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Movies that feel likeThe Imitation Game (2014)

Based on the real life story of legendary cryptanalyst Alan Turing, the film portrays the nail-biting race against time by Turing and his brilliant team of code-breakers at Britain's top-secret Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park, during the darkest days of World War II.

If you loved The Imitation Game, the closest films we have are Hacksaw Ridge (2016), The Zone of Interest (2023) and 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (2016). All three share The Imitation Game's epic and contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Katyn (2007).

🍅 90% Rotten Tomatoes★ 8 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Morten Tyldumepiccontemplativetensebleak
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Hacksaw Ridge
2016 · dir. Mel Gibson
🍅 84%★ 8.1drama · history · war

A misfit's convictions proving decisive in a world war

The difference: Battlefield carnage over codebreaking huts

WWII American Army Medic Desmond T. Doss, who served during the Battle of Okinawa, refuses to kill people and becomes the first Conscientious Objector in American history to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor.

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The Zone of Interest
2023 · dir. Jonathan Glazer
🍅 93%★ 7.3drama · history · warRent or buy

The war's machinery seen from a desk, not a battlefield

The difference: No hero to root for — an atrocity observed with icy remove

The commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolf Höss, and his wife Hedwig, strive to build a dream life for their family in a house and garden next to the camp.

13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi poster
🍅 52%★ 7.3war · history · drama

Undervalued men holding the line while officials dither

The difference: Modern combat siege, Bay-loud

An American Ambassador is killed during an attack at a U.S. compound in Libya as a security team struggles to make sense out of the chaos.

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The King
2019 · dir. David Michôd
🍅 71%★ 7.3drama · history · warNetflix

A brilliant outsider forced into a role history demands of him

The difference: Medieval mud and battle — centuries from codebreaking rooms

England, 15th century. Hal, a capricious prince who lives among the populace far from court, is forced by circumstances to reluctantly accept the throne and become Henry V.

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The Shadow in My Eye
2021 · dir. Ole Bornedal
★ 7.3war · drama · historyNetflix

A true WWII story where victory's cost is counted in innocents

The difference: Devastating civilian tragedy — no puzzle to solve, just grief

On March 21st, 1945, the British Royal Air Force set out on a mission to bomb Gestapo's headquarters in Copenhagen. The raid had fatal consequences as some of the bombers accidentally targeted a school and more than 120 people were killed, 86 of whom were children.

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The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
2008 · dir. Mark Herman
🍅 65%★ 7.7drama · war · history

War's cruelty seen from an oblique, personal angle

The difference: A child's eye view — devastating fable

When his family moves from their home in Berlin to a strange new house in Poland, young Bruno befriends Shmuel, a boy who lives on the other side of the fence where everyone seems to be wearing striped pajamas. Unaware of Shmuel's fate as a Jewish prisoner or the role his own Nazi father plays in his imprisonment, Bruno embarks on a dangerous journey inside the camp's walls.

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Kalashnikov AK-47
2020 · dir. Konstantin Buslov
★ 6.6war · history · dramaPrime Video

A wartime mind measured by the machine it created

The difference: A flat, admiring Russian biopic with no inner conflict

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 Monuments Men
2014 · dir. George Clooney
🍅 30%★ 6.1war · drama · historyPrime Video

Unlikely specialists recruited for an odd wartime mission

The difference: Caper-lite ensemble, stakes cultural

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 WWII to rescue the world’s artistic masterpieces from Nazi thieves and return them to their rightful owners. With the art hidden behind enemy lines, how could these guys hope to succeed?

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The Captain
2018 · dir. Robert Schwentke
🍅 83%★ 7.3war · drama · historyPrime Video

Common ground: world war ii

The difference: Takes it somewhere less tense than The Imitation Game does

Germany, 1945. Soldier Willi Herold, a deserter of the German army, stumbles into a uniform of a Nazi captain abandoned during the last and desperate weeks of the Third Reich. Newly emboldened by the allure of a suit that he has stolen only to stay warm, Willi discovers that many Germans will follow the leader, whoever he is.

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T-34
2018 · dir. Alexey Sidorov
★ 6.8drama · history · warPrime Video

Wartime ingenuity as survival — outsmarting the enemy from inside

The difference: A slick Russian tank adventure — spectacle over substance

In 1944, a courageous group of Russian soldiers managed to escape from German captivity in a half-destroyed legendary T-34 tank. Those were the times of unforgettable bravery, fierce fighting, unbreakable love, and legendary miracles.

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Land of Mine
2015 · dir. Martin Zandvliet
🍅 91%★ 7.8war · drama · history

Both land scale and stillness at once

In the days following the surrender of Germany in May 1945, a group of young German prisoners of war is handed over to the Danish authorities and subsequently sent to the West Coast, where they are ordered to remove the more than two million mines that the Germans had placed in the sand along the coast. With their bare hands, crawling around in the sand, the boys are forced to perform the dangerous work under the leadership of a Danish sergeant.

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Katyn
2007 · dir. Andrzej Wajda
🍅 91%★ 7drama · history · war

A buried wartime truth and the lives destroyed by keeping it secret

The difference: Somber Polish history — a massacre mourned, not a race won

On September 1st, 1939, Nazi Germany invades Poland, unleashing World War II. On September 17th, the Soviet Red Army crosses the border. The Polish army, unable to fight on two fronts, is defeated. Thousands of Polish men, both military and government officials, are captured by the invaders. Their fate will only be known several years later.

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