War Movies

star 5.4

Cold Tracks

1962

Cold Tracks

1962

star 5.4
Guilt and sexual jealousy are the main dynamics behind Skouen's gloomy and intense tale about Oddmund, a former Resistance leader who caused the death of 12 refugees during the war.
star 5.7

Auslandseinsatz

2012

Auslandseinsatz

2012

star 5.7
Three young soldiers are called up to one of the most dangerous trouble spots in the world - Afghanistan. But it's not just the constant psychological pressure that gets to them, the different cultures and ways of life in the country also pose problems for the young and impetuous men. However, it is precisely the interpersonal aspect that moves them, and so they become friends with Malik Jamil (Omar El-Saeidi) and his children. Life and the situation at the post seem to relax as a result. But then there is a dramatic turn in the life of Malik's daughter, caused by the insurgent Taliban. And in times of battle, one fate affects the lives of others and the soldiers must painfully realize that war is never just.
star 5.2

Bridge to Hell

1986

Bridge to Hell

1986

star 5.2
When three prisoners of war escape from a prison camp in Yugoslavia they encounter partisans, who they agree to help fight in return for a safe passage to freedom. Their task is to blow up a strategic bridge which is heavily defended by German troops. Follow the action, frought with danger as our heroes complete their mission to destroy... the bridge to hell.

The Fight For Peace

1939

A documentary about the threat of war breaking out in Europe, focusing on Hitler, Stalin and Mussolini.

The Marines Are Coming

1934

star 4.5
Expelled from his lieutenancy in the Marine Corps, Bill Traylor reenlists as a private. His unit is sent to a Latin American country where a rebel leader called The Torch promotes insurrection. There Traylor encounters again Captain Benton, the man responsible for his disgrace and his rival for the love of a girl.
star 6.7

Dirty Hearts

2012

Dirty Hearts

2012

star 6.7
In 1945, Japan surrendered to the United States and the Second World War was over. Right? Wrong. For eighty percent of the Japanese community in Brazil, Japan had won the war and defeat was nothing more than American propaganda. The few immigrants that accepted the truth were persecuted. Some were hunted down and assassinated - by their own countrymen - causing the start of a new, private war. Dirty Hearts is a thriller and love story told by the wife of one of the fanatics dedicated to preach Japanese victory. Little by little, she watches her husband, a hard-working immigrant, become an assassin and their love story fade away.
star 5

Pastorale 1943

1978

Pastorale 1943

1978

star 5
In a Dutch village during the German occupation, a small group of badly organized resistance fighters attempt to assassinate a collaborator.
star 6.1

The Unbeliever

1918

The Unbeliever

1918

star 6.1
A wealthy young American, bred to class distinction and racial intolerance, enters the Marines during the First World War. In the course of his training and his experiences in the trenches fighting, being wounded by, and being hospitalized with Germans, he comes to a recognition of the equality and brotherhood of men.
star 6.4

Rapid Rouge

2015

Rapid Rouge

2015

star 6.4
Revolutionaries from the Yatsushima nation try to rescue their surrendered master.

The Great Impersonation

1942

star 5.8
An Englishman kills a German look-alike and poses as a Nazi spy in London.
star 6.3

Commando

1962

Commando

1962

star 6.3
A French Foreign Legion commander is told to assemble a unit and capture an Algerian rebel leader. He gathers in his old unit, most of whom are no longer in top form. One is having nightmares of past indiscretions, another is now drinking, another has lost his nerve. He takes them in captures the leader, but then is unable to make it to the pick up. He encounters a rebel patrol and is trapped unless they can escape before their water runs out.
star 5.5

Treason

1964

Treason

1964

star 5.5
Lieutenant Karl von Stein (Petros Fyssoun) is serving in Greece as an enlightenment officer for the German occupation troops, and lives in the house of Professor Victor Kastriotis (Manos Katrakis) seized by the Germans. There he meets Lisa (Elli Fotiou), a young girl who appears as the professor’s niece, when in fact she is of Jewish descent. The two youths fall in love and are preparing to get married when Karl learns the truth... The film represented Greece at the 1965 Cannes Film Festival and won the Special Prize of the Soviet Peace Committee at the Moscow International Film Festival that same year.

That Justice Be Done

1945

star 5
Newsreel footage from both sides of World War II make a case for convicting Nazi war criminals.
star 5.7

The Lost People

1949

The Lost People

1949

star 5.7
Set in a German theatre after the Second World War, two British soldiers are holding a disparate and hostile band of refugees in this theatre, prior to returning them to their homelands. The soldiers have difficulty dealing with the rivalries between Serb and Croat, resistance fighter and collaborator, Pole and Russian, etc. The threat of plague briefly unites them, but eventually even this wears off and the refugees unite in their hostility to the British.
star 5.5

In the Border States

1910

In the Border States

1910

star 5.5
During the Civil War, a father living in a border state leaves to join the Union Army. After he leaves, Confederate troops forage on his property, where a soldier encounters one of his daughters. The father himself is wounded on a hazardous mission and must run for his life, pursued by Confederate soldiers.
star 7

Silences

1972

Silences

1972

star 7
In the winter of 1941, Nazi forces pass through the village of Dolovi. No dialogue.
star 5

Pilotos de combate

1973

Pilotos de combate

1973

star 5
Mexican feature film

The Good Soldier Schweik

1931

star 7
A 1931 Czechoslovak black-and-white comedy film based on Jaroslav Hašek's novel The Good Soldier Švejk.

Bad Omen

2020

Bad Omen

2020

Kabul, Afghanistan. Pari, an in-house tailor, must find the means to purchase her prescription glasses in order to save her job.
star 5.5

The Enchanted Desna

1964

The Enchanted Desna

1964

star 5.5
Based on the novel of the same name by Oleksandr Dovzhenko. About the childhood of the famous Soviet film director Oleksandr Dovzhenko, who was born on the ancient lands of Chernihiv, along the banks the Desna. The film consists of two parts. The first is the world shown through the impressions of the six-year-old Sashko. The second is the recollections and reasoning of Sashko, now an elderly colonel who liberates his native village during the war.