Movies Like Journey Home: A Story from the Hungarian Revolution of 1956

If you liked Journey Home: A Story from the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 (2007), a movie directed by Réka Pigniczky, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

1
Treasure (2024)
★ 6.5/10
A music journalist accompanies her father, a charmingly stubborn Holocaust survivor, on a journey to his homeland. While she's eager to make sense of her family's past, her dad has an agenda of his own.
2
The Wrecking Crew (2026)
★ 7.1/10
Estranged half-brothers Jonny and James reunite after their father's mysterious death. As they search for the truth, buried secrets reveal a conspiracy threatening to tear their family apart.
3
The Guns of Navarone (1961)
★ 7.3/10
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 of 2,000 trapped British soldiers.
4
Seven Years in Tibet (1997)
★ 7.2/10
Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer journeys to the Himalayas without his family to head an expedition in 1939. But when World War II breaks out, the arrogant Harrer falls into Allied forces' hands as a prisoner of…
5
Little Boy (2015)
★ 7.3/10
An eight-year-old boy is willing to do whatever it takes to end World War II so he can bring his father home. The story reveals the indescribable love a father has for his little boy and the love a son has for his…
6
An American Rhapsody (2001)
★ 6.4/10
A Hungarian family forced to flee the Communist country for the United States must leave a young daughter behind. Six years later, the family arranges to bring the absent daughter to the United States where she has…
7
The Way Back (2010)
★ 7/10
A small band of multicultural convicts stages a daring escape from a WWII-era Siberian gulag, and embarks on a treacherous journey across five countries in a desperate race for freedom and survival.
8
Defiance (2008)
★ 6.8/10
Based on a true story, during World War II, four Jewish brothers escape their Nazi-occupied homeland of West Belarus in Poland and join the Soviet partisans to combat the Nazis. The brothers begin the rescue of roughly…
9
End of Sentence (2019)
★ 6.2/10
Newly widowed Frank Fogle embarks on a journey to Ireland to scatter his late wife’s ashes. His estranged son, Sean, recently released from prison, agrees to join only when his father promises that they’ll never see…
10
This Is Where I Leave You (2014)
★ 6.7/10
When their father passes away, four grown, world-weary siblings return to their childhood home and are requested -- with an admonition -- to stay there together for a week, along with their free-speaking mother and a…
11
The Last Rifleman (2023)
★ 6.6/10
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 the courage to face the ghosts of his…
12
The Exception (2017)
★ 6.9/10
Nothing is as it seems in this riveting World War 2 thriller as a wary soldier goes to investigate a mysterious German monarch at his secluded mansion, leading him into a web of deceit and a dangerous love affair with…
13
Jack Hunter and the Lost Treasure of Ugarit (2010)
★ 6.5/10
Jack Hunter, an adventurous treasure seeker, goes to Syria after his mentor and father figure Professor Fredrick Shaffer is killed. Professor Frederick Shaffer believed that the people of Ugarit, a town in Syria that…
14
National Treasure (2004)
★ 6.7/10
Modern treasure hunters, led by archaeologist Ben Gates, search for a chest of riches rumored to have been stashed away by George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin during the Revolutionary War. The…
15
Squanto: A Warrior's Tale (1994)
★ 6.8/10
It's the 17th century, and Native American Squanto roams free in the New World until he's captured by visiting sailors who take him back to England. Monk Brother Daniel teaches him social customs, but other Englishmen…
16
In the Blood (2014)
★ 5.8/10
When her husband goes missing during their Caribbean vacation, a woman sets off on her own to take down the men she thinks are responsible.
17
Head Full of Honey (2018)
★ 6.3/10
A young girl tries to help her grandfather, who is suffering from Alzheimer’s, navigate his increasing forgetfulness, and ends up going on a remarkable adventure with him.
18
Resistance (2020)
★ 7/10
The story of mime Marcel Marceau as he works with a group of Jewish boy scouts and the French Resistance to save the lives of ten thousand orphans during World War II.
19
Cross of Iron (1977)
★ 7.1/10
It is 1943, and the German army—ravaged and demoralised—is hastily retreating from the Russian front. In the midst of the madness, conflict brews between the aristocratic yet ultimately pusillanimous Captain Stransky…
20
Rescue Dawn (2007)
★ 7/10
A US Fighter pilot's epic struggle of survival after being shot down on a mission over Laos during the Vietnam War.