20 movies like 49th Parallel, ordered by similarity : They Shall Not Grow Old(2018), Night Train to Munich(1940), Overlord(2018), The Adventuress(1946), O.S.S.(1946), The Sea Chase(1955), The Holcroft Covenant(1985), The House on 92nd Street(1945), 16 December(2002), Confessions of a Nazi Spy(1939), Anthropoid(2016), Man Hunt(1941) ...
Mystery & Thriller
UK|Canada
1941
107 Minutes
Eric Portman Laurence Olivier Anton Walbrook Leslie Howard Raymond Massey Glynis Johns Niall MacGinnis Finlay Currie
nazi soldier trapper inuit native american priest patriotic melodramatic offbeat train canada hudson bay trading post countryside world war ii nazism war politics pursuit 1940s
A World War II U-boat crew are stranded in northern Canada. To avoid internment, they must make their way to the border and get into the still-neutral U.S.
Documentary, War, Drama, History
UK|New Zealand
2018
99 Minutes
soldier army recruit british officer british soldier british soldiers german soldier german troops bleak emotional moving patriotic powerful sad somber war zone france belgium united kingdom trenches training camp
A documentary about World War I with never-before-seen footage to commemorate the centennial of the end of the war.
Mystery & Thriller
UK
1940
93 Minutes
Margaret Lockwood Rex Harrison Paul Henreid Basil Radford Naunton Wayne James Harcourt Felix Aylmer F. Wyndham Goldie Roland Culver Eliot Makeham Raymond Huntley
scientist daughter undercover agent czech nazi thrilling cheeky gutsy train concentration camp naval base germany prague england world war ii espionage scientific experiments nazism technology journey
After Germany invades Czechoslovakia, the German and the British intelligence services try to capture Czech scientist Dr. Axel Bomasch (James Harcourt), inventor of a new type of armor-plating.
Horror, Mystery & Thriller, Action
USA|Canada
2018
110 Minutes
Jovan Adepo Wyatt Russell Pilou Asbæk Mathilde Ollivier John Magaro Iain De Caestecker Jacob Anderson Dominic Applewhite Bokeem Woodbine Marc Rissmann
paratrooper enemy soldier nazi zombie scientist bleak creepy brutal gory thrilling suspenseful village laboratory office underground shelter airplane nazi occupation soldiers world war ii
A small group of American soldiers find horror behind enemy lines on the eve of D-Day.
Mystery & Thriller, Comedy
1946
96 Minutes
Deborah Kerr Trevor Howard Raymond Huntley Liam Redmond Harry Webster
spy nazi lieutenant irishwoman gutsy crafty melodramatic patriotic suspenseful ireland dublin northern ireland world war ii nationalism espionage romance love rescue escape pursuit
A British agent (Trevor Howard) follows a young Irishwoman (Deborah Kerr) duped by a Nazi spy (Raymond Huntley).
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1946
107 Minutes
Alan Ladd Geraldine Fitzgerald Patric Knowles John Hoyt Gloria Saunders Richard Benedict Harold Vermilyea Don Beddoe Onslow Stevens Gavin Muir Egon Brecher
soldier spy agent commanding officer american secret agent patriotic gripping passionate france tunnel railroad tracks dangerous assignment duty nazis world war ii espionage sabotage love quest
During WW2, the O.S.S. sends teams of spies and saboteurs in Nazi-occupied France.
Mystery & Thriller, War
USA
1955
117 Minutes
John Wayne Lana Turner David Farrar Lyle Bettger Tab Hunter James Arness Wilton Graff Richard Davalos John Qualen Paul Fix Luis Van Rooten
sea captain german spy nazi british officer commander suspenseful rousing australia ship south pacific port dangerous assignment world war ii espionage military nazism moral dilemma pursuit escape
As World War II begins, German freighter Captain Karl Ehrlich tries to get his ship back to Germany through a gauntlet of Allied warships.
Mystery & Thriller
UK
1985
112 Minutes
Michael Caine Anthony Andrews Victoria Tennant Lilli Palmer Mario Adorf Michael Lonsdale Bernard Hepton Richard Münch Carl Rigg André Penvern Andy Bradford
nazi nazi collaborator adolf hitler architect father son bleak thrilling suspenseful intense tense emotional new york city germany united states geneva nazi collaboration nazis money war crimes
The son of a German General becomes part of a mysterious conspiracy to gain hidden Nazi funds.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1945
88 Minutes
William Eythe Lloyd Nolan Signe Hasso Gene Lockhart Leo G. Carroll Lydia St. Clair William Post Jr. Harry Bellaver Bruno Wick Harro Meller Charles Wagenheim
nazi fbi agent spy college student beautiful woman suspenseful patriotic tense new york city espionage world war ii surveillance nazism adventure mystery quest underdog 1940s
Bill Dietrich becomes a double agent for the F.B.I. in a Nazi spy ring.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama, Action
India
2002
148 Minutes
Danny Denzongpa Gulshan Grover Milind Soman Dipannita Sharma Sushant Singh Aditi Govitrikar
young man young woman soldiers war hero chief patriotic passionate powerful india army base army camp army outpost war zone war political corruption money laundering cheating jealousy love quest
Indian intelligence agents race against time to stop a renegade Pakistani terrorist from detonating a nuclear weapon in Delhi.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1939
102 Minutes
Edward G. Robinson Francis Lederer George Sanders Paul Lukas Henry O'Neill Lya Lys Grace Stafford James Stephenson Sig Ruman Frederic Tozere Dorothy Tree
fbi agent nazi spy doctor melodramatic patriotic chilling united states europe germany new york state fbi espionage nazism confession pursuit wretched excess 1930s
FBI agent Ed Renard investigates the pre-War espionage activities of the German-American Bund.
Mystery & Thriller, War, Drama, History
Czech Republic|UK|USA|France
2016
120 Minutes
Cillian Murphy Jamie Dornan Charlotte Le Bon Anna Geislerová Toby Jones Harry Lloyd Alena Mihulová Bill Milner Pavel Reznícek Jirí Simek Sam Keeley
soldier resistance fighter agent nazi commandant assassin gripping tense intense thrilling suspenseful czechoslovakia world war ii assassination plot nazi occupation resistance fighters secret plans quest pursuit 1940s
Based on the extraordinary true story of Operation Anthropoid, the WWII mission to assassinate SS General Reinhard Heydrich, the main architect behind the Final Solution and the Reich's third in command after Hitler and Himmler.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1941
100 Minutes
Walter Pidgeon Joan Bennett George Sanders John Carradine Roddy McDowall Ludwig Stossel Heather Thatcher Frederick Worlock
hunter nazi con artist secret agent police officer gripping germany forest ship london adolf hitler assassination identity theft hunting world war ii pursuit escape 1940s
British hunter Thorndike vacationing in Bavaria has Hitler in his gun sight. He is captured, beaten, left for dead, and escapes back to London where he is hounded by German agents and aided by a young woman.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1944
85 Minutes
Ray Milland Marjorie Reynolds Carl Esmond Hillary Brooke Percy Waram Dan Duryea Alan Napier Erskine Sanford Thomas Louden Aminta Dyne Rita Johnson
spy patient nazi detective psychic girl chilling dark crafty mental institution london fair train espionage world war ii paranoia escape 1940s
Stephen Neale has just been released from an asylum during World War II in England when he accidentally stumbles onto a deadly Nazi spy plot, and tries to stop it.
Mystery & Thriller, Action
UK
2013
92 Minutes
Dougray Scott Kara Tointon Iddo Goldberg David Schofield Lindsay Duncan Joshua Kaynama Samuel Geker-Kawle
commuter worker passenger train passenger driver father son young woman tense thrilling uneasy london train united kingdom city train crash train travel disaster murder runaway train
A small group of everyday passengers on a speeding London commuter train battle their warped driver who has a dark plan for everyone on-board.
Drama
UK|USA
1962
116 Minutes
Dirk Bogarde Maria Perschy Alfred Lynch Nigel Stock Reginald Beckwith Richard Marner Ed Devereaux Lewis Fiander George Mikell Richard Carpenter Margaret Whiting
british soldier sergeant german soldier nazi prisoner of war leader charming hilarious patriotic playful prison camp germany united kingdom poland train station charles coward prison break sabotage world war ii bravery
British N.C.O. Sergeant Major Charles Coward (Sir Dirk Bogarde) escapes from the Stalag VIII-B P.O.W. camp, and is mistakenly awarded with the Iron Cross by the Germans.
Documentary, Drama, History
Italy
2019
92 Minutes
Helen Mirren Anna Migotto Anne Frank
anne frank jew nazi nazi collaborator holocaust survivor bleak chilling dark disheartening disturbing emotional engaging gripping incredible melancholy moving amsterdam concentration camp hideout holocaust
It is based on five women who did survive the Holocaust but shared her same fate of "deportation, suffering and being denied their childhood and adolescence," according to promotional materials.
Horror, Mystery & Thriller
UK
2020
95 Minutes
Brenton Thwaites Theo Rossi Kyle Gallner Skylar Astin Alan Ritchson Matthew Reese Billy Zane Shaun Toub Shannon McKain
soldier ghost american nazi bleak brutal chilling dark disturbing frightening france countryside abandoned house supernatural mission unexplained phenomenon survival nazis torture escape
Five American soldiers assigned to hold a French Chateau near the end of World War II. This unexpected respite quickly descends into madness when they encounter a supernatural enemy more terrifying than anything seen on the battlefield.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1942
80 Minutes
Edward Arnold Ann Harding Donna Reed Allen Jenkins John Emery Stephen McNally Katherine Emery Reginald Denny Rosemary DeCamp Stanley Ridges Barry Nelson
blind person detective stepmother stepdaughter actor nazi suspenseful brooding new york city blindness investigation secret murder world war ii mystery pursuit 1940s
A blind detective and his seeing-eye dog investigate a murder and discover a Nazi plot.
Mystery & Thriller
UK
1948
95 Minutes
Jean Kent Albert Lieven Derrick de Marney Paul Dupuis Rona Anderson David Tomlinson Bonar Colleano Finlay Currie Gregoire Aslan Alan Wheatley
spy accomplice man criminal traveler train passenger suspenseful thrilling intense gory train embassy paris train station trieste, italy wagon train espionage diary theft double-cross
Spies pursue a stolen diary aboard the Orient Express.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1945
102 Minutes
Dick Powell Walter Slezak Micheline Cheirel Nina Vale Morris Carnovsky Edgar Barrier Steven Geray Jack LaRue Luther Adler Gregory Gaye Jean Del Val
pilot wife nazi murderer widow dark tense gritty intricate argentina south america europe buenos aires, argentina revenge world war ii death sacrifice revenge pursuit adventure
Canadian flyer Laurence Gerard finds that his wife has been murdered by a French collaborator. His quest for justice leads him to Switzerland and Argentina.