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10 Best Movies Like I Take it Upon Myself

If you loved I Take it Upon Myself, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
The Conquest of Siberia

The Conquest of Siberia

2019★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to I Take it Upon Myself for fans of History. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Ivan Demarin, a young officer of Peter the First’s new guards, follows the Tsar’s order and goes to the frontier town of Tobolsk, deep in the Siberian forest. There Ivan falls in l...

#2
The Barber of Siberia

The Barber of Siberia

1998★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to I Take it Upon Myself for fans of History. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Douglas is a foreign entrepreneur, who ventures to Russia in 1885 with dreams of selling a new, experimental steam-driven timber harvester in the wilds of Siberia. Jane is his assi...

#3
Unforgiven

Unforgiven

2018★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to I Take it Upon Myself for fans of History. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Based on true and tragic events in the life of Vitaly Kaloyev, an architect and family man. In 2002, his wife and children die in a mid-air collision along with 70 other people, m...

#4
Siberiade

Siberiade

1979★ 7.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to I Take it Upon Myself for fans of History. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The story about a very small god-forgotten village in Siberia reflects the history of Russia from the beginning of the century till the early 1980s. Three generations try to find t...

#5
Kalashnikov AK-47

Kalashnikov AK-47

2020★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to I Take it Upon Myself for fans of History. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A Russian military propaganda film about the tank commander Kalashnikov, severely injured in battle in 1941. The accident leaves him incapacitated and unable to return to the front...

#6
Dear Comrades!

Dear Comrades!

2020★ 7.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to I Take it Upon Myself for fans of History. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

When the communist government raises food prices in 1962, the rebellious workers from the small industrial town of Novocherkassk go on strike. The massacre which then ensues is see...

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