Movies like The Ogre: 20 to watch next
If you loved The Ogre (1996) — a drama and war film directed by Volker Schlöndorff — these 20 movies are the closest matches.
The first picks are what fans of The Ogre most often go on to watch; the rest share its genres and themes like based on novel or book, world war ii and hitler youth. 8 of them are streaming in India right now — each entry shows where.
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The Book Thief 2013★ 7.5
Shares: Drama
While subjected to the horrors of WWII Germany, young Liesel finds solace by stealing books and sharing them with others. Under the stairs in her home, a Jewish refugee is being sheltered by her adoptive parents.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas 2008★ 7.8
Shares: Drama, War
When his family moves from their home in Berlin to a strange new house in Poland, young Bruno befriends Shmuel, a boy who lives on the other side of the fence where everyone seems to be wearing striped pajamas. Unaware of Shmuel's fate as a Jewish prisoner or the role his own Nazi father plays in his imprisonment, Bruno embarks on a dangerous journey inside the camp's walls.
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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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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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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All Quiet on the Western Front 1930★ 7.8
Shares: Drama, War
When a group of idealistic young men join the German Army during the Great War, they are assigned to the Western Front, where their patriotism is destroyed by the harsh realities of combat.
Stream in India on Tubi TV, Plex
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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 Guns of Navarone 1961★ 7.3
Shares: Drama, War
A team of allied saboteurs are assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held island and destroy the two enormous long-range field guns that prevent the rescue of 2,000 trapped British soldiers.
Stream in India on Netflix
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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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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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Waiting for Anya 2020★ 6.3
Shares: Drama, 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.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Before the Fall 2004★ 7.1
Shares: Drama
In 1942, Friedrich Weimer's boxing skills get him an appointment to a National Political Academy (NaPolA) – high schools that produce Nazi elite. Over his father's objections, Friedrich enrolls. During his year in seventh column, Friedrich encounters hazing, cruelty, death, and the Nazi code. His friendship with Albrecht, the ascetic son of the area's governor, is central to this education.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Night Train to Munich 1940★ 7.2
Shares: Drama, War
Czechoslovakia, March 1939, on the eve of World War II. As the German invaders occupy Prague, inventor Axel Bomasch manages to flee and reach England; but those who need to put his knowledge at the service of the Nazi war machine, in order to carry out their evil plans of destruction, will stop at nothing to capture him.
Stream in India on Artiflix
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Run Boy Run 2014★ 7.1
Shares: Drama, War
A true story of Jurek, an eight-year-old boy, who escapes from the Warsaw ghetto, then manages to survive in the woods and working as a farmhand, disguising himself as a Polish orphan.
Stream in India on Tubi TV
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The Young Lions 1958★ 6.7
Shares: War, Drama
The lives of three young men, a German and two Americans, during WWII.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Alone in Berlin 2016★ 6.7
Shares: War, Drama
Berlin in June of 1940. While Nazi propaganda celebrates the regime’s victory over France, a kitchen-cum-living room in Prenzlauer Berg is filled with grief. Anna and Otto Quangel’s son has been killed at the front. This working class couple had long believed in the ‘Führer’ and followed him willingly, but now they realise that his promises are nothing but lies and deceit. They begin writing postcards as a form of resistance and in a bid to raise awareness: Stop the war machine! Kill Hitler! Putting their lives at risk, they distribute these cards in the entrances of tenement buildings and in stairwells. But the SS and the Gestapo are soon onto them, and even their neighbours pose a threat.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The Fox 2023★ 7.1
Shares: Drama, War
At the dawn of World War II, a young motorcycle courier in the Austrian army encounters a wounded fox cub and takes it with him to occupied France. The soldier and the fox develop an unlikely bond. Based on the true story of Franz Streitberger, director Adrian Goiginger’s great-grandfather.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Sink the Bismarck! 1960★ 6.9
Shares: War, Drama
The story of the breakout of the German battleship Bismarck—accompanied by the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen—during the early days of World War II. The Bismarck and her sister ship, Tirpitz, were the most powerful battleships in the European theater of World War II. The British Navy must find and destroy Bismarck before it can escape into the convoy lanes to inflict severe damage on the cargo shipping which was the lifeblood of the British Isles. With eight 15 inch guns, it was capable of destroying every ship in a convoy while remaining beyond the range of all Royal Navy warships.
Stream in India on JustWatch TV Beta
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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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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