If You Liked Born on the Fourth of July, Watch These Next
Finished Born on the Fourth of July (1989) and want more of the same? These 19 movies are what its fans watched next, ranked by how often people who liked it also liked these. Like Born on the Fourth of July, most of them are drama, war.
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19 titles · updated 3rd October 2026
1.Casualties of War(1989)
7.2DramaHistoryWarAlso drama and war
During the Vietnam War, a soldier finds himself the outsider of his own squad when they unnecessarily kidnap a female villager.
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2.Apocalypse Now(1979)
8.3DramaWarAlso drama and war
At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, officially, "does not exist, nor will it ever exist." His goal is to locate - and eliminate - a mysterious Green Beret Colonel named Walter Kurtz, who has been leading his personal army on illegal guerrilla missions into…
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3.The Deer Hunter(1978)
8.0DramaWarAlso drama and war
Three steelworkers enlist in the army and are sent to Vietnam, one leaving behind a rushed marriage, the others a shared love. What they encounter during the war changes their lives forever.
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4.Missing in Action 2: The Beginning(1985)
5.8ActionWarDramaAlso war and drama
Prequel to the first Missing In Action, set in the early 1980s it shows the capture of Colonel Braddock during the Vietnam war in the 1970s, and his captivity with other American POWs in a brutal prison camp, and his plans to escape.
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5.Dead Presidents(1995)
6.7CrimeDramaActionAlso drama
On the streets they call cash dead presidents. And that's just what a Vietnam veteran is after when he returns home from the war only to find himself drawn into a life of crime. With the aid of his fellow vets he plans the ultimate heist -- a daring robbery of an armored car filled with unmarked U.S. currency!
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7.Hamburger Hill(1987)
6.6WarActionDramaAlso war and drama
The men of Bravo Company are facing a battle that's all uphill… up Hamburger Hill. Fourteen war-weary soldiers are battling for a mud-covered mound of earth so named because it chews up soldiers like chopped meat. They are fighting for their country, their fellow soldiers and their lives. War is hell, but this is…
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8.Men in War(1957)
6.6WarDramaAlso war and drama
In Korea, on 6 September 1950, Lieutenant Benson's platoon finds itself isolated in enemy-held territory after a retreat. Soon they are joined by Sergeant Montana, whose overriding concern is caring for his catatonic colonel. Benson and Montana can't stand each other, but together they must get the survivors to Hill…
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9.Missing in Action(1984)
5.9ActionAdventureThrillerAlso war
American servicemen are still being held captive in Vietnam and it's up to one man to bring them home in this blistering, fast-paced action/adventure starring martial arts superstar Chuck Norris. Following a daring escape from a Vietnamese POW camp, Special Forces Colonel James Braddock (Norris) is on a mission to…
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10.Dead Man's Shoes(2004)
7.1DramaThrillerCrimeAlso drama
A soldier returns to his small town and exacts a deadly revenge on the thugs who tormented his disabled brother while he was away.
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11.Requiem for a Dream(2000)
8.0CrimeDramaAlso drama
The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island residents are shattered when their addictions run deep.
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12.Triumph of the Spirit(1989)
6.5DramaWarHistoryAlso drama and war
During World War II, Salamo Arouch, a passionate boxer, is arrested and sent to a concentration camp. Soon, he is forced to box against his fellow prisoners for the sake of entertainment.
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13.Taxi Driver(1976)
8.1CrimeDramaAlso drama
Suffering from insomnia, disturbed loner Travis Bickle takes a job as a New York City cabbie, haunting the streets nightly, growing increasingly detached from reality as he dreams of cleaning up the filthy city.
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14.Hell Hath No Fury(2021)
6.4ActionWarAlso war
Branded a traitor by her countrymen, French national Marie DuJardin is rescued by American soldiers on one condition: to survive, she must lead them to a cache of gold - before the Nazis return to claim it for themselves.
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15.Once Upon a Time in America(1984)
8.4DramaCrimeAlso drama
A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.
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16.Sometimes in April(2005)
7.1DramaHistoryWarAlso drama and war
Two brothers are divided by marriage and fate during the 100 horrifying days of the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
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18.Fight Club(1999)
8.4DramaThrillerAlso drama
A ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a slippery soap salesman channel primal male aggression into a shocking new form of therapy. Their concept catches on, with underground "fight clubs" forming in every town, until an eccentric gets in the way and ignites an out-of-control spiral toward oblivion.
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19.A Midnight Clear(1992)
6.6DramaWarHistoryAlso drama and war
In 1944 France, an American Intelligence Squad locates a German Platoon wishing to surrender rather than die in Germany's final war offensive. The two groups of men, isolated from the war at present, put aside their differences and spend Christmas together before the surrender plan turns bad and both sides are forced…
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