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10 Best Movies Like The Deserter

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

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#1
Battleground

Battleground

1949★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Deserter for fans of War & Drama. 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...

#2
Flanders

Flanders

2006★ 6.2

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

André Demester secretly and painfully loves Barbe, his childhood friend, accepting from her the little that she gives him. He leaves home to be a soldier in a war in a far off land...

#3
The History of Love

The History of Love

2016★ 6.4

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

The story of a long-lost book that mysteriously reappears and connects an old man searching for his son with a girl seeking a cure for her mother's loneliness....

#4
Dear John

Dear John

2010★ 6.8

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

While Sergeant John Tyree is home on two weeks leave from Germany, he meets Savannah after he dives into the ocean to retrieve Savannah's purse that had fallen off a pier. John eve...

#5
Flyboys

Flyboys

2006★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Deserter for fans of War & Drama & Romance. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

The adventures of the Lafayette Escadrille, young Americans who volunteered for the French military before the U.S. entered World War I, and became the country's first fighter pilo...

#6
A Time to Love and a Time to Die

A Time to Love and a Time to Die

1958★ 7.3

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

A German soldier home on leave falls in love with a girl, then returns to World War II....

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