Movies like Underground
If Underground's mix of world war ii, lie and cellar stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Underground's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Inglourious Basterds
2009 · Directed by Quentin Tarantino · 153 min8.2
Why you'll like itShares: world war ii, resistance fighter · Also drama and war
In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Basterds" are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis.
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Schindler's List
1993 · Directed by Steven Spielberg · 195 min8.6
Why you'll like itShares: world war ii · Also drama and war · From the same decade (1990s)
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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Stalag 17
1953 · Directed by Billy Wilder · 120 min7.7
Why you'll like itShares: world war ii · Also comedy and drama
After two American prisoners are killed by guards in the act of escaping from a German POW camp in World War II, barracks black marketeer J.J. Sefton is suspected of being an informer.
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The Thin Red Line
1998 · Directed by Terrence Malick · 171 min7.4
Why you'll like itShares: world war ii · Also drama and war · From the same decade (1990s)
The story of a group of men, an Army Rifle company called C-for-Charlie, who change, suffer, and ultimately make essential discoveries about themselves during the fierce World War II battle of Guadalcanal.
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The Guns of Navarone
1961 · Directed by J. Lee Thompson · 160 min7.3
Why you'll like itShares: world war ii · Also drama and war
A team of allied saboteurs are assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held island and destroy the two enormous long-range field guns that prevent the rescue of 2,000 trapped British soldiers.
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Cross of Iron
1977 · Directed by Sam Peckinpah · 133 min7.1
Why you'll like itShares: world war ii · Also drama and war
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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Resistance
2020 · Directed by Jonathan Jakubowicz · 120 min7.0
Why you'll like itShares: world war ii · Also war and drama
The story of mime Marcel Marceau as he works with a group of Jewish boy scouts and the French Resistance to save the lives of ten thousand orphans during World War II.
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Defiance
2008 · Directed by Edward Zwick · 137 min6.8
Why you'll like itShares: world war ii · Also drama and war
Based on a true story, during World War II, four Jewish brothers escape their Nazi-occupied homeland of West Belarus in Poland and join the Soviet partisans to combat the Nazis.
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The Eagle Has Landed
1976 · Directed by John Sturges · 135 min6.7
Why you'll like itShares: world war ii · Also drama and war
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…