Movies Like The Big Lift

Ranked by shared directors, cast, themes, genre, and era — not just generic recommendations.

Good Morning, Vietnam

1987·2h 1m·★ 7.3·Barry Levinson

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Pearl Harbor

2001·3h 3m·★ 6.3·Michael Bay

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The Victors

1963·2h 55m·★ 6.9·Carl Foreman

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Firebird

2021·1h 47m·★ 7.1·Peeter Rebane

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Wings

1927·2h 24m·★ 7.5·William A. Wellman

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Dear John

2010·1h 48m·★ 6.3·Lasse Hallström

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A Guy Named Joe

1944·2h·★ 6.9·Victor Fleming

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All About Eve

1950·2h 19m·★ 8.2·Joseph L. Mankiewicz

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M

1931·1h 50m·★ 8.3·Fritz Lang

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Purple Hearts

2022·2h 2m·★ 6.7·Elizabeth Allen Rosenbaum

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To Be or Not to Be

1942·1h 39m·★ 8.1·Ernst Lubitsch

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Dunkirk

2017·1h 47m·★ 7.8·Christopher Nolan

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I Confess

1953·1h 35m·★ 7.2·Alfred Hitchcock

Both star Montgomery Clift & O.E. Hasse

Valkyrie

2008·2h 1m·★ 7.1·Bryan Singer

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Battle of Britain

1969·2h 12m·★ 7.0·Guy Hamilton

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Kuhle Wampe or Who Owns the World?

1932·1h 14m·★ 6.6·Slatan Dudow

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Memphis Belle

1990·1h 47m·★ 6.9·Michael Caton-Jones

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Sayonara

1957·2h 27m·★ 7.0·Joshua Logan

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Alone in Berlin

2016·1h 43m·★ 6.5·Vincent Perez

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Effi Briest

1974·2h 21m·★ 6.9·Rainer Werner Fassbinder

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