Movies like Oppenheimer (2023)

Name: Oppenheimer
Released: 2023

10 films to watch after Oppenheimer, ranked by how well they match its tone — not just its genre.

The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer's role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II.

1

The Catcher Was a Spy (2018)

Fit 73%

Shares Drama and History with Oppenheimer.

Former major league baseball player Moe Berg lives a double life working for the Office of Strategic Services in World War II Europe.
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Nuremberg (2025)

Fit 73%

Shares History and Drama with Oppenheimer.

In postwar Germany, an American psychiatrist must determine whether Nazi prisoners are fit to go on trial for war crimes, and finds himself in a complex battle of intellect and ethics with Hermann Göring, Hitler's right-hand man.
3

Twelve O'Clock High (1949)

Fit 70%

Shares Drama with Oppenheimer.

In the early days of daylight bombing raids over Germany, General Frank Savage must take command of a 'hard luck' bomber group. Much of the story deals with his struggle to whip his group into a disciplined fighting unit in spite of heavy losses, and withering attacks by German fighters over their targets.
4

The Railway Man (2013)

Fit 69%

Shares Drama and History with Oppenheimer.

A victim from World War II's "Death Railway" sets out to find those responsible for his torture. A true story.
5

The Heroes of Telemark (1965)

Fit 68%

Shares Drama with Oppenheimer.

Set in German-occupied Norway, resistance fighter Knut Straud enlists the reluctant physicist Rolf Pedersen in an effort to destroy the German heavy water production plant in rural Telemark.
6

Apocalypse Now (1979)

Fit 61%

Shares Drama with Oppenheimer.

At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, officially, "does not exist, nor will it ever exist." His goal is to locate - and eliminate - a mysterious Green Beret Colonel named Walter Kurtz, who has been leading his personal army on illegal guerrilla missions into enemy territory.
7

Ted K (2021)

Fit 55%

Shares Drama with Oppenheimer.

An exploration of Ted Kaczynski's life in Lincoln, Montana in the years leading up to his arrest as The Unabomber.
8

Walk on Water (2004)

Fit 54%

Shares Drama with Oppenheimer.

Eyal, an Israeli Mossad agent, is given the mission to track down and kill the very old Alfred Himmelman, an ex-Nazi officer, who might still be alive. Pretending to be a tourist guide, he befriends his grandson Axel, in Israel to visit his sister Pia. The two men set out on a tour of the country, during which Axel challenges Eyal's values.
9

Slaughterhouse-Five (1972)

Fit 53%

Shares Drama with Oppenheimer.

Billy Pilgrim, a veteran of the Second World War, finds himself mysteriously detached from time, so that he is able to travel, without being able to help it, from the days of his childhood to those of his peculiar life on a distant planet called Tralfamadore, passing through his bitter experience as a prisoner of war in the German city of Dresden, over which looms the inevitable shadow of an unspeakable tragedy.
10

Unthinkable (2010)

Fit 48%

Shares Drama with Oppenheimer.

The government gets wind of a plot to destroy America involving a trio of nuclear weapons for which the whereabouts are unknown. It's up to a seasoned interrogator and an FBI agent to find out exactly where the nukes are.