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Plot Summary:
Decorated British officer Jack Wallace must lead a band of Allied commandos across enemy lines to rescue Professor Hopper, an American scientist held hostage by the Nazis. With information that could turn the tide of war, these unlikely heroes must traverse enemy territory with an untrained US civilian, avoiding brutal Nazi mercenaries and non-stop bombing – with the fate of the war resting on their shoulders, the outcome of this mission will change the world forever; failure is not an option.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 517
Genere: Action, Thriller, War
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min
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Operation Seawolf (2022)
Plot Summary:
During the last days of World War II, Germany, desperate for any last grasp to defeat the allied powers, looked to their last remaining weapons and soldiers. The German Navy and the last remaining U-Boats were formed together for one desperate last mission – a mission to attack the United States Homeland, known as Operation Seawolf. Captain Hans Kessler, a grizzled submarine commander from both World Wars, is called into service to make one mission a success and help turn the tide of the war.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 766
Genere: Action, Adventure, History, Mystery, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
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The Last Englishman (1995)
Plot Summary:
Biopic about a real eccentric ultra-patriotic British army officer and war hero called Lt. Col. Alfred D. Wintle, who fought in both World Wars against both the enemy and his higher-ups with the same passion.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 62
Genere: Biography, Comedy, War
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
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Operation Snatch (1962)
Plot Summary:
Legend has it that if the famous Barbary Apes leave the Rock of Gibraltar, it's a sign that the British will lose control of it. During World War II, a British officer is put in charge of the apes. When he detects that the animals' morale is slipping, he hatches a plan to go behind the German lines to "kidnap" a new ape for his charges to lift their spirits before the Germans find out about their condition and use it as propaganda.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 66
Genere: Comedy, War
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Now Where Did the Seventh Company Get to? (1973)
Plot Summary:
1940: During the chaotic running fights of the French army the 7th company disappears - nobody knows they've been taken captive. Only their scouting patrol, three witty but lazy guys, can escape and now wanders around behind the German lines. They'd like to just stay out the fights, but a Lieutenant urges them to use a captured truck to break through to their troops. Written by Tom Zoerner.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Comedy, War
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: fun
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Operation Snafu (1970)
Plot Summary:
In WWII, a commando was sent in a secret mission in Sicily. They had a reluctant Italian prisoner of war to help them.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 93
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama, War
Country: Italy, Yugoslavia
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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The Eastern Front (2020)
Plot Summary:
A dwindling group of German soldiers battle to return to their lines on the harsh Eastern Front.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 407
Genere: War
Country: UK
Duration: 110 min
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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
Plot tags:
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Case Belgrade (1968)
Plot Summary:
In Autumn of 1943 American plane carrying Soviet colonel is shot down near Nazi-occupied Belgrade. Germans capture the colonel and begin interrogations, because he knows everything about forecoming Allied summit in Tehran. Group of Yugoslav Partizans is sent to Belgrade in order to rescue the colonel before he starts talking.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 94
Genere: Thriller, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags:
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Iron Cross (2009)
Plot Summary:
Joseph (Roy Scheider) a retired New York police officer and Holocaust survivor, travels to Nuremberg to visit his son Ronnie (Scott Cohen) years after turning his back on him for rejecting a promising career in the NYPD and marrying a local artist, Anna (Calita Rainford). No sooner does Joseph attempt to heal the rift with Ronnie then he swears that living in the apartment above, under the false name of Shrager, is the now aging SS Commander (Helmut Berger) who slaughtered his entire family during World War II. With little hope of seeing him stand trial, Joseph talks Ronnie into exacting justice - and vengeance - and together they set out to kill him. Flashbacks reveal the teenage love of Young Joseph (Alexander Newton) for a heroic Polish girl, Kashka (Sarah Bolger) and his narrow escape from the massacre, leading to the film's climax.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 230
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
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Burial (2022)
Plot Summary:
Set in the last days of World War II, a small band of Russian soldiers led by intelligence officer Brana Vasilyeva, who is tasked with trafficking the remains of Hitler back to Stalin in Russia. En route, the unit is attacked by German ‘Werewolf’ partisans and picked off one-by-one. Brana leads her surviving comrades in a last stand to ensure their ‘cargo’ doesn’t fall into the hands of those who would see it buried in order to hide the truth forever.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Thriller, War
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
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Beyond the Line (2019)
Plot Summary:
Two Allied soldiers find themselves stuck behind enemy Nazi lines and must find a way to get back home despite the temptation to accept defeat.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 321
Genere: War
Country: Canada
Duration: 78 min
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Vikings: Blood Lust (2023)
Plot Summary:
A band of vikings are on the run from a blood thirsty group of Berserkers who want to fight to the death.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 170
Genere: Action
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags:
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Greyhound Attack (2019)
Plot Summary:
WWII drama from film-maker Christopher Forbes which follows American fighter pilots on a perilous mission into the skies of enemy territory.
IMDB Rating: 1.2
IMDB Votes: 345
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
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Sokolovo (1975)
Plot Summary:
The plot begins in the Soviet Union showing first efforts to establish the Czechoslovak legion in 1942. The film also shows the assassination of Heydrich and the subsequent annihilation of Lidice. The main topis of the film is battles with German troops for Sokolovo.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 78
Genere: Thriller, War
Country: Czechoslovakia, Soviet Union
Duration: 129 min
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Churchill's Leopards (1970)
Plot Summary:
A British commando team heads into France to blow up a German-held dam in preparation for D-Day, while a British agent infiltrates the German garrison to give inside help. The twist is that the British officer is replacing his twin German brother.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 290
Genere: Action, Thriller, War
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, macaroni combat
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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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The Resistance Fighter (2019)
Plot Summary:
Film about the lead up to the Polish uprising against German occupation at the end of the Second World War.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspense, suspenseful
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Hell Commandos (1969)
Plot Summary:
Spanish-Italian war movie.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 110
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: macaroni combat
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An Enemy to Die For (2012)
Plot Summary:
Despite the threat of war in the fall of 1939, the Germans decide to launch a sea expedition in search of evidence for Pangaea. Although the multi national geologists embark enthusiastically on their research mission, the growing political tension between their countries soon affects their work. With Britain and France declaring war on Germany, the civilian scientists now find themselves mere pawns in a global power struggle.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 949
Genere: History, Thriller, War
Country: Sweden, Germany, Norway
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Alone We Fight (2018)
Plot Summary:
Facing mounting odds, a small but determined band of American soldiers venture into dangerous enemy territory on a mission to stop an advancing German unit from breaking through the Allied line.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 531
Genere: Action, War
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
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Walter Defends Sarajevo (1972)
Plot Summary:
Valter brani Sarajevo (English: Walter Defends Sarajevo, German: Walter verteidigt Sarajewo) is a Yugoslav partisan drama film that takes place during World War. Walter Defends Sarajevo takes place in Sarajevo, Bosnia against the German withdrawal from Yugoslavia towards the end of World War II in 1944. The Nazis are desperate to have their tank divisions in Greece diverted to shore up the defence of Germany. In order to get the tank divisions safely back, they need fuel, and Sarajevo is an important refuelling post. Utmost secrecy is required as interference with the fuel supplies in Sarajevo will endanger the whole of the German war effort. There is one problem however: a partisan resistance leader named Walter, who is so shadowy that not even his own people know anything about him, including what he looks like, gets in their way.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 133 min
Plot tags:
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The Bridge (1969)
Plot Summary:
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
Plot tags:
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Corbari (1970)
Plot Summary:
The real story of the partisan Silvio Corbari. He starts his career killing publicly one of his friends that was a fascist. Than, he set up a band of partisans in north Italy, completely independent from the Italian organized resistance (CLN). Ines, leave his husband to join the band and became Silvio's lover. Silvio Corbari succeeded also to set up a free-zone, his personal republic, independent from the Nazi occupied Italy, in a little village called Tregnano. But the opponent Nazi-Fascist army is too much for any kind of resistance, especially if not included in the organized CNL. All his partisan friends are captured and sentenced to death, Ines, close to be captured, suicides. Corbari, even if survives to a first hanging, can't escape to a second one. After WWII he deserved a gold medal to the memory from the Italian Republic.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 128
Genere: Action, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: macaroni combat, factual
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Soldiers of the Damned (2015)
Plot Summary:
WWII German soldiers take an occult scientist into a haunted forest in Romania, only to be confronted by their own ghosts.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 877
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller, War
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, suspenseful
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Casablanca Express (1989)
Plot Summary:
It is 1942 and the conflict between the U.S. and Germany is getting heated, U.S. Intelligence soon discovers that the Natzis are planning to capture Winston Churchill. In order to protect him they send commando Al Cooper to guard Churchill who is going by train to Casablanca where he will meet with Roosevelt and Stalin.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 600
Genere: Action, Thriller, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: political thriller, macaroni combat, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast, eighties, cult film
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Recon (2019)
Plot Summary:
Four American soldiers in WW2, after witnessing the vicious murder of an innocent civilian at the hands of their platoon Sergeant, are sent on a reconnaissance/suicide mission led by a local partisan.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 774
Genere: Biography, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Spitfire Over Berlin (2022)
Plot Summary:
August 1944. With the American Eighth Air Force poised to strike over Nazi Germany, British Intelligence learns that they could be flying into a deadly trap. With only hours to spare, Flight Lieutenant Edward Barnes must fly a life and death mission over Berlin in his unarmed Spitfire to obtain photographic evidence and save the lives of 1200 men.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Rocket Hunter (2020)
Plot Summary:
In one of the most dangerous missions of the war, an American B-17 pilot volunteers to fly a surrendered Messerschmitt 109 on a daring flight through the heart of Germany to try to prevent the people of London from being terrorized by the V-2 rockets. "Rocket Hunter" tells the story of an amazing pilot and his bombardier brother from the time they are teenagers dreaming of taking to the skies to the dark days of January 1945.
IMDB Rating: 1.4
IMDB Votes: 314
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspenseful
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The Train (1964)
Plot Summary:
As the Allied forces approach Paris in August 1944, German Colonel Von Waldheim is desperate to take all of France's greatest paintings to Germany. He manages to secure a train to transport the valuable art works even as the chaos of retreat descends upon them. The French resistance however wants to stop them from stealing their national treasures but have received orders from London that they are not to be destroyed. The station master, Labiche, is tasked with scheduling the train and making it all happen smoothly but he is also part of a dwindling group of resistance fighters tasked with preventing the theft. He and others stage an elaborate ruse to keep the train from ever leaving French territory.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Action, Thriller, War
Country: France, Italy, USA
Duration: 133 min
Plot tags: black and white, realistic, suspenseful, retro, exciting, serious, action thriller, tense, light, atmospheric
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Sniper: Ghost Shooter (2016)
Plot Summary:
Elite snipers Brandon Beckett and Richard Miller are tasked with protecting a gas pipeline from terrorists looking to make a statement. When battles with the enemy lead to snipers being killed by a ghost shooter who knows their exact location, tensions boil as a security breach is suspected. Is there someone working with the enemy on the inside? Is the mission a front for other activity? Is the Colonel pulling the strings?.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, exciting, captivating, suspense, disturbing, action thriller