Movies like We Will Return (1972)
The best movies like We Will Return (1972) are I Was a Stranger (2025), All That's Left of You (2025) and The River (1984). If We Will Return hooked you with its drama, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedThe Voice of Hind Rajab (2025)8.1/10 from 396 votes
- Newest180 (2026)Released 2026
I Was a Stranger (2025)
A Syrian doctor and her daughter flee Aleppo, setting off a chain of events that binds five strangers together. A smuggler, a soldier, a poet, and a coast guard captain collide in a crisis that tests their courage, their choices, and their humanity.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAll That's Left of You (2025)
After a Palestinian teen gets swept up into a West Bank protest, his mother recounts the family story of hope, courage and relentless struggle that led to this fateful moment.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisThe River (1984)
Tom and Mae Garvey are a Tennessee farming couple battling violent floods to save their land. In addition to natural disasters, the Garveys fight to stop a selfish land developer and a local corporation from foreclosing on their farm. While Mae stays at home to care for their children and tend to the crops, Tom finds work as a scab at a steel mill to preserve his family's property.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNowhere to Run (1993)
Escaped convict Sam Gillen single-handedly takes on ruthless developers who are determined to evict a widow with two young children.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBastard Out of Carolina (1996)
A poor, struggling South Carolinian mother and daughter face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her tired mother, grow both closer and farther apart: Anney sees Glen as her last chance.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like this40 Acres (2025)
Hailey Freeman and her family are the last descendants of African American farmers who settled in rural Canada after the Civil War. In a famine-decimated near future, they now struggle to safeguard their farm, as they make one last stand against a vicious militia hell-bent on taking their 40 Acres.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like this180 (2026)
When an unexpected road rage incident puts his son in critical condition, an enraged father spirals down a dark path of emotional turmoil and vengeance.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisMary (2024)
A miraculous conception. A merciless king. A murderous pursuit. Mary's journey to give birth to Jesus unfolds in this biblical coming-of-age epic.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHoly Lands (2019)
When lapsed Jew and former cardiologist Harry suddenly decides to spend his retirement as a pig farmer in Nazareth, Israel, the move deeply shocks his family and his new neighbours. Back in New York, Harry’s ex-wife Monica is trying to manage the lives of their adult children, Annabelle and David, as well as her own.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMan with No Past (2025)
Waking up in an unfamiliar city, a man with no memory must confront the mysteries of his own identity. However, his desperate search to uncover the past pits him against a powerful enemy, leading to a showdown that ultimately reveals the truth.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Voice of Hind Rajab (2025)
January 29, 2024. Red Crescent volunteers receive an emergency call. A five-year old girl is trapped in a car under fire in Gaza, pleading for rescue. While trying to keep her on the line, they do everything they can to get an ambulance to her. Her name was Hind Rajab.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisCardboard Boxer (2016)
Gentle and broken, a homeless man fights others on video for money but soon finds comfort in an unlikely friend and the lost diary of a young girl.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisIron Jawed Angels (2004)
Defiant young activists take the women's suffrage movement by storm, putting their lives at risk to help American women win the right to vote.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisI Am David (2003)
A 12-year-old boy manages to flee a Communist concentration camp on his own, through sheer will and determination. All he has in his possession is a loaf of bread, a letter to deliver to someone in Denmark, and a compass to help get him there.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHounddog (2008)
A drama set in the American South, where a precocious, troubled girl finds a safe haven in the music and movement of Elvis Presley.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisUprising (2001)
In the Warsaw ghetto in 1943, Jews rise against the Nazis.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMosul (2019)
When ISIS took their homes, families and city, one group of men fought to take it all back. Based on true events, this is the story of the Nineveh SWAT team, a renegade police unit who waged a guerrilla operation against ISIS in a desperate struggle to save their home city of Mosul.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like this55 Days at Peking (1963)
Diplomats, soldiers and other representatives of a dozen nations fend off the siege of the International Compound in Peking during the 1900 Boxer Rebellion. The disparate interests unite for survival despite competing factions, overwhelming odds, delayed relief and tacit support of the Boxers by the Empress of China and her generals.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Trials of Cate McCall (2013)
In order to be reinstated to the bar and recover custody of her daughter, a hotshot lawyer, now in recovery and on probation, must take on the appeal of a woman wrongfully convicted of murder.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCast a Giant Shadow (1966)
An American Army officer is recruited by the yet to exist Israel to help them form an army. He is disturbed by this sudden appeal to his Jewish heritage. Each of Israel's Arab neighbors has vowed to invade the poorly prepared country as soon as partition is granted. He is made commander of the Israeli forces just before the war begins.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Garden of Allah (1936)
The star-crossed desert romance of a cloistered woman and a renegade monk.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
Douar de Femmes (2005)
At a dangerous time in Algeria, 'Douar de Femmes' is a story of ordinary women who manage to defend themselves in extraordinary situations. The film focuses on a small village that has been attacked more often by terrorists from the surrounding mountains. While the men work, the women learn how to handle machine guns and explore the area. “Fear has armed us,” says the young woman Sabrina. But despite that fear, people get married, children come and keep watch.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
The Inspector (1962)
At the end of WW2, a compassionate Dutch policeman helps smuggle a Jewish woman into British Palestine.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
Bremen Freedom (1972)
A very stylized TV version of the Fassbinder play. The set consists of a few pieces of furniture in front of a large screen on which coastal scenery is back projected. Geesche is a nineteenth-century woman who wants to have a mind of her own. She defies convention and will do anything to achieve her freedom from oppression by her family and friends.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
Julian Assange: Silenced (2025)
In the spring of 2010, Julian Assange published classified documents that shed a harsh light on the war crimes committed by the United States in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
Chalice of Golden Linden (2025)
A student of architecture seeks something beyond merely submitting standard blueprints that will gather dust in the archives. On the eve of her submission, she had a dream, and her friend, a fortune teller, gave her three prophecies. Should she fully surrender to fate, script her own narrative, and what does it truly mean to "listen to one's heart"?
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
The Mountain’s Insides (2024)
Soi Mountain is a low mountain located in Cheolwon, surrounded by wide plains and sites of Korean War battle fields. Miryoung, a new ecotourism guide, meets Myunghee, a senior guide, while climbing Soi Mountain where she works. Together, they practice their scripts for visitor tours as they climb. Their stories range from tiny moss, lichen to acacia trees, and include tales about Soi Mountain's military facilities and surroundings. As they climb, they each confront their personal stories of war and loss from their memories.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
Stuck (TBA)
Stuck in a paralysis of anxiety, a meandering first generation daughter tries to combat her fears by speaking up for her people in a time of crisis. As she looks down the barrel of those who have lost their jobs, livelihood and reputation before her, can she find the courage to break her silence?
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
Marie (2025)
Young Kolya tries to escape from the harsh wartime reality and the fear of growing up. He meets a vibrant girl who seems to help him.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
Hereafter, Together (TBA)
After a fleeting summer romance in Lebanon, before war reshapes both of their lives, Yasmin, a Lebanese Muslim woman, and Joseph, a Jewish Canadian man, reunite in a quiet Canadian winter—where every gesture carries the weight of loss, and the hope of beginning again.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like We Will Return?
The closest matches to We Will Return are I Was a Stranger (2025), All That's Left of You (2025) and The River (1984). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after We Will Return?
Start with I Was a Stranger (2025), the closest match to We Will Return.
What is the highest-rated movie like We Will Return?
The Voice of Hind Rajab (2025), rated 8.1/10 by 396 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like We Will Return?
180 (2026) is the most recent release on this list.
How are movies similar to We Will Return chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside We Will Return, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.