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Movies that feel like Ivan's Childhood (1962)

If you loved Ivan's Childhood, the closest films we have are Rome, Open City (1945), Lifeboat (1944) and Mirror (1975). All three share Ivan's Childhood's contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 10 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, HBO Max and Amazon Prime Video and others, checked against today's data.

In WW2, twelve year old Soviet orphan Ivan Bondarev works for the Soviet army as a scout behind the German lines and strikes a friendship with three sympathetic Soviet officers.

πŸ… 100% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 8 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Andrei Tarkovskycontemplativebleakdreamlike
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Rome, Open City
1945 Β· dir. Roberto Rossellini
πŸ… 100%β˜… 8drama Β· war

Common ground in both: world war ii and 1940s

The difference: None of the dream logic Ivan's Childhood is built on

During the Nazi occupation of 1944 Rome, Resistance leader Giorgio Manfredi is pursued by the Nazis as he seeks refuge and a means of escape.

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Lifeboat
1944 Β· dir. Alfred Hitchcock
πŸ… 90%β˜… 7.6war Β· drama

Common ground: black and white

During World War II, a small group of survivors is stranded in a lifeboat together after the ship they were traveling on is destroyed by a German U-boat.

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Mirror
1975 Β· dir. Andrei Tarkovsky
πŸ… 100%β˜… 7.9drama Β· history

Both are Andrei Tarkovsky's work, and they rhyme

The difference: Leans harder into history than Ivan's Childhood does

A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell of and juxtapose pivotal moments in Soviet history with daily life.

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Paisan
1946 Β· dir. Roberto Rossellini
πŸ… 100%β˜… 7.6drama Β· war

One thread runs through both: world war ii

Six stories unfold in various regions, from Sicily to the northern Po Valley as American military personnel interact with a variety of Italian locals over eighteen months in the push north during the Italian Campaign of WWII as German forces retreat.

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Shame
1968 Β· dir. Ingmar Bergman
πŸ… 67%β˜… 8war Β· drama

Contemplative where it counts, bleak underneath

The difference: Reviewed a good deal more coolly

In the midst of a civil war, a pair of former violinists in a tempestuous marriage oversee a farm on a rural island. In spite of their best efforts to escape their homeland, the war impinges on every aspect of their lives.

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The Longest Day
1962 Β· dir. Ken Annakin
πŸ… 83%β˜… 7.7war Β· action Β· drama

Both keep coming back to the same thing: black and white

The difference: Sits closer to action than Ivan's Childhood does

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"

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The Guns of Navarone
1961 Β· dir. J. Lee Thompson
πŸ… 92%β˜… 7.5adventure Β· drama Β· war

Contemplative drama, and it commits to that

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.

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Stalag 17
1953 Β· dir. Billy Wilder
πŸ… 91%β˜… 7.9comedy Β· drama Β· war

Both are built on the same subject: spy

After two American prisoners are killed by guards in the act of escaping from a German POW camp in World War II, barracks black marketeer J.J. Sefton is suspected of being an informer.

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Persian Lessons
2020 Β· dir. Vadim Perelman
πŸ… 80%β˜… 7.4war Β· drama

The same preoccupation in both: based on short story

The difference: 58 years apart, and the 2020s show

Occupied France, 1942. Gilles is arrested by SS soldiers alongside other Jews and sent to a camp in Germany. He narrowly avoids sudden execution by swearing to the guards that he is not Jewish, but Persian. This lie temporarily saves him, but Gilles gets assigned a life-or-death mission: to teach Farsi to Head of Camp Koch, who dreams of opening a restaurant in Iran once the war is over. Through an ingenious trick, Gilles manages to survive by inventing words of "Farsi" every day and teaching them to Koch.

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The Counterfeiters
2007 Β· dir. Stefan Ruzowitzky
πŸ… 93%β˜… 7.5drama Β· war

Both keep coming back to the same thing: 1940s

The story of Jewish counterfeiter Salomon Sorowitsch, who was coerced into assisting the Nazi operation of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp during World War II.

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Army of Shadows
1969 Β· dir. Jean-Pierre Melville
πŸ… 97%β˜… 8.1war Β· drama Β· thriller

Both lean on bleakness more than on war

Betrayed by an informant, Philippe Gerbier finds himself trapped in a torturous Nazi prison camp. Though Gerbier escapes to rejoin the Resistance in occupied Marseilles, France, and exacts his revenge on the informant, he must continue a quiet, seemingly endless battle against the Nazis in an atmosphere of tension, paranoia and distrust.

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Paths of Glory
1957 Β· dir. Stanley Kubrick
πŸ… 96%β˜… 8.4war Β· drama

Contemplative drama in both cases

A commanding officer defends three scapegoats on trial for a failed offensive that occurred within the French Army in 1916.

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