Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "underground-resistance"

1. The Pianist (2002)

R | 150 min | Biography, Drama, Music

During WWII, acclaimed Polish musician Wladyslaw faces various struggles as he loses contact with his family. As the situation worsens, he hides in the ruins of Warsaw in order to survive.

Director: Roman Polanski | Stars: Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, Frank Finlay, Emilia Fox

Votes: 912,922 | Gross: $32.57M

2. The Lives of Others (2006)

R | 137 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

In 1984 East Berlin, an agent of the secret police conducting surveillance on a writer and his lover finds himself becoming increasingly absorbed by their lives.

Director: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck | Stars: Ulrich Mühe, Martina Gedeck, Sebastian Koch, Ulrich Tukur

Votes: 410,673 | Gross: $11.29M

3. Hogan's Heroes (1965–1971)

TV-PG | 25 min | Comedy, War

The inmates of a German World War II prisoner of war camp conduct an espionage and sabotage campaign right under the noses of their warders.

Stars: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary

Votes: 12,348

4. The Seventh Cross (1944)

Passed | 112 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery

In 1936, seven prisoners escape from a concentration camp. The Nazis put up seven crosses for demonstrative executions. This story about one of the fugitives, who relies on own courage and compassion of people to avoid the seventh cross.

Director: Fred Zinnemann | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Signe Hasso, Hume Cronyn, Jessica Tandy

Votes: 2,996

5. Barbarella (1968)

Approved | 98 min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy

In the 41st century, an astronaut partakes in sexy misadventures while seeking to stop an evil scientist who threatens to bring evil back into the galaxy.

Director: Roger Vadim | Stars: Jane Fonda, John Phillip Law, Anita Pallenberg, Milo O'Shea

Votes: 37,741

6. Red Dawn (2012)

PG-13 | 93 min | Action, Drama, War

A group of teenagers look to save their town from an invasion of North Korean soldiers.

Director: Dan Bradley | Stars: Chris Hemsworth, Isabel Lucas, Josh Hutcherson, Josh Peck

Votes: 80,591 | Gross: $44.81M

7. Demolition Man (1993)

R | 115 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller

A police officer is brought out of suspended animation in prison to pursue an old ultra-violent nemesis who is loose in a non-violent future society.

Director: Marco Brambilla | Stars: Sylvester Stallone, Wesley Snipes, Sandra Bullock, Nigel Hawthorne

Votes: 193,456 | Gross: $58.06M

8. Barb Wire (1996)

R | 98 min | Action, Sci-Fi

During the Second American Civil War in 2017, Barb Wire owns a nightclub called the Hammerhead. Things become complicated when her ex-lover Axel Hood, who is married to the fugitive Corrina Devonshire, re-enters her life.

Director: David Hogan | Stars: Pamela Anderson, Amir AboulEla, Adriana Alexander, David Andriole

Votes: 31,297 | Gross: $3.79M

9. Of Love and Shadows (1994)

R | 103 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller

Chile 1973 is ruled by the dictator Pinochet. The wealthy don't see the violence, terror, executions etc. including Irene. She's engaged to an officer in the fascist military. She meets Francisco who opens her eyes to truth and love.

Director: Betty Kaplan | Stars: Antonio Banderas, Jennifer Connelly, Stefania Sandrelli, Diego Wallraff

Votes: 2,395 | Gross: $0.02M

10. Ultraviolet (2006)

PG-13 | 88 min | Action, Sci-Fi

A beautiful haemophage infected with a virus that gives her superhuman powers has to protect a boy in a futuristic world, who is thought to be carrying antigens that would destroy all hæmophages.

Director: Kurt Wimmer | Stars: Milla Jovovich, Cameron Bright, Nick Chinlund, Sebastien Andrieu

Votes: 84,107 | Gross: $18.50M

11. Escape to Athena (1979)

PG | 125 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

A World War II adventure involving a group of Allied P.O.W.s, Nazis, black market priceless art treasures, Greek resistance, a Greek monastery, and a secret German rocket base.

Director: George P. Cosmatos | Stars: Roger Moore, Telly Savalas, David Niven, Stefanie Powers

Votes: 5,840

12. Alone in Berlin (2016)

R | 103 min | Drama, History, War

After a Nazi German working class couple loses their son in World War II, they decide to retaliate by secretly leafletting handwritten cards in Berlin denouncing their government.

Director: Vincent Perez | Stars: Louis Hofmann, Emil von Schönfels, Katrin Pollitt, Sammy Scheuritzel

Votes: 9,976

13. The Great Raid (2005)

R | 132 min | Action, Drama, War

Taking place towards the end of WWII, 500 American Soldiers have been entrapped in a camp for 3 years. Beginning to give up hope they will ever be rescued, a group of Rangers goes on a dangerous mission to try and save them.

Director: John Dahl | Stars: Benjamin Bratt, Joseph Fiennes, James Franco, Robert Mammone

Votes: 23,988 | Gross: $10.17M

14. 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: 29,787

15. Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (2005)

Not Rated | 120 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

A dramatization of the final days of Sophie Scholl, one of the most famous members of the German World War II anti-Nazi resistance movement, The White Rose.

Director: Marc Rothemund | Stars: Julia Jentsch, Fabian Hinrichs, Alexander Held, Johanna Gastdorf

Votes: 28,677 | Gross: $0.68M

16. 3Below: Tales of Arcadia (2018–2019)

TV-Y7-FV | 24 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

A pair of teenage royals and their bodyguard escape from their home planet and try to blend in on Earth.

Stars: Tatiana Maslany, Diego Luna, Nick Offerman, Frank Welker

Votes: 7,199

17. Walking with the Enemy (2013)

PG-13 | 124 min | Action, Drama, History

A young man, separated from his family in World War II, disguises himself as a Nazi S.S. Officer and uncovers more than just his family whereabouts.

Director: Mark Schmidt | Stars: Jonas Armstrong, Ben Kingsley, Hannah Tointon, Simon Kunz

Votes: 2,640 | Gross: $0.36M

18. 1983 (2018)

TV-MA | 448 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Decades after a 1983 terrorist attack, a law student and a cop uncover a conspiracy that's kept Poland as a police state and the Iron Curtain standing.

Stars: Robert Wieckiewicz, Maciej Musial, Michalina Olszanska, Andrzej Chyra

Votes: 4,204

19. Back to Bataan (1945)

Approved | 95 min | Drama, War

In 1942, after the fall of the Philippines to the Japanese, U.S. Army Col. Joseph Madden stays behind to organize the local resistance against the Japanese invaders.

Director: Edward Dmytryk | Stars: John Wayne, Anthony Quinn, Beulah Bondi, Fely Franquelli

Votes: 4,374

20. This Land Is Mine (1943)

Approved | 103 min | Drama, War

A mild-mannered school teacher in a German-occupied town during World War II finds himself torn between collaboration and resistance.

Director: Jean Renoir | Stars: Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Hara, George Sanders, Walter Slezak

Votes: 3,731

21. Army of Crime (2009)

Not Rated | 139 min | Drama, History, War

The poet Missak Manouchian leads a mixed bag of youngsters and immigrants in a clandestine battle against the Nazi occupation. Twenty-two men and one woman fighting for an ideal and for ... See full summary »

Director: Robert Guédiguian | Stars: Simon Abkarian, Virginie Ledoyen, Robinson Stévenin, Lola Naymark

Votes: 3,561 | Gross: $0.04M

22. The Angry Hills (1959)

Approved | 105 min | Drama, War, Thriller

In 1941, the Greek resistance entrusts an American journalist with a secret Greek double-agent list that must reach London and not fall into German hands.

Director: Robert Aldrich | Stars: Robert Mitchum, Stanley Baker, Elisabeth Müller, Gia Scala

Votes: 1,152

23. The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mission (1988 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 100 min | Action, Adventure, War

A team of renegade soldiers in World War II tries to stop the creation of the Fourth Reich in the Middle East.

Director: Lee H. Katzin | Stars: Telly Savalas, Ernest Borgnine, Hunt Block, Matthew Burton

Votes: 1,326

24. A Generation (1955)

Not Rated | 87 min | Drama, War

Story of youth during the German occupation of Poland in World War II who come to adulthood through love and adversity.

Director: Andrzej Wajda | Stars: Tadeusz Lomnicki, Urszula Modrzynska, Tadeusz Janczar, Janusz Paluszkiewicz

Votes: 2,929

25. Angry Harvest (1985)

R | 105 min | Drama, Romance, War

In the winter of 1942-43, a Jewish family leaps from a train going through Silesia. They are separated in the woods, and Leon, a local peasant who's now a farmer of some wealth, discovers ... See full summary »

Director: Agnieszka Holland | Stars: Armin Mueller-Stahl, Elisabeth Trissenaar, Wojciech Pszoniak, Gerd Baltus

Votes: 867

26. Manon (1949)

Not Rated | 100 min | Crime, Drama

A classic tale about bitter relationships between a frivolous girl and a soldier is adapted for the post-World War II time.

Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot | Stars: Serge Reggiani, Michel Auclair, Cécile Aubry, Andrex

Votes: 1,176

27. Cornered (1945)

Approved | 102 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller

Canadian flyer Laurence Gerard finds that his wife has been murdered by a French collaborator. His quest for justice leads him to Switzerland and Argentina.

Director: Edward Dmytryk | Stars: Dick Powell, Walter Slezak, Micheline Cheirel, Nina Vale

Votes: 2,463

28. An Englishman's Castle (1978)

144 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller

In a world in which Germany won World War II and has occupied the United Kingdom, Peter Ingram is a writer on a popular soap opera called "An Englishman's Castle" that is set in London ... See full summary »

Stars: Kenneth More, Anthony Bate, Isla Blair, Kathleen Byron

Votes: 93

29. Dirty Linen (2023)

TV-MA | Action, Crime, Drama

Four houseworkers of a well-known aristocratic family mysteriously vanished one by one without a trace, meanwhile four people are out to get their hellish revenge against the prominent family itself.

Stars: Zanjoe Marudo, Francine Diaz, Janine Gutierrez, John Arcilla

Votes: 181

30. The Edelweiss Pirates (2004)

Not Rated | 111 min | Drama, History, War

Cologne-Ehrenfeld, November 1944. They're young, wild and rebellious, like young people anywhere and in any time, but working-class boys Karl and his younger brother Peter are Edelweiss ... See full summary »

Director: Niko von Glasow | Stars: Ivan Stebunov, Bela B., Jochen Nickel, Anna Thalbach

Votes: 569

31. Alien Nation: The Udara Legacy (1997 TV Movie)

90 min | Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi

Matt and George investigate a series of strange occurrences involving Newcomers, who are found to be programmed to carry out someone's dirty work. The method by which they are brainwashed ... See full summary »

Director: Kenneth Johnson | Stars: Gary Graham, Eric Pierpoint, Michele Scarabelli, Terri Treas

Votes: 788

32. Novye priklyucheniya neulovimykh (1968)

82 min | Action, Adventure

Young heroes hunt for a secret map behind enemy lines. The second part of the film cycle, filmed at the request of the audience

Director: Edmond Keosayan | Stars: Mikhail Metyolkin, Vasiliy Vasilev, Viktor Kosykh, Valentina Kurdyukova

Votes: 1,193

33. Little Superman (1974)

101 min | Action, Drama

World War II Japan...the Japanese military learn that the Chinese government has stolen some secret military plans and that they will attempt to send them to Hong Kong via Macau. When a ... See full summary »

Director: See-Yuen Ng | Stars: Siu-Lung Leung, Yuan-Shen Huang, Chin Hu, Seok-hoon Nam

Votes: 96

34. Border Street (1948)

110 min | Drama, War

The story of Polish and Jewish families living side by side in one Warsaw street. Everything changes once and for all with the Nazi invasion.

Director: Aleksander Ford | Stars: Mieczyslawa Cwiklinska, Jerzy Leszczynski, Wladyslaw Godik, Wladyslaw Walter

Votes: 254

35. Johnny Mnemonic: The Interactive Action Movie (1995 Video Game)

T | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

In a cyberpunk future mnemonics are couriers hired to carry sensitive data uploaded in their cybernaticaly enhanced brains. Johnny's latest job is going to get him killed fast unless he extracts the data asap. But he needs a code to do it.

Director: Douglas Gayeton | Stars: Chris Gartin, Clare Carey, Yvonne de la Vega, Bruce Glover

Votes: 43

36. Mr. Orchid (1946)

95 min | Comedy, Drama, War

In the Charente, during the Nazi occupation, Edouard Martin, a fifty-year-old man with apparently peaceful life is in fact the leader of a resistance network.

Directors: René Clément, Noël-Noël | Stars: Noël-Noël, Maurice Chevit, Alice Leitner, Georges Questau

Votes: 314

37. Lawa. Opowiesc o 'Dziadach' Adama Mickiewicza (1989)

129 min | Drama, History, Mystery

In the eve of the Day of the Dead, among mysterious old rituals of the Vilnius region, ghosts of the past and present start to appear.

Director: Tadeusz Konwicki | Stars: Gustaw Holoubek, Jolanta Pietek-Górecka, Artur Zmijewski, Teresa Budzisz-Krzyzanowska

Votes: 336

38. Johnny 2.0 (1997 TV Movie)

120 min | Sci-Fi

Awakening from a 15-year coma, scientist Johnny Dalton (Fahey) discovers that his life has been illusory and that he is merely a clone of the real Dr. Dalton. With the help of rebel leader ... See full summary »

Director: Neill Fearnley | Stars: Jeff Fahey, Tahnee Welch, Michael Ironside, John Neville

Votes: 352

39. Gorod masterov (1966)

84 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy

The free medieval city with the majestic castle, the picturesque market square and cozy houses is conquered by troops of the spiteful knight de Malicorn. The mean tyrant dispatches spies ... See full summary »

Director: Vladimir Bychkov | Stars: Georgi Lapeto, Marianna Vertinskaya, Lev Lemke, Pavel Shpringfeld

Votes: 225

40. Johnny Shortwave (1995)

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Director: Michael Bockner | Stars: Emmanuel Mark, John Tench, Mona Matteo, Dougie Richardson

Votes: 28

41. Urodziny mlodego warszawiaka (1980)

96 min | Drama, History, Romance

The four sequences in the film cover four days in the life of a young Warsaw lad in September 1938, 1939, 1943, and 1944. In the first sequence Jurek decides not to study at Sorbonne but ... See full summary »

Directors: Ewa Petelska, Czeslaw Petelski | Stars: Piotr Lysak, Andrzej Lapicki, Jolanta Grusznic, Gabriela Kownacka

Votes: 38

42. Mayor 'Vikhr' (1967)

Not Rated | 216 min | Adventure, War

The Germans planted explosives to blow up the cities of Krakow and Prague, but the underground resistance in Poland works with the Soviets to stop the disaster.

Stars: Vadim Beroev, Anastasiya Voznesenskaya, Viktor Pavlov, Vladislav Strzhelchik

Votes: 116

43. Duo Valentianos (1987)

91 min | Documentary, Drama

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Director: Gertrud Pinkus | Stars: Gilles Lotthe, Margarete Wiedstruck, Ulli Scholz, Angelika Bartsch

44. The Four Twenty-One (2009)

Not Rated | 91 min | Sci-Fi

As a child, Buddy Cortez was recruited by a covert branch of the government and trained to hunt and destroy aliens that are living among us. Now, as the danger increases and a lifetime of ... See full summary »

Director: Tom Galt | Stars: Michael J. Gonzales, Jen Rainin, Tony Sommers, Paul Gerrior

Votes: 40

45. Cyprus: Britain's Grim Legacy (1984 TV Movie)

103 min | Documentary

How Nicosia became a divided city.

Director: Bruce MacDonald

46. Favela É Moda (2019)

75 min | Documentary

The daily life and development of young models of an agency located in the Jacarezinho favela, North Zone of Rio de Janeiro.

Director: Emílio Domingos

Votes: 6

47. The Decalogue (1989–1990)
Episode: Dekalog, osiem (1989)

TV-MA | 56 min | Drama

A researcher meets a professor and reveals herself as the child to whom she refused to shelter during World War II.

Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski | Stars: Maria Koscialkowska, Teresa Marczewska, Artur Barcis, Tadeusz Lomnicki

Votes: 3,668

48. Babylon 5 (1993–1998)
Episode: Voices of Authority (1996)

TV-PG | 44 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Sheridan has an interesting time dealing with the new Political Officer stationed by EarthGov. Ivanova and Marcus take the White Star in search of the First Ones.

Director: Menachem Binetski | Stars: Bruce Boxleitner, Claudia Christian, Jerry Doyle, Mira Furlan

Votes: 720

49. The Twentieth Century (1957–1968)
Episode: Sabotage (1960)

30 min | Documentary, History

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Star: Walter Cronkite

50. Masters of the Air (2024)
Episode: Part Three (2024)

TV-MA | 48 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

The group participates in its largest mission to date - the bombing of vital aircraft manufacturing plants deep within Germany.

Director: Cary Joji Fukunaga | Stars: Barry Keoghan, Dean Ridge, Thomas Flynn, Spike White

Votes: 2,795