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Plot Summary:
To celebrate Hitler's birthday, a soccer match is organized between the Germans and prisoners of war.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Sport, War
Country: Hungary
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, black and white
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The Striker with Number 9 (1988)
Plot Summary:
The story of a talented yet self-destructive soccer player in Greece.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 420
Genere: Drama, Sport
Country: Greece
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags:
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The Tough Ones (1968)
Plot Summary:
Two soldiers can't deal with peacetime.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 67
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: black and white, grindhouse
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Escape of the Birdmen (1971)
Plot Summary:
During WWII an American soldier sent to Norway to help with the escape of a scientist working on the atomic bomb for the Germans. Before they can escape they are captured and sent to a POW prison camp in an alpine castle. Cook must find a way to escape with the scientist before the Gestapo discover the Norwegian's true identity and convinces the other prisoners to build a two person glider in which they plan to escape.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 326
Genere: Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags:
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Escapes (1968)
Plot Summary:
Political prisoners imprisoned in Yugoslavia will try to escape from prison by digging a channel under the ground and join the partisans.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 38
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags:
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The Fifth Seal (1976)
Plot Summary:
In Budapest in 1944, a watchmaker, a book seller and a carpenter are drinking in a bar with the owner. They are joined by a stranger who asks a hypothetical question that will change their lives.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Hungary
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: psychological, philosophical, political, political thriller, art house, existential
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Hungarians (1978)
Plot Summary:
A group of landless Hungarian peasants accept work as migrant-laborers on a farm in northern Germany where the wages are good, and the wives and family are allowed to accompany them. Though it is in the midst of World War II, they are relatively well-off. However, they glimpse the treatment accorded to POWs and others who are not so gently treated, and at the conclusion of the year's harvest, they choose to return to Hungary and are quickly swept up in the tides of war. This film is part of a series of films by award-winning, well-respected director Zoltan Fabri who devoted much time and effort chronicling the struggle against fascism.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 353
Genere: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags:
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Trench of Hope (2003)
Plot Summary:
While playing football, two children stumble across the grave of a French WWI infantryman who died in the trenches in 1918. His name was Pierre Delpeuch and in the last days of his life he and his comrades shared an extraordinary human adventure. Exhausted, cut off from the front, huddled in their trench, Pierre and four others bravely stood firm. Facing them was another trench containing five similar exhausted and determined Germans. Their only aim was to resist, whatever the cost, until reinforcements arrived.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 75
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Sport, War
Country: France
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags:
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The Liberation of Skopje (2016)
Plot Summary:
Eight-year-old Zoran is the hero of this story set in Skopje during the German occupation of the city in World War II. Through his eyes, we experience all the cruelty, poverty and suffering of wartime. A love affair between his Macedonian mother and a German officer will help his family get through the hard times….
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 395
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Croatia, Finland
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, rough, thought provoking, suspense
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The Coach (2018)
Plot Summary:
Contemporary Russia. After he flubs a penalty kick, a humiliated national soccer player quits the game. He flees to a small town, where he decides to coach their local team.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Sport
Country: Russia
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags: exciting, uplifting, captivating, motivational, entertaining
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The Secret of Blood Island (1965)
Plot Summary:
Based on the true story of a British secret agent, shot down over Malaya near to a Allied POW forced labour camp. There she is hidden, disguised as a youthful prisoner, until her escape can be effected. The costs of keeping her identity secret fall on all the POW's as the Japanese embark on a policy of ruthless terror to extract her and the focus shifts to the conflicts of the group' s collective concerns against the necessities of personal survival.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 101
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: grindhouse
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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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The Liberation of Prague (1977)
Plot Summary:
On 20th of April 1945 the Soviet army launches its attack on Berlin. The end has come for Nazi Germany and Hitler decides to commit suicide. In Prague K.H. Frank (Nazi Secretary of State and Chief of police in the Protectorate of Bohemia a Moravia) discusses with his commanders how to transform the city into an impregnable fortress, but the Praguers do not intend to wait any longer. From the early hours of 4th of May people start assembling in the streets and tearing down German signs. On the next day, the 5th of May, the uprising begins.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 52
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Czechoslovakia, East Germany
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags:
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Black Birds (1967)
Plot Summary:
WW2 story about group of prisoners who are trying to escape the death camp, run by local pro-Nazi militia.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 77
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags:
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The Match (2020)
Plot Summary:
Inspired by true events from the spring of 1944 when the Nazis organized a football match between a team of camp inmates and an elite Nazi team on Adolf Hitler's birthday. A match the prisoners are determined to win, no matter what happens.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 793
Genere: Drama, History, Sport, War
Country: Croatia, USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, historical drama
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War Fever (1969)
Plot Summary:
A twist of fate leads a recent Westpoint grad into being responsible for the execution of two fellow American GIs. The young lieutenant comes of age, and the two battle hardened veterans achieve a state of grace through acts of sacrifice.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 275
Genere: War, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: macaroni combat
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The Great Escape II: The Untold Story (1988)
Plot Summary:
Allied prisoners tunnel out of a stalag, then return to avenge fellow escapees executed by the Nazis.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 580
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 178 min
Plot tags: ridiculous
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The Keeper (2018)
Plot Summary:
TRAUTMANN tells the story of a man whose love for football, for England and for the love of his life, Margaret saw him rise from Nazi 'villain' to British hero. Bert Trautmann the German goalkeeper won over even his harshest opponents by winning the FA Cup Final for Manchester City in 1956 - playing on with a broken neck to secure victory.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Romance, Sport, War
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: motivational, inspirational, realistic, sincere, captivating, intense, retro, costume drama
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Match (2012)
Plot Summary:
Based on the true story of the "death match" where the Soviet team "Start" scored its second victory over the German team «Flakelf» on August 9, 1942.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 833
Genere: Drama, History, Sport
Country: Russia
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense
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I Am Zlatan (2021)
Plot Summary:
Coming-of-age story depicting Zlatan Ibrahimovic's upbringing in a rough Swedish suburb. Born to Balkan immigrants, football was Zlatan's release in a tough environment where his remarkable talent and self-reliance catapulted him against all odds to the top of international football playing for clubs like Ajax Amsterdam, Juventus, Inter, Milan, Barcelona, Paris Saint-Germain and Manchester United.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Netherlands
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, captivating, disturbing
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The Quality of Mercy (1994)
Plot Summary:
It is the beginning of 1945 during WW2 in former Austria. 500 Russian prisoners of war who have refused to fight on the side of the Germans against their country were moved to the concentration camp in Mauthausen awaiting execution. They decide to break out. One winter night the Russian prisoners make an escape. During the following shooting a great number of them gets killed. Some, however, succeed to hide in nearby villages. But the German Nazis convince the inhabitants of the villages to hunt the prisoners "like rabbits".
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 321
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Austria, Germany
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags:
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The Highest Honor (1982)
Plot Summary:
On 11 September 1944, a squad of 23 Australian and British soldiers lead by Lieutanant-Colonel Ivan Lyon leave Fremantle bound for Indonesia as part of Operation Rimau, an attempted repeat of the highly-successful Operation Jaywick the previous year in which nearly sixty ships in Japanese-occupied Singapore Harbour were destroyed.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 160
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Australia, Japan
Duration: 144 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Miracle of Bern (2003)
Plot Summary:
The movie deals with the championship-winning German soccer team of 1954. Its story is linked with two others: The family of a young boy is split due to the events in World War II, and the father returns from Russia after eleven years. The second story is about a reporter and his wife reporting from the tournament.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Sport
Country: Germany
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: exciting, sentimental, feel good, serious, realistic
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King Rat (1965)
Plot Summary:
When Singapore surrendered to the Japanese in 1942 the Allied POWs, mostly British but including a few Americans, were incarcerated in Changi prison. This was a POW detention center like no other. There were no walls or barbed-wire fences for the simple reason that there was no place for the prisoners to escape to. Included among the prisoners is the American Cpl. King, a wheeler dealer who has managed to established a pretty good life for himself in the camp. While most of the prisoners are near starvation and have uniforms that are in tatters, King eats well and and has crisp clean clothes to wear every day. His nemesis is Lt. Robin Grey, the camp Provost who attempts to keep good order and discipline. He knows that King is breaking camp rules by bartering with the Japanese but can't quite get the evidence he needs to stop him. King soon forms a friendship with Lt. Peter Marlowe an upper class British officer who is fascinated with King's élan and no rules approach to life.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min
Plot tags: black and white, bleak, realistic, sad, rough, serious, suspenseful, independent film, freeze frame, feel good
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The Burmese Harp (1985)
Plot Summary:
In the War's closing days, when a conscience-driven Japanese soldier fails to get his countrymen to surrender to overwhelming force, he adopts the lifestyle of a Buddhist monk.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 190
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 133 min
Plot tags: odd
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Victory (1981)
Plot Summary:
A group of POWs in a German prison camp during World War II play the German National Soccer Team in this powerful film depicting the role of prisoners during wartime.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 33000
Genere: Drama, Sport, War
Country: UK, USA, Italy
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: inspirational, exciting, serious, suspenseful, cult classic, juvenile, realistic, independent film, light, sexy
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Dara of Jasenovac (2020)
Plot Summary:
During the Nazi-occupied Ustasha regime "NDH" in former Yugoslavia during WWII, little girl Dara is sent to the concentration camp complex Jasenovac in Croatia also known as "Balkan's Auschwitz".
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 82000
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Serbia
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: suspense, thought provoking, suspenseful, disturbing, sincere, touching, political, social
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Dirty Heroes (1967)
Plot Summary:
Set near the end of World War II in the Netherlands, Dirty Heroes concerns a group of ex-convicts recruited into the U.S. Army to recover Dutch jewels originally stolen by the Nazis as well as confiscated Allied plans.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 256
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: exciting, grindhouse, macaroni combat, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (1983)
Plot Summary:
In 1942, British soldier Jack Celliers comes to a japanese prison camp. The camp is run by Yonoi, who has a firm belief in discipline, honour and glory. In his view, the allied prisoners are cowards when they chose to surrender instead of commiting suicide. One of the prisoners, interpreter John Lawrence, tries to explain the japanese way of thinking, but is considered a traitor.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Drama, War
Country: UK, New Zealand, Japan
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, bleak, realistic, sad, experimental, avant garde, art film, serious, crying
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Son of Saul (2015)
Plot Summary:
In the horror of 1944 Auschwitz, a prisoner forced to burn the corpses of his own people finds moral survival trying to save from the flames the body of a boy he takes for his son.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 51000
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Hungary
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: melancholic, compassionate, disturbing, cerebral, grim, sad, philosophical, historical drama, harsh, motivational
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Unknown Soldier (2017)
Plot Summary:
The film follows Finnish army machine gun company in Continuation War against Soviet Union, 1941–1944. Based on Väinö Linna's best selling novel Tuntematon Sotilas (The Unknown Soldier) and the novel's uncensored version, Sotaromaani (A War Novel).
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Finland, Belgium, Iceland
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, thought provoking, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, novela, historical drama