18 best movies like Streets of Yesterday (1989)

List of the best movies like Streets of Yesterday (1989): Zaytoun, Esau, The Divide, The Operative, The Kindergarten Teacher, Triple Cross, The State of Things, Breakthrough, Landscape in the Mist, The Cassandra Crossing.

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Markimdb: 6.6
Genrethriller, drama, adventure, military
CountryUnited Kingdom, Israel, France

Beirut, 1982: a young Palestinian refugee and an Israeli fighter pilot form a tentative bond in their attempt to make their way across war-torn Lebanon back to their home.

Markimdb: 5.2
Genredrama
CountryRussia, Israel, United Kingdom

A 40-year-old writer returns to his family house where he was raised and that he escaped after half a lifetime - to face his brother who stayed instead, inherited their family bakery and married the woman who they both loved.

Markimdb: 5.8
Genrehorror, fantastic, fantastic, thriller, thriller, drama, drama
CountryUSA, Germany, Canada, France
Duration02:02

Survivors of a nuclear attack are grouped together for days in the basement of their apartment building, where fear and dwindling supplies wear away at their dynamic.

Markimdb: 5.7
Genreaction, thriller, drama, detective
CountryFrance, Israel, Germany, USA, United Kingdom
Duration02:02

A young Western woman is recruited by the Mossad to go undercover in Tehran where she becomes entangled in a complex triangle with her handler and her subject.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genredrama
CountryUSA, Israel, United Kingdom, Canada
Duration01:36

Lisa Spinelli is a Staten Island teacher who is unusually devoted to her students. When she discovers one of her five-year-olds is a prodigy, she becomes fascinated with the boy, ultimately risking her family and freedom to nurture his talent.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genreaction, thriller, drama, adventure, military
CountryUnited Kingdom, France, West Germany
Duration02:06

A safecracker turns double agent during WWII.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genredrama
CountryWest Germany, Portugal, France, Spain, Netherlands, United Kingdom, USA
Duration02:01

On location in Portugal, a film crew runs out of film while making their own version of Roger Corman's The Day the World Ended (1956) . The producer is nowhere to be found and director Munro attempts to find him in hopes of being able to finish the film.

Markimdb: 5
Genreaction, drama, military
CountryUnited Kingdom, West Germany
Duration01:46

Starting in late May 1944, during the German retreat on the Eastern Front, Captain Stransky (Helmut Griem) orders Sergeant Steiner (Richard Burton) to blow up a railway tunnel to prevent Russian forces from using it. Steiner's platoon fails in its mission by coming up against a Russian tank. Steiner then takes a furlough to Paris just as the Allies launch their invasion of Normandy.

Markimdb: 8
Genredrama
CountryGreece, West Germany, Italy, United Kingdom, France
Duration02:07

Two children search for their father who is supposed to live in Germany. Their obsession for this father figure will take them to the boundaries between childhood and adolescence.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genrethriller, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom, Italy, West Germany, USA
Duration02:09

Passengers on a European train have been exposed to a deadly disease, and nobody will let them off the train.

Markimdb: 4.3
Genreaction, drama, adventure
CountryUSA, United Kingdom, South Africa, Israel
Duration01:47

An adventurer (Hamilton) decides to go in search of the lost city in the Amazon jungle. A motley crew of other people with reasons of their own decide to join him for the wealth of the lost city. But to their horror they find out that they have bit off more than they can chew. What with a nazi doctor still doing his experiments on people in the same place.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genredrama, crime
CountryGermany, Israel, United Kingdom
Duration02:04

Ajami is an area of Tel Aviv in Israel where Arabs, Palestinians, Jews and Christians live together in a tense atmosphere. Omar, an Israeli Arab, struggles to save his family from a gang of extortionists. He also courts a beautiful Christian girl: Hadir. Malek, an illegal Palestinian worker, tries to collect enough money to pay for his mother's operation. Dando, an Israeli cop, does his utmost to find his missing brother who may have been killed by Palestinians.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genredrama, biography, history, sport
CountryFrance, Israel, Bulgaria, United Kingdom
Duration01:50

Victor Perez was a Jewish boxer who became world flyweight champion in 1931 and 1932, but was transported to Auschwitz concentration camp when Paris fell to the Nazi s in 1943. While there he was forced into slave labour and made to participate in violent boxing matches for the amusement of the Nazi guards. Surviving Auschwitz tells Victors astonishing, harrowing, brutal and incredibly moving true story.

Markimdb: 5.6
Genredrama, military
CountryUnited Kingdom, Israel, USA
Duration01:49

A Jewish woman is recruited to help track down a German commander who was her former husband.

Markimdb: 6
Genredrama, history
CountryFrance, United Kingdom, Italy, Greece, Israel, USA

A tale of friendship between two men, one Jewish and the other Arab, as the state of Israel is being created.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genredrama, documentary
CountryUnited Kingdom, Italy, Israel, Peru, USA

James gives himself 12 months before he has 'a license to kill himself', he sets off to the amazon rainforest with hopes of finding a shaman who can save his life.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genrethriller, drama
CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Hungary, Israel
Duration01:53

    Rachel Singer is a former Mossad agent who tried to capture a notorious Nazi war criminal – the Surgeon of Birkenau – in a secret Israeli mission that ended with his death on the streets of East Berlin. Now, 30 years later, a man claiming to be the doctor has surfaced, and Rachel must return to Eastern Europe to uncover the truth. Overwhelmed by haunting memories of her younger self and her two fellow agents, the still-celebrated heroine must relive the trauma of those events and confront the debt she has incurred.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genredrama, military, biography
    CountryNetherlands, West Germany, United Kingdom, Italy

    In 1939, Charlotte Salomon leaves Berlin to seek refuge at her grandparents' villa in the south of France. A little later, war breaks out, and Charlotte must, besides forgetting all she left behind, deal with her grandmother's depression, and her mother's suicide. To fight despair, Charlotte starts to paint, producing over one thousand images. "Is my life real, or is it theater?" This is the title she gives her body of work, which highlights her former life in Berlin. She finds herself though her art, but in 1943 is deported to Germany and Auschwitz.




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