Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "wartime-rape"

1. Hotel Rwanda (2004)

PG-13 | 121 min | Biography, Drama, History

Paul Rusesabagina, a hotel manager, houses over a thousand Tutsi refugees during their struggle against the Hutu militia in Rwanda, Africa.

Director: Terry George | Stars: Don Cheadle, Sophie Okonedo, Joaquin Phoenix, Xolani Mali

Votes: 372,193 | Gross: $23.53M

2. The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999)

R | 148 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama

A young girl receives a vision that drives her to rid France of its oppressors.

Director: Luc Besson | Stars: Milla Jovovich, John Malkovich, Rab Affleck, Stéphane Algoud

Votes: 69,693 | Gross: $14.28M

3. 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: 29,153

4. Casualties of War (1989)

R | 113 min | Action, Crime, Drama

During the Vietnam War, a soldier finds himself the outsider of his own squad when they unnecessarily kidnap a female villager.

Director: Brian De Palma | Stars: Michael J. Fox, Sean Penn, Don Harvey, John C. Reilly

Votes: 48,120 | Gross: $18.67M

5. Lion of the Desert (1980)

PG | 173 min | Biography, Drama, History

In 1929, Italian Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini appoints General Rodolfo Graziani as colonial governor to Italian Libya with orders to stamp-out all resistance from Libyan nationalists led by rebel guerrilla leader Omar Mukhtar.

Director: Moustapha Akkad | Stars: Anthony Quinn, Oliver Reed, Rod Steiger, Irene Papas

Votes: 17,366 | Gross: $3.27M

6. Sometimes in April (2005 TV Movie)

TV-MA | 140 min | Drama, History, War

When the Hutu nationalists raised arms against their Tutsi countrymen in Rwanda in April 1994, the violent uprising marked the beginning of one of the darkest times in African history which resulted in the deaths of almost 800,000 people.

Director: Raoul Peck | Stars: Idris Elba, Carole Karemera, Pamela Nomvete, Oris Erhuero

Votes: 6,043

7. The Keeping Room (2014)

R | 95 min | Drama, Western

Left without men in the dying days of the American Civil War, three women must fight to defend their home and themselves from two rogue soldiers who have broken off from the fast-approaching Union Army.

Director: Daniel Barber | Stars: Brit Marling, Hailee Steinfeld, Sam Worthington, Muna Otaru

Votes: 7,589 | Gross: $0.03M

8. Ararat (2002)

R | 115 min | Drama, War

Interrogated by a customs officer, a young man recounts how his life was changed during the making of a film about the Armenian genocide.

Director: Atom Egoyan | Stars: Charles Aznavour, Brent Carver, Eric Bogosian, Simon Abkarian

Votes: 14,776 | Gross: $1.55M

9. A Woman in Berlin (2008)

Unrated | 131 min | Biography, Drama, History

A woman tries to survive the invasion of Berlin by the Soviet troops during the last days of World War II.

Director: Max Färberböck | Stars: Nina Hoss, Evgeniy Sidikhin, Irm Hermann, Rüdiger Vogler

Votes: 7,043 | Gross: $0.29M

10. The Worst Horror Movie Ever Made: The Re-Make (2008 Video)

Not Rated | 110 min | Comedy, Horror

A romantic couple run from the law after accidentally killing one of their friends. They encounter every imaginable monster that has appeared in horror movies in a modern day version of Dante's Inferno.

Director: Bill Zebub | Stars: Andrea Szel, T.J. Glenn, Elyse Cheri, Brian Joseph Gleitz

Votes: 149

11. J'accuse! (1919)

Not Rated | 166 min | Drama, Horror, War

The story of two men, one married, the other the lover of the other's wife, who meet in the trenches of the First World War, and how their tale becomes a microcosm for the horrors of war.

Director: Abel Gance | Stars: Romuald Joubé, Maxime Desjardins, Séverin-Mars, Angèle Guys

Votes: 2,048

12. Grbavica (2006)

90 min | Drama

A woman and her daughter struggle to make their way through the aftermath of the Bosnian War.

Director: Jasmila Zbanic | Stars: Mirjana Karanovic, Luna Zimic Mijovic, Leon Lucev, Kenan Catic

Votes: 6,886 | Gross: $0.04M

13. Plennyy (2008)

Not Rated | 80 min | Action, Drama

The story of a young Chechen and his Russian captor during their civil war.

Director: Aleksey Uchitel | Stars: Vyacheslav Krikunov, Pyotr Logachev, Irakli Mskhalaia, Yuliya Peresild

Votes: 392

14. Fung lau yuen gwai (1984)

84 min | Horror

A woman is raped and murdered during World War 2. Forty years later she returns to haunt her persecutors from the Tao Tao Mansion. A professor and his family move into the house, only to have the spirits take their son.

Directors: Chun Keung Chiu, Tai-Heng Li | Stars: Tony Liu, Wai Yee Chin, Mabel Kwong, Kuan-Chung Ku

Votes: 64

15. The Abandoned (2010)

Approved | 88 min | Drama

The story of a boy from a home for abandoned children, who tries to find out the truth about his origins.

Director: Adis Bakrac | Stars: Tony Grga, Mirsad Tuka, Mira Furlan, Mirela Lambic

Votes: 349 | Gross: $12.44M

16. Pucanj u dusu (2015)

57 min | Documentary, History, War

True shocking stories about war rapes and other acts of sexual violence during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1992.

Director: Enes Hotic | Stars: Mersiha Alukic, Muamer Avdic, Jasmina Botonjic, Dijana Budimlic

Votes: 11

17. Weapon of War: Confessions of Rape in Congo (2009)

60 min | Documentary

Wherever war breaks out, men with guns rape. During the decades of conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo possibly hundreds of thousands of women and girls were brutally raped. In ... See full summary »

Directors: Femke van Velzen, Ilse van Velzen

Votes: 14

18. Bir Millet Uyaniyor (1966)

101 min | Drama, War

A group of patriotic Anatolian people lead to awakening of people that in the middle of the first world war.

Director: Ertem Egilmez | Stars: Kartal Tibet, Erol Tas, Hayati Hamzaoglu, Münir Özkul

Votes: 271

19. BeFreier und BeFreite (1992)

192 min | Documentary

Helke Sander interviews multiple German women who were raped in Berlin by Soviet soldiers in May 1945. Most women never spoke of their experience to anyone, due largely to the shame ... See full synopsis »

Director: Helke Sander | Star: Helke Sander

Votes: 14

20. Cogadh ar Mhná/A War on Women (2020)

50 min | Documentary

Why is it that stories of sexual violence against women have never been part of the Irish War of Independence and the subsequent Civil War?

Director: Ciara Hyland | Stars: Cathal Sheahan, Allison Aucott, Anna Rose Hennessy, Frank Prendergast

21. Sozdar, She Who Lives Her Promise (2007)

70 min | Documentary

As a twelve year old girl she refused to be given in marriage. Thirty years later Nuriye Kesbir is still fighting, now as a wanted leader of a guerrilla-movement. Why does a women turn her ... See full summary »

Director: Annegriet Wietsma | Stars: Riza Altun, Ali Haydar Kaytan, Nuriye Kesbir, Victor Koppe

Votes: 17

22. The Rwandan Night (2013)

107 min | Documentary, Biography, Family

The Rwandan Night is a feature ethno-documentary that is centered around the haunting memories of one of the oldest survivor of the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. One night, in the ... See full summary »

Director: Gilbert Ndahayo | Stars: Mosupyoe Boatamo, Alexandre Dauge-Roth, Andrea Grieder, Ban Ki-moon

23. Général Ishiwara - L'homme qui déclencha la guerre (2012 TV Movie)

52 min | Documentary, Biography, History

From 1889 to 1949, General Ishiwara's military, ideological and political career took in the key moments of Japanese History, in a most spectacular way: the forced opening to the West, Hiroshima, the China war and Pearl Harbour.

Director: Paul Jenkins | Stars: Luce Mouchel, Frédéric Pellegeay, Ikuhiko Hata, Yôichi Higuchi

Votes: 26

24. Behind This Convent (2008)

PG-13 | 66 min | Documentary

April 10th, 1994. Killers stormed a convent in of the small hill towns of Rwanda. They selected two hundred Tutsis from the group and executed them behind this convent. Behind This Convent ... See full summary »

Director: Gilbert Ndahayo

Votes: 9

25. Vietnamese Rape Survivor Demands Justice (2015 Video)

4 min | Documentary, Short

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Star: Thi Bach Tuyet Nguyen

26. Just Cause (2001–2003)
Episode: Trial by Memory (2003)

Crime, Drama

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Director: John L'Ecuyer | Stars: Elizabeth Lackey, Shaun Benson, Richard Thomas, Mark Hildreth

27. The Border (2008–2010)
Episode: Spoils of War (2009)

44 min | Action, Crime, Drama

In a Toronto coffee-shop, an African refugee recognizes the brutal Congolese warlord who raped her and enslaved her son. As they struggle to keep the warlord behind bars, ICS uncovers a ... See full summary »

Director: John Fawcett | Stars: James McGowan, Graham Abbey, Jonas Chernick, Mark Wilson

Votes: 25

28. Secrets of War (1998– )
Episode: Hitler's Last Days (2000)

TV-PG | 45 min | Documentary, History, War

Secret Nazi attempts to turn the tide of war as Berlin crumbled. Joseph Goebbel's diaries provide a fresh understanding of life inside Hitler's bunker in the final days of the Reich.

Stars: Charlton Heston, Thomas B. Allen, Thomas Fuchs, Julian Lieb

29. Hell on Wheels (2011–2016)
Episode: God of Chaos (2012)

TV-14 | 42 min | Drama, Western

Durant and Lily conspire to gain investors' interests. Sean and Mickey McGinnes exact their own revenge on The Swede. Elam and Eva each begin to see the future differently. Cullen tracks down the elusive Sergeant Harper.

Director: David Von Ancken | Stars: Anson Mount, Colm Meaney, Common, Dominique McElligott

Votes: 799