English movies about soldiers

List of the best English movies about soldiers selected by visitors to our site: 400 Bullets, Far from the Madding Crowd, Queen & Country, Retreat, Private Peaceful, Mr. Holmes, The Viking War, Victoria & Abdul, Dunkirk, The Man with the Iron Heart.

In the top there are new films of 2021, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

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Markimdb: 4.5
Genreaction
CountryUnited Kingdom

One cold winter night in Afghanistan is about to get a whole lot worse for Rana Rae, a Gurkha soldier left to guard a British military outpost, when Captain Noah Brandt arrives looking for refuge from a group of rogue special ops and a cell of heavily armed Taliban. The two soldiers must fight for their lives as they attempt to call for backup before the rogue squad, led by the backstabbing Sergeant Bartlett, can hunt them down to retrieve a case of missile guidance chips that Noah intercepted. But Bartlett and his men do not count on Rana, whose ferocious Gurkha training makes him a force to be reckoned with.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration02:33

Based on the literary classic by Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd is the story of independent, beautiful and headstrong Bathsheba Everdene, who attracts three very different suitors: Gabriel Oak, a sheep farmer, captivated by her fetching willfulness; Frank Troy, a handsome and reckless Sergeant; and William Boldwood, a prosperous and mature bachelor. This timeless story of Bathsheba's choices and passions explores the nature of relationships and love – as well as the human ability to overcome hardships through resilience and perseverance.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA

An Englishman who grew up in London during World War II joins the military to fight in the Korean War.

Markimdb: 5.7
Genrethriller, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration01:30

Kate and Martin escape from personal tragedy to an Island Retreat. Cut off from the outside world, their attempts to recover are shattered when a man is washed ashore, with news of airborne killer disease that is sweeping through Europe.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genredrama, military
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration01:42

Set in the fields of Devon and the WW1 battlefields of Flanders, two brothers fall for the same girl while contending with the pressures of their feudal family life, the war, and the price of courage and cowardice.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genredrama, detective
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration02:15

The story is set in 1947, following a long-retired Holmes living in a Sussex village with his housekeeper and rising detective son. But then he finds himself haunted by an unsolved 50-year old case. Holmes' memory isn't what it used to be, so he only remembers fragments of the case: a confrontation with an angry husband, a secret bond with his beautiful but unstable wife.

Markimdb: 4.3
Genrehistory
CountryUnited Kingdom

Ingrid and her siblings are on the run from the Beserkers who have begun invading the villages, taking over, savagely using the residents on a game where they vs a Beserker, and if they win, they get to survive - only, no one ever wins. The siblings are trying to escape the Beserkers after they violently murdered and took over their town. However, the Beserkers are on their trail, and want to put them in the game.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genremelodrama, drama, biography, history
CountryUnited Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, USA
Duration02:45

Queen Victoria strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Indian clerk named Abdul Karim.

Markimdb: 7.8
Genredrama, military, history
CountryUnited Kingdom, Netherlands, France, USA
Duration02:27

The story of the miraculous evacuation of Allied soldiers from Belgium, Britain, Canada and France, who were cut off and surrounded by the German army from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk between May 26th and June 4th 1940 during World War II.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genreaction, thriller, military, biography
CountryUSA, France, United Kingdom, Belgium, Germany, Hungary
Duration02:07

With the Third Reich is at his peak in 1942, the Czech resistance in London plans the most ambitious military operation of WWII – Anthropoid. Two young recruits are sent to Prague to assassinate the most ruthless Nazi leader – Reinhardt Heydrich – head of the SS, the Gestapo and the architect of the Final Solution.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genreaction, drama, military
CountryUSA, United Kingdom
Duration01:56

    Four Navy SEALs on a covert mission to neutralize a high-level al-Qaeda operative must make an impossible moral decision in the mountains of Afghanistan that leads them into an enemy ambush. As they confront unthinkable odds, the SEALs must find reserves of strength and resilience to fight to the finish.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genreaction, drama, military
    CountryUSA, China, United Kingdom
    Duration02:14

    Last months of World War II in April 1945. As the Allies make their final push in the European Theater, a battle-hardened U.S. Army sergeant in the 2nd Armored Division named Wardaddy commands a Sherman tank called "Fury" and its five-man crew on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. Outnumbered and outgunned, Wardaddy and his men face overwhelming odds in their heroic attempts to strike at the heart of Nazi Germany.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genreadventure, family, cartoon, military, history
    CountryRepublic of Ireland, France, USA, Canada, Belgium, United Kingdom

    The true story of the most decorated dog in American military history -- Sgt. Stubby -- and the enduring bonds he forged with his brothers-in-arms in the trenches of World War I.

    Markimdb: 4.6
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama, military
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration01:16

    Royal Marine A.J Budd awakes in a mysterious house and is forced to fight for his life everyday against grotesque inhuman opponents. Trapped alone in an unchanging prison of unbreakable routines, he must kill every day or die himself. As days stretch into years, the isolation and unceasing violence threaten his very soul.

    Markimdb: 3.9
    Genredrama, military
    CountryIndia, USA, United Kingdom, Canada, China

    Laxman Singh Bisht is nicknamed tube light by his neighbours because he is feeble-minded. Despite being special, Laxman lives by one life-lesson; keep your faith alive and you can do almost anything, even stop a war.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genreaction, military, history
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration01:58

    The Dirty Dozen meet the Stiff Upper Lip. A British Petroleum executive is assigned to work with the British Army in North Africa handling port duties for incoming fuels.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genredrama, military, biography
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration02:05

    This historical drama is an account of the early life of British politician Winston Churchill, including his childhood years, his time as a war correspondent in Africa, and culminating with his first election to Parliament.

    Markimdb: 4.8
    Genrefantastic, thriller, melodrama, drama, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Spain, USA, Germany
    Duration02:22

    On a bleak future Earth, a soldier endures a radical genetic transformation to save humanity. But his wife fears he's becoming more creature than man.

    Markimdb: 7.9
    Genredrama, short, military, history
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Kosovo
    Duration00:58

    The friendship of two boys is tested to its limits as they battle for survival during the Kosovo war.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genreaction, thriller
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom
    Duration01:35

      A soldier introduces himself to the Peterson family, claiming to be a friend of their son who died in action. After the young man is welcomed into their home, a series of accidental deaths seem to be connected to his presence.

      Markimdb: 5.3
      Genrefantastic, action
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
      Duration02:19

      The story of humankind's last stand against a cataclysmic alien invasion. Set in the war-ravaged African countryside, a U.S. soldier and a French foreign aid worker team up to survive the alien onslaught. Their bond will be tested as they search for refuge across a crumbling world.

      Markimdb: 5.7
      Genredrama, military
      CountryPoland, United Kingdom

      After the fall of the September Campaign of 1939, two Polish pilots are forced to fight for their nation in foreign battlefronts.

      Markimdb: 4.6
      Genrefantasy, melodrama, adventure
      CountryUnited Kingdom, Australia
      Duration01:49

      The Lovers is an epic romance time travel adventure film. Helmed by Roland Joffé from a story by Ajey Jhankar, the film is a sweeping tale of an impossible love set against the backdrop of the first Anglo-Maratha war across two time periods and continents and centred around four characters — a British officer in 18th century colonial India, the Indian woman he falls deeply in love with, an American present-day marine biologist and his wife.

      Markimdb: 6.9
      Genreaction, adventure, history
      CountryUSA, Spain, Panama, United Kingdom
      Duration01:48

      The Four Musketeers defend the queen and her dressmaker from Cardinal Richelieu and Milady de Winter.

      Markimdb: 6.3
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, adventure, military, history
      CountryUnited Kingdom, France, USA
      Duration01:37

      Britain, A.D. 117. Quintus Dias, the sole survivor of a Pictish raid on a Roman frontier fort, marches north with General Virilus' legendary Ninth Legion, under orders to wipe the Picts from the face of the Earth and destroy their leader, Gorlacon.

      Markimdb: 6
      Genredrama
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
      Duration02:01

      David Hare's account of a one-time French freedom fighter who gradually realizes that her post-war life is not meeting her expectations.

      Markimdb: 6.1
      Genremelodrama, drama, military, music
      CountryUnited Kingdom, France
      Duration02:08

      A young refugee travels from Russia to America in search of her lost father and falls in love with a gypsy horseman.

      Markimdb: 4.6
      Genreaction, thriller, military
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration01:24

      I Am Soldier follows Mickey Tomlinson (Tom Hughes), a military chef, who attempts the most dangerous military selection known to man: The Special Air Service (S.A.S.) selection. The S.A.S. Is the United Kingdom's most renowned Special Forces Regiment, tasked with life threatening missions in some of the most dangerous places on the planet. Mickey has more military experience than simply being a chef, something he doesn't let on to the other candidates... Mickey is smashed by this selection process - his mind, body and soul scream for mercy as he endures torturous speed-marches over the steepest mountains, running for his life during 'Escape and Evasion' and then facing the most evil interrogation possible, during the deadly phase known as: 'Tactical Questioning.' Even after everything, there is still only one way you can really prove yourself: in combat... Many try to get into the S.A.S. Only the elite make it.

      Markimdb: 5.3
      Genremelodrama, drama, military, history
      CountryCanada, United Kingdom, France

      In the mid-18th Century, as England and France battle over control of Canada, an epic romance between a peasant woman and a trapper unfurls

      Markimdb: 7.4
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration03:12

      An Irish lass is branded a traitor when she falls for a British soldier.

      Markimdb: 5.6
      Genrecomedy, drama, military, history
      CountrySpain, United Kingdom
      Duration01:40

      A soldier protects a mule during the Spanish Civil War.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime, military
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration01:39

      A young British soldier must find his way back to safety after his unit accidentally abandons him during a riot in the streets of Belfast.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genredrama, biography, history
      CountryUnited Kingdom

      As WWII looms, a wealthy widow hires an amateur archaeologist to excavate the burial mounds on her estate. When they make a historic discovery, the echoes of Britain's past resonate in the face of its uncertain future‎.

      Markimdb: 7.6
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, military
      CountryUnited Kingdom

      On the evening of her 18th birthday, Molly Dawes finds herself drunk and is sick in the doorway of an army recruitment office. She looks into the window of the office and sees a life-sized photograph of an army girl, everything that Molly isn't but wants to be - respected. The following morning, Molly finds herself back in the recruitment office and is eventually persuaded to complete an aptitude test. No-one thinks she can stick it out, including herself. But slowly and surely, Molly is maturing and learning to believe in herself. She digs in and finds a strength that she never thought she had.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genreaction, thriller, melodrama, drama, military
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
      Duration02:39

      In 1942, an intelligence officer in North Africa encounters a female French Resistance fighter on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. When they reunite in London, their relationship is tested by the pressures of war.

      Markimdb: 5.2
      Genrefantastic, comedy, cartoon, military
      CountryUnited Kingdom, Spain, Belgium

      A satirical alternative history of World War II where the Nazis seize London and England must band together to prevent a full on invasion.

      Markimdb: 4.2
      Genrefantastic, action, drama, adventure
      CountryUSA, Germany, United Kingdom
      Duration02:40

      Four young outsiders teleport to a dangerous universe, which alters their physical form in shocking ways. Their lives irrevocably upended, the team must learn to harness their daunting new abilities and work together to save Earth from a former friend turned enemy.

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genremelodrama, drama, military, biography
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration01:50

      The Edge of love is a love story of two feisty women and a brilliant, charismatic poet who love both women. One woman Vera Phillips who is his first love and whom he lost for ten year, while other one is his present wife Caitlin who is adventurous and felt same adventurous nature in this charismatic poet, Dylan Thomas, also.

      Markimdb: 5.4
      Genrehorror, action, thriller, fantasy, adventure
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Spain
      Duration01:40

      Though no one can see him, Hollow Face lurks in the corners, desperately desiring love but only knowing how to spread fear and hate. He creeps into the life of John Farrow after Farrow’s beloved 13-year-old daughter Mia is assaulted in their home. The line between the real and the imaginary blurs as fissures start to open within the family unit. It seems that no security measure can keep Hollow Face out.

      Markimdb: 4.7
      Genrethriller
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
      Duration01:24

      Three soldiers get trapped in an elevator when terrorists set off a dirty bomb. But when White escapes, her world turns upside down as she realizes nothing is what it seems.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genreaction, documentary, military, history
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Afghanistan
      Duration01:28

      What does it mean to lead men in war? What does it mean to come home? Hell and Back Again is a cinematically revolutionary film that asks and answers these questions with a power and intimacy no previous film about the conflict in Afghanistan has been able to achieve. It is a masterpiece in the cinema of war.

      Markimdb: 7.7
      Genredrama, biography
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA

      The life of Prince John, youngest child of Britain's King George V and Queen Mary, who died at the age of 13 in 1919.

      Markimdb: 7.9
      Genredrama, military, history
      CountryNorway, Denmark, United Kingdom, Czech Republic, Sweden

      When the Nazis secure a heavy water plant to realize their plan to create an atomic bomb, the Norwegian Allies struggle to sabotage the operation.

      Markimdb: 5.1
      Genreaction, drama, military, biography
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Germany
      Duration00:31

      Corporal Evan Albright joined the elite Marine Corps Security Guards to save the world and see some action-not necessarily in that order. But his first assignment, protecting a U. S. Embassy in a seemingly safe Middle Eastern capitol, relegates his unit to wrangling "gate groupies" protesting outside the compound and honing their marksmanship by playing video games. So Albright and his team are caught off guard when well-armed and well-trained militants launch a surprise attack aimed at killing an informant in the embassy. Heavily out-gunned, they will have to muster all the courage and fire power they can as their once routine assignment spirals into all-out war.

      Markimdb: 5.6
      Genrefantastic, action
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration02:02

      Set in a near future, technology-reliant society that pits man against killing machines. Against this backdrop an elite army unit is helicoptered to a remote, off-the-grid island training facility. What starts out as a simple training exercise for Captain Bukes and his tight-knit unit, descends into a terrifying battle to the death, as the marines discover the island is overrun by an enemy that transcends the human concept of evil.

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genreaction, fantasy, drama
      CountryJapan, United Kingdom, South Korea
      Duration01:33

      Manji, a highly skilled samurai, becomes cursed with immortality after a legendary battle. Haunted by the brutal murder of his sister, Manji knows that only fighting evil will regain his soul. He promises to help a young girl named Rin avenge her parents, who were killed by a group of master swordsmen led by ruthless warrior Anotsu. The mission will change Manji in ways he could never imagine.

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genrehorror, drama, biography, history
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
      Duration01:26

      England, 1645. The cruel civil war between Royalists and Parliamentarians that is ravaging the country causes an era of chaos and legal arbitrariness that allows unscrupulous men to profit by exploiting the absurd superstitions of the peasants; like Matthew Hopkins, a monster disguised as a man who wanders from town to town offering his services as a witch hunter.

      Markimdb: 5.6
      Genrefantastic, action, cartoon
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration01:16

      A squad of Ultramarines answer a distress call from an Imperial Shrine World. A full Company of Imperial Fists was stationed there, but there is no answer from them. The squad investigates to find out what has happened there.

      Markimdb: 4.2
      Genreaction, drama, military
      CountryUnited Kingdom, Morocco
      Duration01:23

      Afghanistan, 2006, Helmand Province becomes one of the most dangerous places on Earth as the British Army is deployed into the Taliban heartland. The Operation, Herrick, became synonymous with the struggle as British troops fought a losing battle against this unseen enemy.

      Markimdb: 3.9
      Genrehorror, fantastic, action
      CountryUnited Kingdom

      After a zombie apocalypse spreads from a London prison, the UK is brought to its knees. The spread of the virus is temporarily contained but, without a cure, it’s only a matter of time before it breaks its boundaries and the biggest problem of all… any zombies with combat skills are now enhanced. With the South East of England quarantined from the rest of the world using fortified borders, intelligence finds that the scientist responsible for the outbreak is alive and well in London. With his recovery being the only hope of a cure, a squad of eight Special Forces soldiers is sent on a suicide mission to the city, now ruled by the undead, with a single task: get him out alive within 72 hours by any means necessary. What emerges is an unlikely pairing on a course to save humanity against ever-rising odds.




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