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Movies Like The Cradle of Courage

If you liked The Cradle of Courage (1920), a adventure and drama movie directed by William S. Hart and Lambert Hillyer, 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. 1Seal Team Eight: Behind Enemy Lines

    Seal Team Eight: Behind Enemy Lines (2014)

    ★ 6.1/10Also war and drama

    Seal Team Eight must fight their way deep into Africa's Congo, decommission a secret uranium mine, and stop our most dangerous enemy from smuggling weapon's grade yellow-cake out of the country.

  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. 3Walking 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…

  4. 4Battleground

    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…

  5. 5The 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…

  6. 6Dark of the Sun

    Dark of the Sun (1968)

    ★ 6.6/10Also war and adventure

    A band of mercenaries led by Captain Curry travel through war-torn Congo across deadly terrain, battling rival armies, to steal $50 million in uncut diamonds. But infighting, sadistic rebels and a time lock jeopardize…

  7. 7Outlaws - 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.

  8. 8Bat★21

    Bat★21 (1988)

    ★ 6.3/10Also war and drama

    Lt. Col. Iceal "Ham" Hambleton is a weapons countermeasures expert and when his aircraft is shot over enemy territory the Air Force very much wants to get him back. Hambleton knows the area he's in is going to be…

  9. 9Walking Tall

    Walking Tall (2004)

    ★ 6.4/10Also adventure and drama

    A former U.S. soldier returns to his hometown to find it overrun by crime and corruption, which prompts him to clean house.

  10. 10Field 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.

  11. 11Triple 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…

  12. 12The Devil's Brigade

    The Devil's Brigade (1968)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama and war

    At the onset of World War II, American Lt. Col. Robert Frederick is put in charge of a unit called the 1st Special Service Force, composed of elite Canadian commandos and undisciplined American soldiers. With Maj. Alan…

  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. 14Al Capone

    Al Capone (1959)

    ★ 6.6/10Also adventure and drama

    In this unusually accurate biography, small-time hood Al Capone comes to Chicago at the dawn of Prohibition to be the bodyguard of racketeer Johnny Torrio. Capone's rise in Chicago gangdom is followed through murder…

  15. 15Passage 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.

  16. 16Flyboys

    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.

  17. 17Blood on the Sun

    Blood on the Sun (1945)

    ★ 5.9/10Also drama and war

    Nick Condon, an American journalist in 20s Tokyo, publishes the Japanese master plan for world domination. Reaction from the understandably upset Japanese provides the action, but this is overshadowed by the propaganda…

  18. 18Play 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.

  19. 19Hurricane

    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.

  20. 20An Ordinary Man

    An Ordinary Man (2017)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama and war

    A war criminal in hiding forms a relationship with his only connection to the outside world - his maid.

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