Dynamic Watchlist Hub: Apr 12, 2026

10 Best Movies Like The Return

If you loved The Return, 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 Return for fans of TV Movie & Drama & 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
Hyena Road

Hyena Road

2015★ 6.8

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

Three different men, three different worlds, three different wars – all stand at the intersection of modern warfare – a murky world of fluid morality where all is not as it seems. ...

#3
The Kill Team

The Kill Team

2019★ 6.4

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

When Andrew Briggman — a young soldier in the US Army during the invasion of Afghanistan — witnesses the murderous behavior of fellow soldiers, under the direction of a malevolent ...

#4
Outlaws - For Greater Glory

Outlaws - For Greater Glory

2012★ 6.8

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

A chronicle of the Cristeros War (1926-1929), which was touched off by a rebellion against the Mexican government's attempt to secularize the country....

#5
Battleground

Battleground

1949★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Return 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 Return 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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