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10 Best Movies Like Cavalcade

If you loved Cavalcade, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Six Minutes to Midnight

Six Minutes to Midnight

2020★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Cavalcade for fans of Drama & War. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Summer 1939. Influential families in Nazi Germany have sent their daughters to a finishing school in an English seaside town to learn the language and be ambassadors for a future l...

#2
This Happy Breed

This Happy Breed

1944★ 7.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Cavalcade for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A chronicle of the lives of the Gibbons family, from shortly after the end of the First World War to the beginning of the Second....

#3
Overlord

Overlord

1975★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Cavalcade for fans of Drama & War. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

During World War II, a young man is called up and, with an increasing sense of foreboding, undertakes his army training ready for D-Day, June 6th, 1944....

#4
Hope and Glory

Hope and Glory

1987★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Cavalcade for fans of Drama & War. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A middle-aged man recalls his childhood growing up in and around London during World War II....

#5
FX's A Christmas Carol

FX's A Christmas Carol

2019★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Cavalcade for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

London, 1843. Ebenezer Scrooge, a bitter old man, despises the Christmas holiday. Over the course of Christmas Eve night he is visited by three ghosts to show him his past, present...

#6
The Scarlet and the Black

The Scarlet and the Black

1983★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Cavalcade for fans of Drama & War. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Fr. Hugh O'Flaherty is a Vatican official in 1943-45 who has been hiding downed pilots, escaped prisoners of war, and Italian resistance families. His activities become so large th...

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