Movies Like Paper Grave

If you liked Paper Grave (2017), a war movie directed by Elchin Arifoglu, 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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For Sama (2019)
★ 8.2/10Also 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
Ararat (2002)
★ 6.1/10Also war
Interrogated by a customs officer, a young man recounts how his life was changed during the making of a film about the Armenian genocide.
3
2000 Meters to Andriivka (2025)
★ 8.1/10Also war
Amid the failing counteroffensive, a journalist follows a Ukrainian platoon on their mission to traverse one mile of heavily fortified forest and liberate a strategic village from Russian occupation. But the farther…
4
The Soviet Story (2008)
★ 7.3/10Also war
“The Soviet Story” is a story of an Allied power, which helped the Nazis to fight Jews and which slaughtered its own people on an industrial scale. Assisted by the West, this power triumphed on May 9th, 1945. Its…
5
Attack on Darfur (2009)
★ 5.9/10Also war
American journalists in Sudan are confronted with the dilemma of whether to return home to report on the atrocities they have seen, or to stay behind and help some of the victims they have encountered.
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Fatherland (1994)
★ 6.3/10Also war
Fictional account of what might have happened if Hitler had won the war. It is now the 1960s and Germany's war crimes have so far been kept a secret. Hitler wants to talk peace with the US president. An American…
7
The Age of Stupid (2009)
★ 6.6/10Also war
Pete Postlethwaite stars as a man living alone in the devastated future world of 2055, looking at old footage from 2008 and asking: why didn’t we stop climate change when we had the chance?
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Harrison's Flowers (2000)
★ 6.5/10Also war
1991. Harrison Lloyd, a renowned photojournalist covering the war in Yugoslavia, is reported missing. Sarah, his wife, convinced that he is not dead, decides to go to Bosnia to find him.
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20 Days in Mariupol (2023)
★ 8.1/10Also war
As the Russian invasion begins, a team of Ukrainian journalists trapped in the besieged city of Mariupol struggle to continue their work documenting the war's atrocities.
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Redacted (2007)
★ 5.9/10Also war
A fictional documentary discusses the effects the Iraq war has had on soldiers and local people through interviews with members of an American military unit, the media, and local Iraqis.
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Hell Hath No Fury (2021)
★ 6.4/10Also war
Branded a traitor by her countrymen, French national Marie DuJardin is rescued by American soldiers on one condition: to survive, she must lead them to a cache of gold - before the Nazis return to claim it for…
12
City of Ghosts (2017)
★ 7.2/10Also war
With unprecedented access, this documentary follows the extraordinary journey of “Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently”—a group of anonymous citizen journalists who banded together after their homeland was overtaken by…
13
The Scarlet and the Black (1983)
★ 7.1/10Also war
Fr. Hugh O'Flaherty is a Vatican official in 1943-45 who has been hiding downed pilots, escaped prisoners of war, and Italian resistance families. His activities become so large that the Nazis decide to assassinate him…
14
Savior (1998)
★ 7.1/10Also war
A hardened mercenary in the Foreign Legion begins to find his own humanity when confronted with atrocities during the fighting in Bosnia.
15
Bunker (2023)
★ 6.7/10Also war
Trapped in a bunker during World War I, a group of soldiers are faced with an ungodly presence that slowly turns them against each other.
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Waiting for Anya (2020)
★ 6.3/10Also war
During the harrows of WWII, Jo, a young shepherd along with the help of the widow Horcada, helps to smuggle Jewish children across the border from southern France into Spain.
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Sometimes in April (2005)
★ 7.1/10Also war
Two brothers are divided by marriage and fate during the 100 horrifying days of the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
18
Sahara (1995)
★ 6.7/10Also war
After the fall of Tobruk in June 1942, U.S. Army sergeant Joe Gunn leads his tank into the Sahara desert, in order to evade advancing Rommel's forces and reach Allied lines. Along the way he picks up few Allied…
19
Shoulder Arms (1918)
★ 6.8/10Also war
An American doughboy, stationed in France during the Great War, goes on a daring mission behind enemy lines and becomes a hero.
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The Secret of Santa Vittoria (1970)
★ 6.9/10Also war
During World War II, Italian villagers hide their wine from the German army.