
10 Best Movies Like Simple People
If you loved Simple People, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

Trial on the Road
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Simple People for fans of War. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Shot in 1971 but banned until 1986, this distinctly Russian war story takes place in 1942 behind enemy lines. A regiment of partisans captures former Red Army lieutenant Lazarev wh...

Kalashnikov AK-47
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Simple People for fans of War. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A Russian military propaganda film about the tank commander Kalashnikov, severely injured in battle in 1941. The accident leaves him incapacitated and unable to return to the front...

Infiltration
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Simple People for fans of War. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Ivan sets off on a dangerous mission into Syria to save his ex-commander Grey after his capture by ISIS. With the help of U.S. military patrols, he succeeds in freeing Grey and att...

1942: Unknown Battle
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Simple People for fans of War. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
WWII 1942: Rzhev, USSR. Stuck in a crucial strategical position, a small company from the Red Army does whatever it takes to fend off the Nazis....

Liberation: Direction of the Main Blow
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Simple People for fans of War. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
This five part epic war drama gives a dramatized detailed account of Soviet Union's war against Nazi Germany during world war two. Each of the five parts represents a separate majo...

In the Fog
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Simple People for fans of War. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Western frontiers of the USSR, 1942. The region is under German occupation. A man is wrongly accused of collaboration. Desperate to save his dignity, he faces an impossible moral c...