Dynamic Watchlist Hub: May 09, 2026

10 Best Movies Like Going Home

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

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#1
The Scarlet and the Black

The Scarlet and the Black

1983★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Going Home 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...

#2
Battleground

Battleground

1949★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Going Home for fans of Drama & War. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Members of the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division are fighting for their country amidst the rugged terrain of Bastogne, Belgium, in December 1944. Holley and his American compatri...

#3
The Codes of War

The Codes of War

2025★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Going Home for fans of War. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

War stories about family, ethics and honor include the true story of two U.S. Marines who in a span of six seconds, must stand their ground to stop a suicide truck bomb, a Navy Cor...

#4
The Boy in the Woods

The Boy in the Woods

2023★ 6.9

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

The remarkable true-life survival story of a Jewish boy hiding and being hunted in the forests of Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe, based on Maxwell Smart's memoir....

#5
The War Below

The War Below

2021★ 6.7

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

During World War I, a group of British miners are recruited to tunnel underneath no man's land and set bombs from below the German front in hopes of breaking the deadly stalemate o...

#6
Exodus

Exodus

1960★ 6.7

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

Ari Ben Canaan, a passionate member of the Jewish paramilitary group Haganah, attempts to transport 600 Jewish refugees on a dangerous voyage from Cyprus to Palestine on a ship nam...

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