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10 Best Movies Like A Time for Defiance

If you loved A Time for Defiance, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
The History of Love

The History of Love

2016★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Time for Defiance for fans of War & Romance & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The story of a long-lost book that mysteriously reappears and connects an old man searching for his son with a girl seeking a cure for her mother's loneliness....

#2
Field of Lost Shoes

Field of Lost Shoes

2015★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Time for Defiance for fans of War & Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

A group of teenage cadets sheltered from war at the Virginia Military Institute must confront the horrors of an adult world when they are called upon to defend the Shenandoah Valle...

#3
The Kill Team

The Kill Team

2019★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Time for Defiance for fans of War & Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

When Andrew Briggman — a young soldier in the US Army during the invasion of Afghanistan — witnesses the murderous behavior of fellow soldiers, under the direction of a malevolent ...

#4
Dear John

Dear John

2010★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Time for Defiance for fans of War & Romance & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

While Sergeant John Tyree is home on two weeks leave from Germany, he meets Savannah after he dives into the ocean to retrieve Savannah's purse that had fallen off a pier. John eve...

#5
Maria's Lovers

Maria's Lovers

1984★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Time for Defiance for fans of Romance & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A World War II prisoner returns home to his childhood sweetheart. However, back home, he discovers that he has to compete to win her love....

#6
Firebird

Firebird

2021★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Time for Defiance for fans of War & Romance & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

At the height of the Cold War, a troubled soldier forms a forbidden love triangle with a daring fighter pilot and his female comrade amid the dangerous surroundings of a Soviet Air...

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