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Plot Summary:
A Marine stationed in the Philippines loses a hand in an accident and is discharged from the Corps. When the Japanese invade the Philippines, he is called back into service to rescue a general held by Filipino guerrillas behind Japanese lines. Attaching a steel prosthetic in place of his missing hand, he and his men set out on the mission, which turns out to be not quite what he was told it was.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 188
Genere: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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Warkill (1968)
Plot Summary:
A journalist (Tom Drake) watches a U.S. colonel (George Montgomery) and Filipino guerrillas smoke out Japanese soldiers.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 80
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Philippines, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: cult film
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Desert Commandos (1967)
Plot Summary:
German commandos are dropped behind enemy lines in the Sahara Desert tasked with getting to Casablanca in an assassination attempt on allied leaders.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 415
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, macaroni combat, cult film
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First to Fight (1967)
Plot Summary:
Jack is the sole survivor of a Japanese attack on his squad at Guadalcanal. Because of his heroism and the fact that he is still alive, he becomes a Medal of Honor hero. He returns to train new recruits for the Marines and falls for a girl named Peggy. When training and marriage leave him with an empty feeling, he decides on a transfer back to the front lines. Soon he will find that marriage and life will change his outlook on the grueling battles that lie ahead.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 347
Genere: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 92 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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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
Plot tags:
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Jungle Fighters (1961)
Plot Summary:
Based on a play by Willis Hall. A troop of British soldiers are out in the jungle to record jungle noises and troop noises in the jungle so that the recordings can be played back by other troops to divert the enemy to their whereabouts. As they progress to what they think is closer to the base camp they find themselves farther and farther from radio range until the only channel they can get clearly is that of a Japanese broadcast. They now realize they are probably only 10 to 15 miles from a Japanese camp! The tension is added to by rowdy and openly admitted "non-hero" Private Bamforth who has nothing good to say about anyone and especially Corporal Johnstone (who holds an equal dislike for Bamforth). When a Japanese soldier is taken as their prisoner, the true colours of each man comes to the surface.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 969
Genere: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: ironic, independent film, tension, suspense, vintage
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The Longest Hundred Miles (1967)
Plot Summary:
During the Japanese invasion of the Philippines, an assorted group of refugees, including an American soldier, an Army nurse, a priest and a group of local children, try to make their getaway aboard a rattletrap, creaky bus.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 222
Genere: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Seven Women from Hell (1961)
Plot Summary:
Seven women from different backgrounds, nationality, age, class, and marital status find themselves in New Guinea, February 1942 - when the Japanese army takes over unexpectedly, and sends them into a war camp in the jungle.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 125
Genere: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags:
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Battle at Bloody Beach (1961)
Plot Summary:
This is only the second Audie Murphy movie set in WWII after his autobiographical "To Hell and Back." Here Murphy steps out of his usual kid-Western role to play a civilian working for the Navy helping supply guerilla insurgents in the Philippines. His sole motive is not politics nor bravery, but to find his bride from whom he was separated during the Japanese invasion two years before.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 508
Genere: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags:
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Dear Elza! (2014)
Plot Summary:
"Mankind is nature's greatest mistake. In his actions echoes millions of years of instinct and a few genius's idea's useless revolution." End of 1942, eastern front, Ukraine. Private Lombos, tied to his family and his homeland by a strong loyalty, is serving in the Royal Hungarian Army. Due to an administrational error, he cannot go back home on leave. Despite his sorrow, he does his duty and takes up arms again to march further into the hell of the eastern front. During an attack he gets wounded and he's forced to spend a night behind enemy lines hiding out in a pit, where he meets an old man. They talk through the night, and the old man's words tremble his unbroken faith in his family and his country. As the dawn approaches, soviet shtrafbat soldiers find them and Private Lombos falls into captivity, then soon he's forced to join the "mine tramplers", a penal battalion whose soldiers clear minefields by stepping on them. Lombos has a hard time fitting into this new scenery, but the.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 575
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Hungary
Duration: 96 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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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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Hell in Normandy (1968)
Plot Summary:
The movie is set during World War II in the days just prior to the D-Day invasion. A special parachute unit is sent to destroy a German flame thrower installation on Omaha Beach.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 315
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: macaroni combat
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From Hell to Victory (1979)
Plot Summary:
From Hell To Victory follows the relationship of six friends throughout the Second World War. They meet in a cafe in Paris on 24th August 1939 and agree to meet there on the same day every year. The war however takes them on their own individual path's and keeping their friendship throughout proves complicated.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 479
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Italy, France, Spain
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: macaroni combat, spectacular
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Ambush Bay (1966)
Plot Summary:
A Marine unit on a Japanese-held island in the Philippines tries to hook up with local Filipino guerrillas.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 764
Genere: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful
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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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The Quick and the Dead (1963)
Plot Summary:
Pretty intense war-action drama about a small group of soldiers who capture a German observation post, but in turn are captured themselves. They soon escape and--with the aid of two women--try to fight their way to safety.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 164
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Operation Bikini (1963)
Plot Summary:
The film takes place aboard an American submarine in the Pacific during World War II. The sub's commander is ordered to stop and pick up an underwater demolition team led by Lt. Hayes, whose mission is to locate and destroy a US submarine sunken in a lagoon off Bikini Atoll before the Japanese are able to raise it and capture the advanced radar system on board.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 307
Genere: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychotronic
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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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Pacific Inferno (1979)
Plot Summary:
After the fall of the Philippines in World War II, the Japanese discover that Gen. MacArthur ordered millions of dollars in silver dumped in Manila Bay in order that it not fall into enemy hands. Among the prisoners the Japanese have taken are two American U.S. Navy deep-sea divers, whom they then force to dive in search of the sunken treasure.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 263
Genere: War
Country: USA, Philippines
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: cult film
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Beach Red (1967)
Plot Summary:
American troops storm ashore on a Japanese-held island and push inland while their enemies plan a counterattack in this look at warfare. Soldiers on both sides are haunted by memories of home and the horrifying, sickening images they find in combat.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: spectacular, independent film, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, crying
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Raid on Rommel (1971)
Plot Summary:
Captain Foster plans on raiding German-occupied Tobruk with hand- picked commandos, but a mixup leaves him with a medical unit led by a Quaker conscientious objector. Despite all odds they succeed with their mission. On the way they pick up and drug the mistress of an Italian general, blow up the entire fuel supply for the Afrika Korps, and swap philatelic gossip with Field Marshal Erwin Rommel.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Hornets' Nest (1970)
Plot Summary:
An American commando who's the sole survivor of a parachute jump into WWII-era Italy leads a group of children in a campaign of sabotage against the Nazis.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, macaroni combat, exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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All Quiet on the Western Front (1979)
Plot Summary:
At the start of World War I, Paul Baumer is a young German patriot, eager to fight. Indoctrinated with propaganda at school, he and his friends eagerly sign up for the army soon after graduation. But when the horrors of war soon become too much to bear, and as his friends die or become gravely wounded, Paul questions the sanity of fighting over a few hundreds yards of war-torn countryside.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Drama, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: bleak, sad, suspenseful, historical drama, sincere, serious, realistic, disturbing, gloomy, tragic ending
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A Midnight Clear (1992)
Plot Summary:
Set in 1944 France, an American Intelligence Squad locates a German Platoon wishing to surrender rather than die in Germany's final war offensive. The two groups of men, isolated from the war at present, put aside their differences and spend Christmas together before the surrender plan turns bad and both sides are forced to fight the other.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: bleak, realistic, sexy, scenic, cult classic, rough, serious, suspenseful, independent film, psychological
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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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Merrill's Marauders (1962)
Plot Summary:
Brigadier General Frank D. Merrill leads the 3,000 American volunteers of his 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional), aka "Merrill's Marauders", behind Japanese lines across Burma to Myitkyina, pushing beyond their limits and fighting pitched battles at every strong-point.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, crying, technicolor, historical drama, cult film
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Windtalkers (2002)
Plot Summary:
Joe Enders is a gung-ho Marine assigned to protect a "windtalker" - one of several Navajo Indians who were used to relay messages during World War II because their spoken language was indecipherable to Japanese code breakers.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 73000
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min
Plot tags: realistic, factual, stylized, intense, sincere, serious, rough, emotional, suspense, exciting
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The Devil's Brigade (1968)
Plot Summary:
1968 American war film about the formation and first mission of the joint Canadian-American WWII special forces winter and mountain unit formally called 1st Special Service Force, but commonly known as “The Devil’s Brigade”. The film dramatises the Brigade's first mission in the Italian Campaign, the task of capturing the German mountain stronghold Monte la Difensa, in December 1943. The film is based on the 1966 book of the same name, co-written by American novelist and historian Robert H. Adleman and Col. George Walton, a member of the brigade.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: exciting, realistic, tense, harsh, serious, suspenseful, epic, retro, cult classic, historical drama
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The Big Red One (1980)
Plot Summary:
A veteran sergeant of the World War I leads a squad in World War II, always in the company of the survivor Pvt. Griff, the writer Pvt. Zab, the Sicilian Pvt. Vinci and Pvt. Johnson in Vichy French Africa, Sicily, D-Day at Omaha Beach, Belgium and France, ending in a concentration camp in Czechoslovakia where they face the true horror of war.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: bleak, realistic, political, cynical, cult classic, historical drama, exciting, rough, serious, captivating