Movies Like Silent Heroes
If you liked Silent Heroes (1988), a action and war movie directed by Richard Driscoll, 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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2000 Meters to Andriivka (2025)
★ 8.1/10Also warAmid the failing counteroffensive, a journalist follows a Ukrainian platoon on their mission to traverse one mile of heavily fortified forest and liberate a strategic village from Russian occupation. But the farther…
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Battleground (1949)
★ 6.7/10Also action and warMembers of the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division are fighting for their country amidst the rugged terrain of Bastogne, Belgium, in December 1944. Holley and his American compatriots have already seen one of their…
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The Codes of War (2025)
★ 6.2/10Also action and warWar stories about family, ethics and honor include the true story of two U.S. Marines who in a span of six seconds, must stand their ground to stop a suicide truck bomb, a Navy Corpsman who attempts to hold on to his…
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The Secret of Santa Vittoria (1970)
★ 6.9/10Also warDuring World War II, Italian villagers hide their wine from the German army.
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Gladiator Underground (2025)
★ 7.7/10Also actionTwo brothers compete in the world's deadliest underground fighting tournament, where they must decide whether to play by the rules or to cast their honor aside and team up to bring down the dark syndicate running the…
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Lucky Strike (2026)
★ 6.6/10Also war and actionA 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…
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The Scarlet and the Black (1983)
★ 7.1/10Also warFr. 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…
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The History of Love (2016)
★ 6.4/10Also warThe story of a long-lost book that mysteriously reappears and connects an old man searching for his son with a girl seeking a cure for her mother's loneliness.
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Chief of Station (2024)
★ 6.3/10Also actionAfter learning that the death of his wife was not an accident, a former CIA Station Chief is forced back into the espionage underworld, teaming up with an adversary to unravel a conspiracy that challenges everything he…
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The War (1994)
★ 6.7/10Also warThe son of a Vietnam War Veteran must deal with neighborhood bullies as well as his dad's post-traumatic stress disorder while growing up in the deep south in the 1970's.
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Captain Corelli's Mandolin (2001)
★ 5.9/10Also warWhen a fisherman leaves to fight with the Greek army during World War II, his fiancée falls in love with the local Italian commander.
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Battle of the Bulge (1965)
★ 6.9/10Also warIn the winter of 1944, the Allied Armies stand ready to invade Germany at the coming of a New Year. To prevent it, Hitler orders an all-out offensive to re-take French territory and capture the major port city of…
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Birth of the Dragon (2017)
★ 5.8/10Also actionSet against the backdrop of San Francisco’s Chinatown, this cross-cultural biopic chronicles Bruce Lee’s emergence as a martial-arts superstar after his legendary secret showdown with fellow martial artist Wong Jack Man.
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Hot Shots! Part Deux (1993)
★ 6.5/10Also action and warTopper Harley is found to be working as an odd-job-man in a monastery. The CIA want him to lead a rescue mission into Iraq, to rescue the last rescue team, who went in to rescue the last rescue team—who went in to…
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On Fire (2023)
★ 6.3/10Also actionInspired by true and harrowing events, an ordinary man finds his world suddenly torn apart as devastating wildfires rip through the surrounding countryside. With precious moments ticking by, he must flee with his son…
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Cave Rescue (2019)
★ 5.9/10Also actionWhen a youth football team of 12 boys, aged 11-16, and their 25-year-old coach is trapped deep inside a cave in Northern Thailand, thousands of volunteers and soldiers from around the world unite in a race against time…
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Blood on the Sun (1945)
★ 5.9/10Also action and warNick Condon, an American journalist in 20s Tokyo, publishes the Japanese master plan for world domination. Reaction from the understandably upset Japanese provides the action, but this is overshadowed by the propaganda…
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Justice League: Gods and Monsters (2015)
★ 7.1/10Also actionIn an alternate universe, very different versions of DC's Trinity fight against the government after they are framed for an embassy bombing.
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Batman and Harley Quinn (2017)
★ 6.2/10Also actionBatman and Nightwing are forced to team with the Joker's sometimes-girlfriend Harley Quinn to stop a global threat brought about by Poison Ivy and Jason Woodrue, the Floronic Man.
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Little Boy (2015)
★ 7.3/10Also warAn 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…