50 Movies Like Allied (2016) You Need to Watch Next
Updated August 2026
View Allied details →If you loved Allied (2016) by Robert Zemeckis, here are 50 movies that share its content DNA. iRankMovies measures real similarity using cosine similarity across eight weighted dimensions — genre (50%), tone (12%), pace (10%), structure (8%), era (7%), theme (6%), audience (4%) and narrative perspective (3%) — not just the rating. The closest matches according to our analysis are Lust, Caution, 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi, Crimson Tide. Every title is ranked by how closely it matches and backed by the iRank Score, a composite of IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDb across 12,000+ analysed titles.
The Best Movies Similar to Allied
Selected for their real similarity in content, these are the movies that share the most with Allied in terms of theme, narrative tone, and cinematic style. Every recommendation goes beyond genre — we evaluate the type of conflict, pacing, dramatic context, and the experience they create for viewers.
Lust, Caution
2007 · Ang Lee
During World War II, a secret agent must seduce and assassinate an official who works for the Japanese puppet government in Shanghai.
In common: Action · Drama · Romance
13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
2016 · Michael Bay
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.
In common: Action · Drama
Crimson Tide
1995 · Tony Scott
After the Cold War, a breakaway Russian republic with nuclear warheads becomes a possible worldwide threat. U.S. submarine Capt. Frank Ramsey signs on a relatively green but highly recommended Lt. Cmd
In common: Action · Drama · Thriller
Behind Enemy Lines
2001 · John Moore
While flying a routine reconnaissance mission over Bosnia, fighter pilot Lt. Chris Burnett photographs something he wasn't supposed to see and gets shot down behind enemy lines, where he must outrun a
In common: Action · Drama · Thriller
The Bourne Supremacy
2004 · Paul Greengrass
A CIA operation to purchase classified Russian documents is blown by a rival agent, who then shows up in the sleepy seaside village where Bourne and Marie have been living. The pair run for their live
In common: Action · Drama · Thriller
Body of Lies
2008 · Ridley Scott
The CIA’s hunt is on for the mastermind of a wave of terrorist attacks. Roger Ferris is the agency’s man on the ground, moving from place to place, scrambling to stay ahead of ever-shifting events. An
In common: Action · Drama · Thriller
Alexander
2004 · Oliver Stone
Alexander, the King of Macedonia, leads his legions against the giant Persian Empire. After defeating the Persians, he leads his army across the then known world, venturing farther than any westerner
In common: Action · Drama
Act of Valor
2012 · Mike McCoy
When a covert mission to rescue a kidnapped CIA operative uncovers a chilling plot, an elite, highly trained U.S. SEAL team speeds to hotspots around the globe, racing against the clock to stop a dead
In common: Action · Thriller · War
The Tourist
2010 · Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
American tourist Frank meets mysterious British woman Elise on the train to Venice. Romance seems to bud, but there's more to her than meets the eye.
In common: Action · Romance · Thriller
The Quick and the Dead
1995 · Sam Raimi
A mysterious woman comes to compete in a quick-draw elimination tournament, in a town taken over by a notorious gunman.
In common: Action · Drama · Romance
Pearl Harbor
2001 · Michael Bay
The lifelong friendship between Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker is put to the ultimate test when the two ace fighter pilots become entangled in a love triangle with beautiful Naval nurse Evelyn Johnson
In common: Action · Romance
Clear and Present Danger
1994 · Phillip Noyce
Agent Jack Ryan becomes acting Deputy Director of Intelligence for the CIA when Admiral Greer is diagnosed with cancer. When an American businessman, and friend of the president, is murdered on his ya
In common: Action · Drama · Thriller
Sisu: Road to Revenge
2025 · Jalmari Helander
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 somewhere safe in their h
In common: Action · Thriller · War
Jack Reacher: Never Go Back
2016 · Edward Zwick
Years after resigning command of an elite military police unit, the nomadic, righter-of-wrongs Reacher is drawn back into the life he left behind when his friend and successor, Major Susan Turner is f
In common: Action · Drama
Sisu
2022 · Jalmari Helander
When an ex-soldier who discovers gold in the Lapland wilderness tries to take the loot into the city, German soldiers led by a brutal SS officer battle him.
In common: Action · Thriller · War
Guy Ritchie's The Covenant
2023 · Guy Ritchie
During the war in Afghanistan, a local interpreter risks his own life to carry an injured sergeant across miles of grueling terrain.
In common: Action · Thriller · War
The Bourne Ultimatum
2007 · Paul Greengrass
Bourne is brought out of hiding once again by reporter Simon Ross who is trying to unveil Operation Blackbriar, an upgrade to Project Treadstone, in a series of newspaper columns. Information from the
In common: Action · Drama
Land of Bad
2024 · William Eubank
When a Delta Force special ops mission goes terribly wrong, Air Force drone pilot Reaper has 48 hours to remedy what has devolved into a wild rescue operation. With no weapons and no communication oth
In common: Action · Thriller · War
Rambo
2008 · Sylvester Stallone
In Thailand, ex-Green Beret John James Rambo joins a group of mercenaries to venture into war-torn neighboring Myanmar to rescue a group of Christian aid workers who have been kidnapped by a ruthless
In common: Action · Thriller · War
Tom Clancy's Without Remorse
2021 · Stefano Sollima
An elite Navy SEAL uncovers an international conspiracy while seeking justice for the murder of his pregnant wife.
In common: Action · Thriller · War
The Sum of All Fears
2002 · Phil Alden Robinson
When the president of Russia suddenly dies, a man whose politics are virtually unknown succeeds him. The change in political leaders sparks paranoia among American CIA officials, so CIA director Bill
In common: Thriller · Action · Drama
Kandahar
2023 · Ric Roman Waugh
After his mission is exposed, an undercover CIA operative stuck deep in hostile territory in Afghanistan must fight his way out, alongside his Afghan translator, to an extraction point in Kandahar, al
In common: Action · Thriller · War
Diamonds Are Forever
1971 · Guy Hamilton
Diamonds are stolen only to be sold again in the international market. James Bond infiltrates a smuggling mission to find out who's guilty. The mission takes him to Las Vegas where Bond meets his arch
In common: Action · Thriller
Doctor Zhivago
1965 · David Lean
The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the October Revolution.
In common: Drama · Romance · War
Joint Security Area
2000 · Park Chan-wook
Two North Korean soldiers are killed in the border area between North and South Korea, prompting an investigation by a neutral body. The sergeant is the shooter, but the lead investigator, a Swiss-Kor
In common: Action · Drama · Thriller
Ice Road: Vengeance
2025 · Jonathan Hensleigh
Big rig ice road driver Mike McCann travels to Nepal to scatter his late brother’s ashes on Mt. Everest. While on a packed tour bus traversing the deadly 12,000 ft. terrain of the infamous Road to the
In common: Action · Drama · Thriller
Fury
2014 · David Ayer
April, 1945. As the Allies make their final push in the European Theatre, a battle-hardened army sergeant named Wardaddy commands a Sherman tank and her five-man crew on a deadly mission behind enemy
In common: Action · Drama · War
Top Gun
1986 · Tony Scott
For Lieutenant Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell and his friend and co-pilot Nick 'Goose' Bradshaw, being accepted into an elite training school for fighter pilots is a dream come true. But a tragedy, as well
In common: Action · Drama · Romance
Road House
2024 · Doug Liman
Ex-UFC fighter Dalton takes a job as a bouncer at a Florida Keys roadhouse, only to discover that this paradise is not all it seems.
In common: Action · Drama · Thriller
Shooter
2007 · Antoine Fuqua
A top Marine sniper, Bob Lee Swagger, leaves the military after a mission goes horribly awry and disappears, living in seclusion. He is coaxed back into service after a high-profile government officia
In common: Action · Drama · Thriller
Greyhound
2020 · Aaron Schneider
A first-time captain leads a convoy of allied ships carrying thousands of soldiers across the treacherous waters of the "Black Pit" to the front lines of WWII. With no air cover protection for 5 days,
In common: Action · Drama · War
Rambo: Last Blood
2019 · Adrian Grünberg
After fighting his demons for decades, John Rambo now lives in peace on his family ranch in Arizona, but his rest is interrupted when Gabriela, the granddaughter of his housekeeper María, disappears a
In common: Action · Drama · Thriller
Platoon
1986 · Oliver Stone
As a young and naive recruit in Vietnam, Chris Taylor faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war and the duality of man.
In common: Action · Drama · War
True Lies
1994 · James Cameron
A fearless, globe-trotting, terrorist-battling secret agent has his life turned upside down when he discovers his wife might be having an affair with a used car salesman while terrorists smuggle nucle
In common: Action · Thriller
Enemy of the State
1998 · Tony Scott
When the videotape of the murder of a congressman unknowingly ends up in the hands of labor lawyer and dedicated family man Robert Clayton Dean, he is framed for the murder. With the help of the myste
In common: Action · Drama · Thriller
The Bourne Legacy
2012 · Tony Gilroy
New CIA operative Aaron Cross experiences life-or-death stakes that have been triggered by the previous actions of Jason Bourne.
In common: Action · Thriller
Atomic Blonde
2017 · David Leitch
An undercover MI6 agent is sent to Berlin during the Cold War to investigate the murder of a fellow agent and recover a missing list of double agents.
In common: Action · Thriller
Tears of the Sun
2003 · Antoine Fuqua
Navy SEAL Lieutenant A.K. Waters and his elite squadron of tactical specialists are forced to choose between their duty and their humanity, between following orders by ignoring the conflict that surro
In common: Action · Drama · War
White House Down
2013 · Roland Emmerich
Capitol Policeman John Cale has just been denied his dream job with the Secret Service protecting President James Sawyer. Not wanting to let down his little girl with the news, he takes her on a tour
In common: Action · Drama · Thriller
The Bodyguard
1992 · Mick Jackson
A former Secret Service agent grudgingly takes an assignment to protect a pop idol who's threatened by a crazed fan. At first, the safety-obsessed bodyguard and the self-indulgent diva totally clash.
In common: Action · Drama · Romance
The Longest Day
1962 · Ken Annakin
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 A
In common: Action · Drama · War
Captain Phillips
2013 · Paul Greengrass
The true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the US-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years.
In common: Action · Drama · Thriller
The Marksman
2021 · Robert Lorenz
Jim Hanson’s quiet life is suddenly disturbed by two people crossing the US/Mexico border – a woman and her young son – desperate to flee a Mexican cartel. After a shootout leaves the mother dead, Jim
In common: Action · Drama · Thriller
Snitch
2013 · Ric Roman Waugh
Construction company owner John Matthews learns that his estranged son, Jason, has been arrested for drug trafficking. Facing an unjust prison sentence for a first time offender courtesy of mandatory
In common: Action · Drama · Thriller
Inglourious Basterds
2009 · Quentin Tarantino
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 scalping and brutally kill
In common: Drama · Thriller · War
Gone with the Wind
1939 · Victor Fleming
The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical profiteer during the American Civil War and Reconstruction Era.
In common: Drama · Romance · War
The Hurt Locker
2008 · Kathryn Bigelow
During the Iraq War, a Sergeant recently assigned to an army bomb squad is put at odds with his squad mates due to his maverick way of handling his work.
In common: Drama · Thriller · War
Brothers
2009 · Jim Sheridan
When his helicopter goes down during his fourth tour of duty in Afghanistan, Marine Sam Cahill is presumed dead. Back home, brother Tommy steps in to look over Sam’s wife, Grace, and two children. Sam
In common: Drama · Thriller · War
Valkyrie
2008 · Bryan Singer
Wounded in Africa during World War II, Nazi Col. Claus von Stauffenberg returns to his native Germany and joins the Resistance in a daring plan to create a shadow government and assassinate Adolf Hitl
In common: Drama · Thriller · War
My Fault
2023 · Domingo González
Noah must leave her city, boyfriend, and friends to move into William Leister's mansion, the flashy and wealthy husband of her mother Rafaela. As a proud and independent 17 year old, Noah resists livi
In common: Drama · Romance · Thriller
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