Movies like before the fall

Before the Fall (German: Napola – Elite für den Führer, literally "Napola – The Führer's Elite") is a 2004 German drama film written and directed by Dennis Gansel. It is centred on the National Political Institutes of Education or "NaPolA" schools created under the government of Nazi Germany. The military academies were designed as preparatory schools for the future Nazi political and military elite.

In 1942, the boxing skills of Friedrich Weimer (Max Riemelt) earn him an appointment to a National Political Academy (NaPolA), a high school that serves as an entry to the Nazi elite. His father, a skilled factory worker who despises the Nazis, flatly refuses to allow Friedrich to enroll. Friedrich, who sees the school as his ticket to university and a better life, forges his father's signature on the permission form and leaves at night. He makes his way to the town of Allenstein, where the school is located, and gets a ride from passing cars or trucks when possible and walks the rest of the way. Friedrich's forged papers are overlooked when he arrives. He is taken by a fellow student, Christoph Schneider, to be kitted out in the school Nazi-style uniform. Friedrich is unaware of the true purpose of the school and is greatly impressed in his first day at Allenstein.