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1. War Machine (2017)
TV-MA | 122 min | Comedy, Drama, War
An idiosyncratic general confronts opposition from enemies, allies, and bureaucrats while leading a massive rebuilding operation in Afghanistan.
Director: David Michôd | Stars: Brad Pitt, Daniel Betts, John Magaro, Emory Cohen
Votes: 50,099
2. Bushwick (2017)
TV-MA | 94 min | Action, Thriller
When a U.S. based military force invades their Brooklyn neighborhood, 20-year-old Lucy and war veteran Stupe must depend on each other to survive.
Directors: Jonathan Milott, Cary Murnion | Stars: Dave Bautista, Brittany Snow, Angelic Zambrana, Jeremie Harris
Votes: 13,892
3. Decision Before Dawn (1951)
Not Rated | 119 min | Drama, War
As the US Army approaches Nazi Germany, they recruit German prisoners to spy behind German lines.
Director: Anatole Litvak | Stars: Richard Basehart, Gary Merrill, Oskar Werner, Hildegard Knef
Votes: 2,997
4. Closely Watched Trains (1966)
Not Rated | 92 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
An apprentice train dispatcher at a village station seeks his first sexual encounter and becomes despondent when he is unable to perform.
Director: Jirí Menzel | Stars: Václav Neckár, Josef Somr, Vlastimil Brodský, Vladimír Valenta
Votes: 13,853 | Gross: $3.27M
5. The Search (III) (2014)
135 min | Drama, War
A French woman who works for a non-governmental organization forms a special relationship with a lost young boy in war-torn Chechnya in 1999.
Director: Michel Hazanavicius | Stars: Bérénice Bejo, Annette Bening, Maksim Emelyanov, Abdul Khalim Mamutsiev
Votes: 2,999
6. Armadillo (2010)
Not Rated | 105 min | Documentary, War
Danish soldiers are sent to Afghanistan in 2009 for 6 months, to help stabilize the country against the Taliban. They're stationed on Armadillo military base in Helman province. Unlike other war movies, this is the real deal - no actors.
Director: Janus Metz
Votes: 10,333 | Gross: $0.01M
7. Story of a Prostitute (1965)
Not Rated | 96 min | Drama, Romance, War
In WW2 Manchuria, a prostitute grows to resent an abusive adjutant and falls in love with his aide.
Director: Seijun Suzuki | Stars: Tamio Kawaji, Yumiko Nogawa, Isao Tamagawa, Shôichi Ozawa
Votes: 1,602
8. Skies of Lebanon (2020)
92 min | Comedy, Drama
In the 1950s, Alice leaves her Swiss homeland for Lebanon. There, the best years of her life are marred by the threat of war.
Director: Chloé Mazlo | Stars: Alba Rohrwacher, Wajdi Mouawad, Isabelle Zighondi, Mariah Tannoury
Votes: 1,140
9. In Syria (2017)
85 min | Drama, War
A mother attempts to keep her family safe as war rages and a sniper lies in wait outside her home.
Director: Philippe Van Leeuw | Stars: Hiam Abbass, Diamand Abou Abboud, Juliette Navis, Mohsen Abbas
Votes: 2,977
10. The Last Train (1973)
PG | 95 min | Drama, Romance, War
Two people, a Frenchman Julien Maroyeur and a Jewish German woman (Anna Kupfer) met on a train while escaping the German army entering France.
Director: Pierre Granier-Deferre | Stars: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Romy Schneider, Maurice Biraud, Paul Amiot
Votes: 1,739
11. Kedma (2002)
100 min | Drama, History, War
In May 1948, shortly before the creation of the State of Israel, hundreds of immigrants from across Europe arrive in Palestine--only to risk arrest by British troops.
Director: Amos Gitai | Stars: Andrei Kashker, Helena Yaralova, Moni Moshonov, Juliano Mer-Khamis
Votes: 789 | Gross: $0.01M
12. The Day I Lost My Shadow (2018)
94 min | Drama
In Syria in 2012 a mother ventures into a war zone to find a gas cylinder so she can prepare a meal for her son. She discovers that in the besieged area the people there have lost their shadows.
Director: Soudade Kaadan | Stars: Reham Alkassar, Sawsan Arshid, Yara Ibrahim, Samer Ismail
Votes: 315
13. Pojat (1962)
106 min | Comedy, Drama, War
A group of mischievous Finnish boys experience the ups and downs of life during World War 2.
Director: Mikko Niskanen | Stars: Pentti Tarkiainen, Vesa-Matti Loiri, Uti Saurio, Hannu Vironmäki
Votes: 978
14. Twenty Days Without War (1977)
101 min | Drama, Romance, War
During the 20-day leave, war correspondent Lopatin travels by train to the distant city of Tashkent. It's very far from the front but the war seems to be present in people's minds even there.
Director: Aleksey German | Stars: Yuriy Nikulin, Lyudmila Gurchenko, Aleksey Petrenko, Angelina Stepanova
Votes: 1,581
15. Vartioitu kylä 1944 (1978)
100 min | Drama, War
Director: Timo Linnasalo | Stars: Raimo Grönberg, Markku Huhtamo, Kaija Kangas, Antti Litja
Votes: 86
16. La maison des bois (1971)
360 min | Comedy, Drama
Realistic chronicle of everyday life during the Great War. A ranger collects in his family several Parisian children refugees because of the conflict. All share the life of the country village, the school, the news from the front.
Stars: Pierre Doris, Jacqueline Dufranne, Agathe Natanson, Hervé Lévy
Votes: 284
17. Donbass (2016)
57 min | Documentary, War
Anne-Laure Bonnel, a young director and mother of a French family, decides to accompany Alexander, a father of Ukrainian family, to the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine in a pro-Russian ... See full summary »
Director: Anne-Laure Bonnel
Votes: 301
18. Melancholian 3 huonetta (2004)
Not Rated | 106 min | Documentary, War
A searing examination of the unrelenting Chechen conflict, observed through the prisms of a Russian military boys academy, a war-torn town and a children's refugee camp.
Director: Pirjo Honkasalo | Star: Pirkko Saisio
Votes: 704
19. Ghost of the China Sea (1958)
Unrated | 79 min | Drama, War
A ragtag band of civilians and military personnel evade the Japanese in the Philippines, utilising the so-called USS Frankenstein.
Director: Fred F. Sears | Stars: David Brian, Lynette Bernay, Norman Wright, Harry Chang
Votes: 90
20. Flash Drive (2020)
125 min | Adventure, Drama, War
Ahmet, as a soldier in the regular Syrian army, witnesses the cover-up of massacres and torture conducted to repress the civil unrest. He and his wife Leila try to flee through the war zone to bring testimony to the world.
Director: Dervis Zaim | Stars: Ali Suliman, Husam Ali, Saleh Bakri, Husam Chadat
Votes: 161
21. Die Abenteuer des Werner Holt (1965)
164 min | Drama, Romance, War
Two 17-year-olds, Werner Holt and Gilbert Wolzow, are pulled out of school and into Hitler's army. Gilbert becomes a fanatical soldier, but at the front Werner begins to understand the ... See full summary »
Director: Joachim Kunert | Stars: Klaus-Peter Thiele, Manfred Karge, Arno Wyzniewski, Günter Junghans
Votes: 374
22. Guernica (1951)
13 min | Documentary, Short
On April 26 1937 the small Basque town of Guernica was bombed without warning by the German aviation. Two thousand people, all civilians, got killed. Like millions all over the world, Pablo... See full summary »
Directors: Robert Hessens, Alain Resnais | Stars: María Casares, Jacques Pruvost
Votes: 1,042
23. Hylätyt talot, autiot pihat (2000)
103 min | Drama, War
Summer 1944 in Finnish Karelia; after a long lull, the Soviet army launches an overwhelming offensive that throws everything into disarray. Martta has barely time to marry Aarne before she ... See full summary »
Director: Lauri Törhönen | Stars: Mats Långbacka, Jonna Järnefelt, Sari Puumalainen, Carl-Kristian Rundman
Votes: 312
24. Viimeinen kesä (1992)
105 min | Documentary, History, War
Director: Peter von Bagh | Stars: Veera Alén, Veli Arrela, Emma Forsberg, Esteri Halmetoja
Votes: 14
25. Sotalapset (2003)
93 min | Documentary, War
Documentary about the Finnish children who were evacuated to Sweden during World War II.
Director: Erja Dammert | Stars: Sirkka Artman, Riitta Grundel-Koskinen, Jorma Hauru, Irmeli Heino
Votes: 27
26. Four Winds of Heaven (1962)
106 min | Drama, War
The simple Russian girl Svetlana arrived in a back-water small town to the darling. But begun war, Igor did not have met Svetlana, and she determined on staying : to wait his return and war end.
Director: Stanislav Rostotskiy | Stars: Larisa Luzhina, Sofiya Pilyavskaya, Margarita Strunova, Lidiya Savchenko
Votes: 151
27. Solo (1980)
29 min | Short, Drama, War
Blockade Leningrad, winter of 1942. The soloist of the symphony orchestra is working on Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony. The concert will take place in the Leningrad Philharmonic and will be broadcasted to London.
Director: Konstantin Lopushanskiy | Stars: Nikolay Grinko, Lyudmila Arzhannikova, Valentina Smirnova, Viktor Gogolev
Votes: 144
28. The 400 Million (1939)
Approved | 61 min | Documentary, History, War
The 400 million people of China are heirs to a great civilization, as their pagodas and stone lions can attest.
Directors: John Fernhout, Joris Ivens | Stars: Fredric March, Morris Carnovsky, Sidney Lumet, Robert Q. Lewis
Votes: 207
29. Niskavuori taistelee (1957)
96 min | Drama, War
Director: Edvin Laine | Stars: Elsa Turakainen, Mirjam Novero, Tauno Palo, Martti Katajisto
Votes: 117
30. Tuntematon emäntä (2011)
80 min | Documentary, War
Director: Elina Kivihalme | Stars: Onerva Hintikka, Pirkko Hämäläinen, Anna-Kaarina Jaakkola, Eeva Jalo
Votes: 26
31. Auf Wiedersehen Finnland (2010)
78 min | Documentary
A fascinating film that uncovers an overlooked area in Finnish history; When German soldiers withdrew from Lapland in 1944, about a thousand Finnish women for various reasons left the ... See full summary »
Director: Virpi Suutari | Stars: Elma Rantanen, Frans Kantola, Roosa, Terttu
Votes: 51
32. Sotaerakko (1972 TV Movie)
62 min | Drama, War
Director: Rauni Mollberg | Star: Aimo Saukko
Votes: 46
33. Two Forces (1979)
81 min | Drama, War
A small finnish village gets occupied by the soviets in the fall of 1939. The villagers end up working together with the occupants, especially since the soviets have among them finnish speaking propaganda people.
Directors: Pirjo Honkasalo, Pekka Lehto | Stars: Marja-Leena Kouki, Vesa Repo, Adolf Hitler, Pekka Lehto
Votes: 94
34. Proudly She Marches (1943)
18 min | Short
This film from the Second World War is a report on how Canadian women were trained to handle many kinds of work in the Canadian Women's Army Corps, the Royal Canadian Air Force and the ... See full summary »
Director: Jane Marsh | Stars: Gudrun Parker, Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, Queen Juliana
35. Taistelujen tie (1960)
105 min | Documentary, History, War
Directors: K.J. Mikola, Risto Orko, Sakari Salokangas | Stars: Matti Tuura, Hilkka Helinä, Juho Kusti Paasikivi, Väinö Tanner
Votes: 5
36. Meidän poikamme ilmassa - me maassa (1934)
121 min | Drama
A documentary or rather a bulletin style movie about Finnish Air Forces in the 1930s.
Director: Erkki Karu | Stars: Joel Rinne, Kaarlo Angerkoski, Fritz-Hugo Backman, Martta Kontula
Votes: 45
37. Anu Parikka och de andra (1944)
9 min | Documentary, Short
Director: Brita Wrede | Stars: Gunnar Skoglund, Kerttu Salmi
38. Clippers at War (1945)
43 min | Documentary, Short, War
The history of how Pan American World Airways served the Allied cause during the Second World War, especially in the Pacific and China-Burma-India theaters.
Stars: Del Sharbutt, Basil Ruysdael
39. Puolustusvoimain katsaus 42 (1942)
19 min | Documentary, Short, News
Directors: Heikki Aho, Björn Soldan | Star: Kaarlo Marjanen
40. Tie tuntemattomaan (1996 TV Movie)
64 min | Documentary, War
Director: Seppo Rustanius | Stars: Jari Lahti, Eriikka Magnusson, Aimo Nikulainen, Maria Bärklar
41. Suur-Suomen toiset kasvot (1995 TV Movie)
56 min | Documentary, History
Director: Lisa Hovinheimo | Stars: Gustaf Mannerheim, Adolf Hitler, Antti Laine, Joseph Stalin
Votes: 8
43. Sota-Helsingin kasvot (1942)
10 min | Documentary, Short, War
Stars: Topo Leistelä, Karl-August Fagerholm, George de Godzinsky, Henry Theel
44.
Once Upon a Time in Iraq (2020)
Episode:
War
(2020)
60 min | Documentary, History, War
Iraqi civilians recall their initial hopes before the realities of war become clear. That initial hope would be tragically short lived once the realities of occupation with no postwar plan hit the streets of Baghdad.
Director: James Bluemel | Stars: Andy Serkis, Martin Webster
Votes: 85
45.
Once Upon a Time in Iraq (2020)
Episode:
Insurgency
(2020)
59 min | Documentary, History, War
The Iraqi insurgency is examined through Lt Colonel Sassaman's descent into the darkest regions of his psyche. Alaa Adel was 12 years old when she suffered life-changing injuries from a roadside bomb.
Director: James Bluemel | Star: Andy Serkis
Votes: 76