Movies Like The Last Witness

If you liked The Last Witness (2018), a history and thriller movie directed by Piotr Szkopiak, 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 Promise (2016)
★ 6.8/10Also history
Set during the last days of the Ottoman Empire, a love triangle develops between Mikael, a brilliant medical student, the beautiful and sophisticated artist Ana, and Chris, a renowned American journalist based in Paris.
2
Fatherland (1994)
★ 6.3/10Also thriller
Fictional account of what might have happened if Hitler had won the war. It is now the 1960s and Germany's war crimes have so far been kept a secret. Hitler wants to talk peace with the US president. An American…
3
Mr. Jones (2019)
★ 6.7/10Also thriller and history
In 1933, Welsh journalist Gareth Jones travels to Ukraine, where he experiences the horrors of a famine. Everywhere he goes he meets henchmen of the Soviet secret service who are determined to prevent news about the…
4
The Fourth Protocol (1987)
★ 6.3/10Also thriller
Led by Kim Philby, Plan Aurora is a plan that breaches the top-secret Fourth Protocol and turns the fears that shaped it into a living nightmare. A crack Soviet agent, placed under cover in a quiet English country…
5
Shining Through (1992)
★ 6.5/10Also thriller
Spirited 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…
6
The Partisan (2025)
★ 5.9/10Also thriller and history
A Polish spy working for the British during World War II is betrayed and compromised in Warsaw, leaving her no other choice but to descend into a dangerous world of treachery and deception in order to survive.
7
Driven (2019)
★ 6.2/10Also thriller and history
FBI informant Jim Hoffman lures troubled automobile magnate John DeLorean to an undercover sting for cocaine trafficking.
8
Welcome to Sarajevo (1997)
★ 6.5/10Also history
Follow a group of international journalists into the heart of the once cosmopolitan city of Sarajevo—now a danger zone of sniper and mortar attacks where residents still live. While reporting on an American aid worker…
9
5 Fingers (1952)
★ 7.5/10Also thriller
During WWII, the valet to the British Ambassador to Ankara sells British secrets to the Germans while trying to romance a refugee Polish countess.
10
Kill the Messenger (2014)
★ 6.6/10Also thriller and history
A reporter becomes the target of a vicious smear campaign that drives him to the point of suicide after he exposes the CIA's role in arming Contra rebels in Nicaragua and importing cocaine into California. Based on the…
11
Lions for Lambs (2007)
★ 6/10Also history
Three stories told simultaneously in ninety minutes of real time: a Republican Senator who's a presidential hopeful gives an hour-long interview to a skeptical television reporter, detailing a strategy for victory in…
12
The Hunted (2003)
★ 6.2/10Also thriller
In the wilderness of British Columbia, two hunters are tracked and viciously murdered by Aaron Hallam. A former Special Operations instructor is approached and asked to apprehend Hallam—his former student—who has 'gone…
13
Atomic Blonde (2017)
★ 6.4/10Also thriller
An undercover MI6 agent is sent to Berlin during the Cold War to investigate the murder of a fellow agent and recover a missing list of double agents.
14
Decision Before Dawn (1951)
★ 6.8/10Also thriller
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…
15
Section 8 (2022)
★ 6.1/10Also thriller
After avenging the murder of his family, a former soldier is sprung from prison and recruited by a shadowy government agency.
16
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)
★ 6.6/10Also thriller
George Smiley, the aging master spy of the Cold War and once heir apparent to Control, is brought back out of retirement to flush out a top level mole within the Circus. Smiley must travel back through his life and…
17
The Passage (1979)
★ 6/10Also thriller
During WW 2, a Basque shepherd is approached by the underground, who wants him to lead a scientist and his family across the Pyrenees. While being pursued by a sadistic German.
18
True Story (2015)
★ 6.3/10Also history
A drama centered on the relationship between journalist Michael Finkel and Christian Longo, an FBI Most Wanted List murderer who for years lived outside the U.S. under Finkel's name.
19
The King's Man (2021)
★ 6.7/10Also thriller
As a collection of history's worst tyrants and criminal masterminds gather to plot a war to wipe out millions, one man must race against time to stop them.
20
Chief of Station (2024)
★ 6.3/10Also thriller
After learning that the death of his wife was not an accident, a former CIA Station Chief is forced back into the espionage underworld, teaming up with an adversary to unravel a conspiracy that challenges everything he…