If You Liked The Man with the Iron Heart, Watch These Next
Finished The Man with the Iron Heart (2017) and want more of the same? These 18 movies are what its fans watched next, ranked by how often people who liked it also liked these. Like The Man with the Iron Heart, most of them are war, action, history.
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18 titles · updated 3rd October 2026
1.Anthropoid(2016)
7.1HistoryThrillerWarAlso history and thriller
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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2.Hangmen Also Die!(1943)
6.9DramaThrillerWarAlso thriller and war
During the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, surgeon Dr. Franticek Svoboda, a Czech patriot, assassinates the brutal "Hangman of Europe", Reichsprotektor Reinhard Heydrich, and is wounded in the process. In his attempt to escape, he is helped by history professor Stephen Novotny and his daughter Mascha.
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3.The Dirty Dozen(1967)
7.6ActionAdventureWarAlso action and war
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.
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4.Shining Through(1992)
6.5DramaRomanceThrillerAlso thriller and war
Spirited New Yorker Linda Voss goes to work for international lawyer and secret Office of Strategic Services operative Ed Leland just before World War II. As they fall in love, the United States enters the fight against Hitler, and Linda volunteers to work for Ed spying undercover behind Nazi lines. Assigned to…
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5.Red Scorpion(1988)
6.0AdventureActionWarAlso action and war
A Soviet commando is sent to eliminate a rebel leader in Africa. Soon he finds himself doubting his mission.
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6.Triple Cross(1966)
6.1AdventureWarActionAlso war and action
Safecracker Eddie Chapman is languishing in prison on the island of Jersey when the Nazis arrive. An adept manipulator of situations, Chapman convinces the Germans to use him to spy on the British. And when the would-be traitor arrives home, he convinces the English to use him as a double agent -- in exchange for a…
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7.Shout at the Devil(1976)
6.0AdventureWarActionAlso war and action
During World War One an English adventurer, an American elephant poacher and the latter's attractive young daughter, set out to destroy a German battle-cruiser which is awaiting repairs in an inlet just off Zanzibar. The story is based on a novel by Wilbur Smith, which in turn is very loosely based on events…
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8.The Secrets We Keep(2020)
6.0ThrillerHistoryDramaAlso thriller and history
In post-World War II America, a woman, rebuilding her life in the suburbs with her husband, kidnaps her neighbor and seeks vengeance for the heinous war crimes she believes he committed against her.
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9.Battleground(1949)
6.7ActionDramaWarAlso action and war
Members of the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division are fighting for their country amidst the rugged terrain of Bastogne, Belgium, in December 1944. Holley and his American compatriots have already seen one of their own, Roderigues, perish under enemy fire. The men try to rebuff another series of Nazi attacks, but…
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10.Decision Before Dawn(1951)
6.8WarActionThrillerAlso war and action
WWII is entering its last phase: Germany is in ruins, but does not yield. The US army lacks crucial knowledge about the German units operating on the opposite side of the Rhine, and decides to send two German prisoners to gather information. The scheme is risky: the Gestapo retains a terribly efficient network to…
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11.Beast of War(2025)
6.3ThrillerActionWarAlso thriller and action
When their boat sinks while crossing the Timor Sea during World War II, a troop of young Australian soldiers must find a way to survive the harsh seas on a quickly shrinking raft. Hundreds of miles from anywhere, they must confront interpersonal conflicts, enemy attacks, and the advances of one very large, very…
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12.The Night of the Generals(1967)
6.8ThrillerMysteryWarAlso thriller and war
A German intelligence officer investigates a prostitute's killing in Warsaw during World War II. He lands on three major Nazi generals as suspects, two of whom are also involved in a plot to kill Adolf Hitler.
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13.Wolf Hound(2022)
6.4WarActionAlso war and action
Inspired by the real-life German special operations unit KG 200 that shot down, repaired, and flew Allied aircraft as Trojan horses, "Wolf Hound" takes place in 1944 German-occupied France and follows the daring exploits of Jewish-American fighter pilot Captain David Holden. Ambushed behind enemy lines, Holden must…
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14.The Great Raid(2005)
6.5ActionHistoryWarAlso action and history
As World War II rages, the elite Sixth Ranger Battalion is given a mission of heroic proportions: push 30 miles behind enemy lines and liberate over 500 American prisoners of war.
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15.Ghosts of War(2020)
6.2HorrorThrillerWarAlso thriller and war
A group of World War II American soldiers encounter a supernatural enemy as they occupy a French castle previously under Nazi control.
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16.Mechanic: Resurrection(2016)
6.1ActionCrimeThrillerAlso action and thriller
Arthur Bishop thought he had put his murderous past behind him when his most formidable foe kidnaps the love of his life. Now he is forced to travel the globe to complete three impossible assassinations, and do what he does best, make them look like accidents.
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17.God Is a Bullet(2023)
6.3ThrillerActionCrimeAlso thriller and action
Vice detective Bob Hightower finds his ex-wife murdered and daughter kidnapped by a cult. Frustrated by the botched official investigations, he quits the force and infiltrates the cult to hunt down the leader with the help of the cult’s only female victim escapee, Case Hardin.
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18.Twelve O'Clock High(1949)
7.2WarActionDramaAlso war and action
In the early days of daylight bombing raids over Germany, General Frank Savage must take command of a 'hard luck' bomber group. Much of the story deals with his struggle to whip his group into a disciplined fighting unit in spite of heavy losses, and withering attacks by German fighters over their targets.
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