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10 Best Movies Like Background to Danger

If you loved Background to Danger, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
The One That Got Away

The One That Got Away

1957★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Background to Danger for fans of War. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

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....

#2
Journey into Fear

Journey into Fear

1943★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Background to Danger for fans of Thriller & War. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

An American ballistics expert in Turkey finds himself targeted by Nazi agents. Safe passage home by ship is arranged for him, but he soon discovers that his pursuers are also on bo...

#3
The Counterfeit Traitor

The Counterfeit Traitor

1962★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Background to Danger for fans of Thriller & War. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Blacklisted in modern day WW2, a Swedish oil trader opts to assist British Allies, by means of infiltrating and surveying Nazi Germany....

#4
The Quiller Memorandum

The Quiller Memorandum

1966★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Background to Danger for fans of Thriller. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

After two British Secret Intelligence Service agents are murdered at the hands of a cryptic neo-Nazi group known as Phoenix, the suave agent Quiller is sent to Berlin to investigat...

#5
Waiting for Anya

Waiting for Anya

2020★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Background to Danger for fans of War. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

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....

#6
The MacKintosh Man

The MacKintosh Man

1973★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Background to Danger for fans of Thriller. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

A member of British Intelligence assumes a fictitious criminal identity and allows himself to be caught, imprisoned, and freed in order to infiltrate a spy organization and expose ...

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