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Movies that feel likeLone Survivor (2013)

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.

If you loved Lone Survivor, the closest films we have are Letters from Iwo Jima (2006), Uri: The Surgical Strike (2019) and Greyhound (2020). All three share Lone Survivor's bleak and kinetic feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is A War (2015).

🍅 75% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.5 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Peter Bergbleakkineticcontemplative
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Letters from Iwo Jima
2006 · dir. Clint Eastwood
🍅 91%★ 7.8action · drama · war

Both keep coming back to the same thing: a true story

The story of the battle of Iwo Jima between the United States and Imperial Japan during World War II, as told from the perspective of the Japanese who fought it.

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Uri: The Surgical Strike
2019 · dir. Aditya Dhar
🍅 57%★ 8.2action · drama · war

Common ground: 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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Greyhound
2020 · dir. Aaron Schneider
🍅 77%★ 7war · action · dramaApple TV+

Bleak and kinetic in the same breath

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.

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Civil War
2024 · dir. Alex Garland
🍅 80%★ 7war · action · dramaRent or buy

Contemplative war in both cases

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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American Sniper
2014 · dir. Clint Eastwood
🍅 71%★ 7.3war · actionNetflix

The same preoccupation in both: biography

The difference: Trades the stillness of Lone Survivor for an angle of its own

U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle takes his sole mission—protect his comrades—to heart and becomes one of the most lethal snipers in American history. His pinpoint accuracy not only saves countless lives but also makes him a prime target of insurgents. Despite grave danger and his struggle to be a good husband and father to his family back in the States, Kyle serves four tours of duty in Iraq. However, when he finally returns home, he finds that he cannot leave the war behind.

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Fury
2014 · dir. David Ayer
🍅 75%★ 7.6war · drama · actionApple TV+

Action built on bleakness, twice over

April, 1945. As the Allies make their final push in the European Theater, a battle-hardened army sergeant commands a Sherman tank with a five-man crew on a deadly mission behind enemy lines.

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

Kinetic drama, and it commits to that

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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Balkan Line
2019 · dir. Andrey Volgin
★ 6.6drama · action · warPrime Video

War with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

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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Tears of the Sun
2003 · dir. Antoine Fuqua
🍅 34%★ 6.6war · action · dramaNetflix

Both lean on bleakness more than on action

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

Navy SEAL Lieutenant A.K. Waters and his elite squadron of tactical specialists are forced to choose between their duty and their humanity, between following orders by ignoring the conflict that surrounds them, or finding the courage to follow their conscience and protect a group of innocent refugees. When the democratic government of Nigeria collapses and the country is taken over by a ruthless military dictator, Waters, a fiercely loyal and hardened veteran is dispatched on a routine mission to retrieve a Doctors Without Borders physician.

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300: Rise of an Empire
2014 · dir. Noam Murro
🍅 45%★ 6.2action · drama · warParamount+

Drama built on momentum, twice over

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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A War
2015 · dir. Tobias Lindholm
🍅 90%★ 7drama · war

Both are built on the same subject: afghanistan

Company commander Claus Michael Pedersen and his men are stationed in Helmand, Afghanistan. Meanwhile back in Denmark, with a husband at war and three children missing their father, everyday life is a struggle for Claus' wife Maria. During a routine mission, the soldiers are caught in heavy Taliban crossfire. In order to save his men, Claus makes a decision that ultimately sees him return to Denmark accused of a war crime.

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Deepwater Horizon
2016 · dir. Peter Berg
🍅 82%★ 7.1drama · action

The same hand behind both of them: Peter Berg

A story set on the offshore drilling rig Deepwater Horizon, which exploded during April 2010 and created the worst oil spill in U.S. history.

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