20 movies like Beachhead, ordered by similarity : Dunkirk(2017), Sobibor(2018), Saving Private Ryan(1998), The Guns of Navarone(1961), Letters From Iwo Jima(2006), Wake Island(1942), USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage(2016), Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison(1957), Fury(2014), Morituri(1965), Canopy(2013), Decision Before Dawn(1951) ...
5.8/10
Drama, War
USA
1954
90 Minutes
Tony Curtis Frank Lovejoy Mary Murphy Eduard Franz Skip Homeier John Doucette Alan Wells
marine planter daughter enemy sergeant major intense gripping thrilling pacific ocean island jungle world war ii espionage survival courage daunting task quest rescue underdog
In 1943, in the wake of the Allied amphibious landing on the Japanese-held Bougainville Island, four Marines are sent to scout the location of Japanese minefields.
7.8/10
War, Drama, History
UK|Netherlands|France|USA
2017
107 Minutes
Fionn Whitehead Tom Glynn-Carney Jack Lowden Harry Styles Aneurin Barnard James D'Arcy Barry Keoghan Kenneth Branagh Cillian Murphy Mark Rylance Tom Hardy
soldier enemy captain pilot chilling emotional gripping inspiring intense beach europe boat world war ii invasion escape battle rescue survival escape rescue
Allied soldiers from Belgium, the British Empire, and France are surrounded by the German Army and evacuated during a fierce battle in World War II.
6.4/10
Drama, Biography, War
Russia|Germany|Lithuania|Poland
2018
120 Minutes
Konstantin Khabensky Christopher Lambert Felice Jankell Dainius Kazlauskas Sergey Godin Roman Ageev
prisoner of war soviet soldier concentration camp survivor lieutenant nazi sergeant dark chilling intense disturbing frightening raw poland concentration camp survival nazis prisoners of war world war ii concentration camp uprising
Soviet officer Alexander Pechersky organizes a revolt and mass escape of prisoners from Sobibór extermination camp in October 1943.
8.6/10
War, Drama, History
USA
1998
169 Minutes
Tom Hanks Ed Burns Tom Sizemore Jeremy Davies Vin Diesel Adam Goldberg Barry Pepper Giovanni Ribisi Matt Damon Dennis Farina Ted Danson
captain soldier brother enemy parachutist mother dark gritty gripping washington, d.c. france death world war ii invasion rescue honor horrors of war rescue quest 1940s
Following the Normandy Landings, a group of U.S. soldiers go behind enemy lines to retrieve a paratrooper whose brothers have been killed in action.
7.5/10
Drama, War
UK|USA
1961
157 Minutes
Gregory Peck David Niven Anthony Quinn Stanley Baker Anthony Quayle James Darren Irene Papas Gia Scala James Robertson Justice Richard Harris
captain explosives expert resistance fighter security head soldier sister engaging tense brash gripping intense greece boat mountain village island cliff sabotage covert operations mountain climbing
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.
7.9/10
War, Drama, History
USA|Japan
2006
141 Minutes
Ken Watanabe Kazunari Ninomiya Tsuyoshi Ihara Ryô Kase Shido Nakamura Yuki Matsuzaki Hiroshi Watanabe Takumi Bando Nobumasa Sakagami Takashi Yamaguchi Nae
soldier military officer athlete baker intense thrilling island tunnel japan cave showdown world war ii death daunting task invasion survival fall metamorphosis rivalry 1940s
The story of the battle of Iwo Jima between the United States and Imperial Japan during World War II, as told from the perspective of the Japanese who fought it.
6.8/10
War
USA
1942
87 Minutes
Brian Donlevy Robert Preston Macdonald Carey William Bendix Albert Van Dekker Walter Abel Mikhail Rasumny Rod Cameron Bill Goodwin Damian O'Flynn Frank Albertson
marine major lieutenant captain private enemy intense gritty patriotic wake island military base world war ii showdown survival bravery invasion outnumbered quest underdog rivalry
December, 1941. With no hope of relief or re-supply, a small band of United States Marines tries to keep the Japanese Navy from capturing their island base.
5.3/10
Drama, Action, History, War
USA
2016
135 Minutes
Nicolas Cage Tom Sizemore Thomas Jane Matt Lanter Weronika Rosati Cody Walker Brian Presley Emily Tennant Callard Harris Emily Marie Palmer
captain lieutenant admiral childhood friend chief petty officer love interest thrilling tense intense suspenseful brash gripping philippines sea disaster world war ii uss indianapolis military seafaring courage
During World War II, an American navy ship is sunk by a Japanese submarine leaving 890 crewmen stranded in shark infested waters.
7.4/10
Adventure, Drama, Action, War
USA
1957
107 Minutes
nun marines enemy emotional suspenseful island japan cave romance survival friendship escape world war ii rescue transformation love 1940s
During World War II, an American marine and an Irish nun form an unlikely friendship after being stranded on a South Pacific island. They find comfort in one another as the two hope for a rescue.
7.6/10
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.
7.0/10
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.
4.9/10
Drama, History, War
Australia|Singapore
2013
84 Minutes
Khan Chittenden Morning Tzu-Yi Mo Robert Menzies Edwina Wren
fighter pilot guerrilla fighter wife intense suspenseful tense gripping gutsy powerful singapore world war iii evading capture survival unlikely allies unlikely friendship on the run escape quest 1940s
Singapore, February 1942. An Australian fighter pilot is shot down over the jungle and must find his way back to Allied lines, through Japanese-held territory.
7.2/10
Mystery & Thriller, Drama, War
USA|West Germany
1951
119 Minutes
Richard Basehart Gary Merrill Oskar Werner Hildegarde Neff Dominique Blanchar O.E. Hasse Hans Christian Blech Helene Thimig Robert Freitag George Tyne
lieutenant colonel prisoner of war spy soldier brash thrilling tense germany prison camp bavaria espionage gestapo world war ii military intelligence cooperation betrayal sacrifice adventure rise
As the US Army approaches Nazi Germany, they recruit German prisoners to spy behind German lines.
7.1/10
War
USA
1949
110 Minutes
John Wayne John Agar Forrest Tucker Adele Mara Wally Cassell James Brown Richard Webb Arthur Franz Jacqueline Wells James Holden Peter Coe
sergeant marine private corporal woman patriotic gritty intense hawaii pacific ocean iwo jima, japan battlefield apartment world war ii military life war training respect survival sacrifice
Haunted by personal demons, Marine Sgt. John Stryker is hated and feared by his men, who see him as a cold-hearted sadist. But when their boots hit the beaches, they begin to understand the reason for Stryker's rigid form of discipline.
7.2/10
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.
8.3/10
War, Drama
West Germany
1981
150 Minutes
Jürgen Prochnow Herbert Grönemeyer Klaus Wennemann Hubertus Bengsch Martin Semmelrogge Bernd Tauber Erwin Leder Martin May Heinz Hoenig Uwe Ochsenknecht
captain reporter sailor soldier tense somber thrilling submarine underwater germany battle fatigue world war ii disillusionment military quest pursuit 1940s
The claustrophobic world of a WWII German U-boat; boredom, filth and sheer terror.
6.0/10
Drama, War
USA
2004
94 Minutes
William H. Macy Til Schweiger Scott Caan Thomas Kretschmann Lauren Holly Rene Heger Matt Lindquist Jeremy Sisto Ian Somerhalder A.J. Buckley Clark Gregg
german soldier husband captor survivor american soldier wife thrilling gripping intense family home atlantic ocean submarine military life naval warfare perseverance life at sea life during wartime survival escape rescue
When American submarine Swordfish is torpedoed the survivors are picked up by a passing German U-boat but an outbreak of meningitis threatens all aboard.
6.0/10
War, Drama, Action
USA
2017
90 Minutes
Jack Ashton Elliot James Langridge Daniel Betts Rupert Simonian Urs Rechn Andrea Deck Andreas Wisniewski Callum McGowan Barney White Ethan Vincent
bomber pilot prisoner of war british soldier nazi german soldier tense suspenseful gripping dark engaging nazi germany world war ii prisoners of war survival captivity oppression escape pursuit quest rescue
When U.S. B-24 bomber pilot Clair Cline is shot down and captured in northern Germany, one war ends and another begins -- to keep hope alive. Now behind German barbed wire and oppression, ... See full summary »
8.3/10
War, Drama, History
UK|USA
1987
116 Minutes
Matthew Modine Adam Baldwin Vincent D'Onofrio R. Lee Ermey Dorian Harewood Arliss Howard Kevyn Major Howard Ed O'Ross
marine journalist drill instructor sergeant photographer prostitute dark disturbing raw gripping frightening sad barracks parris island, s.c. vietnam city boot camp war zone war violence
A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue.
5.7/10
Drama, War
USA
1967
93 Minutes
James Drury Steve Carlson Jonathan Daly Robert Pine Michael Stanwood John Alladin Hank Jones Tommy Nolan
sergeant recruit commander soldier friend enemy patriotic thrilling tense europe battlefield new mexico bravery world war ii training mission teamwork growing up transformation rescue
In World War II, a tough sergeant is put in charge of a squad of young recruits and assigned to lead them on a mission against the Germans.
5.5/10
War, Action, Drama, History
Yugoslavia|USA|Liechtenstein
1974
90 Minutes
Rod Taylor Adam West Brioni Farrell Peter Carsten Olivera Katarina Velimir `Bata' Zivojinovic Branko Plesa
partisan german officer captain colonel general nazi powerful engaging tense intense dark gutsy yugoslavia world war ii nazism former yugoslavia war heroes battle life during wartime pursuit
Partisans in Yugoslavia clash with the Germans that have invaded their homeland in several confrontations until the climactic battle at Hell River.
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