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Plot Summary:
In the frozen, war torn landscape of occupied Poland during World War II, a crack team of allied commandos are sent on a deadly mission behind enemy lines to extract a rocket scientist from the hands of the Nazis.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspense, bleak, serious, suspenseful, intense, exciting
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Mission of Honor (2018)
Plot Summary:
The story of the Polish fliers who found themselves fighting for the freedom of their own country in foreign skies. Seen through the eyes of Jan Zumbach, fighter ace and adventurer, it tells how the Poles, driven across Europe by the German war machine, finally made their last stand. Flying Hurricanes for the RAF over Britain, they became a key component in the legend of ‘The Few’. Up against the might of the Luftwaffe they hoped that, by saving Great Britain from Nazi invasion, they were keeping the dream of a free Poland alive.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: UK, Poland
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, exciting, suspense, suspenseful
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War (2002)
Plot Summary:
During the bloody war in Chechnya, a British couple and two Russian soldiers are taken hostage by Chechen rebels. Two of the hostages are then released to bring the money for the British woman who is forced to wait for the ransom.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: realistic, rough, serious, bleak, suspenseful, tense, captivating, amateur film
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The Human Shield (1991)
Plot Summary:
The Human Shield is a 1991 film directed by Ted Post. It stars Michael Dudikoff and Tommy Hinkley. It is about a former government agent who must save his diabetic brother from Iraqi abductors.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 537
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: realistic, rough, suspenseful, exciting, suspense, grindhouse, independent film, bleak, serious, cult film
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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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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 Misfit Brigade (1987)
Plot Summary:
War story of the 27th Panzers, Hitler's heavy-duty combat regiment composed of prisoners.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK, Denmark, Yugoslavia, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, bleak, serious, captivating, realistic
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The Last Drop (2006)
Plot Summary:
Different factions in WWII-era Holland race to find a stash of Nazi gold.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, suspenseful, exciting, suspense, crying
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The One That Got Away (1996)
Plot Summary:
The existence of the anti-Iraq coalition was threatened when Saddam targetted Israel. In order to keep Israel out of the war, and the coalition together the Scuds had to be stopped. SAS patrol Bravo Two Zero, under the command of Sgt. Andy McNab was tasked to destroy these weapons. Three of the SAS troopers were killed and four captured: Only one escaped - Cpl. Chris Ryan.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 441
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: UK
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, rough, bleak, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
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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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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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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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Raid on Rommel (1971)
Plot Summary:
Captain Foster plans on raiding German-occupied Tobruk with hand- picked commandos, but a mixup leaves him with a medical unit led by a Quaker conscientious objector. Despite all odds they succeed with their mission. On the way they pick up and drug the mistress of an Italian general, blow up the entire fuel supply for the Afrika Korps, and swap philatelic gossip with Field Marshal Erwin Rommel.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission (1987)
Plot Summary:
Learning of a Nazi plot to attack Washington, D.C. with a deadly nerve gas, Major Wright leads twelve convicts on a suicide mission deep into occupied France to destroy the secret factory where the poison is made.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, War
Country: USA, Croatia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, realistic, rough, serious, captivating, suspenseful, bleak
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Rescue Under Fire (2017)
Plot Summary:
The crew of a medical helicopter suffers an accident when helping a joint force of USA and United Nations troops under Spanish command division in Afghanistan. The Spanish army has only one night to organize the rescue of the crew and injured, but what seems routine turns into hell once they receive the order to rescue the helicopter as well. Things only get worse when during the night a huge a concentration of Talibans begin surround them.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: Spain
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: brutal, suspense, stylized, intense, rough, bleak, epic, suspenseful, disturbing
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Too Late the Hero (1970)
Plot Summary:
A WWII film set on a Pacific island. Japanese and allied forces occupy different parts of the island. When a group of British soldiers are sent on a mission behind enemy lines, things don't go exactly to plan. This film differs in that some of the 'heroes' are very reluctant, but they come good when they are pursued by the Japanese who are determined to prevent them returning to base.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 145 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, suspense, psychological, exciting, realistic, rough, serious, historically accurate, 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: 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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Miracle at St. Anna (2008)
Plot Summary:
Miracle at St. Anna chronicles the story of four American soldiers who are members of the all-black 92nd "Buffalo Soldier" Division stationed in Tuscany, Italy during World War II.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 160 min
Plot tags: sincere, intense, rough, suspenseful, realistic, perverse, epic, serious, crying, detective
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Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War (2004)
Plot Summary:
When two brothers are forced to fight in the Korean War, the elder decides to take the riskiest missions if it will help shield the younger from battle.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 41000
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: South Korea
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: epic, realistic, emotional, tense, sad, captivating, rough, serious, suspenseful, heroic
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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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In Enemy Hands (2004)
Plot Summary:
At the height of Hitler's infamous U-boat war, the crew of the U.S.S. Swordfish were heading home after months at sea. They never made it. Now prisoners of war aboard U-boat 429, a small group of American survivors will find their loyalties put to the ultimate test when they're forced to join their German captors to fight for their very lives.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Thriller, War, Action
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense
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Operation Crossbow (1965)
Plot Summary:
Allied agents infiltrate the Nazi rocket complex at Peenemunde in order to obtain their secrets and sabotage the plant.The film alternates between German developments of the V-1 missile and V-2 rocket (with a German cast speaking their own language) and discovery by British Intelligence of the weapon.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: UK, Italy
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: political thriller, retro, cult classic, suspense, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending
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The Guns of Navarone (1961)
Plot Summary:
A team of allied saboteurs are assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held island and destroy the two enormous long-range field guns that prevent the rescue of 2,000 trapped British soldiers.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 54000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 158 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, tense, intense, serious, epic, fast paced, realistic, suspenseful, retro
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Force 10 from Navarone (1978)
Plot Summary:
Mallory and Miller are back. The survivors of Navarone are sent on a mission along with a unit called Force 10, which is led by Colonel Barnsby. But Force 10 has a mission of their own which the boys know nothing about.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspense, tense, stylized, intense, serious, suspenseful, patriotic, realistic, clever
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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 Devil's Brigade (1968)
Plot Summary:
1968 American war film about the formation and first mission of the joint Canadian-American WWII special forces winter and mountain unit formally called 1st Special Service Force, but commonly known as “The Devil’s Brigade”. The film dramatises the Brigade's first mission in the Italian Campaign, the task of capturing the German mountain stronghold Monte la Difensa, in December 1943. The film is based on the 1966 book of the same name, co-written by American novelist and historian Robert H. Adleman and Col. George Walton, a member of the brigade.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: exciting, realistic, tense, harsh, serious, suspenseful, epic, retro, cult classic, 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