Movies like Operation: Daybreak
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Operation: Daybreak (1975)
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Czechoslovakia, 1942. Three brave Czech patriots risk everything to rid their country of its brutal Nazi leader, SS-General Reinhard Heydrich.
Style:
bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Plot:
world war two, czech history, spy, espionage, holocaust, nazi, secret mission, nazi germany, wartime, luftwaffe, man on a mission, soldier, assassination, betrayal, traitor, double suicide, nazi occupation, war, village, heroes, military, politics, battles, undercover, secret agents ...
Time:
1940s, year 1941, year 1942, 40s
Place:
prague, europe, czech republic, england, czechoslovakia, central europe, prague czechoslovakia
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Most similar movies to Operation: Daybreak
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, suspenseful and captivating films with plots about world war two, war, nazi, military, wartime life, danger and heroes mostly in Drama, War and History genres. Some movies like Operation: Daybreak: The Butcher of Prague (2011), The Assassination (1965), Ike: Countdown to D-Day (2004), The Counterfeit Traitor (1962), Anthropoid (2016). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
With the Nazi takeover of Europe underway, the Reich Protector Reinhard Heydrich arrives in Prague and his underlings begin enforcing his authority in the towns and villages across the occupied country. In Lidice, the film's main protagonist, ...
Style:
realistic, disturbing, serious, emotional, bleak
Plot:
nazi occupation, world war two, mass murder, holocaust, political repression, life is a bitch, wartime life, heroic mission, social relations, against humanity, war, genocide ...
Time:
1940s, year 1942, 20th century
Place:
czechoslovakia, czech republic, prague
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
The assassination of Heydrich in Prague during WWII.
Plot:
world war two, man on a mission, czech history, hiding place, soldier, betrayal, train, riding a bicycle, friendship between men, horse riding, secret, false identity ...
Time:
1940s, year 1941, year 1942
Place:
central europe, czechoslovakia, berlin germany, prague
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
This is the story of the senior-level preparations for the D-Day invasion on June 6, 1944 from the time of Dwight D. Eisenhower's appointment as the Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, to the establishment of the beachhead in Normandy. The film ...
Style:
tense, serious, rough, captivating, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
world war two, war, d day, against the odds, human spirit, battles, leadership, soldier, idealism, heroes, heroic mission, basic training ...
Time:
post world war two
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
Blacklisted in modern day WW2, a Swedish oil trader opts to assist British Allies, by means of infiltrating and surveying Nazi Germany.
Style:
realistic, serious, tense, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
world war two, spy, espionage, dominatrix, politics, youth, nazi, nazi germany, life is a bitch, dishonesty, forgery, betrayal ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, year 1942
Place:
sweden, germany, europe, berlin germany, stockholm sweden ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, History, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: Czech Republic, UK, USA, France
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
In December 1941, Czech soldier Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš parachute into their occupied homeland to assassinate Nazi officer Reinhard Heydrich
Style:
factual, realistic, clever, emotional, dramatic ...
Plot:
nazi, world war two, assassination, nazi occupation, gestapo, conspiracy, torture, third reich, friendship between men, suspicion, repression, war ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, year 1938, year 1942
Place:
germany, prague, berlin germany, england, israel ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
During World War II in the freezing Netherlands winter of 1944/1945 the western Netherlands are in the grip of a famine. Many people move east to provide for their families. Fourteen year old Michiel can't wait to join the Dutch resistance, to ...
Style:
tense, exciting, serious, realistic, captivating ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
world war two, coming of age, resistance movement, wartime life, war, winter, occupation, execution, nazism, nazi, resistance, nazi occupation ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, post world war two
Place:
germany, netherlands, europe, holland
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: UK
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
Set in German-occupied Norway, this is based on the efforts of the Norwegian resistance to sabotage German development of the atomic bomb. Resistance fighter Knut Straud enlists the reluctant physicist Rolf Pedersen in an effort to destroy the ...
Style:
serious, exciting, bleak, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
world war two, winter, military, sabotage, nazi, spy, mountain, espionage, tank, commando, resistance fighter, mission ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
norway, europe, england, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 149 min.
Story:
Based on actual events. Late 1941, Group Silver A are dropped into occupied Czechoslovakia on an SOE mission to set up a Radio communications centre for the resistance, and contact a German Army officer whom is forwarding information to the British.
Style:
compassionate, suspenseful, disturbing, sentimental
Plot:
world war two, conspiracy, german occupation, fight, agent, fever, torture, illness, arrest, secret mission, traitor, mass murder ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1941, year 1942
Place:
prague, czechoslovakia, central europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
During the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam, Otto Frank decides to hide his family, who are Jewish, after his daughter Margot is called to appear for transport to a Nazi labour camp. Miep Gies, Otto Frank's office assistant hides them in the attic ...
Style:
thought provoking, realistic, serious, disturbing, bleak
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, nazi, jewish, anti semitism, injustice, war, on the run, confined, survival, society, human spirit ...
Time:
1930s, 1940s, 20th century
Place:
amsterdam, holland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
In the Nazi occupied city of Rome, an assault on an SS brigade draws retaliation from the military governship. "Massacre in Rome" is the true story of how this partisan attack led to the mass execution of Italian nationals under the orders ...
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, thought provoking, bleak ...
Plot:
world war two, military, war, partisan, nazi occupation, holocaust, fictional history, bureaucracy, nazi, soldier, against humanity, society ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
italy, rome italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Movies similar to Downfall
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 175 min.
Story:
A Bridge Too Far tells the story of Operation Market Garden, the failed attempt by the allies to end the war quickly by securing three bridges in Holland and allowing access over the Rhine into Germany. A combination of poor allied intelligence and ...
Style:
epic, realistic, intense, serious, rough ...
Audience:
manly
Plot:
war, world war two, behind enemy lines, tank, military, army, courage, allies, nazi, soldier, paratrooper, u.s. army ...
Time:
1940s, year 1944, 70s, 20th century
Place:
germany, poland, england, berlin germany, netherlands ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: France
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
This gripping historical drama recounts the story of Armenian-born Missak Manouchian, a woodworker and political activist who led an immigrant laborer division of the Parisian Resistance on 30 operations against the Nazis in 1943. The Nazis branded ...
Style:
rough, serious, realistic, disturbing, sincere ...
Plot:
world war two, resistance, gestapo, rebelliousness, heroes, human spirit, rebellion, hopes, war, idealism, life is a bitch, youth ...
Time:
1940s, post world war two, 20th century, year 1942
Place:
paris france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
When Norwegian resistance leader Lieutenant Erik Bergman reports the location of a German V-2 rocket fuel plant, the Royal Air Force's 633 Squadron is assigned the mission to destroy it. The plant is in a seemingly-impregnable location beneath ...
Style:
serious, realistic, exciting, suspenseful, sincere
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
world war two, fighter pilot, battles, air raid, against the odds, hopes, military, war, save the day, crash landing, behind enemy lines, fishing ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1944
Place:
norway, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: France, USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
Dramatization depicting the events surrounding Adolf Hitler's last weeks in and around his underground bunker in Berlin before and during the battle for the city.
Style:
realistic, bleak, serious, psychological, disturbing ...
Plot:
world war two, hitler, nazi germany, against humanity, nazi, suicide, confined, state affairs, downfall, life is a bitch, confinement indoors, wartime life ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, year 1945
Place:
germany, berlin germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 148 min.
Story:
May 1944, a group of French servicewomen and resistance fighters are enlisted into the British Special Operations Executive commando group under the command of Louise Desfontaines and her brother Pierre. Their mission, to rescue a British army ...
Style:
realistic, serious, tense, bleak, captivating ...
Plot:
world war two, french resistance, resistance, wartime life, female agent, rescue, spy, betrayal, heroic mission, d day, hospital, espionage ...
Time:
1940s, post world war two, year 1945, year 1944
Place:
paris france, france, london, england, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Denmark
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
In the early morning of April 9th 1940 the Danish army is alerted. The Germans have crossed the border; Denmark is at war against Europe's strongest army. In Southern Jutland Danish bicycle- and motorcycle companies are ordered out, to against ...
Style:
captivating, serious, realistic, tense, suspenseful
Plot:
world war two, nazi occupation, war, military, soldier, battles, against the odds, wehrmacht, friendship, suspense, judaism, nazi ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, year 1940
Place:
denmark, germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA, UK, Italy
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
Fr. Hugh O'Flaherty is a Vatican official in 1943-45 who has been hiding downed pilots, escaped prisoners of war, and Italian resistance families. His diplomatic status in a Catholic country prevents Colonel Kappler from openly arresting him, ...
Style:
realistic, factual, tense, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
world war two, nazi, soldier, catholic, fighting the system, human spirit, clergy, military, uninhibited rivalry, hopes, politics, survival ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, 1940s
Place:
vatican, europe, rome italy, germany, california ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: Yugoslavia, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A historical recreation of the 1944 attempt by several German High Command Officers to assassinate Adolf Hitler and take control of the German government.
Style:
exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot:
world war two, nazi, battles, conspiracy, heroes, incompetence, wounded man, wehrmacht, political unrest, wartime life, battle zone, assassination attempt ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
germany, europe, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Finland
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
A movie based on real wartime diaries tells the story of the Swedish speaking Finns' infantry regiment 61. The story follows the regiment during the Continuation War from 1942 to 1944 and from Syväri to the Karelian Isthmus where they faced ...
Style:
captivating, serious, realistic, tense
Plot:
world war two, military, soldier, wartime life, politics, heroic mission, against humanity, chaos and mayhem, battles, state affairs, war, russo finnish war ...
Time:
post world war two, 1940s, 20th century, year 1944, year 1942 ...
Place:
finland, europe, russia, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: UK
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
During WWII, the death camp at Treblinka had an escape, causing the Commandant at a similar camp in Sobibor to vow (actually threaten) that his camp would never experience the same thing. But those who were its captives, the Jewish laborers that had ...
Style:
tense, realistic, rough, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot:
concentration camp, world war two, holocaust, pow, escape, war, against humanity, genocide, military, captivity, prison, brutality ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
poland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Movies like A Bridge Too Far
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Genre: Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: USA, Germany, Italy, Spain, France, Japan, UK
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Wounded in Africa during World War II, Nazi Col. Claus von Stauffenberg returns to his native Germany and joins the Resistance in a daring plan to create a shadow government and assassinate Adolf Hitler. When events unfold so that he becomes a ...
Style:
factual, tense, bad ending, suspenseful, captivating ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
world war two, nazi, war, nazism, hitler, conspiracy, nazi germany, suspense, resistance, politics, german soldier, wehrmacht ...
Time:
1940s, year 1944, post world war two, year 1943, 20th century
Place:
germany, berlin germany, africa, poland, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: France, USA
Duration: 175 min.
Story:
The title is Adolf Hitler's question to his chief of staff Alfred Jodl on the eve of the liberation of Paris (August 25): the military governor of Paris, General Dietrich von Choltitz, had been ordered to destroy Paris rather than let it fall ...
Style:
harsh, factual, tense, emotional, serious ...
Plot:
world war two, french resistance, holocaust, war, resistance, moral ambiguity, suspense, moral dilemma, totalitarianism, rescue, wartime life, against the odds ...
Time:
1940s, year 1944
Place:
france, paris france, europe, germany, warsaw poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Germany, Netherlands
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Im Kölner Stadtteil Ehrenfeld lebt eine Gruppe von Arbeiterkindern kurz vor Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs ihren ganz eigenen Alltag. Die selbsternannten „Edelweißpiraten“ träumen von einer gerechten Welt und sehnen sich nach der unbeschwerten ...
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, captivating, tense, serious ...
Plot:
resistance, nazi germany, wartime life, world war two, rebellion, human spirit, young heroes, confined, against humanity, idealism, life is a bitch, rebelliousness ...
Time:
1940s, post world war two, year 1944, 20th century
Place:
germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Norway, Denmark, UK, Czech Republic, Sweden
Duration: 45 min.
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Story:
The story about the heavy water war unfolds during the prolouge, eruption and the end of the second world war. We follow the story of the the key personnel in the race of who develops the atomic bomb first.
Style:
serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, tense
Plot:
world war two, bomb, resistance, ambition, inventions and discoveries, heroic mission, soldier, military, moral dilemma, nazi, chemistry, atomic bomb ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, 1930s
Place:
norway, europe, germany, england, scotland
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Germany, Austria, Italy
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
In 1944, a group of high command officers plot an attempt against Hitler, and one of the leaders of the conspiracy, Stauffenberg (Sebastian Koch), goes to a meeting with the Fuhrer in charge of exploding the place. However, Hitler survives and the ...
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating
Plot:
world war two, hitler, national socialism, plan gone wrong, nazi, conspiracy, wartime life, leadership, rebellion, military, against humanity, rebelliousness ...
Time:
post world war two, 1940s, 20th century
Place:
germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Films like Defiance
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Based on a true story its the untold story of Italian World War II POW"S in Jan 1946. Luca Zingaretti stars as one of over 50,000 Italian Prisoners of War detained at POW camps in the U.S. Roy Schneider stars as Colonel Gartner, the Commander ...
Style:
disturbing, realistic, rough, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot:
fascism, world war two, military, military life, genocide, isolation, prison life, wartime life, captivity, confined, society, prison ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
usa, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Yugoslavia, Italy, West Germany, USA, France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
In January 1943 the German army, afraid of an Allied invasion of the Balkans, launched a great offensive against Yugoslav Partisans in Western Bosnia. The only way out for the Partisan forces and thousands of refugees was the bridge on the river ...
Style:
epic, exciting, captivating, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
world war two, partisan, battles, military, war, tank, judaism, river battle, wartime life, battle zone, against the odds, rivalry ...
Time:
1940s, year 1943
Place:
former yugoslavia, europe, bosnia
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA, Argentina
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Set in 1960, the story follows the efforts of the Mossad, the Israeli Secret Service, to find former SS Colonel Adolf Eichmann, who ran from Germany to Argentina and took the name Ricardo Clement. He was wanted for the murders of both Europeans and ...
Style:
political, serious, realistic, exciting, suspenseful
Plot:
world war two, war, holocaust, jewish, nazi, terrorism, military, judaism, dancing, manhunt, nazi hunter, righting the wronged ...
Time:
60s
Place:
argentina, latin america, buenos aires argentina
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
The night of August 24, 1944. The fate of Paris is in the hands of General von Choltitz, governor of Grand Paris, who is preparing, on Hitler’s orders, to blow up the French capital. The descendent of a long line of Prussian military men, the ...
Style:
realistic, captivating, serious, talky, political
Plot:
world war two, diplomacy, soldier, wartime life, french resistance, sabotage, obedience, german occupation, disobey, race against time, death, demolished city ...
Time:
1940s, year 1944, 20th century
Place:
paris france, germany, france, sweden, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History, War
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Based on the true story of the greatest treasure hunt in history, The Monuments Men is an action drama focusing on seven over-the-hill, out-of-shape museum directors, artists, architects, curators, and art historians who went to the front lines of ...
Style:
exciting, intense, suspenseful, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
world war two, war, art, art theft, nazi germany, nazism, military, painting, stolen gold, redemption, architect, suspense ...
Time:
1940s, post world war two, year 1945, year 1977, year 1943 ...
Place:
poland, paris france, france, europe, germany ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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