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10 Best Movies Like The Bridge

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

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#1
The Bridge

The Bridge

1959★ 7.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Bridge for fans of History & War. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A group of German boys are ordered to protect a small bridge in their home village during the waning months of the second world war. Truckloads of defeated, cynical Wehrmacht soldi...

#2
The Scarlet and the Black

The Scarlet and the Black

1983★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Bridge for fans of TV Movie & History & War. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Fr. Hugh O'Flaherty is a Vatican official in 1943-45 who has been hiding downed pilots, escaped prisoners of war, and Italian resistance families. His activities become so large th...

#3
The One That Got Away

The One That Got Away

1957★ 6.8

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

Based on the true story of Oberleutnant Franz von Werra, the only German prisoner of war captured in Britain to escape back to Germany during the Second World War....

#4
The Monuments Men

The Monuments Men

2014★ 6.1

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

Based on the true story of the greatest treasure hunt in history, The Monuments Men is an action drama focusing on seven over-the-hill, out-of-shape museum directors, artists, arch...

#5
Bonhoeffer: Pastor. Spy. Assassin

Bonhoeffer: Pastor. Spy. Assassin

2024★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Bridge for fans of History & War. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

As the world teeters on the brink of annihilation, Dietrich Bonhoeffer joins a deadly plot to assassinate Hitler, risking his faith and fate to save millions of Jews from genocide....

#6
The Last Rifleman

The Last Rifleman

2023★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Bridge for fans of History & War. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A WWII veteran escapes his care home in Northern Ireland and embarks on an arduous but inspirational journey to France to attend the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings, finding...

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