Dynamic Watchlist Hub: Apr 14, 2026

10 Best Movies Like The Crossing

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

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#1
The Scarlet and the Black

The Scarlet and the Black

1983★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Crossing for fans of TV Movie & Drama & 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...

#2
All the Way

All the Way

2016★ 6.7

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

Lyndon B. Johnson's amazing 11-month journey from taking office after JFK's assassination, through the fight to pass the 1964 Civil Rights Act and his own presidential campaign, cu...

#3
Hornblower: The Frogs and the Lobsters

Hornblower: The Frogs and the Lobsters

1999★ 7.2

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

Lieutenant Hornblower and his shipmates are sent to accompany a doomed royalist invasion of revolutionary France....

#4
The Last Rifleman

The Last Rifleman

2023★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Crossing for fans of Drama & 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...

#5
Battleground

Battleground

1949★ 6.7

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

Members of the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division are fighting for their country amidst the rugged terrain of Bastogne, Belgium, in December 1944. Holley and his American compatri...

#6
The One That Got Away

The One That Got Away

1957★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Crossing for fans of Drama & 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....

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