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10 Best Movies Like The Performance

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

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#1
The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler

The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler

2009★ 7.3

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

Irena Sendler is a Catholic social worker who has sympathized with the Jews since her childhood, when her physician father died of typhus contracted while treating poor Jewish pati...

#2
The World Will Tremble

The World Will Tremble

2025★ 7.6

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

The incredible, untold true story of how a group of prisoners attempt a seemingly impossible escape from the first Nazi death camp in order to provide the first eyewitness account ...

#3
The Grey Zone

The Grey Zone

2001★ 6.6

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

The story of Auschwitz's twelfth Sonderkommando — one of the thirteen consecutive "Special Squads" of Jewish prisoners placed by the Nazis in the excruciating moral dilemma of assi...

#4
Adam Resurrected

Adam Resurrected

2008★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Performance 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 ...

#5
Freedom Writers

Freedom Writers

2007★ 7.9

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

A young teacher inspires her class of at-risk students to learn tolerance, apply themselves, and pursue education beyond high school....

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Conspiracy

Conspiracy

2001★ 7.3

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

At the Wannsee Conference on January 20, 1942, senior Nazi officials meet to determine the manner in which the so-called "Final Solution to the Jewish Question" can be best impleme...

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