Movies like Captured!
If Captured!'s mix of love triangle, world war i and prisoner of war stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Captured!'s fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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All Quiet on the Western Front
1930 · Directed by Lewis Milestone · 133 min7.8
Why you'll like itShares: world war i, pre-code · Also drama and war · From the same decade (1930s)
When a group of idealistic young men join the German Army during the Great War, they are assigned to the Western Front, where their patriotism is destroyed by the harsh realities of combat.
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Doctor Zhivago
1965 · Directed by David Lean · 200 min7.6
Why you'll like itShares: love triangle, world war i · Also drama and romance
The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the October Revolution.
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Wings
1927 · Directed by William A. Wellman · 144 min7.2
Why you'll like itShares: love triangle, world war i · Also drama and war
Two young men, one rich, one middle class, both in love with the same woman, become US Air Corps fighter pilots and, eventually, heroic flying aces during World War I.
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Casablanca
1943 · Directed by Michael Curtiz · 102 min8.1
Why you'll like itShares: love triangle · Also drama and romance
In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.
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The Great Escape
1963 · Directed by John Sturges · 173 min7.9
Why you'll like itShares: prisoner of war · Also drama and war
The Nazis, exasperated at the number of escapes from their prison camps by a relatively small number of Allied prisoners, relocate them to a high-security 'escape-proof' camp to sit out the remainder of the war.
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Empire of the Sun
1987 · Directed by Steven Spielberg · 153 min7.5
Why you'll like itShares: prisoner of war · Also drama and war
Jamie Graham, a privileged English boy, is living in Shanghai when the Japanese invade and force all foreigners into prison camps. Jamie is captured with an American sailor, who looks out for him while they are in the…
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The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
1943 · Directed by Michael Powell · 163 min7.5
Why you'll like itShares: world war i · Also war and drama
General Candy, who's overseeing an English squad in 1943, is a veteran leader who doesn't have the respect of the men he's training and is considered out-of-touch with what's needed to win the war.
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Brooklyn
2015 · Directed by John Crowley · 111 min7.3
Why you'll like itShares: love triangle · Also drama and romance
In 1950s Ireland and New York, young Eilis Lacey has to choose between two men and two countries.
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Persuasion
2007 · Directed by Adrian Shergold · 93 min7.2
Why you'll like itShares: love triangle · Also drama and romance
Anne Elliot was once in love with Frederick Wentworth, a commander in the Royal Navy who was rejected by her snobby parents eight years ago.
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Mrs. Miniver
1942 · Directed by William Wyler · 134 min7.1
Why you'll like itShares: prisoner of war · Also drama and romance
Middle-class housewife Kay Miniver deals with petty problems. She and her husband Clem watch her Oxford-educated son Vin court Carol Beldon, the charming granddaughter of the local nobility as represented by Lady…
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Tolkien
2019 · Directed by Dome Karukoski · 112 min6.9
Why you'll like itShares: world war i · Also war and drama
England, early 20th century. The future writer and philologist John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892-1973) and three of his schoolmates create a strong bond between them as they share the same passion for literature and art,…
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All Quiet on the Western Front
1979 · Directed by Delbert Mann · 150 min6.7
Why you'll like itShares: world war i · Also war and drama
At the start of World War I, Paul Baumer is a young German patriot, eager to fight. Indoctrinated with propaganda at school, he and his friends eagerly sign up for the army soon after graduation.