15 Movies Like Curtiz

Loved Curtiz? Based on its unique Cinema DNA—including its pacing, themes, and emotional tone—we've curated the ultimate list of what you should watch next.

Schindler's List
#1

Schindler's List

The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Curtiz.

Nuremberg
#2

Nuremberg

In postwar Germany, an American psychiatrist must determine whether Nazi prisoners are fit to go on trial for war crimes, and finds himself in a complex battle of intellect and ethics with Hermann Göring, Hitler's right-hand man.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Curtiz.

Flags of Our Fathers
#3

Flags of Our Fathers

There were five Marines and one Navy Corpsman photographed raising the U.S. flag on Mt. Suribachi by Joe Rosenthal on February 23, 1945. This is the story of three of the six surviving servicemen - John 'Doc' Bradley, Pvt. Rene Gagnon and Pvt. Ira Hayes - who fought in the battle to take Iwo Jima from the Japanese.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Curtiz.

Raging Bull
#4

Raging Bull

The life of boxer Jake LaMotta, whose violence and temper that led him to the top in the ring destroyed his life outside of it.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Curtiz.

Lee
#5

Lee

The true story of photographer Elizabeth "Lee" Miller, a fashion model who became an acclaimed war correspondent for Vogue magazine during World War II.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Curtiz.

Romance of Ida
#6

Romance of Ida

Eighteen year old Ida returns home after being raised by nuns, but her father isn't too pleased. Determined to see her married, he publishes an ad and offers suitors a generous dowry.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Curtiz.

Suffragette
#7

Suffragette

Based on true events about the foot soldiers of the early feminist movement, women who were forced underground to pursue a dangerous game of cat and mouse with an increasingly brutal State.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Curtiz.

Defiance
#8

Defiance

Based on a true story, during World War II, four Jewish brothers escape their Nazi-occupied homeland of West Belarus in Poland and join the Soviet partisans to combat the Nazis. The brothers begin the rescue of roughly 1,200 Jews still trapped in the ghettos of Poland.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Curtiz.

Satantango
#9

Satantango

Inhabitants of a small village in Hungary deal with the effects of the fall of Communism. The town's source of revenue, a factory, has closed, and the locals, who include a doctor and three couples, await a cash payment offered in the wake of the shuttering. Irimias, a villager thought to be dead, returns and, unbeknownst to the locals, is a police informant. In a scheme, he persuades the villagers to form a commune with him.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Curtiz.

Return Ticket
#10

Return Ticket

Five old men and a kid are travelling in a train's cabin without purpose. They travel because it's free and they don't have another place to stay. From their conversations we learn the tragedies of their lives. Also the hidden interlockings of their faith will out slowly.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Curtiz.

The Burial
#11

The Burial

When a handshake deal goes sour, funeral home owner Jeremiah O'Keefe enlists charismatic, smooth-talking attorney Willie E. Gary to save his family business. Tempers flare and laughter ensues as the unlikely pair bond while exposing corporate corruption and racial injustice.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Curtiz.

Cross of Iron
#12

Cross of Iron

It is 1943, and the German army—ravaged and demoralised—is hastily retreating from the Russian front. In the midst of the madness, conflict brews between the aristocratic yet ultimately pusillanimous Captain Stransky and the courageous Corporal Steiner. Stransky is the only man who believes that the Third Reich is still vastly superior to the Russian army. However, within his pompous persona lies a quivering coward who longs for the Iron Cross so that he can return to Berlin a hero. Steiner, on the other hand is cynical, defiantly non-conformist and more concerned with the safety of his own men rather than the horde of military decorations offered to him by his superiors.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Curtiz.

Son of Saul
#13

Son of Saul

In the horror of 1944 Auschwitz, a prisoner forced to burn the corpses of his own people finds moral survival trying to save from the flames the body of a boy he takes for his son, seeking to give him a proper Jewish burial.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Curtiz.

Dealer
#14

Dealer

A drug dealer spends his day pedaling around Budapest visiting friends and clients.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Curtiz.

Feels Like Home
#15

Feels Like Home

Rita, an ordinary, but lonely woman is kidnapped. Her captors are the Árpáds; they claim she is not called Rita but Szilvi, a runaway from their family. Rita eventually understands that the only way out is in - to escape she must impersonate Szilvi. The more she becomes the lost girl the more she finds out about the family - and understands that her life is on the line.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Curtiz.