Movies Like Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo

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

Homecoming

1948·1h 53m·★ 6.8·Mervyn LeRoy

2 shared crewDir. Mervyn LeRoyDP: Harold Rosson

The Bad Seed

1956·2h 9m·★ 7.4·Mervyn LeRoy

2 shared crewDir. Mervyn LeRoyDP: Harold Rosson

Any Number Can Play

1949·1h 52m·★ 6.9·Mervyn LeRoy

2 shared crewDir. Mervyn LeRoyDP: Harold Rosson

A Guy Named Joe

1944·2h·★ 6.9·Victor Fleming

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Command Decision

1948·1h 52m·★ 7.3·Sam Wood

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Somewhere I'll Find You

1942·1h 48m·★ 6.1·Wesley Ruggles

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Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison

1957·1h 48m·★ 7.3·John Huston

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Apocalypse Now

1979·2h 27m·★ 8.4·Francis Ford Coppola

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Downfall

2004·2h 35m·★ 8.2·Oliver Hirschbiegel

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Soldier of Orange

1977·2h 28m·★ 7.6·Paul Verhoeven

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The Tin Drum

1979·2h 42m·★ 7.4·Volker Schlöndorff

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Betrayed

2020·2h 6m·★ 7.1·Eirik Svensson

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Nobody Knows

2004·2h 21m·★ 8.0·Hirokazu Kore-eda

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To Be or Not to Be

1942·1h 39m·★ 8.1·Ernst Lubitsch

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Lost in Translation

2003·1h 42m·★ 7.7·Sofia Coppola

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The Marriage of Maria Braun

1979·2h·★ 7.7·Rainer Werner Fassbinder

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Lifeboat

1944·1h 36m·★ 7.6·Alfred Hitchcock

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The Diary of Anne Frank

1959·2h 59m·★ 7.4·George Stevens

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Mister Roberts

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How Good Is Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo?

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