Movies Like My Father's Secrets (2022)

My Father's Secrets is a 2022 animation, drama, history film from Véra Belmont with a MovieMagicScore of 6.9/10. Here are 20 similar films, ranked by real viewer ratings — starting with Palm Trees in the Snow and The Whip and the Body.

Animation Drama History

Palm Trees in the Snow

2015

Spain, 2003. An accidental discovery leads Clarence to travel from the snowy mountains of Huesca to Equatorial Guinea, to visit the land where her father Jacobo and her uncle Kilian spent most of their youth, the island of Fernando Poo.

7.4

MagicScore

The Whip and the Body

1963

Disowned in the past by his father, Kurt Menliff, a cruel and sadistic nobleman, returns to the family castle to reclaim his inheritance.

6.4

MagicScore

Marco: The Invented Truth

2024

Enric Marco, a Spanish trade unionist, claims to be a survivor of Nazi concentration camps.

7.0

MagicScore

The Photographer of Mauthausen

2018

Spanish photographer Francesc Boix, imprisoned in the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp, works in the SS Photographic Service. Between 1943 and 1945, he hides, with the help of other prisoners, thousands of negatives, with the purpose of showing the freed world the atrocities committed by the Nazis, exhaustively documented. He will be a key witness during the Nuremberg Trials.

7.0

MagicScore

The Tree of Life

2011

The impressionistic story of a Texas family in the 1950s. The film follows the life journey of the eldest son, Jack, through the innocence of childhood to his disillusioned adult years as he tries to reconcile a complicated relationship with his father. Jack finds himself a lost soul in the modern world, seeking answers to the origins and meaning of life while questioning the existence of faith.

6.7

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The Brutalist

2024

When an innovative modern architect flees post-war Europe, he is given the opportunity to rebuild his legacy. Set during the dawn of the modern United States (in Pennsylvania), his wife joins him, and their lives are forever changed by a demanding, wealthy patron.

6.9

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White Bird

2023

After being expelled from Beecher Prep for his treatment of a classmate with a facial deformity, Julian has struggled to fit in at his new school. To transform his life, Julian's grandmother finally reveals her own story of courage of her youth in Nazi-occupied France, where a classmate shelters her from mortal danger.

7.8

MagicScore

And Along Come Tourists

2007

Sven arrives in nowadays Auschwitz to do his civil service at the memorial. He encounters unfriendliness, especially by Stanislaw Krzeminski, the 85 year old KZ-survivor, and Krzysztof Lanuszewski, brother of his early love affair Ania. Even his boss Herold, the places manager, does little to help Sven familiarize. But when problems accumulate Sven realises that he already has become involved.

6.6

MagicScore

Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles

2019

Paris, 1930. Luis Buñuel is penniless after the scandal surrounding the release of his last movie. Sculptor Ramón Acín, a good friend, buys a lottery ticket and promises Buñuel that he will pay for his next movie if he wins the prize.

7.0

MagicScore

#10

The Most Precious of Cargoes

2024

Once upon a time, a poor woodcutter and his wife lived in a great forest. Cold, hunger, poverty, and a war raging all around them meant their lives were very hard. One day, the woodcutter's wife rescues a baby. A baby girl thrown from one of the many trains that constantly pass through the forest. This baby, this "most precious of cargoes", will transform the lives of the poor woodcutter's wife and her husband, as well as those whose paths the child will cross—including the man who threw her from the train. And some will try to protect her, whatever the cost. Their story will reveal the worst and the best in the hearts of men.

7.6

MagicScore

#11

Charlotte

2022

The true story of Charlotte Salomon, a young German-Jewish painter who comes of age in Berlin on the eve of the Second World War. Fiercely imaginative and deeply gifted, she dreams of becoming an artist. Her first love applauds her talent, which emboldens her resolve. When anti-Semitic policies inspire violent mobs, she escapes to the safety of the South of France. There she begins to paint again, and finds new love. But her work is interrupted, this time by a family tragedy that reveals an even darker secret. Believing that only an extraordinary act will save her, she embarks on the monumental adventure of painting her life story.

6.3

MagicScore

#12

Yakuza Princess

2021

In Brazil, Akemi finds out that she's the heiress to the Yakuza empire. Just after that, her destiny enters a spiral of violence and mystery, where a gaijin (foreigner) who's been protecting her all this time, Shirô, may have been actually sent to kill her.

6.1

MagicScore

#13

Batman: The Killing Joke

2016

As Batman hunts for the escaped Joker, the Clown Prince of Crime attacks the Gordon family to prove a diabolical point mirroring his own fall into madness.

6.6

MagicScore

#14

Labyrinth of Lies

2014

A young prosecutor in postwar West Germany investigates a massive conspiracy to cover up the Nazi pasts of prominent public figures.

7.2

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#15

When the Wind Blows

1986

With the help of government-issued pamphlets, an elderly British couple build a shelter and prepare for an impending nuclear attack, unaware that times and the nature of war have changed from their romantic memories of World War II.

7.4

MagicScore

#16

Batman: Year One

2011

A wealthy playboy named Bruce Wayne and a Chicago cop named Jim Gordon both return to Gotham City where their lives unexpectedly intersect.

7.2

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#17

The Murder Farm

2009

Bavaria, Germany, 1950s. The sudden return of the young Kathrin to the small village where she was born stirs up the feelings of guilt and personal ghosts of its inhabitants, haunted by dark memories related to a multiple murder that happened two years earlier at the Tannöd farm, a hideous crime that remains unsolved.

5.1

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#18

Painless

2012

While searching for a solution to his serious health condition, David, a renowned neurosurgeon, discovers a sinister secret hidden in the past.

6.2

MagicScore

#19

Butterflies

2018

Three strangers with one thing in common — the same father — come to a Turkish village to bury him, and learn about him and each other.

6.9

MagicScore

#20

Home from the Hill

1960

The wealthiest man in a Texas town decides to teach his teenage son how to hunt to make a man out of him.

6.8

MagicScore

Frequently asked

What are the best movies like My Father's Secrets?

The top films similar to My Father's Secrets by MovieMagicScore are Palm Trees in the Snow (7.4), The Whip and the Body (6.4), Marco: The Invented Truth (7.0). Each shares animation/drama/history themes and is ranked by real viewer ratings, not critics or studios.

Is My Father's Secrets worth watching?

My Father's Secrets holds a MovieMagicScore of 6.9/10 from 21 viewer ratings.

What kind of movie is My Father's Secrets?

My Father's Secrets (2022) is a animation, drama, history film directed by Véra Belmont, starring Michèle Bernier, Jacques Gamblin, Arthur Dupont.

Where can I find more recommendations like My Father's Secrets?

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About movies like My Father's Secrets

This ranked list pairs My Father's Secrets (2022), a animation and drama and history film from Véra Belmont, with similar titles by genre, theme and cast overlap (fans of Michèle Bernier take note). Unlike critic-driven sites, every position here is ordered by MovieMagicScore — a rating built only from real viewers, with no studio marketing or paid placement. Scores update as more people rate, so the list stays current.

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