Films like Platoon (1986)

Platoon (1986) is action, drama, war. These 24 films share its genres, ordered by how much overlap they have and how well they are rated.

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  Fury (2014)

  Also action and drama. 7.5/10

  April, 1945. As the Allies make their final push in the European Theater, a battle-hardened army sergeant commands a Sherman tank with a five-man crew on a deadly mission behind…

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  Kingdom of Heaven (2005)

  Also action and drama. 7.1/10

  After his wife dies, a blacksmith named Balian is thrust into royalty, political intrigue and bloody holy wars during the Crusades.

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  The Last Samurai (2003)

  Also action and drama. 7.6/10

  Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, which finds him learning to respect the samurai and the honorable principles that…

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  Braveheart (1995)

  Also action and drama. 7.9/10

  Enraged at the slaughter of Murron, his new bride and childhood love, Scottish warrior William Wallace slays a platoon of the local English lord's soldiers. This leads the village…

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  Civil War (2024)

  Also action and drama. 6.8/10

  In the near future, a group of war journalists attempt to survive while reporting the truth as the United States stands on the brink of civil war.

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  Dunkirk (2017)

  Also action and drama. 7.5/10

  The story of the miraculous evacuation of Allied soldiers from Belgium, Britain, Canada and France, who were cut off and surrounded by the German army from the beaches and harbour…

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  The Patriot (2000)

  Also action and drama. 7.2/10

  After proving himself on the field of battle in the French and Indian War, Benjamin Martin wants nothing more to do with such things, preferring the simple life of a farmer. But…

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  300: Rise of an Empire (2014)

  Also action and drama. 6.1/10

  Greek general Themistocles attempts to unite all of Greece by leading the charge that will change the course of the war. Themistocles faces the massive invading Persian forces led…

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  Lone Survivor (2013)

  Also action and drama. 7.4/10

  Four Navy SEALs on a covert mission to neutralize a high-level Taliban operative must make an impossible moral decision in the mountains of Afghanistan that leads them into an…

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  Pearl Harbor (2001)

  Also action and drama. 6.9/10

  The lifelong friendship between Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker is put to the ultimate test when the two ace fighter pilots become entangled in a love triangle with beautiful Naval…

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  The Tank (2025)

  Also action and drama. 7.1/10

  A German Tiger tank crew is sent on a dangerous mission to rescue the missing officer Paul von Hardenburg from a top-secret bunker behind enemy lines. As they make their way…

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  Tears of the Sun (2003)

  Also action and drama. 6.9/10

  Navy SEAL Lieutenant A.K. Waters and his elite squadron of tactical specialists are forced to choose between their duty and their humanity, between following orders by ignoring…

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  Alexander (2004)

  Also action and drama. 6.0/10

  Alexander, the King of Macedonia, leads his legions against the giant Persian Empire. After defeating the Persians, he leads his army across the then known world, venturing…

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  Greyhound (2020)

  Also action and drama. 7.4/10

  A first-time captain leads a convoy of allied ships carrying thousands of soldiers across the treacherous waters of the "Black Pit" to the front lines of WWII. With no air cover…

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  Allied (2016)

  Also action and drama. 6.8/10

  In 1942, an intelligence officer in North Africa encounters a female French Resistance fighter on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. When they reunite in London, their…

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  The Woman King (2022)

  Also action and drama. 7.6/10

  The story of the Agojie, the all-female unit of warriors who protected the African Kingdom of Dahomey in the 1800s with skills and a fierceness unlike anything the world has ever…

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  Crimson Tide (1995)

  Also action and drama. 7.2/10

  After the Cold War, a breakaway Russian republic with nuclear warheads becomes a possible worldwide threat. U.S. submarine Capt. Frank Ramsey signs on a relatively green but…

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  The Longest Day (1962)

  Also action and drama. 7.6/10

  The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as…

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  The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999)

  Also action and drama. 6.4/10

  In 1429, a French teenager stood before her King with a message she claimed came from God; that she would defeat the world's greatest army and liberate her country from its…

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  King Arthur (2004)

  Also action and drama. 6.3/10

  The story of the Arthurian legend, based on the 'Sarmatian hypothesis' which contends that the legend has a historical nucleus in the Sarmatian heavy cavalry troops stationed in…

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  Behind Enemy Lines (2001)

  Also action and drama. 6.5/10

  While flying a routine reconnaissance mission over Bosnia, fighter pilot Lt. Chris Burnett photographs something he wasn't supposed to see and gets shot down behind enemy lines…

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  Midway (1976)

  Also action and drama. 6.6/10

  This war drama depicts the U.S. and Japanese forces in the naval Battle of Midway, which became a turning point for Americans during World War II.

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  The Outpost (2020)

  Also action and drama. 6.9/10

  A small unit of U.S. soldiers, alone at the remote Combat Outpost Keating, located deep in the valley of three mountains in Afghanistan, battles to defend against an overwhelming…

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  Green Zone (2010)

  Also action and drama. 6.5/10

  During the U.S.-led occupation of Baghdad in 2003, Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller and his team of Army inspectors are dispatched to find weapons of mass destruction believed to…