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10 Best Movies Like Smelchak

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

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#1
Jarhead: Law of Return

Jarhead: Law of Return

2019★ 6.5

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

Major Ronan Jackson, an accomplished fighter pilot for the Israel Defense Forces and son of a U.S. Senator, is shot down while flying through Syrian airspace. After miraculously su...

#2
The Dawns Here Are Quiet

The Dawns Here Are Quiet

2015★ 6.8

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

It is late spring of 1942, and the Great Patriotic War is in full swing. A long way off from the front-line, at some God-forgotten junction, the Germans make an air landing operati...

#3
The Best in Hell

The Best in Hell

2022★ 7.7

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

Movie about units of the "whites" (PMC "Wagner") who perform an assault operation to capture buildings. They are opposed by the "yellow" units, which have dug in these buildings an...

#4
Kalashnikov AK-47

Kalashnikov AK-47

2020★ 7.4

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

A Russian military propaganda film about the tank commander Kalashnikov, severely injured in battle in 1941. The accident leaves him incapacitated and unable to return to the front...

#5
Bastards

Bastards

2006★ 5.8

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

A "Hitlerjugend" kind of story, set in the Soviet Union during the Second World War, based on a fictitious story from the eponymous book by Vladimir Kunin....

#6
Trial on the Road

Trial on the Road

1986★ 7.0

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

Shot in 1971 but banned until 1986, this distinctly Russian war story takes place in 1942 behind enemy lines. A regiment of partisans captures former Red Army lieutenant Lazarev wh...

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