Dynamic Watchlist Hub: May 09, 2026

10 Best Movies Like The Restless Night

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

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#1
The Scarlet and the Black

The Scarlet and the Black

1983★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Restless Night for fans of History & War & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Fr. Hugh O'Flaherty is a Vatican official in 1943-45 who has been hiding downed pilots, escaped prisoners of war, and Italian resistance families. His activities become so large th...

#2
Overlord

Overlord

1975★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Restless Night for fans of History & War & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

During World War II, a young man is called up and, with an increasing sense of foreboding, undertakes his army training ready for D-Day, June 6th, 1944....

#3
God on Trial

God on Trial

2008★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Restless Night for fans of History & War & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In the Jewish tradition of arguing with God, Jewish prisoners in Auschwitz decide to put God on Trial....

#4
The Last Valley

The Last Valley

1971★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Restless Night for fans of History & War & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

People in a small German village in the last valley to remain untouched by the devastating Thirty Years' War try to exist in peace with a group of soldiers occupying the valley....

#5
Bonhoeffer: Pastor. Spy. Assassin

Bonhoeffer: Pastor. Spy. Assassin

2024★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Restless Night for fans of History & War & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

As the world teeters on the brink of annihilation, Dietrich Bonhoeffer joins a deadly plot to assassinate Hitler, risking his faith and fate to save millions of Jews from genocide....

#6
Munich - The Edge of War

Munich - The Edge of War

2021★ 6.9

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

At the tense 1938 Munich Conference, former friends who now work for opposing governments become reluctant spies racing to expose a Nazi secret....

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