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Movies Like The Black Parachute

If you liked The Black Parachute (1944), a drama and adventure movie directed by Lew Landers, 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. 1Walking with the Enemy

    Walking with the Enemy (2014)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama and war

    Regent Horthy is the leader of Hungary and a German ally, but his favorable standing with Hitler changes as the war comes to an end. Forced to cede Hungary’s power or else witness the execution of his son, Regent…

  2. 2The Guns of Navarone

    The Guns of Navarone (1961)

    ★ 7.3/10Also adventure and drama

    A team of allied saboteurs are assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held island and destroy the two enormous long-range field guns that prevent the rescue of 2,000 trapped British soldiers.

  3. 3The Kill Team

    The Kill Team (2019)

    ★ 6.5/10Also war and drama

    When Andrew Briggman — a young soldier in the US Army during the invasion of Afghanistan — witnesses the murderous behavior of fellow soldiers, under the direction of a malevolent Sergeant, he faces a moral dilemma…

  4. 4Passage to Marseille

    Passage to Marseille (1944)

    ★ 6.7/10Also adventure and drama

    A freedom-loving French journalist sacrifices his happiness and security to battle Nazi tyranny.

  5. 5Flyboys

    Flyboys (2006)

    ★ 6.5/10Also 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.

  6. 6Play Dirty

    Play Dirty (1969)

    ★ 6.3/10Also war and adventure

    During World War II in North Africa, a group of British commandos disguised as Italian soldiers must travel behind enemy lines and destroy a vital Nazi oil depot.

  7. 7Battleground

    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…

  8. 8Twelve O'Clock High

    Twelve O'Clock High (1949)

    ★ 7.2/10Also war and 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…

  9. 9Force 10 from Navarone

    Force 10 from Navarone (1978)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama and adventure

    World War II, 1943. Mallory and Miller, the heroes who destroyed the guns of Navarone, are sent to Yugoslavia in search of a ghost from the past.

  10. 10When Trumpets Fade

    When Trumpets Fade (1998)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama and war

    In WWII Western Germany, Private David Manning reluctantly leaves behind a mortally wounded fellow soldier and searches for survivors from his platoon, only to learn from commanding officer Captain Pritchett that they…

  11. 11The One That Got Away

    The One That Got Away (1957)

    ★ 6.8/10Also war and drama

    Based on the true story of Oberleutnant Franz von Werra, the only German prisoner of war captured in Britain to escape back to Germany during the Second World War.

  12. 12Field of Lost Shoes

    Field of Lost Shoes (2015)

    ★ 6.1/10Also war and drama

    A group of teenage cadets sheltered from war at the Virginia Military Institute must confront the horrors of an adult world when they are called upon to defend the Shenandoah Valley.

  13. 13Sahara

    Sahara (1995)

    ★ 6.7/10Also adventure and war

    After the fall of Tobruk in June 1942, U.S. Army sergeant Joe Gunn leads his tank into the Sahara desert, in order to evade advancing Rommel's forces and reach Allied lines. Along the way he picks up few Allied…

  14. 14Memphis Belle

    Memphis Belle (1990)

    ★ 6.8/10Also drama and war

    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…

  15. 15Von Ryan's Express

    Von Ryan's Express (1965)

    ★ 7.1/10Also war and adventure

    Von Ryan's Express stars Frank Sinatra as a POW colonel who leads a daring escape from WWII Italy by taking over a freight train, but he has to win over the British soldiers he finds himself commanding.

  16. 16Outlaws - For Greater Glory

    Outlaws - For Greater Glory (2012)

    ★ 7/10Also drama and war

    A chronicle of the Cristeros War (1926-1929), which was touched off by a rebellion against the Mexican government's attempt to secularize the country.

  17. 17All Quiet on the Western Front

    All Quiet on the Western Front (1979)

    ★ 6.7/10Also war and drama

    At the start of World War I, Paul Baumer is a young German patriot, eager to fight. Indoctrinated with propaganda at school, he and his friends eagerly sign up for the army soon after graduation. But when the horrors…

  18. 18Hurricane

    Hurricane (2018)

    ★ 5.9/10Also war and drama

    Polish pilots overcome prejudice to fight against the Luftwaffe with the Royal Air Force during the Second World War, in the hope of protecting both Great Britain and their own Poland from the German advance.

  19. 19Bonhoeffer: Pastor. Spy. Assassin

    Bonhoeffer: Pastor. Spy. Assassin (2024)

    ★ 6.8/10Also drama and war

    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.

  20. 20Triple Cross

    Triple Cross (1966)

    ★ 6.1/10Also adventure and war

    Safecracker Eddie Chapman is languishing in prison on the island of Jersey when the Nazis arrive. An adept manipulator of situations, Chapman convinces the Germans to use him to spy on the British. And when the…

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