Movies Like The Fugitive
If you liked The Fugitive (2019), a drama and history movie directed by Richard Oh, 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 Last Rifleman (2023)
★ 6.6/10Also drama and historyA 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…
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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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Devotion (2022)
★ 7/10Also war and dramaThe 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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A Call to Spy (2020)
★ 6.8/10Also history and dramaThe story of Vera Atkins, a crafty spy recruiter, and two of the first women she selects for Churchill's "secret army": Virginia Hall, a daring American undaunted by a disability and Noor Inayat Khan, a pacifist. These…
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War Horse (2011)
★ 7.3/10Also war and historyOn the brink of the First World War, Albert's beloved horse Joey is sold to the Cavalry by his father. Against the backdrop of the Great War, Joey begins an odyssey full of danger, joy, and sorrow, and he transforms…
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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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Operation Mincemeat (2022)
★ 6.5/10Also war and historyIn 1943, two British intelligence officers concoct Operation Mincemeat, wherein their plan to drop a corpse with false papers off the coast of Spain would fool Nazi spies into believing the Allied forces were planning…
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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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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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Paths of Glory (1957)
★ 8.3/10Also war and dramaA commanding officer defends three scapegoats on trial for a failed offensive that occurred within the French Army in 1916.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
★ 7.8/10Also drama and historyThe classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their Japanese captors. British and American intelligence officers conspire to blow up the structure, but Col. Nicholson, the…
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The Great Escaper (2023)
★ 6.6/10Also history and dramaIn the summer of 2014, a World War II veteran sneaks out of his care home to attend the 70th anniversary commemoration of the D-Day landings in Normandy.
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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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Waiting for Anya (2020)
★ 6.3/10Also drama and warDuring 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.
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The Lost Battalion (2001)
★ 6.7/10Also history and dramaFact-based war drama about an American battalion of over 500 men which gets trapped behind enemy lines in the Argonne Forest in October 1918 France during the closing weeks of World War I.
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Henry V (1944)
★ 6.7/10Also history and dramaIn 1415, in the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France.
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Midway (2019)
★ 7.1/10Also war and historyThe story of the Battle of Midway, and the leaders and soldiers who used their instincts, fortitude and bravery to overcome massive odds.
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The Boy in the Woods (2023)
★ 7/10Also drama and warThe remarkable true-life survival story of a Jewish boy hiding and being hunted in the forests of Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe, based on Maxwell Smart's memoir.
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Drums Along the Mohawk (1939)
★ 6.5/10Also drama and historyAlbany, New York, 1776. After marrying, Gil and Lana travel north to settle on a small farm in the Mohawk River Valley, but soon their growing prosperity and happiness are threatened by the sinister sound of drums that…