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Movies Like I See a Dark Stranger

If you liked I See a Dark Stranger (1946), a drama and thriller movie directed by Frank Launder, 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. 1Decision Before Dawn

    Decision Before Dawn (1951)

    ★ 6.8/10Also war and thriller

    WWII is entering its last phase: Germany is in ruins, but does not yield. The US army lacks crucial knowledge about the German units operating on the opposite side of the Rhine, and decides to send two German prisoners…

  2. 2Walking 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…

  3. 3Battleground

    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…

  4. 4The Sea Chase

    The Sea Chase (1955)

    ★ 6.3/10Also war and drama

    As the Second World War breaks out, German freighter captain Karl Ehrlich is about to leave Sydney, Australia with his vessel, the Ergenstrasse. Ehrlich, an anti-Nazi but proud German, hopes to outrun or out-maneuver…

  5. 5Twelve 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…

  6. 6Waiting for Anya

    Waiting for Anya (2020)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama and war

    During the harrows of WWII, Jo, a young shepherd along with the help of the widow Horcada, helps to smuggle Jewish children across the border from southern France into Spain.

  7. 7The Guns of Navarone

    The Guns of Navarone (1961)

    ★ 7.3/10Also drama and war

    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.

  8. 836 Hours

    36 Hours (1964)

    ★ 7.1/10Also drama and thriller

    Germans kidnap an American major and try to convince him that World War II is over, so that they can get details about the Allied invasion of Europe out of him.

  9. 9Alone in Berlin

    Alone in Berlin (2016)

    ★ 6.7/10Also war and thriller

    Berlin in June of 1940. While Nazi propaganda celebrates the regime’s victory over France, a kitchen-cum-living room in Prenzlauer Berg is filled with grief. Anna and Otto Quangel’s son has been killed at the front…

  10. 10The Secrets We Keep

    The Secrets We Keep (2020)

    ★ 6/10Also thriller and drama

    In post-World War II America, a woman, rebuilding her life in the suburbs with her husband, kidnaps her neighbor and seeks vengeance for the heinous war crimes she believes he committed against her.

  11. 11Operation Crossbow

    Operation Crossbow (1965)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama and war

    Allied agents infiltrate the Nazi rocket complex at Peenemunde in order to obtain their secrets and sabotage the plant. The film alternates between German developments of the V-1 missile and V-2 rocket (with a German…

  12. 12The Sea Wolves

    The Sea Wolves (1980)

    ★ 5.9/10Also war and thriller

    A German spy is passing on information about the location of Allied ships in the neutral harbor of Goa, India, with catastrophic results. Unable to undertake a full military operation in the Portuguese stronghold…

  13. 13The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel

    The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel (1951)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama and war

    The life and career of Erwin Rommel and his involvement in the plot to assassinate Hitler.

  14. 14The Man Who Never Was

    The Man Who Never Was (1956)

    ★ 7/10Also thriller and war

    The 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…

  15. 15Night Train to Munich

    Night Train to Munich (1940)

    ★ 7.2/10Also drama and thriller

    Czechoslovakia, 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…

  16. 16The Eagle Has Landed

    The Eagle Has Landed (1976)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama and thriller

    When the Nazi high command learns in late 1943 that Winston Churchill will be spending time at a country estate in Norfolk, it hatches an audacious scheme to kidnap the prime minister and spirit him to Germany for…

  17. 17Von Ryan's Express

    Von Ryan's Express (1965)

    ★ 7.1/10Also war and thriller

    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.

  18. 18Fury

    Fury (2014)

    ★ 7.5/10Also war and drama

    April, 1945. As the Allies make their final push in the European Theater, a battle-hardened army sergeant commands a Sherman tank with a five-man crew on a deadly mission behind enemy lines.

  19. 19Fatherland

    Fatherland (1994)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama and thriller

    Fictional account of what might have happened if Hitler had won the war. It is now the 1960s and Germany's war crimes have so far been kept a secret. Hitler wants to talk peace with the US president. An American…

  20. 20Cross of Iron

    Cross of Iron (1977)

    ★ 7.1/10Also drama and war

    It is 1943, and the German army—ravaged and demoralised—is hastily retreating from the Russian front. In the midst of the madness, conflict brews between the aristocratic yet ultimately pusillanimous Captain Stransky…

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