Movies like Canopy
If Canopy's mix of singapore, world war ii and jungle stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Canopy's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Dunkirk
2017 · Directed by Christopher Nolan · 107 min7.5
Why you'll like itShares: world war ii, 1940s, intense · 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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Alone in Berlin
2016 · Directed by Vincent Perez · 103 min6.7
Why you'll like itShares: world war ii, 1940s · Also war and drama · From the same decade (2010s)
Berlin in June of 1940. While Nazi propaganda celebrates the regime’s victory over France, a kitchen-cum-living room in Prenzlauer Berg is filled with grief. Anna and Otto Quangel’s son has been killed at the front.
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Empire of the Sun
1987 · Directed by Steven Spielberg · 153 min7.5
Why you'll like itShares: world war ii · 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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Lifeboat
1944 · Directed by Alfred Hitchcock · 96 min7.4
Why you'll like itShares: world war ii · 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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The Guns of Navarone
1961 · Directed by J. Lee Thompson · 160 min7.3
Why you'll like itShares: world war ii · Also adventure and drama
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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Shutter Island
2010 · Directed by Martin Scorsese · 138 min8.2
Why you'll like itShares: complex, intense · From the same decade (2010s)
World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by troubling visions and a mysterious doctor.
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Seven Years in Tibet
1997 · Directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud · 136 min7.2
Why you'll like itShares: world war ii · Also adventure and drama
Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer journeys to the Himalayas without his family to head an expedition in 1939. But when World War II breaks out, the arrogant Harrer falls into Allied forces' hands as a prisoner of…
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Against the Sun
2014 · Directed by Brian Falk · 99 min7.0
Why you'll like itShares: world war ii · Also war and adventure · 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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Memphis Belle
1990 · Directed by Michael Caton-Jones · 107 min6.8
Why you'll like itShares: world war ii · Also drama and war
The "Memphis Belle" is a World War II bomber, piloted by a young crew on dangerous bombing raids into Europe. The crew only have to make one more bombing raid before they have finished their duty and can go home.
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U-571
2000 · Directed by Jonathan Mostow · 116 min6.6
Why you'll like itShares: world war ii · Also war and adventure
In the midst of World War II, the battle under the sea rages and the Nazis have the upper hand as the Allies are unable to crack their war codes.