Movies like 49th Parallel
If 49th Parallel's mix of canada, airplane and nazi stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what 49th Parallel's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Where Eagles Dare
1968 · Directed by Brian G. Hutton · 155 min7.5
Why you'll like itShares: nazi, world war ii, mountain
World War II is raging, and an American general has been captured and is being held hostage in the Schloss Adler, a Bavarian castle that's nearly impossible to breach.
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Their Finest
2017 · Directed by Lone Scherfig · 117 min6.6
Why you'll like itShares: world war ii, war propaganda
During the Blitz of World War II, a female screenwriter works on a film celebrating England's resilience as a way to buoy a weary populace's spirits.
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Pressure
2026 · Directed by Anthony Maras · 101 min7.7
Why you'll like itShares: world war ii · Also thriller and war
In the tense 72 hours before D-Day, and the fate of the free world hanging in the balance, General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Captain James Stagg face an impossible choice—launch the largest and most dangerous seaborne…
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The Longest Day
1962 · Directed by Ken Annakin · 178 min7.6
Why you'll like itShares: world war ii
The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall,…
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Kelly's Heroes
1970 · Directed by Brian G. Hutton · 144 min7.4
Why you'll like itShares: world war ii
A misfit group of World War II American soldiers goes AWOL to rob a bank behind German lines.
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Little Boy
2015 · Directed by Alejandro Monteverde · 106 min7.3
Why you'll like itShares: world war ii
An eight-year-old boy is willing to do whatever it takes to end World War II so he can bring his father home. The story reveals the indescribable love a father has for his little boy and the love a son has for his…
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Suite Française
2015 · Directed by Saul Dibb · 103 min7.2
Why you'll like itShares: world war ii
France, 1940. In the first days of occupation, beautiful Lucile Angellier is trapped in a stifled existence with her controlling mother-in-law as they both await news of her husband: a prisoner of war.
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Against the Sun
2014 · Directed by Brian Falk · 99 min7.0
Why you'll like itShares: world war ii
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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U-571
2000 · Directed by Jonathan Mostow · 116 min6.6
Why you'll like itShares: world war ii
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.
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Operation Mincemeat
2022 · Directed by John Madden · 128 min6.5
Why you'll like itShares: world war ii
In 1943, two British intelligence officers concoct Operation Mincemeat, wherein their plan to drop a corpse with false papers off the coast of Spain would fool Nazi spies into believing the Allied forces were planning…