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Plot Summary:
In 1939, Ramon (Jacques Penot) was a young man, caught up in his Barcelona family's involvement on the Republic side in the brutal Spanish Civil War. He and his family fled into exile ahead of Franco's troops. Now it is many years later, and he has come back to see how his old homestead fared in the intervening years. The only person he can find who is able to remember those years clearly is his family's old butler Claudio (Vittorio Gassman). This film is a sequel to the 1975 film by director Jaime Camino, Largas Vacaciones del 36.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 114
Genere: Drama, History, War
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags:
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Group Portrait with a Lady (1977)
Plot Summary:
The story follows the life of a regular German women Leni Gruyten during the 1930s and 1940s. Through her interactions with friends, family and other people she knows, the regular folks' perception of the Nazi era is shown. (IMDb).
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 381
Genere: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: epic, pre war
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Betrayed (2020)
Plot Summary:
During World War II, millions of Jews from all over Europe are deported and killed in German concentration camps. When the German troops invade Norway, the Norwegian Jews feel safe and protected. But anti-Semitism knows no borders and as the war escalates in Europe, the situation changes drastically. Suddenly, their radios are taken away; their passports are stamped with a big J and one day, all the men men over the age of 15 are arrested and taken to prisons camps. Many of the women left behind are too frightened to escape and are desperately waiting for their husbands and sons to come back home. On November 26, 1942, hundreds of Jews are picked up by the police in the middle of the night and are transported to the dock in Oslo. Unknowing and frightened men, women, children, sick and old are forced on board the awaiting German cargo ship "SS DONAU". The ship leaves with 532 Norwegian Jews onboard; 302 men, 188 women and 42 children. The end station is Auschwitz.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, History, War
Country: Norway, Sweden
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: historical drama
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The Tree of Guernica (1975)
Plot Summary:
Vandale leading the Republican opposition to the fascist arm of Villa Romero, one of the Republican strongholds during the Spanish Civil War. She has previously met with Goya during the bombing of Guernica and the hope of seeing him again.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 437
Genere: Drama, War
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: surreal, controversial, experimental, avant garde
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The Fox (2022)
Plot Summary:
The true story of Franz Streitberger, the director’s great-grandfather, a motorcycle courier for the Austrian Army. At the beginning of the Second World War, this introverted young soldier comes across a wounded fox cub that he looks after and takes to occupied France with him – and through this unique friendship, his own past as an outcast farmers son slowly catches up with him.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 401
Genere: Drama, History, War
Country: Germany, Austria
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags:
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Long Live Death (1971)
Plot Summary:
At the end of the Spanish civil war, Fando, a boy of about ten, tries to make sense of war and his father's arrest. His mother is religious, sympathetic to the Fascists; his father is accused of being a Red. Fando discovers that his mother may have aided in his father's arrest. Sometimes we witness Fando imagining explanations for what's going on; sometimes we see him at play, alone or with his friend Thérèse. Oedipal fantasies and a lad's natural curiosity about sex and death mix with his search for his mother's nature and his father's fate. Will Fando survive the search?.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, War
Country: France, Tunisia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: disturbing, surreal, experimental, philosophical, mind bending, psychedelic, political, controversial, art house, psychotronic
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Across Five Aprils (1990)
Plot Summary:
Jethro Creighton (Todd Duffey) is a young man of nine years from Southern Illinois who is growing up during the outbreak of the American Civil War. Helping his father farm is all he really knows. This makes things difficult when his kin fights for the Union Army, as well as the Rebel cause. He doesn't know who what to do. Should he fight for the Yankees, the Rebs, or just continue working on the farm? He has a cousin who is a deserter which he helps with food and a blanket; this is a crime not taken lightly. He writes Abraham Lincoln for advice on the matter. The president responds in a letter which guides him some, but more or less provides him with comfort; when a nine year old is in the midst of war, what is more important?.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 59
Genere: Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: independent film
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The Endless Trench (2019)
Plot Summary:
Higinio and Rosa have only been married for a few months when the Civil War breaks out, representing a serious threat to his life. Helped by his wife, they decide to use a hole dug into their own home as a provisional hiding place. The fear of potential reprisals and the love they feel for one another will condemn them to an imprisonment that will last for more than 30 years.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Spain, France, Canada
Duration: 147 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, touching, sad, hispanic
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The Desert of the Tartars (1976)
Plot Summary:
Lieutenant Giovanni Drogo is assigned to the old Bastiani border fortress where he expects an imminent attack by nomadic fearsome Tartars.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, History, War
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, psychological, bleak, serious, realistic, light, period drama
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Uncertain Glory (2017)
Plot Summary:
Front of Aragon, 1937. Lluís (Marcel Borràs), a young republican officer destined for a temporarily dormant position, meets an enigmatic widow of whom she falls in love, Carlana (Núria Prims), who manages to fool him to falsify a Document that makes it the lady of the region. The best friend of Lluís, the Soleràs (Oriol Pla), a degraded officer, discovers the fraud and, in exchange for not exposing him, he demands that he move away from the bombings of Barcelona his son and his wife, from whom he is Secretly in love When Trini (Bruna Cusí) arrives at the town, it does not take long to discover the betrayal of Lluís and establishes between them two a "state of war" that will make all moral bases stagger.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: tense, sincere, captivating, disturbing
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Soldiers of Salamina (2003)
Plot Summary:
Professor Lola Sánchez investigates the truth behind the events experienced by Rafael Sánchez Mazas, one of the founders of the Falange Española party, during the Spanish Civil War.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: sincere, serious, captivating, suspenseful, political, art film, realistic
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While at War (2019)
Plot Summary:
Salamanca, Spain, 1936. In the early days of the military rebellion that began the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), writer Miguel de Unamuno supports the uprising in the hope that the prevailing political chaos will end. But when the confrontation becomes bloody, Unamuno must question his initial position.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, History, War
Country: Spain, Argentina
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing, intellectual
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The Blind Sunflowers (2008)
Plot Summary:
Ourense, Spain, 1940. Every time that Elena locks the door, she locks her secrets. Her husband Ricardo spend years hidden in his house with his children (Elenita and Lorenzo), trying to dodge persecution. Salvador, a priest confused after battling in the front, returns to seminary in Ourense.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Spain
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, emotional, disturbing, sincere, bleak, captivating, realistic, contemplative
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Bruc, the Manhunt (2010)
Plot Summary:
1808. The Napoleonic Army suffers its first defeat at the hands of a single man: a drummer boy who used the Montserrat mountains to echo his drums and send the enemy troops into a panicked retreat. When the news reaches Napoleon, he furiously orders the captain of the Imperial Guard to bring back the head of the young hero responsible for his army's defeat. The captain gathers together a band of his best and most deadly men and so begins the hunt to death of the soldier who was to become a legend.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 834
Genere: Drama, History, War
Country: Spain
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, exciting, suspense, perverse, rough, realistic, bilingual
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Guernica (2016)
Plot Summary:
The fates of Henry - an American correspondent - and Teresa, one of the Republic's censors during the Spanish Civil War.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, informative
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Ambrose Bierce: Civil War Stories (2006)
Plot Summary:
Legendary writer Ambrose Bierce was known to be brilliant, cantankerous and romantic in all his life's passions, and was revered as one of the top storytellers of the late 19th Century. In 1890, he presented his recently published collection of Civil War Stories to novelist Gertrude Atherton and fledgling young publisher William Randolph Hearst during an infamous meeting in Sonol, California. This meeting sets the forum for the presentation of three of Bierce's most popular stories including "One Kind Of Officer", "Story Of A Conscience" and "An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge." This acclaimed collection features epic battle sequences, deeply conflicted drama and the signature "surprise endings" that characterized most of the short stories by Ambrose Bierce.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 154
Genere: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: touching, exciting, captivating, melancholic, surprise ending, independent film
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The 13 Roses (2007)
Plot Summary:
True story of thirteen totally normal young women that suffered harsh questioning and were put in prison under made up charges of helping the rebellion against Franco back in the 1940s. Despite of their innocence, the thirteen were soon executed without even a trace of evidence of any wrong doing.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: disturbing, thought provoking, touching, emotional, political, social, hispanic, serious, realistic, gloomy
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Paper Birds (2010)
Plot Summary:
Jorge and Enrique are two artist in the post Spanish Civil War times that adopt an orphan child called Miguel. With a varieté company that travel around the country, Jorge and Enrique see the horrors left by the war meanwhile the Republic Army watch Jorge and the rest of the company suspecting that some of them collaborate with the rebels opposite to the Francoist Regime.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 786
Genere: Comedy, Drama, History
Country: Spain
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, atmospheric, psychological, captivating, touching
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There Be Dragons (2011)
Plot Summary:
Arising out of the horror of the Spanish Civil War, a candidate for canonization is investigated by a journalist who discovers his own estranged father had a deep, dark and devastating connection to the saint's life.While researching the life of Josemaria Escriva, the controversial founder of Opus Dei, the young journalist Robert uncovers hidden stories of his estranged father Manolo, and is taken on a journey through the dark, terrible secrets of his family’s past.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Biography, Drama, War
Country: Spain, USA, Argentina
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, realistic, christian film, thought provoking, stylized, non-linear, period drama
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The Anarchist's Wife (2008)
Plot Summary:
"The Anarchist's Wife" is the story of Manuela who is left behind when her husband Justo fights for his ideals against Franco's Nationalists during the Spanish Civil War. He is deported to a concentration camp, and upon his release, continues the fight against nationalism in the French resistance. Years, pass without a word from him, but his wife never gives up hope of seeing him again.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 586
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Germany, Spain, France
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Fort Saganne (1984)
Plot Summary:
In 1911, a willful and determined man from peasant stock named Charles Saganne enlists in the military and is assigned to the Sahara Desert under the aristocratic Colonel Dubreuilh.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, History, War
Country: France
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: epic, exciting, serious, realistic
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The Holy Land of Tyrol (2010)
Plot Summary:
Set in the 1800s when Napoleon’s French ruled Europe, the film follows young Austrian carpenter Franz and his Bavarian wife, Katharina as an unforeseen event forces them to flee from Augsburg, Bavaria for Franz’s family home in Tyrol, Austria. Tyrolian sentiment is rising strongly against Napoleon and trouble is stirring. In no time it sweeps up Franz and his brothers along with the whole town.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 181
Genere: Drama, History, War
Country: Germany, Italy
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: epic, realistic, serious, captivating, psychological, exciting
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The Winter War (1989)
Plot Summary:
Russia attacked Finland in late November 1939. This film tells the story of a Finnish platoon of reservists from the municipality of Kauhava in the province of Pohjanmaa/Ostrobothnia who leave their homes and go to war. The film focuses on the farmer brothers Martti and Paavo Hakala.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama, History, War
Country: Finland
Duration: 199 min
Plot tags: realistic, epic, tense, bleak, serious, captivating, emotional, suspenseful, light, brutal
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April Captains (2000)
Plot Summary:
Story of the 1974 coup that overthrew the right-wing Portuguese dictatorship--which continued the fascist policies of long-time dictator Antonio Salazar--and of two young army captains who were involved in it.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, History, War
Country: Portugal, Spain, Italy, France
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, serious, thought provoking, realistic, inspirational, political
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The Sleeping Voice (2011)
Plot Summary:
Pepita travels to Madrid to be near her sister Hortensia who is pregnant and in prison. Hortensia is sentenced to death. The execution will not be carried out until after the baby is delivered. Pepita tries everything to stay the execution, but when unsuccessful she goes to the prison everyday to make sure Hortensia's son goes with her and not into an orphanage.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Spain
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: captivating, serious, emotional, suspenseful, political, intense, bleak, realistic
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The War Is Over (1966)
Plot Summary:
A group of Spanish refugees try to organize protests from France. Their network is under constant threat by the police and some of them have recently been arrested. The main character (played by Yves Montand) dedicated his whole life to the battle but he feels forever estranged. He doesn't find his place nor in his adoptive country (France) nor in love. But this film is not about the story, it's all about style. Alain Resnais has an original approach in this film and this is the thing that makes this film worth watching.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, War
Country: France, Sweden
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: political, political thriller, anthology, tense, sincere, atmospheric, thought provoking, serious, realistic, contemplative
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Freedomfighters (1996)
Plot Summary:
At the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, the nun Maria is forced to flee her convent. She takes refuge in a brothel, until it is liberated by a woman's anarchist group. Maria joins the group and eventually goes to the front. The women's group faces the problems of fighting not only the nationalists, but also factions on the left seeking to impose a more traditional military structure. Written by Brian Rawnsley.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, History, War
Country: Spain, Italy, Belgium
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: political, social, sad, informative, epic, serious, emotional, realistic
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Carol's Journey (2002)
Plot Summary:
Carol, a 12 year old Spanish-American girl from New York, travels with her mother to Spain in the spring of 1938, at the height of the Civil War. Separated from her beloved father, Carol arrives in her mother's home village and transforms the secretive family environment. Her innocence and rebellious nature drive her at first to reject a world that is at once new and foreign. But she soon journeys into adulthood through a friendship with Maruja, the village teacher, and a young local boy, Tomiche.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Spain, Portugal
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, serious, emotional, realistic
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Land and Freedom (1995)
Plot Summary:
The movie narrates the story of David Carr, an unemployed worker and member of the Communist Party of Great Britain. In 1936 he decides to fight for the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War, an anti-fascist coalition of liberals, communists and anarchists. Similar to George Orwell's experiences documented in Homage to Catalonia, he joins the POUM worker militia and witnesses first hand the betrayal of the Spanish revolution by the Stalinists, loyal only to the dictat of Moscow.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Drama, War
Country: UK, Spain, Germany, Italy, France, USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: political, philosophical, social, sad, hispanic, informative, thought provoking, serious, captivating, emotional
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Massacre in Rome (1973)
Plot Summary:
In the Nazi occupied city of Rome, an assault on an SS brigade draws retaliation from the military governship. "Massacre in Rome" is the true story of how this partisan attack led to the mass execution of Italian nationals under the orders of SS-Lieutenant Colonel Kappler.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, History, War
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: rough, thought provoking, bleak, serious, captivating, realistic, disturbing, contemplative
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Butterfly (1999)
Plot Summary:
The film centres on Moncho and his coming-of-age experience in Galicia in 1936. Moncho develops a close relationship with his teacher Don Gregorio who introduces the boy to different things in the world. While the story centres on Moncho's ordinary coming-of-age experiences, tensions related to the looming Spanish Civil War periodically interrupt Moncho's personal growth and daily life.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Spain
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: emotional, sentimental, touching, realistic, political, compassionate, melancholic, intense, psychological, sincere