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Plot Summary:
In the beginning of the Second World War, Germans, Austrians and persons without nationality living in France are sent to the concentration camp of Les Milles by France government. Commander Charles Perrochon is the responsible for this camp and he promises to the leaders of the prisoners to protect them from the Nazis. When France is invaded by the Germans, Commander Perronchon will disobey orders and his superiors trying to save these men. He gets a train, a ship and money from USA to send about eight hundred of these prisoners to the safety of Casablanca, in Marrocos.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 306
Genere: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: France, Germany, Poland
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: period piece
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Dad's Army (1971)
Plot Summary:
Dad's Army was a 1971 feature film based on the BBC television sitcom Dad's Army. Directed by Norman Cohen, it was filmed between series three and four and was based upon material from the early episodes of the television series. The film told the story of the Home Guard platoon's formation and their subsequent endeavours at a training exercise.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, War
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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The Ring with a Crowned Eagle (1992)
Plot Summary:
A Polish Resistance fighter who survived the Nazi years cannot accept the new Communist power.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 316
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Poland, France, UK
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags:
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Hideouts (1986)
Plot Summary:
In this well-photographed and sometimes confusing wartime drama, an Austrian village experiences the tragedy of war on several different levels. Within one family, the younger son is jealous of the praise his father gives to a Polish POW who is working for them under very difficult conditions. Within the village as a whole, the French, Polish, and Russian POWs are kept under guard by Nazi soldiers, creating a tense situation all around. But more importantly, the village has conspired to hide an Austrian deserter in a cave up in the mountains. This act of rebellion on the part of the deserter and the village hangs in a precarious balance that could be upset by a single traitorous comment to the Gestapo.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 38
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Austria, West Germany
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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The Secret of Blood Island (1965)
Plot Summary:
Based on the true story of a British secret agent, shot down over Malaya near to a Allied POW forced labour camp. There she is hidden, disguised as a youthful prisoner, until her escape can be effected. The costs of keeping her identity secret fall on all the POW's as the Japanese embark on a policy of ruthless terror to extract her and the focus shifts to the conflicts of the group' s collective concerns against the necessities of personal survival.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 101
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: grindhouse
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Seven Women from Hell (1961)
Plot Summary:
Seven women from different backgrounds, nationality, age, class, and marital status find themselves in New Guinea, February 1942 - when the Japanese army takes over unexpectedly, and sends them into a war camp in the jungle.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 125
Genere: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags:
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The Soldier and the Elephant (1978)
Plot Summary:
Soldier Armenak is given an extraordinary task: to transport an elephant from Germany to the Yerevan Zoo.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 102
Genere: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags:
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Dr. Akagi (1998)
Plot Summary:
At the end of WWII, Japanese doctor Akagi searches for the cure for hepatitis in the prisoner-of-war camp.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, History, War
Country: Japan, France
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: sexy, period piece, sentimental, touching, humorous, realistic, contemplative, semi serious
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Little Alexander (1981)
Plot Summary:
May of 1945. Soviet soldiers conducting an operation to rescue the children in a small town in the territory of Germany.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 114
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union, East Germany
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags:
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The Password Is Courage (1962)
Plot Summary:
A British officer, captured by the Germans, tries everything he can to escape. In the process, amongst many other adventures he gets awarded the Iron Cross !! Based on a true story.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: sitcom, historical drama
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War Fever (1969)
Plot Summary:
A twist of fate leads a recent Westpoint grad into being responsible for the execution of two fellow American GIs. The young lieutenant comes of age, and the two battle hardened veterans achieve a state of grace through acts of sacrifice.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 275
Genere: War, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: macaroni combat
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Summer Solstice (2015)
Plot Summary:
Coming of Age Drama in rural Poland in the summer of 1943.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 423
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Poland, Germany
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, period piece
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Trial on the Road (1986)
Plot Summary:
A Russian POW joins the partisan guerrillas and proves his loyalty fighting the Nazis.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: political, black and white
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The Elusive Corporal (1962)
Plot Summary:
The story serves as a companion piece to Renoir's 1937 film, Grand Illusion, once more bringing together men from across the broad social spectrum of French society to depict one man's Sisyphean efforts to escape captivity in a German POW camp.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, contemplative, semi serious
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The Quality of Mercy (1994)
Plot Summary:
It is the beginning of 1945 during WW2 in former Austria. 500 Russian prisoners of war who have refused to fight on the side of the Germans against their country were moved to the concentration camp in Mauthausen awaiting execution. They decide to break out. One winter night the Russian prisoners make an escape. During the following shooting a great number of them gets killed. Some, however, succeed to hide in nearby villages. But the German Nazis convince the inhabitants of the villages to hunt the prisoners "like rabbits".
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 321
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Austria, Germany
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags:
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Tea with Mussolini (1999)
Plot Summary:
Semi-autobiographical film directed by Franco Zeffirelli, telling the story of young Italian boy Luca's upbringing by a circle of English and American women, before and during World War II.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: Italy, UK
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: period piece, light, costume drama, sentimental, touching, realistic, retro, uplifting, political thriller, art house
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Seven Beauties (1975)
Plot Summary:
Nominated for four Academy Awards including Best Director, Seven Beauties stars Giancarlo Giannini (Swept Away) as Pasqualino Frafuso, known in Naples as "Pasqualino Seven Beauties." A petty thief who lives off of the profits of his seven sisters while claiming to protect their honor at any cost, Pasqualino is arrested for murder and later sent to fight in the army after committing sexual assault. The Germans capture him and he gets sent to a concentration camp where he plots to make his escape by seducing a German officer.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: black comedy, humorous, disturbing, cynical, biting, sincere, controversial, clever, offbeat, realistic
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Persian Lessons (2020)
Plot Summary:
Occupied France, 1942. Gilles is arrested by SS soldiers alongside other Jews and sent to a camp in Germany. He narrowly avoids sudden execution by swearing to the guards that he is not Jewish, but Persian. This lie temporarily saves him, but Gilles gets assigned a life-or-death mission: to teach Farsi to Head of Camp Koch, who dreams of opening a restaurant in Iran once the war is over. Through an ingenious trick, Gilles manages to survive by inventing words of "Farsi" every day and teaching them to Koch.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Russia, Germany, Belarus
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, independent film
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The Auschwitz Report (2021)
Plot Summary:
This is the true story of Freddy and Walter – two young Slovak Jews, who were deported to Auschwitz in 1942. On 10 April 1944, after meticulous planning and with the help and the resilience of their inmates, they manage to escape. While the inmates they had left behind courageously stand their ground against the Nazi officers, the two men are driven on by the hope that their evidence could save lives. Emaciated and hurt, they make their way through the mountains back to Slovakia. With the help of chance encounters, they finally manage to cross the border and meet the resistance and The Red Cross. They compile a detailed report about the systematic genocide at the camp. However, with Nazi propaganda and international liaisons still in place, their account seems to be too harrowing to believe.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, History, War
Country: Slovakia, Czech Republic, Poland, Germany
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, disturbing, social
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The Boys from St. Petri (1991)
Plot Summary:
A group of school-mates form a resistance group in nazi-occupied Denmark.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags:
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Two Men Went to War (2002)
Plot Summary:
Comedy drama based on the true story of two British Army dentists who in 1942, eager to see action, go AWOL and invade occupied France on their own.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 934
Genere: Comedy, War, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, entertaining, captivating, offbeat, realistic
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The Burmese Harp (1985)
Plot Summary:
In the War's closing days, when a conscience-driven Japanese soldier fails to get his countrymen to surrender to overwhelming force, he adopts the lifestyle of a Buddhist monk.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 190
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 133 min
Plot tags: odd
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My Führer (2007)
Plot Summary:
Hitler no longer believes in himself, and can barely see himself as an equal to even his sheep dog. But to seize the helm of the war he would have to create one of his famous fiery speeches to mobilize the masses. Goebbels therefore brings a Jewish acting teacher Grünbaum and his family from the camps in order to train the leader in rhetoric. Grünbaum is torn, but starts Hitler in his therapy.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, suspense, offbeat, humorous, controversial, not serious, slapstick comedy, slapstick
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Oba: The Last Samurai (2011)
Plot Summary:
In 1944, the American military lands on the shores of Saipan. Refusing to commit suicide with his superiors or be forced into camps for prisoners of war, Captain Oba Sakae leads a group of his men and other similarly minded local residents into the mountains. Even after hearing reports of the Japanese military's surrender, Oba dismisses the reports as propaganda and continues to launch guerilla attacks against the American soldiers, earning him the nickname "The Fox". Soon, even the American commander who's charged with the task of capturing Oba comes to admire his persistent enemy.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Blockhouse (1973)
Plot Summary:
A group of Slave workers, drafted by the Nazis to help construct their coastal defenses in 1944 are trapped in an underground bunker when the Allies land at Normandy on D-Day. They find huge dtores of food but not enough candles. The slow dying of the light parallels their increasing boredom, illness and jealousy during their entrapment. Based on the Novel 'Le Blockhaus' by Jean Paul Clebert.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 632
Genere: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, gloomy, independent film
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Abandoned Houses, Empty Homes (2000)
Plot Summary:
A war movie that takes place in Finnish Karelia in 1944.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 309
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Finland
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Island on Bird Street (1997)
Plot Summary:
Alex is an 11-year old boy who, during WWII, hides in the Jewish ghetto from Nazis after all the relatives have been sent to the concentration camp. The movie portrays the ghetto through his eyes.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Denmark, UK, Germany, France
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: tense, bleak, serious, realistic, suspense, independent film, period piece
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The Truce (1997)
Plot Summary:
Although liberated from Auschwitz on January 27, 1945, Levi did not reach Turin until October 19 of that year. After spending some time in a Soviet camp for former concentration camp inmates, he embarked on an arduous journey home in the company of Italian former prisoners of war from the Italian Army in Russia. His long railway journey home to Turin took him on a circuitous route from Poland, through Russia, Romania, Hungary, Austria and Germany.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Italy, France, Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: sincere, historical drama, uplifting, bleak, serious, captivating, emotional, realistic, gloomy
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My Best Enemy (2011)
Plot Summary:
Poland 1943: An unlikely pair - a concentration camp prisoner and a captain in Hitler's notorious SS - free themselves from the wreckage of a crashed SS airplane. The two appear to be strangely familiar with each other and the extent of their extraordinary relationship is thrillingly revealed.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: Austria, Luxembourg
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, tense, serious, captivating, realistic, contemplative
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Unknown Soldier (2017)
Plot Summary:
The film follows Finnish army machine gun company in Continuation War against Soviet Union, 1941–1944. Based on Väinö Linna's best selling novel Tuntematon Sotilas (The Unknown Soldier) and the novel's uncensored version, Sotaromaani (A War Novel).
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Finland, Belgium, Iceland
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, thought provoking, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, novela, historical drama
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The Monuments Men (2014)
Plot Summary:
Based on the true story of the greatest treasure hunt in history, The Monuments Men is an action drama focusing on seven over-the-hill, out-of-shape museum directors, artists, architects, curators, and art historians who went to the front lines of WWII to rescue the world’s artistic masterpieces from Nazi thieves and return them to their rightful owners. With the art hidden behind enemy lines, how could these guys hope to succeed?.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 138000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, History, War
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: exciting, intense, suspense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, entertaining, period piece, uplifting, political