Ostře sledované vlaky / Closely Watched Trains (1966)
Comedy | Drama | War
An apprentice train dispatcher at a village station seeks his first sexual encounter and becomes despondent when he is unable to perform.
Starring: Václav Neckár, Josef Somr, Vlastimil Brodský, Vladimír Valenta
Director: Jirí Menzel
La vie et rien d'autre / Life and Nothing But (1989)
Drama | War
January, 1920. 350,000 French soldiers remain missing in action. Major Dellaplane tirelessly matches the dead and the wounded with families' descriptions. Honor and ethics drive him; he hates the idea of "the unknown soldier." Into his sector, looking for her husband, comes a haughty, politically connected Parisian, Madame Irène de Courtil. Brusquely, Dellaplane offers her 1/350,000th of his time, but as their paths cross and she sees his courage and resolve, feelings change. After he finds a surprising connection between her missing husband and a local teacher, Irène makes Dellaplane an offer. This man of action hesitates: has he missed his only chance?
Starring: Philippe Noiret, Sabine Azéma, Pascale Vignal, Maurice Barrier, François Perrot, Jean-Pol Dubois
Director: Bertrand Tavernier
Rengô kantai shirei chôkan: Yamamoto Isoroku / Isoroku Yamamoto, the Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet (2011)
Biography | Drama | War
Admiral Yamamoto was the mastermind behind the attack on Pearl Harbor 1941. The strategy was crystal clear – to strike as hard and as unexpectedly as possible. With the element of surprise as their primary weapon, they succeeded in doing the impossible, taking the U.S. by surprise and knocking out one of the world's most powerful navies. Yamamoto was marked for death by radical Japanese nationalists for his outspoken opposition to any attack on the United States. What dramatic turn of events could have possibly compelled him to orchestrate the infamous early morning raid?
Starring: Kôji Yakusho, Hiroshi Abe, Shûichi Azumaya, Mitsugorô Bandô, Akira Emoto
Director: Izuru Narushima
Dracula Untold / Dracula Year Zero (2014)
Action | Drama | Fantasy | Horror | War
To protect his family and people during a time of intense conflict, Vlad III submits to a vampire, sacrificing his humanity in return for monstrous power.
Starring: Luke Evans, Sarah Gadon, Dominic Cooper, Samantha Barks, Charlie Cox, Charles Dance
Director: Gary Shore
Fury (2014)
Action | Drama | War
April, 1945. As the Allies make their final push in the European Theatre, a battle-hardened army sergeant named Wardaddy commands a Sherman tank and her five-man crew on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. Outnumbered and outgunned, Wardaddy and his men face overwhelming odds in their heroic attempts to strike at the heart of Nazi Germany.
Starring: Brad Pitt, Shia LaBeouf, Logan Lerman, Jon Bernthal, Jason Isaacs, Scott Eastwood
Director: David Ayer
No Man's Land (2001)
Drama | War
Bosnia and Herzegovina during 1993 at the time of the heaviest fighting between the two warring sides. Two soldiers from opposing sides in the conflict, Nino and Ciki, become trapped in no man's land, whilst a third soldier becomes a living booby trap.
Starring: Branko Djuric, Rene Bitorajac, Filip Sovagovic, Georges Siatidis, Serge-Henri Valcke, Sacha Kremer, Alain Eloy
Director: Danis Tanovic
Bordering on Bad Behavior / Three Pegs (2014)
Action | Comedy | Drama | War
When Baz, a Lebanese soldier accidentally walks into a top secret Israeli communication base, he greets Bob, an American soldier, with a punch to the face, and Ari, an Israeli with a choke hold. Aware that he is in the wrong place at the wrong time, Baz fails to escape after triggering an emergency lock-down mechanism. Now, trapped for six hours, three sworn enemies are forced to evaluate their lives, their alliances and ultimately each other with two options…impending doom, or a chance at life. Truths are told, noses are broken, ribs are cooked, guns are drawn, and a peace plan is made. Time is running out for the trio. Will they survive without killing each other, and if they do, will they ever be the same again?
Starring: Tom Sizemore, Bernard Curry, Oz Zehavi, Kym Jackson, Scot Cooper, Aubrey Shelton
Director: Jac Mulder
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Born of War (2013)
Action | Thriller | War
The mountainous and remote Wakhan corridor 1988. Daphne, a young English rose finds herself in over her head. Accused of the murder of a young boy from a tribal family at a time of war between the local people and foreign invaders, she must flee for her life and take a new identity.
Starring: James Frain, Sofia Black-D'Elia, Joey Ansah, Michael Brandon, Lydia Leonard, Philip Arditti, Michael Maloney, Lisa Kay, Samantha Michelle
Director: Vicky Jewson
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The Round Up / La rafle (2010)
Drama | History | War
A faithful retelling of the 1942 "Vel' d'Hiv Roundup" and the events surrounding it.
Starring: Jean Reno, Mélanie Laurent, Gad Elmaleh
Director: Rose Bosch
Fury (2014)
Action | Drama | War
April, 1945. As the Allies make their final push in the European Theatre, a battle-hardened army sergeant named Wardaddy commands a Sherman tank and her five-man crew on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. Outnumbered and outgunned, Wardaddy and his men face overwhelming odds in their heroic attempts to strike at the heart of Nazi Germany.
Starring: Brad Pitt, Logan Lerman, Jon Bernthal, Shia LaBeouf, Scott Eastwood, Jason Isaacs
Director: David Ayer
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Attack (1956)
Action | Drama | War
When Lieutenant Joe Costa learns that his men died because the commander, Captain Cooney, was too much of a coward to join the fight, Costa issues a serious warning: Don't let it happen again! But Cooney's cowardice forces Costa into a fateful choice: continue to risk the lives of his men…or take the life of the captain!
Starring: Jack Palance, Eddie Albert, Lee Marvin, Robert Strauss, Richard Jaeckel, Buddy Ebsen
Director: Robert Aldrich
Coming Home (1978)
Drama | Romance | War
A woman whose husband is fighting in Vietnam falls in love with another man who suffered a paralyzing combat injury there.
Starring: Jane Fonda, Jon Voight, Bruce Dern, Robert Carradine, Penelope Milford, Robert Ginty
Director: Hal Ashby
Sea Without Exit / Deguchi no nai umi (2006)
Drama | War
Koji Namiki, a talented young pitcher, who had won the National High School Baseball Championships enters university, but soon afterwards injures his elbow. He and his teammates work hard to get back on the field placing all his hopes on a new slow-ball, "the magic pitch." However, the outbreak of WWII wipes out the baseball ambitions from everyone. They join the military and in the navy undergo the severe training that prepares them for death. Death awaits them in a "kaiten" (special attack submarine or "human torpedo") within the gloomy ocean depths, but Koji never gives up his dream of the "magic pitch."
Starring: Ebizô Ichikawa, Yûsuke Iseya, Juri Ueno, Shun Shioya, Teruyuki Kagawa, Yûko Kotegawa, Tomokazu Miura
Director: Kiyoshi Sasabe
The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (1958)
Biography | Drama | War
The true story of an English missionary (Ingrid Bergman) who led a hundred children over enemy territory in pre-WWII China. Robert Donat plays a Chinese mandarin in his final screen performance and North Wales stands in for the Chinese countryside.
Starring: Ingrid Bergman, Curd Jürgens, Robert Donat, Athene Seyler, Moultrie Kelsall, Ronald Squire
Director: Mark Robson
Field of Lost Shoes (2014)
Action | Drama | War
Based on a true story of the American Civil War, culminating at the Battle of New Market, May 1864. A group of teenage cadets sheltered from war at the Virginia Military Institute must confront the horrors of an adult world when they are called upon to defend the Shenandoah Valley. Leaving behind their youth, these cadets must decide what they are fighting for.
Starring: David Arquette, Keith David, Lauren Holly, Jason Isaacs, Tom Skerritt
Director: Sean McNamara
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The 4 Soldiers / Les 4 soldats (2013)
Action | Drama | Sci-Fi | War
A climate of civil war, a fight that has made them lose everything including their youth, four soldiers aged 13 to 20 years, will meet and build friendships. In the grip of an adult conflict, which they do not understand, Matéo, Dominique, Big Max and Kevin will keep recreating, round a pond and a cabin, a family. Gradually each finds his place. A family that will grow with the arrival of little Gabriel they will form.
Starring: Antoine Bertrand, Christian de la Cortina, Antoine L'Écuyer, Camille Mongeau, Aliocha Schneider
Director: Robert Morin
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The Purple Plain (1954)
Action | Adventure | Drama | War
After losing his bride in a Luftwaffe air raid, bomber pilot Forrester becomes a solitary killing machine, who doesn't care whether he dies. The reckless Canadian pilot is both admired and feared by the rest of his squadron in World War II Burma. The squadron physician is assigned to determine the embittered Bill Forrester's fitness for duty. To break through the nightmare-haunted man's wall of silence, the physician drives Forrester to visit an outpost of English-speaking refugees, which includes an alluring young Burmese woman.
Starring: Gregory Peck, Bernard Lee
Director: Robert Parrish
The Diary of Anne Frank (1959)
Biography | Drama | Family | History | War
In 1942, a family of Dutch Jews hides in an attic from the Nazis, but just before the war ends they're found out and sent to concentration camps–an experience recorded in the famous diary of a little girl.
Starring: Millie Perkins, Joseph Schildkraut, Shelley Winters, Richard Beymer, Gusti Huber, Lou Jacobi
Director: George Stevens
Ardennes Fury (2014)
Action | War
As the Battle of the Bulge rages on, with the Nazis repelling the Allied invasion of Germany, an American tank unit gets trapped behind enemy lines. With only hours to go before the bombs of Operation Ardennes Fury fall, the tank's commander makes the incredibly risky decision to rescue an orphanage and the innocent nuns and children inside.
Starring: Tino Struckmann, Frank Arend, Lauren Vera, Elvin Manges, Eric C. Schmitz, Tom Stedham
Director: Joseph J. Lawson
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Canopy (2013)
Adventure | Drama | War
Wartime, 1942. Singapore. An Australian fighter pilot shot down in combat awakens suspended in the treetops. As night devours day, he must navigate through dangerous jungle in search of sanctuary. Transcending language and culture, CANOPY is a cinematic tour de force exploring the collision of war, nature and its impact on humanity.
Starring: Khan Chittenden, Tzu-yi Mo, Robert Menzies, Edwina Wren
Director: Aaron Wilson
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