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Movies that feel like The Dirty Dozen (1967)

If you loved The Dirty Dozen, the closest films we have are Where Eagles Dare (1968), Eastern Condors (1987) and The Guns of Navarone (1961). All three share The Dirty Dozen's epic and bleak feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 9 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, HBO Max and Amazon Prime Video and others, checked against today's data.

12 American military prisoners in World War II are ordered to infiltrate a well-guarded enemy château and kill the Nazi officers vacationing there. The soldiers, most of whom are facing death sentences for a variety of violent crimes, agree to the mission and the possible commuting of their sentences.

🍅 82% Rotten Tomatoes7.7 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Robert Aldrichkineticepicbleak

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Where Eagles Dare
1968 · dir. Brian G. Hutton
🍅 84%7.6adventure · war

Common ground in both: nazi and secret mission

The difference: Missing the momentum of The Dirty Dozen

World War II is raging, and an American general has been captured and is being held hostage in the Schloss Adler, a Bavarian castle that's nearly impossible to breach. It's up to a group of skilled Allied soldiers to liberate the general before it's too late.

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Eastern Condors
1987 · dir. Sammo Hung Kam-Bo
7.1action · adventure · war

Both are built on the same subject: mission

The difference: Made in the 1980s, in a different era of the craft

A motley group of Chinese prisoners held in the US is sent on a covert mission with the promise of a pardon: to go deep into Vietnam and destroy a secret depot of missiles that the US left behind during the pull-out.

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The Guns of Navarone
1961 · dir. J. Lee Thompson
🍅 92%7.5adventure · drama · war

The same preoccupation in both: world war ii

The difference: Not nearly as kinetic as The Dirty Dozen

A team of allied saboteurs are assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held island and destroy the two enormous long-range field guns that prevent the rescue of 2,000 trapped British soldiers.

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Army of Shadows
1969 · dir. Jean-Pierre Melville
🍅 97%8.1war · drama · thriller

Both keep coming back to the same thing: nazi

The difference: Sits closer to drama than The Dirty Dozen does

Betrayed by an informant, Philippe Gerbier finds himself trapped in a torturous Nazi prison camp. Though Gerbier escapes to rejoin the Resistance in occupied Marseilles, France, and exacts his revenge on the informant, he must continue a quiet, seemingly endless battle against the Nazis in an atmosphere of tension, paranoia and distrust.

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The Longest Day
1962 · dir. Ken Annakin
🍅 83%7.7war · action · drama

One thread runs through both: world war ii

The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that when the Allied invasion comes they must be stopped on the beach. "For the Allies as well as the Germans, it will be the longest day"

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Patton
1970 · dir. Franklin J. Schaffner
🍅 92%7.9war · drama · history

Both land scale and bleakness at once

"Patton" tells the tale of General George S. Patton, famous tank commander of World War II. The film begins with Patton's career in North Africa and progresses through the invasion of Germany and the fall of the Third Reich. Side plots also speak of Patton's numerous faults such his temper and habit towards insubordination.

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Das Boot
1981 · dir. Wolfgang Petersen
🍅 98%8.4drama · history · war

Common ground: suicide mission

A German submarine hunts allied ships during the Second World War, but it soon becomes the hunted. The crew tries to survive below the surface, while stretching both the boat and themselves to their limits.

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The Tin Drum
1979 · dir. Volker Schlöndorff
🍅 84%7.4drama · history · war

Epic war, and it commits to that

In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of stairs and stops growing. In 1939, World War II breaks out.

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Kalashnikov AK-47
2020 · dir. Konstantin Buslov
6.6war · history · drama

Action built on bleakness, twice over

A Russian military propaganda film about the tank commander Kalashnikov, severely injured in battle in 1941. The accident leaves him incapacitated and unable to return to the front line. While recovering in the hospital, he begins creating the initial sketches of what will become one of the world’s most legendary weapons. A self-taught inventor is only 29 when he develops the now iconic assault riffle — the AK-47. Shot in occupied Crimea.

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The Great Escape
1963 · dir. John Sturges
🍅 94%8.2adventure · drama · war

Adventure with a pulse of scale, in both cases

The Nazis, exasperated at the number of escapes from their prison camps by a relatively small number of Allied prisoners, relocate them to a high-security 'escape-proof' camp to sit out the remainder of the war. Undaunted, the prisoners plan one of the most ambitious escape attempts of World War II. Based on a true story.

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Come Drink with Me
1966 · dir. King Hu
🍅 100%6.9action · adventure

Both are built on the same subject: fistfight

Golden Sparrow is a fighter-for-hire who has been contracted by the local government to retrieve the governor's kidnapped son. Holding him is a group of rebels who are demanding that their leader be released from prison in return for the captured son. After a brief encounter with the gang at a local restaurant, Golden Sparrow is joined by an inebriated wanderer Drunken Cat who aids her in her mission.

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Mongol: The Rise of Genghis Khan
2007 · dir. Sergei Bodrov
🍅 86%7.2history · war · action

Kinetic action in both cases

The story recounts the early life of Genghis Khan, a slave who went on to conquer half the world in the 11th century.

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