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Plot Summary:
A soldier suffering from PTSD befriends a young volunteer hoping to restore peaceful energy to a war-torn society.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Ukraine
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: art house, bleak
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Crimea (2017)
Plot Summary:
The film follows a romantic liaison between a young woman from Kiev, who is a supporter of the pro-European Maidan uprising, and a man from Sevastopol who joins the pro-Russian resistance in the aftermath of Maidan’s success in Kiev.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 34000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: intercultural, enigmatic, intense, inter cultural
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Let Them Come (2015)
Plot Summary:
In this remarkable adaptation of Arezki Mellal’s novel, a family must defend itself amidst the onslaught of violence between government forces and radical Islamists in 1980s Algeria.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 102
Genere: Drama, War
Country: France, Algeria
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Donbass (2018)
Plot Summary:
In the Donbas, a region of Eastern Ukraine, a hybrid war takes place, involving an open armed conflict alongside killings and robberies on a mass scale perpetrated by separatist gangs. In the Donbass, war is called peace, propaganda is uttered as truth and hatred is declared to be love. A journey through the Donbas unfolds as a chain of curious adventures, where the grotesque and drama are as intertwined as life and death. This is not a tale of one region, one country or one political system. It is about a world, lost in post-truth and fake identities. It is about each and every one of us.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany, Ukraine, France, Netherlands, Romania, Poland
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: tragicomedy, ironic, satirical, suspenseful, social, independent film
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The Fifth Seal (1976)
Plot Summary:
In Budapest in 1944, a watchmaker, a book seller and a carpenter are drinking in a bar with the owner. They are joined by a stranger who asks a hypothetical question that will change their lives.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Hungary
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: psychological, philosophical, political, political thriller, art house, existential
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A Line in the Sand (2009)
Plot Summary:
Drama - Set in the present-day Iraq war, this tense and gripping drama unfolds as two US Marines find themselves stranded and alone in the desert after their unit is all but destroyed in a routine mission. One of their team is taken hostage in the attack, their Humvee is stolen, their communications are down and their supplies are limited. - Gary Weeks, Rob Botts, Paul J. Alessi.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 84
Genere: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags:
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The Last Grenade (1970)
Plot Summary:
British mercenaries (Stanley Baker, Alex Cord) finish their Congo feud in Hong Kong, with a woman (Honor Blackman) caught in the middle.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 236
Genere: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Bad Roads (2020)
Plot Summary:
Four short stories are set along the roads of Donbass during the war. There are no safe spaces and no one can make sense of just what is going on. Even as they are trapped in the chaos, some manage to wield authority over others. But in this world, where tomorrow may never come, not everyone is defenseless and miserable. Even the most innocent victims may have their turn at taking charge.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 826
Genere: Drama
Country: Ukraine
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, serious, disgusting, psychological, captivating, disturbing, road movie, anthology
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Cyborgs: Heroes Never Die (2017)
Plot Summary:
‘The Cyborgs’ is re-telling the recent history of Ukraine – the legendary fight for Donetsk Airport in 2014 during Russian invasion. The freedom fighters from various divisions of Ukrainian army and volunteer battalions took a 242-days stand against the Russian backed militants until the complete destruction of the airport’s terminal.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: Ukraine
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: exciting, disturbing, cyber, rough, serious, brutal, suspenseful
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Frost (2017)
Plot Summary:
Rokas and Inga, a couple of young Lithuanians, volunteer to drive a cargo van of humanitarian aid to Ukraine. They cross the vast snowy lands of the Donbass region, drifting into the lives of those affected by the war.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 788
Genere: Drama, Mystery, War
Country: Lithuania, France, Ukraine, Poland, Switzerland, Monaco
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: road movie, psychological, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Terrorist (1998)
Plot Summary:
A young female terrorist goes on a suicide assassination mission, but her resolve to complete it is put to the test.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, bleak, realistic, serious, captivating, suspenseful, atmospheric, sexy, thought provoking
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Tangerines (2013)
Plot Summary:
War in Abkhazia 1990. An Estonian man Ivo has stayed behind to harvest his crops of tangerines. In a bloody conflict at his door, a wounded man is left behind, and Ivo is forced to take him in.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 48000
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Estonia, Georgia
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: harsh, thought provoking, tense, heartbreaking, compassionate, bleak, social, realistic, touching, philosophical
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U311 Cherkasy (2019)
Plot Summary:
The crew of Ukrainian NAVY minesweeper U311 "Cherkasy" is resisting seizure of the vessel by Russian army in Crimea in 2014.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, History, War
Country: Ukraine
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, enigmatic, serious, suspenseful, rough, suspense, realistic, crying
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The Zookeeper (2001)
Plot Summary:
Jonah Ludovic (Sam Neill) is a custodian at a small municipal zoo. After a night of heavy shelling Ludovic arrives at his job to find the staff abandoning the zoo. He joins a skeleton crew that includes an elderly guard and a veterinarian (Om Puri). Their purpose: to keep the animals alive until help arrives from an international zoological mission.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Denmark, UK, Czech Republic, Netherlands
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, atmospheric, rough, suspenseful, bleak, serious, captivating, realistic, biting
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Comanche Territory (1997)
Plot Summary:
Spanish TV reporters covering the War in Bosnia. Based on true experience.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 378
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Spain, France, Germany, Argentina
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: bleak, serious, emotional, realistic, gloomy
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Two Deaths (1995)
Plot Summary:
A tale of power, passion and obsession set in a politically torn Eastern European country.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 515
Genere: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: political, sensual, erotic drama, serious, emotional, realistic, talky, independent film, erotic, psychological
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Foxhole (2021)
Plot Summary:
Unfolding over the span of 36 hours in three separate wars – The American Civil War, World War I, and Iraq – FOXHOLE follows five soldiers confined in a foxhole as they grapple with morality, futility, and an increasingly volatile combat situation. Casting the same five actors in each episode, the film depicts the shifting roles of race and gender over time against the backdrop of the seemingly endless human struggle for power and domination. (Olivia Belluck).
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 199
Genere: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Sniper. The White Raven (2022)
Plot Summary:
Mykola is an eccentric pacifist who wants to be useful to humanity. When the war begins at Donbass, Mykola’s naive world is collapsing as the militants kill his pregnant wife and burn his home to the ground. Recovered, he makes a cardinal decision and gets enlisted in a sniper company. Having met his wife’s killers, he emotionally breaks down and arranges “sniper terror” for the enemy. He’s saved from a senseless death by his instructor who himself gets mortally wounded. The death of a friend leaves a “scar” and Mykola is ready to sacrifice his life.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Ukraine
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, thought provoking, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Shot Through the Heart (1998)
Plot Summary:
The horrors of war are examined from the view points of lifelong friends (Linus Roache, Vincent Perez), who end up on opposing sides in the civil war in Sarajevo. One is an expert marksman, who trains the snipers used to terrify the city and the other becomes a freedom fighter, who rejects his friend's offer to gain an escape from the city. As might be expected, the two eventually have to face-off against one another.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, thought provoking, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, biting, suspense
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Savior (1998)
Plot Summary:
A hardened mercenary in the Foreign Legion begins to find his own humanity when confronted with atrocities during the fighting in Bosnia.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: bleak, disturbing, depressing, tense, rough, suspenseful, realistic, road movie, smart, serious
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The Red and the White (1967)
Plot Summary:
In 1919, Hungarian Communists aid the Bolsheviks' defeat of Czarists, the Whites. Near the Volga, a monastery and a field hospital are held by one side then the other.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Hungary, Soviet Union
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: political, contemplative, black and white, philosophical, spiritual, experimental, art house, visual, thought provoking, bleak
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Private (2004)
Plot Summary:
A Palestinian family is trapped inside a house commandeered by Israeli soldiers.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 922
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, tense, sincere, thought provoking, bleak, realistic, contemplative
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The Hamburg Cell (2004)
Plot Summary:
Ziad Jarrah, a young Lebonese man from a good family goes to Germany to attend college and starts dating a Turkish girl named Aysel. Although not very religious and accustomed to Western ways, Ziad becomes "brothers" with some fundamentalist Muslims and is slowly drawn into becoming "a Good Muslim". Mohamed Atta and others instill Ziad with a hatred of Jews and "Infidels", which leads to a desire for Jihad and martyrdom. He moves to Hamburg to study aeronautical engineering, attends an Al-Qaeda training camp in Afghanistan, and deceives his girlfriend and family about his involvement. He eventually attends flight school in Florida with Atta and others, waiting for and preparing for "the big wedding" (the 9/11 attack). Meanwhile, US government and law enforcement officials fail to act despite believing that a major terrorist attack is imminent, and despite noticing a number of suspicious persons involved in flight training. Written by TimeNTide.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 829
Genere: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: psychological, bleak, serious, disturbing, realistic, suspenseful
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The Battle of Algiers (1966)
Plot Summary:
Tracing the struggle of the Algerian Front de Liberation Nationale to gain freedom from French colonial rule as seen through the eyes of Ali from his start as a petty thief to his rise to prominence in the organisation and capture by the French in 1957. The film traces the rebels' struggle and the increasingly extreme measures taken by the French government to quell the revolt.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 64000
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Italy, Algeria
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: political, black and white, art house, bleak, realistic, disturbing, philosophical, sad, sincere, touching
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Joy Division (2006)
Plot Summary:
A teenage orphan fights against the Red Army at the end of WWII and in the aftermath is 'adopted' by a Commissar. Years later he is sent to London during the Cold war to work for the KGB, where he questions his life.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 992
Genere: Drama, War
Country: UK, Germany, Hungary
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, serious, captivating, disturbing, realistic, political, bleak, epic
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Company K (2004)
Plot Summary:
Based on the popular World War I novel by author William March, director Robert Clem's COMPANY K follows a veteran of the first great conflict as he finishes a book about his wartime experiences and reflects on how a man's true character is revealed through his actions on the battlefield. From the German soldier who visits him in dreams to the camaraderie that is forged by fighting together and the true gravity of laying down your life for a greater cause, World War I veteran Joe Delaney will attempt to exorcise his demons through writing while struggling to readjust to small-town life following the trauma of war.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 339
Genere: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: psychological, epic, serious, captivating, disturbing, bleak, emotional, realistic
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The Yellow Birds (2017)
Plot Summary:
Two young soldiers, Bartle and Murph, navigate the terrors of the Iraq war under the command of the older, troubled Sergeant Sterling. All the while, Bartle is tortured by a promise he made to Murph's mother before their deployment.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: tense, thought provoking, captivating, suspense, realistic, disturbing, sad
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Land of Oblivion (2011)
Plot Summary:
Tchernobyl, 1986, a few hours before the disaster. Piotr and Anya's wedding is interrupted by a fire at the power station.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 905
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Ukraine, Poland, Germany
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: bleak, serious, realistic, touching, gloomy
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Beasts of No Nation (2015)
Plot Summary:
A drama based on the experiences of Agu, a child soldier fighting in the civil war of an unnamed African country. Follows the journey of a young boy, Agu, who is forced to join a group of soldiers in a fictional West African country. While Agu fears his commander and many of the men around him, his fledgling childhood has been brutally shattered by the war raging through his country, and he is at first torn between conflicting revulsion and fascination Depicts the mechanics of war and does not shy away from explicit, visceral detail, and paints a complex, difficult picture of Agu as a child soldier.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 86000
Genere: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min
Plot tags: disturbing, political, bleak, harsh, dramatic, tense, atmospheric, suspense, serious, rough
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Hiroshima (1995)
Plot Summary:
Hiroshima is a 1995 Japanese / Canadian film directed by Koreyoshi Kurahara and Roger Spottiswoode about the decision-making processes that led to the dropping of the atomic bombs by the United States on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki toward the end of World War II. Except as actors, no Americans took part in the production. The three-hour film was made for television and evidently had no theatrical release, but is available on DVD for home viewing. A combination of dramatisation, historical footage, and eyewitness interviews, the film alternates between documentary footage and the dramatic recreations. Both the dramatisations and most of the original footage are presented as sepia-toned images, serving to blur the distinction between them. The languages are English and Japanese, with subtitles, and the actors are largely Canadian and Japanese.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 968
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Canada, Japan
Duration: 190 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, realistic
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Ambush (1999)
Plot Summary:
It is the summer of 1941 and the Finnish army has been mobilized along the border with Russia. A platoon led by Lt. Eero Perkola is waiting for orders to go on the offensive. The platoon receives orders for a recon mission through the wilderness around the Lieksa lake to search for possible Russian defensive positions.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: War, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspense, intense, sincere, disturbing, rough, bleak, serious, brutal, sex comedy