Movies Like The Midwife
If you liked The Midwife (2015), a drama and romance movie directed by Antti J. Jokinen, 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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A Farewell to Arms (1932)
★ 6.2/10Also drama and romanceA tale of the World War I love affair, begun in Italy, between American ambulance driver Lt. Frederic Henry and British nurse Catherine Barkley. Eventually separated by Frederic's transfer, tremendous challenges and…
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Shining Through (1992)
★ 6.5/10Also drama and romanceSpirited New Yorker Linda Voss goes to work for international lawyer and secret Office of Strategic Services operative Ed Leland just before World War II. As they fall in love, the United States enters the fight…
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The Aftermath (2019)
★ 6.4/10Also war and dramaIn the aftermath of World War II, a British colonel and his wife are assigned to live in Hamburg during the post-war reconstruction, but tensions arise with the German widower who lives with them.
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The Exception (2017)
★ 6.9/10Also war and dramaNothing is as it seems in this riveting World War 2 thriller as a wary soldier goes to investigate a mysterious German monarch at his secluded mansion, leading him into a web of deceit and a dangerous love affair with…
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Twelve O'Clock High (1949)
★ 7.2/10Also war and dramaIn 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…
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Allied (2016)
★ 6.8/10Also drama and warIn 1942, an intelligence officer in North Africa encounters a female French Resistance fighter on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. When they reunite in London, their relationship is tested by the pressures of war.
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The Ottoman Lieutenant (2017)
★ 6/10Also romance and dramaLillie, a determined American woman, ventures overseas to join Dr. Jude at a remote medical mission in the Ottoman Empire (now Turkey). However, Lillie soon finds herself at odds with Jude and the mission’s founder…
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Walking with the Enemy (2014)
★ 6.3/10Also drama and warRegent 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…
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From Here to Eternity (1953)
★ 7.3/10Also war and romanceIn 1941 Hawaii, a private is cruelly punished for not boxing on his unit's team, while his captain's wife and second in command are falling in love.
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Bat★21 (1988)
★ 6.3/10Also war and dramaLt. 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…
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Charlotte Gray (2001)
★ 6.1/10Also drama and romanceThis is a drama set in Nazi-occupied France at the height of World War II. Charlotte Gray tells the compelling story of a young Scottish woman working with the French Resistance in the hope of rescuing her lover, a…
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Slaughterhouse-Five (1972)
★ 6.5/10Also drama and warBilly Pilgrim, a veteran of the Second World War, finds himself mysteriously detached from time, so that he is able to travel, without being able to help it, from the days of his childhood to those of his peculiar life…
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Outlaws - For Greater Glory (2012)
★ 7/10Also drama and warA chronicle of the Cristeros War (1926-1929), which was touched off by a rebellion against the Mexican government's attempt to secularize the country.
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The Heroes of Telemark (1965)
★ 6.9/10Also drama and warSet in German-occupied Norway, resistance fighter Knut Straud enlists the reluctant physicist Rolf Pedersen in an effort to destroy the German heavy water production plant in rural Telemark.
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Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)
★ 7.5/10Also drama and warThe story of the battle of Iwo Jima between the United States and Imperial Japan during World War II, as told from the perspective of the Japanese who fought it.
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The Eagle Has Landed (1976)
★ 6.7/10Also drama and warWhen 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…
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Yanks (1979)
★ 5.9/10Also romance and dramaDuring WWII, the United States set up army bases in Great Britain as part of the war effort. Against their proper sensibilities, many of the Brits don't much like the brash Yanks, especially when it comes to the G.I.s…
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Schindler's List (1993)
★ 8.6/10Also drama and warThe true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II.
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The Grey Zone (2001)
★ 6.6/10Also drama and warThe story of Auschwitz's twelfth Sonderkommando — one of the thirteen consecutive "Special Squads" of Jewish prisoners placed by the Nazis in the excruciating moral dilemma of assisting in the extermination of fellow…
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Escape from Sobibor (1987)
★ 7.2/10Also drama and warThe true story of WWII's notorious Sobibor Nazi death camp, where a courageous inmate orchestrates and leads the escape of over 300 prisoners.