Films like Criminals (2026)

Criminals (2026) is history, thriller, war. These 24 films share its genres, ordered by how much overlap they have and how well they are rated.

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  Pressure (2026)

  Also history and thriller. 7.7/10

  In the tense 72 hours before D-Day, and the fate of the free world hanging in the balance, General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Captain James Stagg face an impossible choice—launch…

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  The Imitation Game (2014)

  Also history and thriller. 8.0/10

  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…

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  Prisoner of War (2025)

  Also history and thriller. 7.1/10

  British RAF Wing Commander James Wright is captured by the Japanese during WWII and forced to fight in brutal hand-to-hand combat. The Japanese soldiers get more than they…

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  12.12: The Day (2023)

  Also history and thriller. 7.6/10

  After the assassination of President Park, martial law has been declared. A coup d'état bursts out by Defense Security Commander Chun Doo-gwang and a private band of officers…

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  K-19: The Widowmaker (2002)

  Also history and thriller. 6.6/10

  When Russia's first nuclear submarine malfunctions on its maiden voyage, the crew must race to save the ship and prevent a nuclear disaster.

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  Escape from Mogadishu (2021)

  Also history and thriller. 7.1/10

  Diplomats from the North and South Korean embassies in Somalia attempt a daring joint escape from Mogadishu when the outbreak of civil war leaves them stranded.

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  Chess Story (2021)

  Also history and thriller. 6.8/10

  1938. While the Nazi troops march into Vienna, the lawyer Josef Bartok hastily tries to escape to the USA with his wife but is arrested by the Gestapo. Bartok remains steadfast…

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  Anthropoid (2016)

  Also history and thriller. 7.1/10

  In December 1941, Czech soldiers Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš parachute into their occupied homeland to assassinate Nazi officer Reinhard Heydrich.

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  The Man with the Iron Heart (2017)

  Also history and thriller. 6.5/10

  With the Third Reich at its 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…

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  Black Angel (2002)

  Also history and thriller. 5.3/10

  Livia, the attractive wife of a high-ranking Ministry of the People's Republic official, is accompanied by Ugo, a lawyer, her admirer and her husband's spy, to Venice. There, she…

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  Army of Shadows (1969)

  Also history and thriller. 7.9/10

  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…

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  The Catcher Was a Spy (2018)

  Also history and thriller. 6.2/10

  Former major league baseball player Moe Berg lives a double life working for the Office of Strategic Services in World War II Europe.

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  Michael Collins (1996)

  Also history and thriller. 6.9/10

  Michael Collins plays a crucial role in the establishment of the Irish Free State in the 1920s, but becomes vilified by those hoping to create a completely independent Irish…

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  The Angel (2018)

  Also history and thriller. 6.6/10

  True story of Ashraf Marwan, who was President Nasser's son-in-law and special adviser and confidant to his successor Anwar Sadat - while simultaneously Israeli Intelligence's…

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  Inglourious Basterds (2009)

  Also thriller and war. 8.2/10

  In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Basterds" are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by…

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  Schindler's List (1993)

  Also history and war. 8.6/10

  The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II.

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  Hacksaw Ridge (2016)

  Also history and war. 8.2/10

  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…

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  Saving Private Ryan (1998)

  Also history and war. 8.2/10

  As U.S. troops storm the beaches of Normandy, three brothers lie dead on the battlefield, with a fourth trapped behind enemy lines. Ranger captain John Miller and seven men are…

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  Kingdom of Heaven (2005)

  Also history and war. 7.1/10

  After his wife dies, a blacksmith named Balian is thrust into royalty, political intrigue and bloody holy wars during the Crusades.

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  Black Hawk Down (2001)

  Also history and war. 7.4/10

  When U.S. Rangers and an elite Delta Force team attempt to kidnap two underlings of a Somali warlord, their Black Hawk helicopters are shot down, and the Americans suffer heavy…

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  Courage Under Fire (1996)

  Also thriller and war. 6.6/10

  A US Army officer, who made a "friendly fire" mistake that was covered up, has been reassigned to a desk job. He is tasked to investigate a female chopper commander's worthiness…

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  Braveheart (1995)

  Also history and war. 7.9/10

  Enraged at the slaughter of Murron, his new bride and childhood love, Scottish warrior William Wallace slays a platoon of the local English lord's soldiers. This leads the village…

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  1917 (2019)

  Also history and war. 8.0/10

  At the height of the First World War, two young British soldiers must cross enemy territory and deliver a message that will stop a deadly attack on hundreds of soldiers.

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  Sisu: Road to Revenge (2025)

  Also thriller and war. 7.3/10

  Returning to the house where his family was brutally murdered during the war, "the man who refuses to die" dismantles it, loads it on a truck, and is determined to rebuild it…