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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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The Last Grenade (1970)
Plot Summary:
British mercenaries (Stanley Baker, Alex Cord) finish their Congo feud in Hong Kong, with a woman (Honor Blackman) caught in the middle.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 236
Genere: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man (1962)
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Young and restless Nick Adams, the only son of a domineering mother and a weak but noble doctor father, leaves his rural Michigan home to embark on an eventful cross-country journey. He is touched and affected by his encounters with a punch-drunk ex-boxer, a sympathetic telegrapher, and an alcoholic advanceman for a burlesque show. After failing to get a job as reporter in New York, he enlists in the Italian army during World War I as an ambulance driver. His camaraderie with fellow soldiers and a romance with a nurse he meets after being wounded propel him to manhood.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 697
Genere: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 145 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, atmospheric, uplifting, touching, serious, captivating, realistic
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The Silent Mountain (2014)
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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)
Plot Summary:
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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The Uprising (1966)
Plot Summary:
After years of deplorable conditions of poverty and injustice, peasants revolt against the landowners, the social elite, and police in this routine social drama. A peasant woman is raped by a lecherous wealthy lesbian, and chaos breaks out in the rural areas where the poor suffer the most from the oppressive social and economic conditions.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 184
Genere: Drama
Country: Romania
Duration: 100 min
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Forest of the Hanged (1965)
Plot Summary:
At the Romanian front near the Austro-Hungarian border during World War I, a multinational group witnesses a hanging and other military deceptions.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Romania
Duration: 154 min
Plot tags: romantic drama
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The Punishment (1976)
Plot Summary:
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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Johnny Got His Gun (2008)
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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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 437
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: historical drama
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1915 (1982)
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IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 128
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Australia
Duration: 360 min
Plot tags: period drama
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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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The Fear (2015)
Plot Summary:
A young soldier testifies of his thoughts about the first world war, between disillusion, fear and hate, following his path through the letters he sends to his lover.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 264
Genere: Drama, War
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, rough, exciting
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Plot Summary:
In 1877 during the Russo-Turkish war the Kingdom of Romania joins the war on Russia's side and declares its independence from the Ottoman Empire.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 304
Genere: History, War
Country: Romania
Duration: 192 min
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Then I Sentenced Them All to Death (1972)
Plot Summary:
A young boy is adopted by a priest and his wife during the Nazi occupation of Romania during the Second World War. He befriends the village idiot, who's despised by everyone else. When a German is killed in the last days of the war, the village is threatened with total destruction unless the murderer is handed over. The villagers decide to hand over the idiot.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 963
Genere: War, Drama
Country: Romania
Duration: 103 min
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Plot Summary:
Historical movie based on the "fratii Jderi" book. The movie is in the top 20 most watched Romanian movies.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 234
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Country: Romania
Duration: 105 min
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Plot Summary:
In medieval Wallachia a young prince battles his twin brother for their father's throne and for their ancestors' crown of fire.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 262
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Country: Romania
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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
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Duration: 102 min
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Plot Summary:
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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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Plot Summary:
During the war in Afghanistan a Soviet tank crew commanded by a tyrannical officer find themselves lost and in a struggle against a band of Mujahadeen guerrillas in the mountains.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: bleak, realistic, sexy, retro, gothic, exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, tense
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Zeppelin (1971)
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The outbreak of World War I places Scots officer Geoffrey Richter-Douglas in an uncomfortable position. Although his allegiance is to Britain, his mother was from an aristocratic Bavarian family, and he spent his summers in Germany as a child. When Geoffrey is approached by a German spy who offers him a chance to defect, he reports the incident to his superiors, but instead of arresting the spy they suggest that he accept her offer--and become an Allied agent. In Germany, among old friends, Geoffrey discovers that loyalty is more complicated than he expected, especially when he finds himself aboard the maiden voyage of a powerful new prototype Zeppelin, headed for Scotland on a secret mission that could decide the outcome of the war.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, eurospy
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Plot Summary:
People in a small German village in the last valley to remain untouched by the devastating Thirty Years' War try to exist in peace with a group of soldiers occupying the valley.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK, USA
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IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspense
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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
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Private Peaceful (2012)
Plot Summary:
Set in the fields of Devon and the WW1 battlefields of Flanders, two brothers fall for the same girl while contending with the pressures of their feudal family life, the war, and the price of courage and cowardice.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, emotional, realistic, crying, weeping, period drama
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Journey's End (2017)
Plot Summary:
Set in a dugout in Aisne in 1918, a group of British officers, led by the mentally disintegrating young officer Stanhope, variously await their fate.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, period piece, thought provoking, captivating, suspenseful
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All Quiet on the Western Front (1979)
Plot Summary:
At the start of World War I, Paul Baumer is a young German patriot, eager to fight. Indoctrinated with propaganda at school, he and his friends eagerly sign up for the army soon after graduation. But when the horrors of war soon become too much to bear, and as his friends die or become gravely wounded, Paul questions the sanity of fighting over a few hundreds yards of war-torn countryside.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Drama, War
Country: UK, USA
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Plot tags: bleak, sad, suspenseful, historical drama, sincere, serious, realistic, disturbing, gloomy, tragic ending
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The Immortals (1974)
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In 1611,a few years after the death of Prince Michael the Brave,ruler of Wallachia,Moldavia and Transylvania,the remnants of his loyal personal guard wonder through medieval Europe.The faithful soldiers,under the command of their leader,Captain Costea,carry a treasure-filled trunk and their old battle flag.With their treasure they hope to return to Romania,recruit a new army,buy weapons and fulfill Prince Michael the Brave's dream.With their battle flag they hope to rally new recruits and old ex-soldiers to their cause.Former ex-Captain Andrei of Prince Michael's guard is also on their side.However,their return journey home is a perilous one, with many enemies,new and old,wishing to seize their treasure chest.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 950
Genere: Action, Adventure, History, Thriller, War
Country: Romania
Duration: 103 min
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Indiana Jones transfers from the Belgian army to the French intelligence service, where his first assignment is as a reconnaissance photographer for the 124th Squadron, a group of volunteer American pilots in the French army. When his plane is shot down, Indy encounters the infamous "Red Baron" - Manfred von Richthofen. After a daring escape, Indy is parachuted back into Germany on a mission to convince aircraft designer Anthony Fokker to defect to France, and he discovers a new German superweapon - a new airplane intended to bring the war overseas.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 746
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Working with a beautiful lady spy, Indiana Jones is assigned to assist the British forces in their attack on the Turkish-occupied town of Beersheba. With a regiment of the Australian Lighthorsemen approaching, Indy must defuse the explosives the Turks have placed throughout the town.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 688
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: The Phantom Train of Doom (1999)
Plot Summary:
November, 1916. Indiana Jones and Remy Baudouin have managed to get a transfer from the European trenches to the plains of Africa. On arrival they both receive a promotion to the rank of lieutenant in the Belgian Army. When they take the wrong train they end up in Moshi. Desprerate to join their unit in Lake Victoria, the two men bump into the 25th Royal Fusiliers, a unit of cranky old men led by Indy's old acquaintance Frederick Selous. Indy's passing knowledge of trains and fluent German comes in handy for the Fusiliers, who are about to go on a mission to find and destroy a Phantom Train that carries an enormous German artillery gun. After accomplishing their goal, Selous tricks Indy and Remy into joining his unit for another caper involving the capture of the German military strategist Colonel Von Lettow-Vorbeck.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 566
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Country: USA
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