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Plot Summary:
This true story follows the exploits of a top secret British military mission to destroy Nazi radio ships in a neutral harbor during WWII. The daring plan is led by British Intelligence officers Col. Lewis Pugh (Gregory Peck) and Capt. Gavin Stewart (Roger Moore). Since the ships are in neutral territory the British Military command, while encouraging the scheme, must deny any knowledge of it if it fails. Pugh and Stewart enlist the aid of retired officer Col. Bill Grice (David Niven) and some of his former soldiers. On the pretext of being on a fishing expedition, these seemingly drunken old men in civilian clothing must board and destroy 3 Nazi ships, whose radio transmissions have resulted in Nazi submarines sinking allied ships. While Stewart arranges a diversion on shore, Pugh and Grice carry out the dangerous raid on and destruction of the Nazi ships.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, History, War
Country: UK, USA, Switzerland
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, tense, suspense, realistic, serious, factual, cult classic, independent film, black comedy
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Escape to Athena (1979)
Plot Summary:
During the World War II, the prisoners of a German camp in a greek island are trying to escape. They don't want only their freedom, but they also seek for an ineffable treasure hidden in a monastery at the top of the island's mountain.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, War
Country: UK
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, suspense, disturbing, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film, historical drama
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Tanks For Stalin (2018)
Plot Summary:
A prototype of a new cutting edge tank is being taken on a secret mission to Moscow, to Comrade Stalin. Soon the cross-country run turns into a ruthless race. Followed by Nazis, the tanks' team defeats their pursuers and proves the great ability and vast superiority of the machine that is about to become a legendary T-34.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Comedy, History
Country: Russia
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, exciting, tense, suspense, harsh
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The Red Ghost (2020)
Plot Summary:
December 30, 1941. Vyazma ('Vyazemsky cauldron') is a small detachment of Soviet soldiers, by fatal coincidence, in an unequal battle with a special unit of the Wehrmacht. However, none of them think about giving up. Each of them was ready to sacrifice his life in order to protect his native land. None of these brave people was born a hero. The myth of the red ghost is a heroic deed without a soldier's Soviet soldier in the Great Patriotic War who instilled in the animals, deadly fear of German soldiers. In place of one of the dead hero was inserted another, and the born myth of the invincible Soviet soldier. The film 'The Red Ghost' is about the hope that each soldier will have.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, History, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, tense, rough, suspense
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Morituri (1965)
Plot Summary:
A German living in India during World War II is blackmailed by the English to impersonate an SS officer on board a cargo ship leaving Japan for Germany carrying a large supply of rubber for tyres. His mission is to disable the scuttling charges so the captain cannot sink the ship if they are stopped by English warships.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: black and white, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, patriotic, vintage
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Eye of the Needle (1981)
Plot Summary:
A ruthless German spy, trying to get out of Britain with vital information about D-Day, must spend time with a young woman and her crippled husband.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Romance, Thriller, War
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: sexy, tense, suspenseful, suspense, political thriller, bleak, serious, realistic, erotic, exciting
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The Heroes of Telemark (1965)
Plot Summary:
Set in German-occupied Norway, this is based on the efforts of the Norwegian resistance to sabotage German development of the atomic bomb. Resistance fighter Knut Straud enlists the reluctant physicist Rolf Pedersen in an effort to destroy the German heavy water production plant in rural Telemark. British commandos dispatched to destroy the plant are killed when their glider crashes. A resistance raid ends in the partial destruction of the heavy water but the Germans resume production quickly. Pedersen recommends that the Allies bomb the plant. Straud opposes him to prevent civilian deaths. The air raid takes place, but it fails to destroy the heavy water. The remaining heavy water is loaded onto a ferry for Germany, and the resistance attempt to blow it up. Pedersen boards the ferry to try and minimize civilian deaths. The film closes with resistance members rescuing passengers as the ferry sinks.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: UK
Duration: 131 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful, independent film, microfilm, cult film
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Pathfinders: In the Company of Strangers (2011)
Plot Summary:
Untold and lost history. A true story of the American Pathfinders, the volunteer paratroopers whose deadly mission was to land 30 minutes before the Normandy invasion, locate and mark strategic "drop zones" and set up the top-secret navigation equipment needed to guide the main airborne assault on D-Day.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: tense, realistic, captivating, suspenseful, epic, serious, independent film
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Where Eagles Dare (1968)
Plot Summary:
World War II is raging, and an American general has been captured and is being held hostage in the Schloss Adler, a Bavarian castle that's nearly impossible to breach. It's up to a group of skilled Allied soldiers to liberate the general before it's too late.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 62000
Genere: Action, Adventure, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 158 min
Plot tags: exciting, realistic, suspenseful, mind blowing, retro, educational, dieselpunk, visually stunning, historical drama, twisted
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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 Dirty Dozen: Next Mission (1985)
Plot Summary:
Major Reisman is "volunteered" to lead another mission using convicted army soldiers, sentenced to either death or long prison terms. This time their mission is to kill a Nazi general who plans to assassinate Hitler.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, War
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspenseful, exciting, rough, serious
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The Dirty Dozen (1967)
Plot Summary:
12 American military prisoners in World War II are ordered to infiltrate a well-guarded enemy château and kill the Nazi officers vacationing there. The soldiers, most of whom are facing death sentences for a variety of violent crimes, agree to the mission and the possible commuting of their sentences.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 78000
Genere: Action, Adventure, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, suspense, intense, serious, realistic, perverse, action adventure, mind blowing, spectacular
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The Wild Geese (1978)
Plot Summary:
A British multinational company seeks to overthrow a vicious dictator in central Africa. It hires a band of (largely aged) mercenaries in London and sends them in to save the virtuous but imprisoned opposition leader who is also critically ill and due for execution. Just when the team has performed a perfect rescue, the multinational does a deal with the vicious dictator leaving the mercenary band to escape under their own steam and exact revenge.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: Switzerland, UK
Duration: 134 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, harsh, serious, realistic, sad, action adventure, political, rough, suspenseful
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Submarine X-1 (1968)
Plot Summary:
After losing a submarine and fifty crew in a battle with a German ship during WWII, a Royal Navy officer gets a second chance in a daring raid with midget subs.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 723
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful
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Midway (1976)
Plot Summary:
This war drama depicts the U.S. and Japanese forces in the naval Battle of Midway, which became a turning point for Americans during World War II.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: realistic, tense, factual, suspense, intense, exciting, suspenseful, serious, historical drama, spectacular
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USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage (2016)
Plot Summary:
The harrowing true story of the crew of the USS Indianapolis, who were stranded in the Philippine Sea for five days after delivering the atomic weapons that would eventually end WWII. As they awaited rescue, they endured extreme thirst, hunger, and relentless shark attacks.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Action, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: dramatic, exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, realistic, suspenseful, factual, historical drama, disgusting
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In Enemy Hands (2004)
Plot Summary:
At the height of Hitler's infamous U-boat war, the crew of the U.S.S. Swordfish were heading home after months at sea. They never made it. Now prisoners of war aboard U-boat 429, a small group of American survivors will find their loyalties put to the ultimate test when they're forced to join their German captors to fight for their very lives.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Thriller, War, Action
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense
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U-571 (2000)
Plot Summary:
In the midst of World War II, the battle under the sea rages and the Nazis have the upper hand as the Allies are unable to crack their war codes. However, after a wrecked U-boat sends out an SOS signal, the Allies realise this is their chance to seize the 'enigma coding machine'.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 86000
Genere: Action, War
Country: France, USA, Italy
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: realistic, exciting, suspenseful, suspense, factual, intense, rough, serious, dramatic, action packed
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55 Days at Peking (1963)
Plot Summary:
Diplomats, soldiers and other representatives of a dozen nations fend off the siege of the International Compound in Peking during the 1900 Boxer Rebellion. The disparate interests unite for survival despite competing factions, overwhelming odds, delayed relief and tacit support of the Boxers by the Empress of China and her generals.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 154 min
Plot tags: serious, epic, exciting, realistic, tense, suspense, surprise ending, independent film, vintage
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Operation Crossbow (1965)
Plot Summary:
Allied agents infiltrate the Nazi rocket complex at Peenemunde in order to obtain their secrets and sabotage the plant.The film alternates between German developments of the V-1 missile and V-2 rocket (with a German cast speaking their own language) and discovery by British Intelligence of the weapon.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: UK, Italy
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: political thriller, retro, cult classic, suspense, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending
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The Guns of Navarone (1961)
Plot Summary:
A team of allied saboteurs are assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held island and destroy the two enormous long-range field guns that prevent the rescue of 2,000 trapped British soldiers.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 54000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 158 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, tense, intense, serious, epic, fast paced, realistic, suspenseful, retro
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Force 10 from Navarone (1978)
Plot Summary:
Mallory and Miller are back. The survivors of Navarone are sent on a mission along with a unit called Force 10, which is led by Colonel Barnsby. But Force 10 has a mission of their own which the boys know nothing about.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspense, tense, stylized, intense, serious, suspenseful, patriotic, realistic, clever
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Battle of Britain (1969)
Plot Summary:
In 1940, the Royal Air Force fights a desperate battle against the might of the Luftwaffe for control of the skies over Britain, thus preventing the Nazi invasion of Britain.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: UK
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: epic, cult classic, exciting, realistic, patriotic, dieselpunk, spectacular, sincere, serious, black comedy
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Flags of Our Fathers (2006)
Plot Summary:
There were five Marines and one Navy Corpsman photographed raising the U.S. flag on Mt. Suribachi by Joe Rosenthal on February 23, 1945. This is the story of three of the six surviving servicemen – John 'Doc' Bradley, Pvt. Rene Gagnon and Pvt. Ira Hayes, who fought in the battle to take Iwo Jima from the Japanese.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 128000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: sincere, emotional, realistic, epic, factual, suspense, serious, touching, patriotic, historical drama
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The Eagle Has Landed (1976)
Plot Summary:
When the Nazi high command learns in late 1943 that Winston Churchill will be spending time at a country estate in Norfolk, it hatches an audacious scheme to kidnap the prime minister and spirit him to Germany for enforced negotiations with Hitler.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: UK
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspense, tense, intense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, political thriller, rough, independent film
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The Outpost (2019)
Plot Summary:
A small unit of U.S. soldiers, alone at the remote Combat Outpost Keating, located deep in the valley of three mountains in Afghanistan, battles to defend against an overwhelming force of Taliban fighters in a coordinated attack. The Battle of Kamdesh, as it was known, was the bloodiest American engagement of the Afghan War in 2009 and Bravo Troop 3-61 CAV became one of the most decorated units of the 19-year conflict.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 39000
Genere: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, brutal, perverse, cult classic, surprise ending, independent film, black comedy, dark comedy, captivating
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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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The Longest Day (1962)
Plot Summary:
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 Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that when the Allied invasion comes they must be stopped on the beach. "For the Allies as well as the Germans, it will be the longest day".
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 58000
Genere: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 178 min
Plot tags: epic, realistic, factual, black and white, tense, suspense, harsh, suspenseful, touching, serious
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The Devil's Brigade (1968)
Plot Summary:
1968 American war film about the formation and first mission of the joint Canadian-American WWII special forces winter and mountain unit formally called 1st Special Service Force, but commonly known as “The Devil’s Brigade”. The film dramatises the Brigade's first mission in the Italian Campaign, the task of capturing the German mountain stronghold Monte la Difensa, in December 1943. The film is based on the 1966 book of the same name, co-written by American novelist and historian Robert H. Adleman and Col. George Walton, a member of the brigade.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: exciting, realistic, tense, harsh, serious, suspenseful, epic, retro, cult classic, historical drama
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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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Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)
Plot Summary:
After an abrupt and violent encounter with a French warship inflicts severe damage upon his ship, a captain of the British Royal Navy begins a chase over two oceans to capture or destroy the enemy, though he must weigh his commitment to duty and ferocious pursuit of glory against the safety of his devoted crew, including the ship's thoughtful surgeon, his best friend.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 234000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, period piece, serious, suspenseful, breathtaking, dramatic, visually appealing, visually stunning, costume drama