The Reader (2008)

The story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a teenager in the late 1950s, had an affair with an older woman, Hanna, who then disappeared only to resurface years later as one of the defendants in a war crimes trial stemming from her actions as a concentration camp guard late in the war. He alone realizes that Hanna is illiterate and may be concealing that fact at the expense of her freedom.

Genres: Drama, Romance

What to watch after The Reader

• Atonement (2007) — Same subject: world war ii
• The English Patient (1996) — Ralph Fiennes appears in both
• The Book Thief (2013) — Same subject: world war ii
• Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (2005) — Same subject: world war ii, tribunal
• The Constant Gardener (2005) — Ralph Fiennes appears in both
• Sunshine (1999)