
Movies that feel likeThe Longest Day (1962)
If you loved The Longest Day, the closest films we have are Patton (1970), The Guns of Navarone (1961) and The Battle of Algiers (1966). All three share The Longest Day's bleak and contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality.
Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Flame & Citron (2008).
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If The Longest Day hit the spot, these will too

The same two preoccupations: steel helmet, and allies

Both keep coming back to the same thing: world war ii
The difference: Sits closer to adventure than The Longest Day does

Bleak where it counts, contemplative underneath

Both are built on the same subject: resistance

Common ground: world war ii
The difference: Takes it somewhere less contemplative than The Longest Day does

Epic war, and it commits to that
The difference: Made in the 1990s, in a different era of the craft

Drama built on bleakness, twice over

The same preoccupation in both: resistance

Both lean on stillness more than on history

One thread runs through both: black and white

Both are built on the same subject: a true story

The same preoccupation in both: historical fiction
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