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10 Best Movies Like Forbidden Games

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

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#1
Au Revoir les Enfants

Au Revoir les Enfants

1987★ 7.5

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

Au revoir les enfants tells a heartbreaking story of friendship and devastating loss concerning two boys living in Nazi-occupied France. At a provincial Catholic boarding school, t...

#2
The House by the Sea

The House by the Sea

2017★ 6.5

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

By a little bay near Marseille lies a picturesque villa owned by an old man. His three children have gathered by his side for his last days. It’s time for them to weigh up what the...

#3
A Bag of Marbles

A Bag of Marbles

2017★ 7.8

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

At the beginning of the 1940s, in a France occupied by Nazi forces, lived the Jewish Joffo family. Happy and tight-knit, she sees her future darken when all members of the family a...

#4
The Island on Bird Street

The Island on Bird Street

1997★ 7.1

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

Alex is an 11-year old boy who, during WWII, hides in the Jewish ghetto from Nazis after all his relatives have been sent to the concentration camp. The movie portrays the ghetto t...

#5
Monsieur Batignole

Monsieur Batignole

2002★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Forbidden Games for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

In 1942, in an occupied Paris, the apolitical grocer Edmond Batignole lives with his wife and daughter in a small apartment in the building of his grocery. When his future son-in-l...

#6
Surviving with Wolves

Surviving with Wolves

2007★ 6.2

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

In 1942, the young Jewish girl Misha, her Russian mother Gerusha and her German father Reuven hide from the Germans in a small house in Ardennes, Belgium. Misha is very connected t...

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