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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
Ethel & Ernest

Ethel & Ernest

2016★ 7.5

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

This hand drawn animated film, based on the award winning graphic novel by Raymond Briggs, is an intimate and affectionate depiction of the life and times of his parents, two ordin...

#2
Halo Legends

Halo Legends

2010★ 7.4

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

The universe of the Halo video game series is expanded in seven short animated films from Japan's greatest anime directors and studios....

#3
A Self-Made Hero

A Self-Made Hero

1996★ 6.9

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

Set in France at the end of World War II Albert Dehousse finds out his father wasn't a war hero and his mother is a collaborator....

#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 Secret of Santa Vittoria

The Secret of Santa Vittoria

1970★ 6.9

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

During World War II, Italian villagers hide their wine from the German army....

#6
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 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...

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