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10 Best Movies Like Just a Drill

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

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#1
Full Metal Jacket

Full Metal Jacket

1987★ 8.1

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

A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the U.S.-Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue....

#2
Ammonite

Ammonite

2020★ 6.9

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

In 1840s England, palaeontologist Mary Anning and a young woman sent by her husband to convalesce by the sea develop an intense relationship. Despite the chasm between their social...

#3
Joker

Joker

2019★ 8.1

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

During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure....

#4
Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood

Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood

2019★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Just a Drill for fans of Drama & Thriller. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Los Angeles, 1969. TV star Rick Dalton, a struggling actor specializing in westerns, and stuntman Cliff Booth, his best friend, try to survive in a constantly changing movie indust...

#5
Oppenheimer

Oppenheimer

2023★ 8.0

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

The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer's role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II....

#6
Titanic

Titanic

1997★ 7.9

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

101-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story of her life aboard the Titanic, 84 years later. A young Rose boards the ship with her mother and fiancé. Meanwhile, Jack Dawson and...