Dynamic Watchlist Hub: May 10, 2026

10 Best Movies Like Silence

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

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#1
The Winter War

The Winter War

1989★ 7.0

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

After Nazi Germany invades Poland in September 1939, Russia attacks Finland two months later. Finnish reservists leave home and go to war. Brothers Martti and Paavo Hakala, farmers...

#2
The Scarlet and the Black

The Scarlet and the Black

1983★ 7.0

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

#3
The Unknown Soldier

The Unknown Soldier

1985★ 6.7

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

Second silver screen adaption of the Finnish war book by Väinö Linna. The story is based on Linna's experiences as an infantry man in the Finnish army during the so called "Continu...

#4
Ambush

Ambush

1999★ 6.0

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

It is the summer of 1941 and the Finnish army has been mobilized along the border with Russia. A platoon led by Lt. Eero Perkola is waiting for orders to go on the offensive. The p...

#5
Mother of Mine

Mother of Mine

2005★ 6.7

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

1943: Nine-year-old Eero whose father is killed during the war is brought to Sweden to foster parents to his protection like thousands of other Finnish children. Eero feels lost, p...

#6
The Boy in the Woods

The Boy in the Woods

2023★ 6.9

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

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