20 best movies like Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe (2016)

List of the best movies like Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe (2016): Nowhere in Africa, Hannah Arendt, Queen of the Desert, North Face, Mr. Turner, MacArthur, Game Change, Steve Jobs, Woman Walks Ahead, The Lady.

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Markimdb: 7.5
Genredrama, biography, history
CountryGermany
Duration02:21

A Jewish woman named Jettel Redlich flees Nazi Germany with her daughter Regina, to join her husband, Walter, on a farm in Kenya. At first, Jettel refuses to adjust to her new circumstances, bringing with her a set of china dishes and an evening gown. While Regina adapts readily to this new world, forming a strong bond with her father's cook, an African named Owuor.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genredrama, biography
CountryGermany, Luxembourg, France, Israel
Duration01:53

HANNAH ARENDT is a portrait of the genius that shook the world with her discovery of “the banality of evil.” After she attends the Nazi Adolf Eichmann’s trial in Jerusalem, Arendt dares to write about the Holocaust in terms no one has ever heard before. Her work instantly provokes a furious scandal, and Arendt stands strong as she is attacked by friends and foes alike. But as the German-Jewish émigré also struggles to suppress her own painful associations with the past, the film exposes her beguiling blend of arrogance and vulnerability — revealing a soul defined and derailed by exile.

Markimdb: 5.7
Genremelodrama, drama, adventure, biography, history
CountryUSA, Morocco
Duration03:10

A chronicle of Gertrude Bell's life, a traveler, writer, archaeologist, explorer, cartographer, and political attaché for the British Empire at the dawn of the twentieth century.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genredrama, adventure, biography, history, sport
CountryGermany, Austria, Luxembourg
Duration02:06

North Face tells the story of two German climbers Toni Kurz and Andreas Hinterstoisser and their attempt to scale the deadly North Face of the Eiger.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genredrama, biography, history
CountryUnited Kingdom, France, Germany, USA
Duration02:30

Eccentric British painter J.M.W. Turner lives his last 25 years with gusto and secretly becomes involved with a seaside landlady, while his faithful housekeeper bears an unrequited love for him.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genredrama, military, biography, history
CountryUSA
Duration02:10

The film portrays MacArthur's (Gregory Peck) life from 1942, before the Battle of Bataan, to 1952, the time after he had been removed from his Korean War command by President Truman (Ed Flanders) for insubordination, and is recounted in flashback as he visits West Point.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genredrama, biography, history
CountryUSA
Duration01:58

Based on the book by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin, Game Change focuses on the Republican run of the 2008 Presidential election, when candidate John McCain picks a relative unknown, Alaskan governor Sarah Palin, to be his running mate. As the campaign kicks into high gear, her lack of experience, in both political and media savvy, becomes a drain upon McCain and his strategists. Directed by Jay Roach, who previously directed the HBO film Recount and the Austin Powers movies, Game Change premiered on HBO on March 10th, 2012.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genredrama, biography, history
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration02:31

    Set backstage at three iconic product launches and ending in 1998 with the unveiling of the iMac, Steve Jobs takes us behind the scenes of the digital revolution to paint an intimate portrait of the brilliant man at its epicenter.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genredrama, western, biography, history
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:23

    In 1890, Catherine Weldon, a painter from New York, travels to North Dakota to paint a portrait of Sitting Bull and becomes involved in the struggle of the Lakota people to get the Government respects their rights over the land where they live.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genremelodrama, drama, biography, history
    CountryFrance, United Kingdom, Thailand
    Duration02:12

    The story of Aung San Suu Kyi as she becomes the core of Burma's democracy movement, and her relationship with her husband, writer Michael Aris.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genredrama, biography, history
    CountryGermany, USA, Czech Republic, Italy
    Duration02:03

    During the early 16th Century idealistic German monk Martin Luther, disgusted by the materialism in the church, begins the dialogue that will lead to the Protestant Reformation.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genremelodrama, drama, military, biography
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:16

    The life of celebrated but reclusive author, J.D. Salinger, who gained worldwide fame with the publication of his novel, The Catcher in the Rye.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genremelodrama, drama, biography, history
    CountryCzech Republic, United Kingdom, France, USA
    Duration02:31

    The inspiring true story of Seretse Khama, the King of Bechuanaland (modern Botswana), and Ruth Williams, the London office worker he married in 1948 in the face of fierce opposition from their families and the British and South African governments. Seretse and Ruth defied family, Apartheid and empire - their love triumphed over every obstacle flung in their path and in so doing they transformed their nation and inspired the world.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genredrama, biography
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:51

    Tragedy strikes when a woman named Joyce's son falls through the ice on a frozen lake and is trapped underwater for over 15 minutes. After being rushed to the hospital, the 14-year-old boy continues to fight for his life as Joyce, her husband and their pastor stay by his bedside and pray for a miracle.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genredrama, military, biography, history
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:36

    April 14, 1865. One gunshot. One assassin hell-bent on killing a tyrant, as he charged the 16th President of the United States. And in one moment, our nation was forever changed. This is the most dramatic and resonant crime in American history: the true story of the killing of Abraham Lincoln. From Executive Producers Ridley Scott and Tony Scott, and narrated by Tom Hanks, National Geographic Channel's first ever docudrama, Killing Lincoln, based on the New York Times bestseller, combines re-creations with historical insight in a thrilling chronicle of the final days of President Lincoln and his assassin, John Wilkes Booth.

    Markimdb: 7.7
    Genredrama, biography, history
    CountryChile, Spain, United Kingdom, France

    Santiago, capital of Chile during the Marxist government of elected, highly controversial president Salvador Allende. Father McEnroe supports his leftist views by introducing a program at the prestigious "collegio" (Catholic prep school) St. Patrick to allow free admission of some proletarian kids. One of them is Pedro Machuca, slum-raised son of the cleaning lady in Gonzalo Infante's liberal-bourgeois home. Yet the new classmates become buddies, paradoxically protesting together as Gonzalo gets adopted by Pedro's slum family and gang. But the adults spoil that too, not in the least when general Pinochet's coup ousts Allende, and supporters such as McEnroe.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genredrama, biography, history
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, France, Belgium, Japan
    Duration01:49

    Jimmy Gralton returns from New York and reopens his beloved community hall, only to meet opposition from the local parish.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genredrama, biography
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany, Austria, France
    Duration02:00

    The autobiography of a Somalian nomad who was sold in marriage at 13, fled from Africa a while later to become finally an American supermodel and is now at the age of 38, the UN spokeswoman against female genital mutilation.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genredrama, biography
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Belgium, Italy, Germany
    Duration02:17

    In 1895, Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) was the most famous writer in London, and Bosie Douglas, son of the notorious Marquess of Queensberry, was his lover. Accused and convicted of gross indecency, he was imprisoned for two years and subjected to hard labor. Once free, he abandons England to live in France, where he will spend his last years, haunted by memories of the past, poverty and immense sadness.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genredrama, biography, history
    CountryItaly, Germany, Poland
    Duration03:10

    Augustine is a two-part, Italian-made mini-series about the influential theologian and church father Augustine of Hippo. The piece tells the story of his life from a teenager to his death at the age of 69.Much of the content for the scenes of him as a young and middle-aged man come from his Confessions, which is probably the earliest extant autobiography.

    Markimdb: 7.9
    Genredrama, biography, history
    CountrySouth Korea
    Duration01:50

    May, 1980. Man-seob is a taxi driver in Seoul who lives from hand to mouth, raising his young daughter alone. One day, he hears that there is a foreigner who will pay big money for a drive down to Gwangju city. Not knowing that he’s a German journalist with a hidden agenda, Man-seob takes the job.

    Markimdb: 8.2
    Genredrama, biography, history
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration01:30

    This special one-off drama travels back in time to 1963 to see how Doctor Who was first brought to the screen. Actor William Hartnell felt trapped by a succession of hard-man roles. Wannabe producer Verity Lambert was frustrated by the TV industry's glass ceiling. Both of them were to find unlikely hope and unexpected challenges in the form of a Saturday tea-time drama. Allied with a team of unusual but brilliant people, they went on to create the longest running science fiction series ever made.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genremelodrama, drama, biography, history
    CountryUSA
    Duration03:15

    An account of the revolutionary years of the legendary American journalist John Reed (1887-1920), who shared his adventurous professional life with his radical commitment to the socialist revolution in Russia, his dream of spreading its principles among the members of the American working class, and his troubled romantic relationship with the writer Louise Bryant (1885-1936).

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genredrama, biography, history
    CountryFrance, Germany, Netherlands
    Duration01:46

    This French-German-Dutch biopic on the life of 17th century Dutch master Rembrandt van Rijn is told in flashbacks from the point-of-view of the aged artist. Soon after establishing his career as a painter in Amsterdam, he marries the radiant Saskia. As he makes a name for himself, he can soon afford to buy a large house by teaching wealthy aristocrats how to paint. However, the couple's happiness is short-lived; Saskia dies soon after bearing their son, Titus. Crushed, van Rijn seeks comfort first in the arms of his maid Geertje and then with his second wife, Hendrickje, who gives birth to a daughter. In spite of his genius, van Rijn's determinedly eccentric behavior alienates the very members of the elite who were paying his bills. At one point, the artist's home and belongings, including many of his paintings, are seized and sold for humiliatingly low prices in a rigged auction.

    Markimdb: 8.2
    Genredrama, military, biography, history
    CountryFrance
    Duration05:13

    A massive 5 1/2 hour biopic of Napoleon, tracing his career from his schooldays (where a snowball fight is staged like a military campaign), his flight from Corsica, through the French Revolution (where a real storm is intercut with a political storm) and the Terror, culminating in his triumphant invasion of Italy in 1797 (the film stops there because it was intended to be part one of six, but director Abel Gance never raised the money to make the other five). The film's legendary reputation is due to the astonishing range of techniques that Gance uses to tell his story, culminating in the final twenty-minute triptych sequence, which alternates widescreen panoramas with complex multiple- image montages projected simultaneously on three screens.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genredrama, biography, history
    CountryBrazil

    The story of Francisco, a very simple and poor man whose dream was to see his children become country music stars, and who made all the efforts to make it happen.

    Markimdb: 7.7
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, biography
    CountryItaly, France, Belgium

    Simple Italian postman learns to love poetry while delivering mail to a famous poet; he uses this to woo local beauty Beatrice.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genredrama, biography, history, sport
    CountryCanada, Germany, France
    Duration02:40

    Based on the incredible true story of Jesse Owens, the legendary athletic superstar whose quest to become the greatest track and field athlete in history thrusts him onto the world stage of the 1936 Olympics, where he faces off against Adolf Hitler's vision of Aryan supremacy. Starring Stephan James, Jason Sudeikis, Jeremy Irons, Carice Van Houten and William Hurt - Race is an enthralling film about courage, determination, tolerance, and friendship, and an inspiring drama about one man's fight to become an Olympic legend.

    Markimdb: 8.1
    Genredrama, military, biography, history
    CountryLebanon, Kuwait, Morocco, United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia, Egypt
    Duration02:57

    Handsomely-mounted historical epic concerns the birth of the Islamic faith and the story of the prophet Mohammed.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genredrama, biography, history
    CountryUSA, France, Chile, China, Germany, United Kingdom
    Duration01:55

    An account of the days of First Lady, Jacqueline Kennedy, in the immediate aftermath of John F. Kennedy's assassination in 1963.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genredrama, adventure, biography, history
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:15

    Charles 'Slim' Lindbergh struggles to finance and design an airplane that will make his New York to Paris flight the first solo transatlantic crossing.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genredrama, biography, history
    CountryUSA, Canada
    Duration02:18

    Gary Hart, former Senator of Colorado, becomes the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1987. Hart's intelligence, charisma and idealism makes him popular with young voters, leaving him with a seemingly clear path to the White House. All that comes crashing down when allegations of an extramarital affair surface in the media, forcing the candidate to address a scandal that threatens to derail his campaign and personal life.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, biography, history
    CountryChile, Argentina, France, Spain, USA
    Duration02:00

    It’s 1948 and the Cold War has arrived in Chile. In the Congress, prominent Communist Senator and popular poet Pablo Neruda accuses the government of betraying the Party and is stripped of his parliamentary immunity by President González Videla. The Chief of Investigative Police instructs inspector Óscar Peluchonneau to arrest the poet. Neruda tries to escape from the country with his wife, the painter Delia del Carril, but they are forced to go underground.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genreaction, drama, military, biography, history
    CountryGermany, France, Austria
    Duration02:00

    The story of the final seven months in the life of German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel.

    Markimdb: 7.8
    Genredrama, biography, history
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration02:28

    King Henry II of England has trouble with the Church. When the Archbishop of Canterbury dies, he has a brilliant idea. Rather than appoint another pious cleric loyal to Rome and the Church, he will appoint his old drinking and wenching buddy, Thomas Becket, technically a deacon of the church, to the post. Unfortunately, Becket takes the job seriously and provides abler opposition to Henry.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genredrama, crime, biography, history
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:29

    Inspired by actual events in the late nineties when Hasidic Jews were recruited as mules to smuggle ecstasy from Europe into the United States.

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genredrama, biography, history
    CountryNorway
    Duration01:50

    The true story of Sonja Henie, one of the world's greatest athletes and the inventor of modern figure skating, who decides to go to Hollywood in 1936 to become a movie star.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genremelodrama, drama, biography, history
    CountryBrazil
    Duration01:58

    In 1951, New York poet Elizabeth Bishop travels to Rio de Janeiro to visit Mary, a college friend. The shy Elizabeth is overwhelmed by Brazilian sensuality. She is the antithesis to Mary’s dashing partner, architect Lota de Macedo Soares. Mary is jealous, but unconventional Lota is determined to have both women at all costs. This eternal triangle plays out against the backdrop of the military coup of 1964. Bishop’s moving poems are at the core of a film which lushly illustrates a crucial phase in the life of this influential Pulitzer prize-winning poet.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genredrama, biography, history
    CountryCzech Republic, USA

    The story of communist show-trial victim Milada Horáková. Horáková was one of the first victims of the communist regime in Czechoslovakia. She opposed the communist coup in 1948 but did not leave the country. She was arrested and tried for treason on fabricated charges in a show trial that was broadcast on the radio and shown in film clips. The film focuses on the time from 1945 to 1950 when the communists took over, but also goes back a little further in Horáková's life into the late 1930s

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genredrama, biography, history, sport
    CountryFinland, Estonia, Germany
    Duration01:43

    Fleeing from the Russian secret police, a young Estonian fencer is forced to return to his homeland, where he becomes a physical education teacher at a local school. The past however catches up and puts him in front of a difficult choice.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genredrama, biography, history
    CountryUSA
    Duration03:03

    An all-star cast powers this epic look at American President Richard M. Nixon, a man carrying the fate of the world on his shoulders while battling the self-destructive demands from within. Spanning his troubled boyhood in California to the shocking Watergate scandal that would end his presidency.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genredrama, music, biography, history
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Australia
    Duration02:05

    Author P.L. Travers travels from London to Hollywood as Walt Disney Pictures adapts her novel Mary Poppins for the big screen.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genredrama, biography, history
    CountryUnited Kingdom, France
    Duration02:35

      Based on true events about the foot soldiers of the early feminist movement who were forced underground to evade the State.

      Markimdb: 7.4
      Genredrama, biography, history
      CountryUSA, France, United Kingdom, Japan
      Duration01:33

      The story of journalist, Edward R Murrow's stand against Senator McCarthy's anti-communist witch-hunts in the early 1950s.

      Markimdb: 7.5
      Genredrama, biography, history
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, France
      Duration02:08

      "Selma," as in Alabama, the place where segregation in the South was at its worst, leading to a march that ended in violence, forcing a famous statement by President Lyndon B. Johnson that ultimately led to the signing of the Civil Rights Act.

      Mark
      Genredrama, biography, history
      CountryBelarus

      A story about the dramatic fate of the national poet of Belarus Yanka Kupala. The movie reveals the main milestones of the poet’s life and career, coinciding with the most tragic events of the 20th century.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genremelodrama, drama, biography, history
      CountryUSA, France, Japan
      Duration02:03

      The retelling of France's iconic but ill-fated queen, Marie Antoinette. From her betrothal and marriage to Louis XVI at 15 to her reign as queen at 19 and ultimately the fall of Versailles.

      Markimdb: 7.3
      Genredrama, biography, history
      CountryFrance, Canada, Czech Republic
      Duration01:54

      In occupied France, Maurice and Joseph, two young Jewish brothers left to their own devices demonstrate an incredible amount of cleverness, courage, and ingenuity to escape the enemy invasion and to try to reunite their family once again.

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genredrama, adventure, biography, history
      CountryNorway
      Duration02:05

      Based on the true story of polar explorer, Roald Amundsen, this movie covers his life and the dangerous way to the pole.

      Markimdb: 7.3
      Genredrama, biography
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:27

      The story of the five-day interview between Rolling Stone reporter David Lipsky and acclaimed novelist David Foster Wallace, which took place right after the 1996 publication of Wallace's groundbreaking epic novel, 'Infinite Jest.'




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