Originally posted on r/MovieSuggestions on March 6, 2021. Changed list link to archive link due to the original link now being dead.
Inspired by a list from IMDb, curated by Dr. Unken (https://web.archive.org/web/20210306111226/https://www.imdb.com/list/ls031142976/), I am in search of other films that have a similar tone to the films in that list. You can recommend me anything, even if the film is the same from that list. They can be in any genre and the language can be English or a foreign language.
Examples of such films include:
- “Martyrs” (2008) (In French with English subtitles)
- “Funny Games” (1997) (In German with English subtitles)
- “Possessor” (2020)
- “We Need to Talk About Kevin” (2011)
- “You Were Never Really Here” (2017)
- “Dragged Across Concrete” (2018)
- “Green Room” (2015)
- “Manhunter” (1986)
- “Nightcrawler” (2014)
- “Kill List” (2011)
- “Enter the Void” (2009)
- “Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father” (2008)
- “Blue Ruin” (2013)
- “Requiem for a Dream” (2000)
- “Antichrist” (2009)
Der Untergang, or “Downfall” in English.
This is a movie about Hitler, from the perspective of Hitler’s secretary. Her life was fascinating and the real life person has a big apology at the beginning, and end, of the movie. It gives you a much needed “Nazi” perspective into the events inside of the bunker. The crazed Hitler believes that Steiner will save him, but upon realizing that it isn’t going to happen… Hitler falls into deep depression and eventually suicide.
Its a very human story, something that humanizes Nazis. An important message, not to “excuse” what Nazis have done, but to remind us that we could very well become like Nazis. They were only human after all and we very well could have made similar mistakes to them. Its a big warning to iconoclasts and fascist idealism, and how it clashes with reality.