Dynamic Watchlist Hub: Apr 17, 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
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...

#4
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...

#5
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....

#6
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

2017★ 6.4

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

An African-American woman becomes an unwitting pioneer for medical breakthroughs when her cells are used to create the first immortal human cell line in the early 1950s....

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