feelsalike.com

Movies that feel like Stalingrad (2013)

If you loved Stalingrad, the closest films we have are Sobibor (2018), Uri: The Surgical Strike (2019) and Kalashnikov AK-47 (2020). All three share Stalingrad's bleak and contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 8 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV and MUBI and others, checked against today's data.

A band of determined Russian soldiers fight to hold a strategic building in their devastated city against a ruthless German army, and in the process become deeply connected to a Russian woman who has been living there.

πŸ… 51% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 5.7 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Fyodor Bondarchukbleakkineticcontemplative

Not on subscription streaming right now. Rent or buy below.

See it on the map

When is Stalingrad streaming? β†’

If Stalingrad hit the spot, these will too

Sobibor poster
Sobibor
2018 Β· dir. Konstantin Khabenskiy
πŸ… 73%β˜… 6.4war Β· drama

The same two preoccupations: world war ii, and a true story

The difference: Missing the momentum of Stalingrad

The film is based on a real story that happened in 1943 in the Sobibor concentration camp in German-occupied Poland. The main character of the movie is the Soviet-Jewish soldier Alexander Pechersky, who at that time was serving in the Red Army as a lieutenant. In October 1943, he was captured by the Nazis and deported to the Sobibor concentration camp, where Jews were being exterminated in gas chambers. But, in just 3 weeks, Alexander was able to plan an international uprising of prisoners from Poland and Western Europe. This uprising resulted in being the only successful one throughout the war, which led to the largest escape of prisoners from a Nazi concentration camp.

Feels alike?
Uri: The Surgical Strike poster
Uri: The Surgical Strike
2019 Β· dir. Aditya Dhar
πŸ… 57%β˜… 8.2action Β· drama Β· war

Common ground: a true story

Following the roguish terrorist attacks at Uri Army Base camp in Kashmir, India takes the fight to the enemy, in its most successful covert operation till date with one and only one objective of avenging their fallen heroes.

Feels alike?
Kalashnikov AK-47 poster
Kalashnikov AK-47
2020 Β· dir. Konstantin Buslov
β˜… 6.6war Β· history Β· drama

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

The difference: Not nearly as kinetic as Stalingrad

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 β€” the AK-47. Shot in occupied Crimea.

Feels alike?
9th Company poster
9th Company
2005 Β· dir. Fyodor Bondarchuk
πŸ… 69%β˜… 7.1war Β· drama Β· history

The same hand behind both of them: Fyodor Bondarchuk

The difference: Leans harder into history than Stalingrad does

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

Feels alike?
In Darkness poster
In Darkness
2011 Β· dir. Agnieszka Holland
πŸ… 88%β˜… 7.3drama Β· war

Both are built on the same subject: nazi

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

A dramatization of one man's rescue of Jewish refugees in the Nazi-occupied city of Lviv. In Darkness tells the true story of Leopold Soha who risks his own life to save a dozen people from certain death. Initially only interested in his own good, the thief and burglar hides Jewish refugees for 14 months in the sewers of the Nazi-occupied town of Lviv (formerly Poland).

Feels alike?
Balkan Line poster
Balkan Line
2019 Β· dir. Andrey Volgin
β˜… 6.6drama Β· action Β· war

Both land bleakness and momentum at once

After the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999, the Yugoslav army pulls out of Kosovo region, leaving Serbian people at the mercy of the Albanian UCK. A small band of soldiers must take over the Slatina airport, and hold it until the Russian peacekeepers arrive.

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

The same preoccupation in both: nazi

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.

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

Both lean on stillness more than on war

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

Feels alike?
Greyhound poster
Greyhound
2020 Β· dir. Aaron Schneider
πŸ… 77%β˜… 7war Β· action Β· drama

Bleak action in both cases

A first-time captain leads a convoy of allied ships carrying thousands of soldiers across the treacherous waters of the "Black Pit" to the front lines of WWII. With no air cover protection for 5 days, the captain and his convoy must battle the surrounding enemy Nazi U-boats in order to give the allies a chance to win the war.

Feels alike?
Battle for Sevastopol poster
Battle for Sevastopol
2015 Β· dir. Sergey Mokritsky
β˜… 7war Β· drama Β· romance

One thread runs through both: soviet union

The story of Lyudmila Pavlichenko, the most successful female sniper in history.

Feels alike?
Shadow poster
Shadow
2018 Β· dir. Zhang Yimou
πŸ… 94%β˜… 7action Β· war

Kinetic drama, and it commits to that

In a kingdom ruled by a young and unpredictable king, the military commander has a secret weapon: a shadow, a look-alike who can fool both his enemies and the King himself. Now he must use this weapon in an intricate plan that will lead his people to victory in a war that the King does not want.

Feels alike?
The Monuments Men poster
The Monuments Men
2014 Β· dir. George Clooney
πŸ… 30%β˜… 6.1war Β· drama Β· history

War with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

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?

Feels alike?

In the mood for more bleak?

all bleak movies β†’

The best-reviewed films that share Stalingrad’s defining feeling.