20 movies like Gallipoli, ordered by similarity : They Shall Not Grow Old(2018), Blizzard of Souls(2019), Wings(1927), 1917(2019), Kills on Wheels(2016), Battle of Britain(1969), The Bridge at Remagen(1969), Battle of the Bulge(1965), Paths of Glory(1957), The Deer Hunter(1978), Flower(2017), The Thin Red Line(1998) ...
Drama
Australia
1981
110 Minutes
Mark Lee Mel Gibson Bill Kerr Ron Graham Harold Hopkins Charles Yunupingu Heath Harris Gerda Nicolson Robert Grubb Tim McKenzie David Argue
teenager soldier messenger gory gripping gutsy australia battlefield turkey egypt world war i friendship duty adventure growing up sacrifice 1910s
Two Australian sprinters face the brutal realities of war when they are sent to fight in the Gallipoli campaign in Turkey during World War I.
Documentary, War, Drama, History
UK|New Zealand
2018
99 Minutes
soldier army recruit british officer british soldier british soldiers german soldier german troops bleak emotional moving patriotic powerful sad somber war zone france belgium united kingdom trenches training camp
A documentary about World War I with never-before-seen footage to commemorate the centennial of the end of the war.
War, Drama, History
2019
104 Minutes
Oto Brantevics Gatis Gaga Martins Vilsons Renars Zeltins Vilis Daudzins Great Trusina Ieva Florence
army recruit young man eastern european man teenager soldier local tense gritty inspiring gripping patriotic frightening latvia eastern europe war zone living space russian revolution big city world war i family
War, Drama, History
1927
139 Minutes
Clara Bow Charles Rogers Richard Arlen Jobyna Ralston Gary Cooper El Brendel Arlette Marchal Richard Tucker Julia Swayne Gordon Henry B. Walthall George Irving
pilot cadet friend love interest volunteer military officer rousing suspenseful emotional paris small town air force base airplane world war i friendly fire friendship patriotism duty horrors of war adventure
Two World War I pilots (Charles "Buddy" Rogers, Richard Arlen) woo a young woman (Clara Bow) and fight the Germans.
War, Drama, History
USA|UK|India|Spain|Canada|China
2019
119 Minutes
George MacKay Dean-Charles Chapman Mark Strong Andrew Scott Richard Madden Claire Duburcq Colin Firth Benedict Cumberbatch Daniel Mays Adrian Scarborough Jamie Parker
british soldier young man corporal brother confident emotional gripping passionate rousing battlefield ruins occupied france following orders world war i rescue race against time delivery message adventure pursuit
April 6th, 1917. As a regiment assembles to wage war deep in enemy territory, two soldiers are assigned to race against time and deliver a message that will stop 1,600 men from walking straight into a deadly trap.
Comedy, Action, Drama
Hungary
2016
105 Minutes
Szabolcs Thuróczy Zoltán Fenyvesi Mónika Balsai Ádám Fekete Lídia Danis
teenager disabled person hitman friend young man gripping bleak brooding hungary growing up crime violence disability friendship unlikely allies growing up adventure discovery 2010s
Two disabled teenagers looking for a reason to live, team up with a wheelchair hitman.
War, Drama, Action
UK
1969
132 Minutes
Laurence Olivier Michael Caine Christopher Plummer Robert Shaw Susannah York Trevor Howard Curt Jurgens Ian McShane
soldier pilot prime minister dictator nazi british soldiers tense gripping london england war air raids battle bravery underdog adventure sacrifice 1940s
In 1940, the British Royal Air Force fights a desperate battle to prevent the Luftwaffe from gaining air superiority over the English Channel as a prelude to a possible Axis invasion of the U.K.
War, Drama, History
USA
1969
115 Minutes
George Segal Robert Vaughn Ben Gazzara Bradford Dillman E.G. Marshall Peter Van Eyck Hans Christian Blech Heinz Reincke Joachim Hansen Sonja Ziemann
army officer military officer soldier nazi gripping suspenseful germany battlefield river bridge recording studio remagen, germany war world war ii battle honor adventure rivalry quest 1940s
As the Allied armies close in, the Germans decide to blow up the last Rhine bridge, trapping their own men on the wrong side. But will it happen?
War, Drama
USA
1965
167 Minutes
Henry Fonda Robert Shaw Robert Ryan Dana Andrews George Montgomery Ty Hardin Pier Angeli Barbara Werle Charles Bronson Werner Peters Hans Christian Blech
soldier general american hero gripping tense gutsy belgium battlefield world war ii tank unit military battle of the bulge adventure sacrifice 1940s
A dramatization of Nazi Germany's final Western Front counterattack of World War II.
War, Drama
USA
1957
86 Minutes
Kirk Douglas Ralph Meeker Adolphe Menjou George Macready Wayne Morris Richard Anderson Timothy Agoglia Carey Christiane Kubrick Bert Freed
military officer soldier bleak gutsy passionate france battlefield military base horrors of war world war i battle fatigue wretched excess sacrifice fall 1910s
After refusing to attack an enemy position, a general accuses the soldiers of cowardice and their commanding officer must defend them.
War, Drama
USA
1978
183 Minutes
Robert De Niro Christopher Walken John Savage John Cazale Meryl Streep George Dzundza Chuck Aspegren Shirley Stoler
soldier friend girlfriend wife enemy blue-collar worker bleak disturbing powerful intense emotional brutal clairton, pa. battlefield vietnam pow camp wedding town horrors of war vietnam war
An in-depth examination of the ways in which the U.S. Vietnam War impacts and disrupts the lives of people in a small industrial town in Pennsylvania.
Comedy, Drama
USA
2017
90 Minutes
Zoey Deutch Kathryn Hahn Tim Heidecker Adam Scott Joey Morgan Dylan Gelula Maya Eshet Eric Edelstein Romy Byrne
teenager mother stepfather stepbrother vigilante friend amusing brash unrestrained suspenseful emotional gutsy los angeles san fernando valley car pool restaurant bowling alley revenge growing up
A sexually curious teen forms an unorthodox kinship with her mentally unstable stepbrother.
War, Drama, History
USA
1998
170 Minutes
Sean Penn Adrien Brody Jim Caviezel Ben Chaplin George Clooney John Cusack Woody Harrelson Elias Koteas Jared Leto Dash Mihok Tim Blake Nelson
deserter soldiers native military officer enemy japanese soldier dreamy calm intense striking battlefield battleship guadalcanal south pacific tropical island world war ii armed conflict meaning of life male bonding desertion
Adaptation of James Jones' autobiographical 1962 novel, focusing on the conflict at Guadalcanal during the second World War.
Comedy, Drama
USA
2018
84 Minutes
Sunny Suljic Lucas Hedges Na-kel Smith Gio Galicia Ryder McLaughlin Alexa Demie Katherine Waterston Olan Prenatt
teenager skater friend family brothel owner brooding cool engaging gripping quirky los angeles skateboarding friendship city life family brother relationship growing up adventure discovery 1990s
Follows Stevie, a thirteen-year-old in 1990s-era Los Angeles who spends his summer navigating between his troubled home life and a group of new friends that he meets at a Motor Avenue skate shop.
Drama, History
2020
113 Minutes
Trai Byers Aja Naomi King Mykelti Williamson Thomas Haden Church Bashir Salahuddin Mo McRae Tosin Morohunfola Lorenzo Yearby
soldier rioters rebel gripping fiery powerful profound america houston texas world war i soldiers racism sacrifice underdog pursuit 1910s
It is the story of the all-black Twenty-Fourth United States Infantry Regiment, and the Houston Riot of 1917.
War, Drama, History
USA|India
2011
146 Minutes
Emily Watson David Thewlis Jeremy Irvine Peter Mullan Niels Arestrup Tom Hiddleston Benedict Cumberbatch Toby Kebbell Patrick Kennedy David Kross Celine Buckens
farm boy horse father british officer german soldier incredible heartwarming thrilling england farm countryside france battlefield trenches human-animal friendship world war i horses reunion quest growing up
Young Albert enlists to serve in World War I after his beloved horse is sold to the cavalry. Albert's hopeful journey takes him out of England and to the front lines as the war rages on.
Drama
2007
93 Minutes
David Haig Daniel Radcliffe Kim Cattrall Carey Mulligan Julian Wadham Martin McCann Richard Dormer
soldier family officer young man englishman moving tense trenches war zone france england war world war i trench warfare family sacrifice sacrifice rise 1910s
Author Rudyard Kipling (David Haig) and his wife (Kim Cattrall) search for their son (Daniel Radcliffe) after he goes missing in action during World War I.
Drama
2008
92 Minutes
Michael Caine Bill Milner Anne-Marie Duff David Morrissey Rosemary Harris Elizabeth Spriggs Leslie Phillips Peter Vaughan Linzey Cocker Sylvia Syms Ralph Ineson
young boy magician magician's assistant best friend friend teenager charming playful engaging suspenseful witty friendship best friends relationships unlikely friendship magic adventure discovery growing up mystery
A death-obsessed youth (Bill Milner) befriends an aging magician (Michael Caine) who longs to join his wife in the afterlife.
War, Drama, History
Australia|USA
2014
112 Minutes
Russell Crowe Olga Kurylenko Yilmaz Erdogan Cem Yilmaz Jai Courtney Dylan Georgiades Steve Bastoni Isabel Lucas Salih Kalyon Megan Gale Ryan Corr
farmer son soldier hotel owner friend wife brooding chilling intense australia turkey hotel street restaurant cemetery war loss father/son relationship search water
An Australian man travels to Turkey after the Battle of Gallipoli to try and locate his three missing sons.
Drama, History
UK|Spain|Switzerland
1972
160 Minutes
Charlton Heston Hildegard Neil Eric Porter John Castle Fernando Rey Juan Luis Galiardo
queen egyptian lover rival roman seducer brooding emotional gripping intense moving powerful egypt kingdom chamber desert love sacrifice rivalry power
After the murder of her lover Caesar, Egypt's queen Cleopatra needs a new ally. She seduces his probable successor Mark Antony. This develops into real love and slowly leads to a war with the other possible successor: Octavius.
Romance, War, Drama, History
1966
373 Minutes
Lyudmila Saveleva Sergei Bondarchuk Vyacheslav Tikhonov Oleg Tabakov Boris Zakhava Anatoliy Ktorov Anastasiya Vertinskaya Antonina Shuranova Viktor Stanitsyn
count countess military officer soldier wife socialite creative gripping passionate russia royal palace family home battlefield countryside war love marriage infidelity horrors of war love