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10 Best Movies Like 1870

If you loved 1870, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Fuori

Fuori

2025★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to 1870 for fans of Drama & History. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Rome. The 1980s. After the magnum opus The Art of Joy she has been working on for a decade is rejected by the Italian publishing world, writer Goliarda Sapienza commits a desperate...

#2
The Scarlet and the Black

The Scarlet and the Black

1983★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to 1870 for fans of Drama & History. 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...

#3
1900

1900

1976★ 7.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to 1870 for fans of Drama & History. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The epic tale of a class struggle in twentieth century Italy, as seen through the eyes of two childhood friends on opposing sides....

#4
The Two Popes

The Two Popes

2019★ 7.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to 1870 for fans of Drama & History. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Frustrated with the direction of the church, Cardinal Bergoglio requests permission to retire in 2012 from Pope Benedict. Instead, facing scandal and self-doubt, the introspective ...

#5
Quo Vadis

Quo Vadis

1951★ 7.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to 1870 for fans of Drama & History. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

After fierce Roman commander Marcus Vinicius becomes infatuated with beautiful Christian hostage Lygia, he begins to question the tyrannical leadership of the despotic emperor Nero...

#6
Munich – The Edge of War

Munich – The Edge of War

2021★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to 1870 for fans of Drama & History. 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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