Movies Like Special Forces Squad

If you liked Special Forces Squad (1987), a adventure and war movie directed by Georgiy Kuznetsov, 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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The Scarlet and the Black (1983)
★ 7.1/10Also tv movie and war
Fr. Hugh O'Flaherty is a Vatican official in 1943-45 who has been hiding downed pilots, escaped prisoners of war, and Italian resistance families. His activities become so large that the Nazis decide to assassinate him…
2
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…
3
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.
4
Bravo Two Zero (1999)
★ 5.9/10Also war and tv movie
When an elite eight-man British SAS team is dropped behind enemy lines, their mission is clear: take out Saddam Hussein's SCUD missile systems. But when communications are cut and the team finds themselves surrounded…
5
Sherlock Holmes in the 20th Century (1987)
★ 7.1/10Also adventure and tv movie
This film version was released before the premiere of the full two-part television version (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Twentieth Century Approaches). In this version the entire plot of the…
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Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. (1951)
★ 7/10Also adventure and war
Captain Horatio Hornblower leads his ship HMS Lydia on a perilous transatlantic voyage, during which his faithful crew battle both a Spanish warship and a ragged band of Central American rebels.
7
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.
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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…
9
Voyage of the Unicorn (2001)
★ 6.8/10Also adventure and tv movie
One day the Aislings find themselves magically transported to a ship called the Unicorn. Here, they discover that they've been chosen to fulfill an incredible quest! They undergo an incredible journey of discovery in…
10
Ivanhoe (1982)
★ 6.4/10Also adventure and tv movie
Ivanhoe, a worthy and noble knight, the champion of justice returns to England after the holy wars, and finds England under the reign of Prince John and his henchmen and finds himself being involved in the…
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King Arthur (2004)
★ 6.3/10Also adventure and war
The story of the Arthurian legend, based on the 'Sarmatian hypothesis' which contends that the legend has a historical nucleus in the Sarmatian heavy cavalry troops stationed in Britain, and that the Roman-British…
12
The Adventures of Buratino (1976)
★ 6.7/10Also adventure and tv movie
A wooden boy Buratino tries to find his place in life. He befriends toys from a toy theater owned by evil Karabas-Barabas, gets tricked by Alice the Fox and Basilio the Cat and finally discovers the mystery of a golden…
13
Snow Queen (2002)
★ 6.1/10Also adventure and tv movie
Since a bitter winter storm stole the life of Gerda's mother, she and her father have sadly continued to run the remote hotel they call home. Lonely and isolated, Gerda's only joy is Kai, the handsome bellboy. A…
14
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Treasures of Agra (1983)
★ 7.5/10Also adventure and tv movie
Holmes and Dr. Watson help a young lady who is receiving anonymous letters 10 years after her father passed away under shady circumstances. They find themselves in an enigma involving a treasure, murder and a love…
15
All Quiet on the Western Front (1979)
★ 6.7/10Also war and tv movie
At the start of World War I, Paul Baumer is a young German patriot, eager to fight. Indoctrinated with propaganda at school, he and his friends eagerly sign up for the army soon after graduation. But when the horrors…
16
Uprising (2001)
★ 6.6/10Also war and tv movie
In the Warsaw ghetto in 1943, Jews rise against the Nazis.
17
Objective, Burma! (1945)
★ 6.9/10Also war and adventure
A group of men parachute into Japanese-occupied Burma with a dangerous and important mission: to locate and blow up a radar station. They accomplish this well enough, but when they try to rendezvous at an old air-strip…
18
Abraham (1993)
★ 7.2/10Also adventure and tv movie
Rather than choosing a great leader or king, God chooses Abraham, an elderly shepherd from Mesopotamia, as the way to establish his Covenant with mankind... A man of great faith, Abraham continues to believe in God…
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (2007)
★ 6.5/10Also tv movie and war
Beginning just after the bloody Sioux victory over General Custer at Little Big Horn, the story is told through two unique perspectives: Charles Eastman, a young, white-educated Sioux doctor held up as living proof of…
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300 (2007)
★ 7.2/10Also adventure and war
A story very loosely based the 480 B.C. Battle of Thermopylae, where the King of Sparta led his army against the advancing Persians.