Movies Like Action in Arabia

If you liked Action in Arabia (1944), a drama and thriller movie directed by Léonide Moguy, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

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The Good German (2006)
★ 5.8/10Also drama
An American journalist arrives in Berlin just after the end of World War Two. He becomes involved in a murder mystery surrounding a dead GI who washes up at a lakeside mansion during the Potsdam negotiations between…
2
Truth & Treason (2025)
★ 8.1/10Also drama and thriller
In 1941 Nazi Germany, 16-year-old Helmuth Hübener begins questioning the regime after learning the truth about the war and seeing his Jewish friend persecuted. With two friends, he secretly listens to banned foreign…
3
Resistance (2020)
★ 7/10Also 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.
4
The Operative (2019)
★ 5.8/10Also drama and thriller
A young Western woman is recruited by the Mossad to go undercover in Tehran where she becomes entangled in a complex triangle with her handler and her subject.
5
Eye of the Needle (1981)
★ 6.7/10Also drama and thriller
Great Britain, 1944, during World War II. Relentlessly pursued by several MI5 agents, Henry Faber the Needle, a ruthless German spy in possession of vital information about D-Day, takes refuge on Storm Island, an…
6
The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel (1951)
★ 6.7/10Also drama
The life and career of Erwin Rommel and his involvement in the plot to assassinate Hitler.
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Twelve O'Clock High (1949)
★ 7.2/10Also drama
In the early days of daylight bombing raids over Germany, General Frank Savage must take command of a 'hard luck' bomber group. Much of the story deals with his struggle to whip his group into a disciplined fighting…
8
Bonhoeffer: Pastor. Spy. Assassin (2024)
★ 6.7/10Also drama
As the world teeters on the brink of annihilation, Dietrich Bonhoeffer joins a deadly plot to assassinate Hitler, risking his faith and fate to save millions of Jews from genocide.
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Uprising (2001)
★ 6.6/10Also drama
In the Warsaw ghetto in 1943, Jews rise against the Nazis.
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Inglourious Basterds (2009)
★ 8.2/10Also drama and thriller
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…
11
Shanghai (2010)
★ 6.1/10Also drama and thriller
An American man returns to a corrupt, Japanese-occupied Shanghai four months before Pearl Harbor and discovers his friend has been killed. While he unravels the mysteries of the death, he falls in love and discovers a…
12
Watch on the Rhine (1943)
★ 6.9/10Also drama and thriller
On the eve of World War II, the German Kurt Müller, his American-born wife Sara, and their three children, having lived in Europe for years, visit Sara's wealthy mother near Washington, DC. Kurt secretly works for the…
13
Blood Diamond (2006)
★ 7.6/10Also drama and thriller
An ex-mercenary turned smuggler. A Mende fisherman. Amid the explosive civil war overtaking 1999 Sierra Leone, these men join for two desperate missions: recovering a rare pink diamond of immense value and rescuing the…
14
Inside Man: Most Wanted (2019)
★ 6.3/10Also thriller
An NYPD hostage negotiator teams up with a federal agent to rescue dozens of tourists held hostage during a 10-hour seige at the U.S. Federal Reserve.
15
Topaz (1969)
★ 6/10Also drama and thriller
Copenhagen, Denmark, 1962. When a high-ranking Soviet official decides to change sides, a French intelligence agent is caught up in a cold, silent and bloody spy war in which his own family will play a decisive role.
16
5 Fingers (1952)
★ 7.5/10Also thriller and drama
During WWII, the valet to the British Ambassador to Ankara sells British secrets to the Germans while trying to romance a refugee Polish countess.
17
The House on 92nd Street (1945)
★ 6.6/10Also thriller
The US Government tries to track down embedded Nazi agents in the States.
18
Munich - The Edge of War (2021)
★ 6.9/10Also drama
At the tense 1938 Munich Conference, former friends who now work for opposing governments become reluctant spies racing to expose a Nazi secret.
19
Tobruk (1967)
★ 6.4/10Also drama
In September 1942, the German Afrika Korps under Rommel have successfully pushed the Allies back into Egypt. A counter-attack is planned, for which the fuel dumps at Tobruk are a critical impediment. In order to aid…
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The Wind and the Lion (1975)
★ 6.5/10Also drama
At the beginning of the 20th century an American woman is abducted in Morocco by Berbers, and the attempts to free her range from diplomatic pressure to military intervention.