Most Similar Movies to One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1971)
If you are looking for movies like One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1971), you might like movies tagged with keyword : war, soviet union, stalin, political persecution, survival, humanity, oppression, cold, loneliness, hope, despair, prisoner, dictatorship, suffering, literary adaptation, totalitarianism, history, social criticism, realism, black humor .
Bitter Harvest (2017), True North (2006), Landscape After the Battle (1970), Triumph of the Spirit (1989), The Holy Innocents (1984), The Fixer (1968), Caterpillar (2010) ... Let's take a look at the following list...

Bitter Harvest (2017)
Set in 1930s Ukraine, as Stalin advances the ambitions of communists in the Kremlin, young artist Yuri battles to save his lover Natalka from the Holodomor, the death-by-starvation program that ultimately killed millions of Ukrainians.
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True North (2006)
The crew of a bankrupt Scottish trawler turn to smuggling illegal immigrants over the stormy waters of the North Sea.
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Landscape After the Battle (1970)
Film opens with the mad rush of haphazard freedom as the concentration camps are liberated. Men are trying to grab food, change clothes, bury their tormentors they find alive. Then they are herded into other camps as the Allies try to devise policy to control the situation. A young poet who cannot quite find himself in this new situation, meets a headstrong Jewish you...Read all
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Triumph of the Spirit (1989)
In Greece during World War II, a young Jewish boxer, meets regularly with girlfriend Allegra until they and their families are sent to Auschwitz. When the Nazis learn of his boxing, they force him to participate in weekly boxing matches.
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The Holy Innocents (1984)
Members (Alfredo Landa, Francisco Rabal, Terele Pavez) of a poor family obey the whims of the aristocrats they work for in rural 1960s Spain.
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The Fixer (1968)
A government lawyer (Dirk Bogarde) tries to help a poor Jewish handyman (Alan Bates) railroaded for murder in czarist Russia.
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Caterpillar (2010)
In 1940s Japan a villager must fulfill her duty to her husband, a decorated soldier who returned from war a quadruple amputee.
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Lamerica (1994)
Immediately after the fall of communism in Albania, two Italians go there to embezzle investment money by creating a fake company. As the chairman/fall guy, they pick a former political prisoner who turns out to be more than meets the eye.
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As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me (2001)
At the end of WW2, a German POW doing hard labor in the Soviet Gulag escapes from his Siberian camp to return to Germany but he's pursued by a Soviet NKVD officer.
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My Joy (2010)
A few days in the life of truck driver Georgi, which seems to be a never-ending nightmare, a spiral of violence and abuses of power.
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Bless You, Prison (2003)
Wrongfully accused of espionage, a Romanian woman (Maria Ploae) spends four years at a Communist labor camp.
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The Fifth Horseman Is Fear (1965)
A Jewish physician sacrifices his safety when he treats a fugitive during the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia.
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Ashes in the Snow (2018)
In 1941, a 16-year-old aspiring artist and her family are deported to Siberia amidst Stalin's brutal dismantling of the Baltic region. One girl's passion for art and her never-ending hope will break the silence of history.
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Sobibor (2018)
Soviet officer Alexander Pechersky organizes a revolt and mass escape of prisoners from Sobibór extermination camp in October 1943.
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The Last Winter (1990)
Tells the story of a young man's struggle to keep his world from changing. Placed in the rural setting of the mid 1950s, it revolves around William Jamison and his colorful old Grampa Jack. Since Will was born, they have shared the same bed and often the same dreams. William is a boy of great imagination who stumbles between fantasy and reality and who, with the gentl...Read all
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Men With Guns (1997)
Three losers, Eddie, Lucas and Mamet, are sent to collect some debt at a remote farm. But the thugs there are too hard for them, and they are humiliated. They return for revenge, it gets out of hand, ends with a bloodbath and they are left with a big amount of cocaine. The drugs belong to local mob boss Horace Burke, who sends his son to find them. Cops are also after...Read all
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Grave of the Fireflies (1988)
A young boy and his little sister struggle to survive in Japan during World War II.
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I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
Wrongly convicted James Allen serves in the intolerable conditions of a southern chain gang, which later comes back to haunt him.
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