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Movies that feel like Battle for Sevastopol (2015)

If you loved Battle for Sevastopol, the closest films we have are Kalashnikov AK-47 (2020), Ashes and Diamonds (1958) and Mrs. Miniver (1942). All three share Battle for Sevastopol's bleak and contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 10 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on HBO Max, Amazon Prime Video and Criterion Channel and others, checked against today's data.

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

The same preoccupation in both: world war ii

The difference: Missing the romance of Battle for Sevastopol

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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Ashes and Diamonds
1958 · dir. Andrzej Wajda
🍅 96%7.7drama · war · romance

Common ground: world war ii

The difference: Made in the 1950s, in a different era of the craft

A young academy soldier, Maciek Chelmicki, is ordered to shoot the secretary of the KW PPR. A coincidence causes him to kill someone else. Meeting face to face with his victim, he gets a shock. He faces the necessity of repeating the assassination. He meets Krystyna, a girl working as a barmaid in the restaurant of the "Monopol" hotel. His affection for her makes him even more aware of the senselessness of killing at the end of the war. Loyalty to the oath he took, and thus the obligation to obey the order, tips the scales.

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Mrs. Miniver
1942 · dir. William Wyler
🍅 93%7.6drama · romance · war

Bleak and contemplative in the same breath

Middle-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 Beldon. Then the war comes and Vin joins the RAF.

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

Both are built on the same subject: soviet union

The difference: None of the romance Battle for Sevastopol is built on

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 Cranes Are Flying
1957 · dir. Mikhail Kalatozov
🍅 96%8.3drama · romance · war

The same mix in both: romance, then tenderness

Veronika and Boris come together in Moscow shortly before World War II. Walking along the river, they watch cranes fly overhead, and promise to rendezvous before Boris leaves to fight. Boris misses the meeting and is off to the front lines, while Veronika waits patiently, sending letters faithfully. After her house is bombed, Veronika moves in with Boris' family, into the company of a cousin with his own intentions.

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From Here to Eternity
1953 · dir. Fred Zinnemann
🍅 88%7.6war · romance · drama

Bleak war, and it commits to that

In 1941 Hawaii, a private is cruelly punished for not boxing on his unit's team, while his captain's wife and second in command are falling in love.

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The Best Years of Our Lives
1946 · dir. William Wyler
🍅 97%8.1drama · romance · war

Drama built on stillness, twice over

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

Romance with a pulse of romance, in both cases

The difference: Leans harder into history than Battle for Sevastopol does

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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Sobibor
2018 · dir. Konstantin Khabenskiy
🍅 73%6.4war · drama

Both lean on bleakness more than on war

The film is based on a real story that happened in 1943 in the Sobibor concentration camp in German-occupied Poland. The main character of the movie is the Soviet-Jewish soldier Alexander Pechersky, who at that time was serving in the Red Army as a lieutenant. In October 1943, he was captured by the Nazis and deported to the Sobibor concentration camp, where Jews were being exterminated in gas chambers. But, in just 3 weeks, Alexander was able to plan an international uprising of prisoners from Poland and Western Europe. This uprising resulted in being the only successful one throughout the war, which led to the largest escape of prisoners from a Nazi concentration camp.

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Right Now, Wrong Then
2015 · dir. Hong Sang-soo
🍅 92%7.1drama · romance

Tender drama in both cases

By mistake, film director Ham Chunsu arrives in Suwon a day early. With time to kill before his lecture the next day, Chunsu stops by a restored, old palace and meets an artist named Yoon Heejung. Together, they go to Heejung's workshop to look at her paintings, have Sushi with Soju for dinner, and get close. Later, they go to another café and have more drinks with Heejung's acquaintances. When asked if he is married, Chunsu is forced to reveal the fact that he is, and Heejung gets deeply disappointed...

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Persian Lessons
2020 · dir. Vadim Perelman
🍅 80%7.4war · drama

Both lean on stillness more than on romance

Occupied France, 1942. Gilles is arrested by SS soldiers alongside other Jews and sent to a camp in Germany. He narrowly avoids sudden execution by swearing to the guards that he is not Jewish, but Persian. This lie temporarily saves him, but Gilles gets assigned a life-or-death mission: to teach Farsi to Head of Camp Koch, who dreams of opening a restaurant in Iran once the war is over. Through an ingenious trick, Gilles manages to survive by inventing words of "Farsi" every day and teaching them to Koch.

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Asako I & II
2018 · dir. Ryusuke Hamaguchi
🍅 77%7drama · romance

Both lean on romance more than on drama

Asako lives in Osaka. She falls in love with Baku, a free-spirit. One day, Baku suddenly disappears. Two years later, Asako now lives in Tokyo and meets Ryohei. He looks just like Baku, but has a completely different personality.

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