Movies Like Youth

If you liked Youth (1977), a movie directed by Xie Jin, 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
Johnny Got His Gun (1971)
★ 7.5/10
A young American soldier, rendered in pseudocoma from an artillery shell from WWI, recalls his life leading up to that point.
2
Private Valentine: Blonde & Dangerous (2008)
★ 6.2/10
When fluffy, bubble gum movie star Megan Valentine suddenly finds herself broke and humiliated in the public eye, she wanders from the wreckage of a car accident and witlessly enlists in the U.S. Army hoping in vain…
3
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1968)
★ 7.5/10
Singer is a deaf-mute whose small world brings him in contact with a young girl, Mick, who cherishes a seemingly hopeless dream of becoming a concert pianist. At first hostile, Mick soon becomes friends with Singer…
4
At First Sight (1999)
★ 6/10
A blind man has an operation to regain his sight at the urging of his girlfriend and must deal with the changes to his life.
5
Senseless (1998)
★ 6.2/10
A student gets his senses enhanced by an experimental drug. But abuse is not an option.
6
Resident Evil (2002)
★ 6.7/10
When a virus leaks from a top-secret facility, turning all resident researchers into ravenous zombies and their lab animals into mutated hounds from hell, the government sends in an elite military task force to contain…
7
Guy Ritchie's The Covenant (2023)
★ 7.7/10
After an ambush, Afghan interpreter Ahmed goes to Herculean lengths to save US Army Sergeant John Kinley's life. When Kinley learns that Ahmed and his family were not given safe passage to America as promised, he must…
8
Memoirs of an Invisible Man (1992)
★ 5.9/10
After a freak accident, an invisible yuppie runs for his life from a treacherous CIA official while trying to cope with his new life.
9
Edge of Tomorrow (2014)
★ 7.6/10
Major Bill Cage is an officer who has never seen a day of combat when he is unceremoniously demoted and dropped into combat. Cage is killed within minutes, managing to take an alpha alien down with him. He awakens back…
10
Lucky Strike (2026)
★ 6.6/10
A wounded American soldier fights to survive behind enemy lines during WWII's Battle of the Bulge against the Germans, relying on his instinct, spy craft and a hand-radio to evade capture and find his way back to his…
11
Flyboys (2006)
★ 6.5/10
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.
12
Sahara (1995)
★ 6.7/10
After the fall of Tobruk in June 1942, U.S. Army sergeant Joe Gunn leads his tank into the Sahara desert, in order to evade advancing Rommel's forces and reach Allied lines. Along the way he picks up few Allied…
13
Dear John (2010)
★ 6.8/10
While Sergeant John Tyree is home on two weeks leave from Germany, he meets Savannah after he dives into the ocean to retrieve Savannah's purse that had fallen off a pier. John eventually falls in love with Savannah…
14
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944)
★ 6.9/10
A small-town girl with a soft spot for American soldiers wakes up the morning after a wild farewell party for the troops to find that she married someone she can't remember.
15
What's Love Got to Do with It? (2023)
★ 6.1/10
Two childhood friends now in their thirties must decide whether to follow their heads or their hearts once the man decides to follow his parents' advice and enter into an arranged marriage in Pakistan.
16
One Week Friends (2022)
★ 6.1/10
A high school student suffers from a strange amnesia, causing her memories to only last a week. After she befriends a new student, his kindness and persistence make her gradually open up.
17
The Silent War (2012)
★ 6/10
An espionage thriller set in the 1950s and adapted from the novel "Year Suan/Plot Against" by May Jia. Tony Leung Chiu Wai plays a blind man who works for a piano tuner. He is recruited for a spy mission because of his…
18
Sound of Metal (2020)
★ 7.7/10
Metal drummer Ruben begins to lose his hearing. When a doctor tells him his condition will worsen, he thinks his career and life is over. His girlfriend Lou checks the former addict into a rehab for the deaf hoping it…
19
Let's Make Love (1960)
★ 6.4/10
When billionaire Jean-Marc Clement learns that he is to be satirized in an off-Broadway revue, he passes himself off as an actor playing him in order to get closer to the beautiful star of the show, Amanda Dell.
20
The Kill Team (2019)
★ 6.5/10
When Andrew Briggman — a young soldier in the US Army during the invasion of Afghanistan — witnesses the murderous behavior of fellow soldiers, under the direction of a malevolent Sergeant, he faces a moral dilemma…