
10 Best Movies Like Barefoot Gen
If you loved Barefoot Gen, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

A Son
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Barefoot Gen for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Tunisia, summer 2011. The holiday to the South of the country ends in disaster for Fares, Meriem and their 10-year-old son Aziz, when he is accidentally shot in an ambush. His inju...

The Bremen Town Musicians
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Barefoot Gen for fans of Animation & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
The adventures of the wandering musicians from Bremen such as Troubadour, Donkey, Dog, Cat and Rooster. In one of the towns Troubadour falls in love with a Princess and makes up a ...

Barefoot Gen 2
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Barefoot Gen for fans of Animation & Drama & War. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Three years after the Hiroshima bombing, a teenager helps a group of orphans to survive and find their new life....

Mifune: The Last Samurai
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Barefoot Gen for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.
An account of the life and work of legendary Japanese actor Toshirō Mifune (1920-97), the most prominent actor of the Golden Age of Japanese cinema....

Hooper
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Barefoot Gen for fans of Action. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.
Legendary stunt man Sonny Hooper remains one of the top men in his field, but due to too many stressful impacts to the spine and the need to pop painkillers several times a day, he...

When the Day Breaks
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Barefoot Gen for fans of Animation. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.
A rooster has his last biscuit for breakfast and goes grocery shopping. A pig prepares her breakfast (potato peelings, with the potatoes thrown in the trash) and discovers she need...