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Plot Summary:
Summer 1949: end of the civil war in Greece. The last band of guerrillas of the Democratic Army is forced to abandon Mount Taygetus and to head for the sea. Everything behind them has collapsed and they can count on help from no one. In this long, desperate and aimless march, the group will end up by being annihilated by the National Army and the armed villagers.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 53
Genere: Adventure, War
Country: Greece
Duration: 122 min
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McGuire, Go Home! (1965)
Plot Summary:
This story of love and espionage focuses on political turmoil as a small nation struggles to free itself from colonial rule, and one man tries to serve both justice and his own heart.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 330
Genere: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: independent film
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When the Greeks (1981)
Plot Summary:
At the turn of the twentieth century a young merchant is abducted by a group of brigands who are sheltered in a remote mountainous area of Greece aiming to extract ransom from his wealthy family. The young man develops a kind of sympathy to the arch-brigand and realizes that the underground life and moral code of his kidnappers actually represent a more genuine expression of “New Hellenism” than his bourgeois well-being.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 53
Genere: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: Greece
Duration: 98 min
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Against the Storm (1984)
Plot Summary:
The years of the storm are Greek historical - dramatic - adventurous film of 1984, directed and directed by Giorgos Tzimas . Starring Michalis Stamatakis Katerina Koutroupida and Menelaos Daflos. Two fighters, cut up in the mountains, after the defeat of the Democratic Army in 1949, are trying to return to their homes.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 90
Genere: Adventure, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Greece
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: epic
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Get Along, Mate (1981)
Plot Summary:
Based on a TV sit-com series and set in World War II, about how an ordinary woodcutter develops into an active partisan fighter.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 32
Genere: Comedy, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 94 min
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The Charioteer (1995)
Plot Summary:
Alexis Damianos's final film (of three) came twenty-four years after his EVDOKIA, which many consider the greatest of Greek films. THE CHARIOTEER begins in 1941: Hniochos, a student, is captured by the Italians and imprisoned. In prison he learns the first hard lessons of life. He escapes and becomes a guerrilla.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 80
Genere: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: Greece
Duration: 180 min
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The Camp Followers (1965)
Plot Summary:
In WWII, Lieut. Martino and his men are assigned to lead a group of prostitutes through the mountainous ways to serve in brothels for Italian soldiers in Albania.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 642
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Italy, France, West Germany, Yugoslavia
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: road movie
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Double Circle (1963)
Plot Summary:
Treachery and escape from agents provocateurs of underground workers among the early days of national rising in Croatia.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 93
Genere: Action, Thriller, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 96 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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The Stars Are the Eyes of Warriors (1972)
Plot Summary:
When a warrior dies, a star is born, a company of us die when born to a group of stars. Small children are fascinated by ancient legends and stories of old people, people replace their signature ready to be shot and put yourself in front of the German pipe.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 59
Genere: War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: epic
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Arrive Before Daybreak (1978)
Plot Summary:
The story of political prisoners, detained in a jail before the start of the WWII, and their torture and attempts to escape, and join a partisan unit.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 70
Genere: War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 94 min
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Persecution (1982)
Plot Summary:
Two partisans, a man and a woman, try to escape a Nazi manhunt in the infernal landscape of WW2 Vojvodina.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 53
Genere: War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: epic
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Exodos 1826: A Road of No Return (2017)
Plot Summary:
Captain Mihos Floros returns to Samarina to gather more men and lead them to the besieged by the Ottomans, Missolonghi, in order to assist the fight of the resistance at General Makris' bastion. With his personal friend Elias Manakas and 25 more men by his side, begins the long journey to get to Missolonghi and join Zisis Hatzimatis and the rest of their fellow countrymen. On March 1826, they start a journey full of adversities through the mountains. Back at the village of Samarina, the women try to find out from Heleni Floros the real reason their husbands had to leave in a hurry. Meanwhile, Ibrahim Pasha and the Turkish commandant of Arta, N. Servan, get ready to launch the final assault on Missolonghi.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 383
Genere: Adventure, Biography, History, War
Country: Greece
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: independent film
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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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The Descent upon Drvar (1963)
Plot Summary:
German forces in Yugoslavia set out to destroy the stronghold of Tito with a traitor's help, but are overcome by Partisan resistance.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 266
Genere: War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: epic
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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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Cry of Battle (1963)
Plot Summary:
During World War II, the spoiled son of a wealthy businessman finds himself involved in the guerrilla movement fighting against the Japanese, and finds romance and adventure.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 282
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, War
Country: Philippines, USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Battle of Sutjeska (1973)
Plot Summary:
The film tells the story of the Battle of Sutjeska which occurred in Nazi-occupied Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1943.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: epic, crying, mythical
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Who Is That Man? (1985)
Plot Summary:
The story is set in 1939. A military officer is stripped of his rank for his apparent collaboration with a counter-espionage agent while on a mission in Paris. Then he is enlisted in his own country's counterespionage unit, due to his knowledge of languages. He is assigned to Gdansk where he is trying to uncover mysterious "Wotan" in the German Secret Service. He eventually tracks down and kills the agent, but by doing so wipes out the possibility to clearing himself of the charges. Just as the death sentence is to be carried out on him the war breaks out and he escapes out of the bombed prison to join partisans.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 33
Genere: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: pre war
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The Captain Martens Brothers (1974)
Plot Summary:
Historical movie based on the "fratii Jderi" book. The movie is in the top 20 most watched Romanian movies.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 234
Genere: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: Romania
Duration: 105 min
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The Bridge (1969)
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In order to check the German offensive, Partizans send an elite team of explosive experts to blow up a strategically important bridge. Besides being heavily guarded, that bridge is almost indestructible and the only man who knows weak spots in the construction is the architect who built it. He is, however, reluctant to cooperate because he doesn't want to see his masterpiece destroyed.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 105 min
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Giants of Rome (1964)
Plot Summary:
An elite group of soldiers led by the courageous Claudius Marcellus are handpicked by Julius Caesar to embark on a desperate and dangerous suicide mission to destroy the Druids' secret weapon.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 284
Genere: Adventure, War
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: fast paced, campy
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Hell in the Pacific (1968)
Plot Summary:
During World War II, a shot-down American pilot and a marooned Japanese navy captain find themselves stranded on the same small uninhabited island in the Pacific Ocean. Following war logic, each time the crafty Japanese devises something useful, he guards it to deny its use to the Yank, who then steals it, its proceeds or the idea and/or ruins it. Yet each gets his chance to kill and/or capture the other, but neither pushes this to the end. After a while of this pointless pestering, they end up joining forces to build and man a raft.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Adventure, War
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, realistic, harsh, serious, rough, bleak, minimal cast, historical drama, independent film
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The Ascent (1994)
Plot Summary:
The real-life adventure of a dashing Italian soldier who escapes a British prisoner-of-war camp because he dreams of climbing 17,000-foot Mt. Kenya and planting the Italian flag at the summit. The obsessive British camp commander pursues him, and the two men are locked in a battle of wills, fuelled by honor and their love for the same woman.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 205
Genere: Adventure, War
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The 7th Dawn (1964)
Plot Summary:
Political and personal intrigues surround a group of characters in Malaya, after the close of the Second World War.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Escape to Athena (1979)
Plot Summary:
During the World War II, the prisoners of a German camp in a greek island are trying to escape. They don't want only their freedom, but they also seek for an ineffable treasure hidden in a monastery at the top of the island's mountain.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, War
Country: UK
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, suspense, disturbing, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film, historical drama
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The Man Who Would Be King (1975)
Plot Summary:
A robust adventure about two British adventurers who take over primitive Kafiristan as "godlike" rulers, meeting a tragic end through their desire for a native girl. Based on a short story by Rudyard Kipling.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 51000
Genere: Adventure, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: epic, breathtaking, humorous, witty, funny, retro, philosophical, bloody, satanic, costume drama
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Daredevils of the Desert (1999)
Plot Summary:
Working with a beautiful lady spy, Indiana Jones is assigned to assist the British forces in their attack on the Turkish-occupied town of Beersheba. With a regiment of the Australian Lighthorsemen approaching, Indy must defuse the explosives the Turks have placed throughout the town.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 688
Genere: Adventure, War
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: The Phantom Train of Doom (1999)
Plot Summary:
November, 1916. Indiana Jones and Remy Baudouin have managed to get a transfer from the European trenches to the plains of Africa. On arrival they both receive a promotion to the rank of lieutenant in the Belgian Army. When they take the wrong train they end up in Moshi. Desprerate to join their unit in Lake Victoria, the two men bump into the 25th Royal Fusiliers, a unit of cranky old men led by Indy's old acquaintance Frederick Selous. Indy's passing knowledge of trains and fluent German comes in handy for the Fusiliers, who are about to go on a mission to find and destroy a Phantom Train that carries an enormous German artillery gun. After accomplishing their goal, Selous tricks Indy and Remy into joining his unit for another caper involving the capture of the German military strategist Colonel Von Lettow-Vorbeck.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 566
Genere: Adventure, War
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
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