Films like The English Patient (1996)

The English Patient (1996) is drama, romance, war. These 24 films share its genres, ordered by how much overlap they have and how well they are rated.

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Gone with the Wind (1939)

Also drama and romance. 7.9/10

The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical profiteer during the American Civil War and Reconstruction Era.
Pearl Harbor (2001)

Also drama and romance. 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…
Alexander (2004)

Also drama and romance. 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…
Legends of the Fall (1994)

Also drama and romance. 7.4/10

In early 20th-century Montana, Col. William Ludlow lives on a ranch in the wilderness with his sons, Alfred, Tristan, and Samuel. Eventually, the unconventional but close-knit…
Allied (2016)

Also drama and romance. 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…
To Live (1994)

Also drama and romance. 8.1/10

Married couple Fugui and Jiazhen endure tumultuous events in mid-20th century mainland China as their personal fortunes move from wealthy landownership to peasantry.
Dear John (2010)

Also drama and romance. 6.8/10

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…
Doctor Zhivago (1965)

Also drama and romance. 7.6/10

The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the…
Head in the Clouds (2004)

Also drama and romance. 5.9/10

Gilda Bessé shares her Paris apartment with an Irish schoolteacher, Guy Malyon, and Mia, a refugee from Spain. As the world drifts toward war, Gilda defiantly pursues her…
Sophie's Choice (1982)

Also drama and romance. 7.3/10

Stingo, a young writer, moves to Brooklyn in 1947 to begin work on his first novel. As he becomes friendly with Sophie and her lover Nathan, he learns that she is a Holocaust…
The Aftermath (2019)

Also drama and romance. 6.4/10

In the aftermath of World War II, a British colonel and his wife are assigned to live in Hamburg during the post-war reconstruction, but tensions arise with the German widower who…
The Cranes Are Flying (1957)

Also drama and romance. 7.9/10

Veronika and Boris come together in Moscow shortly before World War II. Walking along the river, they watch cranes fly overhead, and promise to rendezvous before Boris leaves to…
Firebird (2021)

Also drama and romance. 7.4/10

At the height of the Cold War, a troubled soldier forms a forbidden love triangle with a daring fighter pilot and his female comrade amid the dangerous surroundings of a Soviet…
Ride with the Devil (1999)

Also drama and romance. 6.3/10

Friends Jake and Jack Bull join up with Civil War guerrilla fighters, yet after the realities of war set in, they must decide what honor truly means.
Mosquito Squadron (1969)

Also drama and romance. 5.6/10

England, World War II. Quint Munroe, RAF officer and new leader of a Mosquito squadron, is tasked with destroying a secret Nazi base in France while trying to overcome the…
The White Countess (2005)

Also drama and romance. 6.2/10

In 1930s Shanghai, 'The White Countess' is both Sofia, a fallen member of the exiled Russian aristocracy, and a nightclub created by a blind American diplomat who asks Sofia to be…
War and Peace (1956)

Also drama and romance. 6.6/10

The love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov is interwoven with the Great Patriotic War of 1812 against Napoleon's invading army.
Battle for Sevastopol (2015)

Also drama and romance. 7.3/10

The story of Lyudmila Pavlichenko, the most successful female sniper in history.
Shining Through (1992)

Also drama and romance. 6.5/10

Spirited New Yorker Linda Voss goes to work for international lawyer and secret Office of Strategic Services operative Ed Leland just before World War II. As they fall in love…
The Exception (2017)

Also drama and romance. 6.9/10

Nothing is as it seems in this riveting World War 2 thriller as a wary soldier goes to investigate a mysterious German monarch at his secluded mansion, leading him into a web of…
Their Finest (2017)

Also drama and romance. 6.6/10

During the Blitz of World War II, a female screenwriter works on a film celebrating England's resilience as a way to buoy a weary populace's spirits. Her efforts to dramatise the…
Black Angel (2002)

Also drama and romance. 5.3/10

Livia, the attractive wife of a high-ranking Ministry of the People's Republic official, is accompanied by Ugo, a lawyer, her admirer and her husband's spy, to Venice. There, she…
In Tranzit (2008)

Also drama and romance. 5.5/10

Nazi POWs suspected of heinous acts are locked up in a Soviet women's prison run by vengeful female guards. To weed out the guilty, the innocent must pay. Can supposed enemies…
Ballad of a Soldier (1959)

Also drama and romance. 8.0/10

During World War II, earnest young Russian soldier Alyosha Skvortsov is rewarded with a short leave of absence for performing a heroic deed on the battlefield. Feeling homesick…