
10 Best Movies Like Apocalypse Now
If you loved Apocalypse Now, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

Platoon
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Apocalypse Now for fans of Drama & War. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.
As a young and naive recruit in Vietnam, Chris Taylor faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war and the duality of man....

The Conversation
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Apocalypse Now for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A paranoid, secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that the couple he is spying on will be murdered....

Alien
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Apocalypse Now for fans of Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.
During its return to the earth, commercial spaceship Nostromo intercepts a distress signal from a distant planet. When a three-member team of the crew discovers a chamber containin...

Full Metal Jacket
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Apocalypse Now for fans of Drama & War. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the U.S.-Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue....

The Deer Hunter
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Apocalypse Now for fans of Drama & War. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Three steelworkers enlist in the Vietnam War, one leaving behind a rushed marriage, the others a shared love. What they encounter overseas changes their lives forever....

Dallas Buyers Club
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Apocalypse Now for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Loosely based on the true-life tale of Ron Woodroof, a drug-taking, women-loving, homophobic man who in 1986 was diagnosed with HIV/AIDS and given thirty days to live....