20 movies like They Came to Blow Up America, ordered by similarity : The Spy Gone North(2018), Against the Wind(1948), The Army of Crime(2009), Seven Miles From Alcatraz(1942), Alone in Berlin(2016), Morituri(1965), The Invisibles(2017), Operation Crossbow(1965), Frieda(1947), Europa, Europa(1990), Anthropoid(2016), Candlelight in Algeria(1944) ...
Drama
USA
1943
73 Minutes
George Sanders Anna Sten Ward Bond Poldy Dur
german-american spy double agent nazi father wife patriotic intricate suspenseful tense new york city hamburg, germany hotel jail submarine courtroom working undercover dangerous mission world war ii deception
An FBI agent infiltrates a Nazi sabotage school in Germany where men are trained for strategic destruction inside American borders.
Drama
South Korea
2018
141 Minutes
Jeong-min Hwang Sung-min Lee Cho Jin-Woong Ju Ji-hoon
spy broker government official wife businessman kim jong-il thrilling gripping intense suspenseful tense engaging north korea south korea espionage government secrets intelligence nuclear weapons korean relations mission
In the mid-1990s, a loyal South Korean secret agent is caught in a political vortex plotted by the ruling classes of North and South Korea.
War, Drama, History
UK
1948
96 Minutes
Robert Beatty Jack Warner Simone Signoret Gordon Jackson Paul Dupuis James Robertson Justice Gisèle Préville John Slater Peter Illing
priest pretty woman secret agent spy engaging suspenseful belgium england dangerous assignment espionage deception nazism betrayal world war ii discovery adventure quest 1940s
British agents engage in hazardous duty behind German lines.
War, Drama, History
USA
2009
139 Minutes
Simon Abkarian Virginie Ledoyen Robinson Stévenin Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet Lola Naymark Yann Trégouët Ariane Ascaride Jean-Pierre Darroussin Ivan Franek Adrien Jolivet Horatiu Malaele
resistance fighter wife bomber marksman volunteer nazi brooding gripping suspenseful france berlin countryside house resistance fighters husband/wife relationship nazi hunting world war ii vichy france nazi occupation revenge
Based on the true story of the double initial killings in Rochester, NY.
Drama
USA
1942
62 Minutes
James Craig Bonita Granville Frank Jenks Cliff Edwards George Cleveland Erford Gage Tala Birell John Banner Otto Reichow
convict gangster lighthouse keeper young woman spy nazi suspenseful patriotic gripping tense alcatraz island jail lighthouse island fugitives prison break espionage hostage situation patriotism nazis
After Pearl Harbor, convicts at Alcatraz prison live in fear of bomb attacks, driving Champ Larkin and his pal Jimbo to a desperate escape attempt which lands them on a tiny lighthouse ... See full summary »
Drama, History
UK|France|Germany
2016
103 Minutes
Emma Thompson Brendan Gleeson Daniel Brühl Mikael Persbrandt Katharina Schüttler Louis Hofmann Lars Rudolph Uwe Preuss Jacob Matschenz Godehard Giese
mother father husband wife adolf hitler nazi detective ss officer son chilling emotional engaging moving tense suspenseful berlin germany death grief loss
After a Nazi German working class couple loses their son in World War II, they decide to retaliate by secretly leafletting handwritten cards in Berlin denouncing their government.
War, Drama, Action
USA
1965
123 Minutes
Marlon Brando Yul Brynner Janet Margolin Trevor Howard Martin Benrath Hans Christian Blech Wally Cox Max Haufler Rainer Penkert William Redfield
deserter government official ship captain nazi british intelligence agent sailor tense suspenseful thrilling ship india japan ocean working undercover moral dilemma world war ii espionage mutiny blackmail quest
A war pacifist is blackmailed to pose as an SS officer and to disable the scuttling explosives on freighter carrying rubber cargo to be captured by the Allies.
Drama, History
Germany
2017
110 Minutes
Aaron Altaras Max Mauff Alice Dwyer Ruby O. Fee Victoria Schulz Florian Lukas Andreas Schmidt Sergej Moya Lucas Reiber
jewish man jewish woman nazi german soldier tense suspenseful striking powerful moving engaging berlin nazi germany germany jewish people jewish identity nazis nazi occupation secret life world war ii escape
While Joseph Goebbels infamously declared Berlin "free of Jews" in 1943, 1,700 managed to survive in the Nazi capital through the end of WWII. The Invisibles traces the stories of four young people who learned to hide in plain sight.
Drama, War
UK
1965
116 Minutes
Sophia Loren George Peppard Trevor Howard John Mills Richard Johnson Tom Courtenay Jeremy Kemp Anthony Quayle Lilli Palmer Paul Henreid Helmut Dantine
lieutenant woman spy prime minister general colonel suspenseful intense germany london holland underground world war ii special ops espionage military working undercover quest sacrifice 1940s
Allied agents attempt to infiltrate the Nazis' rocket research site.
Drama
UK
1947
98 Minutes
David Farrar Glynis Johns Mai Zetterling Flora Robson Albert Lieven Barbara Everest Gladys Henson Ray Jackson Patrick Holt Milton Rosmer Barry Letts
pilot wife mother aunt nazi tense emotional pow camp germany england oxfordshire, england nazism bigotry marriage world war ii love transformation discovery 1940s
A Royal Air Force pilot who was shot down during World War II returns home to his English village with his new bride. The trouble is that she is the German lady who helped him escape. Then ... See full summary »
War, Drama, History
Germany|France|Poland
1990
115 Minutes
Marco Hofschneider Julie Delpy André Wilms Ashley Wanninger Hanns Zischler Klaus Kowatsch Halina Labonarska Delphine Forest René Hofschneider Jorg Schnass Nathalie Schmidt
teenager nazi girlfriend father bleak emotional suspenseful germany poland russia orphanage nazism holocaust world war ii survival deception growing up forbidden love 1940s
A boy in Nazi Germany, trying to conceal that he is Jewish, joins the Hitler Youth.
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.
Drama
UK
1944
85 Minutes
James Mason Carla Lehman Raymond Lovell Enid Stamp-Taylor Walter Rilla Pamela Stirling Leslie Bradley Michael Morel Bart Norman Hella Kürty
spy nazi general woman frenchman disturbing melodramatic intense patriotic suspenseful profound algeria war zone bedroom nightclub algerian war danger spying travel adventure
An American sculptress in wartime Britain gets mixed up with a British agent and a Nazi spy who knows that a top-secret meeting of Allied military leaders will be taking place in Algeria--... See full summary »
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
UK|France|West Germany
1967
126 Minutes
Christopher Plummer Yul Brynner Romy Schneider Trevor Howard Gert Froebe Claudine Auger Georges Lycan Jess Hahn Harry Meyen Jean-Claude Berq Jean Claudio
safecracker spy double agent baron englishman prisoner somber cool intricate thrilling germany england prison occupied france jersey double-cross world war ii espionage crime second chance
During WW2, convicted bank robber Eddie Chapman becomes a triple agent working for both the British and the Germans.
Drama, Action, History, War
Switzerland|UK|USA
1980
120 Minutes
Gregory Peck Roger Moore David Niven Trevor Howard Barbara Kellerman Patrick Macnee Kenneth Griffith Patrick Allen Wolf Kahler
spy colonel captain femme fatale ex-soldier german spy calm cool suspenseful gutsy goa, india hotel military base boat casino world war ii espionage english intelligence dangerous mission old age
During World War II, the British must attack a German ship, but it's safe in neutral Goa. As a result, they send civilians: former soldiers who are about sixty years old.
Drama
USA
2016
104 Minutes
Viola Davis Hayden Panettiere Catalina Sandino Moreno Ellen Burstyn Dan Fogler Jaden Michael Bryce Lorenzo Nicholas L. Ashe Julius Tennon Karen Pittman
judge latina mother lawyer woman american african-american woman emotional tense engaging gripping positive court courtroom new york new york city united states america court battles court decision
The lives of three women are unexpectedly changed when they cross paths at a New York Family Court.
War, Biography, Drama, History
UK|USA
2017
125 Minutes
Gary Oldman Kristin Scott Thomas Ben Mendelsohn Lily James Ronald Pickup Stephen Dillane Nicholas Jones Samuel West Richard Lumsden Charley Palmer Rothwell Hannah Steele
winston churchill nazi king soldier politician adolf hitler brooding rousing passionate striking tense spirited london great britain war zone nazi germany government building house of parliament world war ii nazi occupation
In May 1940, the fate of World War II hangs on Winston Churchill, who must decide whether to negotiate with Adolf Hitler, or fight on knowing that it could mean the end of the British Empire.
Drama
UK
2011
91 Minutes
Peter Mullan Olivia Colman Eddie Marsan Ned Dennehy Sally Carman Samuel Bottomley Paul Popplewell Sian Breckin Paul Conway Julia Mallam
man charity worker bleak brutal chilling dark disturbing frenetic gutsy gripping intense intricate united kingdom self-destruction redemption anger turmoil relationships secrets challenge
Joseph, a man plagued by violence and a rage that is driving him to self-destruction, earns a chance of redemption that appears in the form of Hannah, a Christian charity shop worker.
War, Drama, History
USA
2017
118 Minutes
Max Hubacher Milan Peschel Frederick Lau Waldemar Kobus Alexander Fehling Samuel Finzi Wolfram Koch Britta Hammelstein Bernd Hölscher Sascha Alexander Gersak Blerim Destani
soldier nazi nazi commandant prison guard prisoner deserter uneasy intense tense unrestrained brutal bleak concentration camp truck woods base camp office fraud nazi collaboration power
After the tragic deaths of her husband and daughter, Sarah Doyle moves back to her childhood home with her estranged brother, Richard. It's not long before Sarah begins to experience ... See full summary »
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
Germany|France
2017
105 Minutes
Diane Kruger Denis Moschitto Johannes Krisch Samia Chancrin Numan Acar Ulrich Tukur Rafael Santana Ulrich Brandhoff Laurens Walter
mother grieving mother terrorist murderer murder victim son husband german sad shocking intense tense germany court workplace family home city terrorism extremism revenge
Katja's life collapses after the death of her husband and son in a bomb attack. After a time of mourning and injustice, Katja seeks revenge.
War, Drama, History
USA|China|UK
2014
134 Minutes
Brad Pitt Shia LaBeouf Logan Lerman Michael Peña Jon Bernthal Jason Isaacs Brad Henke Jim Parrack Xavier Samuel Scott Eastwood Kevin Vance
sergeant soldier crew member nazi commander german brooding confident cool germany england france battlefield united states tank world war ii survival courage nazi hunting friendship
A grizzled tank commander makes tough decisions as he and his crew fight their way across Germany in April, 1945.