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Plot Summary:
Soviet spy film , based on a novel by Vadim Kozhevnikov, who was Secretary of the Soviet Writers' Union.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 673
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: Soviet Union, Poland, East Germany
Duration: 191 min
Plot tags:
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Who Is That Man? (1985)
Plot Summary:
The story is set in 1939. A military officer is stripped of his rank for his apparent collaboration with a counter-espionage agent while on a mission in Paris. Then he is enlisted in his own country's counterespionage unit, due to his knowledge of languages. He is assigned to Gdansk where he is trying to uncover mysterious "Wotan" in the German Secret Service. He eventually tracks down and kills the agent, but by doing so wipes out the possibility to clearing himself of the charges. Just as the death sentence is to be carried out on him the war breaks out and he escapes out of the bombed prison to join partisans.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 33
Genere: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: pre war
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The Interrogation (2009)
Plot Summary:
Nuori nainen on saanut kutsun saapua poliisin kuultavaksi. Hän pelkää joutuvansa ansaan. Hän on täydellistä suomenkieltä puhuva Neuvosto-desantti, joka on varomattomuuttaan jättänyt vakoiluradionsa pesulaan säilytettäväksi.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 349
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Finland
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags:
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Call Fire for Ourselves (1963)
Plot Summary:
In the Soviet village occupied by the Germans, a resistance group occurs, led by a modest girl Anna Morozova. For each victory (important, albeit small on a scale of the war) they have to pay a heavy price.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 73
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 317 min
Plot tags: rough, thought provoking, bleak, realistic
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At Home Among Strangers, a Stranger Among His Own (1974)
Plot Summary:
Following the Russian Civil War, a loyal Red, Shilov, must prove he is at home among strangers as he attempts to recapture a shipment of gold that he was supposed to deliver to Moscow. Needed as a means of buying food for the people, the gold Shilov was entrusted with is stolen, initially by a group of assassins and then by a group of bandits. In tracking the gold’s whereabouts, Shilov’s motives are questioned and he is suspected of treason, in part because his brother was a devoted White. In an effort to clear his name, Shilov locates the gold, but he also discovers rampant greed and corruption.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, War, Western
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, serious, realistic, atmospheric, rough
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The Dead Season (1968)
Plot Summary:
A duel between Soviet spy and German war criminal.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 404
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags:
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Shadow Lines (2019)
Plot Summary:
During the 1950s, Helsinki was the focal point of the Cold War, as global powers and their intelligence agencies coalesced in the small neutral country that stood between the East and the West. Shadow Lines is an international spy thriller that follows a secret intelligence team whose mission is to defend the independence of Finland no matter the cost.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 687
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Finland
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: political, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, political thriller, historical drama
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The Rhinemann Exchange (1977)
Plot Summary:
During World War II, an intelligence officer is dispatched by the U.S. government to arrange an exchange in Argentina of industrial diamonds needed by the Germans for a secret gyroscope needed by the Allies.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 194
Genere: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 300 min
Plot tags:
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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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Aide of His Excellence (1970)
Plot Summary:
Adyutant ego prevoskhoditelstva.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 287
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Romance, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 377 min
Plot tags:
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Attack and Retreat (1964)
Plot Summary:
Beautifully photographed and lyrically written, this largely factual account of Mussolini's disastrous invasion of Russia during World War II tells the story of an Italian regiment through the eyes of a farmer from Emilia, a plumber from Rome, a miner from Puglia and a colonel.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 396
Genere: Drama, History, War
Country: Italy, Soviet Union
Duration: 137 min
Plot tags: macaroni combat
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SAS: Rogue Heroes (2022)
Plot Summary:
The dramatised account of how the world’s greatest Special Forces unit, the SAS, was formed under extraordinary circumstances in the darkest days of World War Two.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: UK
Duration: 52 min
Plot tags: satirical
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Dime Quién Soy: Mistress of War (2020)
Plot Summary:
Amelia Garayoa gives up a comfortable life in her fight for freedom, becoming swept up in the greatest conflicts of the 20th century.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 906
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 426 min
Plot tags: sincere, captivating, historical drama, period drama
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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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Spy City (2020)
Plot Summary:
After a defector is murdered, British agent Fielding Scott is assigned to track down a mole in his own ranks in 1961 Berlin. His investigation leads him into a deadly web of crime, betrayal and paranoia. Who can Scott trust in the city of spies?.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 48 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, thrilling
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Monte Carlo (1986)
Plot Summary:
An American writer on the Riviera courts a Russian singer who is spying on Nazis for revenge.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 168
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 200 min
Plot tags: period drama
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The Guard of Auschwitz (2018)
Plot Summary:
Nazi occupied Poland, during the World War II. Hans, a former brilliant student, has become an SS officer stationed at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. When he is commissioned by his superior officer to build an efficient gas chamber, Hans, facing the harsh reality, begins to realize the magnitude of the atrocious acts of which he is being accomplice.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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The Spy (2012)
Plot Summary:
Spring 1941. Center of Moscow. Duel of the two intelligence services turns more and more tense.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, rough, bleak, serious
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Triple Cross (1966)
Plot Summary:
A safecracker turns double agent during WWII.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: UK, France, West Germany
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: political thriller, serious, realistic, suspenseful, eurospy
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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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The Message (2009)
Plot Summary:
1942, Nanjing (Nanking). Following a series of assassination attempts on officials of the Japanese-controlled puppet government, the Japanese spy chief gathers a group of suspects in a mansion house for questioning. A tense game of "cat and mouse" ensues as the Chinese code-breaker attempts to send out a crucial message while protecting his/her own identity.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: China
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: suspense, captivating, realistic, tense, psychological, controversial, serious, suspenseful, stylized
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Allegiance (2015)
Plot Summary:
Alex O'Connor, a young idealistic CIA analyst specializing in Russian affairs, learns a shocking secret and his close-knit, affluent family is about to be split apart when it's revealed that his parents, Mark and Katya, are covert Russian spies deactivated decades ago. But today the Kremlin has re-enlisted them into service as they plan a terrorist operation inside the U.S. border that will bring America to its knees.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: tense, bleak, suspense, interesting
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Spies of Warsaw (2013)
Plot Summary:
A military attaché at the French embassy is drawn into a world of abduction, betrayal and intrigue in the diplomatic salons and back alleys of Warsaw.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK, France, Poland, USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: tense, romantic, captivating, suspense, political, period drama
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Death to Spies (2019)
Plot Summary:
1941. Georgy Volkov, Captain of the State Security Service, is delivering to the Soviet Union a consignment of emeralds under a trade agreement between the USSR and Germany.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 61
Genere: Action, Drama, History, Mystery, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, serious, suspense, suspenseful
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Batallions Ask for Fire (1985)
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
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Fortunes of War (1987)
Plot Summary:
Fortunes of War is a 1987 BBC television adaptation of Olivia Manning's cycle of novels Fortunes of War. It stars Kenneth Branagh as Guy Pringle, lecturer in English Literature in Bucharest during the early part of the Second World War, and Emma Thompson as his wife Harriet. Other cast members included Ronald Pickup, Robert Stephens, Alan Bennett, Philip Madoc and Rupert Graves. The series stays relatively faithful to the original novels, with no notable departures from their plot.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 863
Genere: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 407 min
Plot tags: tense, clever, serious, captivating, emotional, realistic, contemplative, gloomy, period drama
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Secret Army (1977)
Plot Summary:
World War II drama about covert organisation Lifeline helping allied airmen escape after being shot down in occupied Europe, working with the Resistance and hiding from the Gestapo.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, History, War
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: costume drama, period drama
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X Company (2015)
Plot Summary:
An emotionally-driven character drama, set in the thrilling and dangerous world of WWII espionage and covert operations. It follows the stories of five highly skilled young recruits - Canadian, American and British - torn from their ordinary lives to train as agents in an ultra-secret facility on the shores of Lake Ontario. These agents parachute behind enemy lines, where they're fair game for torture and execution. From elegant hotels to hellholes in the field, it's one risky operation after another, masterminded by the brains of Camp X.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Canada
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, exciting, captivating, tense, suspense, dark, educational, historical drama
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War and Remembrance (1988)
Plot Summary:
War and Remembrance is an American miniseries based on the novel of the same name by Herman Wouk. It is the sequel to highly successful The Winds of War.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 1620 min
Plot tags: historical drama, exciting, serious, captivating, realistic, saga, epic, vintage
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The Counterfeit Traitor (1962)
Plot Summary:
Blacklisted in modern day WW2, a Swedish oil trader opts to assist British Allies, by means of infiltrating and surveying Nazi Germany.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: retro, political thriller, tense, bleak, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, gloomy
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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