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10 Best Movies Like Red Dawn

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

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#1
A Bright Lawyer

A Bright Lawyer

2025★ 6.5

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

In the film, actor Leandro Hassum plays lawyer Michelle Barbieri, known as Mike. The company where he works is bought by an office that decides to keep only women in its positions....

#2
Skeleton Frolic

Skeleton Frolic

1937★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Red Dawn for fans of Music. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

Ub Iwerks dusts off the skeletons from his early-Disney days and puts them to work at Columbia… in a graveyard replete with eerie owls and surrealistic bats, skeletons begin to ris...

#3
Un par de robachicos

Un par de robachicos

1967★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Red Dawn for fans of Adventure. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

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#4
Husbands

Husbands

1970★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Red Dawn for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A common friend's sudden death brings three men, married with children, to reconsider their lives and ultimately leave the country together. But mindless enthusiasm for regained fr...

#5
The Crime of Padre Amaro

The Crime of Padre Amaro

2002★ 6.7

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

Sent to Mexico to help take care of aging Father Benito, young Father Amaro faces a moral challenge when he meets a 16-year-old girl who he starts an affair with. Likewise, the gir...

#6
King of Kings

King of Kings

1961★ 7.2

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

Who is Jesus, and why does he impact all he meets? He is respected and reviled, emulated and accused, beloved, betrayed, and finally crucified. Yet that terrible fate would not be ...