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1. Warrior (2011)
PG-13 | 140 min | Action, Drama, Sport
The youngest son of an alcoholic former boxer returns home, where he's trained by his father for competition in a mixed martial arts tournament - a path that puts the fighter on a collision course with his estranged, older brother.
Director: Gavin O'Connor | Stars: Tom Hardy, Nick Nolte, Joel Edgerton, Jennifer Morrison
Votes: 497,908 | Gross: $13.66M
2. The Thin Red Line (1998)
R | 170 min | Drama, History, War
Adaptation of James Jones' autobiographical 1962 novel, focusing on the conflict at Guadalcanal during the second World War.
Director: Terrence Malick | Stars: Jim Caviezel, Sean Penn, Nick Nolte, Kirk Acevedo
Votes: 199,604 | Gross: $36.40M
3. Stripes (1981)
R | 106 min | Comedy, War
Two friends who are dissatisfied with their jobs decide to join the army for a bit of fun.
Director: Ivan Reitman | Stars: Bill Murray, John Candy, Harold Ramis, Warren Oates
Votes: 80,013 | Gross: $85.30M
4. Bloodsport (1988)
R | 92 min | Action, Biography, Drama
"Bloodsport" follows Frank Dux, an American martial artist serving in the military, who decides to leave the army to compete in a martial arts tournament in Hong Kong where fights to the death can occur.
Director: Newt Arnold | Stars: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Donald Gibb, Leah Ayres, Norman Burton
Votes: 94,009 | Gross: $11.81M
5. Tigerland (2000)
R | 101 min | Drama, War
A group of recruits go through Advanced Infantry Training at Fort Polk, Louisiana's infamous Tigerland, last stop before Vietnam for tens of thousands of young men in 1971.
Director: Joel Schumacher | Stars: Colin Farrell, Matthew Davis, Clifton Collins Jr., Tom Guiry
Votes: 43,356 | Gross: $0.14M
6. In the Valley of Elah (2007)
R | 121 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A retired military investigator works with a police detective to uncover the truth behind his son's disappearance following his return from a tour of duty in Iraq.
Director: Paul Haggis | Stars: Tommy Lee Jones, Charlize Theron, Jonathan Tucker, Jason Patric
Votes: 75,103 | Gross: $6.78M
7. Hope and Glory (1987)
PG-13 | 113 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Bill, a young boy living on the outskirts of London experiences the exhilaration of World War II. During this period, Bill learns about sex, death, love, hypocrisy, and the faults of adults as he prowls the ruins of bombed houses.
Director: John Boorman | Stars: Sarah Miles, David Hayman, Sebastian Rice-Edwards, Geraldine Muir
Votes: 14,597 | Gross: $10.02M
8. Cadet Kelly (2002 TV Movie)
TV-G | 101 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
A fashion-conscious youngster is horrified when she is forced to move to military school.
Director: Larry Shaw | Stars: Hilary Duff, Christy Carlson Romano, Gary Cole, Shawn Ashmore
Votes: 15,458
9. Stop-Loss (2008)
R | 112 min | Drama, War
A veteran soldier returns from his completed tour of duty in Iraq, only to find his life turned upside down when he is arbitrarily ordered to return to field duty by the Army.
Director: Kimberly Peirce | Stars: Ryan Phillippe, Abbie Cornish, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Rob Brown
Votes: 20,890 | Gross: $10.91M
10. This Christmas (2007)
PG-13 | 117 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A Christmastime drama centered around the Whitfield family's first holiday together in four years.
Director: Preston A. Whitmore II | Stars: Regina King, Columbus Short, Delroy Lindo, Idris Elba
Votes: 10,448 | Gross: $49.12M
11. Why Do Fools Fall in Love (1998)
R | 116 min | Biography, Drama, Music
Three women each claim to be the widow of 1950s doo-wop singer Frankie Lymon, claiming legal rights to his estate.
Director: Gregory Nava | Stars: Halle Berry, Vivica A. Fox, Lela Rochon, Larenz Tate
Votes: 4,545 | Gross: $12.41M
12. Lakshya (2004)
Not Rated | 186 min | Action, Drama, Romance
An aimless, jobless, irresponsible grown man joins the army and matures into a battlefield hero.
Director: Farhan Akhtar | Stars: Hrithik Roshan, Preity G Zinta, Amitabh Bachchan, Om Puri
Votes: 25,544 | Gross: $0.75M
13. AWOL (2016)
Not Rated | 82 min | Drama, Romance
A young woman Joey is in search of direction in her small town. A visit to an army recruiting office appears to provide a path, but when she meets and falls in love with Rayna that path diverges in ways that neither woman anticipates.
Director: Deb Shoval | Stars: Lola Kirke, Kyle Monaghan, Dale Soules, Madeline Hindmarch
Votes: 1,516
14. Two Men Went to War (2002)
PG | 109 min | Comedy, War, Drama
Comedy drama based on the true story of two British Army dentists who in 1942, eager to see action, go A.W.O.L. and invade occupied France on their own.
Director: John Henderson | Stars: Kenneth Cranham, Leo Bill, Derek Jacobi, Anthony Valentine
Votes: 942 | Gross: $0.15M
15. The Revolutionary (1970)
R | 100 min | Action, Drama
A radical student feels that he has been betrayed by the college association to which he belongs, and thinks more violent actions must be taken in order to alter the existing system.
Director: Paul Williams | Stars: Jon Voight, Seymour Cassel, Robert Duvall, Collin Wilcox Paxton
Votes: 310
16. Dangerous Money (1946)
Approved | 66 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
A treasury agent on the trail of counterfeit money confides to fellow ocean liner passenger Charlie Chan that there have been two attempts on his life.
Director: Terry O. Morse | Stars: Sidney Toler, Gloria Warren, Victor Sen Yung, Rick Vallin
Votes: 1,278
17. Bungalow (2002)
Unrated | 85 min | Drama
A German soldier goes AWOL and returns home to more problems than he left.
Director: Ulrich Köhler | Stars: Lennie Burmeister, Devid Striesow, Trine Dyrholm, Nicole Gläser
Votes: 638
18. The Cockleshell Heroes (1955)
Approved | 97 min | Action, Drama, War
During World War II, German ships are "safely" docked upriver at Bordeaux, but the British send a team of kayakers to attack them.
Director: José Ferrer | Stars: José Ferrer, Trevor Howard, Dora Bryan, Christopher Lee
Votes: 1,996
19. Kroll (1991)
101 min | Action, Drama
When a young soldier deserts the army, the officers decide to look for him on their own before the military prosecutor takes over the case.
Director: Wladyslaw Pasikowski | Stars: Olaf Lubaszenko, Boguslaw Linda, Dariusz Kordek, Ewa Bukowska
Votes: 1,291
20. One Night Stand (1984)
Not Rated | 94 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
In Australia, four teenagers in a Sydney theater are astounded to hear the news that a nuclear war has broken out in Eastern Europe. They try to figure out the best way they can survive the coming conflagration.
Director: John Duigan | Stars: Tyler Coppin, Cassandra Delaney, Jay Hackett, Saskia Post
Votes: 256
21. Three Blind Mice (2008)
94 min | Comedy, Drama
Three young Navy officers hit Sydney for one last night on land before being shipped over to the Gulf to fight. Sam has been mistreated at sea and is going AWOL, Dean has a fiancée and the ... See full summary »
Director: Matthew Newton | Stars: Ewen Leslie, Toby Schmitz, Matthew Newton, Tina Bursill
Votes: 404
22. Waterloo Road (1945)
76 min | Drama, Romance, War
A drama set during World War II. A tale of adultery and desertion.
Director: Sidney Gilliat | Stars: John Mills, Stewart Granger, Alastair Sim, Joy Shelton
Votes: 690
23. Blue State (2007)
R | 88 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
BLUE STATE is a romantic comedy about a disgruntled Democrat who actually follows through on a drunken campaign promise to move to Canada if George "Dubya" Bush gets re-elected.
Director: Marshall Lewy | Stars: Breckin Meyer, Anna Paquin, Joyce Krenz, Richard Blackburn
Votes: 2,452
24. Sir! No Sir! (2005)
Not Rated | 85 min | Documentary, History, War
NO! SIR! tells an almost entirely forgotten story of the military men and women who forced the U.S. government to end the Vietnam War
Director: David Zeiger | Stars: Michael Alaimo, Edward Asner, Joe Bangert, Tom Bernard
Votes: 838 | Gross: $0.11M
25. Guy X (2005)
R | 101 min | Comedy, War
A black comedy set in 1979, about a soldier mistakenly posted to an Arctic military base.
Director: Saul Metzstein | Stars: Jason Biggs, Natascha McElhone, Jeremy Northam, Sean Tucker
Votes: 2,083
26. The Ritchie Boys (2004)
90 min | Documentary, History, War
Holocaust survivors share their story of fleeing to the United States, joining the US Army, training in Military Intelligence, and returning to Europe to end Nazism by using their linguistic abilities.
Director: Christian Bauer | Stars: Michael Hanrahan, Werner Angress, Victor Brombert, Marlene Dietrich
Votes: 264
27. Parades (1972)
R | 95 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Set in fictitious Fort Nix this drama presents, through a strong anti-military message, the supposed abuses that go on inside the United States military stockades as it tells the prisoners' tales.
Director: Robert J. Siegel | Stars: Russ Thacker, Brad Sullivan, Lewis J. Stadlen, David Doyle
Votes: 59
28. When Hell Broke Loose (1958)
Approved | 78 min | Drama, War
In 1945, a GI falls in love with a German woman while elite German troops in U.S.uniforms carry out sabotage and assassinations behind American lines.
Director: Kenneth G. Crane | Stars: Charles Bronson, Richard Jaeckel, Violet Rensing, Robert Easton
Votes: 323
29. Patapon (1993)
106 min | Action, Drama
Director: Leonardo L. Garcia | Stars: Ronnie Ricketts, Tony Ferrer, Roi Vinzon, Cristina Gonzales
30. Dark Sands (1937)
Not Rated | 77 min | Adventure, Drama, Musical
During WWI, action hero Robeson escapes an unjust death sentence to ramble around Arabia.
Director: Thornton Freeland | Stars: Paul Robeson, Henry Wilcoxon, Wallace Ford, Kouka
Votes: 343
31. Crimson Romance (1934)
Approved | 71 min | Action, Drama, War
After Fred von Bergen, a German immigrant in America, is forced from his job by anti-German hysteria before the Great War, he and his friend Bob Wilson leave America and join the German air force,
Director: David Howard | Stars: Ben Lyon, Sari Maritza, Erich von Stroheim, James Bush
Votes: 184
32. Absent Without Leave (1992)
95 min | Drama, Romance, War
In the early days of the war against Japan, Ed marries his pregnant girlfriend Daisy just before joining up with the New Zealand army. Unfortunately for the young couple, Daisy suffers a ... See full summary »
Director: John Laing | Stars: Craig McLachlan, Katrina Hobbs, Judie Douglass, Tony Barry
Votes: 72
33. The Old Army Game (1943)
Approved | 6 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Private Donald is caught going AWOL and Sgt. Pete is waiting in his barraks for him.
Director: Jack King | Stars: Billy Bletcher, Clarence Nash
Votes: 567
34. Hideaway (1978)
97 min | Comedy
Two middle-aged friends make a wager: no drinking, smoking, overeating, gambling, cursing, armchair sports or women for a month.
Director: Seppo Huunonen | Stars: Leo Lastumäki, Erkki Liikanen, Ritva Valkama, Petra Frey
Votes: 131
35. Flotsam (2008)
23 min | Short, Drama
Director: Michael Curtis Johnson | Stars: Lela Loren, Mark Erman, Thomas F. Evans, Joy Darash
Votes: 23
36. A.W.O.L. (1972)
82 min | Crime, Drama
In Sweden, young US soldier, Willy, goes a.w.o.l and teams up with other deserters in Stockholm. There, he meets leftist radical beauty, Inga, who tries to seduce him into joining her extremist group's cause.
Director: Herb Freed | Stars: Russ Thacker, Isabella Kaliff, Glynn Turman, Lenny Baker
Votes: 18
37. The House with Closed Shutters (1910)
Not Rated | 17 min | Short, Drama, War
A Confederate soldier shames his mother and sister by going AWOL during battle. His sister takes his place, with tragic results, leaving him to live out his life in shame, hiding to protect his family name.
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Henry B. Walthall, Dorothy West, Grace Henderson, Charles West
Votes: 581
38. A Daughter of France (1918)
50 min | Drama
During World War I, Louise, a French girl, refuses to leave her château after the invading Germans take it over for use as their headquarters. A German officer, Col. von Knorr, makes ... See full summary »
Director: Edmund Lawrence | Stars: Virginia Pearson, Hugh Thompson, Herbert Evans, George Moss
40. Samowolka (1993 TV Movie)
62 min | Drama
New recruits go to the army and experience nothing but humiliation, cruelty and pure sadism from older soldiers.
Director: Feliks Falk | Stars: Robert Gonera, Aleksander Gawek, Mariusz Jakus, Krzysztof Zaleski
Votes: 587
41. A.W.O.L. (1918)
5 min | Short, Animation, Comedy
The animated story of the adventures of a soldier who is Absent WithOut Leave.
Director: Charles R. Bowers
Votes: 215
42. Vääpelin kauhu (1957)
72 min | Comedy
Finnish military farce about elderly man who is commanded back to service.
Director: Esko Töyri | Stars: Heikki Savolainen, Lasse Pöysti, Maija Karhi, Heikki Heino
Votes: 84
43. Navy Secrets (1939)
Passed | 62 min | Adventure, Thriller
A Navy officer is assigned to break up a spy ring within the service itself.
Director: Howard Bretherton | Stars: Fay Wray, Grant Withers, Craig Reynolds, Wilhelm von Brincken
Votes: 113
44. Edge (1997)
R | 100 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
Edge is the story of Edward 'Edge' Jones (Edge), a man with no memory of the event in the Persian Gulf war that left him physically scarred and lost in a civilian world that offers him no ... See full summary »
Director: Brian Harty | Stars: Aaron Michael Lacey, Steve Tartalia, Briel Banks, Celeste Lynch
Votes: 61
45.
Three's Company (1976–1984)
Episode:
Jack on the Lam
(1979)
TV-PG | Comedy
Jack dresses up as a woman when he thinks that the FBI is after him.
Director: Dave Powers | Stars: John Ritter, Joyce DeWitt, Suzanne Somers, Richard Kline
Votes: 202
46.
Numb3rs (2005–2010)
Episode:
All's Fair
(2006)
TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
After an Iraqi woman - in the US to film an interview on atrocities against women back home - is murdered, clues lead to an American military suspect and the team must determine their truth before another killing occurs.
Director: Rob Morrow | Stars: Rob Morrow, David Krumholtz, Judd Hirsch, Alimi Ballard
Votes: 281
47.
Rescue 8 (1958–1960)
Episode:
Walking Death
(1959)
30 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
Wes and Skip join the search for an AWOL sailor suspected of carrying typhoid fever.
Director: William Beaudine | Stars: Jim Davis, Lang Jeffries, Johnny Seven, Renata Vanni
48.
Murdoch Mysteries (2008– )
Episode:
Kommando
(2011)
TV-PG | 48 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Members of a squad of Canadian soldiers who were recently deployed to South Africa are stricken with a mysterious illness and others are being murdered.
Director: Harvey Crossland | Stars: Yannick Bisson, Helene Joy, Thomas Craig, Jonny Harris
Votes: 335
49.
Two and a Half Men (2003–2015)
Episode:
Avoid the Chinese Mustard
(2012)
TV-14 | 22 min | Comedy, Romance
Jake goes AWOL from the Army to spend another weekend with Missi, and Walden hires an actress to play the role of his girlfriend.
Director: James Widdoes | Stars: Ashton Kutcher, Jon Cryer, Angus T. Jones, Rico E. Anderson
Votes: 986