15 Movies Like Higher Principle

Loved Higher Principle? 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 Higher Principle.

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 Higher Principle.

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
#3

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

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.

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

The Longest Day
#4

The Longest Day

The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that when the Allied invasion comes they must be stopped on the beach. "For the Allies as well as the Germans, it will be the longest day"

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

The Zone of Interest
#5

The Zone of Interest

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.

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

Touchless
#6

Touchless

Jolana (18) is an object of her step-father's desire. She is unable to cope, especially when her own mother turns a blind eye. Those events are heavily paid for when she finds herself working in a brothel. Her inability to cope raise a question: What is it she actually wants? Are her dreams of escaping really better than the reality she finds herself in?

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

Empire of the Sun
#7

Empire of the Sun

Jamie Graham, a privileged English boy, is living in Shanghai when the Japanese invade and force all foreigners into prison camps. Jamie is captured with an American sailor, who looks out for him while they are in the camp together. Even though he is separated from his parents and in a hostile environment, Jamie maintains his dignity and youthful spirit, providing a beacon of hope for the others held captive with him.

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

The Monuments Men
#8

The Monuments Men

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?

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

The Guns of Navarone
#9

The Guns of Navarone

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.

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

The Book Thief
#10

The Book Thief

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.

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

Truth & Treason
#11

Truth & Treason

When loyalty to country becomes loyalty to a lie, one teen risks everything to expose the truth. With the Gestapo closing in, he must decide what it really means to be a good German.

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

The Eagle Has Landed
#12

The Eagle Has Landed

When the Nazi high command learns in late 1943 that Winston Churchill will be spending time at a country estate in Norfolk, it hatches an audacious scheme to kidnap the prime minister and spirit him to Germany for enforced negotiations with Hitler.

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

Uprising
#13

Uprising

In the Warsaw ghetto in 1943, Jews rise against the Nazis.

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

The Grey Zone
#14

The Grey Zone

The story of Auschwitz's twelfth Sonderkommando — one of the thirteen consecutive "Special Squads" of Jewish prisoners placed by the Nazis in the excruciating moral dilemma of assisting in the extermination of fellow Jews in exchange for a few more months of life.

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

The Painted Bird
#15

The Painted Bird

After losing his parents, a young Jewish boy wanders Eastern Europe, seeking refuge during World War II.

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