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Plot Summary:
Set in Dubrovnik, this drama chronicles a friendship, between three men, that began just before World War II. One of the men is of Italian origin, another is the wealthy heir of a shipping fortune, and the third is the son of a Jewish antique-store owner. Before the war, they are fast friends, enjoying one another's company at carnivals and at a private fencing club. When the war comes, the Italians and Germans move in to create the state of Croatia. The Italian boy becomes a fascist and courts and marries the sister of his rich friend. Soon enough, atrocities are being committed, and anyone suspected of Jewish parentage, or of leftist leanings, is killed. The Jewish boy and the factory owner's son escape the general roundup, take revenge for some of the indignities they and their families have suffered, and join the anti-fascist underground.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: black and white, pre war
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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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Cyclops (1982)
Plot Summary:
Melkior Tresic is one of many intellectuals in 1941 Zagreb who is helplessly waiting for the encroaching war.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 358
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags: intellectual, period piece
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The Tough Ones (1968)
Plot Summary:
Two soldiers can't deal with peacetime.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 67
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: black and white, grindhouse
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How to Die (1972)
Plot Summary:
Destinies of two friends-fighters during WW2.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 10
Genere: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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The Pals (1979)
Plot Summary:
The war is over, and a group of young Partisans returns to their town to continue their interrupted education. They are doing everything in their way, because they are young enough to go to school and to horse around, but mature enough to react to lies and injustice. Loud, ready to fight, they are a problem in school, in youth organization, in town's command. And when they get used to normal life, one of them gets killed by Chetnik renegades' ambush. The comrades wear their uniforms again, take their weapons and succeed in revenging their comrade. When they return to school again, they are determined to pass the maturity test as well.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 156
Genere: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: crying
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The Ambush (1969)
Plot Summary:
Idealistic young man supports the party and the new Yugoslavia's communist regime, but soon gets involved in various political and criminal machinations becoming more and more confused about what's right and what's wrong.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 358
Genere: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: black and white
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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
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The Fall of Italy (1981)
Plot Summary:
The setting is the islands off the Dalmatian coast of Yugoslavia, during WW II. The islands are controlled by occupying Italian forces, and a resistence movement of Communists is dedicated to sabotaging and ending the occupation. When a wealthy young man joins the resistence, he falls in love with a woman who turns out to be a spy for the Italians. As a result of his liaison and her activity, they are both executed by a Communist comrade - a previous friend. The comrade is dedicated to the hard-line policies of the resistence, until he himself falls in love with the daughter of a bourgeois landowner on the island - a landowner who has collaborated with the Italians. Neither the Italian occupying army (one officer is shown in an attempted rape scene) nor the resistence fighters are stereotyped forces for good or evil, but all are equally subject to the dehumanizing effects of war.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 323
Genere: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: epic
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The Feast (1967)
Plot Summary:
In a Serbian village on Christmas Day in 1943, the Chetniks accept two downed American pilots and give them hospitality. However, finding out that the Germans are looking for pilots, the Chetniks change their attitude towards them.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 198
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: black and white
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The Inheritance (1980)
Plot Summary:
In this standard Hungarian drama, the effects of sterility and jealousy on a marriage are played out against a backdrop of World War II and the rising Nazi persecution of Jews. Director Marta Meszaros usually focuses on issues like pregnancy, middle-age, and other topics without questioning the broader picture. In this drama, Sylvia (Lili Monori) cannot have children, and she convinces married Jewish woman Irene (Isabelle Huppert) to have a child and then give the child to her for adoption. The plan works but it also backfires. The way in which the child was adopted causes friction between Sylvia and her husband, and to make matters worse, Sylvia's husband falls in love with Irene. A crisis looms when he asks his jealous wife to give Irene her identity papers because Jews are being deported and Irene will die without their help.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 390
Genere: Drama, Romance, War
Country: France, Hungary
Duration: 105 min
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The Escape (1987)
Plot Summary:
The tragic story of a group of prisoners, ordinary people, were detained in the camp at Lager in Naise at the beginning of WWII, after that mighty torture and abuse by the Germans, will try escape from the camp. A few succeeded.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 110
Genere: War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
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Eight Kilos of Happiness (1980)
Plot Summary:
A film about an incident in the last war when a gypsy girl sacrifices herself for her lover, a partisan who has deserted.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 15
Genere: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags:
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The Man from the Oak Forest (1964)
Plot Summary:
An ex-servant becomes a lonely Shepard, killer hidden in the mountain woods during wartime. Under disguise of a black marketeer, a woman from the town maintains steady connection between the town and mountain, and organizes a resistance movement. Shepard falls in love with her, but suspects that she possibly wants gold instead.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 73
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: black and white, epic
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Scent of Quinces (1982)
Plot Summary:
Thanks to his friendliness towards Nazis, Sarajevo businessman gets more and more rich during WW2. However, his infatuation towards the Jewish girl causes his downfall.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 160
Genere: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags:
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The Trek (1968)
Plot Summary:
A story of a farmer and his calf, the only survivors of the German WW2 punitive expeditions that passed through their village. While evading before the dangers of war, the farmer develops a deep attachment to his calf and tries to save it at all costs, but it wouldn't be much easier for them even after the liberation day.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 79
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: black and white
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Massacre at Noon (1975)
Plot Summary:
In Autumn of 1941, the German army, determined to put down a Communist-led uprising in Serbia, is conducting a policy of killing 100 hostages for any German soldier killed. The city of Kraljevo is the site of one of those massacres, portrayed in this movie.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 85
Genere: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: heroic, crying
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Girl from the Mountains (1972)
Plot Summary:
The relationship between a boy and a girl shortly after the start of the war and the arrival of the Germans. He goes to Chetniks, and there he disappears without a trace, and she ,after much torture and solitude, begins to search for him not thinking in those moments of what the horrors of war can bring.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 36
Genere: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags:
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Evening Bells (1986)
Plot Summary:
Trials and tribulations of a Croatian Communist intellectual in the turbulent years before, during and after WW2.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 189
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags:
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The Liberation of Skopje (2016)
Plot Summary:
Eight-year-old Zoran is the hero of this story set in Skopje during the German occupation of the city in World War II. Through his eyes, we experience all the cruelty, poverty and suffering of wartime. A love affair between his Macedonian mother and a German officer will help his family get through the hard times….
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 395
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Croatia, Finland
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, rough, thought provoking, suspense
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Three (1965)
Plot Summary:
In this episodic WW II drama, a Yugoslavian youth attempts to escape from German soldiers. In the first scene, he stands amongst a group of refugees waiting for a train. One man, with no identification papers is accused of a petty crime and the crowd insists that three soldiers arrest him. The youth tries to stop them all, but he fails and the man is executed. Soon afterward, his wife shows up and proves that he was indeed innocent. In the second episode, the youth participates in a resistance raid and ends up pursued into a swamp where he meets another fugitive. This man ends up sacrificing his life so that the youth can escape. The final story begins as the war ends. The youth has become an officer in the Yugoslav army and is being forced to deliver an order to execute all citizens who collaborated with the Germans. One of the traitors is a woman he cares for, but this doesn't stop him from obeying his commands.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 944
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: black and white
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Plot Summary:
A story of a boy, forced to grow mature before his time and to die too early because of the cruel war circumstances. This film is dedicated to all the children who have died during the National Liberation War.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 24
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: crying
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Plot Summary:
WW2 story about group of prisoners who are trying to escape the death camp, run by local pro-Nazi militia.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 77
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 85 min
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Sokol Did Not Love Him (1988)
Plot Summary:
The story begins in a small rural village in Ladimirevci, Eastern Croatia in 1943, where a land owner Sima is helping the Partisan Movement and the official Ustasha regime in order to save the life of his son Beneš, who is enlisted in the German army. Sima doesn't want to let his son fight for the wrong side any more, and doesn't want to give him to the Partisans either, so he hides him in his attic for the time being. The story is interwoven with episodes of Sima trying to muster a beautiful stallion - Sokol - who only answers to his son Beneš and clearly doesn't like his old man.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 541
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: road movie
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Kozara (1962)
Plot Summary:
In June of 1942 Germans and their collaborators decide to get rid of partisans and their stronghold in the woods of Mount Kozara in Northern Bosnia. They encircle the mountain and begin the mop up operation. Out gunned and outnumbered the partisans must not only take care of themselves but try to protect thousands of refugees too.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 775
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: epic, crying, black and white
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Gaston's War (1997)
Plot Summary:
Gaston Vandermeerssche is a young, resourceful Flemish action hero of the Belgian resistance during World War II: he coaches surviving allied pilots trough occupied Belgium and France to Spain so they can regain England, each time a dangerous adventure as their poor mastery of local languages and customs add to the ever-present risks of trying to outsmart the Nazi troops and Gestapo agents. After a mess-up in the coordination from London he himself gets caught by the dreaded secret police for ruthless interrogation.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 313
Genere: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Denmark, Belgium, Netherlands
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags:
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Forbidden (1984)
Plot Summary:
In Berlin in the early 1940s, romance is forbidden between the young countess who is studying veterinary medicine and a young man she meets at the home of a former professor. But they fall in love. She gets involved in helping Jews escape from the Nazis. All get out of Berlin except the young man. There is a room in her apartment where he can't be seen through the windows and a chest converted into a sofa where she and her brothers played hide-and-seek as children. This real life hide-and-seek game has high stakes. The movie is said to be based on a true story.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 244
Genere: Drama, Romance, War
Country: West Germany, UK
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Johnny the Partisan (2000)
Plot Summary:
After the 8th September 1943 north of Italy is occupied by Germans. Italian army collapsed and the soldiers are escaped to the mountains trying to set up a resistance. Many civilians did the same and Johnny, an English literature student, is among them. Johnny avoids to band together the red partisans (communists) and tries to be part of the azure bands (former regular soldiers). But in both cases he is deluded by the partisan bands and discovers that the partisan war is less poetic and genuine that he thought. At one point anyway the partisans free Alba from Germans. When the city falls again in German hands Johnny escape with Ettore and Pierre. But, one after another, German army and Italian fascists captures the partisans and Johnny will pass the winter alone and isolated. He then finds the way to participate to one of the last attack to occupants, in fact the war will be over two months later.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 324
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: suspense, disturbing, exciting, bleak
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The Boys from St. Petri (1991)
Plot Summary:
A group of school-mates form a resistance group in nazi-occupied Denmark.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags:
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Fateless (2005)
Plot Summary:
An Hungarian youth comes of age at Buchenwald during World War II. György Köves is 14, the son of a merchant who's sent to a forced labor camp. After his father's departure, György gets a job at a brickyard; his bus is stopped and its Jewish occupants sent to camps. There, György find camaraderie, suffering, cruelty, illness, and death. He hears advice on preserving one's dignity and self-esteem. He discovers hatred. If he does survive and returns to Budapest, what will he find? What is natural; what is it to be a Jew? Sepia, black and white, and color alternate to shade the mood.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Hungary, Germany, UK, Israel, France, USA
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: sincere, serious, disturbing, emotional, realistic, gloomy, retro, touching, educational, sad
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Lore (2012)
Plot Summary:
After her Nazi parents are imprisoned, Lore leads her younger siblings across a war-torn Germany in 1945. Amidst the chaos, she encounters mysterious Jewish refugee Thomas, who shatters her fragile reality with hatred and desire. To live, she must trust someone she was taught to hate and face the darkness within herself.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Australia, Germany, UK
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: tense, disturbing, bleak, suspense, psychological, harsh, sincere, realistic, art house, road movie