20 movies like Mosquito Squadron, ordered by similarity : The Army of Crime(2009), Fury(2014), The Heroes of Telemark(1965), Army in the Shadows(1969), Charlotte Gray(2001), The Longest Day(1962), Darkest Hour(2017), The Flemish Farm(1943), Unbroken(2014), The Second Lieutenant(1993), Canopy(2013), Midway(2019) ...
Drama, War
UK|USA
1969
90 Minutes
David McCallum Suzanne Neve David Buck David Dundas Dinsdale Landen Charles Gray Michael Anthony Vladek Sheybal Gordon Stone Robert Urquhart Bryan Marshall
fighter squadron leader wife brother nazi priest patriotic fiery melodramatic brooding england france air force base chateau world war ii air force french resistance friendship loyalty missing persons
In WW2, a RAF squadron leader mourns the death of a comrade and receives a bombing mission against a secret Nazi V-2 rocket testing facility in France.
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.
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.
Drama, War
UK
1965
131 Minutes
Kirk Douglas Richard Harris Ulla Jacobsson Michael Redgrave Mervyn Johns Eric Porter
resistance fighter physicist ex-wife uncle british intelligence agent nazi thrilling suspenseful patriotic telemark, norway factory mountain ski slopes river england world war ii resistance fighters atomic bomb secret mission race against time
Norwegian resistance tries to stop German efforts to produce an atomic bomb component during World War II.
War, Drama, History
France|Italy
1969
140 Minutes
Lino Ventura Paul Meurisse Jean-Pierre Cassel Paul Crauchet Claude Mann Christian Barbier Simone Signoret Serge Reggiani Alain Libolt
engineer rebel traitor nazi intense gritty passionate paris marseilles, france london france submarine prison french resistance world war ii prisoners of war nazism underdog sacrifice 1940s
An account of underground resistance fighters in Nazi-occupied France.
Drama, Romance, War
UK|Australia|Germany
2001
121 Minutes
Cate Blanchett Billy Crudup Michael Gambon Rupert Penry-Jones Anton Lesser James Fleet Ron Cook Jack Shepherd Nicholas Farrell Helen McCrory Abigail Cruttenden
scottish person resistance fighter lover pilot communist nazi intense passionate patriotic thrilling england london france village countryside train station world war ii occupation politics french resistance
A young Scottish woman joins the French Resistance during World War II to rescue her Royal Air Force boyfriend who is lost in France.
War, Drama, History
USA
1962
180 Minutes
Andrew Marton John Wayne Robert Mitchum Henry Fonda Rod Steiger Robert Ryan Peter Lawford Richard Burton Richard Beymer Jeffrey Hunter
soldiers sailor general parachutist powerful rousing patriotic spectacular france germany england world war ii adolf hitler armed conflict d-day quest sacrifice rivalry 1940s
The events of D-Day, told on a grand scale from both the Allied and German points of view.
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
1943
82 Minutes
Clive Brook Jane Baxter Clifford Evans Philip Friend Brefni O'Rorke Wylie Watson
pilot nurse nazi squadron leader child intense melodramatic gory patriotic suspenseful france belgium england air force base world war ii nazis survival false identity pursuit rescue
Wartime commando story based on fact. Allied airman risks return (on the ground) to occupied Belgium for the honour of his regiment.
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.
Drama, War
China|Hong Kong
1993
102 Minutes
Espen Skjonberg Lars Andreas Larssen Gard Eidsvold Bjørn Sundquist Morten Faldaas Ove Christian Owe
sea captain wife lieutenant resistance fighter retiree colonel frenetic thrilling patriotic emotional norway coast family home countryside front lines telemark, norway world war ii norwegian resistance unlikely hero vigilantism
A pregnant peasant woman seeks redress from the Chinese bureaucracy after the village chief kicks her husband in the groin in this comedy of justice. As she is frustrated by each level of ... See full summary »
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.
War, Drama, History
USA|Canada
2019
138 Minutes
Ed Skrein Patrick Wilson Luke Evans Woody Harrelson Dennis Quaid Mandy Moore Aaron Eckhart Nick Jonas Darren Criss Tadanobu Asano Geoffrey Blake
navy pilot fighter pilot japanese soldier american soldier wife naval officer brooding gripping emotional passionate patriotic spectacular naval base pacific ocean transport ship military base war zone ship world war ii battle of midway
The story of the Battle of Midway, told by the leaders and the sailors who fought it.
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.
Romance, War, Drama
1943
163 Minutes
Emeric Pressburger Roger Livesey Deborah Kerr Anton Walbrook John Laurie James McKechnie Neville Mapp
soldier major general teacher nurse nazi gripping melodramatic witty england pow camp south africa germany love friendship war aging military love transformation sacrifice
A Boer War subaltern (Roger Livesey) becomes a World War II colonel, with three lovers (Deborah Kerr) along the way.
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.
War, Drama
USA
1949
132 Minutes
Gregory Peck Dean Jagger Gary Merrill Hugh Marlowe Millard Mitchell Bob Arthur Paul Stewart John Kellogg Robert Patten Lee MacGregor
pilot military officer soldier patriotic thrilling emotional england military base airplane horrors of war world war ii air raids aviation quest sacrifice 1940s
A hard-as-nails general takes over a bomber unit suffering from low morale and whips them into fighting shape.
Drama, War
France|Tunisia
2008
100 Minutes
Lizzie Brocheré Olympe Borval Najib Oudghiri Simon Abkarian Karin Albou
teen girl jew muslim doctor fiancé nazi endearing melodramatic powerful sultry tunis, tunisia school household north africa street bedroom religious differences world war ii nazi occupation arranged marriage
The Nazi occupation of Tunisia strains the bonds of friendship between a Muslim woman and a Sephardic Jewish woman who are both preparing for their marriages.
War, Drama, History
1927
139 Minutes
Clara Bow Charles Rogers Richard Arlen Jobyna Ralston Gary Cooper El Brendel Arlette Marchal Richard Tucker Julia Swayne Gordon Henry B. Walthall George Irving
pilot cadet friend love interest volunteer military officer rousing suspenseful emotional paris small town air force base airplane world war i friendly fire friendship patriotism duty horrors of war adventure
Two World War I pilots (Charles "Buddy" Rogers, Richard Arlen) woo a young woman (Clara Bow) and fight the Germans.
Romance, Adventure, Drama, History, War
USA
1992
114 Minutes
Daniel Day-Lewis Madeleine Stowe Russell Means Eric Schweig Jodhi May Steven Waddington Wes Studi Maurice Roeves Patrice Chéreau
sister frontiersman colonel native american traitor brother thrilling powerful melodramatic new york state fort wilderness waterfall indian village adirondack mountains brotherhood changing times loyalty cross-cultural romance abduction
Three trappers protect the daughters of a British Colonel in the midst of the French and Indian War.
War, Drama, History
Australia|USA
2014
112 Minutes
Russell Crowe Olga Kurylenko Yilmaz Erdogan Cem Yilmaz Jai Courtney Dylan Georgiades Steve Bastoni Isabel Lucas Salih Kalyon Megan Gale Ryan Corr
farmer son soldier hotel owner friend wife brooding chilling intense australia turkey hotel street restaurant cemetery war loss father/son relationship search water
An Australian man travels to Turkey after the Battle of Gallipoli to try and locate his three missing sons.