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Movies Like The Nightingale

If you liked The Nightingale (2027), a drama and history movie directed by Michael Morris, 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. 1Defiance

    Defiance (2008)

    ★ 6.8/10Also drama and history

    Based on a true story, during World War II, four Jewish brothers escape their Nazi-occupied homeland of West Belarus in Poland and join the Soviet partisans to combat the Nazis. The brothers begin the rescue of roughly…

  2. 2The Last Rifleman

    The Last Rifleman (2023)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama and history

    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…

  3. 3The Six Triple Eight

    The Six Triple Eight (2024)

    ★ 7.6/10Also drama and war

    During World War II, the US Army's only all-Black, all-women battalion takes on an impossible mission: sorting through a three-year backlog of 17 million pieces of mail that hadn't been delivered to American soldiers…

  4. 4Waiting 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.

  5. 5The 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.

  6. 6LOLA

    LOLA (2023)

    ★ 6.4/10Also drama and war

    Sussex, England, 1938. Shortly before the outbreak of World War II, Thomasina and Martha Hanbury, two ingenious sisters, create LOLA, a miraculous machine.

  7. 7Resistance

    Resistance (2020)

    ★ 7/10Also war and history

    The story of mime Marcel Marceau as he works with a group of Jewish boy scouts and the French Resistance to save the lives of ten thousand orphans during World War II.

  8. 8Jacknife

    Jacknife (1989)

    ★ 6.4/10Also drama and war

    A conflict develops between a troubled Vietnam veteran and the sister he lives with when she becomes involved romantically with the army buddy who reminds him of the tragic battle they both survived.

  9. 9The Monuments Men

    The Monuments Men (2014)

    ★ 6.1/10Also war and drama

    Based on the true story of the greatest treasure hunt in history, The Monuments Men is an action drama focusing on seven over-the-hill, out-of-shape museum directors, artists, architects, curators, and art historians…

  10. 10They Were Expendable

    They Were Expendable (1945)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama and war

    After a demonstration of new PT boats, Navy brass are still unconvinced of their viability in combat, leaving Lt. "Rusty" Ryan frustrated. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, however, Ryan and his buddy Lt. Brickley are…

  11. 11White Bird

    White Bird (2023)

    ★ 7.8/10Also drama and war

    After being expelled from Beecher Prep for his treatment of a classmate with a facial deformity, Julian has struggled to fit in at his new school. To transform his life, Julian's grandmother finally reveals her own…

  12. 12The Zone of Interest

    The Zone of Interest (2023)

    ★ 7/10Also drama and history

    The commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolf Höss, and his wife Hedwig, strive to build a dream life for their family in a house and garden next to the camp.

  13. 13Oppenheimer

    Oppenheimer (2023)

    ★ 8/10Also drama and history

    The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer's role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II.

  14. 14Schindler's List

    Schindler's List (1993)

    ★ 8.6/10Also drama and history

    The 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.

  15. 15Sink the Bismarck!

    Sink the Bismarck! (1960)

    ★ 6.9/10Also war and drama

    The story of the breakout of the German battleship Bismarck—accompanied by the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen—during the early days of World War II. The Bismarck and her sister ship, Tirpitz, were the most powerful…

  16. 16The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

    The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2008)

    ★ 7.8/10Also drama and war

    When his family moves from their home in Berlin to a strange new house in Poland, young Bruno befriends Shmuel, a boy who lives on the other side of the fence where everyone seems to be wearing striped pajamas. Unaware…

  17. 17The Eagle Has Landed

    The Eagle Has Landed (1976)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama and war

    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…

  18. 18Flyboys

    Flyboys (2006)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama and history

    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.

  19. 19The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler

    The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler (2009)

    ★ 7.4/10Also drama and war

    Irena Sendler is a Catholic social worker who has sympathized with the Jews since her childhood, when her physician father died of typhus contracted while treating poor Jewish patients. When she initially proposes…

  20. 20Devotion

    Devotion (2022)

    ★ 7/10Also war and drama

    The harrowing true story of two elite US Navy fighter pilots during the Korean War. Their heroic sacrifices would ultimately make them the Navy's most celebrated wingmen.

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