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10 Best Movies Like National Velvet

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

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#1
Bat★21

Bat★21

1988★ 6.3

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

Lt. Col. Iceal "Ham" Hambleton is a weapons countermeasures expert and when his aircraft is shot over enemy territory the Air Force very much wants to get him back. Hambleton knows...

#2
Spies Like Us

Spies Like Us

1985★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to National Velvet for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Two bumbling government employees think they are U.S. spies, only to discover that they are actually decoys for nuclear war....

#3
Born Yesterday

Born Yesterday

1950★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to National Velvet for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Uncouth, loud-mouth junkyard tycoon Harry Brock descends upon Washington D.C. to buy himself a congressman or two, bringing with him his mistress, ex-showgirl Billie Dawn....

#4
Wings

Wings

1927★ 7.2

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

Two young men, one rich, one middle class, both in love with the same woman, become US Air Corps fighter pilots and, eventually, heroic flying aces during World War I. Devoted best...

#5
We Go On

We Go On

2016★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to National Velvet for fans of Drama. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

Paralyzed by his fear of dying, Miles Grissom takes out an advert offering $30,000 in reward money to the first person who can show him evidence of an angel, a demon, or prove that...

#6
The Children Are Watching Us

The Children Are Watching Us

1943★ 7.6

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

In his first collaboration with renowned screenwriter and longtime partner Cesare Zavattini, Vittorio De Sica examines the cataclysmic consequences of adult folly on an innocent ch...