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Movies Like Five Cartridges

If you liked Five Cartridges (1960), a war and drama movie directed by Frank Beyer, 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.

  1. 1Land and Freedom

    Land and Freedom (1995)

    ★ 7.3/10Also war and drama

    Summer 1936: young unemployed communist David Carr leaves Liverpool to join the fight against fascism in Spain. He joins an international group of Militia-men and women, the POUM (Partido Obrero de Unificación…

  2. 2The War Below

    The War Below (2021)

    ★ 6.6/10Also war and drama

    During World War I, a group of British miners are recruited to tunnel underneath no man's land and set bombs from below the German front in hopes of breaking the deadly stalemate of the Battle of Messines.

  3. 3Rose

    Rose (2026)

    ★ 7.6/10Also drama and war

    In the early 17th century, a soldier arrives at an isolated Protestant village in Germany claiming to be the heir to an abandoned farmstead. Even though he proves to be a good man, the villagers’ suspicions about his…

  4. 4Munich - The Edge of War

    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.

  5. 5The Scarlet and the Black

    The Scarlet and the Black (1983)

    ★ 7.1/10Also drama and war

    Fr. Hugh O'Flaherty is a Vatican official in 1943-45 who has been hiding downed pilots, escaped prisoners of war, and Italian resistance families. His activities become so large that the Nazis decide to assassinate him…

  6. 6Battleground

    Battleground (1949)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama and war

    Members of the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division are fighting for their country amidst the rugged terrain of Bastogne, Belgium, in December 1944. Holley and his American compatriots have already seen one of their…

  7. 755 Days at Peking

    55 Days at Peking (1963)

    ★ 6.9/10Also war and drama

    Diplomats, soldiers and other representatives of a dozen nations fend off the siege of the International Compound in Peking during the 1900 Boxer Rebellion. The disparate interests unite for survival despite competing…

  8. 8Taking Sides

    Taking Sides (2002)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama and war

    One of the most spectacular and renowned conductors of the 1930s, Wilhelm Furtwangler's reputation rivaled that of Toscanini's. After the war, he was investigated as part of the Allies' de-Nazification programme. In…

  9. 9Escape to Victory

    Escape to Victory (1981)

    ★ 6.9/10Also drama and war

    A group of POWs in a German prison camp during World War II play the German National Soccer Team in this powerful film depicting the role of prisoners during wartime.

  10. 10The Boy in the Woods

    The Boy in the Woods (2023)

    ★ 7/10Also drama and war

    The remarkable true-life survival story of a Jewish boy hiding and being hunted in the forests of Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe, based on Maxwell Smart's memoir.

  11. 11Fort Bliss

    Fort Bliss (2014)

    ★ 6.4/10Also war and drama

    After returning home from an extended tour in Afghanistan, a decorated U.S. Army medic and single mother struggles to rebuild her relationship with her young son.

  12. 12The Last Train

    The Last Train (2006)

    ★ 7.2/10Also war and drama

    A group of people are imprisoned in a rail car bound from Berlin to a concentration camp in 1945.

  13. 13Overlord

    Overlord (1975)

    ★ 6.8/10Also drama and war

    During World War II, a young man is called up and, with an increasing sense of foreboding, undertakes his army training ready for D-Day, June 6th, 1944.

  14. 14Julia

    Julia (1977)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama

    At the behest of an old and dear friend, playwright Lillian Hellman undertakes a dangerous mission to smuggle funds into Nazi Germany.

  15. 15Empire of the Sun

    Empire of the Sun (1987)

    ★ 7.5/10Also drama and war

    Jamie Graham, a privileged English boy, is living in Shanghai when the Japanese invade and force all foreigners into prison camps. Jamie is captured with an American sailor, who looks out for him while they are in the…

  16. 16The Monuments Men

    The Monuments Men (2014)

    ★ 6.1/10Also war and drama

    Based on the true story of the greatest treasure hunt in history, The Monuments Men is an action drama focusing on seven over-the-hill, out-of-shape museum directors, artists, architects, curators, and art historians…

  17. 17A Call to Spy

    A Call to Spy (2020)

    ★ 6.8/10Also drama

    The story of Vera Atkins, a crafty spy recruiter, and two of the first women she selects for Churchill's "secret army": Virginia Hall, a daring American undaunted by a disability and Noor Inayat Khan, a pacifist. These…

  18. 18The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

    The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2008)

    ★ 7.8/10Also drama and war

    When his family moves from their home in Berlin to a strange new house in Poland, young Bruno befriends Shmuel, a boy who lives on the other side of the fence where everyone seems to be wearing striped pajamas. Unaware…

  19. 19Gettysburg

    Gettysburg (1993)

    ★ 7/10Also drama and war

    In the summer of 1863, General Robert E. Lee leads the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia into Gettysburg, Pennsylvania with the goal of marching through to Washington, D.C. The Union Army of the Potomac, under the…

  20. 20The Four Feathers

    The Four Feathers (1939)

    ★ 7.1/10Also drama and war

    A disgraced officer risks his life to help his childhood friends in battle.

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