Films about self-sacrifice

Films about self-sacrifice
List of the best films about self-sacrifice, selected by visitors to our site: Space Cowboys, The Flowers of War, Alien Outpost, The Brave, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Gran Torino, A Dark Song, Lock Up, Alien³, This Land Is Mine.

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: 6.5
Genreaction, thriller, adventure
CountryUSA
Duration02:10

Frank Corvin, ‘Hawk’ Hawkins, Jerry O'Neill and ‘Tank’ Sullivan were hotdog members of Project Daedalus, the Air Force's test program for space travel, but their hopes were dashed in 1958 with the formation of NASA and the use of trained chimps. They blackmail their way into orbit when Russia's mysterious ‘Ikon’ communications satellite's orbit begins to degrade and threatens to crash to Earth.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genreaction, drama, military, history
CountryChina, Hong Kong
Duration02:26

A Westerner finds refuge with a group of women in a church during Japan's rape of Nanking in 1937. Posing as a priest, he attempts to lead the women to safety.

Markimdb: 4.7
Genrefantastic, action, thriller
CountryUnited Kingdom, South Africa
Duration01:30

A documentary crew follows an elite unit of soldiers in the wake of an alien invasion.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genredrama
CountryUSA
Duration02:03

A down-on-his-luck American Indian recently released from jail is offered the chance to "star" as the victim of a snuff film, the resulting pay of which could greatly help his poverty stricken family.

Markimdb: 8.1
Genreaction, drama, western
CountryUSA
Duration02:03

A senator, who became famous for killing a notorious outlaw, returns for the funeral of an old friend and tells the truth about his deed.

Markimdb: 8.1
Genredrama
CountryUSA, Germany
Duration01:56

    Walt Kowalski is a widower who holds onto his prejudices despite the changes in his Michigan neighborhood and the world around him. Kowalski is a grumpy, tough-minded, unhappy old man who can't get along with either his kids or his neighbors. He is a Korean War veteran whose prize possession is a 1972 Gran Torino he keeps in mint condition. When his neighbor Thao, a young Hmong teenager under pressure from his gang member cousin, tries to steal his Gran Torino, Kowalski sets out to reform the youth. Drawn against his will into the life of Thao's family, Kowalski is soon taking steps to protect them from the gangs that infest their neighborhood.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrehorror
    CountryRepublic of Ireland, United Kingdom
    Duration01:55

    A determined young woman and a damaged occultist risk their lives and souls to perform a dangerous ritual that will grant them what they want.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genreaction, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:49

    Frank Leone is nearing the end of his prison term for a relatively minor crime. Just before he is paroled, however, Warden Drumgoole takes charge. Drumgoole was assigned to a hell-hole prison after his administration was publicly humiliated by Leone, and has now arrived on the scene to ensure that Leone never sees the light of day.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration01:55

    After escaping with Newt and Hicks from the alien planet, Ripley crash lands on Fiorina 161, a prison planet and host to a correctional facility. Unfortunately, although Newt and Hicks do not survive the crash, a more unwelcome visitor does. The prison does not allow weapons of any kind, and with aid being a long time away, the prisoners must simply survive in any way they can.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genredrama, military
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:43

    Somewhere in Europe, in a city occupied by the Nazis, a gentle school teacher finds himself torn between collaboration and resistance, cowardice and courage.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, history
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom, France
    Duration01:51

    A real time account of the events on United Flight 93, one of the planes hijacked on 9/11 that crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania when passengers foiled the terrorist plot.

    Markimdb: 5
    Genrefantastic, action, cartoon, anime
    CountryJapan
    Duration01:38

    With no means for defeating Godzilla Earth, mankind watches as King Ghidorah, clad in a golden light, descends on the planet. The heavens and earth shake once again as the war moves to a higher dimension.

    Markimdb: 7.8
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom
    Duration02:09

    A rule bound head butler's world of manners and decorum in the household he maintains is tested by the arrival of a housekeeper who falls in love with him in post-WWI Britain. The possibility of romance and his master's cultivation of ties with the Nazi cause challenge his carefully maintained veneer of servitude.

    Markimdb: 5.1
    Genreaction, fantasy, adventure
    CountryChina
    Duration03:01

    In 1979, a young soldier is working in China's snowcapped mountains when an explosion reveals bizarre fossils hidden deep in the mountain caverns. What they discover next will change his life and human history forever.

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genredrama
    CountryFinland

    Miami is the story of two sisters who have grown up separately. The older sister, Angela, is an exotic dancer with her own touring dance group. The younger, Anna, on the threshold of adulthood, lives in a small town working in sales. When their father dies, Anna looks for and finds Angela. The fascinating, high-strung Angela asks the timid Anna to accompany her on tour and, before long, trouble from Angela’s past catches up to them and the sisters’ love is put to the test.

    Markimdb: 5.4
    Genrehorror
    CountryCanada

    A mother and her 10-year old daughter are trapped in a forest. There is something in this forest. Something unlike anything they have heard before. Something that lurks in the darkness and it’s coming after them.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genremelodrama, drama, musical, music, biography
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:44

    Composer Johann Strauss risks his marriage over his infatuation with a beautiful singer.

    Markimdb: 3.2
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryIndia

    A story about the man who is confused with his love life finds solace in his birthplace with his childhood love.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genremelodrama, drama, crime, sport
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:42

    Fight promoter Nick Donati grooms a bellhop as a future champ, but has second thoughts when the 'kid' falls for his sister.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:58

    An IRS agent with a fateful secret embarks on an extraordinary journey of redemption by forever changing the lives of seven strangers.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genredrama, crime, film noir
    CountryChina, France
    Duration01:05

    A gangster on the run, sacrifices everything for his family and a woman he meets while on the lam.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genreaction, melodrama, drama, adventure, military
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:00

    During the Napoleonic Wars, when the French have occupied Spain, some Spanish guerrilla soldiers are going to move a big cannon across Spain in order to help the British defeat the French. A British officer is there to accompany the Spanish and along the way, he falls in love with the leader's girl.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrefantasy, adventure, family
    CountryGermany, Sweden
    Duration00:56

    Thirteen year-old Nils Holgersson is bored dwelling on a farm with his parents. Instead of helping on the farm, he prefers to play pranks and tease animals. One day life unexpectedly changed Nils...

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genreaction, fantasy, adventure, family
    CountryUSA, Poland, Slovenia, Czech Republic, United Kingdom
    Duration02:23

    Siblings Lucy, Edmund, Susan and Peter step through a magical wardrobe and find the land of Narnia. There, the they discover a charming, once peaceful kingdom that has been plunged into eternal winter by the evil White Witch, Jadis. Aided by the wise and magnificent lion, Aslan, the children lead Narnia into a spectacular, climactic battle to be free of the Witch's glacial powers forever.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrefantastic, action
    CountryUSA, Germany, United Kingdom
    Duration01:49

    It's been 10 years since John Connor saved Earth from Judgment Day, and he's now living under the radar, steering clear of using anything Skynet can trace. That is, until he encounters T-X, a robotic assassin ordered to finish what T-1000 started. Good thing Connor's former nemesis, the Terminator, is back to aid the now-adult Connor … just like he promised.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrefantastic, action, adventure
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:19

      The seemingly invincible Spider-Man goes up against an all-new crop of villains – including the shape-shifting Sandman. While Spider-Man’s superpowers are altered by an alien organism, his alter ego, Peter Parker, deals with nemesis Eddie Brock and also gets caught up in a love triangle.

      Markimdb: 5.7
      Genrethriller, drama
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration01:58

      Four divers are stuck deep underwater in a vessel after a freak storm destroys their ship. Will they survive?

      Markimdb: 7.6
      Genredrama, documentary
      CountryCanada
      Duration01:34

      Follows the dramatic journeys of video game developers as they create and release their games to the world. It's about making video games, but at its core, it's about the creative process, and exposing yourself through your work.

      Markimdb: 4.4
      Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:55

      In the near future, a virus of epic proportions has overtaken the planet. There are more infected than uninfected, and humanity is losing its grip on survival. Its only hope is finding a cure and keeping the infected contained. Lauren is a doctor who, after the fall of New York, arrives in Los Angeles to lead the hunt for uncontaminated civilian survivors. But nothing can prepare her crack team for the blood-soaked mayhem they are about to witness as they head into the Californian mean streets where everything is considered a trap… From director John (THE SCRIBBLER) Suits, a boundary-crashing, game-changing science fiction thriller featuring non-stop action from a first person shooter perspective, putting the audience in the middle of every fight whilst feeling in control of every punch thrown and shot fired. Welcome to the new model of immersive action thriller for the hardcore video game generation.

      Markimdb: 7.3
      Genreaction, fantasy, comedy, musical, adventure, family, cartoon
      CountryUSA, France
      Duration01:33

      Bestowed with superhuman strength, a young mortal named Hercules sets out to prove himself a hero in the eyes of his father, the great god Zeus. Along with his friends Pegasus, a flying horse, and Phil, a personal trainer, Hercules is tricked by the hilarious, hotheaded villain Hades, who's plotting to take over Mount Olympus!

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genreaction, drama
      CountryHong Kong
      Duration01:55

      The bond of brotherhood is always stronger when you can be pitched into a life and death situation at any time and the only thing that gets you through the inferno is the trust that your brother will have your back. The firefighters of Hong Kong’s Pillar Point division who are expecting a quiet night to see off their retiring chief find their faith in each other stretched to the limits when a small fire at a liquor warehouse threatens to plunge the whole of Hong kong into darkness if it spreads to a nearby power plant supplying natural gas. Politics, rivalry, and suspicion all come into play when dubious decisions are made, warnings are ignored and colleagues start to fall. Can the Pillar Point brotherhood survive the night, if not the fire, with their trust in each other intact?

      Markimdb: 5.3
      Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama
      CountryCanada, Germany
      Duration02:08

      With the world under attack by deadly creatures who hunt by sound, a teen and her family seek refuge outside the city and encounter a mysterious cult.

      Markimdb: 8.2
      Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:19

      Eleanor Shellstrop, an ordinary woman who, through an extraordinary string of events, enters the afterlife where she comes to realize that she hasn't been a very good person. With the help of her wise afterlife mentor, she's determined to shed her old way of living and discover the awesome (or at least the pretty good) person within.

      Markimdb: 7.7
      Genreaction, drama
      CountryUSA, New Zealand, Japan
      Duration02:34

      Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, which finds him learning to respect the samurai and the honorable principles that rule them. Pressed to destroy the samurai's way of life in the name of modernization and open trade, Algren decides to become an ultimate warrior himself and to fight for their right to exist.

      Markimdb: 5.9
      Genreaction, fantasy, comedy, adventure, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:29

      After a Tibetan boy, the mystical Golden Child, is kidnapped by the evil Sardo Numspa, humankind's fate hangs in the balance. On the other side of the world in Los Angeles, the priestess Kee Nang seeks the Chosen One, who will save the boy from death. When Nang sees social worker Chandler Jarrell on television discussing his ability to find missing children, she solicits his expertise, despite his skepticism over being "chosen."

      Markimdb: 7.9
      Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, history
      CountryUSA, Mexico, Australia, Canada
      Duration03:14

      84 years later, a 101-year-old woman named Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story to her granddaughter Lizzy Calvert, Brock Lovett, Lewis Bodine, Bobby Buell and Anatoly Mikailavich on the Keldysh about her life set in April 10th 1912, on a ship called Titanic when young Rose boards the departing ship with the upper-class passengers and her mother, Ruth DeWitt Bukater, and her fiancé, Caledon Hockley. Meanwhile, a drifter and artist named Jack Dawson and his best friend Fabrizio De Rossi win third-class tickets to the ship in a game. And she explains the whole story from departure until the death of Titanic on its first and last voyage April 15th, 1912 at 2:20 in the morning.

      Markimdb: 8
      Genrefantastic, action, comedy, adventure, family, cartoon
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:26

      In the small town of Rockwell, Maine in October 1957, a giant metal machine befriends a nine-year-old boy and ultimately finds its humanity by unselfishly saving people from their own fears and prejudices.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genreaction, melodrama, adventure, family
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:22

      A young couple die in a plane crash in the jungle. Their son is found by Tarzan and Jane who name him Boy and raise him as their own. Five years later a search party comes to find the young heir to millions of dollars. Jane agrees, against Tarzan's will, to lead them to civilization.

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genredrama
      CountryFrance

      "Marius" takes place in Marseilles' Old Port, at the La Marine Bar, owned by César and his son Marius. Marius' biggest dream is to embark on one of the boats passing by his dad's bar and to set off to a faraway land. Fanny, a young and pretty seafood peddler, has secretly been in love with Marius since her childhood; Marius, never admitting it, has always loved Fanny. One day, a sailor drops by La Marine and offers him a job on an exploratory ship. Trying to hold him off and to make him jealous, Fanny confesses his love to him and provokes a fight between Marius and one of César's old friends, Panisse, a boat merchant, who despite his old age, has been courting Fanny for a while. Torn between the call of the sea and his love for her, Marius abandons his dream to be with Fanny who gives herself to him. As César and Honorine, Fanny's mother, are getting ready for the wedding, Marius changes his mind, drawn back to the call of the sea.

      Markimdb: 7
      Genredrama, military, history
      CountryRussia, Germany
      Duration02:10

      The historical drama set during the Second World War centres on three people whose paths cross: a Russian aristocratic emigrant and member of the French resistance, a French collaborator and a high-ranking German SS officer.

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