Movies Like Across Frontiers

If you liked Across Frontiers (2017), a history and war movie directed by Zak Jarvis, 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
Von Ryan's Express (1965)
★ 7.1/10Also war and thriller
Von Ryan's Express stars Frank Sinatra as a POW colonel who leads a daring escape from WWII Italy by taking over a freight train, but he has to win over the British soldiers he finds himself commanding.
2
Operation Mincemeat (2022)
★ 6.5/10Also war and history
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…
3
The Man Who Never Was (1956)
★ 7/10Also thriller and war
The true story of a British effort to trick the Germans into weakening Sicily's defenses before the 1943 attack. A dead soldier is dressed as a British officer and outfitted with faked papers showing that the Allies…
4
Bonhoeffer: Pastor. Spy. Assassin (2024)
★ 6.7/10Also history and 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.
5
Truth & Treason (2025)
★ 8.1/10Also history and thriller
In 1941 Nazi Germany, 16-year-old Helmuth Hübener begins questioning the regime after learning the truth about the war and seeing his Jewish friend persecuted. With two friends, he secretly listens to banned foreign…
6
Walking with the Enemy (2014)
★ 6.3/10Also history and war
Regent Horthy is the leader of Hungary and a German ally, but his favorable standing with Hitler changes as the war comes to an end. Forced to cede Hungary’s power or else witness the execution of his son, Regent…
7
Lion of the Desert (1981)
★ 7.3/10Also history and war
Resistance 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…
8
Empire of the Sun (1987)
★ 7.5/10Also history and war
Jamie Graham, a privileged English boy, is living in Shanghai when the Japanese invade and force all foreigners into prison camps. Jamie is captured with an American sailor, who looks out for him while they are in the…
9
Shining Through (1992)
★ 6.5/10Also thriller and war
Spirited New Yorker Linda Voss goes to work for international lawyer and secret Office of Strategic Services operative Ed Leland just before World War II. As they fall in love, the United States enters the fight…
10
Escape from Sobibor (1987)
★ 7.2/10Also thriller and war
The true story of WWII's notorious Sobibor Nazi death camp, where a courageous inmate orchestrates and leads the escape of over 300 prisoners.
11
Decision Before Dawn (1951)
★ 6.8/10Also war and thriller
WWII is entering its last phase: Germany is in ruins, but does not yield. The US army lacks crucial knowledge about the German units operating on the opposite side of the Rhine, and decides to send two German prisoners…
12
Cloak and Dagger (1946)
★ 6.5/10Also thriller and war
Italian partisans help a professor sent by the OSS to find an atomic scientist held by Nazis.
13
Irena's Vow (2024)
★ 7.7/10Also war and history
19 year old Irena Gut is promoted to housekeeper in the home of a highly respected Nazi officer in Poland when she finds out that the Jewish ghetto is about to be liquidated. Determined to help twelve Jewish workers…
14
The Zookeeper's Wife (2017)
★ 7.3/10Also history and war
The account of keepers of the Warsaw Zoo, Jan and Antonina Zabinski, who helped save hundreds of people and animals during the Nazi invasion.
15
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2008)
★ 7.8/10Also war and history
When his family moves from their home in Berlin to a strange new house in Poland, young Bruno befriends Shmuel, a boy who lives on the other side of the fence where everyone seems to be wearing striped pajamas. Unaware…
16
The Scarlet and the Black (1983)
★ 7.1/10Also history and war
Fr. 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…
17
Cross of Iron (1977)
★ 7.1/10Also history and war
It is 1943, and the German army—ravaged and demoralised—is hastily retreating from the Russian front. In the midst of the madness, conflict brews between the aristocratic yet ultimately pusillanimous Captain Stransky…
18
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…
19
We Go In at Dawn (2020)
★ 5.9/10Also history and war
When a high-ranking war planner is captured and held in a German prisoner of war camp, a team of specialists take on the dangerous mission of trying to break him out. Trouble is, he doesn't want to be rescued.
20
The Secrets We Keep (2020)
★ 6/10Also thriller and history
In post-World War II America, a woman, rebuilding her life in the suburbs with her husband, kidnaps her neighbor and seeks vengeance for the heinous war crimes she believes he committed against her.