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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 Final Journey (2017)
Plot Summary:
A former German Army officer, accompanied by his granddaughter, journeys to the Ukraine to find the woman he once loved.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 422
Genere: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: road movie, psychological, captivating, disturbing, sensitive
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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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Hotsunlight (2021)
Plot Summary:
Lugansk region, May 2014. The Novozhilov family, by chance, finds itself in the thick of events in Lugansk. Vlad Novozhilov is a former participant in the war in Afghanistan. He knows firsthand what war is. Having seen enough of the horrors of war in his time, in principle he does not even want to touch a weapon. In a situation, he sees only one way out - to leave the country. But you can't run away from the war, the border is already closed. To save his family, he will have to make difficult moral choices.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 599
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 133 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, tense, captivating, disturbing, crying
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Godspeed (2022)
Plot Summary:
An ex-army captain travels to Dalyan to stop his friend's beloved from marrying another man, but grief and trauma from a combat tragedy mar his journey.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: Turkey
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, semi serious
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The Continent (2014)
Plot Summary:
A road movie that follows three young men yearning after their ideals.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: China
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: road movie, psychological, captivating, disturbing
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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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Atlantis (2019)
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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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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Soldat blanc (2014)
Plot Summary:
A muggy Saigon, late 1945. Stationed at a military camp in French Indochina, two young men--Robert and André--become close friends as they share the boredom and excitement of waiting for their first mission. But when they discover that instead of freeing Indochina from foreign aggressors, they will be fighting natives struggling for independence, their friendship is jeopardized.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 179
Genere: Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 146 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, period piece
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The Tear of the Cold (2004)
Plot Summary:
During the Iran-Iraq war,a soldier and a Kurdish girl come to a new understanding of the notion of animosity despite their supposedly opposite circumstances.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 458
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Iran
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, islamic
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Tombstone of the Fireflies (2008)
Plot Summary:
Set during World War II, the film follows a young brother and sister as they attempt to survive the aftermath of the firebombing of Kobe City.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 370
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, touching, suspense, disturbing
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Hanagatami (2017)
Plot Summary:
Spring, 1941. Sixteen-year-old Toshihiko attends school in the coastal town of Karatsu, where his aunt cares for his ailing cousin. Immersed in the seaside's nature and culture, Toshihiko soon befriends the town's other extraordinary adolescents as they all contend with the war's gravitational pull.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 749
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 169 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, surreal, disturbing
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Little Kingdom (2019)
Plot Summary:
Soldier Jack deserts his unit and finds his wife Eva in isolated village in the mountains. She moved there to work in a factory unaware of the cruel owner Bar. Secret police arrives and it seems both Jack and Eva's time is up.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 175
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Slovakia
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Summer Solstice (2015)
Plot Summary:
Coming of Age Drama in rural Poland in the summer of 1943.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 423
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Poland, Germany
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, period piece
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A Melody to Remember (2016)
Plot Summary:
Second Lieutenant Han Sang-yeol leads his platoon during the Korean War in the early 1950s. He carries emotional scars and pain within. So when he meets some children from a choir, who have lost everything in the war, Sang-yeol is deeply moved and tries to protect to them.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 372
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: South Korea
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Breitner Commando (2019)
Plot Summary:
1959, France. Colonel Breitner is given a secret mission : find the body of his former aide, Colonel Delignières, who is reported missing in French Algeria, before the French army burns the whole place to the ground. Breitner puts together a team of five outlaws, who are promised freedom if the mission succeeds.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 415
Genere: Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing
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The Dawns Here Are Quiet... (2015)
Plot Summary:
It is late spring of 1942, and the Great Patriotic War is in full swing. A long way off from the front-line, at some God-forgotten junction, the Germans make an air landing operation in an attempt to get through to the Kirov railway and the White Sea - the Baltic Sea Canal. These aren't just ordinary paratroopers. This is a team of seasoned and highly trained infiltrators, the elite of the Waffen-SS, superhumans. The only thing in their way is an anti-aircraft artillery unit of corporal Vaskov and five young women in training. It may seem like a fight of local significance, but the countrys main strategic transportation artery is at stake. Can the corporal and his 'petite newbies' prevent Nazi sabotage and at what cost?.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 175 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, compassionate, rough, suspense, disturbing, dramatic, uplifting
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Culling Hens (2016)
Plot Summary:
A naive young farmhand stumbles upon a terrible scene after suspecting her husband of an affair. Unable to comprehend what she has seen, the woman resolves to confront her husband and discover what happens in the stables at night.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 20
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, underground film, independent film, cinema verite
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The Fortress of Sleeping Butterflies (2012)
Plot Summary:
Monika, a middle-aged wealthy woman, goes through a marriage crisis with her younger husband Linas. A car accident leads Monika to meeting three young girls, Kristina, Egle and Gitana, who happen to be ex-prostitutes extradited from Germany. The lady and the girls settle down in a country mansion, to form a relationship that will change their lives forever.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 565
Genere: Drama
Country: Lithuania
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Those Who Love, Hate (2017)
Plot Summary:
Enrique Hubermann, homeopathic physician, travels in flight from a love. By a joke of fate, in that distant place he meets the woman he wants to forget, a beautiful young woman like a demon who manipulates men and triggers dangerous passions.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 721
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, captivating, disturbing
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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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Causality (2021)
Plot Summary:
Claudia shows up at a bar to meet Luis, a doctor who contacted her through a dating app. Claudia doesn't suspect what fate has in store for her. A kidnapping that ends with an inevitable and unpredictable death. A suspense story with surprising twists until the last second, narrated in a sequence shot without cuts.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 483
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing
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Two (2021)
Plot Summary:
Two people, a man and a woman, wake up naked and with their abdomens attached to each other.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, surreal
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Strange Gardens (2003)
Plot Summary:
Lucien, 14, can’t understand why his father, a serious and respected teacher, makes a fool of himself by dressing up as a clown and giving a show. André, Lucien’s father’s best friend, feels for the teenager and decides to reveal something from their mutual past that will explain the reason for Lucien’s father’s strange behavior.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Pastorale 1943 (1978)
Plot Summary:
In a Dutch village during the German occupation, a small group of badly organized resistance fighters attempt to assassinate a collaborator.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 477
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, psychological, factual, rough, disturbing, bleak, serious, captivating, realistic
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Soldier Boy (2019)
Plot Summary:
The film is based on real events. This is a story about exciting events that occurred in the life of the smallest soldier - the hero of the Great Patriotic War, six-year-old Sergei Aleshkov. He lost all his relatives and got into the army. With a six-year-old boy, they started playing the soldier game in order to preserve his childhood, and he, in order to comply with this honorary title, became a real defender of the Motherland.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 795
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Belarus, Russia
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing
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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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Stones for the Rampart (2014)
Plot Summary:
To be defeated and not be - a victory. This is the motto that life is guided by three young friends: Alek, Sophy and Rudy. Scouts, high school graduates high school in Warsaw drifting ambitious plans for the future broken through September 1939. Entering adulthood in a very dramatic times, which puts them a choice - to survive at any cost, or to join the fighting for a free homeland, risking everything. The boys brought up in patriotic homes, shaped by the ideals of scouting, they decide to fight. They become soldiers, and although every scrape with death, they can live a full life.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, disturbing
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Chain Reaction (2017)
Plot Summary:
Marta's surprise birthday party sets in motion a spiral of tragic events.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 96
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing