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Movies that feel like Stalingrad (1993)

If you loved Stalingrad, the closest films we have are Kalashnikov AK-47 (2020), Flame & Citron (2008) and Katyn (2007). All three share Stalingrad's contemplative and epic feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 8 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.

A German Platoon is explored through the brutal fighting of the Battle of Stalingrad. After half of their number is wiped out and they're placed under the command of a sadistic captain, the platoon lieutenant leads his men to desert. The platoon members attempt escape from the city, now surrounded by the Soviet Army.

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Kalashnikov AK-47
2020 · dir. Konstantin Buslov
6.6war · history · drama

Both keep coming back to the same thing: world war ii

The difference: 27 years apart, and the 2020s show

A Russian military propaganda film about the tank commander Kalashnikov, severely injured in battle in 1941. The accident leaves him incapacitated and unable to return to the front line. While recovering in the hospital, he begins creating the initial sketches of what will become one of the world’s most legendary weapons. A self-taught inventor is only 29 when he develops the now iconic assault riffle — the AK-47. Shot in occupied Crimea.

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Flame & Citron
2008 · dir. Ole Christian Madsen
🍅 86%7.2drama · history · war

Common ground: world war ii

Gunman Flame and his partner Citron assassinate Nazi collaborators for the Danish resistance. Assigned targets by their Allies-connected leader, Aksel Winther, they relish the opportunity to begin targeting the Nazis themselves. When they begin to doubt the validity of their assignments, their morally complicated task becomes even more labyrinthine.

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Katyn
2007 · dir. Andrzej Wajda
🍅 91%7drama · history · war

Contemplative where it counts, epic underneath

On September 1st, 1939, Nazi Germany invades Poland, unleashing World War II. On September 17th, the Soviet Red Army crosses the border. The Polish army, unable to fight on two fronts, is defeated. Thousands of Polish men, both military and government officials, are captured by the invaders. Their fate will only be known several years later.

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Enemy at the Gates
2001 · dir. Jean-Jacques Annaud
🍅 53%7.5war · history

Both are working the same pair: winter, stalingrad

The difference: None of the stillness Stalingrad is built on

A Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad in WWII.

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The Captain
2018 · dir. Robert Schwentke
🍅 83%7.3war · drama · history

Bleak drama in both cases

Germany, 1945. Soldier Willi Herold, a deserter of the German army, stumbles into a uniform of a Nazi captain abandoned during the last and desperate weeks of the Third Reich. Newly emboldened by the allure of a suit that he has stolen only to stay warm, Willi discovers that many Germans will follow the leader, whoever he is.

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9th Company
2005 · dir. Fyodor Bondarchuk
🍅 69%7.1war · drama · history

History with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

Russian army recruits complete training and take their posting in late 1980s Afghanistan, where the insurgents are slowly gaining the upper hand.

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The Tin Drum
1979 · dir. Volker Schlöndorff
🍅 84%7.4drama · history · war

Both lean on scale more than on war

In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of stairs and stops growing. In 1939, World War II breaks out.

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The Shadow in My Eye
2021 · dir. Ole Bornedal
7.3war · drama · history

Drama built on bleakness, twice over

On March 21st, 1945, the British Royal Air Force set out on a mission to bomb Gestapo's headquarters in Copenhagen. The raid had fatal consequences as some of the bombers accidentally targeted a school and more than 120 people were killed, 86 of whom were children.

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T-34
2018 · dir. Alexey Sidorov
6.8drama · history · war

Contemplative history, and it commits to that

In 1944, a courageous group of Russian soldiers managed to escape from German captivity in a half-destroyed legendary T-34 tank. Those were the times of unforgettable bravery, fierce fighting, unbreakable love, and legendary miracles.

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The Guns of Navarone
1961 · dir. J. Lee Thompson
🍅 92%7.5adventure · drama · war

Same instincts, 32 years apart

The difference: Sits closer to adventure than Stalingrad does

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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The Thin Red Line
1998 · dir. Terrence Malick
🍅 80%7.6drama · history · war

Bleak drama, and it commits to that

The story of a group of men, an Army Rifle company called C-for-Charlie, who change, suffer, and ultimately make essential discoveries about themselves during the fierce World War II battle of Guadalcanal. It follows their journey, from the surprise of an unopposed landing, through the bloody and exhausting battles that follow, to the ultimate departure of those who survived.

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The Flowers of War
2011 · dir. Zhang Yimou
🍅 41%7.5drama · history · war

History in the same key

A Westerner finds refuge with a group of women in a church during Japan's rape of Nanking in 1937. Posing as a priest, he attempts to lead the women to safety.

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