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Plot Summary:
A story of a several days of intense fighting on the Eastern Front during one of the Soviet offensives in WWII.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 309
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 285 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, rough, suspense, disturbing
Best tv shows and movies like Batallions Ask for Fire (1985):
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Krepkaya Bronya (2019)
Plot Summary:
Young soldier Vasya Rusakov graduates from the Saratov Tank School and is assigned to the front. Vasily is an ordinary guy with a fiery gaze, ready to defend his homeland to the last drop of blood. At the same time, he is also a young man in love, whose heart beats fast at the thought of a woman dear to him.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 28
Genere: War
Country: Russia
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, exciting, tense, suspense
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Attack on Leningrad (2007)
Plot Summary:
When in 1941 Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union, their troops quickly besieged Leningrad. Foreign journalists are evacuated but one of them, Kate Davies, is presumed dead and misses the plane. Alone in the city she is helped by Nina Tsvetnova a young and idealist police officer and together they will fight for their own survival and the survival of the people in the besieged Leningrad.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 74
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 52 min
Plot tags: sentimental, rough, touching, suspense, suspenseful
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Days of Honor - Powstanie (2014)
Plot Summary:
This is really season 7 of Days Of Honor, though the timings are out as some of the events in this series pre-date season 6. More about Polish resistance to the Nazis during WWII.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 206
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: brutal, epic, suspense, realistic, suspenseful, intense
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Only Old Men Are Going to Battle (1974)
Plot Summary:
Bogdan Titarenko is very talented pilot and brave leader of "Singing group". He also must look after some new cadets and fight together with them against German Luftwaffe planes. Close to Bogdan always are his friends, they are all from different parts of the country, but they all became real brothers.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: sentimental, rough, suspenseful, tense, humorous, suspense, extraordinary
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The Alive and the Dead (1964)
Plot Summary:
A Russian war correspondent is drafted into the war and finds himself in the middle of battle. When he loses his party card, however, he is treated as a deserter until he finds help from a kind man. This Soviet war feature was considerably outspoken for the time as it addressed issues such as anti-Stalinism, Siberia and the inhumanity of war. Adapting his screenplay from a book by Constantin Simonov, Alexandre Stolper was responsible for writing as well as directing.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 409
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 201 min
Plot tags: epic
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Soldiers Aren't Born (1969)
Plot Summary:
The continuation of a story started by Alexander Stolper epic movie "Zhivye i Myortvye".
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 117
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: epic
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Father of a Soldier (1964)
Plot Summary:
During World War II, оld Georgian peasant wine-grower Georgy (Sergo Zakariadze) leaves his Georgian village and goes off to the front line, hoping to find his son. George should see and transfer a lot of things, he becomes a soldier and only in the last days of war finds the son.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: rough, tense, suspenseful, touching, captivating, spiritual, sad, crying, patriotic
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In Flight are the Night Witches (1981)
Plot Summary:
Film will be based on the female flying unit that fought in the Battle of Moscow. They were dubbed "Night Witches" by the frightened German soldiers because of the deadly stealth of their light planes.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 129
Genere: War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: rough, bleak, suspense, suspenseful
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The Hot Snow (1972)
Plot Summary:
In November, 1942, near the Volga, Stanlingrad is under siege of Commander Friederich Paulus and his 330,000 men. The Russian high command unleashes an operation to protect the Mishkova River to avoid that about four hundred tanks join Paulus' army. The Soviet artillery soldiers protect their position with their lives in a bloodshed with few survivors.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 577
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags:
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The Saboteur 2: The End of the War (2007)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 522
Genere: War
Country: Russia
Duration: 500 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, captivating, suspense
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The Dawns Here Are Quiet... (2015)
Plot Summary:
It is late spring of 1942, and the Great Patriotic War is in full swing. A long way off from the front-line, at some God-forgotten junction, the Germans make an air landing operation in an attempt to get through to the Kirov railway and the White Sea - the Baltic Sea Canal. These aren't just ordinary paratroopers. This is a team of seasoned and highly trained infiltrators, the elite of the Waffen-SS, superhumans. The only thing in their way is an anti-aircraft artillery unit of corporal Vaskov and five young women in training. It may seem like a fight of local significance, but the countrys main strategic transportation artery is at stake. Can the corporal and his 'petite newbies' prevent Nazi sabotage and at what cost?.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 175 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, compassionate, rough, suspense, disturbing, dramatic, uplifting
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Klim Voroshilov-2 Tank (1990)
Plot Summary:
Tank Klim Voroshilov 2.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 85
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: exciting, sincere, rough, touching, suspense, disturbing
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The Saboteur (2004)
Plot Summary:
Two young intelligence officers headed by a tough captain are assigned various secret missions on the Nazi-occupied territories.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 739
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 208 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspense, humorous, feel good
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The Fight for Moscow (1985)
Plot Summary:
A historic movie telling the story about a battle of Moscow during WWII.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 455
Genere: Drama, History, War
Country: Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Vietnam
Duration: 358 min
Plot tags: rough, thought provoking, suspenseful, disturbing, philosophical, political
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In August of 1944 (2001)
Plot Summary:
The movie is set in Belarus, where a team of counter-intelligence officers is given only three days to find a German radio operator posing as a Soviet soldier, behind soviet lines, on the eve of a major offensive.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Mystery, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: Russia, Belarus
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, realistic, rough, emotional, suspense, suspenseful, stylized, intense
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In June 1941 (2008)
Plot Summary:
A Russian frontier guard Ivan Burov and a Polish girl Hanna love each other in spite of every prohibition and obstacle. But on the 22d of June 1941 the war begins.. After a series of clashes with the Germans Ivan Burov remains the only surviving frontier guard, and he will stay at the border to the end. True to his military oath and his love.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 189
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Russia, Belarus
Duration: 200 min
Plot tags: sentimental, atmospheric, rough, serious, emotional, suspense, realistic, suspenseful, stylized, intense
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Alyosha (2020)
Plot Summary:
Summer 1944. The Second World War rages. On one side, elite German soldiers serving in the most dangerous and cruel army the world has ever seen. On the other, Russian partisans-fatigued, wounded and hungry, they have almost forgotten the warmth of home. But they do remember one thing: their country is behind them, and they cannot give up. The story is about machine gunner Yefrem Zhavoronok and Alyosha, a young boy. Alyosha is only sixteen, and Yefrem knows that he must look after him like his own. In war, everyone's children, mothers, wives and brothers are your family.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 19
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Russia
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense
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The Young Guard (2015)
Plot Summary:
A young partisan Viktor Tretyakov and his school friends decide to organize a resistance group to the fascists. They call it the "Young Guard" and attract familiar boys and girls to it. After a while, the Young Guards are joined by scouts sent to the city to collect information — Lyubov Shevtsova and the Artist. For a long time, the "Young Guard" manages to successfully commit sabotage, but they are opposed by an experienced and insidious enemy, who, in the end, manages to expose the Young Guards.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 56
Genere: Drama, History, War
Country: Russia
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, thought provoking, captivating, suspense
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Soldier Boy (2019)
Plot Summary:
The film is based on real events. This is a story about exciting events that occurred in the life of the smallest soldier - the hero of the Great Patriotic War, six-year-old Sergei Aleshkov. He lost all his relatives and got into the army. With a six-year-old boy, they started playing the soldier game in order to preserve his childhood, and he, in order to comply with this honorary title, became a real defender of the Motherland.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 795
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Belarus, Russia
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing
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Oba: The Last Samurai (2011)
Plot Summary:
In 1944, the American military lands on the shores of Saipan. Refusing to commit suicide with his superiors or be forced into camps for prisoners of war, Captain Oba Sakae leads a group of his men and other similarly minded local residents into the mountains. Even after hearing reports of the Japanese military's surrender, Oba dismisses the reports as propaganda and continues to launch guerilla attacks against the American soldiers, earning him the nickname "The Fox". Soon, even the American commander who's charged with the task of capturing Oba comes to admire his persistent enemy.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Attack on Leningrad (2009)
Plot Summary:
When in 1941 Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union, their troops quickly besieged Leningrad. Foreign journalists are evacuated but one of them, Kate Davies, is presumed dead and misses the plane. Alone in the city she is helped by Nina Tsvetnova a young and idealist police officer and together they will fight for their own survival and the survival of the people in the besieged Leningrad. Written by Marcio Eduardo.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Russia, UK
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: rough, bleak, serious, realistic, gloomy
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They Fought for Their Country (1975)
Plot Summary:
In July 1942, in the Second World War, the rearguard of the Russian army protects the bridgehead of the Don River against the German army while the retreating Russian troops cross the bridge. While they move back to the Russian territory through the countryside, the soldiers show their companionship, sentiments, fears and heroism to defend their motherland.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 158 min
Plot tags: heroic, tense, sentimental, rough, suspenseful, philosophical, political, suspense
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Road to Berlin (2015)
Plot Summary:
A story about two young men during the last days of WWII.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 901
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, captivating, suspenseful
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The Dawns Here Are Quiet (1972)
Plot Summary:
Based on the eponymous book by Boris Vasilyev, the film is set in Karelia (North-West of Russia, near Finland) in 1941 during WWII. In a beautiful and quiet wilderness far from the front-line there is an anti-aircraft artillery point, where corporal Vaskov is stationed with a group of many young women in training.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, History, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 188 min
Plot tags: disturbing, tragic ending, epic, sad, patriotic, serious, realistic, scenic
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Unknown Battle (2019)
Plot Summary:
During WW2, in 1942 and 1943, a series of not-so-well known yet bloody battles occurred near the town of Rzhev. Those battles received the name of ‘Rzhev Meat Grinder’. The film is based on the award-winning novel by Vyacheslav Kondratyev, which tells about one of those battles and the ability to demonstrate courage, friendship, and the power of human spirit in the most horrible situations.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, History, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: rough, epic, serious, suspense, realistic, suspenseful
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At War as at War (1969)
Plot Summary:
To the young lieutenant Maleshkin the war is a minor obstacle, if compared to his personal battle to command his subordinates, while conducting an armored vehicle at the same time he's trying to impress his superior Soviet officers who put him under extreme pressures, one after the other, fighting the German forces occupying Ukraine during World War II. Here's the story of an impressionable man who learns in the hard way that being a leader is more than just using of his commanding voice to get what he wants.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 637
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, captivating, realistic, disturbing, patriotic
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Sniper: Weapons of Retaliation (2009)
Plot Summary:
This world war two story depicts the personal war between a Soviet sniper and a German sniper. Their feud continues after the war in Soviet occupied Germany. At the same time a Nazi rocket scientist continues his research while a Soviet secret police team arrives from Moscow to find hidden Nazi rocket research documents and rocket propulsion systems.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 192
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance, War
Country: Belarus, Russia
Duration: 162 min
Plot tags:
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Seventeen Moments of Spring (1973)
Plot Summary:
The series is based on a true story of a Russian spy Colonel Isaev (Stirlitz) in Fascist Germany during 17 days in very end of WWII. Stirlitz has worked his way to the very top of the Fascist hierarchy without being caught. However, his "colleagues", top Hitler's officers Borman, Mueller, Schellenberg are beginning to suspect him. Stirlits is constantly walking on the edge between his two identities, sending information to Russia, while skillfully maintaining the appearance of loyalty to fascist regime.
IMDB Rating: 8.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, History, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 830 min
Plot tags: serious, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, realistic, semi documentary
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Piece of Cake (1988)
Plot Summary:
The lives and loves of the men of RAF Hornet Squadron who are transferred to France at the outbreak of World Wat II in September 1939. For the most part the men are competent fliers but there is little action in the first several months. The men wile away their time with some engaging in dangerous stunts while others woo some of the local lasses. The phony war comes to an end in April 1940 and the Battle of Britain begins. By September that year, few of them are left and despite their success, few see themselves as heroes. (6 episodes).
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 774
Genere: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 312 min
Plot tags: costume drama, exciting, serious, captivating, realistic, period drama
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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