Dynamic Watchlist Hub: Apr 18, 2026

10 Best Movies Like My Name Is Sara

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

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#1
The Boy in the Woods

The Boy in the Woods

2023★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to My Name Is Sara for fans of History & Drama. 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....

#2
The Island on Bird Street

The Island on Bird Street

1997★ 7.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to My Name Is Sara for fans of Drama. 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...

#3
Irena's Vow

Irena's Vow

2024★ 7.5

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

19 year old Irena Gut is promoted to housekeeper in the home of a highly respected Nazi officer in Poland when she finds out that the Jewish ghetto is about to be liquidated. Deter...

#4
The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler

The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler

2009★ 7.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to My Name Is Sara for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Irena Sendler is a Catholic social worker who has sympathized with the Jews since her childhood, when her physician father died of typhus contracted while treating poor Jewish pati...

#5
The Zookeeper's Wife

The Zookeeper's Wife

2017★ 7.3

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

The account of keepers of the Warsaw Zoo, Jan and Antonina Zabinski, who helped save hundreds of people and animals during the Nazi invasion....

#6
Uprising

Uprising

2001★ 6.5

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

In the Warsaw ghetto in 1943, Jews rise against the Nazis....

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