20 movies like Massacre in Rome, ordered by similarity : The Army of Crime(2009), Anthropoid(2016), Charlotte Gray(2001), One of Our Aircraft Is Missing(1942), The Wooden Horse(1950), The Only Way(1970), The Enemy General(1960), Hell River(1974), Where Eagles Dare(1969), Flame & Citron(2008), Hangmen Also Die(1943), The Ninth Day(2003) ...
War
Italy|France
1973
103 Minutes
Richard Burton Marcello Mastroianni Leo McKern John Steiner Delia Boccardo Renzo Montagnani Timothy Brent Robert Harris
priest nazi colonel partisan roman thrilling gripping rome resistance murder moral dilemma rescue 1940s
Rome, March 23, 1944: 33 German soldiers are killed by a bomb. Lt. Col. Herbert Kappler is ordered to execute ten times that Italians.
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.
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, 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
UK
1942
106 Minutes
Godfrey Tearle Emeric Pressburger Eric Portman Hugh Williams Bernard Miles Hugh Burden Emrys Jones Googie Withers Pamela Brown
pilot co-pilot gunner schoolteacher resistance fighter nazi patriotic thrilling holland countryside farm small town school resistance world war ii nazi occupation air raids plane crash escape 1940s
During a raid on Germany a British bomber crew is forced to bail out after their plane is damaged. They land in Holland and are aided by Dutch civilians.
War
UK
1950
101 Minutes
Leo Genn Anthony Steel David Tomlinson David Greene Peter Burton Michael Goodliffe Anthony Dawson
prisoner of war captain british soldier british officer nazi commandant lieutenant intense tense suspenseful gripping engaging gutsy nazi germany concentration camp survival prisoners of war world war ii nazism tunneling gymnastics
True story of three British POWs and their attempt to escape from Nazi Germany.
War
USA|Denmark|Panama|UK
1970
98 Minutes
Martin Potter Jane Seymour Ove Sprogøe Ebbe Rode Helle Virkner Benny Hansen Bendt Rothe Kjeld Jacobsen
ballet instructor jewish refugee family nazi assistant friend bleak chilling dark disturbing gripping intense denmark nazi occupation survival danish resistance jewish people evacuation world war ii discovery
A Jewish family try to escape from Denmark in October 1943 during the German occupation.
War
USA
1960
74 Minutes
Van Johnson Jean-Pierre Aumont Dany Carrel
government agent war criminal nazi general sergeant resistance fighter tense suspenseful intense engaging thrilling patriotic france ambush secret identity war crimes world war ii counterespionage resistance fighters escape
An American OSS agent and the French underground attempt to rescue a Nazi general, who is awaiting execution by the Germans, and help him escape to London.
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.
War, Adventure, Action
UK|USA
1969
158 Minutes
Richard Burton Clint Eastwood Mary Ure Patrick Wymark Michael Hordern Donald Houston Peter Barkworth Robert Beatty William Squire Derren Nesbitt Anton Diffring
commando soldier spy traitor nazi impostor suspenseful rousing gripping castle alps military base germany world war ii prison break rescue betrayal mission disguise rescue
Allied agents stage a daring raid on a castle where the Nazis are holding American brigadier general George Carnaby prisoner, but that's not all that's really going on.
Mystery & Thriller, War, Drama, History
Denmark|Germany|Norway|France|Sweden|Finland|Czech Republic
2008
132 Minutes
Thure Lindhardt Mads Mikkelsen Stine Stengade Peter Mygind Mille Lehfeldt Christian Berkel Hanns Zischler Claus Riis Østergaard Flemming Enevold Lars Mikkelsen Jesper Christensen
resistance fighter assassin nazi collaborator femme fatale double agent brutal gripping denmark assassination world war ii resistance espionage love interest loyalty revenge mystery wretched excess 1940s
A drama centered on two fighters in the Holger Danske World War II resistance group.
War
USA
1943
131 Minutes
Brian Donlevy Walter Brennan Anna Lee Gene Lockhart Dennis O'Keefe Alexander Granach Margaret Wycherly Nana Bryant William Roy Hans Heinrich von Twardowski Tonio Selwart
rebel nazi professor traitor suspenseful gripping patriotic rousing czechoslovakia city prague nazism rebellion assassination political intrigue world war ii escape rescue 1940s
After the Nazi administrator of Czechoslovakia is shot, his assassin tries to elude the Gestapo and struggles with his impulse to give himself up as hostages are executed.
Drama, War
Germany|Luxembourg|Czech Republic
2003
97 Minutes
Ulrich Matthes August Diehl Germain Wagner Bibiana Beglau Jean-Paul Raths Ivan Jirik Karel Hromadka Adolf Filip Vladimir Fiser Peter Varga Petr Janis
catholic priest inmate dissident ss officer bishop brother somber disturbing gripping powerful dachau concentration camp luxembourg difficult decision nazis world war ii moral dilemma holocaust repression temptation sacrifice
A drama loosely based on Jean Bernard's Nazi-era prison diary.
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 »
War
USA
1942
91 Minutes
Michèle Morgan Paul Henreid Thomas Mitchell Laird Cregar May Robson Alan Ladd Jack Briggs Richard Fraser Alexander Granach Paul Weigel John Abbott
pilot love interest priest nazi emotional suspenseful paris france fugitives world war ii romance survival resistance love pursuit sacrifice 1940s
An RAF squadron is brought down over occupied France. The flyers get to Paris in spite of the fact that the youngest, Baby, is injured. He must be hidden and his wounds cared for. The Gestapo has already issued orders for their arrest.
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.
Action, War
2003
90 Minutes
Corbin Allred Larry Bagby III Kirby Heyborne Alexander Polinsky Lincoln Hoppe Peter Holden Ruby Chase O'Neil Ben Gourley
sniper intelligence officer sergeant medic corporal private bleak frenetic gutsy powerful belgium battlefield field world war ii behind enemy lines nazis chase murder moral dilemma rescue
A Mormon sniper (Corbin Allred) and an atheist medic clash as their platoon struggles to survive behind Nazi lines.
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.
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 »
War
Italy|Spain|West Germany
1969
94 Minutes
Jack Palance Curt Jurgens Diana Lorys Thomas Hunter Robert Hundar Wolfgang Preiss Helmut Schneider Guido Lollobrigida
commando colonel army recruit nazi enemy teamwork thrilling suspenseful gripping intense powerful war zone ship sea underwater minefield front lines secret mission world war ii explosion
Irish Colonel Charlie McPhearson has just had his platoon of twenty-eight slaughtered by German troops. Angered at his superiors for this suicide mission, he takes convicts on his next, ... See full summary »
War, Action
1978
93 Minutes
Bo Svenson Fred Williamson Ian Bannen Peter Hooten Jackie Basehart Michel Constantin Debra Berger Raimund Harmstorf Michael Pergolani
soldier deserter thief assassin prisoner lieutenant intense confident gutsy thrilling dark patriotic france world war ii prison break dangerous mission captivity nazism friendship adventure
Two officers (Bo Svenson, Ian Bannen) lead military misfits on a mission to steal a Nazi V-2 rocket gyroscope.