Dynamic Watchlist Hub: May 09, 2026

10 Best Movies Like Phoenix

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

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#1
Alone in Berlin

Alone in Berlin

2016★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Phoenix 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’...

#2
Woman in Gold

Woman in Gold

2015★ 7.3

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

Maria Altmann, an octogenarian Jewish refugee, takes on the government to recover artwork she believes rightfully belongs to her family....

#3
The Book Thief

The Book Thief

2013★ 7.5

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

While subjected to the horrors of WWII Germany, young Liesel finds solace by stealing books and sharing them with others. Under the stairs in her home, a Jewish refugee is being sh...

#4
Despair

Despair

1978★ 6.5

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

Berlin, 1930, during the rise of Nazism. Hermann Hermann, a Russian emigrant and chocolate manufacturer, married to the capricious Lydia, loses his temper more and more every day w...

#5
The Zone of Interest

The Zone of Interest

2023★ 7.0

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

The commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolf Höss, and his wife Hedwig, strive to build a dream life for their family in a house and garden next to the camp....

#6
The Boy in the Woods

The Boy in the Woods

2023★ 6.9

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

The remarkable true-life survival story of a Jewish boy hiding and being hunted in the forests of Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe, based on Maxwell Smart's memoir....

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