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10 Best Movies Like Anne Frank's Diary

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

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#1
Where Is Anne Frank

Where Is Anne Frank

2021★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Anne Frank's Diary for fans of Animation & History & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The film follows the journey of Kitty, the imaginary friend to whom Anne Frank dedicated her diary. A fiery teenager, Kitty wakes up in the near future in Anne Frank's house in Ams...

#2
#AnneFrank. Parallel Stories

#AnneFrank. Parallel Stories

2019★ 7.0

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

One single Anne Frank moves us more than the countless others who suffered just as she did but whose faces have remained in the shadows-Primo Levi. The Oscar®-winning Helen Mirren ...

#3
The Scarlet and the Black

The Scarlet and the Black

1983★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Anne Frank's Diary for fans of History & Drama & War. 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...

#4
The One That Got Away

The One That Got Away

1957★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Anne Frank's Diary for fans of Drama & War. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Based on the true story of Oberleutnant Franz von Werra, the only German prisoner of war captured in Britain to escape back to Germany during the Second World War....

#5
The Boy in the Woods

The Boy in the Woods

2023★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Anne Frank's Diary for fans of History & Drama & War. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The remarkable true-life survival story of a Jewish boy hiding and being hunted in the forests of Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe, based on Maxwell Smart's memoir....

#6
Waiting for Anya

Waiting for Anya

2020★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Anne Frank's Diary for fans of Drama & War. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

During the harrows of WWII, Jo, a young shepherd along with the help of the widow Horcada, helps to smuggle Jewish children across the border from southern France into Spain....

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