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10 Best Movies Like The Backyard Front

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

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#1
Since You Went Away

Since You Went Away

1944★ 6.5

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

In 1943, several people enter, re-enter, and exit the difficult life of a Midwestern family whose patriarch has been called up to war, leaving behind his wife and two teen daughter...

#2
Mrs. Miniver

Mrs. Miniver

1942★ 7.1

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

Middle-class housewife Kay Miniver deals with petty problems. She and her husband Clem watch her Oxford-educated son Vin court Carol Beldon, the charming granddaughter of the local...

#3
Beneath Hill 60

Beneath Hill 60

2010★ 6.9

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

The true story of Australia's cat-and-mouse underground mine warfare—one of the most misunderstood, misrepresented and mystifying conflicts of WW I. It was secret struggle BENEATH ...

#4
Wolf Hound

Wolf Hound

2022★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Backyard Front for fans of War. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Inspired by the real-life German special operations unit KG 200 that shot down, repaired, and flew Allied aircraft as Trojan horses, "Wolf Hound" takes place in 1944 German-occupie...

#5
The Codes of War

The Codes of War

2025★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Backyard Front for fans of Action. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

War stories about family, ethics and honor include the true story of two U.S. Marines who in a span of six seconds, must stand their ground to stop a suicide truck bomb, a Navy Cor...

#6
2000 Meters to Andriivka

2000 Meters to Andriivka

2025★ 8.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Backyard Front for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Amid the failing counteroffensive, a journalist follows a Ukrainian platoon on their mission to traverse one mile of heavily fortified forest and liberate a strategic village from ...

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