Movies like The Royal Siren: 20 to watch next
If you loved The Royal Siren (2010) — a drama and history film directed by Hansjörg Thurn — these 20 movies are the closest matches.
The first picks are what fans of The Royal Siren most often go on to watch; the rest share its genres and themes like wanderhure. 4 of them are streaming in India right now — each entry shows where.
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The Tasters 2025★ 6.7
Shares: Drama, History
In autumn 1943, in Gross-Partsch, 26-year-old Rosa, who had come from Berlin to stay with the parents of her husband Gregor, who was fighting on the Russian front, was taken by the SS to a mysterious place. Forced to taste a dish, she joins the group of tasters responsible for checking that the food destined for Hitler is not poisoned.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Munich - The Edge of War 2021★ 6.9
Shares: Drama, History
At the tense 1938 Munich Conference, former friends who now work for opposing governments become reluctant spies racing to expose a Nazi secret.
Stream in India on Netflix
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Home from Home – Chronicle of a Vision 2013★ 7.8
Shares: Drama, History
Follow-up to the TV trilogy “Heimat”, this time for cinemas, set again in the fictional village Schabbach in the Hunsrück region of Rhineland-Palatinate.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Adventures of a Mathematician 2021★ 6.1
Shares: Drama, History
The warmhearted story of Polish immigrant and mathematician Stan Ulam, who moved to the U.S. in the 1930s. Stan deals with the difficult losses of family and friends all while helping to create the hydrogen bomb and the first computer.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser 1974★ 7.3
Shares: Drama, History
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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Snow Flower and the Secret Fan 2011★ 6.1
Shares: Drama, History
A story set in 19th century China and centered on the lifelong friendship between two girls who develop their own secret code as a way to contend with the rigid cultural norms imposed on women.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Julia 1977★ 6.5
Shares: Drama, History
At the behest of an old and dear friend, playwright Lillian Hellman undertakes a dangerous mission to smuggle funds into Nazi Germany.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Mary 2024★ 6.3
Shares: Drama, History
A miraculous conception. A merciless king. A murderous pursuit. Mary's journey to give birth to Jesus unfolds in this biblical coming-of-age epic.
Stream in India on Netflix
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The Invisibles 2017★ 7.1
Shares: Drama, History
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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Richard Jewell 2019★ 7.4
Shares: Drama, History
Richard 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 by sloppy FBI work and sensational media coverage.
Stream in India on JioHotstar, VI movies and tv
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The Boy in the Woods 2023★ 7.0
Shares: Drama, History
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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Taking Sides 2002★ 6.3
Shares: Drama
One of the most spectacular and renowned conductors of the 1930s, Wilhelm Furtwangler's reputation rivaled that of Toscanini's. After the war, he was investigated as part of the Allies' de-Nazification programme. In the bombed-out Berlin of the immediate post-war period, the Allies slowly bring law and order to bear on an occupied Germany. An American major is given the Furtwangler file, and is told to find everything he can and to prosecute the man ruthlessly. Tough and hard-nosed, Major Steve Arnold sets out to investigate a world of which he knows nothing.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Giant 2026★ 6.7
Shares: Drama, History
Follows Prince Naseem Hamed from his humble beginnings on the tough working-class streets of Sheffield and his discovery by Ingle, himself a steel industry worker turned boxing trainer. Their unlikely partnership, Naz’s unorthodox style, cocky persona, and sheer dominance in the ring propelled them to the top of boxing’s elite and unprecedented levels of global superstardom, all in the face of the rampant Islamophobia and racism of ’80s and 90’s Britain.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius 2004★ 5.9
Shares: Drama
The story of golf icon and legend, Bobby Jones, who retired from competition at the tender age of 28.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds 1972★ 7.3
Shares: Drama
Middle-aged widow Beatrice Hunsdorfer and her daughters Ruth and Matilda are struggling to survive in a society they barely understand. Beatrice dreams of opening an elegant tea room but does not have the wherewithal to achieve her lofty goal. Epileptic Ruth is a rebellious adolescent, while shy but highly intelligent and idealistic Matilda seeks solace in her pets and school projects, including one designed to show how small amounts of radium affect marigolds.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2017★ 6.3
Shares: Drama, History
An 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.
Stream in India on JioHotstar
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Jonathan 2018★ 5.9
Shares: Drama
Jonathan is a young man with a strange condition that only his brother understands. But when he begins to yearn for a different life, their unique bond becomes increasingly tested.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Light of My Life 2019★ 6.5
Shares: Drama
Years after a pandemic wipes out most of the female population, a father struggles to shield his daughter from a dangerous and predatory world.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Rose 2026★ 7.6
Shares: Drama, History
In the early 17th century, a soldier arrives at an isolated Protestant village in Germany claiming to be the heir to an abandoned farmstead. Even though he proves to be a good man, the villagers’ suspicions about his identity grow and they force a reckoning.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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A Whole Life 2023★ 7.0
Shares: Drama, History
When Andreas arrives in the remote valley in the Austrian Alps, he is only about four years old - nobody knows for sure. He grows up to become a skilled farmhand and, as a young man, joins a work crew that builds one of the first mountain railroads, bringing light and noise to the valley along with electricity. He also finds the love of his life in Marie, but their happiness is short-lived. Only many years later, when Andreas embarks on his final journey, she is with him once again. And in amazement Andreas looks back at all the years that lie behind him.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now