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Movies that feel like Greyhound (2020)

If you loved Greyhound, the closest films we have are Stalingrad (2013), Uri: The Surgical Strike (2019) and 300: Rise of an Empire (2014). All three share Greyhound's bleak and kinetic feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 10 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Paramount Plus Premium and others, checked against today's data.

A first-time captain leads a convoy of allied ships carrying thousands of soldiers across the treacherous waters of the "Black Pit" to the front lines of WWII. With no air cover protection for 5 days, the captain and his convoy must battle the surrounding enemy Nazi U-boats in order to give the allies a chance to win the war.

πŸ… 77% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 7 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Aaron Schneiderbleakkineticcontemplative
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If Greyhound hit the spot, these will too

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Stalingrad
2013 Β· dir. Fyodor Bondarchuk
πŸ… 51%β˜… 5.7war Β· action Β· drama

The same two preoccupations: world war ii, and a true story

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

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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Uri: The Surgical Strike
2019 Β· dir. Aditya Dhar
πŸ… 57%β˜… 8.2action Β· drama Β· war

Both are built on the same subject: a true story

Following the roguish terrorist attacks at Uri Army Base camp in Kashmir, India takes the fight to the enemy, in its most successful covert operation till date with one and only one objective of avenging their fallen heroes.

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300: Rise of an Empire
2014 Β· dir. Noam Murro
πŸ… 45%β˜… 6.2action Β· drama Β· war

The same preoccupation in both: naval warfare

Greek general Themistocles attempts to unite all of Greece by leading the charge that will change the course of the war. Themistocles faces the massive invading Persian forces led by mortal-turned-god, Xerxes and Artemesia, the vengeful commander of the Persian navy.

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The Longest Day
1962 Β· dir. Ken Annakin
πŸ… 83%β˜… 7.7war Β· action Β· drama

One thread runs through both: allies

The difference: Made in the 1960s, in a different era of the craft

The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that when the Allied invasion comes they must be stopped on the beach. "For the Allies as well as the Germans, it will be the longest day"

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Balkan Line
2019 Β· dir. Andrey Volgin
β˜… 6.6drama Β· action Β· war

Bleak where it counts, kinetic underneath

After the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999, the Yugoslav army pulls out of Kosovo region, leaving Serbian people at the mercy of the Albanian UCK. A small band of soldiers must take over the Slatina airport, and hold it until the Russian peacekeepers arrive.

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Sobibor
2018 Β· dir. Konstantin Khabenskiy
πŸ… 73%β˜… 6.4war Β· drama

Both keep coming back to the same thing: world war ii

The difference: None of the momentum Greyhound is built on

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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Lone Survivor
2013 Β· dir. Peter Berg
πŸ… 75%β˜… 7.5war Β· action Β· drama

War with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

Four Navy SEALs on a covert mission to neutralize a high-level Taliban operative must make an impossible moral decision in the mountains of Afghanistan that leads them into an enemy ambush. As they confront unthinkable odds, the SEALs must find reserves of strength and resilience to fight to the finish.

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Dunkirk
2017 Β· dir. Christopher Nolan
πŸ… 92%β˜… 7.8war Β· action Β· drama

Common ground: allies

The story of the miraculous evacuation of Allied soldiers from Belgium, Britain, Canada and France, who were cut off and surrounded by the German army from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk between May 26th and June 4th 1940 during World War II.

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Civil War
2024 Β· dir. Alex Garland
πŸ… 81%β˜… 7war Β· action Β· drama

Both lean on bleakness more than on action

In the near future, a group of war journalists attempt to survive while reporting the truth as the United States stands on the brink of civil war.

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Kalashnikov AK-47
2020 Β· dir. Konstantin Buslov
β˜… 6.6war Β· history Β· drama

Contemplative drama, and it commits to that

The difference: Missing the momentum of Greyhound

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 β€” the AK-47. Shot in occupied Crimea.

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Unbroken
2014 Β· dir. Angelina Jolie
πŸ… 52%β˜… 7.2drama Β· war

Bleak war in both cases

A chronicle of the life of Louis Zamperini, an Olympic runner who was taken prisoner by Japanese forces during World War II.

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Persian Lessons
2020 Β· dir. Vadim Perelman
πŸ… 80%β˜… 7.4war Β· drama

Drama built on stillness, twice over

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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