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Plot Summary:
The story of a young American soldier hit by an artillery shell on the last day of the First World War. The film takes place in the mind of a quadruple amputee who has also lost his eyes, ears, nose, and mouth. Regaining consciousness, 20 year-old Joe Bonham slowly discovers that while his brain is healthy and able to reason, the rest of his body is irreparably shattered, leaving him forever trapped within the confines of his own imagination. He struggles valiantly to find some way to communicate with the outside world. Tapping his head in Morse code he breaks through and pleads with his caretakers to be put on display as a living example of the cost of war.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 343
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
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The Return of the Soldier (1982)
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The returning soldier is amnesia victim Alan Bates, who remembers nothing of his life before suffering shell-shock--not even his long-term marriage to snooty Julie Christie. Spinsterish Ann-Margret, who has long harbored a fondness for Bates, hopes to take advantage of his memory loss. But both Christie and Ann-Margret are challenged by a third woman, Bates' childhood sweetheart Glenda Jackson. Poor Bates deals with all of this by not dealing with it. A fairly faithful rendition of the Rebecca West novel on which it is based, Return of the Soldier ambles along at its own languid pace to a inconclusive conclusion.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 669
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: independent film, period drama
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Thomas the Impostor (1965)
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In the First World War, when Paris is expected to fall to the Germans, the attractive widow, Princesse de Bormes, organises a convoy of cars to evacuate the wounded from the front, and bring them back to her villa in Paris to recuperate. The authorities will not give them passes until an innocent 16-year-old boy, Guillaume Thomas de Fontenoy, joins them and is mistaken as the nephew of the popular General de Fontenoy. The Princess is enraptured by Thomas and her daughter, Henriette, falls in love with him. However Thomas feels impelled to see more of the action of the war.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 334
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min
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Luisa Spagnoli (2016)
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This is a true story of Luisa Spagnoli who was an Italian businesswoman, famous for creating a women's fashion store and the chocolate brand, Perugia. The show is a romantic telling of her life. Considering that women were not involved in business, it is an amazing story of someone way ahead of her time.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 173
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration:
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The Scavengers (1969)
Plot Summary:
Via the Chicago Reader: "After World War II an Italian soldier returns to his hometown near the Alps and, unable to find a job, hooks up with a crotchety hermit who scavenges buried shells and bombs for scrap metal.".
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 143
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 101 min
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Here Is Your Life (1966)
Plot Summary:
A working-class boy struggles to find himself through a series of jobs and romances.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 169 min
Plot tags: poetic
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The Silent Mountain (2014)
Plot Summary:
A young Austrian soldier in World War I fights his way through the Alps to rescue his Italian girlfriend and escape the impending explosion that will rock the mountain.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 791
Genere: Adventure, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Austria, Italy, USA
Duration: 94 min
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Last Night of Love (1980)
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In 1916, shortly before Romania's entry in World War One Romanian Army Lieutenant Tudor Gheorghiu is posted to a border patrol unit on Romania's border with Austria-Hungary. Not receiving any news from his wife he persuades the commanding officer, Captain Dimiu, to allow him a short leave to visit his wife. Tudor married Lena two years before but was very jealous and suspected her of infidelity. When his grandfather dies Tudor inherits most of the fortune. Gigolo lawyer Andrei Nicolau is the executor of the will. He also is the man who lustfully desires Tudor's beautiful wife. A contest for Lena's love begins. Romania is plunged into WW1 and ironically Tudor receives his junior Lieutenant commission in the same regiment where gigolo lawyer Nicolau serves as a Major. Their destinies seem intertwined.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 591
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Romania, West Germany
Duration: 100 min
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Gurkha: Beneath the Bravery (2023)
Plot Summary:
A psychological war drama inspired by true events of Rifleman Kulbir Thapa, an inexperienced soldier goes through an incredible journey that eventually cements his name among the legendary Gurkha warriors.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 518
Genere: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: independent film, historical drama
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The Punishment (1976)
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In 1919 at the end of WW1 Romanian peasant Manolache Preda returns to his native village where he finds his woman taken by another and his land sold to the local landowner.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 717
Genere: Drama
Country: Romania
Duration: 112 min
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Her Mother's Sin (2009)
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A modest Serbian girl from the 1930s loses both her parents in a year. She gets abducted by a beautiful stranger who forces her to marry him. For her he remains a mystery she is trying to solve throughout the series which is based on the novel of the same name my Mir-Jam.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 599
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Serbia
Duration: 55 min
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Nahapet (1977)
Plot Summary:
Story of a strong-willed man, Nahapet, who lost his family during the 1915 Genocide is an eternal story of resurrection.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 430
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 92 min
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Assignment Berlin (1982)
Plot Summary:
no overview.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 93
Genere: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 94 min
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Armenia, My Love... (2016)
Plot Summary:
The destiny of a happy Armenian family, whose life will change forever in 1915, Ottoman Empire, (Armenian land), now Turkey and whose beautiful dreams will become memories in the eyes of the most famous Armenian American painter, who lives to paint the story of his shattered childhood.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 631
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Mister Johnson (1990)
Plot Summary:
In 1923 British Colonial Nigeria, Mister Johnson is an oddity -- an educated black man who doesn't really fit in with the natives or the British. He works for the local British magistrate, and considers himself English, though he has never been to England. He is always scheming, trying to get ahead, which lands him in a lot of hot water.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: sad, independent film, psychological, atmospheric, uplifting, touching, serious, realistic
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The First Teacher (1965)
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Dyuishen is assigned to the mountainous Kirghiz region of Central Asia by the Young Communist League after he is discharged from the Red Army. It is 1923 and the Civil war has ended. The former soldier becomes a teacher, bringing the Leninist doctrine to the remote Moslem area where elders did not allow children to go to school. He falls in love with one of his students, but the young woman is sold by her father to a wealthy chieftain. When the school is burned down, the majestic poplar trees that are a source of local pride are cut down to rebuild the new structure.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 601
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: political
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An Accidental Soldier (2013)
Plot Summary:
An unexpected love story set in WW1 France between a young Australian baker who has deserted the front line, and a grieving French woman, who puts her own life at risk by sheltering him from the authorities.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 437
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: historical drama
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Hidden in Silence (1996)
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Poland 1939, shortly before invasion of the German troops. To save their belongings from the Nazis, the Jewish family Diamant transfers them to their 17-year-old catholic maid Fusia. In return Fusia provides them with food until the ghetto is dissolved, and then hides 13 people in her loft for over two years. However, as the front approaches and two German nurses take quarter in Fusias apartment everything seems to be in vain.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 531
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
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1915 (1982)
Plot Summary:
1915 is a 1982 Australian mini series about two friends who wind up serving in World War One.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 128
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Australia
Duration: 360 min
Plot tags: period drama
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1914 the Glorious Summer (1996)
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An old aristocrat, short of money, who does not accept the new world ruled by the bourgeois class ,epitomized by the industrialist and by the doctor who finally grabs the the aristocrat's castle which soon will be turned into a hospital.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 131
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 117 min
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Mother at War (2020)
Plot Summary:
1918. World War I rages in Europe while Erna Jensen tends to her ordinary life at home in Bramstrup, with her simple-minded son, Kalle. One day the village constable comes to enlist Kalle for military service for the German Empire – of which Southern Jutland is a part. If Erna is to save Kalle from certain death, she must follow him through thick and thin. Upon a chance meeting with a deserting solder she trades identities. Now disguised as Private Julius Rasmussen, Erna heads for the front. In her encounters with the other soldiers and in the presence of the war, unknown sides of Erna are awoken. This is the story of a woman who won’t let a war prevent her from fighting for what she loves.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 804
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Denmark, Estonia, Belgium
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sincere, captivating, suspense, period drama
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Queen Marie of Romania (2019)
Plot Summary:
Devastated by the First World War and plunged into political controversy, Romania's every hope accompanies its Queen on her mission to Paris, to lobby for its great unification's international recognition at the 1919 Peace Talks.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Romania
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: captivating, disturbing, epic
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Mercenaries' Trap (1981)
Plot Summary:
The movie is based on a true story from the end of WWI, in Transylvania. A nobleman who owned some land in Transylvania returns home to find a part of his fortune burned to ashes during late 1918 when power was trasfered from AustroHungary to Romania. Looking for revenge, he ordered the killing of innocent Romanian peasants from a neighbouring village, which he suspected to be guilty for the losses he suffered. A Romanian officer from Romanian Transylvanian Volunteers Corp, decides to help the villagers to face the menace of the nobleman.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 433
Genere: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: Romania, East Germany
Duration: 111 min
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Chunuk Bair (1992)
Plot Summary:
The tragedy of Gallipoli is exposed.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 89
Genere: Drama, War
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 102 min
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The Basket (1999)
Plot Summary:
Peter Coyote (E.T., Erin Brokovich) and Karen Allen (The Perfect Storm) star in this touching family drama about the unifying power of basketball in a community torn apart by war. Both a riveting sports film and a tale of triumph over adversity, The Basket is "a hoop dream movie with a whole lot of heart" (Dallas Morning News)! In 1918, when the wheat-farming townspeople of Waterville, Washington, welcome home their first wounded son from WWI, they'restruck by the harsh reality of war. And just as bigotry and hatred toward two German orphans dividethe close-knit community, a new schoolteacher, Martin (Coyote), rolls into town with some strange ideas and an even stranger leather ball. Through the brand-new game called basketball, Martin strivesto bring harmony to the town...before it tears itself apart!.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 655
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: independent film, sentimental, touching, feel good, serious, realistic
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1918 (1985)
Plot Summary:
It's 1918, the height of United States involvement in World War I - Liberty Bonds are sold, German immigrants are suspected as traitors or saboteurs, young men everywhere succumb to the patriotism and propaganda and enlist. In a small Texas town, Horace Robedaux feels the pressure - he doesn't want to leave his young wife Elizabeth and their young child Jenny - but Elizabeth's can't-do-anything-right little brother is constantly talking about the war, and Elizabeth's stern father, who opposed the marriage initially, now has plans to take care of his daughter and the child so Horace can fight for his country. But the influenza epidemic sweeping the town (and the nation) may change everyone's plans.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 439
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film, sentimental, sincere, touching, serious, emotional, realistic
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The Ottoman Lieutenant (2017)
Plot Summary:
Lillie, a determined American woman, ventures overseas to join Dr. Jude at a remote medical mission in the Ottoman Empire (now Turkey). However, Lillie soon finds herself at odds with Jude and the mission’s founder, Woodruff, when she falls for the titular military man, Ismail, just as the war is about to erupt.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 27000
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Turkey, USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: disturbing, tense, thought provoking, captivating, retro, period piece, tragic, period drama
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Forbidden Ground (2013)
Plot Summary:
Three British soldiers find themselves stranded in No Man's Land after a failed charge on the German Trenches. Set in France 1916.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: Australia
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: tense, bleak, serious, realistic, captivating, rough, suspenseful, independent film
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Cider with Rosie (2015)
Plot Summary:
A semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story set in the Cotswolds during and immediately after the First World War.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 825
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, captivating, psychological, sentimental, touching, semi autobiographical
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Chekist (1992)
Plot Summary:
Srubov is a part of CHEKA, the secret police Lenin established after the Bolshevik Revolution. They arrest, interview for a minute, try in ten seconds, and execute intellectuals, aristocrats, Jews, clergy, and their families. In the building basement, five people at a time are shot as they stand naked facing wooden doors. No one to remember their last words; no martyrs, just anonymous bodies. Daily, the kangaroo court, the executions, the loading of bodies onto wagons. Srubov is cold, distant, sexually dysfunctional, and a deep thinker, hated by former friends and his family. As he tries to reason the nature of revolution and the purpose of CHEKA, he slowly goes mad.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Russia, France
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychedelic, controversial
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The Great War (2019)
Plot Summary:
In November of 1918 as World War I was ending, a unit of American soldiers goes behind enemy lines to find a lost platoon of African American soldiers.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating