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10 Best Movies Like Leaving Afghanistan

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

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#1
The Best in Hell

The Best in Hell

2022★ 7.7

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

Movie about units of the "whites" (PMC "Wagner") who perform an assault operation to capture buildings. They are opposed by the "yellow" units, which have dug in these buildings an...

#2
The Kill Team

The Kill Team

2019★ 6.4

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

#3
Battleground

Battleground

1949★ 6.7

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

Members of the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division are fighting for their country amidst the rugged terrain of Bastogne, Belgium, in December 1944. Holley and his American compatri...

#4
Seal Team Eight: Behind Enemy Lines

Seal Team Eight: Behind Enemy Lines

2014★ 6.1

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

Seal Team Eight must fight their way deep into Africa's Congo, decommission a secret uranium mine, and stop our most dangerous enemy from smuggling weapon's grade yellow-cake out o...

#5
Patriots Time

Patriots Time

2022★ 7.5

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

The brothers Sultan and Bekzat Ibrayev are serving faithfully in the Armed Forces of Kazakhstan, and at the same time they are in family disagreement. Sultan is a valiant intellige...

#6
The History of Love

The History of Love

2016★ 6.4

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

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