Movies Like Operation: Daybreak

If you liked Operation: Daybreak (1975), a action and war movie directed by Lewis Gilbert, 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
Bonhoeffer: Pastor. Spy. Assassin (2024)
★ 6.7/10Also war
As 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.
2
Uprising (2001)
★ 6.6/10Also war
In the Warsaw ghetto in 1943, Jews rise against the Nazis.
3
The Bridge at Remagen (1969)
★ 6.7/10Also war and action
In March of 1945, as the War in Europe is coming to a close, fighting erupts between German and American troops at the last remaining bridgehead across the Rhine.
4
Operation Mincemeat (2022)
★ 6.5/10Also war
In 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…
5
Little Boy (2015)
★ 7.3/10Also war
An eight-year-old boy is willing to do whatever it takes to end World War II so he can bring his father home. The story reveals the indescribable love a father has for his little boy and the love a son has for his…
6
The Monuments Men (2014)
★ 6.1/10Also war
Based 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…
7
The Family Plan 2 (2025)
★ 6.6/10Also action
Now that Dan's assassin days are behind him, all he wants for Christmas is quality time with his kids. But when he learns his daughter has her own plans, he books a family trip to London—putting them all in the…
8
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023)
★ 6.5/10Also action
Finding himself in a new era, and approaching retirement, Indy wrestles with fitting into a world that seems to have outgrown him. But as the tentacles of an all-too-familiar evil return in the form of an old rival…
9
A Hidden Life (2019)
★ 7.2/10Also war
Austrian farmer Franz Jägerstätter faces the threat of execution for refusing to fight for the Nazis during World War II.
10
Midway (2019)
★ 7.1/10Also war and action
The story of the Battle of Midway, and the leaders and soldiers who used their instincts, fortitude and bravery to overcome massive odds.
11
Devotion (2022)
★ 7/10Also war
The 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.
12
xXx (2002)
★ 6/10Also action
Xander Cage is your standard adrenaline junkie with no fear and a lousy attitude. When the US Government "recruits" him to go on a mission, he's not exactly thrilled. His mission: to gather information on an…
13
Alone in Berlin (2016)
★ 6.7/10Also war
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…
14
Escape to Victory (1981)
★ 6.9/10Also war
A 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.
15
Patriots Day (2016)
★ 7.1/10Also action
In the aftermath of an unspeakable act of terror, Police Sergeant Tommy Saunders joins courageous survivors, first responders and investigators in a race against the clock to hunt down the Boston Marathon bombers…
16
The Count of Monte Cristo (2002)
★ 7.7/10Also action
Young sailor Edmond Dantès is wrongfully imprisoned, escapes, finds treasure, and reinvents himself as the wealthy Count of Monte Cristo to exact revenge on those who betrayed him.
17
Flyboys (2006)
★ 6.5/10Also 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.
18
Midway (1976)
★ 6.6/10Also action and war
This war drama depicts the U.S. and Japanese forces in the naval Battle of Midway, which became a turning point for Americans during World War II.
19
Suite Française (2015)
★ 7.2/10Also war
France, 1940. In the first days of occupation, beautiful Lucile Angellier is trapped in a stifled existence with her controlling mother-in-law as they both await news of her husband: a prisoner of war. Parisian…
20
The Sleepover (2020)
★ 6.4/10Also action
Two siblings who discover their seemingly normal mom is a former thief in witness protection. Mom is forced to pull one last job, and the kids team up to rescue her over the course of an action-packed night.