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10 Best Movies Like Marie's Children

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

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#1
Le Silence de la mer

Le Silence de la mer

1949★ 7.5

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

In a small town in WWII France, a German officer is billeted in the house of an elderly man and his niece who resist the occupation by refusing to interact with him, even as he spe...

#2
The Scarlet and the Black

The Scarlet and the Black

1983★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Marie's Children for fans of Drama & TV Movie & 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...

#3
The Secret of Santa Vittoria

The Secret of Santa Vittoria

1970★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Marie's Children 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....

#4
Waiting for Anya

Waiting for Anya

2020★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Marie's Children 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....

#5
Hyena Road

Hyena Road

2015★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Marie's Children for fans of Drama & War. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Three different men, three different worlds, three different wars – all stand at the intersection of modern warfare – a murky world of fluid morality where all is not as it seems. ...

#6
The One That Got Away

The One That Got Away

1957★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Marie's Children 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....

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