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10 Best Movies Like The War After

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

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#1
Sergio

Sergio

2020โ€ขโ˜… 6.6

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

A sweeping drama set in the chaotic aftermath of the US invasion of Iraq, where the life of top UN diplomat Brazilian Sรฉrgio Vieira de Mello hangs in the balance during the most tr...

#2
My Neighbor Adolf

My Neighbor Adolf

2022โ€ขโ˜… 6.5

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

South America, 1960. A lonely and grumpy Holocaust survivor convinces himself that his new neighbor is none other than Adolf Hitler. Not being taken seriously, he starts an indepen...

#3
Babylon

Babylon

1980โ€ขโ˜… 6.9

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

Drama telling the story of Blue, a young man of Jamaican descent living in Brixton in 1980, as he hangs out with his friends, fronts a dub sound system, loses his job, struggles wi...

#4
All Day and a Night

All Day and a Night

2020โ€ขโ˜… 6.2

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

While serving life in prison, a young man looks back at the people, the circumstances and the system that set him on the path toward his crime....

#5
Maria's Lovers

Maria's Lovers

1984โ€ขโ˜… 5.9

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

A World War II prisoner returns home to his childhood sweetheart. However, back home, he discovers that he has to compete to win her love....

#6
XX/XY

XX/XY

2002โ€ขโ˜… 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The War After for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Three friends begin a dangerous three-way relationship that spirals out of control, leading to dire consequences that haunt them ten years later....

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