Movies like The Man with the Iron Heart

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The Man with the Iron Heart (2017)
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The Man with the Iron Heart (2017)
Genre: Action, Biography, Thriller, War
Country: France, Belgium, UK, USA, Germany, Hungary
Duration: 120 min.
Story: With the Third Reich is at his peak in 1942, the Czech resistance in London plans the most ambitious military operation of WWII – Anthropoid. Two young recruits are sent to Prague to assassinate the most ruthless Nazi leader – Reinhardt Heydrich – head of the SS, the Gestapo and the architect of the Final Solution.
Style: captivating, bloody, tense, suspense, suspenseful
Plot: assassination, world war two, nazism, resistance, nazi, paratrooper, ss, holocaust, czech history, naval officer, european history, fascist, wartime, assassin, church, shooting, genocide, suicide, ballroom dancing, world war, shoah, battles, combat, fight, anger ...
Time: year 1941, 1940s, year 1942, year 1939, year 1929, year 2017, 1930s ...
Place: central europe, prague, germany, europe, prague czechoslovakia, prague czech republic

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Most similar movies to The Man with the Iron Heart

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out tense, realistic, serious and suspense films with plots about nazi, world war two, world war, nazi uniform, war, military and wartime mostly in War, Drama and Thriller genres. Some movies like The Man with the Iron Heart: Black Book (2006), Anthropoid (2016), The Assassination (1964), Valkyrie (2008), Fury (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Black Book (2006)
Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: Netherlands, Germany, UK, Belgium
Duration: 145 min.
Story: In the Nazi-occupied Netherlands during World War II, a Jewish singer infiltrates the regional Gestapo headquarters for the Dutch resistance.
Style: erotic, psychological, tense, sexy, dramatic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: holocaust, world war two, espionage, nazi, spy, nazism, resistance, female spy, occupation, gestapo, german soldier, war ...
Time: 1940s, year 1956, 1950s, year 2006, 20th century ...
Place: netherlands, israel, holland, germany, belgium ...
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 7.2
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Anthropoid (2016)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: UK, France, USA, Czech Republic
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: emotional, factual, visually stunning, slasher, social ...
Plot: world war two, nazi, conspiracy, gestapo, murderer, assassination, betrayal, nazi occupation, friendship between men, ss, suspicion, repression ...
Time: 1940s, 2010s, year 2016, 90s, y2k ...
Place: germany, prague, central europe, munich germany, berlin germany ...
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100%
The Assassination (1964)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 104 min.
Story: The assassination of Heydrich in Prague during WWII.
Style: political thriller, period drama
Plot: world war two, nazi, paratrooper, parachutist, man on a mission, czech history, swordplay, cycling, shootout, woods, horse riding, hiding place ...
Time: year 1942, year 1941, 1940s
Place: czech republic, prague, berlin germany, central europe, czechoslovakia
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100%
 7.1
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Valkyrie (2008)
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Japan, USA
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: bad ending, factual, tense, period piece, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: world war two, nazi, nazism, nazi germany, conspiracy, war, hitler, german soldier, resistance, politics, wehrmacht, gestapo ...
Time: 1940s, year 2008, year 1944, year 1943, 20th century ...
Place: germany, berlin germany, europe, munich germany, tunisia ...
Similarity:
100%
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 601K
Fury (2014)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA, China
Duration: 134 min.
Story: Last months of World War II in April 1945. As the Allies make their final push in the European Theater, a battle-hardened U.S. Army sergeant in the 2nd Armored Division named Wardaddy commands a Sherman tank called "Fury" and its five-man ...
Style: sexy, serious, exciting, tense, rough ...
Audience: boys' night, family friendly, teens, date night, adult
Plot: world war two, war, tank, soldier, military, battles, heroism, nazi, last stand, world war, combat, american soldier ...
Time: 1940s, year 2014, year 1945, 2010s, 20th century
Place: germany, america, europe
Similarity:
100%
Winter in Wartime (2008)
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, sexy, exciting, serious, realistic ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: world war two, coming of age, resistance movement, occupation, resistance, children in wartime, nazi, wartime life, execution, winter, nazism, nazi occupation ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 2008, post world war two
Place: netherlands, germany, europe, holland
Similarity:
100%
 7.2
 65K
'71 (2014)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A young British soldier must find his way back to safety after his unit accidentally abandons him during a riot in the streets of Belfast.
Style: suspenseful, political, intense, atmospheric, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, soldier, war, survival, ira, military, british soldier, combat, riot, wartime, chase, british military ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1971, year 2014
Place: ireland, northern ireland, britain, belfast, london ...
Similarity:
100%
Alone in Berlin (2016)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Germany, France, UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Berlin in June of 1940. While Nazi propaganda celebrates the regime’s victory over France, a kitchen-cum-living room in Prenzlauer Berg is filled with grief. Anna and Otto Quangel’s son has been killed at the front. This working class couple had ...
Style: period piece, costume drama, enigmatic, suspenseful, factual ...
Plot: nazi germany, gestapo, world war two, death of son, suicide, nazi, wartime, world war, holocaust, shoah, murder, german soldier ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1940, year 1943
Place: berlin germany, germany, central europe
Similarity:
100%
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 7.2
 198K
Unbroken (2014)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport, War
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 137 min.
Story: A chronicle of the life of Louis Zamperini, an Olympic runner who was taken prisoner by Japanese forces during World War II.
Style: dramatic, epic, motivational, uplifting, serious ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: world war two, war, survival, soldier, jail, motivation, biopic, prisoners of war, hopes, prison, torture, captivity ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 2014, 2010s, 1930s ...
Place: japan, pacific ocean, asia, germany, berlin germany ...
Similarity:
100%
Soldier of Orange (1977)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Duration: 165 min.
Story: This film depicts World War II through the eyes of several Dutch students. It follows them through the beginning of the war, the Nazi occupation and the liberation.
Style: tense, stylized, realistic, colorful, edutainment ...
Plot: world war two, nazi, gestapo, nazi occupation, resistance, war, tango, wartime, espionage, world war, betrayal, occupation ...
Time: 1940s, 1930s, year 1977, 80s
Place: netherlands, europe, london, germany
Similarity:
100%
The People vs. Fritz Bauer (2015)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 105 min.
Story: It is the late 1950s. Flourishing under the economic miracle, Germany grows increasingly apathetic about confronting the horrors of its recent past. Nevertheless, Fritz Bauer doggedly devotes his energies to bringing the Third Reich to justice. One ...
Style: suspense, tense, suspenseful, disturbing, rough ...
Audience: chick flick, boys' night
Plot: nazi, war criminal, mossad, shoah, holocaust, courtroom, nazi hunter, nazi war criminal, world war two, attorney, gay affair, death threat ...
Time: 1950s, 60s, 20th century, 50s
Place: germany, west germany, buenos aires argentina, jerusalem, israel ...
Similarity:
100%
 7.1
 161K
Defiance (2008)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story: Based on a true story, during World War II, four Jewish brothers escape their Nazi-occupied homeland of West Belarus in Poland and join the Soviet partisans to combat the Nazis. The brothers begin the rescue of roughly 1,200 Jews still trapped in ...
Style: sincere, period piece, epic, historical drama, dramatic ...
Audience: manly, adult
Plot: world war two, holocaust, war, nazi, genocide, partisan, shoah, judaism, world war, red army, hopes, rebellion ...
Time: year 2008, 20th century, year 1941, 1940s, year 1942 ...
Place: poland, germany, indiana, europe, russia ...
Similarity:
38%
 7.8
 21K
The Train (1964)
Genre: Action, Thriller, War
Country: France, Italy, USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story: As the Allied forces approach Paris in August 1944, German Colonel Von Waldheim is desperate to take all of France's greatest paintings to Germany. He manages to secure a train to transport the valuable art works even as the chaos of retreat ...
Style: black and white, realistic, suspenseful, retro, exciting ...
Plot: train, world war two, french resistance, saboteur, art, art theft, sabotage, nazi, resistance, military, railway, resistance movement ...
Time: year 1944, 1940s
Place: paris france, germany, france, europe, berlin germany ...
Similarity:
38%
Max Manus: Man of War (2008)
Genre: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: Norway, Denmark, Germany
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Max Manus is a Norwegian 2008 biographic war film based on the real events of the life of resistance fighter Max Manus (1914–96), after his contribution in the Winter War against the Soviet Union. The story follows Manus through the outbreak of ...
Style: factual, brutal, intense, melancholic, romantic ...
Audience: manly, boys' night, girls' night
Plot: world war two, resistance, nazi, nazism, wartime, war, military, nazi occupation, gestapo, terrorist, courage, manhunt ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1940, post world war two
Place: scotland, europe, eastern europe, scandinavia, finland ...
Similarity:
37%
 6.9
 116K
Sisu (2022)
Genre: Action, Thriller, War
Country: Finland, USA, UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Deep in the wilderness of Lapland, Aatami Korpi is searching for gold. From time to time, the overflight of bombers and the distant sounds of war can be heard in the autumn night. Finally, the hard work is rewarded and the gold dust in the pan grows ...
Style: captivating, suspenseful, tense, exciting, absurd ...
Plot: world war two, one man army, handgun, lapland, battles, tank, gold, nazi, woman with a gun, male nudity, finnish mythology, violence ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1944
Place: finland
Similarity:
37%
 7.6
 29K
Conspiracy (2001)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The historical recreation of the 1942 Wannsee Conference, in which Nazi and SS leaders gathered in a Berlin suburb to discuss the "Final Solution to the Jewish Question". Lead by SS-General Reinhard Heydrich, this group of high ranking ...
Style: factual, political, disturbing, bleak, atmospheric ...
Plot: holocaust, genocide, nazi, politics, world war two, conspiracy, third reich, ss officer, shoah, war crime, brutality, racism ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1942, post world war two, 1930s
Place: berlin germany, germany, europe, poland
Similarity:
36%
Operation: Daybreak (1975)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, USA, UK
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: dramatic, realistic, serious, suspenseful, bleak
Plot: world war two, czech history, spy, world war, holocaust, nazi, espionage, secret mission, parachutist, double suicide, nazi occupation, traitor ...
Time: 1940s, year 1941, year 1975, 20th century, year 1942
Place: prague, europe, england, czechoslovakia, czech republic ...
Similarity:
36%
 7.1
 179K
Allied (2016)
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: UK, USA, China
Duration: 124 min.
Story: In 1942, an intelligence officer in North Africa encounters a female French Resistance fighter on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. When they reunite in London, their relationship is tested by the pressures of war.
Style: sexy, suspense, period piece, tense, romantic ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: world war two, espionage, spy, nazi, female agent, love, secret mission, double agent, betrayal, prospector, female spy, undercover ...
Time: 1940s, year 2016, year 1942, future, 2010s ...
Place: london, france, england, south africa, north africa ...
Similarity:
50%
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The Pianist (2002)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, War
Country: France, Poland, Germany, UK, USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story: The true story of pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. When the Jews of the city find themselves forced into a ghetto, Szpilman finds work playing in a café; and when his family is deported in 1942, he ...
Style: emotional, sad, harsh, reflective, bleak ...
Audience: adult
Plot: holocaust, world war two, survival, genocide, nazi, classical music, wartime, war, nazism, anti semitism, hunger, nazi occupation ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1939, 1930s, year 2002 ...
Place: poland, germany, europe, eastern europe, central europe ...
Similarity:
36%
The Resistance Banker (2018)
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Duration: 123 min.
Story: In the occupied Netherlands during World War II, banker Walraven van Hall (Barry Atsma) is asked to use his financial contacts to help the Dutch resistance. He doesn’t have to think about it for long. With his brother Gijs van Hall (Jacob Derwig), ...
Style: thought provoking, suspense, captivating, touching, disturbing ...
Plot: world war two, resistance, soldier, war hero, nazi, sibling relationship, german occupation, shoah, friends, dictatorship, dictator, society ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1942, year 1944
Place: netherlands, amsterdam
Similarity:
36%
A Bag of Marbles (2017)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: France, Canada, Czech Republic
Duration: 110 min.
Story: In occupied France, Maurice and Joseph, two young Jewish brothers left to their own devices demonstrate an incredible amount of cleverness, courage, and ingenuity to escape the enemy invasion and to try to reunite their family once again.
Style: tense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological ...
Plot: world war two, holocaust, brother brother relationship, ss, nazi occupation, nazi, german occupation, children in wartime, german soldier, shoah, military, soldier ...
Time: 1940s, year 2017, year 1943, year 1942, year 1944
Place: paris france, nice france, france
Similarity:
36%
 6.0
 3K
The Passage (1979)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story: During WW 2, a Basque shepherd is approached by the underground, who wants him to lead a scientist and his family across the Pyrenees. While being pursued by a sadistic German.
Style: factual, suspense, disturbing, tense, independent film ...
Plot: world war two, exploitation, pursuit, resistance, rescue mission, ss officer, ss, shepherd, machine gun, world war, nazi, mountain ...
Time: 1940s, year 1979
Place: basque country, france
Similarity:
35%
Triumph of the Spirit (1989)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Sport, War
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Fact based story about a former Greek Olympic boxer who was taken as a prisoner during World war II and placed in the Auschwitz prison camp. There he was permitted to survive as long as he fought for the amusement of his captors. His father and ...
Style: disturbing, independent film, tense, realistic, serious ...
Plot: holocaust, world war two, boxing, ss, prison, boxer, prison escape, fight, nazi, biopic, shoah, judaism ...
Time: 1940s, 1930s, 20th century, year 1943
Place: middle east, poland, europe, greece
Similarity:
35%
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Enemy at the Gates (2001)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: Ireland, UK, France, Germany, USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story: Enemy at the Gates is a war film from Jean-Jacques Annaud from 2001 that takes place during the battle of Stalingard in World War II between the Russians and the Germans.
Style: sexy, epic, realistic, serious, breathtaking ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: war, world war two, sniper, military, stalingrad, world war, courage, friendship, nazi, wartime, hide and seek, winter ...
Time: 20th century, year 2001, 1940s, year 1940, year 1944 ...
Place: germany, soviet union, iraq, persia, russia ...
Similarity:
35%
The Zookeeper's Wife (2017)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Czech Republic, UK, USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: The account of keepers of the Warsaw Zoo, Jan and Antonina Zabinski, who helped save hundreds of people and animals during the Nazi invasion.
Style: factual, costume drama, rough, sad, tense ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: holocaust, zoo, nazi, world war two, marriage, hiding place, shoah, nazi occupied poland, women, zookeeper, world war, biopic ...
Time: 1930s, year 2017, 1940s
Place: warsaw poland, poland, germany, central europe
Similarity:
35%
Fortress of War (2010)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: Belarus, Russia
Duration: 138 min.
Story: A war drama set during the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, in which Russian troops held on to a border stronghold for nine days. The film shows the heroic defense of Brest Fortress, which has taken upon the first stroke of German ...
Style: serious, realistic, tense, exciting, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: world war two, war, military, battles, red army, wehrmacht, infantrymen, border guard, nazism, squad, heroes, invasion ...
Time: 1940s, year 1941, 2010s, 20th century
Place: russia, europe
Similarity:
35%
 7.0
 11K
13 Minutes (2015)
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: Germany, Italy
Duration: 114 min.
Story: The breath-taking story of a man who nearly would have changed the world. 1939, when Hitler tricked millions of people at the height of his power, one said a radical No: Georg Elser, disparaged as an assassin, is one of the greatest resistance ...
Style: realistic, serious, tense, suspenseful
Audience: kids
Plot: hitler, nazi germany, world war two, gestapo, resistance fighter, battered woman, bolshevik, nazi, hitler youth, assassination attempt, anti fascist, third reich ...
Time: year 1939, 1930s, pre world war two, year 1929, year 1932 ...
Place: germany, munich germany, europe, switzerland, berlin germany
Similarity:
35%
The Eagle Has Landed (1976)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: When the Nazi high command learns in late 1943 that Winston Churchill will be spending time at a country estate in Norfolk, it hatches an audacious scheme to kidnap the prime minister and spirit him to Germany for enforced negotiations with Hitler.
Style: exciting, suspense, tense, intense, serious ...
Plot: world war two, espionage, spy, war, nazi germany, military, soldier, nazi soldier, commando mission, runaway, insubordination, rescue ...
Time: 1940s, year 1976, 20th century, year 1943
Place: london, germany, poland, europe, england ...
Similarity:
35%
The Bridge at Remagen (1969)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA, Czechoslovakia, West Germany
Duration: 115 min.
Story: In March of 1945, as the War in Europe is coming to a close, fighting erupts between German and American troops at the last remaining bridgehead across the Rhine.
Style: realistic, intense, harsh, exciting, serious ...
Plot: world war two, war, battles, survival, soldier, nazi, world war, tank, escapades, anti war, wartime life, danger ...
Time: 1940s, year 1945, year 1969, 20th century
Place: germany, europe, italy
Similarity:
35%
 8.2
 398K
Downfall (2004)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Germany, Austria, Italy
Duration: 156 min.
Story: In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the east and the Allied Expeditionary Force attacking from the west. In Berlin, capital of the Third Reich, Adolf Hitler proclaims that Germany will still ...
Style: psychological, costume drama, harsh, disturbing, epic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: world war two, hitler, nazi, war, nazism, suicide, fascism, holocaust, national socialism, dictatorship, third reich, paranoia ...
Time: 1940s, year 2004, 2000s, 20th century, year 1945 ...
Place: germany, berlin germany, prague, europe, bavaria ...
Similarity:
35%