20 best movies like The Man with the Iron Heart (2017)

List of the best movies like The Man with the Iron Heart (2017): Conspiracy, A Hidden Life, A Bag of Marbles, Alexander, Alone in Berlin, 7 Days in Entebbe, The Resistance Banker, The Young Lions, Von Richthofen and Brown, Defiance.

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Markimdb: 7.6
Genredrama, military, biography, history
CountryUSA, United Kingdom
Duration01:36

The historical recreation of the 1942 Wannsee Conference, in which Nazi and SS leaders gathered in a Berlin suburb to discuss the "Final Solution to the Jewish Question". Lead by SS-General Reinhard Heydrich, this group of high ranking German officials came to the historic and far reaching decision that the Jews of Europe were to be exterminated in what would come to be known as the Holocaust.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genredrama, military, biography, history
CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Germany

The story of an unsung hero, Franz Jägerstätter, who refused to fight for the Nazis in World War II. Based on real events.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genredrama, biography, history
CountryFrance, Canada, Czech Republic
Duration01:54

In occupied France, Maurice and Joseph, two young Jewish brothers left to their own devices demonstrate an incredible amount of cleverness, courage, and ingenuity to escape the enemy invasion and to try to reunite their family once again.

Markimdb: 5.6
Genreaction, melodrama, drama, adventure, military, biography, history
CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Germany, Netherlands, France, Italy, Morocco, Thailand
Duration02:55

    Alexander, the King of Macedonia, leads his legions against the giant Persian Empire. After defeating the Persians, he leads his army across the then known world, venturing farther than any westerner had ever gone, all the way to India.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genredrama, military, history
    CountryUnited Kingdom, France, Germany
    Duration02:14

    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. This working class couple had long believed in the ‘Führer’ and followed him willingly, but now they realise that his promises are nothing but lies and deceit. They begin writing postcards as a form of resistance and in a bid to raise awareness: Stop the war machine! Kill Hitler! Putting their lives at risk, they distribute these cards in the entrances of tenement buildings and in stairwells. But the SS and the Gestapo are soon onto them, and even their neighbours pose a threat.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, history
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, France, Malta
    Duration02:28

    In 1976, four hijackers take over an Air France airplane with 248 passengers on board and force it to land in Entebbe, Uganda.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genredrama, military, biography
    CountryNetherlands, Belgium
    Duration02:09

    In the occupied Netherlands during World War II, banker Walraven van Hall is asked to use his financial contacts to help the Dutch resistance. With his brother Gijs, he comes up with a risky plan to take out huge loans and use the money to finance the Resistance.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genreaction, drama, military
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:40

    The Young Lions follows the lives of three soldiers: one German and two Americans, paralleling their experiences in World War II until they meet up at the end for a confrontation

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genreaction, drama, military, biography, history
    CountryUSA

    Spend time on both sides of World War I, partly with German flying ace Baron Manfred Von Richthofen (John Phillip Law), aka "The Red Baron," and his colorful "flying circus" of Fokker fighter planes, during the time from his arrival at the war front to his death in combat. On the other side is Roy Brown of the Royal Air Force, sometimes credited with shooting Richthofen down.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, military, history
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:17

    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. The brothers begin the rescue of roughly 1,200 Jews still trapped in the ghettos of Poland.

    Markimdb: 3.9
    Genreaction, thriller, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:33

    A female FBI agent is offered millions to help a thief escape from a hijacked airplane.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genredrama, military, history
    CountryGermany

    Taking place at the Concentration camp Buchenwald at the end of March 1945, prisoner Hans Pippig discovers in a carrying case of an incoming prisoner a Jewish child. If reported the three-year-old is sure to die. On the other hand, a violation of the rules of the camp would threaten the long prepared uprising of the concentration camp prisoners against the SS.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime, military
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:59

    Depicts a heist of old bills, retired from circulation and destined by the government to be "money to burn". However, more broadly, it addresses the issues of Black Americans' involvement in the Vietnam War and their subsequent disillusionment with progress in social issues and civil rights back home in the United States, during the 1960s.

    Markimdb: 3.1
    Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, comedy, adventure, detective, military
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:26

    A group of researchers in Antarctica are abducted by a platoon of masked soldiers and dragged into a hidden continent in the center of the Earth. There, they discover that surviving Nazi soldiers are plotting an invasion of Earth to revive the Third Reich.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genreaction, drama, military
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom
    Duration01:56

      Four Navy SEALs on a covert mission to neutralize a high-level al-Qaeda operative must make an impossible moral decision in the mountains of Afghanistan that leads them into an enemy ambush. As they confront unthinkable odds, the SEALs must find reserves of strength and resilience to fight to the finish.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genredrama, biography, history
      CountryGermany, France, Luxembourg, United Kingdom, USA
      Duration01:05

      A young woman's desperate search for her abducted boyfriend that draws her into the infamous Colonia Dignidad, a sect nobody ever escaped from.

      Markimdb: 5.3
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, military, history
      CountryUSA
      Duration03:44

      The harrowing true story of the crew of the USS Indianapolis, who were stranded in the Philippine Sea for five days after delivering the atomic weapons that would eventually end WWII. As they awaited rescue, they endured extreme thirst, hunger, and relentless shark attacks.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, military
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:45

      A group of Vietnam War veterans re-unite to rescue one of their own left behind and taken prisoner by the Vietnamese...

      Markimdb: 5.9
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, detective, military
      CountryUSA, West Germany, Luxembourg
      Duration01:51

      General George S. Patton died in a car accident in 1945. However, now speculates that his death was actually a murder carefully prepared by his staff to cover a large theft of gold.

      Markimdb: 8
      Genrethriller, drama, military, biography
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
      Duration01:54

        Based on the real life story of legendary cryptanalyst Alan Turing, the film portrays the nail-biting race against time by Turing and his brilliant team of code-breakers at Britain's top-secret Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park, during the darkest days of World War II.

        Markimdb: 7.7
        Genremelodrama, drama, military, music, history
        CountryFrance, Germany, United Kingdom, Belgium, Romania
        Duration01:51

        In 1914, World War I, the bloodiest war ever at that time in human history, was well under way. However on Christmas Eve, numerous sections of the Western Front called an informal, and unauthorized, truce where the various front-line soldiers of the conflict peacefully met each other in No Man's Land to share a precious pause in the carnage with a fleeting brotherhood.

        Markimdb: 6.9
        Genreaction, drama, military
        CountryUnited Kingdom, Japan, USA
        Duration01:47

        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. In the briefing before their last flight, the crew discover that the target for the day is Dresden, a heavily-defended city that invariably causes many Allied casualties

        Markimdb: 8
        Genredrama, documentary, military, biography
        CountryGermany, United Kingdom, France
        Duration01:20

        In 1966, Dieter Dengler was shot down over Laos, captured, and, down to 85 pounds, escaped. Barefoot, surviving monsoons, leeches, and machete-wielding villagers, he was rescued. Now, near 60, living on Mt. Tamalpais, Dengler tells his story: a German lad surviving Allied bombings in World War II, postwar poverty, apprenticed to a smith, beaten regularly. At 18, he emigrates and peels potatoes in the U.S. Air Force. He leaves for California and college, then enlistment in the Navy to learn to fly. A quiet man of sorrows tells his story: war, capture, harrowing conditions, escape, and miraculous rescue. Where did he find the strength; how does he now live with his memories?

        Markimdb: 6.8
        Genreaction, drama, military
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:47

        In the winter of 1944, the Allied Armies stand ready to invade Germany at the coming of a New Year. To prevent it, Hitler orders an all-out offensive to re-take French territory and capture the major port city of Antwerp.

        Markimdb: 7.1
        Genrethriller, drama, adventure, military, biography
        CountryUnited Kingdom
        Duration01:48

        British soldiers guarding the Kajaki Dam set out to rescue a three-man team after one of them loses a leg to a landmine.

        Markimdb: 7.4
        Genreaction, drama, military, history
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:58

        The film concentrates on the camaraderie and the divisions between the troops as they ready for the big offensive. Told in a taut narrative, the men of the 101st, led by Van Johnson, wait out the winter in the Ardennes forest to confront the German army in what would be the last major offensive of World War II. The men are demoralized and trapped, with no hope of support from the Allies.

        Markimdb: 4.5
        Genreaction, drama, adventure, military
        CountryUnited Kingdom

        Different factions in WWII-era Holland race to find a stash of Nazi gold.

        Markimdb: 7.2
        Genreaction, military, biography, history
        CountryRepublic of Ireland, South Africa
        Duration02:07

        Irish Commandant Pat Quinlan leads a stand off with troops against French and Belgian Mercenaries in the Congo during in the early 1960s.

        Markimdb: 7.6
        Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, military
        CountryNetherlands, Belgium
        Duration02:47

        The lives of Erik Lanshof and five of his closest friends take different paths when the German army invades the Netherlands in 1940: fight and resistance, fear and resignation, collaboration and high treason.

        Markimdb: 4.6
        Genreaction, thriller, drama
        CountryCanada, USA
        Duration01:29

        A deep cover operative awakens to find himself imprisoned on a submarine. With the help of a fellow prisoner and an amateur agent, he must race against the clock to escape the vessel and expose who set him up.

        Markimdb: 7
        Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, military
        CountryUnited Kingdom, France, Canada, Belgium, USA
        Duration01:47

        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. Parisian refugees start to pour into their small town, soon followed by a regiment of German soldiers who take up residence in the villagers' own homes. Lucile initially tries to ignore Bruno von Falk, the handsome and refined German officer staying with them. But soon, a powerful love draws them together and leads them into the tragedy of war.

        Markimdb: 5.4
        Genreaction, thriller, drama, adventure, crime, military
        CountryFrance, Belgium, Germany, USA, Malta, Croatia, Netherlands
        Duration02:19

        In the midst of the Balkan wars, a squad of Navy SEALs attempts to unravel a long-forgotten mystery after discovering an enormous treasure trove hidden at the bottom of a lake in Serbia.

        Markimdb: 7.1
        Genreaction, drama, military, biography, history
        CountryRussia, Ukraine
        Duration02:17

        The breakout of the war shatters the world of a young student, Lyudmila Pavlichenko, forcing her to enlist in the army in 1941. The maiden turns out to be a natural-born sniper, her impressive skill and prowess make her stand out among men and women alike. Seeing Pavlichenko as a tangible threat, the German High Command gives orders to eliminate the girl whatever the cost. In the meanwhile, Lyudmila meets a man and falls in love. War fades into the background... Soon, however, another misfortune befalls Lyudmila leaving the man she loves on the brink of death and herself seriously wounded. The girl is pulled out of combat and later goes to the United States with a publicity visit. Eleanor Roosevelt welcomes Lyudmila in the White House and the two women soon become close. It won't be long before Pavlichenko stands before an audience in Chicago pressing for a second front. Will her words have the capacity to change the course of war?

        Markimdb: 8.3
        Genreaction, comedy, drama, military
        CountryUSA, Germany
        Duration02:33

        In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Basterds" are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds, lead by Lt. Aldo Raine soon cross paths with a French-Jewish teenage girl who runs a movie theater in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers.

        Markimdb: 7.1
        Genreaction, thriller, melodrama, drama, military
        CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
        Duration02:39

        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.

        Markimdb: 4.3
        Genrefantastic, action, thriller, adventure, military
        CountryUSA

        International Flight 42 is on course, when all of a sudden a massive and weird storm crops up around the plane. This sends the plane back in time to the year 1940- smack dab in the middle of WWII! Now, the crew and passengers must not only find a way back to their time, but fight off the Axis powers.

        Markimdb: 6.2
        Genreaction, thriller, drama, military, sport
        CountryUnited Kingdom, China, USA
        Duration02:11

        19-year-old Billy Lynn is brought home for a victory tour after a harrowing Iraq battle. Through flashbacks the film shows what really happened to his squad - contrasting the realities of war with America's perceptions.

        Markimdb: 7.2
        Genreaction, thriller, melodrama, drama, military, history
        CountryDenmark, Germany, Norway, France, Sweden, Finland, Czech Republic
        Duration02:10

        During Nazi occupation, red-headed Bent Faurschou-Hviid ("Flame") and Jørgen Haagen Schmith ("Citron"), assassins in the Danish resistance, take orders from Winther, who's in direct contact with Allied leaders. One shoots, the other drives. Until 1944, they kill only Danes; then Winther gives orders to kill Germans. When a target tells Bent that Winther's using them to settle private scores, doubt sets in, complicated by Bent's relationship with the mysterious Kitty Selmer, who may be a double agent. Also, someone in their circle is a traitor. Can Bent and Jørgen kill an über-target, evade capture, and survive the war? And is this heroism, naiveté, or mere hatred?

        Markimdb: 3.4
        Genreaction, drama, military, history
        CountryUSA

        Untold and lost history. A true story of the American Pathfinders, the volunteer paratroopers whose deadly mission was to land 30 minutes before the Normandy invasion, locate and mark strategic "drop zones" and set up the top-secret navigation equipment needed to guide the main airborne assault on D-Day.

        Markimdb: 7.1
        Genrethriller, drama, military, history
        CountryUSA, Germany, Italy, Spain, France, Japan, United Kingdom
        Duration02:01

          Wounded in Africa during World War II, Nazi Col. Claus von Stauffenberg returns to his native Germany and joins the Resistance in a daring plan to create a shadow government and assassinate Adolf Hitler. When events unfold so that he becomes a central player, he finds himself tasked with both leading the coup and personally killing the Führer.

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