Movies Like Battle Circus
If you liked Battle Circus (1953), a drama and romance movie directed by Richard Brooks, 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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Doctor Zhivago (1965)
★ 7.6/10Also drama and romanceThe life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the October Revolution.
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Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955)
★ 6.1/10Also drama and romanceA widowed doctor of both Chinese and European descent falls in love with a married American correspondent in Hong Kong during China's Communist revolution.
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A Farewell to Arms (1957)
★ 6/10Also drama and romanceAn English nurse and an American soldier on the Italian front during World War I fall in love, but the horrors surrounding them test their romance to the limit.
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The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
★ 7.7/10Also drama and romanceIt's the hope that sustains the spirit of every GI: the dream of the day when he will finally return home. For three WWII veterans, the day has arrived. But for each man, the dream is about to become a nightmare.
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Everything, Everything (2017)
★ 7.2/10Also drama and romanceA teenager who's lived a sheltered life because she's allergic to everything, falls for the boy who moves in next door.
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Wings (1927)
★ 7.2/10Also drama and warTwo young men, one rich, one middle class, both in love with the same woman, become US Air Corps fighter pilots and, eventually, heroic flying aces during World War I. Devoted best friends, their mutual love of the…
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A Time to Love and a Time to Die (1958)
★ 7.2/10Also drama and warA German soldier home on leave falls in love with a girl, then returns to World War II.
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Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967)
★ 6.5/10Also drama and romanceBizarre tale of sex, betrayal, and perversion at a military post.
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Racing with the Moon (1984)
★ 6.3/10Also drama and romanceIn a small coastal California town, Henry and Nicky are pals from blue collar families with only a short time before they ship off to World War II. Henry begins romancing new-to-town Caddie Winger, believing her to be…
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South Pacific (1958)
★ 6.1/10Also romance and warCan a girl from Little Rock find happiness with a mature French planter she got to know one enchanted evening away from the military hospital where she is a nurse? Or should she just wash that man out of her hair?…
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Flying Tigers (1942)
★ 6.3/10Also drama and warJim Gordon commands a unit of the famed Flying Tigers, the American Volunteer Group which fought the Japanese in China before America's entry into World War II. Gordon must send his outnumbered band of fighter pilots…
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Where Hands Touch (2018)
★ 7.9/10Also war and dramaGermany, 1944. Leyna, the fifteen-year-old daughter of a white German mother and a black African father, meets Lutz, a compassionate member of the Hitler Youth whose father is a prominent Nazi soldier, and they form an…
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The Bridges at Toko-Ri (1954)
★ 6/10Also war and dramaA U.S. Navy pilot and his squad are assigned to bomb a group of heavily defended bridges deep behind enemy lines during the Korean War.
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Gone with the Wind (1939)
★ 7.9/10Also drama and warThe spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical profiteer during the American Civil War and Reconstruction Era.
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Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1957)
★ 6.9/10Also war and dramaA Roman Catholic nun and a hard-bitten US Marine are stranded together on a Japanese-occupied island in the South Pacific during World War II. Under constant threat of discovery by a ruthless enemy, they hide in a cave…
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A Walk in the Clouds (1995)
★ 7.4/10Also drama and romanceWorld War II vet Paul Sutton falls for a pregnant and unwed woman who persuades him -- during their first encounter -- to pose as her husband so she can face her family.
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Persuasion (2007)
★ 7.2/10Also drama and romanceAnne Elliot was once in love with Frederick Wentworth, a commander in the Royal Navy who was rejected by her snobby parents eight years ago. When the family hits hard times and are forced to rent out their mansion to…
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Mrs. Miniver (1942)
★ 7.1/10Also drama and romanceMiddle-class housewife Kay Miniver deals with petty problems. She and her husband Clem watch her Oxford-educated son Vin court Carol Beldon, the charming granddaughter of the local nobility as represented by Lady…
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All My Life (2020)
★ 7.7/10Also romance and dramaIt was a chance meeting started by one of Sol’s friends trying to chat up Jennifer. However, in the end, it was those two who hit it off. Sol enjoyed Jen’s smile, her effort, and how silly she could be. Jen enjoyed…
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The Way We Were (1973)
★ 7/10Also drama and romanceOpposites attract when, during their college days, Katie Morosky, a politically active Jew, meets Hubbell Gardiner, a feckless WASP. Years later, in the wake of World War II, they meet once again and, despite their…