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Movies that feel like 9th Company (2005)

If you loved 9th Company, the closest films we have are Katyn (2007), Flame & Citron (2008) and Stalingrad (2013). All three share 9th Company's bleak and contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 7 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, HBO Max and Amazon Prime Video and others, checked against today's data.

Russian army recruits complete training and take their posting in late 1980s Afghanistan, where the insurgents are slowly gaining the upper hand.

🍅 69% Rotten Tomatoes7.1 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Fyodor Bondarchukbleakcontemplativeepic

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Katyn
2007 · dir. Andrzej Wajda
🍅 91%7drama · history · war

The same mix in both: bleakness, then stillness

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 men, both military and government officials, are captured by the invaders. Their fate will only be known several years later.

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Flame & Citron
2008 · dir. Ole Christian Madsen
🍅 86%7.2drama · history · war

War built on scale, twice over

Gunman Flame and his partner Citron assassinate Nazi collaborators for the Danish resistance. Assigned targets by their Allies-connected leader, Aksel Winther, they relish the opportunity to begin targeting the Nazis themselves. When they begin to doubt the validity of their assignments, their morally complicated task becomes even more labyrinthine.

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Stalingrad
2013 · dir. Fyodor Bondarchuk
🍅 51%5.7war · action · drama

The same hand behind both of them: Fyodor Bondarchuk

The difference: Not nearly as epic as 9th Company

A band of determined Russian soldiers fight to hold a strategic building in their devastated city against a ruthless German army, and in the process become deeply connected to a Russian woman who has been living there.

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The Champion
2021 · dir. Maciej Barczewski
6.7drama · history · war

Bleak drama in both cases

It is 1940. The first transport of prisoners arrives at the newly created concentration camp Auschwitz. One of them is Tadeusz “Teddy” Pietrzykowski, pre-war boxing champion of Warsaw. The camp officers force him to fight in the ring for his and other prisoners’ lives. However, his every win strengthens the hope that Nazis are not invincible. Auschwitz officers notice the growing resistance. The confrontation with the authorities of the camp becomes inevitable.

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Kalashnikov AK-47
2020 · dir. Konstantin Buslov
6.6war · history · drama

Contemplative history, and it commits to that

A Russian military propaganda film about the tank commander Kalashnikov, severely injured in battle in 1941. The accident leaves him incapacitated and unable to return to the front line. While recovering in the hospital, he begins creating the initial sketches of what will become one of the world’s most legendary weapons. A self-taught inventor is only 29 when he develops the now iconic assault riffle — the AK-47. Shot in occupied Crimea.

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The Captain
2018 · dir. Robert Schwentke
🍅 83%7.3war · drama · history

Both lean on scale more than on war

Germany, 1945. Soldier Willi Herold, a deserter of the German army, stumbles into a uniform of a Nazi captain abandoned during the last and desperate weeks of the Third Reich. Newly emboldened by the allure of a suit that he has stolen only to stay warm, Willi discovers that many Germans will follow the leader, whoever he is.

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Stalingrad
1993 · dir. Joseph Vilsmaier
7.5drama · history · war

Drama with a pulse of bleakness, in both cases

A German Platoon is explored through the brutal fighting of the Battle of Stalingrad. After half of their number is wiped out and they're placed under the command of a sadistic captain, the platoon lieutenant leads his men to desert. The platoon members attempt escape from the city, now surrounded by the Soviet Army.

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The Shadow in My Eye
2021 · dir. Ole Bornedal
7.3war · drama · history

History with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

On March 21st, 1945, the British Royal Air Force set out on a mission to bomb Gestapo's headquarters in Copenhagen. The raid had fatal consequences as some of the bombers accidentally targeted a school and more than 120 people were killed, 86 of whom were children.

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The Flowers of War
2011 · dir. Zhang Yimou
🍅 41%7.5drama · history · war

A 2010s answer to the same itch

The difference: Reviewed a good deal more coolly

A Westerner finds refuge with a group of women in a church during Japan's rape of Nanking in 1937. Posing as a priest, he attempts to lead the women to safety.

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T-34
2018 · dir. Alexey Sidorov
6.8drama · history · war

Drama of the same temperament

In 1944, a courageous group of Russian soldiers managed to escape from German captivity in a half-destroyed legendary T-34 tank. Those were the times of unforgettable bravery, fierce fighting, unbreakable love, and legendary miracles.

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Warsaw 44
2014 · dir. Jan Komasa
6.6drama · history · war

Both working the same history territory

City of Warsaw, Poland, August 1st, 1944. Citizens have experienced inhuman acts of terror and violence during five long years of Nazi occupation. As the Soviet Army relentlessly approaches, the youngest and bravest among them rise up as one and face tyranny fighting street by street, but the price to pay will be high and hard the way to freedom…

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The Tin Drum
1979 · dir. Volker Schlöndorff
🍅 84%7.4drama · history · war

War in the same key

The difference: Made in the 1970s, in a different era of the craft

In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of stairs and stops growing. In 1939, World War II breaks out.

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