Movies like PITFALL
If PITFALL's mix of world war ii, survival and character study stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what PITFALL's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Lifeboat
1944 · Directed by Alfred Hitchcock · 96 min7.4
Why you'll like itShares: world war ii, survival · Also war and drama
During World War II, a small group of survivors is stranded in a lifeboat together after the ship they were traveling on is destroyed by a German U-boat.
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Against the Sun
2014 · Directed by Brian Falk · 99 min7.0
Why you'll like itShares: world war ii, survival · From the same decade (2010s)
A WWII pilot, bombardier, and radioman find themselves adrift on a lifeboat without food or water after being forced to ditch their plane during a scouting mission.
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Dunkirk
2017 · Directed by Christopher Nolan · 107 min7.5
Why you'll like itShares: world war ii, survival · Also war and drama · From the same decade (2010s)
The story of the miraculous evacuation of Allied soldiers from Belgium, Britain, Canada and France, who were cut off and surrounded by the German army from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk between May 26th and June…
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Letters from Iwo Jima
2006 · Directed by Clint Eastwood · 141 min7.5
Why you'll like itShares: world war ii · Also drama and war
The story of the battle of Iwo Jima between the United States and Imperial Japan during World War II, as told from the perspective of the Japanese who fought it.
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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
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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Lone Survivor
2013 · Directed by Peter Berg · 121 min7.4
Why you'll like itShares: survival · Also war and drama · From the same decade (2010s)
Four Navy SEALs on a covert mission to neutralize a high-level Taliban operative must make an impossible moral decision in the mountains of Afghanistan that leads them into an enemy ambush.
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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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Devotion
2022 · Directed by J.D. Dillard · 139 min7.1
Why you'll like itShares: war · Also war and drama
The harrowing true story of two elite US Navy fighter pilots during the Korean War. Their heroic sacrifices would ultimately make them the Navy's most celebrated wingmen.
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The Beast of War
1988 · Directed by Kevin Reynolds · 111 min7.1
Why you'll like itShares: war · Also war and drama
During the war in Afghanistan a Soviet tank crew commanded by a tyrannical officer find themselves lost and in a struggle against a band of Mujahadeen guerrillas in the mountains.
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Flags of Our Fathers
2006 · Directed by Clint Eastwood · 135 min6.8
Why you'll like itShares: world war ii · Also war and drama
There were five Marines and one Navy Corpsman photographed raising the U.S. flag on Mt. Suribachi by Joe Rosenthal on February 23, 1945.