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Plot Summary:
A French resistance group liberates some German prisoners. Turns out one of them is a spy.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 792
Genere: Action, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: political
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The Day and the Hour (1963)
Plot Summary:
It's the spring of 1944 and Therese is in a hurry to get back to Paris. The trains aren't running from the village where she has gone to visit her father's grave and to fill two suitcases with food. Some British and American planes have been shot down and the Germans want to know where the pilots are hiding. An acquaintance has clearance to drive to Paris with a truckload of goats. After she is in the truck Therese discovers that two British pilots and an American pilot are back there with the goats. She must get the men on a train to Paris and to a safe house there, where there is no room for the American. Can she leave him at the Metro station trying to figure out the map?.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 413
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance, War
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags:
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D-Day 6.6.1944 (2004)
Plot Summary:
On June 6th, 1944 the largest military invasion and defence the world has ever seen occurred. D-Day tells the epic story of the preparation and execution of the Allied invasion of Normandy. It tells the story of the defence of the Western Front by the forces of the German Empire, and of the complex and deadly secret war fought by the men and women of France and mainland Europe. D-Day brings to life the dramatic and astounding tales of courage and sacrifice, joy and despair, love and betrayal. The planning for the Allied invasion on June 6th 1944 took two years and cost thousands of lives. It involved a deception of breathtaking audacity. Both the preparation leading up to and the actions and events on the day itself relied on the absolute discretion of many and the genius and nerve of a few. D-Day examines the intricate jigsaw from both sides - presenting events through the eyes of the men and women who were there, telling their extraordinary stories.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 375
Genere: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: UK, France, Germany
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, serious, realistic
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Special Section (1975)
Plot Summary:
In occupied France during the WWII, a German officer is murdered. The collaborationist Vichy government decides to pin the murder on six petty criminals. Loyal judges are called in to convict them as quickly as possible.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: France, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: political, suspense
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Burning at Both Ends (2021)
Plot Summary:
The movie follows a group of resistance radio broadcasters in Nazi-occupied France as they evade capture alongside a Jewish family.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 560
Genere: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Tankers (2018)
Plot Summary:
The film is based on the true story about a Soviet KV-1 crew of a Soviet KV-1 tank, under the command of Semyon Konovalov , whom despite being heavily outnumbered by German forces, destroyed 16 tanks, 2 armored vehicles and 8 other enemy vehicles at the village of Nizhnemytyakin, Tarasovsky district, Rostov region on July 13th, 1942.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Battle of El Alamein (1969)
Plot Summary:
This movie's opening prologue states: "June 1942. As Rommel swept toward the Nile, the fall of Egypt and the capture of the Suez Canal seemed inevitable. Italian and German advance units raced toward Alexandria. Mussolini had given explicit orders: The Italians must arrive first!".
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 683
Genere: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: macaroni combat, exciting, rough, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing
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War Pigs (2015)
Plot Summary:
A rag tag unit of misfits known as the War Pigs must go behind enemy lines to exterminate Nazis by any means necessary.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, perverse
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The Train (1964)
Plot Summary:
As the Allied forces approach Paris in August 1944, German Colonel Von Waldheim is desperate to take all of France's greatest paintings to Germany. He manages to secure a train to transport the valuable art works even as the chaos of retreat descends upon them. The French resistance however wants to stop them from stealing their national treasures but have received orders from London that they are not to be destroyed. The station master, Labiche, is tasked with scheduling the train and making it all happen smoothly but he is also part of a dwindling group of resistance fighters tasked with preventing the theft. He and others stage an elaborate ruse to keep the train from ever leaving French territory.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Action, Thriller, War
Country: France, Italy, USA
Duration: 133 min
Plot tags: black and white, realistic, suspenseful, retro, exciting, serious, action thriller, tense, light, atmospheric
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Panfilov's 28 (2016)
Plot Summary:
USSR, Late November, 1941. Based on the account by reporter Vasiliy Koroteev that appeared in the Red Army's newspaper, Krasnaya Zvezda, shortly after the battle, this is the story of Panifilov's Twenty-Eight, a group of twenty-eight soldiers of the Red Army's 316th Rifle Division, under the command of General Ivan Panfilov, that stopped the advance on Moscow of a column of fifty-four Nazi tanks of the 11th Panzer Division for several days. Though armed only with standard issue Mosin-Nagant infantry rifles and DP and PM-M1910 machine guns, all useless against tanks, and with wholly inadequate RPG-40 anti-tank grenades and PTRD-41 anti-tank rifles, they fight tirelessly and defiantly, with uncommon bravery and unwavering dedication, to protect Moscow and their Motherland.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: touching, rough, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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Is Paris Burning? (1966)
Plot Summary:
The title is Adolf Hitler's question to his chief of staff Alfred Jodl on the eve of the liberation of Paris (August 25): the military governor of Paris, General Dietrich von Choltitz, had been ordered to destroy Paris rather than let it fall undamaged into the hands of the Allies, but von Choltitz disobeyed.The film follows historical events as U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower, head of the Allied invasion, refuses to divert troops to liberate Paris. His hand is forced by the French military leader, Philippe Leclerc, and by a Resistance uprising in the city. Von Choltitz keeps details of the uprising from the German high command in an effort to save the city being destroyed in retaliation. The film follows his turmoil as a soldier and as the man who doesn't wish to be seen by history as the cause of a beautiful city's destruction.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, History, War
Country: France, USA
Duration: 175 min
Plot tags: harsh, factual, tense, suspense, serious, emotional, captivating, suspenseful, retro, informative
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The Last Train (1973)
Plot Summary:
Two people, a Frenchman Julien Maroyeur and a Jewish German woman (Anna Kupfer) met on a train while escaping the German army entering France.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance, War
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: road movie, sentimental, sincere, touching, serious, emotional, realistic
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Triple Cross (1966)
Plot Summary:
A safecracker turns double agent during WWII.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: UK, France, West Germany
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: political thriller, serious, realistic, suspenseful, eurospy
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Code Name: Emerald (1985)
Plot Summary:
In april 1944, an allied agent is sent to France in order to rescue an "overlord" captured by the Germans. (An "overlord" is one of the few men who knew the date and place of the "D" day). To achieve this goal, he will be supported by a secret friend of the allies, a very important German officer and the French resistance. But the nazi SS is not resting.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Last Escape (1970)
Plot Summary:
During World War II, American officer Capt. Lee Mitchell (Stuart Whitman) and a British military unit boldly infiltrate German-occupied enemy territory and attempt to kidnap brilliant Nazi scientist Dr. Von Heinken (Pinkas Braun) and bring him back in one piece. While shuttling their prized captive to safety, the Allied forces courageously assist desperate refugees and tussle with overpowering German and Russian forces.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 268
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, bleak, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful
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In the Fog (2012)
Plot Summary:
Western frontiers of the USSR, 1942. The region is under German occupation. A man is wrongly accused of collaboration. Desperate to save his dignity, he faces an impossible moral choice.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, History, War
Country: Germany, Netherlands, Belarus, Russia, Latvia
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: realistic, bleak, serious, psychological, captivating, sexy, slow cinema, aesthetic, sincere, contemplative
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Lucie Aubrac (1997)
Plot Summary:
A love story or a tale of the resistance, this poignant movie tells both the haunting story of a French resistance cell in Lyon but also the love of Lucie Aubrac for her husband.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Biography, Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: emotional, serious, realistic, romantic, sexy, enigmatic, entertaining, melancholic, dramatic, witty
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Stalingrad (2013)
Plot Summary:
Drama set in 1942, during one of the most important battles of World War II, which stopped the progress of Nazi forces and turned the tide of war in favor of the Allies. The Soviet army mounts a counter-attack on the Nazi forces that occupy half of Stalingrad on the other side of the Volga, but the operation to cross the river is unsuccessful. A few soldiers who managed to get to the other side take refuge in a house on the bank of Volga. Here they find a girl who didn’t escape when the Germans came. While the whole might of the German army descends onto them, the heroes of Stalingrad experience love, loss, joy and the sense of ultimate freedom that can only be felt by those about to die. They defend the house at all costs while the Red Army prepares for another attack.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 131 min
Plot tags: captivating, realistic, exciting, rough, serious, bleak, epic, historical drama
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Allies (2014)
Plot Summary:
August 1944 two months after D-Day, the Allies are advancing across France. A team of British and American commandos are dropped behind enemy lines on a secret mission to ambush a German Officer and steal maps charting the location of the enemy artillery along the front line.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: captivating, exciting, tense, suspense
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Unknown Battle (2019)
Plot Summary:
During WW2, in 1942 and 1943, a series of not-so-well known yet bloody battles occurred near the town of Rzhev. Those battles received the name of ‘Rzhev Meat Grinder’. The film is based on the award-winning novel by Vyacheslav Kondratyev, which tells about one of those battles and the ability to demonstrate courage, friendship, and the power of human spirit in the most horrible situations.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, History, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: rough, epic, serious, suspense, realistic, suspenseful
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The Last Rescue (2015)
Plot Summary:
World World II: Shortly after D-Day, three American soldiers and two Army Corps nurses are stranded behind enemy lines. They take a high-ranking German officer as their prisoner and try to orchestrate an escape.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: captivating, realistic, tense, suspense
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The Secret Invasion (1964)
Plot Summary:
During World War II, convicts are recruited by the Allies for an extremely hazardous mission.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, serious, captivating, realistic, surprise ending, psychotronic, cult film
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The Army of Shadows (1969)
Plot Summary:
Betrayed by an informant, Philippe Gerbier (Lino Ventura) finds himself trapped in a torturous Nazi prison camp. Though Gerbier escapes to rejoin the Resistance in occupied Marseilles, France, and exacts his revenge on the informant, he must continue a quiet, seemingly endless battle against the Nazis in an atmosphere of tension, paranoia and distrust.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Drama, War
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 145 min
Plot tags: noir, visually appealing, art house, bleak, captivating, realistic, stylized, political, visual, sincere
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Army of Crime (2009)
Plot Summary:
This gripping historical drama recounts the story of Armenian-born Missak Manouchian, a woodworker and political activist who led an immigrant laborer division of the Parisian Resistance on 30 operations against the Nazis in 1943. The Nazis branded the group an Army of Crime, an anti-immigrant propaganda stunt that backfired as the team's members became martyrs for the Resistance.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, History, War
Country: France
Duration: 139 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, disturbing, sincere, suspenseful, gloomy
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Sobibor (2018)
Plot Summary:
Based on the true story, international historical project “Sobibor” is dedicated to the heroism of the Soviet o cer Alexander Pechersky. During the great Patriotic war, being in a Nazi concentration camp Sobibor he managed to do the impossible — for only three weeks to organize a revolt and mass escape of the prisoners. Part of the escapees were caught and shot, and the rest led by Pechersky managed to escape and joined the partisans.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: Russia, Germany, Lithuania
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: rough, factual, suspenseful, philosophical, political
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Fortress of War (2010)
Plot Summary:
A war drama set during the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, in which Russian troops held on to a border stronghold for nine days. The film shows the heroic defense of Brest Fortress, which has taken upon the first stroke of German fascist invaders on June 22 1941.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: Belarus, Russia
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, exciting, tense, captivating, touching, epic
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Defiance (2008)
Plot Summary:
Based on a true story, during World War II, four Jewish brothers escape their Nazi-occupied homeland of West Belarus in Poland and join the Soviet partisans to combat the Nazis. The brothers begin the rescue of roughly 1,200 Jews still trapped in the ghettos of Poland.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 154000
Genere: Action, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min
Plot tags: emotional, sincere, epic, period piece, dramatic, realistic, historical drama, psychological, motivational, clever
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Allied (2016)
Plot Summary:
In 1942, an intelligence officer in North Africa encounters a female French Resistance fighter on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. When they reunite in London, their relationship is tested by the pressures of war.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 166000
Genere: Action, Drama, History, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: suspense, sexy, emotional, exciting, tense, romantic, suspenseful, scenic, intense, factual
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Flame & Citron (2008)
Plot Summary:
During Nazi occupation, red-headed Bent Faurschou-Hviid ("Flame") and Jørgen Haagen Schmith ("Citron"), assassins in the Danish resistance, take orders from Winther, who's in direct contact with Allied leaders. One shoots, the other drives. Until 1944, they kill only Danes; then Winther gives orders to kill Germans. When a target tells Bent that Winther's using them to settle private scores, doubt sets in, complicated by Bent's relationship with the mysterious Kitty Selmer, who may be a double agent. Also, someone in their circle is a traitor. Can Bent and Jørgen kill an über-target, evade capture, and survive the war? And is this heroism, naiveté, or mere hatred?.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Action, Drama, History, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: Denmark, Germany, Norway, France, Sweden, Finland, Czech Republic
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: realistic, sincere, period piece, tense, atmospheric, factual, brutal, intense, suspenseful, psychological
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Dunkirk (2017)
Plot Summary:
The story of the miraculous evacuation of Allied soldiers from Belgium, Britain, Canada and France, who were cut off and surrounded by the German army from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk between May 26th and June 4th 1940 during World War II.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 721000
Genere: Action, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: UK, Netherlands, France, USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: epic, atmospheric, dramatic, suspense, realistic, visually stunning, suspenseful, stylized, intense, visual
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Fury (2014)
Plot Summary:
Last months of World War II in April 1945. As the Allies make their final push in the European Theater, a battle-hardened U.S. Army sergeant in the 2nd Armored Division named Wardaddy commands a Sherman tank called "Fury" and its five-man crew on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. Outnumbered and outgunned, Wardaddy and his men face overwhelming odds in their heroic attempts to strike at the heart of Nazi Germany.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 532000
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA, China, UK
Duration: 134 min
Plot tags: serious, exciting, tense, rough, suspenseful, realistic, sad, cult classic, historical drama, psychological