
Movies that feel likePlatoon (1986)
If you loved Platoon, the closest films we have are Letters from Iwo Jima (2006), Eastern Condors (1987) and Demolition Man (1993). All three share Platoon'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 Uri: The Surgical Strike (2019).
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If Platoon hit the spot, these will too

Both are built on the same subject: mortality
The difference: Easier on the grit than Platoon

Both are working the same pair: jungle, soldier
The difference: Takes it somewhere less contemplative than Platoon does

Both keep coming back to the same thing: helicopter
The difference: Leans harder into crime than Platoon does

Contemplative and bleak in the same breath
The difference: Made in the 2010s, in a different era of the craft

Drama with a pulse of momentum, in both cases
The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

Common ground: war crimes

The same preoccupation in both: village

One thread runs through both: soldier

Both keep coming back to the same thing: vietnam war

Both are built on the same subject: ambush

Both lean on stillness more than on war

Action built on bleakness, twice over
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