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Plot Summary:
A young American hockey player, studying in Canada on a hockey scholarship, falls in love while risking his scholarship and the prospect of the Vietnam war draft.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 179
Genere: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Walk with Me (2016)
Plot Summary:
Deployed on mission in Helmand, Afghanistan, 25-year old Thomas steps on a landmine and loses both his legs. At the local rehabilitation center, he meets Sofie, an ascending ballerina from the Royal Danish Ballet, who is helping a relative to regain strength after a long term sickness. Thomas desperately wants back in the field and gets impatient as progress does not emerge as fast as he wants to. When Sofie offers to help him with a more intense rehabilitation plan, he accepts. Despite their differences, they develop a special bond and a mutual affection.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 423
Genere: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Sweden, Denmark, France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychological, sexy, suspenseful, sentimental, thought provoking, captivating
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Free Fall (2009)
Plot Summary:
Three friends meet one summer at a skydiving center. Adventurous, they spend most of their time jumping - for thrills and to escape what haunts them.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 259
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: art house
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Prologue (1970)
Plot Summary:
Directed by acclaimed filmmaker Robin Spry, Prologue was the first Canadian film to screen at the Venice Film Festival. Set and filmed during the sixties, this fiction feature tells the story of a young Montrealer who edits an underground newspaper with help from his female friend and a draft dodger from the United States. Two rival philosophies of dissenting youth become evident in the choices they make: militant protest vs. communal retreat. The film includes some seminal archival footage of a speech by legendary anti-war activist Abbie Hoffman and bloody rioting during the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 20
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: independent film, political, cinema verite
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Coyote (1992)
Plot Summary:
Story of a wild first love that takes place at the mouth of the St. Lawrence River between the refineries at Pointe-Au-Trembles and the rock culture of Montreal.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 158
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags:
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An Avonlea Christmas Movie (1998)
Plot Summary:
An Avonlea Christmas pays tribute to the indomitable and sometimes intolerable matriarch of the King family, Hetty King. When she suddenly collapses during the holidays, Hetty is hospitalized. Feeling homesick and alone, she begins to re-evaluate her relationships and her accomplishments in life. The story takes place against the backdrop of World War I as the King family prepares for its traditional Christmas dinner. The reunion is marred by the fact that one of its youngest members, Felix, is missing in action; making differences of opinion about the war effort glaringly obvious. This wonderful and accomplished cast comes together in an uplifting drama that illustrates the frailty of life and the importance of strength of family in turbulent times. (from DVD liner notes).
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 625
Genere: Drama, Family, Romance, War
Country: Canada
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags:
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Bunker (2014)
Plot Summary:
Two isolated Canadian soldiers come to grip with a difficult order: launch a nuclear strike against the former USSR, some 25 years after the end of the Cold War.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 71
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags:
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There Is No 13 (1974)
Plot Summary:
In this wartime drama, a young soldier spends much of stint in Vietnam remembering his life and his 12 love affairs. The story ends before he can have a 13th.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 25
Genere: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Heroes from Another Land (1996)
Plot Summary:
This docu-drama deals with the lives of two soldiers from Puerto Rico enlisted to fight during the Vietnam conflict. Based on a real-life incident, the movie relates the young soldiers' ambiguity about the war and the tragic consequences their plight holds for them, as well as their families.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 80
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Puerto Rico
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags:
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Absent Without Leave (1992)
Plot Summary:
In 1942 Wellington, Daisy Edwards, 16 and pregnant, relies totally on her just-wed husband, Ed, who is little older than she. Ed is suddenly drafted into the army and is to be sent overseas to battle while Daisy is sent to her father in Auckland. When Ed's leave is cancelled at the last minute he takes the dangerous decision to go absent without leave to be with Daisy on her journey home. As a deserter, Ed is hunted, captured and imprisoned. Life inside is bad enought without the worry of what is going on outside. The film is based upon a true story.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 70
Genere: Drama, Romance, War
Country: New Zealand, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film
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August 32nd on Earth (1998)
Plot Summary:
Young Simone gets hit by a near fatal car crash, and as she questions her mortality, she also decides to have a baby. Her candidate for a father is her best friend Phillipe who happens to be seeing someone. He agrees, as long as they conceive in Salt Lake City, in the desert. The trip teaches many lessons about love, solitude, and self-discovery.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: art house, touching, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious, weird
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Sunny (2008)
Plot Summary:
With hopes of reuniting with her husband, who left for the Vietnam War without telling her, a young wife joins a traveling band as the lead singer.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 442
Genere: Drama, Music, Romance, War
Country: South Korea
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, cult film
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Target for Death (1986)
Plot Summary:
Coordinates of Death (Russian Title: Koordinaty smerti / Координаты смерти) is a 1985 Soviet-Vietnamese co-production directed by Samvel Gasparov and Nguyen Xuan Chan. Set during the Vietnam War (presumably during Operation Linebacker II in 1972), the film is about a group of Soviet sailors aboard the freighter Chelyabinsk who aid their Vietnamese comrades after their ship is sunk, interspersed with scenes depicting the brutality of Americans towards Vietnamese civilians as seen through the eyes of an actress named Kate Francis (a Jane Fonda analogue).
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 55
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Vietnam, Soviet Union
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags:
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Jesus of Montreal (1989)
Plot Summary:
A group of actors putting on an interpretive Passion Play in Montreal begin to experience a meshing of their characters and their private lives as the production takes form against the growing opposition of the Catholic church.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: spiritual, controversial, christian film, dorama, art house, art film, postmodern, thought provoking, serious, experimental
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Ronnie & Julie (1997)
Plot Summary:
In this modern day version of 'Romeo and Juliet,' a rising hockey star and a figure skater with a bright future fall in love. However, they find themselves on opposite sides of the rink due to the fierce rivalry between their parents.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 497
Genere: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, touching, serious, emotional, realistic
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Winter Comes Early (1971)
Plot Summary:
Love story involving a Canadian professional hockey player and a hippie folk singer. Their union is tumultuous, as both try to come to terms with their differences in careers and lifestyles.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 255
Genere: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: Canada
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, sentimental, touching, serious, realistic, independent film
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Platoon Leader (1988)
Plot Summary:
West Point graduate lieutenant Jeff Knight meets cynicism when taking command of sergeant Michael McNamara's tour veterans platoon in a Vietnamese trench camp. Unlike his predecessor, who hid till the end of his tour, Jeff takes charge, experiences the manual doesn't allow coping with all realities and gets wounded. He returns, now fully respect by men and superiors. Besides the Vietcong, the platoon wrestles with the inscrutable villagers, which the G.I.'s officially protect, but also fear as some collaborate with them, other covertly with the Cong, either way subject to bloody reprisals.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, cult classic, independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, eighties, cult film
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Going Back (2001)
Plot Summary:
A group of Marines return to Vietnam with a news crew to relive their tragic war experiences.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 714
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: Canada
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, emotional, cult film
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The Veteran (2006)
Plot Summary:
Sidney J. Furie's The Veteran is a respectable straight-to-DVD movie that was headed for the "pleasant surprise" category before self-destructing with a terrible, out-of-the-blue ending.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 655
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, rough, realistic, suspenseful, bleak, cult film
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Captive Hearts (1987)
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December 1944. As their bomber is shot down during a mission over Japan, Sergeant McManus and Robert, a young lieutenant, have no other choice but make a parachute jump. They are captured by local villagers and are saved from execution by Fukushima, the village elder. McManus never accepts his lot unlike Robert, who soon takes an interest in Japanese customs and rites. More, he falls in love with pretty Miyoko, Fukushima's widowed daughter-in-law.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 229
Genere: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: independent film, uplifting, touching, serious, emotional, realistic
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In Country (1989)
Plot Summary:
Samantha Hughes, a teenaged Kentucky girl, never knew her father, who died in Vietnam before her birth. Samantha lives with her uncle Emmett, who also served in Vietnam. Emmett hangs around with Tom, Earl, and Pete, three other Vietnam vets who, like Emmett, all have problems of one kind or another that relate to their war experiences. Samantha,becomes obsessed with finding out about her father.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: touching, emotional, realistic, sex comedy, psychological, sincere, serious, contemplative, sentimental, sexy
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Gurov & Anna (2014)
Plot Summary:
With his marriage to Audrey almost at an end, Ben begins a torrid affair with Mercedes, a young French student in his writing class. The affair soon spins out of control, their emotions and Ben and Audrey's family hanging in the balance.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 270
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: romantic, sexy, captivating, disturbing, contemplative
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Map of the Human Heart (1992)
Plot Summary:
Fantastic improbabilities, happenstance and the undying bridge of love are part of this romantic fantasy about an Inuit who crosses years, oceans and the ravages of WWII to find his childhood love, a Metis girl, but finds that their cultures are the most difficult spaces to gap.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Romance, War
Country: Australia, UK, Canada, France
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: romantic, touching, emotional, realistic, erotic, retro, independent film, serious, captivating, fairy tale
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The Year That Trembled (2002)
Plot Summary:
The Year That Trembled is a 1970 coming-of-age story set in the shadow of Kent State that focuses on a group of young characters facing the Vietnam Draft Lottery.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 222
Genere: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, touching, emotional, serious, realistic, contemplative, independent film
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Indochine (1992)
Plot Summary:
The story starts in the 1930s at one of the largest rubber-tree plantations in Indochine (Vietnam). This plantation is owned by the French colonist Eliane, a proud woman who lives with her father and her native adoptive daughter Camille. She doesn't have a husband or a man in her life (apart from her father), but gets to know the young officer Jean-Baptiste when both want to buy the same painting at an auction. They have a short affair, but then she refuses to see him again. In the meantime it's Camille who has fallen in love with Jean-Baptiste and Eliane knows it. She makes sure he's sent to one of the most desolate outposts on some remote island, making sure that the two will never see each other again. Camille has no choice, but to marry the man she was promised to, but in the meantime she starts a search to find the man she really loves.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama, Romance, War
Country: France
Duration: 160 min
Plot tags: visual, sentimental, atmospheric, epic, realistic, stylized, serious, anthology, art house, independent film
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Gardens of Stone (1987)
Plot Summary:
A sergeant must deal with his desires to save the lives of young soldiers being sent to Vietnam. Continuously denied the chance to teach the soldiers about his experiences, he settles for trying to help the son of an old army buddy.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: realistic, intense, harsh, bleak, sincere, touching, serious, emotional, contemplative, gloomy
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Coming Home (1978)
Plot Summary:
The wife of a Marine serving in Vietnam, Sally Hyde (Jane Fonda) decides to volunteer at a local veterans hospital to occupy her time. There she meets Luke Martin (Jon Voight), a frustrated wheelchair-bound vet who has become disillusioned with the war. Sally and Luke develop a friendship that soon turns into a romance, but when her husband, Bob (Bruce Dern), returns unexpectedly, she must decide between staying with him and pursuing her new love.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: political, emotional, realistic, erotic, romantic, patriotic, sincere, thought provoking, touching, serious
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For the Moment (1993)
Plot Summary:
This Canadian film presents and old-fashioned war time romance. It is set during 1942 in Manitoba and traces the doomed affair between a young farmer's wife (Christianne Hirt) whose husband is fighting abroad and a dashing Australian pilot (Russell Crowe). The pilot has come to train in the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan of Canada. When the pilot, Lachlan, is not training, he is surreptitiously wooing Lill, the farmer's wife. At the other end of town, Betsy (Wanda Cannon) who supports her two kids by bootlegging, charges for her services. She gets involved with Zeek (Scott Kraft), an American flight instructor.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 977
Genere: Romance, War, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: realistic, romantic, sentimental, serious, independent film, sexy, enigmatic, feel good, breathtaking, unusual plot structure
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A Bear Named Winnie (2004)
Plot Summary:
Based on the true story of a Canadian soldier, enroute to World War I from Winnipeg, who adopts an orphaned bear cub at White River Ontario. It is namned Winnie (for Winnipeg) and eventually ends up at the London Zoo where it became the inspiration for A.A.Milne's Winnie The Pooh stories.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: feel good, serious, touching, light, captivating, entertaining
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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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Love and Honor (2013)
Plot Summary:
When a young soldier in Vietnam gets dumped by his hometown girl, he and his best friend decide to go AWOL and return to the States to win her back.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: romantic, psychological, serious, emotional, teen, inspirational, indie film, sentimental, touching, realistic