Movies Like The Ascent

If you liked The Ascent (1994), a war and adventure movie directed by Donald Shebib, 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
The Guns of Navarone (1961)
★ 7.3/10Also adventure 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.
2
The Great Raid (2005)
★ 6.6/10Also war
As World War II rages, the elite Sixth Ranger Battalion is given a mission of heroic proportions: push 30 miles behind enemy lines and liberate over 500 American prisoners of war.
3
Beasts of No Nation (2015)
★ 7.6/10Also war
Based on the experiences of Agu, a child fighting in the civil war of a West African country. Follows Agu's journey as he's forced to join a group of soldiers. While he fears his commander and many of the men around…
4
Shepherd: The Story of a Jewish Dog (2020)
★ 6.8/10Also war
Follow the perilous journey to freedom when a young boy and his dog attempt to escape a concentration camp during World War II. Based on true events.
5
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…
6
Suite Française (2015)
★ 7.2/10Also war
France, 1940. In the first days of occupation, beautiful Lucile Angellier is trapped in a stifled existence with her controlling mother-in-law as they both await news of her husband: a prisoner of war. Parisian…
7
The Great Escape (1963)
★ 7.9/10Also adventure and war
The 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…
8
Rescue Dawn (2007)
★ 7/10Also adventure and war
A US Fighter pilot's epic struggle of survival after being shot down on a mission over Laos during the Vietnam War.
9
The Siege of Jadotville (2016)
★ 7.1/10Also war
Irish Commandant Pat Quinlan leads a stand off with troops against French and Belgian Mercenaries in the Congo during the early 1960s.
10
Unbroken (2014)
★ 7.4/10Also war
A chronicle of the life of Louis Zamperini, an Olympic runner who was taken prisoner by Japanese forces during World War II.
11
The Dogs of War (1980)
★ 5.8/10Also adventure
Mercenary soldiers Jamie and Drew are hired by a large corporation to liberate Zangaro, a small African nation, from an despot. Havoc ensues.
12
Force 10 from Navarone (1978)
★ 6.3/10Also adventure and war
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.
13
Mrs. Miniver (1942)
★ 7.1/10Also war
Middle-class housewife Kay Miniver deals with petty problems. She and her husband Clem watch her Oxford-educated son Vin court Carol Beldon, the charming granddaughter of the local nobility as represented by Lady…
14
Beau Geste (1939)
★ 7/10Also adventure and war
Brothers Beau, John and Digby Geste join the Foreign Legion, where they fall under the rule of tyrannical Sergeant Markoff. Beau and John are assigned to Fort Zinderneuf, where Markoff tries to break their spirit…
15
Bat★21 (1988)
★ 6.3/10Also war
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…
16
The Exception (2017)
★ 6.9/10Also war
Nothing 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…
17
Shout at the Devil (1976)
★ 6/10Also adventure and war
During World War One an English adventurer, an American elephant poacher and the latter's attractive young daughter, set out to destroy a German battle-cruiser which is awaiting repairs in an inlet just off Zanzibar…
18
Zulu (1964)
★ 7.4/10Also war
In 1879, during the Anglo-Zulu War, man-of-the-people Lt. Chard and snooty Lt. Bromhead are in charge of defending the isolated and vastly outnumbered Natal outpost of Rorke's Drift from tribal hordes.
19
Flyboys (2006)
★ 6.5/10Also 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.
20
The Last Rifleman (2023)
★ 6.6/10Also war
A WWII veteran escapes his care home in Northern Ireland and embarks on an arduous but inspirational journey to France to attend the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings, finding the courage to face the ghosts of his…