The Search (2014)
Drama | War
A woman who works for a non-governmental organization (NGO) forms a special relationship with a young boy in war-torn Chechnya.
Starring: Bérénice Bejo, Annette Bening
Director: Michel Hazanavicius
The Dawn Patrol (1930)
Action | Drama | War
In 1915, Major Brand, commander of the 59th British Squadron in France, despairs that he has become the executioner of the young fliers in his squadron, who are being sent to their deaths in inferior planes. This is the story of Brand, his men, and the war in the air.
Starring: Richard Barthelmess, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Neil Hamilton, Frank McHugh
Director: Howard Hawks
Underground / Once Upon a Time There Was a Country (1995)
Comedy | Drama | War
The story follows an underground weapons manufacturer in Belgrade during WWII and evolves into fairly surreal situations. A black marketeer who smuggles the weapons to partisans doesn't mention to the workers that the war is over, and they keep producing. Years later, they break out of their underground "shelter" — only to convince themselves that the war is still going on.
Starring: Predrag Manojlovic, Lazar Ristovski, Mirjana Jokovic
Director: Emir Kusturica
When Trumpets Fade (1998)
Action | Drama | War
Pvt. David Manning, shell-shocked after serving on the front line, requests a dismissal but is instead promoted to sergeant. Leading a team of newbie soldiers, he finds further devastation when his troops become involved in the battle of Hurgen Forest.
Starring: Ron Eldard, Zak Orth, Frank Whaley, Dylan Bruno, Devon Gummersall, Dan Futterman
Director: John Irvin
Little Boy (2015)
Comedy | Drama | War
A young American boy struggles to achieve the impossible…bring his father back from World War II.
Starring: Jakob Salvati, Emily Watson, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Michael Rapaport, David Henrie, Eduardo Verástegui
Director: Alejandro Monteverde
The White Countess (2005)
Drama | History | Romance | War
Todd is an American expatriate living in Shanghai in the late 1930s. Once an idealistic diplomat, politic conflict and military violence has left him disillusioned. He has also lost most of his sight and retreated into Shanghai's decadent underworld of bars and brothels. His heart softens, however, as he becomes acquainted with Sofia, a Russian countess who fled her home during the revolution and now lives in Shanghai, supporting her family as a dance-hall girl and prostitute.
Starring: Ralph Fiennes, Natasha Richardson, Vanessa Redgrave, Lynn Redgrave, Hiroyuki Sanada, Madeleine Potter
Director: James Ivory
Charlotte Gray (2001)
Drama | Romance | Thriller | War
Charlotte Gray's World War II assignment could be the first of many. Or her fatal last. The people she meets could be friends. Or insidious traitors. Trained to be an undercover courier for England, Charlotte straps on a parachute and falls from the sky into Vichy France. There she will assist the French Resistance in its defiance of Nazi occupation. Only one out of three couriers will return home. Cate Blanchett plays Charlotte, who goes behind enemy lines while keeping secret her personal mission to find her lover, an RAF pilot downed over France.
Starring: Cate Blanchett, Billy Crudup, Michael Gambon, Rupert Penry-Jones, James Fleet, Hugh Ross
Director: Gillian Armstrong
Suite Française (2014)
Drama | Romance | War
France, 1940. In the first days of occupation, beautiful Lucile Angellier is trapped in a stifled existence with her controlling mother-in-law as they both await news of her husband: a prisoner of war. Parisian refugees start to pour into their small town, soon followed by a regiment of German soldiers who take up residence in the villagers' own homes. Lucile initially tries to ignore Bruno von Falk, the handsome and refined German officer staying with them. But soon, a powerful love draws them together and leads them into the tragedy of war.
Starring: Michelle Williams, Matthias Schoenaerts, Kristin Scott Thomas, Margot Robbie, Eric Godon, Deborah Findlay
Director: Saul Dibb
Enigma (2001)
Drama | Mystery | Romance | Thriller | War
During the heart of World War II, in March of 1943, cryptoanalysts at Britain's code-breaking center have discovered to their horror that Nazi U-boats have changed their Enigma Code. Authorities enlist the help of a brilliant young man named Tom Jericho to help them break the code again. The possibility of a spy within the British code-breakers' ranks looms and Tom's love, Claire, has disappeared. To solve the mysteries, Tom recruits Claire's best friend, Hester Wallace. In investigating Claire's personal life, the pair discovers personal and international betrayals.
Starring: Dougray Scott, Kate Winslet, Saffron Burrows, Jeremy Northam, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Tom Hollander
Director: Michael Apted
Iron Eagle (1986)
Action | Thriller | War
When Doug's father, an Air Force Pilot, is shot down by MiGs belonging to a radical Middle Eastern state, no one seems able to get him out. Doug finds Chappy, an Air Force Colonel who is intrigued by the idea of sending in two fighters piloted by himself and Doug to rescue Doug's father after bombing the MiG base. Their only problems: Borrowing two fighters, getting them from California to the Mediteranean without anyone noticing, and Doug's inability to hit anything unless he has music playing. Then come the minor problems of the state's air defenses.
Starring: Louis Gossett Jr., Jason Gedrick, David Suchet, Shawnee Smith, Melora Hardin, Larry B. Scott
Director: Sidney J. Furie
Little Boy (2015)
Comedy | Drama | War
A young American boy struggles to achieve the impossible…bring his father back from World War II.
Starring: Jakob Salvati, Emily Watson, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Michael Rapaport, David Henrie, Eduardo Verástegui
Director: Alejandro Monteverde
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A Guy Named Joe (1943)
Drama | Fantasy | Romance | War
A dead World War II bomber pilot, Maj. Pete Sandidge, becomes guardian angel to another pilot, Capt. Ted Randall, guiding Randall through battle and helping him to romance his old girlfriend, despite her devotion to Sandidge's memory.
Starring: Spencer Tracy, Irene Dunne, Van Johnson, Ward Bond, James Gleason, Lionel Barrymore, Barry Nelson, Esther Williams
Director: Victor Fleming
The Dawn Patrol (1938)
Drama | War
British flying aces in World War I contend with the harsh realities of war.
Starring: Errol Flynn, Basil Rathbone, David Niven, Donald Crisp, Melville Cooper, Barry Fitzgerald
Director: Edmund Goulding
Action in the North Atlantic (1943)
Drama | War
Lieutenant Joe Rossi is 1st Officer on a Liberty Ship in a great convoy bound from Halifax to Murmansk. After German subs crushed the convoy his ship loses the convoy and is heading alone to Murmansk. In spite of attacks by German planes and subs he get the ship safely to Murmansk.
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Raymond Massey, Alan Hale, Julie Bishop, Ruth Gordon, Sam Levene
Director: Lloyd Bacon, Byron Haskin, Raoul Walsh
Storming Juno (2010)
History | War
In June 1944, the Western Allies invaded the Third Reich in Operation Overlord, and Canada was a participant with its area of operations in Normandy, France designated Juno Beach. This film depicts the true stories of several Canadian soldiers in the invasion in its various aspects like the paratroopers, tank crews and regular infantry. Braving misfortune and ferocious German resistance, these Canadians fought to bring the fight to the Nazis in Western Europe at last.
Starring: Benjamin Muir, Kevin Jake Walker, Craig Cyr
Director: Tim Wolochatiuk
In Enemy Hands / U-Boat (2004)
Action | Drama | Thriller | War
At the height of Hitler's notorious U-boat war, the crew of the U.S.S. Swordfish is taken prisoner in a battle with a German submarine. However, meningitis strikes more than half of the German crew, and there aren't enough Germans to run the submarine. Avoiding both the contagion – and POW protocol – crew members and prisoners alike must work together to survive. But it isn't until a U.S. carrier locates the ship that the men aboard the U-boat are put to the ultimate test of will and survival.
Starring: William H. Macy, Til Schweiger, Thomas Kretschmann, Clark Gregg, Scott Caan, Rene Heger
Director: Tony Giglio
Gardens of Stone (1987)
Drama | Romance | War
A poignant look at stateside military life during the Vietnam War.
Starring: James Caan, Anjelica Huston, James Earl Jones, D.B. Sweeney, Dean Stockwell, Mary Stuart Masterson
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Wolf Warrior / Wolf War / Zhan lang (2015)
Action | Drama | War
A Chinese special force soldier with extraordinary marksmanship is confronted by a group of deadly foreign mercenaries who are hired to assassinate him by a vicious drug lord.
Starring: Jacky Wu, Nan Yu, Scott Adkins, Kevin Lee, Kyle Shapiro, Wenzhuo Zhao
Director: Jacky Wu
Bloody Sunday (2002)
Drama | History | War
A dramatization of the Irish civil-rights protest march and subsequent massacre by British troops on January 30, 1972.
Starring: James Nesbitt, Tim Pigott-Smith, Nicholas Farrell, Gerard McSorley, Christopher Villiers
Director: Paul Greengrass
The Razor's Edge (1984)
Drama | Romance | War
Bill Murray makes an unforgettable dramatic debut as Larry Darrell, the free-spirited seeker, in this gripping adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham's classic novel. When Larry returns from World War I disillusioned with Jazz Age values, he undertakes a quest which leads him to reject his rich fiancée (Catherine Hicks) and his superficial lifestyle to go search for truth in the Himalayas. But Larry learns that the path to enlightenment is as difficult as treading "the sharp edge of a razor" and returns to civilization, where he tastes life's dark side when he tries to save a hometown girl turned prostitute (Theresa Russell). The provocative story and Murray's brilliant acting make The Razor's Edge an extraordinary film that cuts a clear path to the heart.
Starring: Bill Murray, Theresa Russell, Catherine Hicks, Denholm Elliott, James Keach, Peter Vaughan
Director: John Byrum
