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Plot Summary:
In the final days of World War II, a young Hungarian is making his way home, through countryside full of the debris of war, when he is captures and imprisoned by Russians. Left in the custody of a young Russian soldier, the two youths form a friendship in spite of not speaking each other's language.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 770
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Hungary
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: political
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Berlin kaputt (1981)
Plot Summary:
Story of three partisans whose fates are determined by different encounters with women.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 62
Genere: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags:
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Red Psalm (1972)
Plot Summary:
Set in the 1890s on the Hungarian plains, a group of farm workers go on strike in which they face harsh reprisals and the reality of revolt, oppression, morality and violence.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Musical, War
Country: Hungary
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: political, contemplative
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Reach for Glory (1962)
Plot Summary:
During World War II, teenage boys in a small English town are consumed with jingoism and brutal war games, hoping dearly that the war won't end before they can fight in it.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 182
Genere: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Elysium (1987)
Plot Summary:
Film about the Holocaust. A Jewish family is allowed to keep the flat they have always lived in and to live a relatively normal life. One day their 10-year old son disappears. He has been sent to a deportation camp which seems like paradise except that the inmates are being used for medical experiments.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 49
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Hungary
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags:
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Outrage (1982)
Plot Summary:
After the end of World War II, a young partisan falls in love with a German secretary who is captured and imprisoned by partisans. He decides to free her and escape with her.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 59
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags:
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The Beheaded Rooster (2007)
Plot Summary:
A moving coming of age story in a time of extreme change: on August 23, 1944 in a small city in Romanian Transylvania, the 16 year old Felix Goldschmidt awaits his classmates for their traditional Exitus Party (school graduation). However, this very day the kingdom of Romania takes leave of its ally of many years - Nazi Germany - thus ending the 800 year old, highly successful story of ethnic German immigration at the feet of the Carpathian Mountains. It is a great story of young people's blindness to the rise of Fascism, the destruction of bourgeois values, a first love and shattered friendships.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 311
Genere: Drama
Country: Austria, Germany, Hungary, Romania
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags:
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The First Day of Freedom (1964)
Plot Summary:
Freed Polish soldiers are trapped in a small town in Germany during the last days of World War II. After a doctor's daughter is raped by a concentration camp worker, the Poles allow her and her father to stay in the house that is their temporary quarters. While waiting to be repatriated, the war-weary group is forced to fight some German soldiers who invade the town. The war brings out conflicting emotions of the Poles who find themselves trapped in the house and once again under fire from the enemy.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 114
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags:
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That Summer of White Roses (1989)
Plot Summary:
World War II finally reaches a Yugoslavian lake, where a lifeguard shelters a refugee and her son.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 168
Genere: Drama, War
Country: UK, Yugoslavia
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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The Fifth Seal (1976)
Plot Summary:
In Budapest in 1944, a watchmaker, a book seller and a carpenter are drinking in a bar with the owner. They are joined by a stranger who asks a hypothetical question that will change their lives.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Hungary
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: psychological, philosophical, political, political thriller, art house, existential
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Promise (2005)
Plot Summary:
The film tells about members of Finnish women's Lotta Service during the Second World War through the eyes of three young women.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 868
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Finland
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: patriotic
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Diamonds of the Night (1964)
Plot Summary:
Diamonds in the night is the tense, brutal story of two Jewish boys who escape from a train transporting them from one concentration camp to another. Ultimately, they are hunted down by a group of old, armed home-guardists. The film goes beyond the themes of war and anti-Nazism and concerns itself with man's struggle to preserve human dignity.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 67 min
Plot tags: spiritual, avant garde, black and white, surreal, no music, cinema verite
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A Day for Lionhearts (1961)
Plot Summary:
September the 8th 1943, Rome, that crucial day, the armistice, in the town many life change their way. Danilo escapes the fascist enlist, while Michele succeeded to leave his administration moving from Rome. On the way to come back Rome the two meets Gino and all together will try to pass trough the Gothic Line (separating Nazi occupied Italy by Allied liberated Italy). They are intercepted by the Germans and find a temporary refugee in an abandoned cellar full of Italian soldier escaping the Germans. Now also an Italian partisan, Edoardo and Orlando are part of the group. Their goal is to bomb an important bridge. But Edoardo is captured and sentenced to death. The three and Orlando decide to bomb the bridge anyway. They will succeed thanks to the sacrifice of Danilo, and Germans will attribute the commando action to American Parachutists, ignoring the bravery of 4 normal Italian citizens.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 117
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags:
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Orchestra of One Youthhood (1985)
Plot Summary:
True story about the brass band of a fire brigade during WW2.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 39
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags:
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Stalingrad (1990)
Plot Summary:
The WWII pivotal battle of Stalingrad is shown through the eyes of the soldiers and officers on both sides of the war.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 476
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union, USA, Czechoslovakia, East Germany
Duration: 196 min
Plot tags:
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The Round-Up (1966)
Plot Summary:
Set in a detention camp in Hungary in 1869 at a time of guerilla campaigns against the ruling Austrians.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, History, War
Country: Hungary
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: political, experimental, contemplative, anamorphic, visual, psychological, tense, rough, bleak, serious
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Fall of the Eagles (1989)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 164
Genere: Drama, War
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags:
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Sirius (1975)
Plot Summary:
In SIRIUS, a young boy whose most cherished companion is his loyal German shepherd devises his own form of resistance when the Nazis arrest his father, then order the confiscation of local canines, including his pet, to be retrained as attack dogs against the rebellious populace.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 53
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags:
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MacArthur's Children (1984)
Plot Summary:
In this drama at the end of World War II, the inhabitants of a small Japanese fishing village must come to terms with their nation's defeat and the sudden occupation of General MacArthur and his troops.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 202
Genere: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags:
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The Human Bullet (1968)
Plot Summary:
A soldier has been in the Japanese military for the entirety of WWII, and in that time, his dedication to the army has never faltered. However, as the war draws to a close, his commanding officers become increasingly desperate and push their men to ever more absurd extremes. The ridiculousness of the orders from above peak when the hero of the story is assigned to drive a one-man submarine straight into the hull of an enemy battleship.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 463
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags:
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Summer of '44 - The Lost Generation (2017)
Plot Summary:
Summer 1944, Schwäbisch Hall. Contrary to the war propaganda and the decreed heroism, the 16-year-old boys dream of Swing music, sex and freedom - and of Lore, the air force helper from the air base, who attracts all eyes in her red swimsuit. At the same time, uncle, Knuffke, Bubu, tongue kiss and Hosenmacher suspect that they will not escape the horror of the front. "Stay tuned," Lore calls after them. But tongue kiss gets it first and also pants maker will not survive the war.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 316
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Germany, Czech Republic
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, suspenseful, tense, rough, touching, captivating
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The Partisans (1963)
Plot Summary:
Lieutenant Takala meets his fellow partisans of 20th division many year after the war. With flashbacks we see the events of summer 1944.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 349
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Finland
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: black and white
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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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Tomorrow Was the War (1987)
Plot Summary:
A drama a life in a small Russian provincial town in 1940 - one year before Germany invaded the Soviet Union. Two school girls for the first time in their lives discover truth about Stalin repressions against innocent people. Based on a novel by Boris Vasiliev.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 951
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags:
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The Notebook (2013)
Plot Summary:
In a village on the Hungarian border, two young brothers grow up during war time with their cruel grandmother and must learn every trick of evil to survive in the absurd world of adults.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Hungary, Germany, Austria, France
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: rough, bleak, realistic, serious, sad, cult classic, cult film
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The Windermere Children (2020)
Plot Summary:
The story of the pioneering project to rehabilitate child survivors of the Holocaust on the shores of Lake Windermere.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Germany, UK
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: rough, costume drama, sentimental, sincere, touching, contemplative
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The Red and the White (1967)
Plot Summary:
In 1919, Hungarian Communists aid the Bolsheviks' defeat of Czarists, the Whites. Near the Volga, a monastery and a field hospital are held by one side then the other.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Hungary, Soviet Union
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: political, contemplative, black and white, philosophical, spiritual, experimental, art house, visual, thought provoking, bleak
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A Secret (2007)
Plot Summary:
In 1953, a sensitive French boy finds out from a neighbor that his family's Jewish. François Grimbert becomes a physician, and gradually peels the layers of his buried family history which resulted in his difficult upbringing, raised as Catholic by his "Aryan" appearing parents. His athletic father labored to stamp out stereotypical Jewish characteristics he perceived in his son, to keep the family's many secrets, as most relatives fought in World War II, and later were hauled off to labor and death camps by the Gestapo.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, exciting, captivating, suspenseful, offbeat, gloomy
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Red Cherry (1995)
Plot Summary:
Based on a true story, this horrifying tale follows two orphaned friends as they struggle to survive during World War II.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 745
Genere: Drama, War
Country: China
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: touching, bleak, serious, mesmerizing, saga, realistic, gloomy
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Empire of the Sun (1987)
Plot Summary:
Jamie Graham, a privileged English boy, is living in Shanghai when the Japanese invade and force all foreigners into prison camps. Jamie is captured with an American sailor named Basie, who looks out for him while they are in the camp together. Even though he is separated from his parents and in a hostile environment, Jamie maintains his dignity and youthful spirits, providing a beacon of hope for the others held captive with him.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 133000
Genere: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 153 min
Plot tags: sad, emotional, heartbreaking, period piece, touching, realistic, inspirational, historical drama, sincere, philosophical
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The Island on Bird Street (1997)
Plot Summary:
Alex is an 11-year old boy who, during WWII, hides in the Jewish ghetto from Nazis after all the relatives have been sent to the concentration camp. The movie portrays the ghetto through his eyes.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Denmark, UK, Germany, France
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: tense, bleak, serious, realistic, suspense, independent film, period piece