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1. Memoirs of a Geisha (2005)
PG-13 | 145 min | Drama, Romance
The heartwarming tale of Nitta Sayuri, a young Japanese woman who transcended from her fishing-village roots and became one of Japan's most celebrated geisha.
Director: Rob Marshall | Stars: Ziyi Zhang, Ken Watanabe, Michelle Yeoh, Suzuka Ohgo
Votes: 161,204 | Gross: $57.49M
2. The Dirty Dozen (1967)
Approved | 150 min | Action, Adventure, War
During World War II, a rebellious U.S. Army Major is assigned a dozen convicted murderers to train and lead them into a mass assassination mission of German officers.
Director: Robert Aldrich | Stars: Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson, John Cassavetes
Votes: 79,218 | Gross: $45.30M
3. The Wind that Shakes the Barley (2006)
Not Rated | 127 min | Drama, War
Against the backdrop of the Irish War of Independence, two brothers fight a guerrilla war against British forces.
Director: Ken Loach | Stars: Cillian Murphy, Pádraic Delaney, Liam Cunningham, Orla Fitzgerald
Votes: 54,747 | Gross: $1.83M
4. Black Book (2006)
R | 145 min | Drama, Thriller, War
In the Nazi-occupied Netherlands during World War II, a Jewish singer infiltrates the regional Gestapo headquarters for the Dutch resistance.
Director: Paul Verhoeven | Stars: Carice van Houten, Sebastian Koch, Thom Hoffman, Halina Reijn
Votes: 80,645 | Gross: $4.40M
5. The Aftermath (2019)
R | 108 min | Drama, Romance, War
Post World War II, a British colonel and his wife are assigned to live in Hamburg during the post-war reconstruction, but tensions arise with the German who previously owned the house.
Director: James Kent | Stars: Keira Knightley, Ned Wills, Pandora Colin, Jason Clarke
Votes: 23,877 | Gross: $1.62M
6. Max Manus: Man of War (2008)
Not Rated | 118 min | Action, Biography, Crime
The true story about one of the most brilliant saboteurs during World War II and his battle to overcome his inner demons.
Directors: Joachim Rønning, Espen Sandberg | Stars: Aksel Hennie, Agnes Kittelsen, Nicolai Cleve Broch, Ken Duken
Votes: 29,819
7. The Heroes of Telemark (1965)
Approved | 131 min | Action, Drama, History
Norwegian resistance tries to stop German efforts to produce an atomic bomb component during World War II.
Director: Anthony Mann | Stars: Kirk Douglas, Richard Harris, Ulla Jacobsson, Michael Redgrave
Votes: 8,089
8. Flame & Citron (2008)
Not Rated | 130 min | Action, Drama, History
A drama centered on two fighters in the Holger Danske World War II resistance group.
Director: Ole Christian Madsen | Stars: Thure Lindhardt, Mads Mikkelsen, Stine Stengade, Peter Mygind
Votes: 19,978 | Gross: $0.15M
9. Night Ambush (1957)
Unrated | 93 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Led by British officers, partisans on Crete plan to kidnap the island's German commander and smuggle him to Cairo, Egypt to embarrass the occupiers.
Directors: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Marius Goring, David Oxley, Dimitri Andreas
Votes: 1,985
10. 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: 13,874 | Gross: $3.27M
11. Joan of Arc (1948)
Approved | 145 min | Biography, Drama, War
The abbreviated life of the 15th-century French heroine.
Director: Victor Fleming | Stars: Ingrid Bergman, José Ferrer, Selena Royle, Robert Barrat
Votes: 3,793
12. Hatred (2016)
150 min | Drama, War
Despite being in love with a Ukrainian boy from the same village, Polish girl named Zosia is forced into marrying a wealthy widower. Soon World War II begins and ethnic tensions arise. Amidst the war chaos Zosia tries to survive.
Director: Wojciech Smarzowski | Stars: Michalina Labacz, Arkadiusz Jakubik, Wasyl Wasylik, Adrian Zaremba
Votes: 6,825
13. Ten Seconds to Hell (1959)
Approved | 93 min | Action, Drama, Romance
After 1945, six German ex-soldiers are hired to defuse unexploded Allied bombs in the ruins of Berlin.
Director: Robert Aldrich | Stars: Jack Palance, Jeff Chandler, Martine Carol, Robert Cornthwaite
Votes: 1,196
14. Story of Women (1988)
108 min | Drama, History, Romance
A housewife in Nazi-occupied France struggles to make ends meet when her husband returns home after being wounded in the war.
Director: Claude Chabrol | Stars: Isabelle Huppert, François Cluzet, Marie Trintignant, Nils Tavernier
Votes: 5,767 | Gross: $0.44M
15. The Sorrow and the Pity (1969)
PG | 251 min | Documentary, History, War
An in-depth exploration of the various reactions by the French people to the Vichy government's acceptance of the German invasion.
Director: Marcel Ophüls | Stars: Helmut Tausend, Marcel Verdier, Alexis Grave, Louis Grave
Votes: 4,109
16. Hanna K. (1983)
R | 111 min | Drama
An Israeli lawyer is defending a Palestinian charged by The Military Court System in the Israeli-Occupied Territories. It's a tough case because of a strong political background.
Director: Costa-Gavras | Stars: Jill Clayburgh, Jean Yanne, Gabriel Byrne, Mohammad Bakri
Votes: 953 | Gross: $0.11M
17. Private Pérez (2011)
PG-13 | 105 min | Adventure, Comedy, Western
A Mexican crime lord is forced by his mother to plan a suicidal rescue mission to find his lost brother in the most unexpected place on Earth...
Director: Beto Gómez | Stars: Miguel Rodarte, Jesús Ochoa, Joaquín Cosio, Gerardo Taracena
Votes: 1,996 | Gross: $1.39M
18. Jinnah (1998)
110 min | Biography, Drama, War
The story of the Indian politician Muhammad Ali Jinnah who successfully campaigned for an independent Pakistan and became its first Governor-General.
Director: Jamil Dehlavi | Stars: Christopher Lee, Shireen Shah, James Curran, Zafar Hameed
Votes: 3,143
19. Remembrance (2011)
105 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
A Polish man rescues a Jewish woman during the chaos of WWII, but they become separated until a chance encounter over 30 years later in New York reunites them.
Director: Anna Justice | Stars: Alice Dwyer, Mateusz Damiecki, Dagmar Manzel, Lech Mackiewicz
Votes: 2,337
20. Habermann (2010)
PG-13 | 104 min | Drama, Romance, War
A mill owner in the Sudetenland and his family's lives are changed as Europe heats up in 1938.
Director: Juraj Herz | Stars: Mark Waschke, Karel Roden, Ben Becker, Hannah Herzsprung
Votes: 1,310
21. Sand Storm (2016)
87 min | Drama
When their entire lives shatter, two Bedouin women struggle to change the unchangeable rules, each in her own individual way.
Director: Elite Zexer | Stars: Lamis Ammar, Ruba Blal, Hitham Omari, Khadija Al Akel
Votes: 3,979 | Gross: $0.08M
22. The Crossing of Paris (1956)
80 min | Comedy, Drama
Two men carry at night four suitcases of contraband meat across German-occupied Paris during WWII. Their opposite personalities and strange encounters provoke different adventures - until they are arrested by the police.
Director: Claude Autant-Lara | Stars: Jean Gabin, Bourvil, Louis de Funès, Jeannette Batti
Votes: 4,330 | Gross: $0.02M
23. Against the Wind (1948)
Not Rated | 96 min | Action, Drama, War
A secret London school trains a motley group of men and women for sabotage work in German occupied Belgium during World War II. When one of them is captured by the Germans, five others are parachuted in to rescue him.
Director: Charles Crichton | Stars: Robert Beatty, Simone Signoret, Jack Warner, Gordon Jackson
Votes: 754
24. Tell (2007)
96 min | Comedy
William Tell, the number one "Swiss" hero is about to rock the screens. In reality, he's an Austrian dreaming of the Swiss passport. When noblemen send him on a mission to free the country ... See full summary »
Director: Mike Eschmann | Stars: Mike Müller, Axel Stein, Christian Tramitz, Ellenie Salvo González
Votes: 260
25. Tonight We Raid Calais (1943)
Passed | 70 min | Action, Drama, Romance
During WW2, a British commando lands in German-occupied France to locate a German munitions plant and to mark the target with a beacon for the Allied night bombers sent to destroy it.
Director: John Brahm | Stars: Annabella, John Sutton, Lee J. Cobb, Beulah Bondi
Votes: 297
26. The Eye of Vichy (1993)
Not Rated | 110 min | Documentary, War
This movie is only made of archive pictures: the official newsreels that were broadcasted on French movie screens during 1940 and 1944 (the Occupation). Those newsreels were controlled by ... See full summary »
Director: Claude Chabrol | Stars: Michel Bouquet, Brian Cox, Maquisard Alfonso, General Bergeret
Votes: 346
27. Burnt by Frost (1997)
97 min | Drama, Romance
When is an enemy not an enemy? When is an ally not an ally? The answer to these questions determines the fate of a man. Simon's struggle is played out against the rugged landscape of ... See full summary »
Director: Knut Erik Jensen | Stars: Stig Henrik Hoff, Bengt Altmann, Harald Andersen, Stig R. Andersen
Votes: 161
28. Three Stripes in the Sun (1955)
Approved | 93 min | Drama, Romance, War
Army Master Sergeant Hugh O'Reilly is stationed in Japan after World War II. He hates the Japanese. He meets a pretty young Japanese woman, an interpreter for the Army, and through her ... See full summary »
Director: Richard Murphy | Stars: Aldo Ray, Philip Carey, Dick York, Chuck Connors
Votes: 149
29. Your Job in Germany (1945)
13 min | Documentary, Short, War
A propaganda piece about the occupation of post-Nazi Germany and what led to WWII.
Director: Frank Capra | Stars: Adolf Hitler, John Lund
Votes: 189
30. A Life for Football (2014 TV Movie)
Biography, Drama, History
Jewish Kurt Landauer considers leaving Germany on the eve of WW II, but when he sees his big love, the football club Bayern Munich, lying in ruins, he decides to take the risc, stay and rebuild the club.
Director: Hans Steinbichler | Stars: Josef Bierbichler, Jeanette Hain, Herbert Knaup, Andreas Lust
Votes: 229
31. La tormenta (1967)
30 min | Biography, Drama, History
Stars: Enrique Lizalde, Maricruz Olivier, Ignacio López Tarso, Amparo Rivelles
Votes: 8
32. Le barbier (2001)
8 min | Drama, Short, War
It is 1942. A small French village must cope with Nazi occupation. A sympathetic and friendly French barber finds himself in a difficult situation when a German SS officer sits down and demands a shave.
Director: Jon Carnoy | Stars: Ticky Holgado, François Levantal, Roger Antigny, André Ballot
Votes: 24
33. It Happened One Night (1958)
98 min | Drama, History, Thriller
Based on a true story, this almost documentary-like drama tells the story of a young doctor, who in 1942, helped several Jewish children escape over the German border to neutral Sweden. Not... See full summary »
Director: Sigval Maartmann-Moe | Stars: Anne-Lise Tangstad, Joachim Holst-Jensen, Lalla Carlsen, Günther Hüttmann
Votes: 82
34. Heroes of the Marne (1938)
Approved | 93 min | Drama, Romance, War
Bernard Lefrancois is a prosperous farmer on the River Marne, while his neighbor is impoverished. Lefrancois objects strongly to the romance between his son and the neighbor's daughter, but... See full summary »
Director: André Hugon | Stars: Raimu, Albert Bassermann, Germaine Dermoz, Jacqueline Porel
Votes: 16
35. Okinawa: Urizun no ame (2015)
148 min | Documentary, History, War
'Okinawa: The Afterburn' is the first documentary film to provide a comprehensive picture of the 1945 Battle of Okinawa and the ensuing 70-year occupation of the island by the U.S. military.
Director: John Junkerman
Votes: 237
37. Banyeok (1966)
90 min | Action, Drama, War
Arai, although born a Korean, chooses a Japanese name and assists the occupying forces in rounding up Korean insurgents until the day he finds his father among the prisoners.
Director: Yeong-hyo Kim | Stars: Park No-shik, Ye-chun Lee, Min-ja Lee, Hye-jeong Kim
Votes: 19
38.
The Wonderful World of Disney (1997–2023)
Episode:
Miracle at Midnight
(1998)
TV-PG | 90 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
A Danish family tries to help their Jewish neighbours escape from the Nazis.
Director: Ken Cameron | Stars: Sam Waterston, Mia Farrow, Justin Whalin, Patrick Malahide
Votes: 640
39.
Israel (2013– )
Episode:
The Bank
(2013)
Comedy
Director: Roee Florentin | Stars: Israel Katorza, Hilla Sarjon, Shlomi Koriat, Nadav Abuksis
40.
Israel (2013– )
Episode:
The Birthday
(2013)
Comedy
Director: Roee Florentin | Stars: Israel Katorza, Hilla Sarjon, Shlomi Koriat, Nadav Abuksis
41.
Israel (2013– )
Episode:
The Movie
(2013)
Comedy
Director: Roee Florentin | Stars: Israel Katorza, Hilla Sarjon, Shlomi Koriat, Nadav Abuksis
42.
Israel (2013– )
Episode:
The Wedding
(2013)
Comedy
Director: Roee Florentin | Stars: Israel Katorza, Hilla Sarjon, Shlomi Koriat, Nadav Abuksis
43.
Israel (2013– )
Episode:
Vacation
(2013)
Comedy
Director: Roee Florentin | Stars: Israel Katorza, Hilla Sarjon, Shlomi Koriat, Nadav Abuksis
44.
Israel (2013– )
Episode:
Swimming Pool
(2013)
Comedy
Director: Roee Florentin | Stars: Israel Katorza, Hilla Sarjon, Shlomi Koriat, Nadav Abuksis
45.
Israel (2013– )
Episode:
The Hotel
(2013)
Comedy
Director: Roee Florentin | Stars: Israel Katorza, Hilla Sarjon, Shlomi Koriat, Nadav Abuksis