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Movies Like At War for Love

If you liked At War for Love (2016), a war and drama movie directed by Pif, 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. 1Operation Mincemeat

    Operation Mincemeat (2022)

    ★ 6.5/10Also war and drama

    In 1943, two British intelligence officers concoct Operation Mincemeat, wherein their plan to drop a corpse with false papers off the coast of Spain would fool Nazi spies into believing the Allied forces were planning…

  2. 2Baaria

    Baaria (2009)

    ★ 7.2/10Also drama and comedy

    In 1920s Bagheria, Giuseppe 'Peppino' Torrenuova works as a shepherd to financially help his poor family. Over the next fifty years, Giuseppe's life, as well as the life of the village, is observed. Giuseppe grows up…

  3. 3Paisan

    Paisan (1946)

    ★ 7.5/10Also drama and war

    Six stories unfold in various regions, from Sicily to the northern Po Valley as American military personnel interact with a variety of Italian locals over eighteen months in the push north during the Italian Campaign…

  4. 4The Mafia Kills Only in Summer

    The Mafia Kills Only in Summer (2013)

    ★ 7.3/10Also romance and comedy

    While Arturo tries to gain the love of Flora, he witnesses the history of Sicily from 1969 to 1992, miraculously dodging the crimes of the Mafia and supporting as a journalist the heroic struggle of the judges and…

  5. 5The Secret of Santa Vittoria

    The Secret of Santa Vittoria (1970)

    ★ 6.9/10Also comedy and drama

    During World War II, Italian villagers hide their wine from the German army.

  6. 6There's Still Tomorrow

    There's Still Tomorrow (2023)

    ★ 8.1/10Also comedy and drama

    In postwar Rome, a working-class woman dreams of a better future for herself and her daughter while facing abuse at the hands of her domineering husband. When a mysterious letter arrives, she discovers the courage to…

  7. 7The Last Four Days

    The Last Four Days (1974)

    ★ 6.3/10Also war and drama

    In 1945, the dictator of fascist Italy and Hitler's close ally Benito Mussolini faces defeat. In a desperate attempt to avoid capture, he tries to flee the country with his lover Claretta Petacci, but Italian partisans…

  8. 8Rome, Open City

    Rome, Open City (1945)

    ★ 8/10Also drama and war

    During the Nazi occupation of 1944 Rome, Resistance leader Giorgio Manfredi is pursued by the Nazis as he seeks refuge and a means of escape.

  9. 9Waiting for Anya

    Waiting for Anya (2020)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama and war

    During the harrows of WWII, Jo, a young shepherd along with the help of the widow Horcada, helps to smuggle Jewish children across the border from southern France into Spain.

  10. 10What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?

    What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? (1966)

    ★ 5.9/10Also comedy and war

    A by-the-book Captain is ordered to capture a strategic village in Italy. The Italian soldiers are willing to surrender, if they can have a festival first. The lieutenant convinces the Captain this is the only way…

  11. 11The Man Who Never Was

    The Man Who Never Was (1956)

    ★ 7/10Also war and drama

    The true story of a British effort to trick the Germans into weakening Sicily's defenses before the 1943 attack. A dead soldier is dressed as a British officer and outfitted with faked papers showing that the Allies…

  12. 12The Scarlet and the Black

    The Scarlet and the Black (1983)

    ★ 7.1/10Also drama and war

    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 that the Nazis decide to assassinate him…

  13. 13The Monuments Men

    The Monuments Men (2014)

    ★ 6.1/10Also war and drama

    Based on the true story of the greatest treasure hunt in history, The Monuments Men is an action drama focusing on seven over-the-hill, out-of-shape museum directors, artists, architects, curators, and art historians…

  14. 14Rainbow: A Private Affair

    Rainbow: A Private Affair (2017)

    ★ 6.2/10Also war and drama

    Summer 1943, Piedmont, Italy. Milton loves Fulvia who plays with his love: she only likes the depth of his thought and the letters he writes to her. One year later, Milton has joined the Resistance and fights beside…

  15. 15The Devil's Brigade

    The Devil's Brigade (1968)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama and war

    At the onset of World War II, American Lt. Col. Robert Frederick is put in charge of a unit called the 1st Special Service Force, composed of elite Canadian commandos and undisciplined American soldiers. With Maj. Alan…

  16. 16Mediterraneo

    Mediterraneo (1991)

    ★ 7.6/10Also comedy and romance

    Greek Sea, World War II. An Italian ship leaves a handful of soldiers in a little island; their mission is to spot enemy ships and to hold the island in case of attack. The village of the island seems abandoned and…

  17. 17The War Below

    The War Below (2021)

    ★ 6.6/10Also war and drama

    During World War I, a group of British miners are recruited to tunnel underneath no man's land and set bombs from below the German front in hopes of breaking the deadly stalemate of the Battle of Messines.

  18. 18Captain Corelli's Mandolin

    Captain Corelli's Mandolin (2001)

    ★ 5.9/10Also drama and romance

    When a fisherman leaves to fight with the Greek army during World War II, his fiancée falls in love with the local Italian commander.

  19. 19The Young Lions

    The Young Lions (1958)

    ★ 6.7/10Also war and drama

    The lives of three young men, a German and two Americans, during WWII.

  20. 20Devotion

    Devotion (2022)

    ★ 7/10Also war and drama

    The harrowing true story of two elite US Navy fighter pilots during the Korean War. Their heroic sacrifices would ultimately make them the Navy's most celebrated wingmen.

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