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Movies Like Confessions of a Nazi Spy

If you liked Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939), a drama and war movie directed by Anatole Litvak, 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. 1Journey into Fear

    Journey into Fear (1943)

    ★ 6.1/10Also war

    An American ballistics expert in Turkey finds himself targeted by Nazi agents. Safe passage home by ship is arranged for him, but he soon discovers that his pursuers are also on board.

  2. 2Eichmann

    Eichmann (2007)

    ★ 6/10Also drama

    Based upon the final confession of Adolf Eichmann, made before his execution in Israel, of his role in Hitler's plan for the final solution.

  3. 3The Guns of Navarone

    The Guns of Navarone (1961)

    ★ 7.3/10Also drama and war

    A 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.

  4. 4Night Train to Munich

    Night Train to Munich (1940)

    ★ 7.2/10Also drama and war

    Czechoslovakia, March 1939, on the eve of World War II. As the German invaders occupy Prague, inventor Axel Bomasch manages to flee and reach England; but those who need to put his knowledge at the service of the Nazi…

  5. 5The FBI Story

    The FBI Story (1959)

    ★ 6.2/10Also drama

    A dedicated FBI agent recalls the agency's battles against the Klan, organized crime and Communist spies.

  6. 6Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House

    Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House (2017)

    ★ 6.2/10Also drama

    The story of Mark Felt, who under the name "Deep Throat" helped journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncover the Watergate scandal in 1974.

  7. 713 Rue Madeleine

    13 Rue Madeleine (1947)

    ★ 6.2/10Also war

    Bob Sharkey, an instructor of would-be spies for the Allied Office of Strategic Services, becomes suspicious of one of the latest batch of students, Bill O'Connell, who is too good at espionage. His boss, Charles…

  8. 8Escape to Victory

    Escape to Victory (1981)

    ★ 6.9/10Also drama and 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.

  9. 9The Sea Wolves

    The Sea Wolves (1980)

    ★ 5.9/10Also war

    A German spy is passing on information about the location of Allied ships in the neutral harbor of Goa, India, with catastrophic results. Unable to undertake a full military operation in the Portuguese stronghold…

  10. 10The One That Got Away

    The One That Got Away (1957)

    ★ 6.8/10Also war and drama

    Based on the true story of Oberleutnant Franz von Werra, the only German prisoner of war captured in Britain to escape back to Germany during the Second World War.

  11. 11Woman in Gold

    Woman in Gold (2015)

    ★ 7.3/10Also drama

    Maria Altmann, an octogenarian Jewish refugee, takes on the government to recover artwork she believes rightfully belongs to her family.

  12. 12Edge of Darkness

    Edge of Darkness (1943)

    ★ 6.4/10Also drama and war

    The film pivots around the local Norwegian doctor and his family. The doctor's wife (Ruth Gordon) wants to hold on to the pretence of gracious living and ignore their German occupiers. The doctor, Martin Stensgard…

  13. 13All the President's Men

    All the President's Men (1976)

    ★ 7.7/10Also drama

    During the 1972 elections, two reporters' investigation sheds light on the controversial Watergate scandal that compels President Nixon to resign from his post.

  14. 14The Sea Chase

    The Sea Chase (1955)

    ★ 6.3/10Also war and drama

    As the Second World War breaks out, German freighter captain Karl Ehrlich is about to leave Sydney, Australia with his vessel, the Ergenstrasse. Ehrlich, an anti-Nazi but proud German, hopes to outrun or out-maneuver…

  15. 15Sink the Bismarck!

    Sink the Bismarck! (1960)

    ★ 6.9/10Also war and drama

    The story of the breakout of the German battleship Bismarck—accompanied by the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen—during the early days of World War II. The Bismarck and her sister ship, Tirpitz, were the most powerful…

  16. 16The Walk

    The Walk (2015)

    ★ 7/10Also drama

    The story of French high-wire artist Philippe Petit's attempt to cross the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in 1974.

  17. 17Topaz

    Topaz (1969)

    ★ 6/10Also drama

    Copenhagen, Denmark, 1962. When a high-ranking Soviet official decides to change sides, a French intelligence agent is caught up in a cold, silent and bloody spy war in which his own family will play a decisive role.

  18. 18The Great Escape

    The Great Escape (1963)

    ★ 7.9/10Also drama and war

    The Nazis, exasperated at the number of escapes from their prison camps by a relatively small number of Allied prisoners, relocate them to a high-security 'escape-proof' camp to sit out the remainder of the war…

  19. 19The Quiller Memorandum

    The Quiller Memorandum (1966)

    ★ 5.9/10Also drama

    After two British Secret Intelligence Service agents are murdered at the hands of a cryptic neo-Nazi group known as Phoenix, the suave agent Quiller is sent to Berlin to investigate.

  20. 20The Man Who Never Was

    The Man Who Never Was (1956)

    ★ 7/10Also war and drama

    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…

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