20 movies like PT 109, ordered by similarity : Sobibor(2018), The Story of Dr. Wassell(1944), Adrift(2018), Loving(2016), The Finest Hours(2016), Hacksaw Ridge(2016), Darkest Hour(2017), Neerja(2016), The Cruel Sea(1953), Resistance(2020), Papillon(2017), Unbroken(2014) ...
6.6/10
Biography
USA
1963
140 Minutes
Cliff Robertson Ty Hardin James Gregory Robert Culp Grant Williams Lew Gallo Errol John Michael Pate Robert Blake Biff Elliot Norman Fell
ensign sailor officer native coastwatcher lieutenant intense thrilling solomon islands ocean boat world war ii survival courage shipwreck john f. kennedy quest rescue 1940s
President John F. Kennedy kept a unique inauguration gift on his desk: a plastic-encased coconut. The tale of that coconut is the heroic story of PT 109.
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.
6.7/10
Biography
USA
1944
140 Minutes
Gary Cooper Laraine Day Signe Hasso Dennis O'Keefe Carol Thurston Carl Esmond Paul Kelly Elliott Reid Stanley Ridges Renny McEvoy Oliver Thorndike
doctor naval officer japanese soldier lieutenant sailor nurse brutal uplifting tense patriotic east indies jungle ship world war ii heroism navy disillusionment horrors of war corydon m. wassell escape
When the U.S. forces withdraw from Java, ahead of the Japanese invasion, U.S. Navy doctor Corydon M. Wassell coordinates the remaining wounded servicemen and leads them to safety towards the last Allied evacuation points.
6.6/10
Romance, Adventure, Drama
Hong Kong|Iceland|USA
2018
120 Minutes
Shailene Woodley Sam Claflin Jeffrey Thomas Elizabeth Hawthorne Grace Palmer Marisiale Tunoka Kael Damlamian Neil Andrea Apakuki Nalawa Tim Solomon
sailor husband wife shipwreck survivor shipmate couple thrilling gripping frightening emotional incredible suspenseful boat ocean sea shipwreck ship pacific ocean shipwreck survival
A true story of survival, as a young couple's chance encounter leads them first to love, and then on the adventure of a lifetime as they face one of the most catastrophic hurricanes in recorded history.
7.0/10
Biography, Drama, History
UK|USA
2016
123 Minutes
Joel Edgerton Ruth Negga Marton Csokas Nick Kroll Terri Abney Alano Miller Jon Bass Michael Shannon Chris Greene Sharon Blackwood
black woman white man husband wife police officer supreme court justice brooding emotional intense virginia washington, d.c. house prison office courtroom interracial relationship racism bullying courage justice
The story of Richard and Mildred Loving, a couple whose arrest for interracial marriage in 1960s Virginia began a legal battle that would end with the Supreme Court's historic 1967 decision.
6.8/10
Adventure, Drama, History, Action, Mystery & Thriller
USA
2016
116 Minutes
Chris Pine Casey Affleck Ben Foster Holliday Grainger John Ortiz Kyle Gallner John Magaro Beau Knapp Eric Bana Graham McTavish Abraham Benrubi
sailor engineer coast guard officer survivor crew member rescue worker brooding emotional intense boat ocean massachusetts office car street storm wreckage danger survival coast guard
The Coast Guard makes a daring rescue attempt off the coast of Cape Cod after a pair of oil tankers are destroyed during a blizzard in 1952.
8.1/10
War, Biography, Drama, History
Australia|USA
2016
139 Minutes
Andrew Garfield Sam Worthington Luke Bracey Teresa Palmer Hugo Weaving Rachel Griffiths Vince Vaughn Richard Roxburgh Luke Pegler Richard Pyros Firass Dirani
private conscientious objector soldier commander enemy president confident emotional uplifting tense moving raw okinawa, japan airplane ship bunker white house car conscience world war ii
World War II American Army Medic Desmond T. Doss, who served during the Battle of Okinawa, refuses to kill people, and becomes the first man in American history to receive the Medal of Honor without firing a shot.
7.4/10
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.
7.7/10
Biography, Drama
India
2016
122 Minutes
Sonam Kapoor Shabana Azmi Yogendra Tikku Shekhar Ravjiani Sadh Orhan Abrar Zahoor
young woman mother father terrorist passenger gripping thrilling intense powerful inspiring india city house airplane bedroom cockpit chasing dreams ambition abusive marriage hijacking
Neerja is the story of the courageous Neerja Bhanot, who sacrificed her life while protecting the lives of 359 passengers on the Pan Am flight 73 in 1986. The flight was hijacked by a terrorist organization.
7.5/10
War
UK
1953
126 Minutes
Jack Hawkins Donald Sinden Denholm Elliott John Stratton John Warner Bruce Seton Liam Redmond Virginia McKenna Moira Lister June Thorburn Megs Jenkins
captain lieutenant sailor tense bleak patriotic atlantic ocean boat dangerous assignment world war ii battle of the atlantic sailors quest sacrifice rescue 1940s
The World War II adventures of a British convoy escort ship and its officers.
6.3/10
Biography, Drama, History
UK|France|Germany|USA
2020
120 Minutes
Jesse Eisenberg Ed Harris Edgar Ramírez Clémence Poésy Matthias Schweighöfer Félix Moati Géza Röhrig Karl Markovics Bella Ramsey Alicia von Rittberg
resistance fighter resistance leader child jewish child jewish man nazi bleak brooding engaging gutsy heartwarming intense moving quirky sad suspenseful tense thrilling touching france
The story of mime Marcel Marceau as he works with a group of Jewish boy scouts and the French Resistance to save the lives of ten thousand orphans during World War II.
7.2/10
Adventure, History, Biography, Drama
USA|Czech Republic|Spain
2017
133 Minutes
Charlie Hunnam Rami Malek Roland Møller Nina Senicar Tommy J. Flanagan Eve Hewson Christopher Fairbank Brian Vernel
convict innocent man prison guard prisoner escape artist friend tense bleak thrilling suspenseful incredible intricate prison island prison cell paris french guiana apartment prison prison break
Wrongfully convicted for murder, Henri Charriere forms an unlikely relationship with fellow inmate and quirky convicted counterfeiter Louis Dega, in an attempt to escape from the notorious penal colony on Devil's Island.
7.2/10
Drama, War, History, Biography
USA
2014
137 Minutes
Jack O'Connell Domhnall Gleeson Garrett Hedlund Miyavi Finn Wittrock Jai Courtney Maddalena Ischiale Vincenzo Amato John Magaro Luke Treadaway Louis McIntosh
athlete olympic athlete crew member air force pilot prisoner of war prison guard uplifting patriotic inspiring japan pacific ocean air force base prison camp berlin world war ii prisoners of war olympic games survival air force airplane crash
After a near-fatal plane crash in WWII, Olympian Louis Zamperini spends a harrowing 47 days in a raft with two fellow crewmen before he's caught by the Japanese navy and sent to a prisoner-of-war camp.
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.
6.9/10
Mystery & Thriller, Adventure, Drama
USA
2013
105 Minutes
sailor dark intense raw thrilling indian ocean boat survival shipwreck sailing danger storm adventure rescue quest 2010s
After a collision with a shipping container at sea, a resourceful sailor finds himself, despite all efforts to the contrary, staring his mortality in the face.
7.6/10
Drama
USA
1944
96 Minutes
Tallulah Bankhead William Bendix Walter Slezak Mary Anderson John Hodiak Henry Hull Heather Angel Hume Cronyn Canada Lee William Yetter Jr.
survivor nazi civilian military officer emotional tense atlantic ocean boat world war ii survival deception confinement rescue quest 1940s
Several survivors of a torpedoed merchant ship in World War II find themselves in the same lifeboat with one of the crew members of the U-boat that sank their ship.
7.3/10
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
USA
1995
115 Minutes
Denzel Washington Gene Hackman George Dzundza Viggo Mortensen James Gandolfini Matt Craven Lillo Brancato Jr. Rocky Carroll Danny Nucci Steve Zahn Rick Schroder
captain lieutenant commander officer sailor executive officer submarine officer tense thrilling gripping submarine russia washington, d.c. command center government offices nuclear weapons seafaring mutiny leadership war anger
On a U.S. nuclear missile sub, a young First Officer stages a mutiny to prevent his trigger happy Captain from launching his missiles before confirming his orders to do so.
7.2/10
War, Biography
UK
1957
123 Minutes
Kenneth More Muriel Pavlow Lyndon Brook Alexander Knox Sydney Tafler Nigel Green Dorothy Alison
fighter pilot squadron leader thrilling suspenseful spectacular spirited patriotic inspiring frenetic plane united kingdom office world war ii biography flying career battle of britain underdog rise rivalry
Biopic of RAF Group Captain Douglas Bader who, after having lost both legs, flew a British fighter plane during WW2.
7.0/10
Biography
UK
1942
117 Minutes
Leslie Howard David Niven Rosamund John Roland Culver Anne Firth David Horne J.H. Roberts Derrick de Marney Bernard Miles Patricia Medina George Skillan
inventor pilot wife daughter nurse military officer inspiring melodramatic germany england airplane engineering aviation nazism world war ii terminal illness discovery quest sacrifice 1940s
Aircraft designer/patriot R. J. Mitchell, alarmed at growing German militarism, works to perfect a defense against the German Messerschmidt at the cost of his health.
7.1/10
Biography
Denmark|Sweden|Norway|Germany
1996
158 Minutes
Max von Sydow Ghita Nørby Anette Hoff Gard Eidsvold Eindride Eidsvold Asa Soderling Sverre Anker Ousdal Erik Hivju Edgar Selge Ernst Jacobi Svein Erik Brodal
writer wife doctor adolf hitler intense melodramatic norway germany household knut hamsun nazism treason world war ii politics marriage fall transformation 1940s
Norwegian Nobel Laureate Knut Hamsun's controversial support for the Nazi regime during WW2 and its consequences for the Hamsun family after the war.
7.3/10
Biography
USA
1958
158 Minutes
Ingrid Bergman Curt Jurgens Robert Donat Ronald Squire Athene Seyler Richard Wattis Noel Hood Joan Young
innkeeper military officer love interest mandarin spirited emotional china small town mountain england inn daunting task romance culture clash war rescue escape love 1930s
A tenacious British woman becomes a missionary and runs an inn for travelling merchants in China during the Japanese invasion and the tumultuous years leading up to the Second World War.
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