Movies Like Hallelujah Gretchen
If you liked Hallelujah Gretchen (1976), a drama and war movie directed by Sylvio Back, 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.
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Seal Team Eight: Behind Enemy Lines (2014)
★ 6.1/10Also war and dramaSeal Team Eight must fight their way deep into Africa's Congo, decommission a secret uranium mine, and stop our most dangerous enemy from smuggling weapon's grade yellow-cake out of the country.
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The Devil's Double (2011)
★ 6.7/10Also drama and warA chilling vision of the House of Saddam Hussein comes to life through the eyes of the man who was forced to become the double of Hussein's sadistic son.
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Casualties of War (1989)
★ 7.2/10Also drama and historyDuring the Vietnam War, a soldier finds himself the outsider of his own squad when they unnecessarily kidnap a female villager.
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Ike: Countdown to D-Day (2004)
★ 6.5/10Also drama and warThe story of the senior-level preparations for the D-Day invasion on June 6, 1944 from the time of Dwight D. Eisenhower's appointment as the Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, to the establishment of the beachhead in…
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Escape from Sobibor (1987)
★ 7.2/10Also drama and warThe true story of WWII's notorious Sobibor Nazi death camp, where a courageous inmate orchestrates and leads the escape of over 300 prisoners.
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Triumph of the Spirit (1989)
★ 6.5/10Also drama and warDuring World War II, Salamo Arouch, a passionate boxer, is arrested and sent to a concentration camp. Soon, he is forced to box against his fellow prisoners for the sake of entertainment.
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The Deer Hunter (1978)
★ 8/10Also drama and warThree steelworkers enlist in the army and are sent to Vietnam, one leaving behind a rushed marriage, the others a shared love. What they encounter during the war changes their lives forever.
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Love Strange Love (1982)
★ 5.8/10Also drama and historyA man remembers forty-eight crucial hours in his life when, as a child, he visited his mother, the favorite woman of an important politician, in a bordello owned by him, right before some important political changes in…
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Macbeth (1971)
★ 7.1/10Also war and dramaScotland, 11th century. Driven by the twisted prophecy of three witches and the ruthless ambition of his wife, warlord Macbeth, bold and brave, but also weak and hesitant, betrays his good king and his brothers in arms…
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Nightwatching (2007)
★ 6.2/10Also drama and historyAn extravagant, exotic and moving look at Rembrandt's romantic and professional life, and the controversy he created by the identification of a murderer in the painting The Night Watch.
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Sometimes in April (2005)
★ 7.1/10Also drama and historyTwo brothers are divided by marriage and fate during the 100 horrifying days of the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
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The Stanford Prison Experiment (2015)
★ 6.8/10Also drama and historyIn 1971, Stanford's Professor Philip Zimbardo conducts a controversial psychology experiment in which college students pretend to be either prisoners or guards, but the proceedings soon get out of hand. Based on a true…
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Darfur (2009)
★ 5.9/10Also war and dramaAmerican journalists in Sudan are confronted with the dilemma of whether to return home to report on the atrocities they have seen, or to stay behind and help some of the victims they have encountered.
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Gangs of New York (2002)
★ 7.3/10Also drama and historyIn early 1860s New York, Irish immigrant Amsterdam Vallon is released from prison and returns to the Five Points, seeking revenge against his father's killer, William Cutting, a powerful anti-immigrant gang leader. He…
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Born on the Fourth of July (1989)
★ 7/10Also drama and warParalyzed in the Vietnam war, Ron Kovic becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country he fought for.
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The Brothers Karamazov (1958)
★ 6.5/10Also drama and historyRyevsk, Russia, 1870. Tensions abound in the Karamazov family. Fyodor is a wealthy libertine who holds his purse strings tightly. His four grown sons include Dmitri, the eldest, an elegant officer, always broke and at…
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Fanny Lye Deliver'd (2019)
★ 6.3/10Also drama and historyOn an isolated English farm in 1657, Fanny lives a quiet life with her oppressive husband John and their young son. One day their life is rocked with the arrival of young couple Thomas and Rebecca who claim to have…
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Salvador (1986)
★ 7/10Also drama and warIn 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 rescue his girlfriend and her children.
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Hamburger Hill (1987)
★ 6.6/10Also war and dramaThe men of Bravo Company are facing a battle that's all uphill… up Hamburger Hill. Fourteen war-weary soldiers are battling for a mud-covered mound of earth so named because it chews up soldiers like chopped meat. They…
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The Krays (1990)
★ 6.1/10Also drama and historyTwins Ronnie and Reggie Kray are raised in east London, under the influence of their hateful but doting mother Violet. As they grow up, Ronnie's violent nature takes over, and Reggie follows his brother's lead. The two…