
10 Best Movies Like Playing Soldiers
If you loved Playing Soldiers, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

Waiting for Anya
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Playing Soldiers for fans of Drama & War. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
During the harrows of WWII, Jo, a young shepherd along with the help of the widow Horcada, helps to smuggle Jewish children across the border from southern France into Spain....

The Boy in the Woods
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Playing Soldiers 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....

Hope and Glory
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Playing Soldiers for fans of Drama & War & Family. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A middle-aged man recalls his childhood growing up in and around London during World War II....

The One That Got Away
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Playing Soldiers for fans of Drama & War. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Based on the true story of Oberleutnant Franz von Werra, the only German prisoner of war captured in Britain to escape back to Germany during the Second World War....

The Island on Bird Street
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Playing Soldiers for fans of Drama & War. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Alex is an 11-year old boy who, during WWII, hides in the Jewish ghetto from Nazis after all his relatives have been sent to the concentration camp. The movie portrays the ghetto t...

Shepherd: The Story of a Jewish Dog
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Playing Soldiers for fans of Drama & War & Family. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Follow the perilous journey to freedom when a young boy and his dog attempt to escape a concentration camp during World War II. Based on true events....