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10 Best Movies Like Once Before I Die

If you loved Once Before I Die, 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 Once Before I Die 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
They Were Expendable

They Were Expendable

1945★ 6.5

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

After a demonstration of new PT boats, navy brass are still unconvinced of their viability in combat, leaving Lt. "Rusty" Ryan frustrated. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, however...

#3
The Six Triple Eight

The Six Triple Eight

2024★ 7.5

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

During World War II, the US Army's only all-Black, all-women battalion takes on an impossible mission: sorting through a three-year backlog of 17 million pieces of mail that hadn't...

#4
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

2003★ 7.2

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

After an abrupt and violent encounter with a French warship inflicts severe damage upon his ship, a captain of the British Royal Navy begins a chase over two oceans to capture or d...

#5
Battleground

Battleground

1949★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Once Before I Die 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...

#6
Operation Mincemeat

Operation Mincemeat

2022★ 6.5

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

In 1943, two British intelligence officers concoct Operation Mincemeat, wherein their plan to drop a corpse with false papers off the coast of Spain would fool Nazi spies into beli...

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