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Plot Summary:
Moldavia, 1944. An elite squad of Red Army scouts is sent to stop an equally elite squad of Germans soldiers committing war crimes behind Soviet lines.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 38
Genere: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 147 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, bleak, suspenseful
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Frontier (2018)
Plot Summary:
Michael's perfect life changes dramatically when he discovers a portal wich allows him to travel in time. He travels back to the World War II to go through the quest of time and find his one and only beloved.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 582
Genere: Action, Drama, Fantasy, History, Romance, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: uplifting, serious, rough, exciting
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Father of a Soldier (1964)
Plot Summary:
During World War II, Đľld Georgian peasant wine-grower Georgy (Sergo Zakariadze) leaves his Georgian village and goes off to the front line, hoping to find his son. George should see and transfer a lot of things, he becomes a soldier and only in the last days of war finds the son.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: rough, tense, suspenseful, touching, captivating, spiritual, sad, crying, patriotic
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Officers (1971)
Plot Summary:
Two friends are army officers, and the turbulent times throw them from the Civil War in the early 20s to the Soviet conflict in Finland, from China to the Urals.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: breathtaking, captivating, tense, uplifting, thought provoking, epic
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The Penal Battalion (2004)
Plot Summary:
The authors of the television series studied archival materials and military chronicles. The last series ends with a demonstration of the list of penalty parts, which from 1942 to 1945 fought on the Soviet fronts.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 550 min
Plot tags: sentimental, captivating, realistic, exciting, suspenseful, rough
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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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Bastards (2006)
Plot Summary:
A "Hitlerjugend" kind of story, set in the Soviet Union during the Second World War, based on a fictitious story from the eponymous book by Vladimir Kunin.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: rough, art house, suspenseful, serious, captivating, realistic, exciting
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Warriors Five (1962)
Plot Summary:
World War II Italy...1943. After parachuting behind enemy lines on an espionage mission, an American soldier is imprisoned by the enemy. He escapes with four Italian prisoners, enlisting their aid in exploding a bridge.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 111
Genere: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Italy, France, Yugoslavia
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: macaroni combat, exciting, rough, bleak, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful
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Leaving Afghanistan (2019)
Plot Summary:
1988-1989. The end of the Soviet-Afghan war. The USSR begins its withdrawal from Afghanistan. Soviet General Vasiliev's son - a pilot named Alexander gets kidnapped by the mujahideen after his airplane crashes. As a result the 108th motorized infantry division's long awaited return home gets put on hold for one last mission: bring the General's son back. Based on true events the previously untold story of the courageous and tragic withdrawal campaign (through the Salang pass) reveals the danger the horror and the complexity of human nature during wartime.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: exciting, realistic, suspenseful, rough
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Klim Voroshilov-2 Tank (1990)
Plot Summary:
Tank Klim Voroshilov 2.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 85
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: exciting, sincere, rough, touching, suspense, disturbing
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Tankers (2018)
Plot Summary:
The film is based on the true story about a Soviet KV-1 crew of a Soviet KV-1 tank, under the command of Semyon Konovalov , whom despite being heavily outnumbered by German forces, destroyed 16 tanks, 2 armored vehicles and 8 other enemy vehicles at the village of Nizhnemytyakin, Tarasovsky district, Rostov region on July 13th, 1942.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Saboteur (2004)
Plot Summary:
Two young intelligence officers headed by a tough captain are assigned various secret missions on the Nazi-occupied territories.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 739
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 208 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspense, humorous, feel good
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Convoy 48 (2019)
Plot Summary:
Yesterday's Leningrad schoolgirl Masha Yablochkina, after a fierce blockade winter of 1941-1942, comes to the railway courses hoping to survive and gain strength. From there, the girl is sent to the construction of the Shlisselburg highway, which connects the city with the mainland and is in direct sight of German artillery. So the heroine gets into the 48th locomotive column of the special reserve NKPS, which, at the cost of the deadly risk, will have to deliver 75% of all cargo and military equipment to Leningrad.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 385
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, bleak, suspense, suspenseful
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Rocket Hunter (2020)
Plot Summary:
In one of the most dangerous missions of the war, an American B-17 pilot volunteers to fly a surrendered Messerschmitt 109 on a daring flight through the heart of Germany to try to prevent the people of London from being terrorized by the V-2 rockets. "Rocket Hunter" tells the story of an amazing pilot and his bombardier brother from the time they are teenagers dreaming of taking to the skies to the dark days of January 1945.
IMDB Rating: 1.4
IMDB Votes: 314
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspenseful
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The Red Ghost (2020)
Plot Summary:
December 30, 1941. Vyazma ('Vyazemsky cauldron') is a small detachment of Soviet soldiers, by fatal coincidence, in an unequal battle with a special unit of the Wehrmacht. However, none of them think about giving up. Each of them was ready to sacrifice his life in order to protect his native land. None of these brave people was born a hero. The myth of the red ghost is a heroic deed without a soldier's Soviet soldier in the Great Patriotic War who instilled in the animals, deadly fear of German soldiers. In place of one of the dead hero was inserted another, and the born myth of the invincible Soviet soldier. The film 'The Red Ghost' is about the hope that each soldier will have.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, History, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, tense, rough, suspense
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Behind Enemy Lines (1985)
Plot Summary:
Professor-turned-spy Col. Calvin Turner and his associate, workaholic Lt. Shelley Flynn, plan a daring rescue behind enemy lines in World War II German-occupied Norway of a brilliant scientist who may or may not be aiding the Germans.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 80
Genere: Drama, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, bleak, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, cult film
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The Last Escape (1970)
Plot Summary:
During World War II, American officer Capt. Lee Mitchell (Stuart Whitman) and a British military unit boldly infiltrate German-occupied enemy territory and attempt to kidnap brilliant Nazi scientist Dr. Von Heinken (Pinkas Braun) and bring him back in one piece. While shuttling their prized captive to safety, the Allied forces courageously assist desperate refugees and tussle with overpowering German and Russian forces.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 268
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, bleak, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful
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In June 1941 (2008)
Plot Summary:
A Russian frontier guard Ivan Burov and a Polish girl Hanna love each other in spite of every prohibition and obstacle. But on the 22d of June 1941 the war begins.. After a series of clashes with the Germans Ivan Burov remains the only surviving frontier guard, and he will stay at the border to the end. True to his military oath and his love.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 189
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Russia, Belarus
Duration: 200 min
Plot tags: sentimental, atmospheric, rough, serious, emotional, suspense, realistic, suspenseful, stylized, intense
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Batallions Ask for Fire (1985)
Plot Summary:
A story of a several days of intense fighting on the Eastern Front during one of the Soviet offensives in WWII.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 309
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 285 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, rough, suspense, disturbing
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Soldier Boy (2019)
Plot Summary:
The film is based on real events. This is a story about exciting events that occurred in the life of the smallest soldier - the hero of the Great Patriotic War, six-year-old Sergei Aleshkov. He lost all his relatives and got into the army. With a six-year-old boy, they started playing the soldier game in order to preserve his childhood, and he, in order to comply with this honorary title, became a real defender of the Motherland.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 795
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Belarus, Russia
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Ravagers (1965)
Plot Summary:
Cruel captors of the war in the pacific.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 109
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: Philippines, USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychotronic
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The Only Way (1970)
Plot Summary:
In April 1940, the armies of Nazi Germany invaded Denmark. The Danish government promised peaceful cooperation on the condition that Denmark s Jews remain free. The Nazi s agreed. In October, 1943, the agreement was broken...This is the true and magnificent saga of Denmark s valorous actions to save Danish Jews from Nazi extermination at peril of death!.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 306
Genere: Drama, War
Country: USA, Denmark, Panama, UK
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: uplifting, thought provoking, bleak, serious, captivating, realistic, contemplative
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Back Door to Hell (1964)
Plot Summary:
During WWII, a three-man commando team places its trust in the hands of a band of Filipino resistors, as they try to knock out a Japenese communication center.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 907
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Philippines, USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, tense, psychotronic, bleak, suspenseful
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The Biggest Battle (1978)
Plot Summary:
A story of how World War II affected the lives of a German family and an American family, both of whom had sons and fathers fighting in the war.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 570
Genere: War, Drama
Country: Italy, West Germany, Yugoslavia
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: macaroni combat, exciting, rough, bleak, serious, realistic
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At War as at War (1969)
Plot Summary:
To the young lieutenant Maleshkin the war is a minor obstacle, if compared to his personal battle to command his subordinates, while conducting an armored vehicle at the same time he's trying to impress his superior Soviet officers who put him under extreme pressures, one after the other, fighting the German forces occupying Ukraine during World War II. Here's the story of an impressionable man who learns in the hard way that being a leader is more than just using of his commanding voice to get what he wants.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 637
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, captivating, realistic, disturbing, patriotic
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The Star (2002)
Plot Summary:
The film is based on the eponymous book by Emmanuil Kazakevich. In the summer of 1944 the Nazi Armies prepare a massive Tank Division named 'Viking" for the offensive on occupied Russian land. The Russian Army's special group of seven snipers named "Zvezda" is sent for a reconnaissance operation behind the enemy lines in the back of the Nazi Tank Division. Two previous Russian groups never came back. The seven Russians know that they are going to an almost certain Death for the sake of Victory.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, bleak, captivating, epic, rough
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Sniper: Weapons of Retaliation (2009)
Plot Summary:
This world war two story depicts the personal war between a Soviet sniper and a German sniper. Their feud continues after the war in Soviet occupied Germany. At the same time a Nazi rocket scientist continues his research while a Soviet secret police team arrives from Moscow to find hidden Nazi rocket research documents and rocket propulsion systems.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 192
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance, War
Country: Belarus, Russia
Duration: 162 min
Plot tags:
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Only the Brave (2006)
Plot Summary:
A searing portrait of war and prejudice, 'Only the Brave' takes you on a haunting journey into the hearts and minds of the forgotten heroes of WWII - the Japanese-American 100th/442nd.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 909
Genere: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspenseful, serious, emotional, realistic, gloomy, independent film
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The Last Frontier (2020)
Plot Summary:
The story of the Podolsk cadets’ heroic stand outside Moscow in October 1941. Cadets were sent to the Ilyinsky line, fighting alongside units from the Soviet 43rd Army to hold back the German advance until reinforcements arrived. Hopelessly outnumbered, young men laid down their lives in a battle lasting almost two weeks to obstruct the far superior German forces advancing towards Moscow. Around 3,500 cadets and their commanding officers were sent to hold up the last line of defense outside Moscow. Most of them remained there for eternity.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 136 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, rough, atmospheric, brutal, epic, serious, captivating, emotional, suspense
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Texas '46 (2002)
Plot Summary:
Based on a true story its the untold story of Italian World War II POW"S in Jan 1946. Luca Zingaretti stars as one of over 50,000 Italian Prisoners of War detained at POW camps in the U.S. Roy Schneider stars as Colonel Gartner, the Commander of the camp. Things take a turn for the worse when Manin is brought back from his most recent escape by a patrol force, only to realize that the camp has been evacuated while he was gone. Gartner is forced to keep Manin at the camp until another patrol force can come pick him up. However, no one ever comes. The phone lines get cut, and the two men realize they are completely isolated from the outside world. It is up to each man now to escape the camp.An untold and rarely known fact of US held Italian POW"S.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 235
Genere: Drama, History, War
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: rough, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, exciting, bleak, serious, captivating
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Ambush (1999)
Plot Summary:
It is the summer of 1941 and the Finnish army has been mobilized along the border with Russia. A platoon led by Lt. Eero Perkola is waiting for orders to go on the offensive. The platoon receives orders for a recon mission through the wilderness around the Lieksa lake to search for possible Russian defensive positions.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: War, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspense, intense, sincere, disturbing, rough, bleak, serious, brutal, sex comedy