Movies like The Cardinal: 20 to watch next

If you loved The Cardinal (1963) — a drama, history and war film directed by Otto Preminger — these 20 movies are the closest matches.

The first picks are what fans of The Cardinal most often go on to watch; the rest share its genres and themes like world war i, faith and world war ii. 2 of them are streaming in India right now — each entry shows where.

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The Scarlet and the Black 1983★ 7.1
Shares: Drama, History, War
Fr. Hugh O'Flaherty is a Vatican official in 1943-45 who has been hiding downed pilots, escaped prisoners of war, and Italian resistance families. His activities become so large that the Nazis decide to assassinate him the next time he leaves the Vatican.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Bonhoeffer: Pastor. Spy. Assassin 2024★ 6.8
Shares: History, Drama, War
As the world teeters on the brink of annihilation, Dietrich Bonhoeffer joins a deadly plot to assassinate Hitler, risking his faith and fate to save millions of Jews from genocide.
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Waiting for Anya 2020★ 6.3
Shares: Drama, War
During the harrows of WWII, Jo, a young shepherd along with the help of the widow Horcada, helps to smuggle Jewish children across the border from southern France into Spain.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Tobruk 1967★ 6.4
Shares: Drama, History, War
In September 1942, the German Afrika Korps under Rommel have successfully pushed the Allies back into Egypt. A counter-attack is planned, for which the fuel dumps at Tobruk are a critical impediment. In order to aid the attack, a group of British commandos and German Jews make their way undercover through 800 miles of desert, to destroy the fuel dumps starving the Germans of fuel.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The Young Lions 1958★ 6.7
Shares: War, Drama
The lives of three young men, a German and two Americans, during WWII.
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The One That Got Away 1957★ 6.8
Shares: War, Drama
Based on the true story of Oberleutnant Franz von Werra, the only German prisoner of war captured in Britain to escape back to Germany during the Second World War.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The Last Rifleman 2023★ 6.6
Shares: Drama, History, War
A WWII veteran escapes his care home in Northern Ireland and embarks on an arduous but inspirational journey to France to attend the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings, finding the courage to face the ghosts of his past.
Stream in India on VI movies and tv
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Operation Mincemeat 2022★ 6.5
Shares: War, History, Drama
In 1943, two British intelligence officers concoct Operation Mincemeat, wherein their plan to drop a corpse with false papers off the coast of Spain would fool Nazi spies into believing the Allied forces were planning to attack by way of Greece rather than Sicily.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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36 Hours 1964★ 7.1
Shares: Drama, War
Germans kidnap an American major and try to convince him that World War II is over, so that they can get details about the Allied invasion of Europe out of him.
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Johnny Got His Gun 1971★ 7.5
Shares: War, Drama
A young American soldier, rendered in pseudocoma from an artillery shell from WWI, recalls his life leading up to that point.
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Flyboys 2006★ 6.5
Shares: Drama, History, War
The adventures of the Lafayette Escadrille, young Americans who volunteered for the French military before the U.S. entered World War I, and became the country's first fighter pilots.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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War Horse 2011★ 7.3
Shares: War, History, Drama
On the brink of the First World War, Albert's beloved horse Joey is sold to the Cavalry by his father. Against the backdrop of the Great War, Joey begins an odyssey full of danger, joy, and sorrow, and he transforms everyone he meets along the way. Meanwhile, Albert, unable to forget his equine friend, searches the battlefields of France to find Joey and bring him home.
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The Battle of the River Plate 1956★ 6.4
Shares: Drama, History, War
In the early years of the World War II, the Royal Navy is fighting a desperate battle to keep the Atlantic convoy routes open to supply the British Isles, facing the great danger posed by the many German warships, such as the Admiral Graf Spee, which are scouring the ocean for cargo ships to sink.
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Uprising 2001★ 6.6
Shares: Drama, War
In the Warsaw ghetto in 1943, Jews rise against the Nazis.
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The Man Who Never Was 1956★ 7.0
Shares: War, Drama, History
The true story of a British effort to trick the Germans into weakening Sicily's defenses before the 1943 attack. A dead soldier is dressed as a British officer and outfitted with faked papers showing that the Allies were intending to invade occupied Greece. His body is put into the sea where it will ultimately drift ashore and the papers be passed along to German Intelligence.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The Dam Busters 1955★ 6.9
Shares: Drama, History, War
The story of the conception of a new British weapon for smashing the German dams in the Ruhr industrial complex and the execution of the raid by 617 Squadron 'The Dam Busters'.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Devotion 2022★ 7.0
Shares: War, Drama, History
The harrowing true story of two elite US Navy fighter pilots during the Korean War. Their heroic sacrifices would ultimately make them the Navy's most celebrated wingmen.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell 1955★ 6.8
Shares: Drama, War
A dramatization of the American general and his court martial for publically complaining about High Command's dismissal and neglect of the aerial fighting forces.
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The Six Triple Eight 2024★ 7.6
Shares: Drama, War, History
During World War II, the US Army's only all-Black, all-women battalion takes on an impossible mission: sorting through a three-year backlog of 17 million pieces of mail that hadn't been delivered to American soldiers and finish within six months.
Stream in India on Netflix
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The War Below 2021★ 6.6
Shares: War, Drama, History
During World War I, a group of British miners are recruited to tunnel underneath no man's land and set bombs from below the German front in hopes of breaking the deadly stalemate of the Battle of Messines.
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