Movies like The Exception
If The Exception's mix of nazi, world war i and resistance stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what The Exception's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Allied
2016 · Directed by Robert Zemeckis · 124 min6.8
Why you'll like itShares: nazi, resistance, spy · Also drama and war · From the same decade (2010s)
In 1942, an intelligence officer in North Africa encounters a female French Resistance fighter on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. When they reunite in London, their relationship is tested by the pressures of war.
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Conspiracy
2001 · Directed by Frank Pierson · 96 min7.3
Why you'll like itWith Ben Daniels · Shares: nazi · Also drama and war
At the Wannsee Conference on January 20, 1942, senior Nazi officials meet to determine the manner in which the so-called "Final Solution to the Jewish Question" can be best implemented.
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Schindler's List
1993 · Directed by Steven Spielberg · 195 min8.6
Why you'll like itShares: nazi · Also drama and war
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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Resistance
2020 · Directed by Jonathan Jakubowicz · 120 min7.0
Why you'll like itShares: resistance · 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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The Eagle Has Landed
1976 · Directed by John Sturges · 135 min6.7
Why you'll like itShares: nazi · 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…
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Flyboys
2006 · Directed by Tony Bill · 138 min6.5
Why you'll like itShares: world war i · Also drama and war
The adventures of the Lafayette Escadrille, young Americans who volunteered for the French military before the U.S. entered World War I, and became the country's first fighter pilots.
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Shining Through
1992 · Directed by David Seltzer · 132 min6.5
Why you'll like itShares: nazi · Also drama and romance
Spirited New Yorker Linda Voss goes to work for international lawyer and secret Office of Strategic Services operative Ed Leland just before World War II.
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Oppenheimer
2023 · Directed by Christopher Nolan · 181 min8.0
Why you'll like itAlso drama and war
The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer's role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II.