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Plot Summary:
During World War II, a tough officer organizes a commando raid into Germany.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 104
Genere: War, Drama
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: macaroni combat
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Desert Commandos (1967)
Plot Summary:
German commandos are dropped behind enemy lines in the Sahara Desert tasked with getting to Casablanca in an assassination attempt on allied leaders.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 415
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, macaroni combat, cult film
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Carriage to Vienna (1966)
Plot Summary:
A WW2 story of a young Austrian soldier running from the Russian army and a woman whom he forces to come along in order to save his wounded mate.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: road movie, dark
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When Heroes Die (1970)
Plot Summary:
The story of a group of American commandos assigned to kidnap General Rommel. But the soldiers are caught by the Germans who decide to use their plan against them. Replacing the American soldiers with German soldiers, and with the help of a fake "kidnapped" Rommel, they plan to kill General Eisenhower.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 92
Genere: Romance, War
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: macaroni combat
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Churchill's Leopards (1970)
Plot Summary:
A British commando team heads into France to blow up a German-held dam in preparation for D-Day, while a British agent infiltrates the German garrison to give inside help. The twist is that the British officer is replacing his twin German brother.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 290
Genere: Action, Thriller, War
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, macaroni combat
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Fall of the Eagles (1989)
Plot Summary:
No overview found.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 164
Genere: Drama, War
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags:
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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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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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Hell Commandos (1969)
Plot Summary:
Spanish-Italian war movie.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 110
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: macaroni combat
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Hell in Normandy (1968)
Plot Summary:
The movie is set during World War II in the days just prior to the D-Day invasion. A special parachute unit is sent to destroy a German flame thrower installation on Omaha Beach.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 315
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: macaroni combat
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From Hell to Victory (1979)
Plot Summary:
From Hell To Victory follows the relationship of six friends throughout the Second World War. They meet in a cafe in Paris on 24th August 1939 and agree to meet there on the same day every year. The war however takes them on their own individual path's and keeping their friendship throughout proves complicated.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 479
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Italy, France, Spain
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: macaroni combat, spectacular
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The One (2015)
Plot Summary:
During WWII a Soviet artillery unit is fighting Nazis while trying to do everything to save lives of a group of deaf children near their position.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 463
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: tense, touching, sincere, captivating, emotional
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Blood & Gold (2023)
Plot Summary:
At the end of World War II, a German soldier is looking for his daughter while an SS troop is looking for a Jewish treasure.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, brutal, period piece, period drama
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Warriors Five (1962)
Plot Summary:
World War II Italy...1943. After parachuting behind enemy lines on an espionage mission, an American soldier is imprisoned by the enemy. He escapes with four Italian prisoners, enlisting their aid in exploding a bridge.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 111
Genere: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Italy, France, Yugoslavia
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: macaroni combat, exciting, rough, bleak, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful
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Angel of the Skies (2013)
Plot Summary:
War is declared and Britain must take action against Nazi Germany if Europe is going to be saved from its ruthless clutches. Determined to beat the enemy Flt. Office Earl Kirk, a young South African pilot, volunteers his services to the Royal Air Force, sacrificing his family, his future and himself in the fight against evil. Whilst in combat, surrounded by bombers and under relentless attack, Kirk must make the decision that could change his and his crew's life forever.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 825
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: South Africa
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, captivating, 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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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 Battle of the Eagles (1979)
Plot Summary:
The first Yugoslav Partisan air force unit. Loosely based on historical facts.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 918
Genere: Drama, History, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: epic, cult film
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Battle of the Commandos (1969)
Plot Summary:
A British Colonel is angry with his superiors after his entire platoon is slaughtered by the Germans in what he saw as a suicide mission. So for his next mission, he takes along a platoon a convicted criminals - to prepare the Normandy beaches for the D-Day landings. Wartime drama from Italy, starring Jack Palance, Wolfgang Preiss and Curd Jurgens.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 292
Genere: Action, War
Country: Italy, Spain, West Germany
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: exciting, macaroni combat, rough, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful
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The Skin (1981)
Plot Summary:
Naples, year 1943, in the middle of World War II. The city has just be liberated by American troops in an era in which nobody knows just when the war or where begins the peace; winners and losers face.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 131 min
Plot tags: controversial, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, disturbing, masterpiece
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Dirty Heroes (1967)
Plot Summary:
Set near the end of World War II in the Netherlands, Dirty Heroes concerns a group of ex-convicts recruited into the U.S. Army to recover Dutch jewels originally stolen by the Nazis as well as confiscated Allied plans.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 256
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: exciting, grindhouse, macaroni combat, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Mosquito Squadron (1969)
Plot Summary:
In WW2, a RAF squadron leader mourns the death of a comrade and receives a bombing mission against a secret Nazi V-2 rocket testing facility in France.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Battle of the Last Panzer (1969)
Plot Summary:
The film looks through the eyes of the German offense during World War II, specifically a German tank crew who, after losing a battle, struggle to get home.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 300
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: macaroni combat
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The Bridge (2008)
Plot Summary:
A group of German boys is ordered to protect a small bridge in their home village during the waning months of the second world war. Truckloads of defeated, cynical Wehrmacht soldiers flee the approaching American troops, but the boys, full of enthusiasm for the "blood and honor" Nazi ideology, stay to defend the useless bridge.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, History, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: rough, bleak, serious, realistic
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Breakthrough (1979)
Plot Summary:
Starting in late May 1944, during the German retreat on the Eastern Front, Captain Stransky (Helmut Griem) orders Sergeant Steiner (Richard Burton) to blow up a railway tunnel to prevent Russian forces from using it. Steiner's platoon fails in its mission by coming up against a Russian tank. Steiner then takes a furlough to Paris just as the Allies launch their invasion of Normandy.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, War
Country: West Germany
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags:
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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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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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Everyman's War (2009)
Plot Summary:
No one in high command believed that German forces would attack in the sub zero temperatures and near blizzard conditions. As the pre-dawn attack comes, with communications down Sgt. Smith is left with no choice but to make his way through enemy fire, unarmed and wounded, into town and warn of the coming attack. Based on actual accounts "Everyman's War" explores the heroic events of this decorated veterans courage and the struggle between duty and desire. Between the prospect of the life and love, Dorine that waits at home and the harsh realities of war which marks the pivotal epoch in his life as he discovers that the loss of hope can be worse than the loss of life. One man's courage... One man's hope...Everyman's War.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Biography, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, uplifting
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Murphy's War (1971)
Plot Summary:
Murphy is the sole survivor of his crew, that has been massacred by a German U-Boat in the closing days of World War II. He is rescued, and ends up at a forgotten mission station near the mouth of the Orinoco, and begins to plot his vengeance. He wishes to sink the U-Boat by means of any method imaginable to him, and sets about to make the courageous attempt, assisted by Louis, the local oil company Administrator.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: realistic, exciting, serious, suspenseful, independent film, psychological, tense, clever, intellectual, feel good
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Tobruk (1967)
Plot Summary:
In September 1942, the German Afrika Korps under Rommel have successfully pushed the Allies back into Egypt. A counter-attack is planned, for which the fuel dumps at Tobruk are a critical impediment. In order to aid the attack, a group of British commandos and German Jews make their way undercover through 800 miles of desert, to destroy the fuel dumps starving the Germans of fuel.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, War
Country: USA, Spain
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: spectacular, exciting, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Stalingrad (1993)
Plot Summary:
"Stalingrad" follows the progress of a German Platoon through the brutal fighting of the Battle of Stalingrad. After having half their number wiped out and after being placed under the command of a sadistic Captain, the Lieutenant of the platoon leads his men to desert. The men of the platoon attempt to escape from the city which is now surrounded by the Soviet Army.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 37000
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 134 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, suspenseful, gloomy, rough, epic, captivating, factual, talky, political