Best movies like See You in the Next War
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Plot Summary:
The two enemies from war, Slovenian partisan Berk and German soldier Bitter, meet each other during holidays in Spain. Recalling the war through conversation, Berk remembers Anton, his fellow comrade he had spend the most time with.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 165
Genere: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 118 min
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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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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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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
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Escapes (1968)
Plot Summary:
Political prisoners imprisoned in Yugoslavia will try to escape from prison by digging a channel under the ground and join the partisans.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 38
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags:
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The Honors of War (1961)
Plot Summary:
This is August 1944. In France the times are uncertain and some places can be in turns liberated by the Allies and reclaimed by the Occupiers. The place is Nanteuil, a provincial town. The German troops present there are exhausted and leaderless and have offered the inhabitants to surrender. Exhilarated, the people from Nanteuil celebrate the event loudly and merrily but ...a bit prematurely. What they do not know is that a German officer has arrived and undertaken to galvanize the demoralized troops into resuming fighting.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 70
Genere: Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 85 min
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Manhunt (1977)
Plot Summary:
The leftover disbanded partisan battalion draws Chetniks' attention, who push their plans of attacking the partisan headquarters aside and start hunting them instead.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 232
Genere: War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: black and white, epic
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Operation Stadium (1977)
Plot Summary:
This movie tells a true story about events in Zagreb in 1941. Nazis and their collaborators organized the great gathering of students on Dubrava stadium. The intention was to publicly separate Jews from them which would lead to future pogrom. The event, however, took an unexpected turn.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 133
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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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
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Cat and Mouse (1967)
Plot Summary:
A film adaptation of the book by the same name written by Günter Grass. Pilenz, the narrator, revisits places of his childhood, going through his memories regarding his relationship to Mahlke, an old "friend" of his.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 133
Genere: Drama, War
Country: West Germany, Poland
Duration: 92 min
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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
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Wedding (1973)
Plot Summary:
Beginning in 1943. year. The tragic story of the prisoners... partisans and others who were found in a prison in Montenegro at the time when the Chetniks and the occupiers at all costs they want to crush the uprising in Yugoslavia.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 53
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia, Soviet Union
Duration: 91 min
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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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Wild Wind (1985)
Plot Summary:
August 1943, Europe. The tentacles of the German octopus have begun to recoil. As the Nazis retreat, their concern focuses on the supply of oil from the refineries of Romania. Without the flow of "black gold", Germany's doom is sealed. Armadas of American bombers from bases in North Africa have begun to assault Pioesti - and there is another threat from the Partisans across the border of Yugoslavia. Against the tableau of spectacular events, the dramatic story of WILD WIND unfolds.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 147
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, USA
Duration: 100 min
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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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The Verdict (1977)
Plot Summary:
In the conflict with the enemy in one battle lost in advance, the risk to die in vain, partisan Mitko Angelov, fleeing from the battlefield. He climbs onto the train and goes to see his mother, who has just returned from internment. When he returned to the brigade, Mitko was declared a deserter and was disarmed and bound. Since he lost his weapon, the Commissioner sent him to patrol the action to take weapons from the Germans. All partisans patrol that went with him dying and the only Mitko and Vane, who was seriously injured remain alive. Thinking it was dead Vane, Angelov returns to the brigade. But the commander did not believe him, thinking that he had fled from the battle, and that is why the prison in the basement. In the meantime, get wounded fighter Vane, and the story of the heroic struggle led by Mitko. But at the same time, a military court condemned him to death for desertion.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 34
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 110 min
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The Soldier (1966)
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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The Bombers (1973)
Plot Summary:
Two best friends, former Partisans, must face new challenges after the war.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 200
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags:
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The Demolition Squad (1967)
Plot Summary:
The Germans held the strategically important airport, where planes were taking off to bombard partisans positions. Headquarters of one a partisan unit sent a few commandos to blow up airplanes and airport in the air.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 238
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 81 min
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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
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Deserter (1992)
Plot Summary:
During the Yugoslav break-up, Federal Army officer is fed up with war and takes some leave in Belgrade. However, it turns out that he is less haunted by war horrors than with some sentimental skeletons in the closet. He meets his former comrade and best friend who is AWOL, but can't report him because he had an affair with his wife.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 168
Genere: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Duration: 109 min
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Weekend at Dunkirk (1964)
Plot Summary:
In June 1940, during the Dunkirk evacuation of Allied troops to England, French sergeant Julien Maillat and his men debate whether to evacuate to Britain or stay and fight the German troops that are closing-in from all directions. - from IMDB.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, War
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags:
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Franz + Polina (2006)
Plot Summary:
A sad story of love between German soldier Franz and Russian girl Polina.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 483
Genere: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: exciting, touching, captivating, suspense
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Postcard (2010)
Plot Summary:
Toward the end of World War II, middle-aged soldier Keita is entrusted with a postcard from a comrade who is sure he will die in battle. After the war ends, Keita visits his comrade's wife Yuko and bears witness to the tragic life she has led. This year's Oscar entry from Japan finds SHINDO in top form and his 49th and reportedly last film as fresh and poignant as ever. (from imdb).
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 264
Genere: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, serious, captivating, realistic
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Habermann (2010)
Plot Summary:
A story set in a small village in Sudetenland between 1937 and 1945. "Habermann" is based on true events.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Germany, Czech Republic, Austria
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: rough, thought provoking, brutal, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, complex
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The Battle of the Last Panzer (1969)
Plot Summary:
The film looks through the eyes of the German offense during World War II, specifically a German tank crew who, after losing a battle, struggle to get home.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 300
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: macaroni combat
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The Long Day's Dying (1968)
Plot Summary:
Three British soldiers and their German captive trek through the European countryside.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 527
Genere: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, cult film
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (2018)
Plot Summary:
Free-spirited writer Juliet Ashton forms a life-changing bond with the delightful and eccentric Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, when she decides to write about the book club they formed during the occupation of Guernsey in WWII.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 51000
Genere: Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: touching, romantic, uplifting, sincere, period piece, costume drama, feel good, sweet, historical drama, motivational