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1. The Zone of Interest (2023)
PG-13 | 105 min | Drama, History, War
Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss and his wife Hedwig strive to build a dream life for their family in a house and garden beside the camp.
Director: Jonathan Glazer | Stars: Christian Friedel, Sandra Hüller, Johann Karthaus, Luis Noah Witte
Votes: 87,792
2. Police Academy (1984)
R | 96 min | Comedy
The mayor declares that anyone can enroll in the police academy irrespective of their physical condition or education level, and many misfits descend on the academy, including a young troublemaker who's forced to apply or go to jail.
Director: Hugh Wilson | Stars: Steve Guttenberg, G.W. Bailey, Kim Cattrall, Bubba Smith
Votes: 137,663 | Gross: $81.20M
3. The Great Escape (1963)
Approved | 172 min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Allied prisoners of war plan for several hundred of their number to escape from a German camp during World War II.
Director: John Sturges | Stars: Steve McQueen, James Garner, Richard Attenborough, Charles Bronson
Votes: 259,233 | Gross: $12.10M
4. Puss in Boots (2011)
PG | 90 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
An outlaw cat, his childhood egg-friend, and a seductive thief kitty set out in search for the eggs of the fabled Golden Goose to clear his name, restore his lost honor, and regain the trust of his mother and town.
Director: Chris Miller | Stars: Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek, Zach Galifianakis, Billy Bob Thornton
Votes: 192,718 | Gross: $149.26M
5. Cross of Iron (1977)
R | 119 min | Drama, War
German commander Hauptmann Stransky places a squad in extreme danger after Sergeant Rolf Steiner refuses to lie for him.
Director: Sam Peckinpah | Stars: James Coburn, Maximilian Schell, James Mason, David Warner
Votes: 29,218
6. 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: 5,847
7. Police Academy: Mission to Moscow (1994)
PG | 83 min | Comedy, Crime
The Russian government hires the veterans of the Police Academy (1984) to help deal with the Mafia.
Director: Alan Metter | Stars: G.W. Bailey, George Gaynes, Michael Winslow, David Graf
Votes: 36,229 | Gross: $0.13M
8. The Water Diviner (2014)
R | 111 min | Drama, History, War
An Australian man travels to Turkey after the Battle of Gallipoli to try to locate his three missing sons.
Director: Russell Crowe | Stars: Russell Crowe, Olga Kurylenko, Jai Courtney, Isabel Lucas
Votes: 77,990 | Gross: $4.19M
9. The Lords of Discipline (1983)
R | 102 min | Thriller
In 1960s America, a black cadet is allowed acceptance into a seemingly prestigious military academy, unleashing a barrage of corruption within the system that another cadet is willing to expose.
Director: Franc Roddam | Stars: David Keith, Robert Prosky, G.D. Spradlin, Barbara Babcock
Votes: 2,962 | Gross: $11.79M
10. On the Beach (1959)
Approved | 134 min | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
After a global nuclear war, the residents of Australia must come to terms with the fact that all life will be destroyed in a matter of months.
Director: Stanley Kramer | Stars: Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Fred Astaire, Anthony Perkins
Votes: 14,443 | Gross: $11.00M
11. Slaughterhouse-Five (1972)
R | 104 min | Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Billy Pilgrim has mysteriously become unstuck in time. He goes on an uncontrollable trip back and forth from his birth in New York to life on a distant planet and back again to the horrors of the 1945 fire-bombing of Dresden.
Director: George Roy Hill | Stars: Michael Sacks, Ron Leibman, Eugene Roche, Sharon Gans
Votes: 13,926 | Gross: $0.57M
12. Beau Travail (1999)
Unrated | 92 min | Drama, War
An ex-Foreign Legion officer recalls his once-glorious life of leading troops in Djibouti.
Director: Claire Denis | Stars: Denis Lavant, Michel Subor, Grégoire Colin, Richard Courcet
Votes: 14,672 | Gross: $0.25M
13. Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (1983)
R | 123 min | Drama, War
During WWII, a British colonel tries to bridge the cultural divides between a British POW and the Japanese camp commander in order to avoid bloodshed.
Director: Nagisa Ôshima | Stars: David Bowie, Tom Conti, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Takeshi Kitano
Votes: 20,062 | Gross: $2.31M
14. The Grand Illusion (1937)
Not Rated | 113 min | Drama, War
During WWI, two French soldiers are captured and imprisoned in a German P.O.W. camp. Several escape attempts follow until they are eventually sent to a seemingly inescapable fortress.
Director: Jean Renoir | Stars: Jean Gabin, Dita Parlo, Pierre Fresnay, Erich von Stroheim
Votes: 38,895 | Gross: $0.17M
15. 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: 3,009
16. Night and Fog (1956)
TV-14 | 32 min | Documentary, Short, History
The history of Nazi Germany's death camps of the Final Solution and the hellish world of dehumanization and death contained inside.
Director: Alain Resnais | Stars: Michel Bouquet, Reinhard Heydrich, Heinrich Himmler, Adolf Hitler
Votes: 21,507
17. The Battle of Neretva (1969)
G | 105 min | Drama, History, War
World War II drama about the 1943 battle around the Neretva River between Axis forces and Yugoslav partisan units.
Director: Veljko Bulajic | Stars: Yul Brynner, Hardy Krüger, Franco Nero, Sylva Koscina
Votes: 4,055
18. The Far Pavilions (1984)
315 min | Drama, History, Romance
Story of forbidden love in 1800s India set against the revolution for India's freedom from England.
Stars: Ben Cross, Amy Irving, Christopher Lee, Robert Hardy
Votes: 878
19. The Day the Clown Cried (1972)
90 min | Drama
A circus clown is imprisoned by the Nazis and goes with Jewish children to their deaths.
Director: Jerry Lewis | Stars: Jerry Lewis, Peter Ahlm, Lars Amble, Harriet Andersson
20. Police Academy: The Series (1997–1998)
TV-MA | 60 min | Comedy, Crime
There is a brand new class of screw-ups at the Police Academy (1984). They face danger and try not to let their stupidity get in the way as they fight crime, often without even knowing it.
Stars: Matt Borlenghi, Rod Crawford, Toby Proctor, Jeremiah Birkett
Votes: 1,502
21. Seven Beauties (1975)
R | 116 min | Comedy, Drama, War
The defense of honor, a strong value in Neapolitan society, and its effects on the life of everyman Pasquale Frafuso.
Director: Lina Wertmüller | Stars: Giancarlo Giannini, Fernando Rey, Shirley Stoler, Elena Fiore
Votes: 6,498 | Gross: $0.01M
22. The Battle of Sutjeska (1973)
PG | 130 min | War
In 1943, 20,000 Yugoslav partisans led by Tito find themselves encircled by 120,000 well-armed Axis troops in the mountains of Bosnia and must break out of encirclement.
Director: Stipe Delic | Stars: Richard Burton, Ljuba Tadic, Velimir 'Bata' Zivojinovic, Irene Papas
Votes: 1,838
23. The Colditz Story (1955)
Not Rated | 94 min | Drama, History, War
Allied prisoners - British, Dutch, French and Polish - pool their resources to plan numerous escapes from the "escape-proof" German P.O.W. camp housed in a Medieval castle known as "Colditz".
Director: Guy Hamilton | Stars: John Mills, Eric Portman, Christopher Rhodes, Lionel Jeffries
Votes: 3,082
24. Passion of Love (1981)
117 min | Drama, History, Romance
In the 1860s, Giorgio (Giraudeau), a young Italian soldier, is sent to a remote post, far away from his lover, Clara (Antonelli). He is lodged in the house of the colonel (Girotti). He ... See full summary »
Director: Ettore Scola | Stars: Valeria D'Obici, Bernard Giraudeau, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Massimo Girotti
Votes: 1,022
25. The Last Guerrilla (1974)
PG | 102 min | Action, Drama, Romance
Partisans in Yugoslavia clash with the Germans that have invaded their homeland in several confrontations until the climactic battle at Hell River.
Director: Stole Jankovic | Stars: Rod Taylor, Adam West, Brioni Farrell, Velimir 'Bata' Zivojinovic
Votes: 361
26. Povratak otpisanih (1976–1978)
55 min | War
In Summer of 1944 Prle and Tihi, young yet veteran resistance fighters, together with Joca, old and moody radio operator, are sent by partisans to Belgrade, the Yugoslav capital still under... See full summary »
Stars: Pavle Vuisic, Dragan Nikolic, Vojislav 'Voja' Brajovic, Zlata Petkovic
Votes: 1,451
27. Highly Dangerous (1950)
Not Rated | 90 min | Action, Thriller
A British lady entomologist travels to a Balkan country to look into germ warfare trials using various bugs as carriers.
Director: Roy Ward Baker | Stars: Margaret Lockwood, Dane Clark, Marius Goring, Naunton Wayne
Votes: 620
28. Dark Blue World (2001)
R | 112 min | War, Drama, Action
The friendship of two men becomes tested when they both fall for the same woman.
Director: Jan Sverák | Stars: Ondrej Vetchý, Krystof Hádek, Tara Fitzgerald, Charles Dance
Votes: 6,106 | Gross: $0.26M
29. Police Academy: The Animated Series (1988–1989)
TV-Y7 | 22 min | Animation, Comedy, Crime
The further adventures of the Police Academy (1984) gang.
Stars: Ron Rubin, Howard Morris, Charles Woods Gray, Greg Swanson
Votes: 981
30. Carve Her Name with Pride (1958)
Not Rated | 119 min | Biography, Drama, War
During World War II, a recently widowed young woman is recruited to work as a spy in France.
Director: Lewis Gilbert | Stars: Virginia McKenna, Paul Scofield, Jack Warner, Denise Grey
Votes: 1,861
31. Call of Heroes (2016)
Not Rated | 120 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
A group of villagers must stand up to a warlord's psychopath son, who is protected by a Commander with proficient martial arts skills as well as a small army.
Director: Benny Chan | Stars: Ching Wan Lau, Eddie Peng, Louis Koo, Jing Wu
Votes: 2,566
32. Getting Away with Murder (1996)
R | 91 min | Comedy
A moral college ethics professor plans to kill his neighbor, a Nazi death camp commander.
Director: Harvey Miller | Stars: Jack Lemmon, Dan Aykroyd, Lily Tomlin, Bonnie Hunt
Votes: 1,470 | Gross: $0.20M
33. The Savage Peace (2015 TV Movie)
60 min | Documentary, History
When the Second World War ended, the people of liberated Europe celebrated their freedom from Nazi tyranny. Their years of suffering had ended, but for millions of Germans, the end of the conflict opened a new and terrible chapter.
Director: Peter Molloy | Stars: Christa Ronke, Marianne Becker, Meda Mládek, Stanislava Zverinova
Votes: 313
34. Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion (1950)
Passed | 80 min | Adventure, Comedy
Two Brooklyn wrestling promoters go to French Algeria in search of a famous Algerian wrestler but accidentally end-up in the French Foreign Legion.
Director: Charles Lamont | Stars: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Patricia Medina, Walter Slezak
Votes: 3,122
35. The Ninth Day (2004)
Not Rated | 98 min | Drama, Thriller, War
A drama loosely based on Jean Bernard's Nazi-era prison diary.
Director: Volker Schlöndorff | Stars: Ulrich Matthes, August Diehl, Hilmar Thate, Bibiana Beglau
Votes: 1,949 | Gross: $0.07M
36. I Aliki sto Naftiko (1961)
90 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
The frustration of an unkept promise and an insuppressible youthful rebellion lead to an unprecedented act of love, as the daughter of the Hellenic Naval Academy's commander and a fourth-year cadet meet again in the strangest of places.
Director: Alekos Sakellarios | Stars: Aliki Vougiouklaki, Dimitris Papamichael, Giannis Gionakis, Giannis Malouhos
Votes: 1,982
37. When the Sky Falls (2000)
R | 107 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
Irish crime-investigating reporter Sinead Hamilton invades the Irish underworld and attempts to expose the illegitimate activities that she has found. Hampered by the system, a police ... See full summary »
Director: John Mackenzie | Stars: Joan Allen, Patrick Bergin, Liam Cunningham, Kevin McNally
Votes: 782
38. Dress Gray (1986)
192 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
When a first-classman's insignia is found on the riverbank near the drowned body of plebe David Hand, the specter of murder casts a shadow of scandal across the U.S. Grant Military Academy.... See full summary »
Stars: Eddie Albert, Alec Baldwin, Lloyd Bridges, Patrick Cassidy
Votes: 393
39. The Great Water (2004)
93 min | Drama, War
Based on a children's book written by Zivko Cingo in the 1970s, the movie is about the difficult transition in Macedonia after World War II.
Director: Ivo Trajkov | Stars: Saso Kekenovski, Maja Stankovska, Mitko Apostolovski, Verica Nedeska
Votes: 873 | Gross: $0.01M
40. Stalag Luft (1993 TV Movie)
103 min | Comedy, Drama, War
During WW2, after the 'ingenious' desertion of the German guards, the Allied prisoners of a POW camp decide to remain in the camp, some masquerading as German guards, in order to fool the frequent SS inspections.
Director: Adrian Shergold | Stars: Stephen Fry, Nicholas Lyndhurst, Geoffrey Palmer, Sam Kelly
Votes: 180
41. UFO... annientare S.H.A.D.O. stop. Uccidete Straker... (1974)
86 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
In the 20th century the Earth is threatened by an alien race who kidnap and kill humans and even animals and use them for their body parts. In the year 1980 S.H.A.D.O. (Supreme Headquarters... See full summary »
Directors: David Lane, Alan Perry | Stars: Ed Bishop, George Sewell, Michael Billington, Peter Gordeno
Votes: 154
42. The Navy Way (1944)
Approved | 74 min | Drama, War
The experiences of a disparate group of young men as they make their way through Navy boot camp.
Director: William Berke | Stars: Robert Lowery, Jean Parker, William Henry, Roscoe Karns
Votes: 161
43. Oregon Passage (1957)
Approved | 80 min | Drama, Western
An army officer tries to help the Indians placed in his charge, but finds himself interfering with their way of life.
Director: Paul Landres | Stars: John Ericson, Lola Albright, Toni Gerry, Edward Platt
Votes: 128
44. La bandera (1935)
Approved | 88 min | Drama, Romance, War
Pierre Gilieth has committed a murder in Paris. He flees to Barcelona, where he runs out of money. So he joins the Spanish Foreign Legion. He meets there two fellow countrymen, Mulot and ... See full summary »
Director: Julien Duvivier | Stars: Annabella, Jean Gabin, Robert Le Vigan, Raymond Aimos
Votes: 734
45. Massacre at Noon (1975)
R | 91 min | Drama, Romance, War
In Autumn of 1941, the German army, determined to put down a Communist-led uprising in Serbia, is conducting a policy of killing 100 hostages for any German soldier killed. The city of ... See full summary »
Director: Branimir Tori Jankovic | Stars: Dragomir Bojanic-Gidra, Miha Baloh, Vojislav Miric, Dragana Borkovic
Votes: 90
46. Desant na Drvar (1963)
105 min | War
Raid on Drvar known as 'The Seventh Enemy Offensive' or as 'Operation Equestrian jump' was the last attempt of the Germans and Hitler to come to the supreme headquarters of the Partisan ... See full summary »
Director: Fadil Hadzic | Stars: Ljubisa Samardzic, Pavle Vuisic, Maks Furijan, Mata Milosevic
Votes: 276
47. The Ambush (1969)
80 min | Drama, Romance, War
Idealistic young man supports the party and the new Yugoslavia's communist regime, but soon gets involved in various political and criminal machinations becoming more and more confused about what's right and what's wrong.
Director: Zivojin Pavlovic | Stars: Milena Dravic, Ivica Vidovic, Severin Bijelic, Slobodan Aligrudic
Votes: 391
48. Gebürtig (2002)
Not Rated | 110 min | Drama, Music, Romance
A holocaust survivor now living as a respected writer in Manhattan is the only person who can identify a suspected Nazi back in his native Austria. When a beautiful reporter eager for a ... See full summary »
Directors: Robert Schindel, Lukas Stepanik | Stars: Peter Simonischek, Ruth Rieser, August Zirner, Katja Weitzenböck
Votes: 233
49. Majuba: Heuwel van Duiwe (1968)
195 min | Drama, History, War
Set during the first Anglo-Boer War 1880-1881 details the events leading up to this final battle ending in one of the most humiliating defeats for Britain in history.
Director: David Millin | Stars: Roland Robinson, Reinet Maasdorp, Patrick Mynhardt, Siegfried Mynhardt
Votes: 27
50. Torte Bluma (2005)
22 min | Short, Drama
Torte Bluma is a sobering film inspired by a real-life episode in the life of Franz Stangl (played by Stellan), the German commandant at the Treblinka Extermination Camp, and the Jewish prisoner who cooks his meals.
Director: Benjamin Ross | Stars: Stellan Skarsgård, Simon McBurney, James Arden, Benedick Bates
Votes: 75