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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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Beyond Valkyrie: Dawn of the 4th Reich (2016)
Plot Summary:
An intense thriller from the frontlines of World War II. As Operation Valkyrie prepares to assassinate Adolph Hitler, an Allied special ops team prepares to extract the man destined to lead post-war Germany. But after Valkyrie fails, everything changes. Now, unlikely allies must work together to stop a group of Nazi Officers from fleeing to Argentina and establishing the Fourth Reich.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: tense, exciting, suspenseful, visually appealing
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A Bullet for Rommel (1969)
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
Similar in 84%
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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The Battle of Jangsari (2019)
Plot Summary:
Korean War, September 1950. In order to fight the enemy forces based in the South of the peninsula, General MacArthur orders the start of the Incheon Landing Operation, deploying diversionary attacks in other locations. Without real military forces to spare, 772 very young Korean student soldiers, barely trained, are sent to Jangsari Beach, where they will face a heroic fate and discover the value of friendship… (A sequel to Operation Chromite, released in 2016.).
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: South Korea
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: bleak, tense, suspense, rough, brutal, epic, disturbing
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D-Day (2019)
Plot Summary:
Some people called it a suicide, but for the Rangers of the 2nd Battalion, that's another word for mission. When an elite group of American soldiers are ordered to take out a series of German machine gun nests, they find themselves blindly venturing into hostile territory. Outnumbered and outgunned they must risk life and limb as they cross treacherous terrain, never knowing where the enemy might be hiding.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 984
Genere: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, mockbuster
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Ardennes Fury (2014)
Plot Summary:
As the Battle of the Bulge rages on, an American tank unit gets trapped behind Nazi lines. With just hours before the bombs of Operation Ardennes Fury fall, the tank's commander makes the risky decision to rescue an orphanage.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 939
Genere: Action, War
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, captivating, psychological, tense, mockbuster, realistic, suspenseful
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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 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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My Way (2011)
Plot Summary:
Jun-shik, who works for Tatsuo’s grandfather’s farm while Korea is colonized by Japan, dreams about participating in the Tokyo Olympics as a marathon runner. Tatsuo also aims to become a marathon runner, so the two become rivals. But the war breaks out and they both are forced to enlist in the army. Tatsuo becomes the head of defense in Jun-shik’s unit and he devises a scheme but fails. Jun-shik and Tatsuo are held captive by the Soviets. They run away but soon are captured by the Germans and forced to separate. In 1944, they meet again on the shores of Normandy.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: South Korea
Duration: 137 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, rough, captivating, touching, epic, realistic, odd
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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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Death and Glory in Changde (2010)
Plot Summary:
Directed by Shen Dong and starring Ray Lui, An Yixuan and Yuan Wenkang, Death and Glory in Changde recalls one of the most cruel and controversial battles during China's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression (1937-45), Changde Battle, in November 1943.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 283
Genere: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: China
Duration: 131 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing
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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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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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Hornets' Nest (1970)
Plot Summary:
An American commando who's the sole survivor of a parachute jump into WWII-era Italy leads a group of children in a campaign of sabotage against the Nazis.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, macaroni combat, exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Saints and Soldiers: The Void (2014)
Plot Summary:
Germany, May 1945, deep in the Harz Mountains a U.S. tank crew discovers a platoon of Germans preparing to ambush U.S. supply trucks.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspenseful, exciting, captivating, realistic, christian film, historical drama, independent film
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The Last Frontier (2020)
Plot Summary:
The story of the Podolsk cadets’ heroic stand outside Moscow in October 1941. Cadets were sent to the Ilyinsky line, fighting alongside units from the Soviet 43rd Army to hold back the German advance until reinforcements arrived. Hopelessly outnumbered, young men laid down their lives in a battle lasting almost two weeks to obstruct the far superior German forces advancing towards Moscow. Around 3,500 cadets and their commanding officers were sent to hold up the last line of defense outside Moscow. Most of them remained there for eternity.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 136 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, rough, atmospheric, brutal, epic, serious, captivating, emotional, suspense
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Saints and Soldiers (2003)
Plot Summary:
Five American soldiers fighting in Europe during World War II struggle to return to Allied territory after being separated from U.S. forces during the historic Malmedy Massacre.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: touching, intense, rough, emotional, epic, realistic, talky, christian film, exciting, sad
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Commandos (1968)
Plot Summary:
Sgt. Sullivan puts together a group of Italian-Americans into disguise as Italian soldiers in order to infiltrate a North African camp held by the Italians. After the soldiers have knifed the Italians in their beds, they find a hooker living at the camp. Sullivan's commandos are to hold this camp and its weaponry until an American battalion arrives, all the while these Italian-Americans pretend to be Italian soldiers, often hosting the enemy. Lt. Valli is a young, "green," by-the-book officer who constantly argues with Sgt. Sullivan, who tells his superior that he has no idea what he is doing. One man on the base, probably a touch from Argento, is an entomologist who is needlessly killed. Things go terribly wrong after that.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: Italy, West Germany
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, macaroni combat, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, cult film
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Sisu (2022)
Plot Summary:
Deep in the wilderness of Lapland, Aatami Korpi is searching for gold. From time to time, the overflight of bombers and the distant sounds of war can be heard in the autumn night. Finally, the hard work is rewarded and the gold dust in the pan grows into gold chunks, and Aatami sets out to take his gold treasure to the nearest city. After he stumbles upon Nazi patrol led by SS Obersturmführer Bruno Helldorf, a breathtaking and gold-hungry chase through the destroyed and mined Lapland wilderness begins.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 64000
Genere: Action, War
Country: Finland, UK
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: bloody, epic
Similar in 78%
Saints and Soldiers: Airborne Creed (2012)
Plot Summary:
A group of American GIs work their way through war-torn France during the final days of the Second World War.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: realistic, thought provoking, captivating, disturbing, christian film, action packed, historical drama, exciting, tense, rough
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Fortress (2012)
Plot Summary:
When the commander of the crew of a B-17 Flying Fortress bomber is killed in action in a raid over Sicily in 1943, his replacement, a young, naive pilot struggles to be accepted by the plane's already tight-knit Irish American crew.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, tense
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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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Memphis Belle (1990)
Plot Summary:
The "Memphis Belle" is a World War II bomber, piloted by a young crew on dangerous bombing raids into Europe. The crew only have to make one more bombing raid before they have finished their duty and can go home. In the briefing before their last flight, the crew discover that the target for the day is Dresden, a heavily-defended city that invariably causes many Allied casualties.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 30000
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: UK, Japan, USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, emotional, rough, serious, inspirational, suspense, intense, period piece, realistic
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The Bridge at Remagen (1969)
Plot Summary:
In March of 1945, as the War in Europe is coming to a close, fighting erupts between German and American troops at the last remaining bridgehead across the Rhine.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA, Czechoslovakia, West Germany
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: realistic, harsh, intense, exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, surprise ending, spectacular, bleak
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The Great Raid (2005)
Plot Summary:
As World War II rages, the elite Sixth Ranger Battalion is given a mission of heroic proportions: push 30 miles behind enemy lines and liberate over 500 American prisoners of war.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: tense, harsh, rough, suspenseful, realistic, epic, scenic, edutainment, historical drama, atmospheric
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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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Enemy at the Gates (2001)
Plot Summary:
Enemy at the Gates is a war film from Jean-Jacques Annaud from 2001 that takes place during the battle of Stalingard in World War II between the Russians and the Germans.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 274000
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: Ireland, UK, France, Germany, USA
Duration: 131 min
Plot tags: epic, realistic, serious, rough, bleak, suspenseful, dramatic, historical drama, exciting, clever
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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