Hyena Road (2015)
Drama | War
Three different men, three different worlds, three different wars – all stand at the intersection of modern warfare – a murky world of fluid morality where all is not as it seems.
Starring: Rossif Sutherland, Paul Gross, Clark Johnson, Allan Hawco, Jennifer Pudavick, Christine Horne
Director: Paul Gross
Macbeth (2015)
Drama | War
Macbeth is a Scottish general and the thane of Glamis who is led to dangerous thoughts by the prophecies of three witches. Macbeth is a brave soldier and a powerful man, but he is not a virtuous one. He is easily tempted, including by his devious wife, into murder to fulfill his ambitions to the throne.
Starring: Michael Fassbender, Marion Cotillard, Paddy Considine, Elizabeth Debicki, Sean Harris, David Thewlis
Director: Justin Kurzel
De tweeling / Twin Sisters (2002)
Drama | Romance | War
De Tweeling (Twin Sisters) is an epic story based on the Dutch bestseller by Tessa de Loo that has been read by more than 3.5 million readers in Holland and Germany. 1920s Germany. Two Sisters aged six years, no sooner see their remaining parent buried when they are torn apart. Lotte goes to live with her upper middle class Dutch aunt in Holland, Anna to work as a farm hand on her German uncle's rural farm. The story follows their lives as they try to reconcile their differences while World War II impacts each of them on their lives and finally in old age when they meet again, with the hope that the differences in their youth can finally be reconciled.
Starring: Ellen Vogel, Gudrun Okras, Thekla Reuten, Nadja Uhl, Julia Koopmans, Sina Richardt
Director: Ben Sombogaart
The Emperor in August / Japan's Longest Day / Nihon no ichiban nagai hi ketteiban (2015)
Drama | History | War
On August 14th, 1945, at an Imperial conference, the Showa Emperor, Hirohito (Masahiro Motoki), finally decided to accept the Potsdam Declaration. However, some young firebrand Army officers insisted on continuing the war and conspired to launch a coup. Anami (Koji Yakusho), the Minister of War, was pressed to make an extremely difficult decision.
Starring: Kôji Yakusho, Masahiro Motoki, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Shin'ichi Tsutsumi, Tôri Matsuzaka
Director: Masato Harada
U-571 (2000)
Action | War
A U.S. Navy Captain and his crew are just beginning to enjoy 48 hours of leave when they receive word to immediately return to duty. On a top-secret assignment, they must disguise themselves as Nazis and infiltrate a severely damaged Nazi U-boat. Once on board, they are to steal the Nazi's top-secret decoding device and sink the sub before the Germans catch on to what's really happening. Their mission is more dangerous and frightening than anything they could have ever imagined, but one which has the power to turn the tide of battle.
Starring: Matthew McConaughey, Bill Paxton, Harvey Keitel, Jon Bon Jovi, Jake Weber, David Keith
Director: Jonathan Mostow
Gongdong gyeongbi guyeok JSA / Joint Security Area (2000)
Drama | Thriller | War
In the DMZ separating North and South Korea, two North Korean soldiers have been killed, supposedly by one South Korean soldier. But the 11 bullets found in the bodies, together with the 5 remaining bullets in the assassin's magazine clip, amount to 16 bullets for a gun that should normally hold 15 bullets. The investigating Swiss/Swedish team from the neutral countries overseeing the DMZ suspects that another, unknown party was involved – all of which points to some sort of cover up. The truth is much simpler and much more tragic.
Starring: Kang-ho Song, Ha-kyun Shin, Byung-hun Lee, Tae-woo Kim, Yeong-ae Lee, Ju-bong Gi, Christoph Hofrichter
Director: Chan-wook Park
Gallipoli (1981)
Adventure | Drama | History | War
The story of a group of young Australian men who leave their various backgrounds behind and sign up to join the ANZACs in World War I. They are sent to Gallipoli, where they encounter the might of the Turkish army.
Starring: Mel Gibson, Mark Lee, Bill Kerr, Harold Hopkins, Robert Grubb, David Argue
Director: Peter Weir
9. april / April 9th (2015)
Drama | War
In the early morning of April 9th 1940 the Danish army is alerted. The Germans have crossed the border; Denmark is at war against Europe's strongest army. In Southern Jutland Danish bicycle- and motorcycle companies are ordered out, to against all odds, hold back the forces until the Danish reinforcements can be mobilized. In the fatal hours, we follow second lieutenant Sand (Pilou Asbæk) and his bicycle company – they will as the first Danish soldiers meet the enemy in combat on April 9th 1940.
Starring: Lars Mikkelsen, Pilou Asbæk, Gustav Dyekjær Giese, Maylenah Marion Dalgaard, Lukas Schwarz Thorsteinsson, Martin Greis
Director: Roni Ezra
The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel (1951)
Biography | Drama | War
The life and career of the respected World War II German general.
Starring: James Mason, Cedric Hardwicke, Jessica Tandy, Luther Adler, Everett Sloane, Leo G. Carroll
Director: Henry Hathaway
War Pigs (2015)
Action | War
A rag tag unit of misfits known as the War Pigs must go behind enemy lines to exterminate Nazis by any means necessary.
Starring: Dolph Lundgren, Luke Goss, Chuck Liddell, Mickey Rourke
Director: Ryan Little
Bahubali: The Beginning (2015)
Action | Adventure | History | War
A dispute between brothers spans across two generations.
Starring: Prabhas, Tamannaah Bhatia, Sathyaraj, Anushka Shetty, Rana Daggubati, Nassar
Director: S.S. Rajamouli
Spartacus (1960)
Adventure | Biography | Drama | History | War
Filmed in Technirama, this epic story chronicles one of histories greatest underdogs — Spartacus! He and other slaves are sold to an owner of a school for gladiators. Spartacus excels and is rewarded with a slave women, Varinia, for his pleasure in which he demurs. However they eventually fall for each other before a death match for a corrupt Roman senator, Marcus Crassus. After the brutal spectacle, Spartacus is enraged by the death of his friends and the loss of his love. He leads a revolt and bolts. Marching across the countryside to escape over the sea to their homelands, he is elated to find Varinia. Their quest becomes entwined with the political aspirations of Crassus and sets the fate of all three. Spartacus' saga survives the test of time and has been immortalized by this landmark film.
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Charles Laughton, Peter Ustinov, John Gavin
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Beasts of No Nation (2015)
Drama | War
A drama based on the experiences of Agu, a child soldier fighting in the civil war of an unnamed African country.
Starring: Idris Elba, Ama K. Abebrese, Abraham Attah, Opeyemi Fagbohungbe, Vivan Boateng, Richard Pepple
Director: Cary Joji Fukunaga
Destination Gobi (1953)
Adventure | Drama | War
Navy weathermen are forced to accept the help of Mongol nomads in the Gobi desert during World War II, when their craft comes under fire from Japanese attack.
Starring: Richard Widmark, Don Taylor, Max Showalter, Murvyn Vye, Darryl Hickman, Martin Milner
Director: Robert Wise
Northern Limit Line / Yeonpyeong Haejeon (2015)
Documentary | Drama | War
Based on the true story that is known as the second battle of Yeonpyeong, this movie tells the story of some of the young soldiers who fought and died in the battle. The battle took place in the yellow sea on 29th of June in 2002, when two North-Korean vessels boarded the NLL – the Northern Limit Line – and fired at the South-Korean patrol boat named Chamsuri 357, killing six men and left 18 injured.
Starring: Mu-Yeol Kim, Jin Goo, Lee Hyun Woo, Lee Wan, Chung-ah Lee
Director: Kim Hak-Soon
1944 (2015)
Drama | War
The events of the war in 1944, from the Blue Hills to Sõrve Peninsula. Shown through the eyes of Estonian soldiers who had to pick sides and fight against fellow brothers. Choices have to be made, not only by the soldiers, but also by their loved ones.
Starring: Marko Leht, Maiken Schmidt, Kaspar Velberg, Mait Malmsten, Kristjan Üksküla
Director: Elmo Nüganen
Legends of the Fall (1994)
Drama | Romance | War | Western
Tiring of the brutality of cavalry life, Colonel William Ludlow starts a new life with his family in the majestic mountains of Montana. While growing up, his three sons are inseparable, but as young men, passion, the butchery of WWI and personal tragedy intervene in their lives and shake the foundations of their family.
Starring: Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins, Aidan Quinn, Julia Ormond, Henry Thomas, Karina Lombard
Director: Edward Zwick
Ode to My Father / Gukjesijang (2014)
Drama | Romance | War
Amid the chaos of refugees fleeing the Korean War in December 1950, a young boy, Duk-soo, sees his fate change in the blink of an eye when he loses track of his younger sister and he leaves his father behind to find her. Settling in Busan, Duk-soo devotes himself to his remaining family, working all manner of odd jobs to support them in place of his father. His dedication leads him first to the deadly coal mines of Germany, where he meets his first love, Youngja, and then to war-torn Vietnam in this generational epic about one man's personal sacrifices.
Starring: Jeong-min Hwang, Yunjin Kim, Dal-su Oh, Jin-young Jung, Young-nam Jang, Mi-ran Ra, Kim Seul-gi
Director: JK Youn
The McKenzie Break / Wolfpack (1970)
Action | Drama | War
During WW2, German POWs in Britain plot to escape from their prison camp in Scotland.
Starring: Brian Keith, Helmut Griem, Ian Hendry, Jack Watson, Patrick O'Connell, Horst Janson
Director: Lamont Johnson
Shining Through (1992)
Drama | Romance | Thriller | War
1940, Linda Voss is a woman of Irish, Jewish-German parentage who loves the movies, especially films about war and spies. She gets a job at a New York law firm, after it's revealed she can speak German, fluently. As secretary and translator to Ed Leland, she begins to suspect that her boss is involved in espionage work. The two become lovers, and when America officially joins the Allies in fighting Hitler, Linda volunteers to go undercover behind enemy lines.
Starring: Michael Douglas, Melanie Griffith, Liam Neeson, Joely Richardson
Director: David Seltzer
