Films like Forbidden Games
Orphaned after a Nazi air raid, Paulette, a young Parisian girl, runs into Michel, an older peasant boy, and the two quickly become close. Together, they try to make sense of the chaotic and crumbling world around them, attempting to cope with death as they create a burial ground...
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Au Revoir les Enfants
Film · 1987 · also drama and warAu revoir les enfants tells a heartbreaking story of friendship and devastating loss concerning two boys living in Nazi-occupied France. At a provincial Catholic boarding...
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A Bag of Marbles
Film · 2017 · also drama and warAt the beginning of the 1940s, in a France occupied by Nazi forces, lived the Jewish Joffo family. Happy and tight-knit, she sees her future darken when all members of th...
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The Future Awaits
Film · 2025 · also drama and warIn July 1942, during the Vel’ d’Hiv’ Roundup of Jewish families in Paris, 13 year old Tauba Birenbaum and her parents, who are Polish Jews, find refuge in a tiny room for...
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The House by the Sea
Film · 2017 · also dramaBy a little bay near Marseille lies a picturesque villa owned by an old man. His three children have gathered by his side for his last days. It’s time for them to weigh u...
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Surviving with Wolves
Film · 2007 · also dramaIn 1942, the young Jewish girl Misha, her Russian mother Gerusha and her German father Reuven hide from the Germans in a small house in Ardennes, Belgium. Misha is very c...
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The Island on Bird Street
Film · 1997 · also drama and warAlex is an 11-year old boy who, during WWII, hides in the Jewish ghetto from Nazis after all his relatives have been sent to the concentration camp. The movie portrays th...
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Hope and Glory
Film · 1987 · also drama and warA middle-aged man recalls his childhood growing up in and around London during World War II.
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The Great Escaper
Film · 2023 · also drama and warIn the summer of 2014, a World War II veteran sneaks out of his care home to attend the 70th anniversary commemoration of the D-Day landings in Normandy.
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White Bird
Film · 2023 · also drama and warAfter being expelled from Beecher Prep for his treatment of a classmate with a facial deformity, Julian has struggled to fit in at his new school. To transform his life,...
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The Search
Film · 1948 · also dramaIn postwar Germany, a displaced Czech boy, separated from his family during wartime, is befriended by an American GI while the boy's mother desperately searches for him.
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