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Plot Summary:
A British commander falls in love with a local Sicilian girl during World War II.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 57
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic
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Stuck Between Stations (2011)
Plot Summary:
A decade after they graduated from high school and went their separate ways, Casper (Sam Rosen), a soldier haunted by the horrors of war, and Rebecca (Zoe Lister Jones), a whip-smart graduate student with a shaky future, reunite by chance and get to know each other over the course of an accidental tour of the little-known underbelly of Minneapolis. The evening's odyssey includes a bar fight, a house party, a punk-rock circus, a spontaneous burglary, a home Casper did not know he had, and a cast of strange characters, unexpected allies and disappointing friends.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: sentimental, serious, realistic, melancholic, romantic, sexy, sweet, romantic comedy, indie film, independent film
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Kilometer Zero (2005)
Plot Summary:
Set during the Iraq-Iran war in the 80s, the film tells of a tragicomic road trip set in Iraq's Kurdistan.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 492
Genere: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: France, Iraq, Finland
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: emotional, touching, serious, captivating, sentimental, realistic, black comedy
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The Pigeon That Took Rome (1962)
Plot Summary:
An American Infantry officer assigned to a cloak-and-dagger role in Rome uses homing pigeons for outside contact, with humorous results.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 464
Genere: Comedy, War
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, realistic, semi serious, freeze frame
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In Love and War (2011)
Plot Summary:
In June 1950, soon after the start of the Korean War, a troop of North Korean soldiers enter a small South Korean village. Captain Jeong-woong proclaims that they came to liberate the villagers but their true agenda is to ferret out the reactionaries. The villagers and Seol-hee, who is separated from her fiance on her wedding day, offer them heartfelt hospitality and cooperation to avoid falling out of the army's favor. Eventually friendships starts to build up between the soldiers and the villagers.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 161
Genere: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: South Korea
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, serious, emotional, realistic
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La France (2007)
Plot Summary:
During the First World War, Camille (Sylvie Testud), a young woman whose husband is away fighting at the front, receives a short letter of break-up from him. Distraught, she decides to go to join him, but is driven back by the rule of the time which forbids women to move around alone. She has no other recourse than to dress herself up as a man so as to be able to take to the road on foot. As she lives near the Western Fromt she hooks up with a passing group of French soldiers without too much trouble. But there's something a bit odd about these stragglers, and it's not just their habit of bursting into song at every opportunity.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 574
Genere: Drama, Musical, Romance, War
Country: France
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, realistic, stylized, sexual
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The Triple Echo (1972)
Plot Summary:
A WW2 deserter holes up on a farm with disastrous results. Overlooked gem with Glenda Jackson in one of her best roles and Oliver Reed playing a part he was made for.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 910
Genere: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film, sentimental, touching, offbeat, humorous, serious, emotional, realistic
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Castle Keep (1969)
Plot Summary:
During the Battle of the Bulge, an anachronistic count shelters a ragtag squad of Americans in his isolated castle hoping they will defend it against the advancing Germans.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, retro, offbeat, serious, realistic, surreal, historical drama
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Snow and Fire (1991)
Plot Summary:
While the Nazis occupied most of France, Jacques (Vincent Perez) has been active in the liberation underground. Now that the Allies have freed a significant portion of their country from German control, he and his buddy Michel (Matthieu Roze) can join the Free French army and fight with them to help bring about the downfall of the German empire. Both of them are quite young men, and their first love turns out to be the same woman, a lovely nurse named Christiane (Geraldine Pailhas). Michel woos her first, and she becomes pregnant by him. However, she is much more interested in Jacques, even though she is considering marrying an American solely for practical reasons.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 135
Genere: Drama, Romance, War
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, emotional, realistic
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Captive Hearts (1987)
Plot Summary:
December 1944. As their bomber is shot down during a mission over Japan, Sergeant McManus and Robert, a young lieutenant, have no other choice but make a parachute jump. They are captured by local villagers and are saved from execution by Fukushima, the village elder. McManus never accepts his lot unlike Robert, who soon takes an interest in Japanese customs and rites. More, he falls in love with pretty Miyoko, Fukushima's widowed daughter-in-law.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 229
Genere: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: independent film, uplifting, touching, serious, emotional, realistic
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Warriors Five (1962)
Plot Summary:
World War II Italy...1943. After parachuting behind enemy lines on an espionage mission, an American soldier is imprisoned by the enemy. He escapes with four Italian prisoners, enlisting their aid in exploding a bridge.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 111
Genere: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Italy, France, Yugoslavia
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: macaroni combat, exciting, rough, bleak, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful
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At War with Love (2016)
Plot Summary:
It's 1943 and World War II is raging in Europe. In New York, Arturo and Flora the daughter of a restaurant owner are in love, but she is promised in marriage to the son of a Mafia boss. There is a way around this, but to be able to marry Flora, Arturo needs to get permission from her father, who lives in a village in Sicily. Arturo doesn't have any money, so the only way he can get to Sicily is to enlist in the U.S. Army, which is preparing for a landing on the island.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, art house, entertaining
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Jessica (1962)
Plot Summary:
When the men of a Sicilian village start obsessing over ravishing blonde midwife Jessica (Angie Dickinson), angry females revolt by refusing to have sex with their husbands. As the local priest (Maurice Chevalier) tries to encourage procreation, Jessica falls for a tricky recluse (Gabriele Ferzetti). An adaptation of a Flora Sandstrom novel, this charming comedy also features Noel-Noel as a matchmaking old-timer.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 402
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France, USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: independent film, sentimental, sexy, humorous, realistic, semi serious, hot
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The Warrior and the Wolf (2009)
Plot Summary:
Set during China's the Warring States Period (476-221 BC), benevolent warrior Chenkang Lu (Joe Odagiri) enters into a torrid love affair with a woman (Maggie Q) from the nomadic Harran tribe. Their relationship sends the warrior to a place where humans were once wolves.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 524
Genere: Action, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan, USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, captivating, exciting, serious, epic, realistic, stylized
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Story of a Prostitute (1965)
Plot Summary:
Disappointed by the marriage of her lover to a woman he does not love, prostitute Harumi drifts from the city to a remote Japanese outpost in Manchuria to work in a "comfort house," or brothel, during the Sino-Japanese war. The commanding adjutant there takes an immediate liking to the new girl, but she is at first fascinated, and comes to love, Mikami, the officer's aide. At first he is haughty and indifferent to the girl, which enrages her, but they are drawn together eventually. Abused and manipulated by the adjutant, she grows to hate the officer and seeks solace in Mikami's arms. They carry on a clandestine affair, which is a dangerous breach of code for both of them.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, erotic, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, gloomy, sexual, freeze frame, sexy
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Intrepido: A Lonely Hero (2013)
Plot Summary:
A middle-aged man tries to get by in Milan while trying to retain his dignity.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 738
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, touching, realistic, light, feel good
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The Americanization of Emily (1964)
Plot Summary:
During the build-up to D-Day in 1944, the British found their island hosting many thousands of American soldiers who were "oversexed, overpaid, and over here". That's Charlie Madison exactly; he knows all the angles to make life as smooth and risk-free as possible for himself. But things become complicated when he falls for an English woman, and his commanding officer's nervous breakdown leads to Charlie being sent on a senseless and dangerous mission.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, realistic, witty, funny, black and white, cute, humorous, semi serious, sentimental, light
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Two Men Went to War (2002)
Plot Summary:
Comedy drama based on the true story of two British Army dentists who in 1942, eager to see action, go AWOL and invade occupied France on their own.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 934
Genere: Comedy, War, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, entertaining, captivating, offbeat, realistic
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Uranus (1990)
Plot Summary:
After World War II, a small French village struggles to put the war behind as the controlling Communist Party tries to flush out Petain loyalists. The local bar owner, a simple man who likes to write poetry, who only wants to be left alone to do his job, becomes a target for Communist harassment as they try and locate a particular loyalist, and he pushes back.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, History, War
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: anthology, psychological, clever, serious, realistic, biting, suspense
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The Skin (1981)
Plot Summary:
Naples, year 1943, in the middle of World War II. The city has just be liberated by American troops in an era in which nobody knows just when the war or where begins the peace; winners and losers face.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 131 min
Plot tags: controversial, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, disturbing, masterpiece
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Dirty Heroes (1967)
Plot Summary:
Set near the end of World War II in the Netherlands, Dirty Heroes concerns a group of ex-convicts recruited into the U.S. Army to recover Dutch jewels originally stolen by the Nazis as well as confiscated Allied plans.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 256
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: exciting, grindhouse, macaroni combat, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Sword of Honour (2001)
Plot Summary:
Guy Crouchback joins the war effort during World War 2, an idealistic quest to join the forces of good in the fight against evil. But his efforts is not rewarded, he never has any chance to join any real fighting, circumstances always prevent it. Instead he finds himself in the middle of an army full of cowards, incompetents and a few outright evil men. They of course reap the fortunes of war, promotions and fame, but never Crouchback. His war is just an endless list of transfers and an hopeless but noble quest for righteousness.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 918
Genere: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 208 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, captivating, touching, semi autobiographical, gloomy
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Hell Boats (1970)
Plot Summary:
A war drama of motor torpedo boats which did much unsung work in WW2, but the naval battles merely provide an exciting story in which an even more special romantic drama is wrapped up.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 518
Genere: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, serious, captivating, realistic
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A Soldier's Tale (1989)
Plot Summary:
In the days following the D-Day invasion in Normandy, France, a British platoon leader named Saul (Gabriel Byrne) and his corporal (Paul Wyett) reach an isolated farmhouse and encounter a beautiful French girl named Belle (Marianne Basler). Love blooms between Saul and Belle, but the grim realities of war catch up with them when a French Resistance trio claims that Belle is a Nazi collaborator. Judge Reinhold appears briefly as the token Yank.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 263
Genere: Drama, Romance, War
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: realistic, tense, serious, emotional
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For the Moment (1993)
Plot Summary:
This Canadian film presents and old-fashioned war time romance. It is set during 1942 in Manitoba and traces the doomed affair between a young farmer's wife (Christianne Hirt) whose husband is fighting abroad and a dashing Australian pilot (Russell Crowe). The pilot has come to train in the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan of Canada. When the pilot, Lachlan, is not training, he is surreptitiously wooing Lill, the farmer's wife. At the other end of town, Betsy (Wanda Cannon) who supports her two kids by bootlegging, charges for her services. She gets involved with Zeek (Scott Kraft), an American flight instructor.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 977
Genere: Romance, War, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: realistic, romantic, sentimental, serious, independent film, sexy, enigmatic, feel good, breathtaking, unusual plot structure
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Dresden (2006)
Plot Summary:
At a Dresden hospital in 1945, nurse Anna Mauth (Felicitas Woll) cares for badly injured British pilot Robert Newman (John Light), whom Anna believes to be a German deserter. As Allied forces close in, Anna grows close to Robert despite her engagement to Dr. Alexander Wenninger (Benjamin Sadler). The gripping historical romance won a 2006 German Television Award.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 176 min
Plot tags: tense, touching, serious, captivating, political thriller, period piece, realistic, tragic
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April 9th (2015)
Plot Summary:
In the early morning of April 9th 1940 the Danish army is alerted. The Germans have crossed the border; Denmark is at war against Europe's strongest army. In Southern Jutland Danish bicycle- and motorcycle companies are ordered out, to against all odds, hold back the forces until the Danish reinforcements can be mobilized. In the fatal hours, we follow second lieutenant Sand and his bicycle company - they will as the first Danish soldiers meet the enemy in combat on April 9th 1940.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, History, War
Country: Denmark
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, realistic, tense, suspense, suspenseful
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The Fallen (2004)
Plot Summary:
THE FALLEN is a three-sided story about German, Italian, and American soldiers, set in Northern Italy during the final weeks of the World War II. On the one side, a group of American supply soldiers delivers ammunition to the front line, a journey that becomes a descent into hell, the success of the mission becomes less likely with every setback. On the other, a doomed German unit and their ragtag Italian partners struggle to maintain morale and discipline amongst their beleaguered troops in the face of certain defeat. Torn between these are the divided loyalties of the Italians, both fascist soldiers and communist partisans, who have turned brother against brother in a bloody civil war. The film looks at the everyday life of the soldiers, their encounters on the road, their hopes and dreams, and the differences in values, morals, and patriotism between the cultures at the end of that era.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 932
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA, Germany, Italy
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, captivating, realistic, bleak
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The Italian Key (2011)
Plot Summary:
A romantic fairy tale about a 19-year old orphan girl who, as her sole inheritance, gets an antique key that unlocks both an old Italian villa and the secrets of her family history.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 357
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Finland, USA, Italy, UK
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: touching, semi serious, sentimental, feel good, realistic, stylized, romantic, fairy tale
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My Best Enemy (2011)
Plot Summary:
Poland 1943: An unlikely pair - a concentration camp prisoner and a captain in Hitler's notorious SS - free themselves from the wreckage of a crashed SS airplane. The two appear to be strangely familiar with each other and the extent of their extraordinary relationship is thrillingly revealed.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: Austria, Luxembourg
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, tense, serious, captivating, realistic, contemplative
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In Love and War (1996)
Plot Summary:
After teenage ambulance driver Ernest Hemingway (Chris O'Donnell) takes shrapnel in the leg during World War I, he falls in love with Agnes von Kurowsky (Sandra Bullock), a beautiful older nurse at the hospital where he's sent to recover. Their affair slowly blossoms, until Hemingway boldly asks Agnes to be his wife and journey to America with him. Richard Attenborough directs this drama based on the real-life experiences of the famed novelist.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: romantic, sentimental, romantic drama, sincere, sex comedy, atmospheric, serious, realistic, light, inspirational