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10 Best Movies Like The Boxer and Death

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

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#1
The Great Escape

The Great Escape

1963★ 7.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Boxer and Death for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The Nazis, exasperated at the number of escapes from their prison camps by a relatively small number of Allied prisoners, relocate them to a high-security 'escape-proof' camp to si...

#2
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

2008★ 7.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Boxer and Death for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

When his family moves from their home in Berlin to a strange new house in Poland, young Bruno befriends Shmuel, a boy who lives on the other side of the fence where everyone seems ...

#3
The Hurricane

The Hurricane

1999★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Boxer and Death for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The story of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, a boxer wrongly imprisoned for murder, and the people who aided in his fight to prove his innocence....

#4
The Island on Bird Street

The Island on Bird Street

1997★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Boxer and Death for fans of Drama. 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...

#5
The Way Back

The Way Back

2010★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Boxer and Death for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A small band of multicultural convicts stages a daring escape from a WWII-era Siberian gulag, and embarks on a treacherous journey across five countries in a desperate race for fre...

#6
The Monuments Men

The Monuments Men

2014★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Boxer and Death for fans of Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Based on the true story of the greatest treasure hunt in history, The Monuments Men is an action drama focusing on seven over-the-hill, out-of-shape museum directors, artists, arch...

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