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10 Best Movies Like Süss, the Jew

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

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#1
RKO 281

RKO 281

1999★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Süss, the Jew for fans of Drama & History. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In 1939, boy-wonder Orson Welles leaves New York, where he has succeeded in radio and theater, and, hired by RKO Pictures, moves to Hollywood with the purpose of making his first f...

#2
The Pawnbroker

The Pawnbroker

1965★ 7.1

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

A Jewish pawnbroker, a victim of Nazi persecution, loses all faith in his fellow man until he realizes too late the tragedy of his actions....

#3
The Boy in the Woods

The Boy in the Woods

2023★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Süss, the Jew for fans of Drama & History. 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....

#4
Mother Night

Mother Night

1996★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Süss, the Jew for fans of Drama & History. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

An American spy behind the lines during WWII serves as a Nazi propagandist, a role he cannot escape in his future life as he can never reveal his real role in the war....

#5
Apt Pupil

Apt Pupil

1998★ 6.5

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

One day in 1984, Todd Bowden, a brilliant high school boy fascinated by the history of Nazism, stumbles across an old man whose appearance resembles that of Kurt Dussander, a wante...

#6
Adam Resurrected

Adam Resurrected

2008★ 6.1

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

After again attempting to commit murder, a Jewish man with a mysterious past and extraordinary intelligence, charisma, and body control returns to an insane asylum, where he makes ...

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