Movies Like Mother Night

Ranked by shared directors, cast, themes, genre, and era — not just generic recommendations.

The Chocolate War

1988·1h 40m·★ 6.6·Keith Gordon

2 shared crewDir. Keith GordonDP: Tom Richmond

Waking the Dead

2000·1h 45m·★ 6.4·Keith Gordon

2 shared crewDir. Keith GordonDP: Tom Richmond

The Singing Detective

2003·1h 49m·★ 5.4·Keith Gordon

2 shared crewDir. Keith GordonDP: Tom Richmond

A Midnight Clear

1992·1h 48m·★ 7.1·Keith Gordon

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Saving Private Ryan

1998·2h 49m·★ 8.6·Steven Spielberg

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Judgment at Nuremberg

1961·3h 11m·★ 8.3·Stanley Kramer

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Grand Illusion

1937·1h 54m·★ 8.0·Jean Renoir

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The Bridge on the River Kwai

1957·2h 42m·★ 8.1·David Lean

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Night and Fog

1956·32m·★ 8.6·Alain Resnais

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M

1931·1h 50m·★ 8.3·Fritz Lang

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Truth & Treason

2025·2h 1m·★ 7.1·Matt Whitaker

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The Best Years of Our Lives

1946·2h 51m·★ 8.1·William Wyler

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Ali: Fear Eats the Soul

1974·1h 33m·★ 8.0·Rainer Werner Fassbinder

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Nuremberg

2025·2h 29m·★ 7.4·James Vanderbilt

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Enemy at the Gates

2001·2h 11m·★ 7.5·Jean-Jacques Annaud

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Closely Watched Trains

1966·1h 33m·★ 7.6·Jiří Menzel

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The Scarlet and the Black

1983·2h 23m·★ 7.5·Jerry London

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The Murderers Are Among Us

1946·1h 21m·★ 7.4·Wolfgang Staudte

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Munich – The Edge of War

2021·2h 10m·★ 6.8·Christian Schwochow

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Walk on Water

2004·1h 43m·★ 7.3·Eytan Fox

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How Good Is Mother Night?

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