on a boy's life and the lives of the Japanese people.
15
Requiem for Auschwitz - the film (2022)
Also documentary
13 years ago, director Bob Entrop made the film A piece of blue in the sky, the first film in the Netherlands that depicted the murder of almost 1 million Sinti and Roma during the Second World War. There is a taboo on…
16
In the Name of the Motherland (1943)
★ 5/10Also drama and war
The film deals with a Russian battalion under siege by the Germans during the Second World War.
17
The Dead Nation (2017)
★ 6/10Also documentary
A documentary-essay which shows Costică Axinte's stunning collection of pictures depicting a Romanian small town in the thirties and forties. The narration, composed mostly from excerpts taken from the diary of a…
18
Once My Mother (2014)
★ 8/10Also documentary and war
Australian filmmaker Sophia Turkiewicz investigates why her Polish mother abandoned her and uncovers the truth behind her mother's wartime escape from a Siberian gulag, leaving Sophia to confront her own capacity for…
19
Defiance (2008)
★ 6.8/10Also drama and war
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…
20
National Theatre Live: Nye (2024)
★ 7/10Also drama
Confronted with death, National Health Service founder Aneurin 'Nye' Bevan's deepest memories lead him on a mind-bending journey back through his life; from childhood to mining underground, Parliament and fights with…