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Movies that feel likePlatoon (1986)

As a young and naive recruit in Vietnam, Chris Taylor faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war and the duality of man.

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).

πŸ… 89% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 8 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Oliver Stonecontemplativebleakkineticgritty
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Letters from Iwo Jima
2006 Β· dir. Clint Eastwood
πŸ… 91%β˜… 7.8action Β· drama Β· war

Both are built on the same subject: mortality

The difference: Easier on the grit than Platoon

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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Eastern Condors
1987 Β· dir. Sammo Hung
β˜… 7.1action Β· adventure Β· war

Both are working the same pair: jungle, soldier

The difference: Takes it somewhere less contemplative than Platoon does

A motley group of Chinese prisoners held in the US is sent on a covert mission with the promise of a pardon: to go deep into Vietnam and destroy a secret depot of missiles that the US left behind during the pull-out.

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Demolition Man
1993 Β· dir. Marco Brambilla
πŸ… 67%β˜… 6.7crime Β· action Β· science fiction

Both keep coming back to the same thing: helicopter

The difference: Leans harder into crime than Platoon does

In 1996, brash L.A. detective John Spartan and maniac killer Simon Phoenix are both sentenced to decades in a cryogenic prison as punishment for a rescue mission gone wrong. When Phoenix escapes 36 years later to wreak havoc on the future, Spartan is awakened to capture his nemesis the old-fashioned way.

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

Contemplative and bleak in the same breath

The difference: Made in the 2010s, in a different era of the craft

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

Drama with a pulse of momentum, in both cases

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

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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Civil War
2024 Β· dir. Alex Garland
πŸ… 80%β˜… 7war Β· action Β· dramaRent or buy

Common ground: war crimes

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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Tears of the Sun
2003 Β· dir. Antoine Fuqua
πŸ… 34%β˜… 6.6war Β· action Β· dramaNetflix

The same preoccupation in both: village

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 Β· dir. Noam Murro
πŸ… 45%β˜… 6.2action Β· drama Β· warParamount+

One thread runs through both: soldier

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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Apocalypse Now
1979 Β· dir. Francis Ford Coppola
πŸ… 91%β˜… 8.4drama Β· warParamount+

Both keep coming back to the same thing: vietnam war

At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, officially, "does not exist, nor will it ever exist." His goal is to locate - and eliminate - a mysterious Green Beret Colonel named Walter Kurtz, who has been leading his personal army on illegal guerrilla missions into enemy territory.

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Fury
2014 Β· dir. David Ayer
πŸ… 75%β˜… 7.6war Β· drama Β· actionApple TV+

Both are built on the same subject: ambush

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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Greyhound
2020 Β· dir. Aaron Schneider
πŸ… 77%β˜… 7war Β· action Β· dramaApple TV+

Both lean on stillness more than on war

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

Action built on bleakness, twice over

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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