15 Movies Like Winter in Wartime

Loved Winter in Wartime? Based on its unique Cinema DNA—including its pacing, themes, and emotional tone—we've curated the ultimate list of what you should watch next.

Heresy
#1

Heresy

In a medieval Dutch village, a young woman is caught between her faith, fanatic townsfolk and the dark forces lurking in the woods.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Winter in Wartime.

Girl
#2

Girl

A promising teenage dancer enrolls at a prestigious ballet school while grappling with her gender dysphoria.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Winter in Wartime.

Schindler's List
#3

Schindler's List

The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Winter in Wartime.

Swingers
#4

Swingers

Despite Diana's insecure nature, she and her husband Julian agree with the idea to sexually experiment with another couple. They put out an ad on the net to which the well experienced Alex and Timo react. We follow Diana and Julian as they prepare for the arrival of Alex and Timo, who they have invited to their home for the weekend. Diana is nervous. As soon as she is confronted with the self-confident and ravishingly sexy Alex, her insecurity increases even more. Timo seems disinterested, a sharp contrast to the boyish excitement of Julian. But as night falls and their sexual exploration begins, we notice Timo may not be as casual as he initially seemed and Diana on the other hand contains hidden strength. And so we realize there's more to 'Swingers' than just sex. Swingers: could your relationship stand the test?

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Winter in Wartime.

Zillion
#5

Zillion

It's 1997. Frank Verstraeten, a computer genius with a nose for business, a fascination for nightlife and an unhealthy urge to prove himself, only wants one thing: his own disco that not only outperforms the competition but simply humiliates it. The futuristic mega discotheque Zillion is a fact and Frank turns from computer dealer to the pivotal figure of the Antwerp nightlife. He parades with the most beautiful women in Belgium and forges an alliance with Dennis Black Magic, the porn king who provides the spicy extras. Unfortunately, beautiful songs don't last long either.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Winter in Wartime.

Drawn Out Love
#6

Drawn Out Love

Felix has been raised by his grandmother and has never met his father. His father Johan, doesn't even know he exists. Felix decides to become a regular in his father's bar in Amsterdam to secretly learn more about the man he has never known.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Winter in Wartime.

Two Queens and One Consort
#7

Two Queens and One Consort

At the deathbed of his used-to-be militant mother an older man looks back at his childhood, when he was in love with his sensual aunt Coleta.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Winter in Wartime.

Young Hearts
#8

Young Hearts

14-year-old Elias increasingly feels like an outsider in his village. When he meets his new neighbour of the same age, Alexander, Elias is confronted with his burgeoning sexuality.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Winter in Wartime.

We
#9

We

During a scorching summer in a Belgian-Dutch border village, eight teenagers play games of discovery to break the listless monotony. They challenge each other and themselves and pretty soon, their sexual curiosity starts to blur the lines between right and wrong. As innocence is crushed in depraved games and sexual exploitation, the teenagers soon turn into ruthless predators.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Winter in Wartime.

Defiance
#10

Defiance

Based on a true story, during World War II, four Jewish brothers escape their Nazi-occupied homeland of West Belarus in Poland and join the Soviet partisans to combat the Nazis. The brothers begin the rescue of roughly 1,200 Jews still trapped in the ghettos of Poland.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Winter in Wartime.

Naked
#11

Naked

Eight-year-old Erik's mother takes him to the sauna for the first time in his life. There, he has to disrobe and sees lots of naked men and women around him. He feels very uncomfortable at first but then he seems to enjoy it.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Winter in Wartime.

Black Book
#12

Black Book

Israel, 1956: Jewish teacher Rachel Stein rather unexpectedly meets an old friend at the kibbutz. It brings back memories of her experiences in the Netherlands during the war, memories of betrayal. In September 1944, Rachel's hiding place is bombed by Allied troops; she makes contact with a resistance member and joins a group of Jews to be smuggled across the Biesbosch to the freed South Netherlands. Only Rachel escapes a massacre by patrol Germans, and is rescued by a resistance group under the leadership of Gerben Kuipers, whose son is captured trying to smuggle weapons. Kuipers asks Rachel to seduce SS-hauptsturmführer Ludwig Müntze, a mission that she will soon learn that the boat attack wasn't a coincidence.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Winter in Wartime.

The Northerners
#13

The Northerners

A black comedy set in the 1960s in a small Netherlands community, populated by a cast of eccentrics, all of whom hold a range of sexual obsessions and frustrated desires.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Winter in Wartime.

Our Girls
#14

Our Girls

A near-fatal accident involving their teen daughters upends the lives of two families as they consider how far they're willing to go to save their child.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Winter in Wartime.

Cross of Iron
#15

Cross of Iron

It is 1943, and the German army—ravaged and demoralised—is hastily retreating from the Russian front. In the midst of the madness, conflict brews between the aristocratic yet ultimately pusillanimous Captain Stransky and the courageous Corporal Steiner. Stransky is the only man who believes that the Third Reich is still vastly superior to the Russian army. However, within his pompous persona lies a quivering coward who longs for the Iron Cross so that he can return to Berlin a hero. Steiner, on the other hand is cynical, defiantly non-conformist and more concerned with the safety of his own men rather than the horde of military decorations offered to him by his superiors.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Winter in Wartime.