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Movies Like Brothers

If you liked Brothers (2021), a drama and war movie directed by Łukasz Ostalski, 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. 1303 Squadron

    303 Squadron (2018)

    ★ 5.9/10Also war and drama

    After the fall of the September Campaign of 1939, two Polish pilots are forced to fight for their nation in foreign battlefronts.

  2. 2Filip

    Filip (2023)

    ★ 6.9/10Also drama and history

    During World War II, a Polish food server at a luxury German hotel tempts fate as he romances local women while hiding his Jewish identity.

  3. 3Jacknife

    Jacknife (1989)

    ★ 6.4/10Also drama and war

    A conflict develops between a troubled Vietnam veteran and the sister he lives with when she becomes involved romantically with the army buddy who reminds him of the tragic battle they both survived.

  4. 4The Kill Team

    The Kill Team (2019)

    ★ 6.5/10Also war and drama

    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…

  5. 5The World Will Tremble

    The World Will Tremble (2025)

    ★ 7.5/10Also drama and war

    The incredible, untold true story of how a group of prisoners attempt a seemingly impossible escape from the first Nazi death camp in order to provide the first eyewitness account of the Holocaust.

  6. 6The Grey Zone

    The Grey Zone (2001)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama and war

    The story of Auschwitz's twelfth Sonderkommando — one of the thirteen consecutive "Special Squads" of Jewish prisoners placed by the Nazis in the excruciating moral dilemma of assisting in the extermination of fellow…

  7. 7Outlaws - For Greater Glory

    Outlaws - For Greater Glory (2012)

    ★ 7/10Also history and drama

    A chronicle of the Cristeros War (1926-1929), which was touched off by a rebellion against the Mexican government's attempt to secularize the country.

  8. 81917

    1917 (2019)

    ★ 8/10Also war and drama

    At the height of the First World War, two young British soldiers must cross enemy territory and deliver a message that will stop a deadly attack on hundreds of soldiers.

  9. 9Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan

    Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan (2019)

    ★ 6.8/10Also war and drama

    Vietnam War, 1966. Australia and New Zealand send troops to support the United States and South Vietnamese in their fight against the communist North. Soldiers are very young men, recruits and volunteers who have never…

  10. 10Hatred

    Hatred (2016)

    ★ 7.2/10Also war and drama

    Summer of 1939. Zosia is a young Polish girl who is deeply in love with Ukrainian Petro. Their great love will be put to the test when her father decides to marry her to a wealthy widower Skiba. Right after wedding she…

  11. 11Katyn

    Katyn (2007)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama and history

    On September 1st, 1939, Nazi Germany invades Poland, unleashing World War II. On September 17th, the Soviet Red Army crosses the border. The Polish army, unable to fight on two fronts, is defeated. Thousands of Polish…

  12. 12Defiance

    Defiance (2008)

    ★ 6.8/10Also drama and history

    Based on a true story, during World War II, four Jewish brothers escape their Nazi-occupied homeland of West Belarus in Poland and join the Soviet partisans to combat the Nazis. The brothers begin the rescue of roughly…

  13. 13Behold a Pale Horse

    Behold a Pale Horse (1964)

    ★ 6/10Also drama and war

    Manuel Artiguez, a famous bandit during the Spanish civil war, has lived in French exile for 20 years. When his mother is dying he considers visiting her secretly in his Spanish home town. But his biggest enemy, the…

  14. 14Max

    Max (2002)

    ★ 6.2/10Also war and drama

    In 1918, a young, disillusioned Adolf Hitler strikes up a friendship with a Jewish art dealer while weighing a life of passion for art vs. talent at politics

  15. 15Emancipation

    Emancipation (2022)

    ★ 7.7/10Also drama and war

    Inspired by the gripping true story of a man who would do anything for his family—and for freedom. When Peter, an enslaved man, risks his life to escape and return to his family, he embarks on a perilous journey of…

  16. 16Schindler's List

    Schindler's List (1993)

    ★ 8.6/10Also drama and history

    The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II.

  17. 17Birdy

    Birdy (1984)

    ★ 7.1/10Also drama and war

    Two young men are seriously affected by the Vietnam War. One of them has always been obsessed with birds - but now believes he really is a bird, and has been sent to a mental hospital. Can his friend help him pull…

  18. 18Welcome to Sarajevo

    Welcome to Sarajevo (1997)

    ★ 6.5/10Also war and drama

    Follow a group of international journalists into the heart of the once cosmopolitan city of Sarajevo—now a danger zone of sniper and mortar attacks where residents still live. While reporting on an American aid worker…

  19. 19A Midnight Clear

    A Midnight Clear (1992)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama and war

    In 1944 France, an American Intelligence Squad locates a German Platoon wishing to surrender rather than die in Germany's final war offensive. The two groups of men, isolated from the war at present, put aside their…

  20. 20Thank You for Your Service

    Thank You for Your Service (2017)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama and war

    A group of U.S. soldiers returning from Iraq struggle to integrate back into family and civilian life, while living with the memory of a war that threatens to destroy them long after they've left the battlefield.

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