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Plot Summary:
Keisuke Kinoshita sits easily alongside Ozu, Kurosawa and Naruse as one of Japan’s most respected legends of cinema. Made to commemorate the centenary of Kinoshita’s birth, this biographical drama chronicles formative hardships and personal encounters to provide a rare glimpse into the life of one of Japan’s most acclaimed screen directors. Includes archival footage from 49 of the films he produced during his career at Shochiku.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 117
Genere: Biography, Drama, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min
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Elysium (1987)
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Film about the Holocaust. A Jewish family is allowed to keep the flat they have always lived in and to live a relatively normal life. One day their 10-year old son disappears. He has been sent to a deportation camp which seems like paradise except that the inmates are being used for medical experiments.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 49
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Hungary
Duration: 118 min
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Promise (2005)
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The film tells about members of Finnish women's Lotta Service during the Second World War through the eyes of three young women.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 868
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Finland
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: patriotic
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First Light (2010)
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In May 1940, feeling the RAF needs every man to fight to Luftwaffe, Geoffrey 'Geoff'/'Boy' Wellum joins at 18, becoming the youngest ever Spitfire pilot. After an intense training, he soon bonds with the flying men of his squadron. In the air, danger is great, but on the ground drinks, sports and girls, in Geoff's case Sarah, provide great comfort. However in time, the casualties exact a grueling psychological toll, until his tour of duty is ended after 18 months.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 771
Genere: Biography, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 75 min
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Doctor Mladen (1975)
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The story begins in 1941 and shows one of the people who which were actually, very brave and proudly fought against the Ustasha, Germans and other butchers, not related to that ideology was tied. The film is about Dr. Mladen Stojanovic legend of Kozara and Krajina, great man, humanist, friend, and finally the commander one of a the proud partisan detachment, which is that area brought for a moment bring much desired freedom.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 215
Genere: Biography, Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: epic
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Stalingrad (1990)
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The WWII pivotal battle of Stalingrad is shown through the eyes of the soldiers and officers on both sides of the war.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 476
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union, USA, Czechoslovakia, East Germany
Duration: 196 min
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The Good Traitor (2020)
Plot Summary:
The Danish ambassador to Washington declares himself to be the sole representative of a free Denmark during the Nazi occupation of the country.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Biography, Drama, War
Country: Denmark
Duration: 115 min
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Hitler (1962)
Plot Summary:
The private life of Hitler revealed for the first time!.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 361
Genere: Biography, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: independent film
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IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 192
Genere: Biography, Drama, War
Country: Poland, USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Edith Stein: The Seventh Chamber (1995)
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An expressionist biography of Edith Stein, who converted from the Jewish faith to the Catholic one and became a Carmelite sister. She would die in a German concentration camp.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 231
Genere: Biography, Drama, War
Country: Italy, Hungary
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: christian film, intellectual
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Curtin (2007)
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IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 122
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 93 min
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The Outsider (1961)
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Arizona Indian Ira Hayes' (Tony Curtis) life is a tragedy after he joins the Marines and helps raise the flag at Iwo Jima.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 923
Genere: Biography, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
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In the first half of this century, young Li Tienlu joins a travelling puppet theatre and subsequently makes a career as one of Taiwan's leading puppeteers.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Biography, Drama, War
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 142 min
Plot tags: realistic, thought provoking, serious, sincere, slow cinema, aesthetic, epic, contemplative, stylized, crying
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Another Mother's Son (2017)
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Directed by Christopher Menaul ('Summer in February', 'Fatherland) and written by Jenny Lecoat, Another Mother's Son tells the true story of Louisa Gould, a widow living in Nazi occupied Jersey who takes in a Russian prisoner of war, Feodor Burrij. Jenny Seagrove, Julian Kostov, John Hannah, Ronan Keating and Amanda Abbington star. The producer is Bill Kenwright.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Biography, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, costume drama, period drama
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PT 109 (1963)
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Dramatization of President John F. Kennedy's war time experiences during which he captained a PT boat, took it to battle and had it sunk by a Japanese destroyer. He and the survivors had to make their way to an island, find food and shelter and signal the Navy for rescue.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Biography, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: historical drama, exciting, rough, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful
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The Invisibles (2017)
Plot Summary:
Four young Jews survive the Third Reich in the middle of Berlin by living so recklessly that they become "invisible.".
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Documentary, Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, suspenseful, sincere, thought provoking, art house
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Hanna's War (1988)
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IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 466
Genere: Biography, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 148 min
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Kalashnikov (2020)
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Tank commander Kalashnikov is severely injured in battle in 1941. The accident leaves him incapacitated and unable to return to the front. While recovering in the hospital he begins creating the initial sketches of what will become one of the world’s most legendary weapons. A self-taught inventor, Mikhail Kalashnikov, is only 29 when he develops the now iconic assault riffle - the AK-47.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Biography, Drama, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 110 min
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The Shadow in My Eye (2021)
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On March 21st, 1945, the British Royal Air Force set out on a mission to bomb Gestapo's headquarters in Copenhagen. The raid had fatal consequences as some of the bombers accidentally targeted a school and more than 120 people were killed, 86 of whom were children.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Drama, History, War
Country: Denmark, Belgium
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: suspense, disturbing
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IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Ireland
Duration: 133 min
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Jew Suss: Rise and Fall (2010)
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IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Biography, Drama, War
Country: Germany, Austria
Duration: 114 min
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The Execution of Private Slovik (1974)
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The story of Eddie Slovik, who was executed by the Army in 1945, the only American soldier to be executed for desertion since the Civil War.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
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IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 793
Genere: Biography, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
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The Resistance Banker (2018)
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In the occupied Netherlands during World War II, banker Walraven van Hall (Barry Atsma) is asked to use his financial contacts to help the Dutch resistance. He doesn’t have to think about it for long. With his brother Gijs van Hall (Jacob Derwig), he comes up with a risky plan to take out huge loans and use the money to finance the resistance. When this proves not enough, the brothers set about committing the biggest banking fraud in Dutch history, taking tens of millions of guilders out of the Dutch Central Bank – right under the noses of the Nazis. But the bigger the operation gets, the more people it involves. And every day brings a bigger risk of someone making that one mistake that could put an end to the whole business – and the lives of the resistance bankers.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Biography, Drama, War
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Duration: 123 min
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Lucie Aubrac (1997)
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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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Hamsun (1996)
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IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Biography, Drama, War
Country: Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Germany
Duration: 159 min
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Sophia Loren: Her Own Story (1980)
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Dramatization of the life of Italian actress Sophia Loren who plays herself during adulthood and also that of her mother Romilda Villani.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 187
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min
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The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler (2009)
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Irena Sendler is a Catholic social worker who has sympathized with the Jews since her childhood, when her physician father died of typhus contracted while treating poor Jewish patients. When she initially proposes saving Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto, her idea is met with skepticism by fellow workers, her parish priest, and even her own mother Janina.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Biography, Drama, War
Country: USA, Latvia, Poland, Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: serious, emotional, realistic, suspense, tense, retro, biblical, intense, period piece, gloomy
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Churchill (2017)
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A ticking-clock thriller following Winston Churchill in the 24 hours before D-Day.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: educational, factual, disturbing, political, independent film, extraordinary
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Too Young the Hero (1988)
Plot Summary:
WWII drama.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 540
Genere: Biography, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
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Patton (1970)
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"Patton" tells the tale of General George S. Patton, famous tank commander of World War II. The film begins with patton's career in North Africa and progresses through the invasion of Germany and the fall of the Third Reich. Side plots also speak of Patton's numerous faults such his temper and habit towards insubordination.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 107000
Genere: Biography, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 172 min
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