Movies like The Last Train: 20 to watch next
If you loved The Last Train (2006) — a war and drama film directed by Joseph Vilsmaier and Dana Vávrová — these 20 movies are the closest matches.
The first picks are what fans of The Last Train most often go on to watch; the rest share its genres and themes like holocaust (shoah), woman director and nazism. 4 of them are streaming in India right now — each entry shows where.
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Rosenstrasse 2003★ 6.4
Shares: Drama, War
When Ruth's husband dies in New York, in 2000, she imposes strict Jewish mourning, which puzzles her children. A stranger comes to the house - Ruth's cousin - with a picture of Ruth, age 8, in Berlin, with a woman the cousin says helped Ruth escape. Hannah, Ruth's daughter engaged to a gentile, goes to Berlin to find the woman, Lena Fisher, now 90. Posing as a journalist investigating intermarriage, Hannah interviews Lena who tells the story of a week in 1943 when the Jewish husbands of Aryan women were detained in a building on Rosenstrasse. The women gather daily for word of their husbands. The film goes back and forth to tell Ruth and Lena's story. How will it affect Hannah?
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The Devil's Arithmetic 1999★ 6.8
Shares: Drama
An American-born Jewish adolescent, Hannah Stern, is uninterested in the culture, faith and customs of her relatives. However, she begins to revaluate her heritage when she has a supernatural experience that transports her back to a Nazi death camp in 1941. There she meets a young girl named Rivkah, a fellow captive in the camp. As Rivkah and Hannah struggle to survive in the face of daily atrocities, they form an unbreakable bond.
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The Zone of Interest 2023★ 7.0
Shares: Drama, War
The commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolf Höss, and his wife Hedwig, strive to build a dream life for their family in a house and garden next to the camp.
Stream in India on Amazon Prime Video, MUBI, MUBI Amazon Channel
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The Conference 2022★ 6.8
Shares: War, Drama
On January 20, 1942, the Wannsee Conference takes place in Berlin, a meeting that had only one item on the agenda: The Final Solution, the organization of the systematic mass murder of eleven million European Jews.
Stream in India on Tencent Video
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God on Trial 2008★ 6.8
Shares: War, Drama
In the Jewish tradition of arguing with God, Jewish prisoners in Auschwitz decide to put God on Trial.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The Boy in the Woods 2023★ 7.0
Shares: Drama, War
The remarkable true-life survival story of a Jewish boy hiding and being hunted in the forests of Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe, based on Maxwell Smart's memoir.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Voyage of the Damned 1976★ 6.0
Shares: Drama, War
A luxury liner carries Jewish refugees from Hitler's Germany in a desperate fight for survival.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The Invisibles 2017★ 7.1
Shares: Drama
Four young Jews survive the Third Reich in the middle of Berlin by living so recklessly that they become "invisible."
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Uprising 2001★ 6.6
Shares: Drama, War
In the Warsaw ghetto in 1943, Jews rise against the Nazis.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser 1974★ 7.3
Shares: Drama
The film follows Kaspar Hauser, who lived the first seventeen years of his life chained in a tiny cellar with only a toy horse to occupy his time, devoid of all human contact except for a man who wears a black overcoat and top hat who feeds him.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Bonhoeffer: Pastor. Spy. Assassin 2024★ 6.8
Shares: Drama, War
As the world teeters on the brink of annihilation, Dietrich Bonhoeffer joins a deadly plot to assassinate Hitler, risking his faith and fate to save millions of Jews from genocide.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The Bunker 1981★ 6.3
Shares: War, Drama
Dramatization depicting the events surrounding Adolf Hitler's last weeks in and around his underground bunker in Berlin before and during the battle for the city.
Stream in India on JustWatch TV Beta, Plex
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Hitler: The Last Ten Days 1973★ 6.2
Shares: Drama, War
Hitler: The Last Ten Days takes us into the depths of der Furher’s Berlin bunker during his final days. Based on the book by Gerhard Boldt, it provides a bleak look at the goings-on within, and without.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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White Bird 2023★ 7.8
Shares: Drama, War
After being expelled from Beecher Prep for his treatment of a classmate with a facial deformity, Julian has struggled to fit in at his new school. To transform his life, Julian's grandmother finally reveals her own story of courage of her youth in Nazi-occupied France, where a classmate shelters her from mortal danger.
Stream in India on Netflix
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The Scarlet and the Black 1983★ 7.1
Shares: Drama, 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 the next time he leaves the Vatican.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The Monuments Men 2014★ 6.1
Shares: War, Drama
Based on the true story of the greatest treasure hunt in history, The Monuments Men is an action drama focusing on seven over-the-hill, out-of-shape museum directors, artists, architects, curators, and art historians who went to the front lines of WWII to rescue the world’s artistic masterpieces from Nazi thieves and return them to their rightful owners. With the art hidden behind enemy lines, how could these guys hope to succeed?
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The Marriage of Maria Braun 1979★ 7.4
Shares: Drama
Maria marries a young soldier in the last days of World War II, only for him to go missing in the war. She must rely on her beauty and ambition to navigate the difficult post-war years alone.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The Island on Bird Street 1997★ 7.3
Shares: Drama, War
Alex is an 11-year old boy who, during WWII, hides in the Jewish ghetto from Nazis after all his relatives have been sent to the concentration camp. The movie portrays the ghetto through his eyes.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Denial 2016★ 6.8
Shares: Drama
Acclaimed writer and historian Deborah E. Lipstadt must battle for historical truth to prove the Holocaust actually occurred when David Irving, a renowned denier, sues her for libel.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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As Far As My Feet Will Carry Me 2001★ 7.1
Shares: Drama, War
The German soldier Clemens Forel - determined to be reunited with his beloved family - makes a dramatic escape through bitter cold winters, desolate landscapes, and life threatening ventures from a Siberian labor camp after World War II. 8000 miles and three endless years of uncertainty later, he is finally about to reach his destination... An edge of your seat drama that celebrates the power of the human spirit and the force of will, while inspired and impowered by love.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now