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Movies Like The Guardian Angel

If you liked The Guardian Angel (2018), a action and drama movie directed by David Barrett, 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. 1Walking with the Enemy

    Walking with the Enemy (2014)

    ★ 6.3/10Also action and drama

    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…

  2. 2Battleground

    Battleground (1949)

    ★ 6.7/10Also action and drama

    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…

  3. 3Decision Before Dawn

    Decision Before Dawn (1951)

    ★ 6.8/10Also war and action

    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…

  4. 4Wolf Hound

    Wolf Hound (2022)

    ★ 6.4/10Also war and action

    Inspired by the real-life German special operations unit KG 200 that shot down, repaired, and flew Allied aircraft as Trojan horses, "Wolf Hound" takes place in 1944 German-occupied France and follows the daring…

  5. 5Hell Hath No Fury

    Hell Hath No Fury (2021)

    ★ 6.4/10Also action and war

    Branded a traitor by her countrymen, French national Marie DuJardin is rescued by American soldiers on one condition: to survive, she must lead them to a cache of gold - before the Nazis return to claim it for…

  6. 6Triple Cross

    Triple Cross (1966)

    ★ 6.1/10Also war and action

    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…

  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. 8Kandahar

    Kandahar (2023)

    ★ 6.8/10Also action and war

    After his mission is exposed, an undercover CIA operative stuck deep in hostile territory in Afghanistan must fight his way out, alongside his Afghan translator, to an extraction point in Kandahar, all whilst avoiding…

  9. 9Cloak and Dagger

    Cloak and Dagger (1946)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama and war

    Italian partisans help a professor sent by the OSS to find an atomic scientist held by Nazis.

  10. 10Field of Lost Shoes

    Field of Lost Shoes (2015)

    ★ 6.1/10Also war and drama

    A group of teenage cadets sheltered from war at the Virginia Military Institute must confront the horrors of an adult world when they are called upon to defend the Shenandoah Valley.

  11. 11Waiting 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.

  12. 12Outlaws - For Greater Glory

    Outlaws - For Greater Glory (2012)

    ★ 7/10Also drama and action

    A chronicle of the Cristeros War (1926-1929), which was touched off by a rebellion against the Mexican government's attempt to secularize the country.

  13. 13The Dirty Dozen

    The Dirty Dozen (1967)

    ★ 7.6/10Also action and war

    12 American military prisoners in World War II are ordered to infiltrate a well-guarded enemy château and kill the Nazi officers vacationing there. The soldiers, most of whom are facing death sentences for a variety of…

  14. 14The Counterfeit Traitor

    The Counterfeit Traitor (1962)

    ★ 6.5/10Also war and drama

    Blacklisted in modern day WW2, a Swedish oil trader opts to assist British Allies, by means of infiltrating and surveying Nazi Germany.

  15. 15Tom Clancy's Without Remorse

    Tom Clancy's Without Remorse (2021)

    ★ 6.9/10Also action and war

    An elite Navy SEAL uncovers an international conspiracy while seeking justice for the murder of his pregnant wife.

  16. 16The Kill Team

    The Kill Team (2019)

    ★ 6.5/10Also war and action

    When Andrew Briggman — a young soldier in the US Army during the invasion of Afghanistan — witnesses the murderous behavior of fellow soldiers, under the direction of a malevolent Sergeant, he faces a moral dilemma…

  17. 17Cross of Iron

    Cross of Iron (1977)

    ★ 7.2/10Also drama and action

    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…

  18. 18Flyboys

    Flyboys (2006)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama and 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.

  19. 19The Sea Wolves

    The Sea Wolves (1980)

    ★ 5.9/10Also war and action

    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…

  20. 20Hurricane

    Hurricane (2018)

    ★ 5.9/10Also war and drama

    Polish pilots overcome prejudice to fight against the Luftwaffe with the Royal Air Force during the Second World War, in the hope of protecting both Great Britain and their own Poland from the German advance.

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