Movies like Breakthrough
If Breakthrough's mix of assassination, nazi and world war ii stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Breakthrough's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Downfall
2004 · Directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel · 155 min7.9
Why you'll like itShares: nazi, world war ii, adolf hitler · Also a German drama
In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the east and the Allied Expeditionary Force attacking from the west.
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Saving Private Ryan
1998 · Directed by Steven Spielberg · 169 min8.2
Why you'll like itShares: world war ii, normandy, france, troops · Also war and drama
As U.S. troops storm the beaches of Normandy, three brothers lie dead on the battlefield, with a fourth trapped behind enemy lines. Ranger captain John Miller and seven men are tasked with penetrating German-held…
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Cross of Iron
1977 · Directed by Sam Peckinpah · 133 min7.1
Why you'll like itWith Klaus Löwitsch · Shares: world war ii, troops · Also drama and history · From the same decade (1970s)
It is 1943, and the German army—ravaged and demoralised—is hastily retreating from the Russian front. In the midst of the madness, conflict brews between the aristocratic yet ultimately pusillanimous Captain Stransky…
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Anthropoid
2016 · Directed by Sean Ellis · 120 min7.1
Why you'll like itShares: assassination, nazi, world war ii · Also history and war
In December 1941, Czech soldiers Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš parachute into their occupied homeland to assassinate Nazi officer Reinhard Heydrich.
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The Man with the Iron Heart
2017 · Directed by Cédric Jimenez · 120 min6.5
Why you'll like itShares: assassination, nazi, world war ii · Also war and history
With the Third Reich at its peak in 1942, the Czech resistance in London plans the most ambitious military operation of WWII – Anthropoid.
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13 Minutes
2015 · Directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel · 114 min6.8
Why you'll like itShares: nazi, world war ii · Also a German historical drama
The breathtaking story of a man who nearly would have changed the world. In 1939, when Hitler tricked millions of people at the height of his power, radical Georg Elser — disparaged as an assassin — is one of the…
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Fury
2014 · Directed by David Ayer · 135 min7.5
Why you'll like itShares: nazi, world war ii · Also war and drama
April, 1945. As the Allies make their final push in the European Theater, a battle-hardened army sergeant commands a Sherman tank with a five-man crew on a deadly mission behind enemy lines.
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The Eagle Has Landed
1976 · Directed by John Sturges · 135 min6.7
Why you'll like itShares: nazi, world war ii · Also drama and war · From the same decade (1970s)
When the Nazi high command learns in late 1943 that Winston Churchill will be spending time at a country estate in Norfolk, it hatches an audacious scheme to kidnap the prime minister and spirit him to Germany for…
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Das Boot
1981 · Directed by Wolfgang Petersen · 150 min8.1
Why you'll like itShares: world war ii · Also a German drama
A German submarine hunts allied ships during the Second World War, but it soon becomes the hunted. The crew tries to survive below the surface, while stretching both the boat and themselves to their limits.
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Schindler's List
1993 · Directed by Steven Spielberg · 195 min8.6
Why you'll like itShares: nazi, world war ii · Also drama and history
The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II.
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Stalingrad
1993 · Directed by Joseph Vilsmaier · 134 min7.3
Why you'll like itShares: world war ii · Also a German drama
A German Platoon is explored through the brutal fighting of the Battle of Stalingrad. After half of their number is wiped out and they're placed under the command of a sadistic captain, the platoon lieutenant leads his…
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The Captain
2018 · Directed by Robert Schwentke · 118 min7.2
Why you'll like itShares: world war ii · Also a German war film
Germany, 1945. Soldier Willi Herold, a deserter of the German army, stumbles into a uniform of a Nazi captain abandoned during the last and desperate weeks of the Third Reich.