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10 Best Movies Like Sticks and Bones

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

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#1
Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight

Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight

2013★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Sticks and Bones for fans of TV Movie & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Muhammad Ali’s historic Supreme Court battle from behind closed doors. When Ali was drafted into the Vietnam War at the height of his boxing career, his claim to conscientious obje...

#2
Bat★21

Bat★21

1988★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Sticks and Bones 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...

#3
The War

The War

1994★ 6.6

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

The son of a Vietnam War Veteran must deal with neighborhood bullies as well as his dad's post-traumatic stress disorder while growing up in the deep south in the 1970's....

#4
Jacknife

Jacknife

1989★ 6.3

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

A conflict develops between a troubled Vietnam veteran and the sister he lives with when she becomes involved romantically with the army buddy who reminds him of the tragic battle ...

#5
The Magic of Ordinary Days

The Magic of Ordinary Days

2005★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Sticks and Bones for fans of TV Movie & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Pregnant out of wedlock, an educated young woman is pressured by her father into an arranged marriage with a lonely farmer in this drama set during WWII....

#6
Birdy

Birdy

1984★ 7.1

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

Two young men are seriously affected by the Vietnam War. One of them has always been obsessed with birds - but now believes he really is a bird, and has been sent to a mental hospi...

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