10 Best Movies Like They Were Actors
If you loved They Were Actors, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

The Dawns Here Are Quiet
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to They Were Actors for fans of War & Drama. 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...

The Guns of Navarone
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to They Were Actors for fans of War & Drama & Adventure. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.
A team of allied saboteurs are assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held island and destroy the two enormous long-range field guns that prevent the rescue...

The Monuments Men
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to They Were Actors for fans of War & 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...

Devotion
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to They Were Actors for fans of War & Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.
The harrowing true story of two elite US Navy fighter pilots during the Korean War. Their heroic sacrifices would ultimately make them the Navy's most celebrated wingmen....

Bastards
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to They Were Actors for fans of War & Drama. 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....

Kalashnikov AK-47
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to They Were Actors for fans of War & Drama. 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...