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Plot Summary:
Korean War drama.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 130
Genere: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 61 min
Plot tags: slang
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How the War Started on My Island (1996)
Plot Summary:
At the beginning of 1991, Yugoslav army did not acknowledge Croatian's independence, and still holding few military barracks in Croatia. Gajski travels to an island to get his son out of the army. Locals have besieged the barracks and organized a festival to try with singing and recitals to get major Aleksa and his soldiers to surrender, but Aleksa has explosives thru the barracks and wants to blow up the island.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: Croatia
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, spoof, parody
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The Hook (1963)
Plot Summary:
Three soldiers in Korea go through inner torment when they're ordered to execute an enemy soldier.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 754
Genere: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: retro, political
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Field of Honor (1986)
Plot Summary:
Korea 1951: After a Chinese attack Dutch mercenary sergeant De Koning is left alone by his army. While trying to survive, he meets a woman who is attempting to save her little brother. The image of the boy in shock changes him.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 171
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Netherlands, South Korea
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Sergeant Ryker (1968)
Plot Summary:
During the Korean War Sergeant Paul Ryker is accused of defecting to Communist China and then returning to his unit as a spy.He's court-martialed and sentenced to death but his attorney believes Ryker's innocent and asks for a new trial.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 406
Genere: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags:
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Marine Battleground (1963)
Plot Summary:
A division of marines survive a battle with the Chinese army but find themselves stranded without contact on the wrong side of the front.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 131
Genere: Drama, War
Country: South Korea, USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags:
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Silver Stallion (1991)
Plot Summary:
Soldiers with the U.N. forces that entered Korea during the Korean War rape a village girl named Eon-rae. The villagers ostracize Eon-rae and her son. Unable to make a living, Eon-rae joins the brothel district that has been set up near the U.N. base on the other side of the river from the village. The war and the introduction of U.S. culture break down the social order of the village. After several village children have died, the villagers put the blame on the prostitutes. Eventually the villagers, unable to maintain the village, leave their homes one by one. Eon-rae and her son also leave.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 25
Genere: Drama, War
Country: South Korea
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags:
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Retreat! (2016)
Plot Summary:
Inspired by American war films from the 50's, Retreat! tells the story of a small outfit of U.S. Soldiers who were forced to retreat into unknown territories deep in the heart of Korea during the roughest stretch of the Korean War. Unsure of their position and having no way to inform headquarters of the situation, they decided to hold post at an abandon POW compound they stumbled upon during their untimely exit from the battlefield. With very little ammo to defend themselves, and fear of surrounding enemy forces, they have been patiently waiting for the search and rescue squadron which should be arriving any day now.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 21
Genere: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration:
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The Nun and the Sergeant (1962)
Plot Summary:
A weary sergeant in Korea commands military prisoners on a dangerous mission and is joined by a nun and a group of schoolgirls in enemy territory.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 93
Genere: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: bleak, serious, realistic
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Snipers (2022)
Plot Summary:
The story of sharpshooter Zhang Taofang, a young army recruit who at age 22 sets a record during the Korean War by reportedly killing or wounding 214 American soldiers with 435 shots in just 32 days.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: China
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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Iron Angel (1964)
Plot Summary:
A seasoned Sargent with a sorry unit, led by an angry 1st Lt., to take out an enemy hold for a convoy to proceed. After their success the Sarge and the crew meet up with another Lieutenant - Female nurse.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 129
Genere: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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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
Plot tags:
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Heroes in Hell (1974)
Plot Summary:
In World War II, guerrillas kidnap a German general.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 174
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: perverse, macaroni combat, cult film
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Inchon (1981)
Plot Summary:
A noisy and absurd re-telling of the great 1950 invasion of Inchon during the Korean War which was masterminded by General Douglas MacArthur.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 833
Genere: Drama, History, War
Country: South Korea, USA
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: historical drama, independent film
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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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Marine's, Let's Go (1961)
Plot Summary:
Following combat duty in Korea, a group of United States Marines (Tom Tryon, David Hedison and Tom Reese) are given a furlough in Japan.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 234
Genere: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags:
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Amigo (2010)
Plot Summary:
Rafael, a village mayor caught in the murderous crossfire of the Philippine-American War. When U.S. troops occupy his village, Rafael comes under pressure from a tough-as-nails officer to help the Americans in their hunt for Filipino guerilla fighters. But Rafael's brother is the head of the local guerillas, and considers anyone who cooperates with the Americans to be a traitor. Rafael quickly finds himself forced to make the impossible, potentially deadly decisions faced by ordinary civilians in an occupied country.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 651
Genere: Drama, War
Country: USA, Philippines
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: captivating, serious, cult classic, emotional, realistic, contemplative, tear jerker, independent film, tearjerker
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The Battle at Lake Changjin (2021)
Plot Summary:
Korean War, winter 1950. In the frozen and snowy area of Changjin Lake, a bloody battle is about to begin between the elite troops of the United States and China.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: China
Duration: 176 min
Plot tags: tense, thought provoking, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Battle of Jangsari (2019)
Plot Summary:
Korean War, September 1950. In order to fight the enemy forces based in the South of the peninsula, General MacArthur orders the start of the Incheon Landing Operation, deploying diversionary attacks in other locations. Without real military forces to spare, 772 very young Korean student soldiers, barely trained, are sent to Jangsari Beach, where they will face a heroic fate and discover the value of friendship… (A sequel to Operation Chromite, released in 2016.).
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: South Korea
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: bleak, tense, suspense, rough, brutal, epic, disturbing
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Water Gate Bridge (2022)
Plot Summary:
In the follow-up to "The Battle At Lake Changjin", brothers Wu Qianli and Wu Wanli undertake a new task for the People's Volunteer Army, defending a bridge part of the American troops' escape route from the advancing Chinese.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: China
Duration: 153 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Northern Limit Line (2015)
Plot Summary:
The movies follows the incident knows as the second battle of Yeonpyeong which happened in 2002.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, War
Country: South Korea
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating
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The Sacrifice (2020)
Plot Summary:
In 1953, the Korean War is entering the final stage. The People's Volunteer Army of China has launched the last major battle in Kumsong. In order to arrive at the battleground on time and deliver enough force to the Kumsong front line, the soldiers have to defend themselves against the never ending bombing of enemy bombers and race with time to repair bridges, all under the circumstance of supply shortages and inferior equipment. The rarely told history slowly unfolds.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: China
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, philosophical, political
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Carter's Army (1970)
Plot Summary:
The officer (Stephen Boyd) is put in charge of a squad of all black troops charged with the mission of blowing up an important hydro dam in Nazi Germany. Their failure would delay the Allies advance into Germany, thus prolonging the war. These African-Americans a have little military training, but Captain Beau Carter has no choice. He leads the rag-tag and they turn out to be heroic.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 589
Genere: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, captivating, realistic, cult film
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The Last Full Measure (2019)
Plot Summary:
The incredible true story of Vietnam War hero William H. Pitsenbarger, a U.S. Air Force Pararescuemen medic who personally saved over sixty men. Thirty-two years later, Pentagon staffer Scott Huffman investigates a Congressional Medal of Honor request for Pitsenbarger and uncovers a high-level conspiracy behind the decades-long denial of the medal, prompting Huffman to put his own career on the line to seek justice for the fallen airman.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, sincere, captivating, disturbing, depressing, cult classic, period piece
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War Hunt (1962)
Plot Summary:
Recruits head to the front lines towards the close of the Korean War. The interaction between two of the soldiers...an idealistic newcomer and a psychotic who goes on one-man patrols slitting enemy throats under cover of night...and the orphan boy who comes between them is examined. The Cease-Fire brings the three to a final resolution.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: neo noir, psychological, rough, serious, emotional, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
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A Bright Shining Lie (1998)
Plot Summary:
Something in his past keeps career Army man John Paul Vann from advancing past colonel. He views being sent to Vietnam as part of the US military advisory force a stepping stone to promotion. However, he disagrees vocally (and on the record) with the way the war is being run and is forced to leave the military. Returning to Vietnam as a civilian working with the Army, he comes to despise some South Vietnamese officers while he takes charge of some of the U.S. forces and continues his liaisons with Vietnamese women.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, cult film
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A Little Pond (2009)
Plot Summary:
The Korean war does not start well for the US. They are being routed by the North Koreans and In July 1950, the early stage of the Korean War, at the Jugok Village in the middle of the Korean Peninsula, Chang-yee and his friends grow excited over the amateur singing contest knowing nothing about what is going on around them. At the time, the US Army keeps losing and are pushed back to the village, evacuating all villagers to head south. The villagers took refuge like going on a picnic believing that the US Army is protecting them, they just follow their orders moving south bound.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 286
Genere: Drama, War
Country: South Korea
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, bleak, captivating
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71: Into the Fire (2010)
Plot Summary:
A civil war broke out in the 1950s between North and South Korea which changed the country forever. 71: Into the Fire centers on the struggles of 71 student soldiers who fought through the Korean War. Using real people and events based on the opening moves of the Battle of P'ohang-dong, the film exposes the personal and physical conflicts that these students faced when finding themselves on the last line of defense at P'ohang-dong Girl's Middle School against the NKPA's advancement, needing to hold out until back up from other Korean troops and the Allies arrived.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: South Korea
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, touching, captivating, stylized
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Go Tell the Spartans (1978)
Plot Summary:
Go Tell the Spartans is a 1978 American war film based on Daniel Ford's 1967 novel "Incident at Muc Wa." It tells the story about U.S. Army military advisers during the early part of the Vietnam War. Led my Major Asa Barker, these advisers and their South Vietnamese counterparts defend the village of Muc Wa against multiple attacks by Viet-Cong guerrillas.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, bleak, realistic, independent film, contemplative, gloomy, cult film
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Hell Is for Heroes (1962)
Plot Summary:
World War II drama where the action centers around a single maneuver by a squad of GIs in retaliation against the force of the German Siegfried line. Reese joins a group of weary GIs unexpectedly ordered back into the line when on their way to a rest area. While most of the men withdraw from their positions facing a German pillbox at the far side of a mine-field, half a dozen men are left to protect a wide front. By various ruses, they manage to convince the Germans that a large force is still holding the position. Then Reese leads two of the men in an unauthorized and unsuccessful attack on the pillbox, in which the other two are killed; and when the main platoon returns, he is threatened with court-martial. Rather that face the disgrace, and in an attempt to show he was right, he makes a one-man attack on the pillbox.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspenseful, exciting, rough, serious, black and white, retro, intense, fast paced, esoteric
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Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Plot Summary:
As U.S. troops storm the beaches of Normandy, three brothers lie dead on the battlefield, with a fourth trapped behind enemy lines. Ranger captain John Miller and seven men are tasked with penetrating German-held territory and bringing the boy home.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 15000000
Genere: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 169 min
Plot tags: realistic, epic, breathtaking, captivating, touching, motivational, rough, visually stunning, tense, inspirational