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Plot Summary:
“Hot spots” are those places on Earth where even in peacetime warfare is taking place. Major Larin, a border guard officer, arrived on a business trip to one of these “hot spots”.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 13
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags:
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30 Segundos para Morir (1981)
Plot Summary:
Three brothers smuggle arms and drugs from Mexico into the US.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 15
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: mexploitation
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Black Shark (1993)
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IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 52
Genere: Action
Country: Russia
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Sofya Grushko (1972)
Plot Summary:
A story about a heroic nurse working for Soviet Intelligence during and after WWII.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 8
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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Escape from Afghanistan (2002)
Plot Summary:
American journalist Charlie Palmer gets permission to meet Russian soldiers in a camp controlled by Tali-ban. While the Russian soldiers take over the camp Charlie films it all.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 203
Genere: Action, War
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, suspenseful
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Panama Red (1976)
Plot Summary:
A hippie musician needs to make $60,000 through selling high grade Panama Red in just three days to pay back a drug smuggler known as The Money Man.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 37
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags:
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Cop Game (1988)
Plot Summary:
In the final days of the Vietnam War, someone is killing the officers of the elite Cobra Force. Two undercover M.P.'s are assigned to the case. The trail leads from the streets of Saigon to the war zone.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 184
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, War
Country: Italy, Philippines
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, independent film, poliziottesco, cult film
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Naa Peru Surya - Naa Illu India (2018)
Plot Summary:
Despite having serious anger management issues, Surya, an Indian Army officer is a brilliant officer but when anger takes control of him he is impossible to subdue. In spite of this issue, he achieves his goal of serving the country by overcoming the hurdles.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 163 min
Plot tags: psychological, exciting, suspenseful
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Kandahar (2010)
Plot Summary:
A docudrama about the escape of Russian pilots after being taken hostage by the Taliban in 1996.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, harsh
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Keerthi Chakra (2006)
Plot Summary:
Major Mahadevan (Mohanlal) is the head of the elite command force. He is in charge of fighting the country’s terrorist groups and protecting the country from their terrorist intentions. Havildar Jaikumar (Jeevaa) is Major Mahadevan’s most trusted lieutenant. He meticulously carries out his chief’s instructions, thereby gaining his trust and confidence. Mahadevan, Havildar Jaikumar and their team save the public from threats, attempted bombings, kidnappings, and extortions by militants.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: India
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: patriotic
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The Sunset Warrior (1984)
Plot Summary:
Thai government hires group of Chinese mercenaries to capture a powerful druglord from Golden Triangle. The mercenaries manage to capture the druglord, but his men are trying to set him free.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: Hong Kong, South Korea
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: bloody, cult classic, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast, cult film
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Beyond the Border (2011)
Plot Summary:
December 1942. Two young soldiers leave their posts at checkpoint 83 in North Värmland, Sweden and make their way through the ice cold winter night towards the Nazi-occupied Norwegian border. Sweden stands on the brink of invasion and they want to see the enemy everybody's talking about. But the adventure ends in disaster and soon thereafter Lieutenant Aron Stenström finds out that his brother Sven is one of the missing soldiers. With the odds stacked against him he is forced to go behind enemy lines on a secret rescue mission. Deep inside the Norwegian forests Aron realizes that a completely different kind of line must be crossed if they're to come out alive.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: Sweden
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, realistic, tense, rough, serious
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The Battle of Jangsari (2019)
Plot Summary:
Korean War, September 1950. In order to fight the enemy forces based in the South of the peninsula, General MacArthur orders the start of the Incheon Landing Operation, deploying diversionary attacks in other locations. Without real military forces to spare, 772 very young Korean student soldiers, barely trained, are sent to Jangsari Beach, where they will face a heroic fate and discover the value of friendship… (A sequel to Operation Chromite, released in 2016.).
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: South Korea
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: bleak, tense, suspense, rough, brutal, epic, disturbing
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Bastards (2006)
Plot Summary:
A "Hitlerjugend" kind of story, set in the Soviet Union during the Second World War, based on a fictitious story from the eponymous book by Vladimir Kunin.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: rough, art house, suspenseful, serious, captivating, realistic, exciting
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Saving Leningrad (2019)
Plot Summary:
September 1941. In a turn of events young lovebirds Kostya and Nastya find themselves on board of a barge that will evacuate people from sieged Leningrad. At night the barge gets into the storm. When it starts sinking, enemy planes - but not rescuers - are the first to arrive at the scene.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: disturbing, exciting, thought provoking, suspense, suspenseful
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Leaving Afghanistan (2019)
Plot Summary:
1988-1989. The end of the Soviet-Afghan war. The USSR begins its withdrawal from Afghanistan. Soviet General Vasiliev's son - a pilot named Alexander gets kidnapped by the mujahideen after his airplane crashes. As a result the 108th motorized infantry division's long awaited return home gets put on hold for one last mission: bring the General's son back. Based on true events the previously untold story of the courageous and tragic withdrawal campaign (through the Salang pass) reveals the danger the horror and the complexity of human nature during wartime.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: exciting, realistic, suspenseful, rough
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Enemy Lines (2020)
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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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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J.S.A.: Joint Security Area (2000)
Plot Summary:
In the DMZ separating North and South Korea, two North Korean soldiers have been killed, supposedly by one South Korean soldier. But the 11 bullets found in the bodies, together with the 5 remaining bullets in the assassin's magazine clip, amount to 16 bullets for a gun that should normally hold 15 bullets. The investigating Swiss/Swedish team from the neutral countries overseeing the DMZ suspects that another, unknown party was involved - all of which points to some sort of cover up. The truth is much simpler and much more tragic.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 33000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: South Korea
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: tense, enigmatic, political, tricky, thought provoking, suspenseful, bleak, touching, realistic, suspense
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Beaufort (2007)
Plot Summary:
BEAUFORT tells the story of LIRAZ LIBERTI, the 22 year-old outpost commander, and his troops in the months before Israel pulled out of Lebanon. This is not a story of war, but of retreat. This is a story with no enemy, only an amorphous entity that drops bombs from the skies while terrified young soldiers must find a way to carry out their mission until their very last minutes on that mountaintop.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: Israel
Duration: 131 min
Plot tags: tense, atmospheric, rough, serious, suspenseful, sincere, captivating, realistic, gloomy, crying
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The Bomber (2011)
Plot Summary:
During World War II, a soviet aircraft crashes on Nazi-occupied territory. But the pilot Grivtsov and his beloved radio operator Katya miraculously survive. Another survivor is flight navigator Linko, who ejected from the plane. Each of them has to find his way and perform military tasks, return to his own forces and simply to stay alive. The situation becomes more complicated because of an act of sabotage, which has been committed before their take-off at the aerodrome. Honest Grivtsov gets on the bad side of the colonel of SMERSH by defending his friends. Instead of being granted a medal "Star" for his 100th flight, he is pronounced a traitor and is to be executed.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 611
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: Russia, Ukraine
Duration: 181 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, suspenseful, sad
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Joanna (2010)
Plot Summary:
In an era in which it is difficult for the true emotion and excitement, Feliks Falk found the key to the human heart. How many of us love? How much we are able to self-sacrifice? Is there a price that can not pay, when it comes to life of a loved one? Are we really as good as we think about yourself? In Joanna's life is given forever. Today's friend suddenly becomes an enemy. Reflex heart turns into a curse. When one of the lonely woman takes care of little girls-czynkę do not know that from now on, her life will be sweet - bitter taste. Fate in this film is everything. Allows people to find that in a moment blow and lead to separation. After-forgives love, for which you have to pay a huge price. Fulfills the promise of happiness loneliness, brittle as glass.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 487
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: suspense, sincere, captivating, suspenseful
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Panfilov's 28 (2016)
Plot Summary:
USSR, Late November, 1941. Based on the account by reporter Vasiliy Koroteev that appeared in the Red Army's newspaper, Krasnaya Zvezda, shortly after the battle, this is the story of Panifilov's Twenty-Eight, a group of twenty-eight soldiers of the Red Army's 316th Rifle Division, under the command of General Ivan Panfilov, that stopped the advance on Moscow of a column of fifty-four Nazi tanks of the 11th Panzer Division for several days. Though armed only with standard issue Mosin-Nagant infantry rifles and DP and PM-M1910 machine guns, all useless against tanks, and with wholly inadequate RPG-40 anti-tank grenades and PTRD-41 anti-tank rifles, they fight tirelessly and defiantly, with uncommon bravery and unwavering dedication, to protect Moscow and their Motherland.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: touching, rough, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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Guy Ritchie's The Covenant (2023)
Plot Summary:
During the war in Afghanistan, a local interpreter risks his own life to carry an injured sergeant across miles of grueling terrain.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 144000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: UK, Spain, USA
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: suspense, powerful, interesting, extraordinary
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The Heritage of Love (2016)
Plot Summary:
Andrey Kulikov goes to Paris to visit the grave of his great-grandfather, Andrey Dolmatov, who had been an officer in the White Army during the Russian Revolution. On the headstone of the grave next to his great-grandfather's, he notices the face of a young woman. Later, while walking through Paris, Andrey sees a woman, Vera, who looks just like the young woman he had seen on the headstone. And so begins the telling of two love stories, separated by three generations and one hundred years.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 483
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, entertaining
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A Taste of Hell (1973)
Plot Summary:
Set in the Philippines during WW II, two U.S. Army officers are caught and shot by a Japanese officer. One survives and soon joins with a guerrilla troop to battle the enemy... and get revenge.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 90
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA, Philippines
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, bleak, serious, captivating, realistic, cult film
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Stalingrad (2013)
Plot Summary:
Drama set in 1942, during one of the most important battles of World War II, which stopped the progress of Nazi forces and turned the tide of war in favor of the Allies. The Soviet army mounts a counter-attack on the Nazi forces that occupy half of Stalingrad on the other side of the Volga, but the operation to cross the river is unsuccessful. A few soldiers who managed to get to the other side take refuge in a house on the bank of Volga. Here they find a girl who didn’t escape when the Germans came. While the whole might of the German army descends onto them, the heroes of Stalingrad experience love, loss, joy and the sense of ultimate freedom that can only be felt by those about to die. They defend the house at all costs while the Red Army prepares for another attack.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 131 min
Plot tags: captivating, realistic, exciting, rough, serious, bleak, epic, historical drama
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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 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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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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Fortress of War (2010)
Plot Summary:
A war drama set during the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, in which Russian troops held on to a border stronghold for nine days. The film shows the heroic defense of Brest Fortress, which has taken upon the first stroke of German fascist invaders on June 22 1941.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: Belarus, Russia
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, exciting, tense, captivating, touching, epic