15 Movies Like Hands Up!
Loved Hands Up!? 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.
#1
The Pianist
The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. When the Jews of the city find themselves forced into a ghetto, Szpilman finds work playing in a café; and when his family is deported in 1942, he stays behind, works for a while as a laborer, and eventually goes into hiding in the ruins of the war-torn city.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Hands Up!.
#2
365 Days: This Day
Laura and Massimo are back and hotter than ever. But the reunited couple's new beginning is complicated by Massimo’s family ties and a mysterious man who enters Laura’s life to win her heart and trust, at any cost.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Hands Up!.
#3
The Next 365 Days
Laura and Massimo's relationship hangs in the balance as they try to overcome trust issues while a tenacious Nacho works to push them apart.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Hands Up!.
#4
365 Days
A woman falls victim to a dominant mafia boss, who imprisons her and gives her one year to fall in love with him.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Hands Up!.
#5
Warsaw 44
City of Warsaw, Poland, August 1st, 1944. Citizens have experienced inhuman acts of terror and violence during five long years of Nazi occupation. As the Soviet Army relentlessly approaches, the youngest and bravest among them rise up as one and face tyranny fighting street by street, but the price to pay will be high and hard the way to freedom…
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Hands Up!.
#6
The Road
A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind and water. It is cold enough to crack stones and, when the snow falls, it is gray. Their destination is the warmer south, although they don't know what, if anything, awaits them there.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Hands Up!.
#7
Tears of the Sun
Navy SEAL Lieutenant A.K. Waters and his elite squadron of tactical specialists are forced to choose between their duty and their humanity, between following orders by ignoring the conflict that surrounds them, or finding the courage to follow their conscience and protect a group of innocent refugees. When the democratic government of Nigeria collapses and the country is taken over by a ruthless military dictator, Waters, a fiercely loyal and hardened veteran is dispatched on a routine mission to retrieve a Doctors Without Borders physician.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Hands Up!.
#8
Unpredictable
Martyna and Wojciech form a seemingly happy relationship. However, it is only a façade hiding a cruel truth. Martyna's friend Alicja is a single mother of 20-year-old Daniel, who is the apple of her eye. Alicja is unable to accept that her son has his own life. One day Daniel meets Adelina. A puzzling story in which we ask ourselves not only who killed and why, but above all who died!?
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Hands Up!.
#9
The Giver
In a seemingly perfect community, without war, pain, suffering, differences or choice, a young boy is chosen to learn from an elderly man about the true pain and pleasure of the "real" world.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Hands Up!.
#10
Swan Song
In the near future, Cameron Turner is diagnosed with a terminal illness. Presented with an experimental solution to shield his wife and son from grief, he grapples with altering their fate in this thought-provoking exploration of love, loss, and sacrifice.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Hands Up!.
#11
Unthinkable
The government gets wind of a plot to destroy America involving a trio of nuclear weapons for which the whereabouts are unknown. It's up to a seasoned interrogator and an FBI agent to find out exactly where the nukes are.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Hands Up!.
#12
Dogville
A woman on the run from the mob is reluctantly accepted in a small Colorado community in exchange for labor, but when a search visits the town, she learns that their support has a price.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Hands Up!.
#13
I'm Thinking of Ending Things
Nothing is as it seems when a woman experiencing misgivings about her new boyfriend joins him on a road trip to meet his parents at their remote farm.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Hands Up!.
#14
13
A naive young man assumes a dead man's identity and finds himself embroiled in an underground world of power, violence, and chance where men gamble behind closed doors on the lives of other men.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Hands Up!.
#15
Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl
Young teen girl Xiu Xiu is sent away to a remote corner of the Sichuan steppes for manual labor in 1975 (sending young people to there was a part of Cultural Revolution in China). A year later, she agrees to go to even more remote spot with a Tibetan saddle tramp Lao Jin to learn horse herding.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Hands Up!.