Movies Like Abbé Pierre - A Century of Devotion
If you liked Abbé Pierre - A Century of Devotion (2023), a history movie directed by Frédéric Tellier, 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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The Young Karl Marx (2017)
★ 6.8/10Also history26 year-old Karl Marx embarks with his wife, Jenny, on the road to exile. In 1844 in Paris, he meets Friedrich Engels, an industrialist’s son, who has been investigating the sordid birth of the British working class…
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Reds (1981)
★ 6.9/10Also historyAn account of the revolutionary years of the legendary American journalist John Reed, who shared his adventurous professional life with his radical commitment to the socialist revolution in Russia, his dream of…
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Gandhi (1982)
★ 7.6/10Also historyIn the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all worldly possessions to take up the cause of Indian independence. Faced with armed resistance from the British…
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Snowden (2016)
★ 7.1/10Also historyCIA employee Edward Snowden leaks thousands of classified documents to the press.
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Austerlitz (1960)
★ 6.7/10Also historyA return to the life of the Little Corporal with a dramatisation of the decisive 1805 conflict between French forces and the armies of Austria and Russia. An epic reconstruction of the battle of Austerlitz, where…
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (2017)
★ 6.3/10Also 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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Niki (2024)
★ 6.2/10Also historyFrench-American artist Niki de Saint-Phalle, from the age of 23, is a model and an aspiring actor who is married and has a two year old daughter. Together, they flee the U.S. during the oppressive McCarthy era and come…
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Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle (2021)
★ 7.1/10Also historyJapan, 1944. Trained for intelligence work, Hiroo Onoda, 22 years old, discovers a philosophy contrary to the official line: no suicide; stay alive whatever happens; the mission is more important than anything else…
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Simone: Woman of the Century (2022)
★ 7.9/10Also historySimone Veil's life story through the pivotal events of Twentieth Century. Her childhood, her political battles, her tragedies. An intimate and epic portrait of an extraordinary woman who eminently challenged and…
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De Gaulle: Liberté (2026)
★ 7.9/10Also historyPart two of a two-part biopic following French army officer Charles De Gaulle's life and political commitment between 1940 and 1945, and trace his development towards a political career.
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Shirley (2024)
★ 6.6/10Also historyShirley Chisholm makes a trailblazing run for the 1972 Democratic presidential nomination after becoming the first Black woman elected to Congress.
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Richard Jewell (2019)
★ 7.4/10Also historyRichard Jewell thinks quick, works fast, and saves hundreds, perhaps thousands, of lives after a domestic terrorist plants several pipe bombs and they explode during a concert, only to be falsely suspected of the crime…
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A Hidden Life (2019)
★ 7.2/10Also historyAustrian farmer Franz Jägerstätter faces the threat of execution for refusing to fight for the Nazis during World War II.
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Les Misérables (1998)
★ 7.2/10Also historyIn 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the…
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De Gaulle: Résistance (2026)
★ 7.8/10Also historyJune, 1940. France collapses and signs the armistice. In the midst of the chaos, one man refuses to give up. Alone against the odds, this unknown general flees to London to save what remains of freedom.
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Angelique (1964)
★ 6.7/10Also historyIn 17th-century France, beautiful country maiden Angélique marries wealthy neighbor Jeoffray de Peyrac out of convenience, but eventually, she falls in love with him. So when Jeoffray is arrested and then vanishes, she…
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Black Robe (1991)
★ 6.5/10Also historyMissionary Father LaForgue travels to the New World in hopes of converting Algonquin Indians to Catholicism. Accepted, though warily, by the Indians, LaForgue travels with the Indians using his strict Catholic rules…
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Harriet (2019)
★ 7.3/10Also historyThe extraordinary tale of Harriet Tubman's escape from slavery and transformation into one of America's greatest heroes. Her courage, ingenuity and tenacity freed hundreds of slaves and changed the course of history.
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Flyboys (2006)
★ 6.5/10Also historyThe adventures of the Lafayette Escadrille, young Americans who volunteered for the French military before the U.S. entered World War I, and became the country's first fighter pilots.
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Out of Africa (1985)
★ 7.2/10Also historyTells the life story of Danish author Karen Blixen, who at the beginning of the 20th century moved to Africa to build a new life for herself. The film is based on her 1937 autobiographical novel.