Movies Like The Edelweiss Pirates
If you liked The Edelweiss Pirates (2004), a drama and history movie directed by Niko von Glasow, 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 Match (2021)
★ 6.1/10Also drama and historyInspired by true events from the spring of 1944 when the Nazis organized a football match between a team of camp inmates and an elite Nazi team on Adolf Hitler's birthday. A match the prisoners are determined to win…
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Rose (2026)
★ 7.6/10Also drama and historyIn the early 17th century, a soldier arrives at an isolated Protestant village in Germany claiming to be the heir to an abandoned farmstead. Even though he proves to be a good man, the villagers’ suspicions about his…
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Bonhoeffer: Pastor. Spy. Assassin (2024)
★ 6.7/10Also history and dramaAs the world teeters on the brink of annihilation, Dietrich Bonhoeffer joins a deadly plot to assassinate Hitler, risking his faith and fate to save millions of Jews from genocide.
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The Scarlet and the Black (1983)
★ 7.1/10Also drama and historyFr. 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…
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Battleground (1949)
★ 6.7/10Also drama and warMembers 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…
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Battle of the Bulge (1965)
★ 6.9/10Also drama and historyIn the winter of 1944, the Allied Armies stand ready to invade Germany at the coming of a New Year. To prevent it, Hitler orders an all-out offensive to re-take French territory and capture the major port city of…
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The Last Valley (1971)
★ 6.5/10Also history and warPeople in a small German village in the last valley to remain untouched by the devastating Thirty Years' War try to exist in peace with a group of soldiers occupying the valley.
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Escape to Victory (1981)
★ 6.9/10Also drama and warA group of POWs in a German prison camp during World War II play the German National Soccer Team in this powerful film depicting the role of prisoners during wartime.
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Rommel (2012)
★ 6/10Also war and historyThe story of the final seven months in the life of German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel.
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Hitler: The Last Ten Days (1973)
★ 6.2/10Also drama and warHitler: The Last Ten Days takes us into the depths of der Furher’s Berlin bunker during his final days. Based on the book by Gerhard Boldt, it provides a bleak look at the goings-on within, and without.
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The Monuments Men (2014)
★ 6.1/10Also war and dramaBased 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…
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The Longest Day (1962)
★ 7.6/10Also war and dramaThe retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall…
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Flyboys (2006)
★ 6.5/10Also drama and historyThe 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.
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The Guns of Navarone (1961)
★ 7.3/10Also drama and warA 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.
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The Zookeeper's Wife (2017)
★ 7.3/10Also drama and historyThe account of keepers of the Warsaw Zoo, Jan and Antonina Zabinski, who helped save hundreds of people and animals during the Nazi invasion.
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The Bunker (1981)
★ 6.3/10Also war and dramaDramatization depicting the events surrounding Adolf Hitler's last weeks in and around his underground bunker in Berlin before and during the battle for the city.
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Lion of the Desert (1981)
★ 7.3/10Also history and warResistance leader Omar Mukhtar opposes Italian colonization before World War II. The brutal guerrilla war against Italian General Rodolfo Graziani and the Fascist forces of Benito Mussolini highlights the struggle for…
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The Zone of Interest (2023)
★ 7/10Also drama and historyThe 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.
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The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974)
★ 7.3/10Also drama and historyThe film follows Kaspar Hauser, who lived the first seventeen years of his life chained in a tiny cellar with only a toy horse to occupy his time, devoid of all human contact except for a man who wears a black overcoat…