Most Similar Movies to Grave of the Fireflies (1988)


If you are looking for movies like Grave of the Fireflies (1988), you might like movies tagged with keyword : war, animation, tragedy, world war ii, japan, siblings, survival, suffering, orphans, death, humanity, family, history, grief, childhood, sacrifice, poverty, hope, despair, emotion .


In This Corner of the World (2016), Caterpillar (2010), Landscape After the Battle (1970), Letters from Iwo Jima (2006), Giovanni's Island (2014), My Name Is Ivan (1963), The Cranes Are Flying (1957) ... Let's take a look at the following list...

In This Corner of the World (2016)

In This Corner of the World (2016)

7.8/10 Animation, Drama, History, War

Set in Hiroshima during World War II, an eighteen-year-old girl gets married and now has to prepare food for her family despite the rationing and lack of supplies. As she struggles with the daily loss of life's amenities she still has to maintain the will to live.

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Caterpillar (2010)

Caterpillar (2010)

8.5/10 War, Drama, History

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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Landscape After the Battle (1970)

Landscape After the Battle (1970)

6.9/10 Drama, War

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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Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)

Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)

7.9/10 Action, War, Drama, Adventure, History

The story of the battle of Iwo Jima between the United States and Imperial Japan during World War II, as told from the perspective of the Japanese who fought it.

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Giovanni's Island (2014)

Giovanni's Island (2014)

7.1/10 Animation, Drama

Two children from opposite sides of the border develop a friendship in the aftermath of a devastating conflict.

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My Name Is Ivan (1963)

My Name Is Ivan (1963)

10.0/10 War, Drama

During World War II, a 12-year-old Russian sneaks behind enemy lines to spy on the Germans who killed his parents.

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The Cranes Are Flying (1957)

The Cranes Are Flying (1957)

9.6/10 Romance, War, Drama

A Moscow girl (Tatyana Samoylova) loves a World War II soldier (Aleksey Batalov) but marries a pianist.

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Instrument of War (2017)

Instrument of War (2017)

6.0/10 War, Drama, Action

When U.S. B-24 bomber pilot Clair Cline is shot down and captured in northern Germany, one war ends and another begins -- to keep hope alive. Now behind German barbed wire and oppression, Cline and his fellow POWs must find a way to bond together to not just survive but transcend their captivity. Inspired by true events.

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Bitter Harvest (2017)

Bitter Harvest (2017)

6.0/10 Romance, Drama, War, History

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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The Burmese Harp (1956)

The Burmese Harp (1956)

9.1/10 War

Kon Ichikawa's anti-war parable about a Japanese soldier burying his fallen comrades at the end of World War II.

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In the Land of Blood and Honey (2011)

In the Land of Blood and Honey (2011)

5.7/10 War, Drama, Romance

A Serbian soldier (Goran Kostic) and his Bosnian lover (Zana Marjanovic) find their allegiances becoming uncertain as their nation's brutal ethnic conflict takes its toll.

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The Silent Mountain (2014)

The Silent Mountain (2014)

5.5/10 Adventure, Romance, Drama, War

A young Austrian soldier in World War I fights his way through the Alps to rescue his first love and escape the impending explosion that will rock the mountain.

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A Time for Drunken Horses (2000)

A Time for Drunken Horses (2000)

8.5/10 Drama

Kurdish orphans work odd jobs for food and to raise money so their severely handicapped brother can have surgery.

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Fires on the Plain (1959)

Fires on the Plain (1959)

8.0/10 War

In the closing days of WWII remnants of the Japanese army in Leyte are abandoned by their command and face certain starvation.

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A City of Sadness (1989)

A City of Sadness (1989)

7.9/10 Drama

The story of a family embroiled in the "White Terror" that was wrought on the Taiwanese people by the Kuomintang government after their arrival from mainland China in the late 1940s.

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In the Land of Blood and Honey (2011)

In the Land of Blood and Honey (2011)

4.5/10 Drama, Romance, War

During the Bosnian War, Danijel, a soldier fighting for the Serbs, re-encounters Ajla, a Bosnian who's now a captive in his camp he oversees. Their once promising connection has become ambiguous as their motives have changed.

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Scarred Hearts (2016)

Scarred Hearts (2016)

7.8/10 Drama, History

Emanuel is committed to a sanatorium for treatment of his bone tuberculosis. Little by little, as Emanuel gets accustomed to the limitations of his new life, he discovers that inside the sanatorium there is still a life to be lived to the fullest.

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A Time to Love and a Time to Die (1958)

A Time to Love and a Time to Die (1958)

7.7/10 War

On the Russian front in 1944 German Private Ernst Graeber receives a leave and visits his family in Germany but Germany isn't the same country he left behind.

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