Dynamic Watchlist Hub: Apr 12, 2026

10 Best Movies Like Deserter

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

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#1
Kisses

Kisses

2008★ 7.1

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

Two kids, Dylan and Kylie, run away from home on Christmas Day and spend a night of magic and terror on the streets of inner-city Dublin....

#2
My Friend Ivan Lapshin

My Friend Ivan Lapshin

1985★ 6.7

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

Russian provincial town in the middle of the 1930s Stalin's Great Purge. Ivan Lapshin, the head of the local police, does what he has to do. And he does it well....

#3
Babylon

Babylon

1980★ 6.9

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

Drama telling the story of Blue, a young man of Jamaican descent living in Brixton in 1980, as he hangs out with his friends, fronts a dub sound system, loses his job, struggles wi...

#4
The Kindness of Strangers

The Kindness of Strangers

2019★ 6.3

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

Clara and her two sons escape from her abusive husband with little more than their car and plan to start over in New York. After the car towed away, the family meets Alice, who get...

#5
American Son

American Son

2019★ 6.1

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

Time passes and tension mounts in a Florida police station as an estranged interracial couple awaits news of their missing teenage son....

#6
My Neighbor Adolf

My Neighbor Adolf

2022★ 6.5

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

South America, 1960. A lonely and grumpy Holocaust survivor convinces himself that his new neighbor is none other than Adolf Hitler. Not being taken seriously, he starts an indepen...

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