
Movies that feel like1917 (2019)
If you loved 1917, the closest films we have are Jarhead (2005), The Shadow in My Eye (2021) and Hacksaw Ridge (2016). All three share 1917's bleak and contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality.
Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is The Captain (2018).
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If 1917 hit the spot, these will too

Mendes on war again — young soldiers and the machinery that spends them
The difference: A war of waiting — anticlimax is the point, not momentum

A wartime clock ticking toward a catastrophe ordinary people can't see
The difference: Civilian tragedy, not a soldier's mission — devastating and slower

Private conviction carrying one soldier through unimaginable carnage
The difference: Gorier and more sentimental, with a long calm run-up before the front

A reluctant young man hardened by the weight of a war he didn't choose
The difference: Medieval politics and long councils — battle is the exception

The same mud and wire of the Great War, crossed by one innocent
The difference: Sweeping storybook sentiment where 1917 stays boots-in-the-mud

Crossing lethal ground inch by inch, where one wrong move ends it
The difference: Set after the war — a moral reckoning, intimate and ugly

War's final days stripped of every comfort about human nature
The difference: A pitch-black true story of cruelty — nobody to root for

Men holding a position through a long night with no help coming
The difference: Loud, modern and gun-heavy, chaotic rather than one sustained push

Formally daring war filmmaking that traps you in one unbearable vantage
The difference: No mission, no front line — the horror stays just out of frame

Soldiers threading an impossible route straight through enemy ground
The difference: A glossy Russian tank adventure — crowd-pleasing, not solemn

The same mix in both: bleakness, then stillness

Epic war, and it commits to that
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