Movies like Band of Brothers (2019)
The best movies like Band of Brothers (2019) are French Blood (2015), Eastern Boys (2013) and The Invader (2011). If Band of Brothers hooked you with its drama, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedLive and Become (2005)7.4/10 from 208 votes
- NewestMy Brothers and I (2022)Released 2022
- In FrenchFrench Blood (2015)Also in French
French Blood (2015)
Marco Lopez, a former Neo-Nazi and skinhead, tries to leave his violent, racist and hateful past behind him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisEastern Boys (2013)
Arriving from all over the Eastern Bloc, the men who loiter around the Gare du Nord train station in Paris are scraping by however they can, forming gangs for support and protection, ever fearful of being caught by the police and deported. When the middle-aged, bourgeois Daniel approaches a boyishly handsome Ukrainian who calls himself Marek for a date, he learns the young man is willing to do anything for some cash.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Invader (2011)
An African immigrant living illegally in Belgium is desperate to find his own sense of belonging.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
The Life of Jesus (1997)
Twenty-something Freddy is becalmed in a podunk French village where the only sign of life is the local amateur brass band and youth aimlessly roaming around the countryside on scooters. He has an intense sexual connection with his girlfriend but has no joy or passion to give her. When she falls for a handsome Arab youth a tragedy unfolds.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Other Son (2012)
Two young men, one Israeli and one Palestinian, discover they were accidentally switched at birth.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLive and Become (2005)
In 1980, the black Falashas in Ethiopia are recognised as genuine Jews and are secretly carried to Israel. The day before the transport the son of a Jewish mother dies. In his place and with his name (Schlomo) she takes a Christian 9-year-old boy.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisNenette and Boni (1997)
Teenage siblings Nenette and Boni were raised apart as a result of their parents' divorce. Their mother, who doted on her son Boni, has died. He works for an interesting couple as a pizza baker, and is surprised and enraged when his younger sister, having run away from boarding school, suddenly turns up. There's a problem that they must confront.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAliyah (2012)
Paris 2011. Alex is 27. He lives off dealing and pays the debts of his brother, Isaac, who after being his support has now become dead weight. When his cousin announces he's going to open a restaurant in Tel Aviv, Alex imagines he can join him and change his life. Set on emigrating, Alex has to find money, leave his beloved Paris, end his complicated love life, drop his destructive brother and find his way.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
My Brothers and I (2022)
Nour, a 14-year-old boy, is enjoying the summer holidays in the South of France. He is the youngest of four brothers. They live together in a council estate, caring for their mother who is in a coma. Nour dreams of escaping to a faraway place. When he crosses paths with Sarah, an Opera singer teaching summer classes, he finds the opportunity to come out of his shell and explore new horizons.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisI’m Glad My Mother Is Alive (2009)
Now a taciturn adult, an adoptee finds his biological mother and strikes up a relationship fraught with tension and emotion.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Happy End (2017)
A well-to-do French family living in Calais deal with a series of setbacks and crises while paying little attention to the grim conditions in the refugee camps within a few miles of their home.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Matchmaker (2010)
During the summer of 1968 a teenage boy goes to work for a matchmaker who has survived the Holocaust - both their lives are forever altered.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
The First Man (2011)
Based on a novel that Albert Camus was working on when he died, we follow Jacques Comery as he travels back to Algeria in 1957, a place full of childhood memories. The country is split between those wanting to remain a part of France, and those demanding independence. Reminiscences of his mother, his stern grandmother and a young Arab boy come flooding back.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisInsecure (2014)
Chérif, struggling to pass the entrance exam for nursing school, takes on a side job as a security guard. On duty there, he faces off with a group of hostile teenagers who constantly harass him, and gradually ends up an accomplice to a robbery gone wrong. Caught in between two worlds, Chérif will have to find his own way out…
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisBy the Grace of God (2019)
Alexandre, a man in his 40s living in Lyon with his wife and children, discovers that the priest who abused him decades ago continues to work with children. He joins forces with others victims of the priest, to bring justice and “lift the burden of silence” about what they endured.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisEnemies Within (2016)
During the 90s, Algerian terrorism reaches France. Two men. Two identities. One battle.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Eden Is West (2009)
Desperate to break free from the poverty of his homeland, Elias boards a ramshackle people-smuggling trawler to France. But when the boat is raided by police, Elias leaps into the ocean, eventually finding himself washed up on a Mediterranean beach resort called Eden. So begins Elias odyssesy across Western Europe to Paris, where wondrous promise, helpful new friends and perilous dangers await him every step of the way.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSK1 (2015)
The hunt, capture and trial of Guy Georges, one of France's most notorious serial killers.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNatural Enemy (2004)
Set in Brittany, a detective called Nicolas Luhel is asked to unravel the circumstances of a teenage boy's death. The main suspect is the boy's father. Shattered by the suicide of the main witness, Nicolas lets himself get snared by the strange and fascinating influence that the father exerts on everyone around him. Eventually, Luhel discovers the truth about the murder and feels that the law is inadequate to deal with it. As a consequence, he decides to destroy the evidence and keep it a secret.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
A Secret (2007)
In 1953, a sensitive French boy finds out from a neighbor that his family's Jewish. François Grimbert becomes a physician, and gradually peels the layers of his buried family history which resulted in his difficult upbringing, raised as Catholic by his "Aryan" appearing parents. His athletic father labored to stamp out stereotypical Jewish characteristics he perceived in his son, to keep the family's many secrets, as most relatives fought in World War II, and later were hauled off to labor and death camps by the Gestapo.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLily Sometimes (2010)
After the death of her mother, a woman returns home to care for her sister.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisAmnesia (2015)
A young composer moves from Berlin to the island of Ibiza and begins a friendship with an elderly woman whose painful past has caused her to reject everything to do with Germany, including her native language.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Confession (2017)
Under the German occupation, in a small French town, the arrival of a new priest arouses the interest of all women... Barny, a young communist and atheist woman, can not however be more indifferent. Driven by curiosity, the young skeptic went to the church in order to challenge this.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA Burning Hot Summer (2011)
Paul reflects on the summer he met Angèle and Frédéric as he watches his friend being laid to rest.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisLa Belle Équipe (1936)
Five unemployed workers win 100,000 Francs in the national lottery. Instead of sharing the money, they buy a ruin and build an open-air cafe. But difficulties come to split their friendly group apart.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Finishers (2013)
Julien, 17, is wheelchair-bound due to cerebral palsy. Despite their love for him, his family is gradually falling apart under the strain of dealing with his disability. In a bid to bond with his father, Julien challenges him to participate with him in the Ironman race in Nice (French Riviera), a triathlon in which his father has previously competed.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Dazzled (2019)
Camille, is the eldest of a large family. One day, her parents enter a religious community which gradually, regimentation becomes sectarian and Camille will have to fight to assert her freedom and save her brothers and sisters.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWhat Maisie Knew (2013)
In New York City, six-year-old Maisie is caught in the middle of a bitter custody battle between her self-absorbed parents—an aging rock singer mother and a distracted art dealer father. As both quickly marry new partners to strengthen their legal standing, Maisie is shuttled back and forth in an endless game of emotional point-scoring. Yet amid the chaos and upheaval, Maisie begins to find true comfort and affection in her new step-parents.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisAdieu Philippine (1962)
Michel is a young technician in the fledgling TV industry and is due for military service in two months at the time of the Algerian War. Juliette and Liliane are inseparable best friends, and aspiring actresses, who hang around outside the TV studio. Michel invites them in to watch, flirts with them both, and dates them separately and together. When Michel goes on a holiday to Corsica, just before he is drafted, the girls follow.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Young One (1960)
A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Band of Brothers?
The closest matches to Band of Brothers are French Blood (2015), Eastern Boys (2013) and The Invader (2011). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Band of Brothers?
People who watched Band of Brothers most often go on to French Blood (2015), Eastern Boys (2013) and The Invader (2011).
What is the highest-rated movie like Band of Brothers?
Live and Become (2005), rated 7.4/10 by 208 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Band of Brothers?
My Brothers and I (2022) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there French movies like Band of Brothers?
Yes: French Blood (2015), Eastern Boys (2013) and The Invader (2011).
How are movies similar to Band of Brothers chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Band of Brothers, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.