The Catcher Was a Spy (2018)
Biography | Drama | War
A major league baseball player, Moe Berg, lives a double life working for the Office of Strategic Services.
Starring: Paul Rudd, Connie Nielsen, Mark Strong, Sienna Miller, Jeff Daniels, Guy Pearce, Paul Giamatti
Director: Ben Lewin
Men Behind the Sun 2 / Laboratory of the Devil / Hak tai yeung 731 chuk chap ji sai yan gung chong (1992)
Action | Drama | Horror | Thriller | War
In the spring of 1935, Japan established a secret base, Unit 731 in Manchuria, where many innocent Chinese, Korean and Mongolian people were killed in grotesque experiments. An idealistic young doctor , Morishima, is horrified by the experiments being performed in the camp and when his fiancée arrives disguised as a Chinese prisoner he sets out to liberate the camp. A docudrama sequel to the notorious Men Behind the Sun, which pulls no punches when it comes to delivering the shocks!
Starring: Gong Zhu, Yuen-Ching Leung, Man Ying Wan, Andrew Yu
Director: Godfrey Ho
Stars & Roses / Oi yan tung ji (1989)
Drama | War
Hong Kong photo-journalist Lau and Vietnamese translator Yuen Hung become friends when Lau is arrested for a traffic accident. Yuen wants Lau to find out the whereabouts of her brother. Lau is later thrown into prison again, mistaking as a demonstrator, this time to htree years of hard labour. With the help of Yuen, Lau and Yuen's brother to freedom. Yuen cannot go to China.
Starring: Andy Lau, Cherie Chung, Sheila Chan, Fui-On Shing
Director: Taylor Wong
Heroes Shed No Tears / The Sunset Warrior / Ying hung mo lui (1986)
Action | Drama | War
The Thai government hires a group of Chinese mercenaries to capture a powerful drug lord from the Golden Triangle. The mercenaries manage to capture the drug lord, but soon find themselves pursued by his forces, and the forces of a bitter Thai officer. The Chinese mercenaries are vastly outnumbered, and as their numbers begin to dwindle, their desperation pulls them into a corner as their enemies close in on them.
Starring: Eddy Ko, Ching-Ying Lam, Yuet Sang Chin, Ying-Chun Ma, Philippe Loffredo, Cécile Le Bailly, Chau Sang Lau
Director: John Woo
The Closer (2015)
Action | Crime | Drama | War
A tale of friendship and betrayal between 3 friends set against the backdrop of Brooklyn real estate market during the biggest boom and bust of the subprime meltdown.
Starring: Robert Berlin, Patrick Duke Conboy, Danielle Leaf, Christopher Kloko
Director: Eli Hershko
The Keeper / Trautmann (2018)
Biography | Drama | Romance | Sport | War
The Keeper tells the extraordinary love story between a young English woman and a German PoW, who together overcome prejudice, public hostility, and personal tragedy. While visiting a PoW camp near Manchester at the end of WWII, Margaret Friar, the daughter of the manager of the local football team, notices young German soldier Bert Trautmann. Her father is so taken by Bert's prowess as a goal-keeper that he gets him out of the camp to play for his local team. Margaret and Bert's love blossoms despite local hostility and resentment of the German PoWs. In the meantime, Bert's heroics in goal are noticed by Manchester's City Football Club. Rather than going back to Germany like nearly all the other camp inmates, Bert marries Margaret and signs for Man City. His signing causes outrage to thousands of Man City fans, many of them Jewish. But Margaret wins support from an unexpected direction: Rabbi Altmann, a Man City supporter who fled the Nazis, who publishes an open letter opposing the campaign against Bert. Bert's path to acceptance begins and peaks at the 1956 FA Cup Final when he secures victory for Man City by playing on despite breaking his neck. Yet fate twists the knife for both Margaret and Bert. Alienated and alone, Margaret's and Bert's loyalty to each other will be put to the test once more. Heartbroken, Bert wants to give up. Equally heartbroken, Margaret insists that they move forward and that he keeps on playing.
Starring: David Kross, Freya Mavor, John Henshaw, Dave Johns, Gary Lewis, Dervla Kirwan
Director: Marcus H. Rosenmüller
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Drama | Mystery | War
A U.S. Army officer serving in Vietnam is tasked with assassinating a renegade Special Forces Colonel who sees himself as a god.
Starring: Marlon Brando, Martin Sheen, Robert Duvall, Frederic Forrest, Sam Bottoms, Laurence Fishburne
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Shanghai Fortress / Shang hai bao lei (2019)
Action | Fantasy | Sci-Fi | War
Set in the future, the city of Shanghai China battles to defend itself against an ongoing attack by an alien force that has attacked that has laid siege to numerous cities around the globe in it's quest to harvest a hidden energy only found on earth.
Starring: Han Lu, Qi Shu, Godfrey Gao, Vincent Matile
Director: Hua-Tao Teng
White Badge / Hayan chonjaeng (1992)
War
South Korea, 1979. Han Kiju is an alcoholic novelist who has never recovered from his year long tour as a volunteer soldier in Vietnam. When he's asked to write a book about the Korean soldiers who fought in Vietnam he's battered by flashbacks that remind him of the brutality and lies that destroyed his innocence. The serialized novel brings him back in contact with a former soldier who served under him, PFC Pyon Chinsu, the one-time company clown driven mad by the violence of the war and who now looks to Han for some sort of emotional rescue.
Starring: Sung-Ki Ahn, Kyeong-yeong Lee, Hye-jin Shim, Se Jun Kim, Jun-ho Heo, Bo-sung Kim
Director: Ji-yeong Jeong
Taxi to the Dark Side (2007)
Crime | Documentary | News | War
Alex Gibney exposes the haunting details of the USA's torture and interrogation practices during the War in Afghanistan.
Starring: Alex Gibney
Director: Alex Gibney
Ashes in the Snow / Tarp pilku debesu (2018)
Drama | History | Romance | War
In 1941, a 16 year-old aspiring artist and her family are deported to Siberia amidst Stalin's brutal dismantling of the Baltic region. One girl's passion for art and her never-ending hope will break the silence of history.
Starring: Bel Powley, Sophie Cookson, James Cosmo, Peter Franzén, Jonah Hauer-King, Martin Wallström, Sam Hazeldine
Director: Marius A. Markevicius
Lancaster Skies (2019)
Action | Drama | War
Douglas, a broken, solitary, Spitfire Ace, must overcome his past to lead a Lancaster bomber crew in the pivotal aerial war over Berlin, in 1944.
Starring: Jeffrey Mundell, David Dobson, Kris Saddler, Vin Hawke
Director: Callum Burn
The Messenger / Kurier (2019)
Action | Drama | History | Thriller | War
Film about the lead up to the Polish uprising against German occupation at the end of the Second World War.
Starring: Philippe Tlokinski, Julie Engelbrecht, Bradley James, Martin Butzke, Nico Rogner
Director: Wladyslaw Pasikowski
Les fêtes galantes / The Lace Wars (1965)
Comedy | History | War
In the 18th century, as the army of Prince De Beaulieu lays siege on the fortress of Marechal D'Allenberg, a young princess sends a soldier out of the fortress to go find her lover.
Starring: Jean-Pierre Cassel, Philippe Avron, Jean Richard, Marie Dubois, Geneviève Casile
Director: René Clair
The Veteran (2006)
Drama | War
Thirty years on from Vietnam, a government official is trying to track down soldiers who went missing in action, in the hope that it may lead her to her father. Meanwhile, a war veteran is forced to relive painful memories of how he was left for dead by his own platoon, and the heinous crimes he once committed while in the line of duty. Gritty and unflinching, THE VETERAN contains some breathtaking action sequences that vividly depict the horrors of war. Director Sidney J Furie elicits strong performances from a cast that includes Michael Ironside, Ally Sheedy, and Bobby Hosea.
Starring: Ally Sheedy, Bobby Hosea, Michael Ironside, Colin Glazer, Sean Baek, Jim Codrington, Donald Burda
Director: Sidney J. Furie
Tolkien / A Light in the Darkness (2019)
Biography | Drama | War
The formative years of the orphaned author J.R.R. Tolkien as he finds friendship, love and artistic inspiration among a group of fellow outcasts at school.
Starring: Nicholas Hoult, Lily Collins, Pam Ferris, Derek Jacobi, Genevieve O'Reilly, Craig Roberts
Director: Dome Karukoski
Kesari (2019)
Action | Drama | History | War
Based on an incredible true story of the Battle of Saragarhi in which an army of 21 Sikhs fought against 10,000 Afghans in 1897.
Starring: Akshay Kumar, Parineeti Chopra
Director: Anurag Singh
Naples '44 (2016)
Documentary | War
A British Intelligence Officer in Naples at the end of World War II: Norman Lewis's acknowledged masterpiece about a war-torn city and its unforgettable humanity.
Starring: Benedict Cumberbatch, Adriano Giannini, Alan Arkin, Ernest Borgnine, Keenan Wynn
Director: Francesco Patierno
The Balkan Line / Balkanskiy rubezh (2019)
Action | War
NATO bombs Belgrad March 1999. June: Serb army pulls out of Kosovo. Some Muslims believe they can now plunder, rape and kill Serbs in Kosovo. 5 Russians are to take Kosovo's airport from such bandits and hold it until peacekeepers arrive.
Starring: Anton Pampushnyy, Milos Bikovic, Yuriy Kutsenko, Ravshana Kurkova, Gojko Mitic, Milena Radulovic
Director: Andrey Volgin
Hex (2017)
History | Horror | Thriller | War
During the English Civil War, two opposing soldiers find themselves trapped in a forest controlled by a Witch.
Starring: Daniel Oldroyd, William Young, Suzie Frances Garton, Tony Broadbent
Director: George Popov, Jonathan Russell
