Movies Like First They Killed My Father

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The Killing Fields

1984·2h 22m·★ 7.8·Roland Joffé

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Grand Illusion

1937·1h 54m·★ 8.0·Jean Renoir

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Hotel Rwanda

2004·2h 2m·★ 8.1·Terry George

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Apocalypse Now

1979·2h 27m·★ 8.4·Francis Ford Coppola

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Andrei Rublev

1966·3h 3m·★ 8.0·Andrei Tarkovsky

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Cinderella Man

2005·2h 24m·★ 8.0·Ron Howard

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Birdman of Alcatraz

1962·2h 27m·★ 7.8·John Frankenheimer

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Schindler's List

1993·3h 15m·★ 9.0·Steven Spielberg

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The World Will Tremble

2025·1h 49m·★ 6.8·Lior Geller

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Casualties of War

1989·1h 53m·★ 7.1·Brian De Palma

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Sometimes in April

2005·2h 20m·★ 7.7·Raoul Peck

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Lee

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The Boy in the Woods

2023·1h 40m·★ 6.1·Rebecca Snow

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Heaven & Earth

1993·2h 20m·★ 6.8·Oliver Stone

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The Grey Zone

2001·1h 48m·★ 7.0·Tim Blake Nelson

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Bitter Harvest

2017·1h 43m·★ 6.0·George Mendeluk

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Beasts of No Nation

2015·2h 17m·★ 7.7·Cary Joji Fukunaga

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Breaking the Waves

1996·2h 39m·★ 7.8·Lars von Trier

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1987·2h 49m·★ 7.3·Jack Gold

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Natural Born Killers

1994·1h 59m·★ 7.2·Oliver Stone

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