Movies like Narvik
If Narvik's mix of winter, world war ii and bombing stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Narvik's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Into the White
2012 · Directed by Petter Næss · 104 min6.9
Why you'll like itWith Stig Henrik Hoff · Shares: winter, world war ii · Also a Norwegian war film
During World War II, enemy fighter pilots find themselves face to face after shooting down one another's planes over a desolate landscape. In order to survive, they must set aside the rules of war.
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Enemy at the Gates
2001 · Directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud · 131 min7.4
Why you'll like itShares: winter, world war ii, bombing · Also war and history
A Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad in WWII.
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Max Manus: Man of War
2008 · Directed by Joachim Rønning · 118 min7.1
Why you'll like itShares: world war ii · Also a Norwegian historical drama
Max Manus is a Norwegian 2008 biographic war film based on the real events of the life of resistance fighter Max Manus (1914–96), after his contribution in the Winter War against the Soviet Union.
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Number 24
2024 · Directed by John Andreas Andersen · 112 min7.1
Why you'll like itShares: world war ii · Also a Norwegian war film · From the same decade (2020s)
On the brink of the Second World War, a young Norwegian man's drive to resist the Nazis sets a new course for his future – and the future of his country.
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The 12th Man
2017 · Directed by Harald Zwart · 136 min7.1
Why you'll like itShares: world war ii · Also a Norwegian war film
After a failed anti-Nazi sabotage mission leaves his eleven comrades dead, a Norwegian resistance fighter finds himself fleeing the Gestapo through the snowbound reaches of Scandinavia.
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Schindler's List
1993 · Directed by Steven Spielberg · 195 min8.6
Why you'll like itShares: world war ii · Also drama and history
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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Nuremberg
2025 · Directed by James Vanderbilt · 149 min7.6
Why you'll like itShares: world war ii · Also history and drama · From the same decade (2020s)
In postwar Germany, an American psychiatrist must determine whether Nazi prisoners are fit to go on trial for war crimes, and finds himself in a complex battle of intellect and ethics with Hermann Göring, Hitler's…
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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 action
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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Defiance
2008 · Directed by Edward Zwick · 137 min6.8
Why you'll like itShares: world war ii · Also drama and history
Based on a true story, during World War II, four Jewish brothers escape their Nazi-occupied homeland of West Belarus in Poland and join the Soviet partisans to combat the Nazis.
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The Survivor
2022 · Directed by Barry Levinson · 129 min6.8
Why you'll like itShares: world war ii · Also history and action · From the same decade (2020s)
Harry Haft is a boxer who fought fellow prisoners in the concentration camps to survive. Haunted by the memories and his guilt, he attempts to use high-profile fights against boxing legends like Rocky Marciano as a way…
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The Great Raid
2005 · Directed by John Dahl · 132 min6.5
Why you'll like itShares: world war ii · Also action and history
As World War II rages, the elite Sixth Ranger Battalion is given a mission of heroic proportions: push 30 miles behind enemy lines and liberate over 500 American prisoners of war.
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Utøya: July 22
2018 · Directed by Erik Poppe · 92 min7.1
Why you'll like itAlso a Norwegian historical drama
A teenage girl fights for survival and to locate her young sister during the 2011 terrorist attack at a political summer camp on the Norwegian island of Utøya.