Movies Like Gilberte de Courgenay
If you liked Gilberte de Courgenay (1941), a war and drama movie directed by Franz Schnyder, 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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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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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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Sergeant York (1941)
★ 7.2/10Also war and dramaAlvin York a hillbilly sharpshooter transforms himself from ruffian to religious pacifist. He is then called to serve his country and despite deep religious and moral objections to fighting becomes one of the most…
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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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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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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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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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Henry V (1989)
★ 7.1/10Also war 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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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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Munich - The Edge of War (2021)
★ 6.9/10Also drama and historyAt the tense 1938 Munich Conference, former friends who now work for opposing governments become reluctant spies racing to expose a Nazi secret.
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All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
★ 7.8/10Also drama and warWhen a group of idealistic young men join the German Army during the Great War, they are assigned to the Western Front, where their patriotism is destroyed by the harsh realities of combat.
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The Young Lions (1958)
★ 6.7/10Also war and dramaThe lives of three young men, a German and two Americans, during WWII.
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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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Paradise Road (1997)
★ 6.3/10Also war and dramaA group of English, American, Dutch and Australian women creates a vocal orchestra while being imprisoned in a Japanese POW camp on Sumatra during World War II.
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Breaker Morant (1980)
★ 7.1/10Also drama and historyDuring the Boer War, three Australian lieutenants are on trial for shooting Boer prisoners. Though they acted under orders, they are being used as scapegoats by the General Staff, who hopes to distance themselves from…
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The Tasters (2025)
★ 6.7/10Also drama and historyIn autumn 1943, in Gross-Partsch, 26-year-old Rosa, who had come from Berlin to stay with the parents of her husband Gregor, who was fighting on the Russian front, was taken by the SS to a mysterious place. Forced to…
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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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Taking Sides (2002)
★ 6.3/10Also drama and warOne of the most spectacular and renowned conductors of the 1930s, Wilhelm Furtwangler's reputation rivaled that of Toscanini's. After the war, he was investigated as part of the Allies' de-Nazification programme. In…
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The Red Baron (2008)
★ 6.7/10Also drama and historyRichthofen goes off to war like thousands of other men. As fighter pilots, they become cult heroes for the soldiers on the battlefields. Marked by sportsmanlike conduct, technical exactitude and knightly propriety…
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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.