Movies Like Silence

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

Ballad of Orin

1977·1h 58m·★ 7.3·Masahiro Shinoda

2 shared crewDir. Masahiro ShinodaDP: Kazuo Miyagawa

Gonza the Spearman

1986·2h 6m·★ 7.0·Masahiro Shinoda

2 shared crewDir. Masahiro ShinodaDP: Kazuo Miyagawa

Silence

2016·2h 41m·★ 7.2·Martin Scorsese

Themes: jesuits (society of jesus), religious persecution, 17th centuryFans also likedDrama & History

Samurai Spy

1965·1h 40m·★ 7.0·Masahiro Shinoda

3 shared cast incl. Rokkō Toura & Tetsuro TambaDir. Masahiro Shinoda

Assassination

1964·1h 44m·★ 7.1·Masahiro Shinoda

Both star Tetsuro Tamba & Eiji OkadaDir. Masahiro Shinoda

The Ten Commandments

1956·3h 40m·★ 7.9·Cecil B. DeMille

TMDB recommendsDrama & History

The White Dawn

1974·1h 50m·★ 7.0·Philip Kaufman

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Himiko

1974·1h 40m·★ 7.1·Masahiro Shinoda

Starring Yoshi KatōDir. Masahiro ShinodaDrama & History

Apocalypse Now

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

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The Wages of Fear

1953·2h 33m·★ 8.1·Henri-Georges Clouzot

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Blade Runner

1982·1h 58m·★ 8.1·Ridley Scott

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Ben-Hur

1959·3h 32m·★ 8.1·William Wyler

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Anatomy of a Murder

1959·2h 41m·★ 8.0·Otto Preminger

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All Quiet on the Western Front

1930·2h 13m·★ 8.1·Lewis Milestone

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The Devils

1971·1h 52m·★ 7.7·Ken Russell

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Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

2000·2h·★ 7.9·Ang Lee

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Jackie Brown

1997·2h 34m·★ 7.5·Quentin Tarantino

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The Physician

2013·2h 35m·★ 7.2·Philipp Stölzl

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Les Misérables

1998·2h 14m·★ 7.4·Bille August

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Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages

1916·3h 17m·★ 7.6·D.W. Griffith

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How Good Is Silence?

Ratings across IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic, and TMDB, plus our verdict.