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10 Best Movies Like The (Silent) War

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

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#1
Inglourious Basterds

Inglourious Basterds

2009★ 8.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The (Silent) War for fans of Drama & Thriller & War. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Basterds" are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalpi...

#2
The Guns of Navarone

The Guns of Navarone

1961★ 7.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The (Silent) War for fans of Thriller & War. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

A team of allied saboteurs are assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held island and destroy the two enormous long-range field guns that prevent the rescue...

#3
Kandahar

Kandahar

2023★ 6.8

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

After his mission is exposed, an undercover CIA operative stuck deep in hostile territory in Afghanistan must fight his way out, alongside his Afghan translator, to an extraction p...

#4
Battleground

Battleground

1949★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The (Silent) War 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
For Whom the Bell Tolls

For Whom the Bell Tolls

1943★ 6.5

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

Spain in the 1930s is the place to be for a man of action like Robert Jordan. There is a civil war going on and Jordan—who has joined up on the side that appeals most to idealists ...

#6
Salvador

Salvador

1986★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The (Silent) War for fans of Drama & Thriller & War. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In 1980, an American journalist covering the Salvadoran Civil War becomes entangled with both the leftist guerrilla groups and the right-wing military dictatorship while trying to ...

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