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10 Best Movies Like Die Todesautomatik

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

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#1
Two Lives

Two Lives

2012★ 6.6

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

Europe 1990, the Berlin wall has just crumbled: Katrine, raised in East Germany, but now living in Norway for the last 20 years, is a “war child”; the result of a love relationship...

#2
The Tunnel

The Tunnel

2001★ 7.1

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

Inspired by true events, Olympic swimmer Harry Melchior defects from East Germany in the 1960s and hatches a daring plot to help his sister and others flee East Berlin through a 14...

#3
Funeral in Berlin

Funeral in Berlin

1966★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Die Todesautomatik for fans of Thriller. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Colonel Stok, a Soviet intelligence officer responsible for security at the Berlin Wall, appears to want to defect but the evidence is contradictory. Stok wants the British to hand...

#4
Balloon

Balloon

2018★ 7.5

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

Two families attempt a daredevil plan to escape the GDR with a homemade hot air balloon, but it crashes just before the border. The Stasi finds traces of this attempt to escape and...

#5
As We Were Dreaming

As We Were Dreaming

2015★ 6.0

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

Andreas Dresen's adaptation of Clemens Meyer's novel about a group of East German friends right after the fall of the Wall....

#6
Alone in Berlin

Alone in Berlin

2016★ 6.7

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

Berlin in June of 1940. While Nazi propaganda celebrates the regime’s victory over France, a kitchen-cum-living room in Prenzlauer Berg is filled with grief. Anna and Otto Quangel’...

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