Dynamic Watchlist Hub: May 09, 2026

10 Best Movies Like The Only Way

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

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#1
The Boy in the Woods

The Boy in the Woods

2023★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Only Way 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....

#2
Dunkirk

Dunkirk

1958★ 6.9

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

A British Corporal in France finds himself responsible for the lives of his men when their officer is killed. He has to get them back to Britain somehow. Meanwhile, British civilia...

#3
Voyage of the Damned

Voyage of the Damned

1976★ 6.0

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

A luxury liner carries Jewish refugees from Hitler's Germany in a desperate fight for survival....

#4
The Six Triple Eight

The Six Triple Eight

2024★ 7.5

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

During World War II, the US Army's only all-Black, all-women battalion takes on an impossible mission: sorting through a three-year backlog of 17 million pieces of mail that hadn't...

#5
The Zookeeper's Wife

The Zookeeper's Wife

2017★ 7.3

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

The account of keepers of the Warsaw Zoo, Jan and Antonina Zabinski, who helped save hundreds of people and animals during the Nazi invasion....

#6
Waiting for Anya

Waiting for Anya

2020★ 6.3

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

During the harrows of WWII, Jo, a young shepherd along with the help of the widow Horcada, helps to smuggle Jewish children across the border from southern France into Spain....

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