10 Best Movies Like Behind the Rising Sun
If you loved Behind the Rising Sun, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.
The One That Got Away
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Behind the Rising Sun for fans of War & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Based on the true story of Oberleutnant Franz von Werra, the only German prisoner of war captured in Britain to escape back to Germany during the Second World War....
Waiting for Anya
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Behind the Rising Sun for fans of War & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
During the harrows of WWII, Jo, a young shepherd along with the help of the widow Horcada, helps to smuggle Jewish children across the border from southern France into Spain....
House of Bamboo
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Behind the Rising Sun for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Eddie Kenner is given a special assignment by the Army to get the inside story on Sandy Dawson, a former GI who has formed a gang of fellow servicemen and Japanese locals....
A Time to Love and a Time to Die
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Behind the Rising Sun for fans of War & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A German soldier home on leave falls in love with a girl, then returns to World War II....
Mister Roberts
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Behind the Rising Sun for fans of War & Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.
Mr. Roberts is a Navy officer who's yearning for battle but is stuck in the backwaters of World War II on a non-commissioned ship run by the bullying Captain Morton....
Overlord
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Behind the Rising Sun for fans of War & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
During World War II, a young man is called up and, with an increasing sense of foreboding, undertakes his army training ready for D-Day, June 6th, 1944....