Dynamic Watchlist Hub: Apr 12, 2026

10 Best Movies Like Explosion

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

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#1
Irena's Vow

Irena's Vow

2024★ 7.4

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

19 year old Irena Gut is promoted to housekeeper in the home of a highly respected Nazi officer in Poland when she finds out that the Jewish ghetto is about to be liquidated. Deter...

#2
The Auschwitz Report

The Auschwitz Report

2021★ 6.3

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

This is the true story of Freddy and Walter – two young Slovak Jews, who were deported to Auschwitz in 1942. On 10 April 1944, after meticulous planning, they manage to escape. Whi...

#3
The Scarlet and the Black

The Scarlet and the Black

1983★ 7.0

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

Fr. Hugh O'Flaherty is a Vatican official in 1943-45 who has been hiding downed pilots, escaped prisoners of war, and Italian resistance families. His activities become so large th...

#4
Waiting for Anya

Waiting for Anya

2020★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Explosion for fans of Drama & War. 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....

#5
Force 10 from Navarone

Force 10 from Navarone

1978★ 6.2

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

World War II, 1943. Mallory and Miller, the heroes who destroyed the guns of Navarone, are sent to Yugoslavia in search of a ghost from the past....

#6
Outlaws - For Greater Glory

Outlaws - For Greater Glory

2012★ 6.8

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

A chronicle of the Cristeros War (1926-1929), which was touched off by a rebellion against the Mexican government's attempt to secularize the country....

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