Dynamic Watchlist Hub: May 09, 2026

10 Best Movies Like Paisan

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

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#1
Operation Mincemeat

Operation Mincemeat

2022★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Paisan 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...

#2
Rome, Open City

Rome, Open City

1945★ 8.0

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

During the Nazi occupation of 1944 Rome, Resistance leader Giorgio Manfredi is pursued by the Nazis as he seeks refuge and a means of escape....

#3
The Scarlet and the Black

The Scarlet and the Black

1983★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Paisan 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...

#4
The Big Red One

The Big Red One

1980★ 6.7

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

A veteran sergeant of World War I leads a squad in World War II, always in the company of the survivor Pvt. Griff, the writer Pvt. Zab, the Sicilian Pvt. Vinci and Pvt. Johnson, in...

#5
Greenery Will Bloom Again

Greenery Will Bloom Again

2014★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Paisan for fans of War. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

World War I, Italian north-eastern front after the 1917 bloody battles on the Altipiano. A group of soldiers face the difficulty of war in a story that unfolds in the space of one ...

#6
The Skin

The Skin

1981★ 6.3

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

Based on the memoirs of author Curzio Malaparte, diplomatic liaison between the Allied and Italian forces after the defeat of the Nazis in Italy, The Skin follows the collapse of I...

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