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Mark | imdb: 6.8 |
Genre | melodrama, drama, military |
Country | South Africa, United Kingdom |
Moffie (a derogatory Afrikaans term for a gay man) follows the story of Nicholas van der Swart: from a very young age, he realises he is different. Try as he may, he cannot live up to the macho image expected of him by his family, by his heritage. Set during the South African border war against communism, this is a long-overdue story about the emotional and physical suffering endured by countless young men.
Mark | imdb: 4.8 |
Genre | melodrama, drama, military |
Country | India, United Kingdom |
Duration | 02:42 |
A war, religious conflicts, and misunderstandings create obstacles for a couple of different faiths.
Mark | imdb: 6.7 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, drama, military |
Country | United Kingdom, Sweden, France |
Duration | 02:21 |
During the Blitz of World War II, a female screenwriter (Gemma Arterton) works on a film celebrating England's resilience as a way to buoy a weary populace's spirits. Her efforts to dramatise the true story of two sisters (Lily Knight and Francesca Knight) who undertook their own maritime mission to rescue wounded soldiers are met with mixed feelings by a dismissive all-male staff.
Mark | imdb: 7.3 |
Genre | thriller, melodrama, drama, crime, military, biography |
Country | United Kingdom, USA, Luxembourg, China |
Duration | 01:37 |
The true story of British intelligence whistleblower Katharine Gun who—prior to the 2003 Iraq invasion—leaked a top-secret NSA memo exposing a joint US-UK illegal spying operation against members of the UN Security Council. The memo proposed blackmailing member states into voting for war.
Mark | imdb: 7 |
Genre | melodrama, drama, military |
Country | United Kingdom |
A woman during the Second World War opens her heart to an evacuee after initially resolving to be rid of him.
Mark | imdb: 6.6 |
Genre | action, melodrama, drama, military |
Country | Sweden, United Kingdom, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Germany, Morocco |
Duration | 02:08 |
Arn has served his term in the Holy land and returns home to be reunited with his beloved Cecilia. When he returns home, he discovers that political forces tries to separate him and Cecilia - but thanks to queen Blanka they can finally get married. Arn knows that war is looming and with his martial knowledge he starts to build an army at his new home at Forsvik.
Mark | imdb: 5.9 |
Genre | melodrama, drama, military, history |
Country | Canada, United Kingdom |
Duration | 02:10 |
Set between the two World Wars and based on true historical events, Bitter Harvest conveys the untold story of the Holodomor, the genocidal famine engineered by the tyrant Joseph Stalin. The film displays a powerful tale of love, honour, rebellion and survival at a time when Ukraine was forced to adjust to the horrifying territorial ambitions of the burgeoning Soviet Union.
Mark | imdb: 5.3 |
Genre | melodrama, drama, military |
Country | United Kingdom, USA |
Drama written in flames and told with the staccato of canon-fire!
Mark | imdb: 7 |
Genre | thriller, melodrama, drama, military |
Country | United Kingdom, France, Canada, Belgium, USA |
Duration | 01:47 |
France, 1940. In the first days of occupation, beautiful Lucile Angellier is trapped in a stifled existence with her controlling mother-in-law as they both await news of her husband: a prisoner of war. Parisian refugees start to pour into their small town, soon followed by a regiment of German soldiers who take up residence in the villagers' own homes. Lucile initially tries to ignore Bruno von Falk, the handsome and refined German officer staying with them. But soon, a powerful love draws them together and leads them into the tragedy of war.
Mark | imdb: 7.4 |
Genre | melodrama, drama, military |
Country | USA, United Kingdom |
Duration | 02:35 |
In the 1930s, Count Almásy is a Hungarian map maker employed by the Royal Geographical Society to chart the vast expanses of the Sahara Desert along with several other prominent explorers. As World War II unfolds, Almásy enters into a world of love, betrayal, and politics.
Mark | imdb: 7.3 |
Genre | melodrama, drama, military, history |
Country | United Kingdom, France, USA |
Duration | 02:33 |
Free-spirited writer Juliet Ashton forms a life-changing bond with the delightful and eccentric Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, when she decides to write about the book club they formed during the occupation of Guernsey in WWII.
Mark | imdb: 6.8 |
Genre | melodrama, drama, military, history |
Country | United Kingdom, USA |
A German soldier tries to determine if the Dutch resistance has planted a spy to infiltrate the home of Kaiser Wilhelm in Holland during the onset of World War II, but falls for a young Jewish Dutch woman during his investigation.
Mark | imdb: 5.6 |
Genre | action, melodrama, drama, adventure, military, biography, history |
Country | USA, United Kingdom, Germany, Netherlands, France, Italy, Morocco, Thailand |
Duration | 02:55 |
Alexander, the King of Macedonia, leads his legions against the giant Persian Empire. After defeating the Persians, he leads his army across the then known world, venturing farther than any westerner had ever gone, all the way to India.
Mark | imdb: 7.2 |
Genre | melodrama, drama, military, biography, sport |
Country | United Kingdom, Germany |
The story of a man whose love for football, for England and for the love of his life, Margaret, saw him rise from Nazi 'villain' to British hero. Bert Trautmann, the German goalkeeper won over even his harshest opponents by winning the FA Cup Final for Manchester City in 1956 - playing on with a broken neck to secure victory.
Mark | imdb: 6.1 |
Genre | action, comedy, melodrama, drama, adventure, military |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 02:30 |
During World War One an English adventurer, an American elephant poacher and the latter's attractive young daughter, set out to destroy a German battle-cruiser which is awaiting repairs in an inlet just off Zanzibar. The story is based on a novel by Wilbur Smith, which in turn is very loosely based on events involving the light cruiser SMS Königsberg, which was sunk after taking refuge in Rufigi delta in 1915.
Mark | imdb: 7.1 |
Genre | melodrama, drama, military, history |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:57 |
British barrister Sydney Carton lives an insubstantial and unhappy life. He falls under the spell of Lucie Manette, but Lucie marries Charles Darnay. When Darnay goes to Paris to rescue an imprisoned family retainer, he becomes entangled in the snares of the brutal French Revolution and is himself jailed and condemned to the guillotine. But Sydney Carton, in love with a woman he cannot have, comes up with a daring plan to save her husband.
Mark | imdb: 6.5 |
Genre | melodrama, drama, military |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 02:26 |
Germany, 1944. Leyna, the 15-year old daughter of a white German mother and a black African father, meets Lutz, a compassionate member of the Hitler Youth whose father is a prominent Nazi soldier, and they form an unlikely connection in this quickly changing world.
Mark | imdb: 6.2 |
Genre | melodrama, drama, military, biography |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:50 |
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.
Mark | imdb: 6.4 |
Genre | thriller, melodrama, drama, military |
Country | United Kingdom, Australia, Germany |
Duration | 02:01 |
This is a drama set in Nazi-occupied France at the height of World War II. Charlotte Gray tells the compelling story of a young Scottish woman working with the French Resistance in the hope of rescuing her lover, a missing RAF pilot. Based on the best-selling novel by Sebastian Faulks.
Mark | imdb: 6.2 |
Genre | melodrama, drama, military |
Country | United Kingdom, France |
During World War II, the organisation "The Women's Land Army" recruited women to work on British farms while the men were off to war. Three such "land girls" of different social backgrounds - quiet Stella, young hairdresser Prue, and Cambridge graduate Ag - become best friends in spite of their different backgrounds.
Mark | imdb: 6.5 |
Genre | melodrama, drama, military, history |
Country | United Kingdom, Germany, China, USA |
Duration | 02:15 |
Iin 1930s Shanghai, 'The White Countess' is both Sofia—a fallen member of the Russian aristocracy—and a nightclub created by a blind American diplomat, who asks Sofia to be the centerpiece of the world he wants to create.
Mark | imdb: 6.8 |
Genre | melodrama, drama, military |
Country | Azerbaijan, United Kingdom |
Duration | 02:12 |
Muslim prince Ali and Georgian aristocrat Nino have grown up in the Russian province of Azerbaijan. Their tragic love story sees the outbreak of the First World War and the world’s struggle for Baku’s oil. Ultimately they must choose to fight for their country’s independence or for each other.
Mark | imdb: 7.3 |
Genre | melodrama, drama, military, history |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 02:46 |
As an English soldier fights in the horrific trenches of northern France, he is haunted by the memories of his forbidden love affair with a French woman.
Mark | imdb: 7.2 |
Genre | melodrama, drama, adventure, military, history |
Country | USA, Italy, Romania, United Kingdom |
Duration | 02:28 |
In this classic story of love and devotion set against the backdrop of the American Civil War, a wounded Confederate soldier named W.P. Inman deserts his unit and travels across the South, aiming to return to his young wife, Ada, who he left behind to tend their farm. As Inman makes his perilous journey home, Ada struggles to keep their home intact with the assistance of Ruby, a mysterious drifter sent to help her by a kindly neighbor.
Mark | imdb: 6.3 |
Genre | action, melodrama, drama, adventure, military, biography |
Country | Germany, United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:46 |
Richthofen goes off to war like thousands of other men. As fighter pilots, they become cult heroes for the soldiers on the battlefields. Marked by sportsmanlike conduct, technical exactitude and knightly propriety, they have their own code of honour. Before long he begins to understand that his hero status is deceptive. His love for Kate, a nurse, opens his eyes to the brutality of war.
Mark | imdb: 7.1 |
Genre | action, thriller, melodrama, drama, military |
Country | United Kingdom, USA |
Duration | 02:39 |
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.