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Plot Summary:
Young Chechnya war veteran alienates himself from his friends and family because of his burned face. When he has to help find his war-time friend, he manages to get back to life again.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 177
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 102 min
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Marriage of the Blessed (1989)
Plot Summary:
Haji is severely traumatized by the war with Iraq. Back from the front, he's unable to adapt to civilian life. Despite family opposition, his fiancée stands by him as together they challenge both the authority of family and state to lead their own lives.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 546
Genere: Crime, Drama, War
Country: Iran
Duration: 75 min
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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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Jirga (2018)
Plot Summary:
Made under extraordinary, and extremely dangerous, conditions, Jirga tells the emotional story of a former Australian soldier who travels to Afghanistan to seek forgiveness.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 431
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Australia
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Throatful of Strawberries (1985)
Plot Summary:
A story about partly miserable lives of middle aged men and unfulfilled dreams of youth.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 644
Genere: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags:
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The Hero (2004)
Plot Summary:
A 20-year veteran of the Angolan civil war returns to the capital city of Luanda where he faces the challenges of assimilation and survival.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 164
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Angola, France, Portugal
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining
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Friendly Fire (1979)
Plot Summary:
In March 1970, a U.S. Army officer arrived at the Iowa farm of Peg and Gene Mullen and informed them that their son Michael had been killed in Vietnam by "friendly fire." Their determined attempts to learn more about the circumstances of their son's death are the subject of this true account film.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 454
Genere: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 147 min
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Diamonds of the Night (1964)
Plot Summary:
Diamonds in the night is the tense, brutal story of two Jewish boys who escape from a train transporting them from one concentration camp to another. Ultimately, they are hunted down by a group of old, armed home-guardists. The film goes beyond the themes of war and anti-Nazism and concerns itself with man's struggle to preserve human dignity.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 67 min
Plot tags: spiritual, avant garde, black and white, surreal, no music, cinema verite
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Casey's Gift: For Love of a Child (1990)
Plot Summary:
The friendships held between two families is threatened when one of their sons drowns in the other family's swimming pool.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 58
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
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The Search (2014)
Plot Summary:
A woman who works for a non-governmental organization (NGO) forms a special relationship with a young boy in war-torn Chechnya.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, War
Country: France, Georgia
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: touching, emotional, realistic, serious, non-linear, interesting, remake of american film
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From Karkheh to Rhine (1993)
Plot Summary:
Saeed who is suffering from injuries that he received in the Iran-Iraq War, is sent to Germany for treatments. In Germany, he meets his sister and her German husband. Saeed and his sister who have not had any relations in many years try to re-establish the close relationship that they had long time ago.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Iran
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
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A Boy Called H (2013)
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Told from the viewpoint of the father Morio, "A Boy Called H" follows a young boy named Hajime Senoh, nicknamed "H". His father, Morio runs a tailor shop. With the onset of World War II, their family must endure difficult times. Nevertheless, H is filled with curiosity and a sense of justice. Based on the autobiographical novel "Shonen H" by Kappa Senoh (published by Kodansha, July 9, 1999).
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 210
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, thrilling
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That Instant, That While (1981)
Plot Summary:
Autumn 1944. A doctor is accused in the collaboration with the Nazis and found guilty.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 26
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: crying
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The Coast Guard (2002)
Plot Summary:
An overzealous soldier mentally deteriorates after killing an innocent man he thought was a spy.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, War
Country: South Korea
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychological, bleak, realistic, serious, suspenseful, touching, sad, masterpiece, mad
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Alsino and the Condor (1982)
Plot Summary:
Alsino, a boy of 10 or 12, lives with his grandmother in a remote area of Nicaragua. He's engulfed in the war between rebels and government troops when a US advisor orders the army to open a staging area by the boy's hamlet. Alsino tries to be a child, climbing trees with a girl, looking through his grandfather's trunk of mementos and trying to fly; he goes to town to sell a saddle, has his first drink and is taken to a brothel. But the war surrounds him. The US advisor takes Alsino on a chopper flight, but he's unimpressed. The soldiers' cruelties awake rebel sympathies in Alsino, and after an army assault backfires, the lad is fully baptized into the conflict.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 347
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Nicaragua, Cuba, Mexico, Costa Rica
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: political
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Fort Bliss (2014)
Plot Summary:
After returning home from an extended tour in Afghanistan, a decorated U.S. Army medic and single mother struggles to rebuild her relationship with her young son.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Turkey, USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, independent film, hispanic, crying
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Break-through (2006)
Plot Summary:
Russian paratroopers company meets superior forces of Chechen separatists during raid in mountains and accept uphill battle with no chance to survive. Based on Battle for Height 776.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 79
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, disturbing
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Halima's Path (2012)
Plot Summary:
In order to recover the body of her son lost during the war in Bosnia, a grieving, but strong-willed Muslim woman, Halima, must track down her estranged niece, who we find carries a mysterious connection to him.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, emotional, realistic
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Battle Scars (2015)
Plot Summary:
Every Marine has a story, some they're proud of, other they'd rather forget. After coming home from his tour of duty in Afghanistan suffering from PTSD, Luke Stephens wants nothing more than to forget. What happens when our soldiers come back to Another Stateside?.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 239
Genere: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Climb (1997)
Plot Summary:
Baltimore, 1959. Danny's dad is the only man in the neighborhood who didn't fight in World War II. Danny, who's 12, gets teased and folks make nasty cracks about cowards. An old radio tower on a nearby hill is about to be torn down, and Danny decides to climb it to prove his courage. Help comes from an aging neighbor, Old Man Langer, a former construction foreman who's dying of cancer and wants Danny to help him commit suicide. Langer rigs pulleys and weights to help the lad make the climb. Meanwhile, an aggressive and angry neighbor (an army vet) regularly gets drunk and shoots off his rifle, and Danny's dad must confront him. It all comes to a head one stormy night.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 422
Genere: Drama
Country: France, New Zealand, Canada
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: uplifting, touching, serious, realistic, independent film
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Son of a Lion (2007)
Plot Summary:
In the Pakistani tribal village of Darra Adam Khel, a young Pashtun boy Niaz Afridi defies the expectations of his father to continue in the family business making weapons and calls for an education.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 239
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Australia
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: touching, sincere, serious, realistic, inspirational, bleak, independent film
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Alexandra (2007)
Plot Summary:
An elderly woman takes a train trip to visit her grandson at his army camp inside Chechnya.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Russia, France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sincere, serious, realistic, contemplative, touching, slow cinema, aesthetic
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Ithaca (2015)
Plot Summary:
In a small town in California's San Joaquin Valley, 14-year-old Homer Macauley is determined to be the best and fastest bicycle telegraph messenger anyone has ever seen. His older brother has gone to war, leaving Homer to look after his widowed mother, his older sister and his 4-year-old brother, Ulysses. And so it is that as spring turns to summer, 1942, Homer Macauley delivers messages of love, hope, pain... and death... to the good people of Ithaca. And Homer Macauley will grapple with one message that will change him forever - from a boy into a man. Based on Pulitzer Prize-winning author William Saroyan's 1943 novel, The Human Comedy, ITHACA is the quintessential wartime tale of the Home Front. It is a coming-of-age story about the exuberance of youth, the sweetness of life, the sting of death and the modesty and sheer goodness that lives in each and every one of us.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: captivating, tense, thought provoking, realistic, crying, freeze frame
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Austeria (1982)
Plot Summary:
During a pogrom in Poland on the eve of World War I, a group of Jews seek refuge from the Cossacks.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 655
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: freeze frame
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Lemon Tree (2008)
Plot Summary:
Salma Zidane, a widow, lives simply from her grove of lemon trees in the West Bank's occupied territory. The Israeli defense minister and his wife move next door; the Secret Service orders the trees removed for security. The stoic Salma seeks assistance from the Palestinian Authority (useless), Israeli army (dismissive), and a young attorney, Ziad Daud, who takes the case; this older client attracts him. While the courts deliberate, the Israelis fence her trees and prohibit her from entering the grove. As the trees wither, the defense minister's wife and, separately, an Israeli journalist, look on Salma with sympathy. In this allegory, does David stand a chance against Goliath?.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Israel, Germany, France
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: sincere, uplifting, sentimental, touching, contemplative, emotional, edutainment, informative, thought provoking, serious
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The Boy Who Stopped Talking (1996)
Plot Summary:
Memo is a nine-year-old boy who lives in Turkey with his mother and little sister, while his father works in a Netherlands seaport. When war looms near his family home, Memo's father moves the family to be with him in the Netherlands. Memo is unhappy at having to leave his village, his best friend, Mustafa, and his job as a mail boy. Once installed in his father's basement flat, Memo begins his own protest at being removed from his home by refusing to speak.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 108
Genere: Drama, Family, War
Country: Netherlands, Turkey
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags:
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Taking Chance (2009)
Plot Summary:
Lt. Col. Michael Strobl, a volunteer military escort accompanies the body of Lance Cpl. Chance Phelps to his hometown in Wyoming.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: realistic, touching, emotional, sincere, sentimental, sad, serious, harsh, christian film, motivational
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Stop-Loss (2008)
Plot Summary:
A veteran soldier returns from his completed tour of duty in Iraq, only to find his life turned upside down when he is arbitrarily ordered to return to field duty by the Army.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: emotional, sad, harsh, serious, thought provoking, realistic, suspense, cult classic, edutainment, psychological
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All My Loved Ones (1999)
Plot Summary:
Told from the perspective of man reflecting on his childhood in Prauge in the early years of World War 2 and the eventual destruction of his family as the Nazis rise to power. The storyline focuses heavily on Jewish-Czech Silberstein family members. Drama was filmed on the real events as a tribute to Mr. Nicholas Winton, the British humanitarian who organized the rescue of 669 children, most of them Jewish, from Czechoslovakia on the eve of the Second World War in an operation later known as the Czech Kindertransport from German-occupied Czechoslovakia and likely death in the Holocaust.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 570
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, captivating, emotional, realistic, contemplative, crying
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Mother of Mine (2005)
Plot Summary:
1943: Nine-year-old Eero whose father is killed during the war is brought to Sweden to foster parents to his protection like thousands of other Finnish children. Eero feels lost, particularly as his foster mother Signe behaves very unfriendly. She was expecting a little girl and still mourns for her daughter who drowned in the sea.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Finland, Sweden
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: emotional, touching, melancholic, bleak, realistic, sincere, captivating, serious, gloomy, surprise ending
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My Mother's Courage (1995)
Plot Summary:
The deportation of 4000 Jews from Budapest to Auschwitz in July 1944, as told by George Tabori, and how the narrator's mother escaped it, owing to coincidence, courage and some help from where you'd least expect it.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 203
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Germany, UK, Austria, Ireland
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, bleak, serious, captivating, realistic, disturbing, crying, black comedy, dark comedy