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Movies Like Road to Boston

If you liked Road to Boston (2023), a drama movie directed by Kang Je-kyu, 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. 1Devotion

    Devotion (2022)

    ★ 7/10Also 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.

  2. 2Patriots Day

    Patriots Day (2016)

    ★ 7.1/10Also drama

    In the aftermath of an unspeakable act of terror, Police Sergeant Tommy Saunders joins courageous survivors, first responders and investigators in a race against the clock to hunt down the Boston Marathon bombers…

  3. 3Chariots of Fire

    Chariots of Fire (1981)

    ★ 6.8/10Also drama

    In the class-obsessed and religiously divided UK of the early 1920s, two determined young runners train for the 1924 Paris Olympics. Eric Liddell, a devout Christian born to Scottish missionaries in China, sees running…

  4. 4The Boys in the Boat

    The Boys in the Boat (2023)

    ★ 7.3/10Also drama

    The triumphant underdog story of the University of Washington men's rowing team, who stunned the world by competing at the 1936 Berlin Olympics.

  5. 5Emperor

    Emperor (2012)

    ★ 6.2/10Also drama

    As the Japanese surrender at the end of WWII, Gen. Fellers is tasked with deciding if Emperor Hirohito will be hanged as a war criminal. Influencing his ruling is his quest to find Aya, an exchange student he met years…

  6. 6Fatima

    Fatima (2020)

    ★ 7.2/10Also drama

    In 1917, outside the parish of Fátima, Portugal, a 10-year-old girl and her two younger cousins witness multiple visitations of the Virgin Mary, who tells them that only prayer and suffering will bring an end to World…

  7. 7Flyboys

    Flyboys (2006)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama

    The adventures of the Lafayette Escadrille, young Americans who volunteered for the French military before the U.S. entered World War I, and became the country's first fighter pilots.

  8. 8Operation Mincemeat

    Operation Mincemeat (2022)

    ★ 6.5/10Also 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…

  9. 9The Great Debaters

    The Great Debaters (2007)

    ★ 7.3/10Also drama

    The true story of a brilliant but politically radical debate team coach who uses the power of words to transform a group of underdog African-American college students into a historical powerhouse that took on the…

  10. 10The Mercy

    The Mercy (2018)

    ★ 5.9/10Also drama

    In 1968, Donald Crowhurst, an amateur sailor, endangers the fate of his family and business, and his own life, blinded by his ambition to compete in the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race, attempting to become the first…

  11. 11The Bridge on the River Kwai

    The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)

    ★ 7.8/10Also drama

    The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their Japanese captors. British and American intelligence officers conspire to blow up the structure, but Col. Nicholson, the…

  12. 12Soul Surfer

    Soul Surfer (2011)

    ★ 7/10Also drama

    The true story of teen surfer Bethany Hamilton, who lost her arm in a shark attack and courageously overcame all odds to become a champion again, through her sheer determination and unwavering faith.

  13. 13Pride

    Pride (2007)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama

    Coach Jim Ellis shocks the community and changes lives when, aided by a local janitor, he sets out to form Philadelphia's first black swim team. But the odds are against them as they battle rigid rules, racism and more.

  14. 14Miracle: Letters to the President

    Miracle: Letters to the President (2021)

    ★ 7.4/10Also drama

    Dreaming of making a way station for his sister and the villagers who have no choice but to commute along the dangerous train tracks every day, Joon-kyung sends many letters to the President, but with no reply. Ra-hee…

  15. 15Ford v Ferrari

    Ford v Ferrari (2019)

    ★ 8/10Also drama

    American car designer Carroll Shelby and the British-born driver Ken Miles work together to battle corporate interference, the laws of physics, and their own personal demons to build a revolutionary race car for Ford…

  16. 16Dangerous Minds

    Dangerous Minds (1995)

    ★ 7/10Also drama

    Former Marine Louanne Johnson lands a gig teaching in a pilot program for bright but underachieving teens at a notorious inner-city high school. After having a terrible first day, she decides she must throw decorum to…

  17. 17Seabiscuit

    Seabiscuit (2003)

    ★ 7.1/10Also drama

    True story of the undersized Depression-era racehorse whose victories lifted not only the spirits of the team behind it but also those of their nation.

  18. 18The Six Triple Eight

    The Six Triple Eight (2024)

    ★ 7.6/10Also drama

    During World War II, the US Army's only all-Black, all-women battalion takes on an impossible mission: sorting through a three-year backlog of 17 million pieces of mail that hadn't been delivered to American soldiers…

  19. 19A Call to Spy

    A Call to Spy (2020)

    ★ 6.8/10Also drama

    The story of Vera Atkins, a crafty spy recruiter, and two of the first women she selects for Churchill's "secret army": Virginia Hall, a daring American undaunted by a disability and Noor Inayat Khan, a pacifist. These…

  20. 20One Life

    One Life (2023)

    ★ 7.8/10Also drama

    British stockbroker Nicholas Winton visits Czechoslovakia in the 1930s and forms plans to assist in the rescue of Jewish children before the onset of World War II, in an operation that came to be known as the…

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