Movies Like The Crossing

If you liked The Crossing (2020), a family and war movie directed by Johanne Helgeland, 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
Alone in Berlin (2016)
★ 6.7/10Also war and thriller
Berlin in June of 1940. While Nazi propaganda celebrates the regime’s victory over France, a kitchen-cum-living room in Prenzlauer Berg is filled with grief. Anna and Otto Quangel’s son has been killed at the front…
2
Shepherd: The Story of a Jewish Dog (2020)
★ 6.8/10Also family and war
Follow the perilous journey to freedom when a young boy and his dog attempt to escape a concentration camp during World War II. Based on true events.
3
49th Parallel (1941)
★ 7/10Also war and thriller
In the early days of World War II, a German U-boat is sunk in Canada's Hudson Bay. Hoping to evade capture, a small band of German soldiers led by commanding officer Lieutenant Hirth attempts to cross the border into…
4
Hope and Glory (1987)
★ 6.9/10Also war and family
A middle-aged man recalls his childhood growing up in and around London during World War II.
5
Pressure (2026)
★ 7.7/10Also thriller and war
In the tense 72 hours before D-Day, and the fate of the free world hanging in the balance, General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Captain James Stagg face an impossible choice—launch the largest and most dangerous seaborne…
6
Valkyrie (2008)
★ 7/10Also thriller and war
Wounded in Africa during World War II, Nazi Col. Claus von Stauffenberg returns to his native Germany and joins the Resistance in a daring plan to create a shadow government and assassinate Adolf Hitler. When events…
7
Prisoner of War (2025)
★ 7.1/10Also war and thriller
British RAF Wing Commander James Wright is captured by the Japanese during WWII and forced to fight in brutal hand-to-hand combat. The Japanese soldiers get more than they bargained for when Wright’s years of martial…
8
Max Winslow and The House of Secrets (2020)
★ 5.9/10Also family and thriller
Five teenagers compete to win a mansion owned by entrepreneur and scientist Atticus Virtue. To win the teens must face-off against a super computer named HAVEN who controls the mansion.
9
Six Minutes to Midnight (2020)
★ 6.2/10Also thriller and war
Summer 1939. Influential families in Nazi Germany have sent their daughters to a finishing school in an English seaside town to learn the language and be ambassadors for a future looking National Socialist. A teacher…
10
The Counterfeit Traitor (1962)
★ 6.5/10Also war and thriller
Blacklisted in modern day WW2, a Swedish oil trader opts to assist British Allies, by means of infiltrating and surveying Nazi Germany.
11
Morituri (1965)
★ 6.7/10Also thriller and war
A German living in India during World War II is blackmailed by the English to impersonate an SS officer on board a cargo ship leaving Japan for Germany carrying a large supply of rubber for tyres. His mission is to…
12
The Bedford Incident (1965)
★ 7/10Also thriller and war
During a routine patrol, a reporter is given permission to interview a hardened cold-war warrior and captain of the American destroyer USS Bedford. The reporter gets more than he bargained for when the Bedford…
13
The Imitation Game (2014)
★ 8/10Also thriller and war
Based on the real life story of legendary cryptanalyst Alan Turing, the film portrays the nail-biting race against time by Turing and his brilliant team of code-breakers at Britain's top-secret Government Code and…
14
Courage Under Fire (1996)
★ 6.6/10Also thriller and war
A US Army officer, who made a "friendly fire" mistake that was covered up, has been reassigned to a desk job. He is tasked to investigate a female chopper commander's worthiness to be awarded the Medal of Honor. At…
15
Hostile Waters (1997)
★ 6.1/10Also thriller and war
Based on true events, an American submarine collides into a Soviet sub of the coast of America and an ensuing standoff occurs that could lead to total annihilation.
16
The Night of the Hunter (1955)
★ 7.9/10Also thriller
In Depression-era West Virginia, a serial-killing preacher hunts two young children who know the whereabouts of a stash of money.
17
Frankenstein (1986)
★ 7/10Also family
An obsessed scientist assembles a living being from parts of exhumed corpses.
18
Seance on a Wet Afternoon (1964)
★ 7.3/10Also thriller
Working-class British housewife Myra Savage reinvents herself as a medium, holding seances in the sitting room of her home with the hidden assistance of her under-employed, asthmatic husband, Billy. In an attempt to…
19
The Old Gun (1975)
★ 7.5/10Also war
In Montauban in 1944, Julien Dandieu is a surgeon in the local hospital. Frightened by the German army entering Montauban, he asks his friend Francois to drive his wife and his daughter in the back country village…
20
The Train (1964)
★ 7.6/10Also war and thriller
As the Allied forces approach Paris in August 1944, German Colonel Von Waldheim is desperate to take all of France's greatest paintings to Germany. He manages to secure a train to transport the valuable art works even…