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

The Guns of Navarone
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to They Were Known Only By Their Faces 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 Sea Wolves
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to They Were Known Only By Their Faces for fans of War. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.
A German spy is passing on information about the location of Allied ships in the neutral harbor of Goa, India, with catastrophic results. Unable to undertake a full military operat...

The Pilot: A Battle for Survival
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to They Were Known Only By Their Faces for fans of War & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
December of 1941, Northwestern Front. A German tank column is moving towards Moscow. During a mission to stop the enemy advance, Nikolai Komlev's IL-2 is shot down. Komlev manages ...

Operation Pacific
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to They Were Known Only By Their Faces for fans of War & Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.
During WWII, Duke E. Gifford is second in command of the USS Thunderfish, a submarine which is firing off torpedoes that either explode too early or never explode at all. It's a di...

The Best in Hell
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to They Were Known Only By Their Faces for fans of War & Drama. 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...

Run Silent, Run Deep
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to They Were Known Only By Their Faces for fans of War & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
The captain of a submarine sunk by the Japanese during WWII is finally given a chance to skipper another sub after a year of working a desk job. His singleminded determination for ...