Movies like Wings (1927)
The best movies like Wings (1927) are The Big Parade (1925), Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927) and All Quiet on the Western Front (1930). If Wings hooked you with its drama and action, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedNapoleon (1927)7.9/10 from 235 votes
- NewestFirebird (2021)Released 2021
The Big Parade (1925)
The story of an idle rich boy who joins the US Army's Rainbow Division and is sent to France to fight in World War I, becomes friends with two working class men, experiences the horrors of trench warfare, and finds love with a French girl.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & war
Worth the HypeMovies like thisSunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
A married farmer falls under the spell of a slatternly woman from the city, who tries to convince him to drown his wife.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisAll Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
When a group of idealistic young men join the German Army during the Great War, they are assigned to the Western Front, where their patriotism is destroyed by the harsh realities of combat.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & war
Worth the HypeMovies like thisHell's Angels (1930)
As the Great War breaks out in Europe, English brothers Roy and Monte enlist in the Royal Flying Corps to fight for king and country, while their Oxford College friend Karl is ordered back to Germany. As a love triangle develops involving Monte, Roy, and Roy's girlfriend, Helen, the brothers' disparate personalities, and Monte's cowardice in the face of war soon threaten to compromise a top-secret bombing mission over German territory.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & war
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921)
Set in the years before and during World War I, this epic tale tells the story of a rich Argentine family, one of its two descending branches being half of French heritage, the other being half German. Following the death of the family patriarch, the man's two daughters and their families resettle to France and Germany, respectively. In time the Great War breaks out, putting members of the family on opposing sides.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both war & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisJ'accuse (1919)
The story of two men, one married, the other the lover of the other's wife, who meet in the trenches of the First World War, and how their tale becomes a microcosm for the horrors of war.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both war & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisFlesh and the Devil (1926)
When lifelong best friends Leo and Ulrich return home after completing their military training, Leo meets the stunning Felicitas at a railway station and is mesmerized by her beauty. A scandal follows, for which Leo is sent away. Returning home three years later, he discovers that much has changed.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Dawn Patrol (1938)
In 1915 France, Major Brand commands the 39th Squadron of the Royal Flying Corps. The young airmen go up in bullet-riddled "crates" and the casualty rate is appalling, but Brand can't make the "brass hats" at headquarters see reason. Insubordinate air ace Captain Courtney is another thorn in Brand's side...but finds the smile wiped from his face when he rises to command the squadron himself. Everyone keeps a stiff upper lip.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Last Command (1928)
A former Imperial Russian general and cousin of the Czar ends up in Hollywood as an extra in a movie directed by a former revolutionary.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & war
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Manxman (1929)
A fisherman and a rising lawyer who grew up together as brothers fall in love with the same woman.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Ring (1927)
Both Jack Sander and Bob Corby are boxers in love with Mabel. Jack and Mabel wed, but their marriage is flat. The young wife looks to Bob for comfort.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
SnoozefestMovies like this7th Heaven (1927)
In 1910s Paris, a sewer worker disillusioned with Christianity feels his prayers have been answered when he chances upon a street waif and they fall in love.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisStella Maris (1918)
Stella Maris is a beautiful, crippled girl, who is cared for by a rich family. They shield her from the harsh realities of the world, so that she has no idea of the cruel things that some people do. Unity Blake is a poor orphan all too familiar with the harsh realities of the real world. These two young women both fall in love with John, love which is complicated by the fact that he is still married to (though separated from) a bad wife.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Noah's Ark (1928)
The Biblical story of Noah and the Great Flood, with a parallel story of soldiers in the First World War.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & war
Easy Virtue (1928)
Unjustly accused of adultery in a scandalous divorce, Larita Filton flees to the French Riviera. She soon falls in love with a young Englishman, John Whittaker, and begins anew under an assumed name. But when John brings her home to his disapproving family, Larita’s past begins to resurface.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisCavalcade (1933)
A cavalcade of English life from New Year's Eve 1899 until 1933 is seen through the eyes of well-to-do Londoners Jane and Robert Marryot. Amongst events touching their family are the Boer War, the death of Queen Victoria, the sinking of the Titanic, and the Great War.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & war
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Dawn Patrol (1930)
World War I ace Dick Courtney derides the leadership of his superior officer, but he soon is promoted to squadron commander and learns harsh lessons about sending subordinates to their deaths.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both war & drama
The Kiss (1929)
An unhappily married woman is caught up in scandal and murder when her affection toward a young man is misinterpreted.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Way Down East (1920)
A naïve country girl is tricked into a sham marriage by a wealthy womanizer, then must rebuild her life despite the taint of having borne a child out of wedlock.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWestfront 1918 (1930)
A group of German infantrymen of the First World War live out their lives in the trenches of France. They find brief entertainment and relief in a village behind the lines, but primarily terror fills their lives as the attacks on and from the French army ebb and flow. One of the men, Karl, goes home on leave only to discover the degradation forced on his family by wartime poverty. He returns to the lines in time to face an enormous attack by French tanks.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both war & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisVon Richthofen and Brown (1971)
Spend time on both sides of World War I, partly with German flying ace Baron Manfred Von Richthofen (John Phillip Law), aka "The Red Baron," and his colorful "flying circus" of Fokker fighter planes, during the time from his arrival at the war front to his death in combat. On the other side is Roy Brown of the Royal Air Force, sometimes credited with shooting Richthofen down.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both war & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Wind (1928)
When Letty Mason relocates to West Texas, she finds herself unsettled by the ever-present wind and sand. Arriving at her new home at the ranch of her cousin, Beverly, she receives a surprisingly cold welcome from his wife, Cora. Soon tensions in the family and unwanted attention from a trio of suitors leave Letty increasingly disturbed.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisNapoleon (1927)
A biopic of former Emperor of France, Napoleon Bonaparte, tracing the Corsican's career from his schooldays (where a snowball fight is staged like a military campaign) to his flight from Corsica, through the French Revolution (where a real storm is intercut with a political storm) and the Terror, culminating in his triumphant 1797 invasion of Italy.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & war
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisA Farewell to Arms (1932)
A tale of the World War I love affair, begun in Italy, between American ambulance driver Lt. Frederic Henry and British nurse Catherine Barkley. Eventually separated by Frederic's transfer, tremendous challenges and difficult decisions face each as the war rages on.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate (1923)
When Marie St. Clair believes she has been jilted by her artist fiance Jean, she decides to leave for Paris on her own. After spending a year in the city as a mistress of the wealthy Pierre Revel, she is reunited with Jean by chance. This leaves her with the choice between a glamorous life in Paris, and the true love she left behind.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Pleasure Garden (1925)
Two chorus girls at the Pleasure Garden Theatre follow different paths in love and fortune.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Lost Patrol (1934)
A World War I British Army patrol is crossing the Mesopotamian desert when their commanding officer, the only one who knows their destination, is killed by the bullet of unseen bandits. The patrol's sergeant keeps them heading north on the assumption that they will hit their brigade. They stop for the night at an oasis and awaken the next morning to find their horses stolen, their sentry dead, the oasis surrounded and survival difficult.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & war
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAces High (1976)
The first World War is in its third year and aerial combat above the Western Front is consuming the nation's favored children at an appalling rate. By early 1917, the average life-span of a British pilot is less than a fortnight. Such losses place a fearsome strain on Gresham, commanding officer of the squadron. Aces High recreates the early days of the Royal Flying Corps with some magnificently staged aerial battles, and sensitive direction presents a moving portrayal of the futilities of war.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both action & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisFirebird (2021)
At the height of the Cold War, a troubled soldier forms a forbidden love triangle with a daring fighter pilot and his female comrade amid the dangerous surroundings of a Soviet Air Force Base.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDoctor Zhivago (1965)
The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the October Revolution.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & romance
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Wings?
The closest matches to Wings are The Big Parade (1925), Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927) and All Quiet on the Western Front (1930). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Wings?
People who watched Wings most often go on to The Big Parade (1925), Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927) and All Quiet on the Western Front (1930).
What is the highest-rated movie like Wings?
Napoleon (1927), rated 7.9/10 by 235 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Wings?
Firebird (2021) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Wings?
Yes: The Big Parade (1925), Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927) and All Quiet on the Western Front (1930).
How are movies similar to Wings chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Wings, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.