Top 20 movies like Youth of Athens
Top 20 Movies like Youth of Athens
- 1. Escape from Sobibor
- 2. Tobruk
- 3. The Silent Enemy
- 4. Mrs. Miniver
- 5. The Lamp Still Burns
- 6. All Things Fair
- 7. A Dog Barking at the Moon
- 8. Fat Man and Little Boy
- 9. Elysium
- 10. Sea Raiders
- 11. The Man Who Loves
- 12. Memphis Belle in Color
- 13. Shangrao Concentration Camp
- 14. The Man in the Photograph
- 15. Devils on the Doorstep
- 16. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
- 17. Come and See
- 18. Gravida
- 19. The Hill
- 20. A Brand New Life
1. Escape from Sobibor
The true story of WWII's notorious Sobibor Nazi death camp, where a courageous inmate orchestrates and leads the escape of over 300 prisoners.
It has an average vote of 7.263 on TMDB.
2. Tobruk
In September 1942, the German Afrika Korps under Rommel have successfully pushed the Allies back into Egypt. A counter-attack is planned, for which the fuel dumps at Tobruk are a critical impediment. In order to aid the attack, a group of British commandos and German Jews make their way undercover through 800 miles of desert, to destroy the fuel dumps starving the Germans of fuel.
It has an average vote of 6.13 on TMDB.
3. The Silent Enemy
The Mediterranean, 1941/42 - Axis forces are using frogmen and manned torpedoes to attack previously impregnable harbours. The Allied forces need to come up with something to answer this threat, which they find in the form of Lt. Lionel "Buster" Crabb.
It has an average vote of 5.4 on TMDB.
4. Mrs. Miniver
Middle-class housewife Kay Miniver deals with petty problems. She and her husband Clem watch her Oxford-educated son Vin court Carol Beldon, the charming granddaughter of the local nobility as represented by Lady Beldon. Then the war comes and Vin joins the RAF.
It has an average vote of 7.016 on TMDB.
5. The Lamp Still Burns
A tribute to the important work of female nurses during World War II.
It has an average vote of 5.4 on TMDB.
6. All Things Fair (Lust och fägring stor)
Stig is a 15-year-old pupil of 37-year-old teacher Viola. He is attracted by her beauty and maturity while she is drawn to him by his youth and innocence, a godsent relief from her drunk and miserable husband.
It has an average vote of 6.508 on TMDB.
7. A Dog Barking at the Moon (再见 南屏晚钟)
Coming back to her broken family, pregnant writer Huang Xiaoyu and her French husband, Benjamin, finds herself trapped between her cult brainwashed mother, Li Jiumei, and her secretly homosexual father, Huang Tao.
It has an average vote of 5.8 on TMDB.
8. Fat Man and Little Boy
Assigned to oversee the development of the atomic bomb, Gen. Leslie Groves is a stern military man determined to have the project go according to plan. He selects J. Robert Oppenheimer as the key scientist on the top-secret operation, but the two men clash fiercely on a number of issues. Despite their frequent conflicts, Groves and Oppenheimer ultimately push ahead with two bomb designs — the bigger "Fat Man" and the more streamlined "Little Boy."
It has an average vote of 6.217 on TMDB.
9. Elysium (Elysium)
Film about the Holocaust. A Jewish family is allowed to keep the flat they have always lived in and to live a relatively normal life. One day their 10-year old son disappears. He has been sent to a deportation camp which seems like paradise except that the inmates are being used for medical experiments.
It has an average vote of 6.7 on TMDB.
10. Sea Raiders
A bunch of waterfront youths pursue the Sea Raiders, a gang of saboteurs.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
11. The Man Who Loves (L'uomo che ama)
A man is broken hearted at the loss of his lover, then later visits the same pain on the next woman with whom he becomes involved.
It has an average vote of 5.8 on TMDB.
12. Memphis Belle in Color
In January 1942, the U.S. military created a new bomber command, the Eighth Air Force, and sent a small contingent of men overseas to loosen the Nazis' grip on Europe. The command's star player was the B-17, a fast, heavily armed aircraft that changed the course of World War II. Witness them take on the mighty German Luftwaffe over enemy skies. Discover the story of how one B-17--the Memphis Belle--and its crew lifted the spirits of a nation and became a symbol of American prowess in defense of freedom.
It has an average vote of 8 on TMDB.
13. Shangrao Concentration Camp (上饶集中营)
Shangrao Concentration Camp is set in the hellish confines of a Guomindang prison, where the brutal officials try to force two female Communist prisoners to reveal their leader's identity and location.
14. The Man in the Photograph (Čovjek sa fotografije)
Pro-Nazi police arrests an ordinary man from the street because he is a dead ringer for a legendary resistance leader.
It has an average vote of 5 on TMDB.
15. Devils on the Doorstep (鬼子来了)
During the Japanese occupation of China, two prisoners are dumped in a peasant's home in a small town. The owner is bullied into keeping the prisoners until the next New Year, at which time they will be collected. The village leaders convene to interrogate the prisoners. The townspeople then struggle to accommodate the prisoners. One is a bellicose Japanese nationalist, the other a nervous translator. Will the townspeople manage to keep the prisoners until the New Year?
It has an average vote of 8.157 on TMDB.
16. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
General Candy, who's overseeing an English squad in 1943, is a veteran leader who doesn't have the respect of the men he's training and is considered out-of-touch with what's needed to win the war. But it wasn't always this way. Flashing back to his early career in the Boer War and World War I, we see a dashing young officer whose life has been shaped by three different women, and by a lasting friendship with a German soldier.
It has an average vote of 7.522 on TMDB.
17. Come and See (Иди и смотри)
The invasion of a village in Byelorussia by German forces sends young Florya into the forest to join the weary Resistance fighters, against his family's wishes. There he meets a girl, Glasha, who accompanies him back to his village. On returning home, Florya finds his family and fellow peasants massacred. His continued survival amidst the brutal debris of war becomes increasingly nightmarish, a battle between despair and hope.
It has an average vote of 8.3 on TMDB.
18. Gravida
A woman's desire for companionship prevents her from being completely honest with her potential lover.
It has an average vote of 10 on TMDB.
19. The Hill
North Africa, World War II. British soldiers on the brink of collapse push beyond endurance to struggle up a brutal incline. It's not a military objective. It's The Hill, a manmade instrument of torture, a tower of sand seared by a white-hot sun. And the troops' tormentors are not the enemy, but their own comrades-at-arms.
It has an average vote of 7.509 on TMDB.
20. A Brand New Life
After 18 years of marriage, a middle-aged couple has to face the prospect of having their first child.