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10 Best Movies Like Der öffentliche Ankläger

If you loved Der öffentliche Ankläger, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Qwerty

Qwerty

2012★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Der öffentliche Ankläger for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The movie is a fictionalized account of a disgruntled cop who has been wrongly implicated in a torture video that went viral. It begins on his last night of duty, as he is about to...

#2
Grass

Grass

2018★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Der öffentliche Ankläger for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Ahreum sits in a small café, typing on her laptop. Around her, customers enact various dramas from their lives. Is she writing what she hears or is she hearing what's been written?...

#3
The German Lesson

The German Lesson

2019★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Der öffentliche Ankläger for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In a small North German village a drama played out during and shortly after the Second World War about duty versus individual conscience and morality....

#4
Brink of Life

Brink of Life

1958★ 7.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Der öffentliche Ankläger for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

This intimate chamber drama, set in a maternity ward, follows the emotional crises of three women as they grapple with motherhood....

#5
My Friend Ivan Lapshin

My Friend Ivan Lapshin

1985★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Der öffentliche Ankläger for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Russian provincial town in the middle of the 1930s Stalin's Great Purge. Ivan Lapshin, the head of the local police, does what he has to do. And he does it well....

#6
Majority

Majority

2010★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Der öffentliche Ankläger for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A middle class young man rebels against his father’s brutish authority and seeks a rough romance with a woman of ethnic minority. Yuce’s moral tale draws from the example of today’...