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10 Best Movies Like Someone Else's Name

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

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#1
Bastards

Bastards

2006★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Someone Else's Name for fans of Drama & 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....

#2
Leaving Afghanistan

Leaving Afghanistan

2019★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Someone Else's Name for fans of Drama & War. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

1988-1989. The end of the Soviet-Afghan war. The USSR begins its withdrawal from Afghanistan. Soviet General Vasiliev's son - a pilot named Alexander gets kidnapped by the mujahide...

#3
Battleground

Battleground

1949★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Someone Else's Name 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...

#4
In August of 1944

In August of 1944

2001★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Someone Else's Name for fans of Drama & Mystery & War. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

The movie is set in Belarus, where a team of counter-intelligence officers is given only three days to find a German radio operator posing as a Soviet soldier, behind soviet lines,...

#5
Cloak and Dagger

Cloak and Dagger

1946★ 6.5

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

Italian partisans help a professor sent by the OSS to find an atomic scientist held by Nazis....

#6
The Best in Hell

The Best in Hell

2022★ 7.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Someone Else's Name for fans of Drama & 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...

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