Movies Like I Escaped from the Gestapo
If you liked I Escaped from the Gestapo (1943), a mystery and drama movie directed by Harold Young, 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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Escape to Victory (1981)
★ 6.9/10Also dramaA 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.
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Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House (2017)
★ 6.2/10Also dramaThe story of Mark Felt, who under the name "Deep Throat" helped journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncover the Watergate scandal in 1974.
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The Great Escape (1963)
★ 7.9/10Also dramaThe Nazis, exasperated at the number of escapes from their prison camps by a relatively small number of Allied prisoners, relocate them to a high-security 'escape-proof' camp to sit out the remainder of the war…
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Foreign Correspondent (1940)
★ 7/10Also mysteryAmerican crime reporter John Jones is reassigned to Europe as a foreign correspondent to cover the imminent war. When he walks into the middle of an assassination and stumbles on a spy ring, he seeks help from a…
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Night Train to Munich (1940)
★ 7.2/10Also dramaCzechoslovakia, March 1939, on the eve of World War II. As the German invaders occupy Prague, inventor Axel Bomasch manages to flee and reach England; but those who need to put his knowledge at the service of the Nazi…
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Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon (1942)
★ 6.5/10Also mysteryIn the midst of World War II, Sherlock Holmes rescues the Swiss inventor of a new bomb-sight from the Gestapo and brings him to England, where he quickly falls into the clutches of the evil Professor Moriarty.
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The Man Who Never Was (1956)
★ 7/10Also dramaThe true story of a British effort to trick the Germans into weakening Sicily's defenses before the 1943 attack. A dead soldier is dressed as a British officer and outfitted with faked papers showing that the Allies…
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The Third Man (1949)
★ 7.9/10Also mysteryIn postwar Vienna, Austria, Holly Martins, a writer of pulp Westerns, arrives penniless as a guest of his childhood chum Harry Lime, only to learn he has died. Martins develops a conspiracy theory after learning of a…
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The Guns of Navarone (1961)
★ 7.3/10Also dramaA 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.
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The Young Lions (1958)
★ 6.7/10Also dramaThe lives of three young men, a German and two Americans, during WWII.
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Dark Passage (1947)
★ 7.3/10Also mysteryA man convicted of murdering his wife escapes from prison and works with a woman to try and prove his innocence.
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All the President's Men (1976)
★ 7.7/10Also drama and mysteryDuring the 1972 elections, two reporters' investigation sheds light on the controversial Watergate scandal that compels President Nixon to resign from his post.
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Murder on the Orient Express (1974)
★ 7.1/10Also drama and mysteryIn 1935, when his train is stopped by deep snow, detective Hercule Poirot is called on to solve a murder that occurred in his car the night before.
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Topaz (1969)
★ 6/10Also dramaCopenhagen, 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.
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The Seventh Cross (1944)
★ 6.8/10Also dramaIn Nazi Germany in 1936 seven men escape from a concentration camp. The camp commander puts up seven crosses and, as the Gestapo returns each escapee he is put to death on a cross. The seventh cross is still empty as…
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'G' Men (1935)
★ 6.6/10Also dramaJames “Brick” Davis, a struggling attorney, owes his education to a mobster, but always has refused to get involved with the underworld. When a friend of his is gunned down by a notorious criminal, Brick decides to…
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The Big Combo (1955)
★ 7/10Also dramaPolice Lt. Leonard Diamond vies to bring a clever, well connected, and sadistic gangster to justice all the while obsessing over the gangster's girlfriend.
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The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
★ 7.5/10Also dramaRecently paroled from prison, legendary burglar "Doc" Riedenschneider, with funding from Alonzo Emmerich, a crooked lawyer, gathers a small group of veteran criminals together in the Midwest for a big jewel heist.
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Laura (1944)
★ 7.6/10Also drama and mysteryA police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he's investigating.
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Eichmann (2007)
★ 6/10Also dramaBased upon the final confession of Adolf Eichmann, made before his execution in Israel, of his role in Hitler's plan for the final solution.