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Movies that feel likeThe Dirty Dozen (1967)

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.

If you loved The Dirty Dozen, the closest films we have are Where Eagles Dare (1968), The Tin Drum (1979) and Das Boot (1981). All three share The Dirty Dozen's epic and bleak feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Red Cliff II (2009).

🍅 82% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.7 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Robert Aldrichkineticepicbleakmelancholy
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If The Dirty Dozen hit the spot, these will too

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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: Easier on the momentum than 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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The Tin Drum
1979 · dir. Volker Schlöndorff
🍅 84%★ 7.4drama · history · warMax

Both keep coming back to the same thing: nazi

The difference: Takes it somewhere less kinetic than The Dirty Dozen does

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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Das Boot
1981 · dir. Wolfgang Petersen
🍅 98%★ 8.3drama · history · war

Both are working the same pair: world war ii, suicide mission

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

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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Eastern Condors
1987 · dir. Sammo Hung
★ 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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On Her Majesty's Secret Service
1969 · dir. Peter R. Hunt
🍅 81%★ 6.7adventure · action · thrillerPrime Video

One thread runs through both: secret mission

With the help of Marc-Ange Draco, head of the Unione Corse crime syndicate, and Draco's troubled daughter Tracy, James Bond tracks his archnemesis, Ernst Stravro Blofeld, to a mountaintop retreat in the Swiss Alps, where he is training an army of beautiful, lethal women.

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

The same preoccupation in both: world war ii

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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Red Cliff II
2009 · dir. John Woo
★ 7.5action · history · war

The same mix in both: momentum, then scale

The battle of Red Cliff continues and the alliance between Xu and East Wu is fracturing. With Cao Cao's massive forces on their doorstep, will the kingdoms of Xu and East Wu survive?

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

Bleak war in both cases

"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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The Longest Day
1962 · dir. Ken Annakin
🍅 83%★ 7.7war · drama · history

Epic action, and it commits to that

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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The Patriot
2000 · dir. Roland Emmerich
🍅 61%★ 7.2drama · history · warParamount+

Common ground: mission

After proving himself on the field of battle in the French and Indian War, Benjamin Martin wants nothing more to do with such things, preferring the simple life of a farmer. But when his son Gabriel enlists in the army to defend their new nation, America, against the British, Benjamin reluctantly returns to his old life to protect his son.

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

Adventure built on momentum, twice over

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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13 Assassins
2010 · dir. Takashi Miike
🍅 95%★ 7.5adventure · drama · actionPrime Video

Action with a pulse of melancholy, in both cases

A bravado period action film set at the end of Japan's feudal era in which a group of unemployed samurai are enlisted to bring down a sadistic lord and prevent him from ascending to the throne and plunging the country into a war-torn future.

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