20 best movies like Ballad of a Soldier (1959)

List of the best movies like Ballad of a Soldier (1959): Dear John, Joyeux Noël, The Messenger, The Third Half, Birdsong, Coming Home, Lemon Tree, Come See the Paradise, In Love and War, Gardens of Stone.

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Markimdb: 6.3
Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, detective, military
CountryUSA
Duration01:48

    Sergeant John Tyree is home on a 2 week leave from Germany. He meets Savannah after he dives into the ocean to retrieve Savannah's purse that had fallen off the pier. John falls in love with Savannah who is a student on spring break helping build a house for Habitat for Humanity. A romance occurs and Savannah falls deeply in love with John. She promises to write John overseas until he returns.

    Markimdb: 7.7
    Genremelodrama, drama, military, music, history
    CountryFrance, Germany, United Kingdom, Belgium, Romania
    Duration01:51

    In 1914, World War I, the bloodiest war ever at that time in human history, was well under way. However on Christmas Eve, numerous sections of the Western Front called an informal, and unauthorized, truce where the various front-line soldiers of the conflict peacefully met each other in No Man's Land to share a precious pause in the carnage with a fleeting brotherhood.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genremelodrama, drama, military
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:53

    Will Montgomery (Ben Foster), a U.S. Army Staff Sergeant who has returned home from Iraq, is assigned to the Army’s Casualty Notification service. Montgomery is partnered with Captain Tony Stone (Woody Harrelson), to give notice to the families of fallen soldiers. The Sergeant is drawn to Olivia Pitterson (Samantha Morton), to whom he has delivered news of her husband’s death.

    Markimdb: 7.7
    Genremelodrama, drama, military, history, sport
    CountryMacedonia, Czech Republic, USA
    Duration01:53

    Spitz is the German-Jewish coach of the football team Macedonia during World War II. Under his leadership, the team fights to become the champion of Bulgaria's National Football League

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genremelodrama, drama, military, history
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration02:46

    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.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genremelodrama, drama, military
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:07

    The wife of a Marine serving in Vietnam, Sally Hyde decides to volunteer at a local veterans hospital to occupy her time. There she meets Luke Martin, a frustrated wheelchair-bound vet who has become disillusioned with the war. Sally and Luke develop a friendship that soon turns into a romance.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genredrama, military
    CountryIsrael, Germany, France

    Salma Zidane, a widow, lives simply from her grove of lemon trees in the West Bank's occupied territory. The Israeli defence minister and his wife move next door, forcing the Secret Service to order the trees' removal for security. The stoic Salma seeks assistance from the Palestinian Authority, Israeli army, and a young attorney, Ziad Daud, who takes the case. In this allegory, does David stand a chance against Goliath?

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genremelodrama, drama, military
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:18

    Come See The Paradise is a deeply touching love story set against the backdrop of a dramatic and controversial period in American history, It follows the romance and eventual marriage of Jack McGurn (Dennis Quad), a hot blooded Irish American, and a beautiful Japanese American Lily Dawanura (Tamlyn Tomita), at the outset of World War II. The clash of cultures, at once painful for the two lovers, becomes insurmountable after the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor. Lily and the Kawamuras are relocated To a bleak, outdoor internment camp in California, Jack is drafted into the Army, powerless to help the woman he loves abandoning all hope of ever winning her family's approval.

    Markimdb: 6
    Genremelodrama, drama, military, biography
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:53

    After teenage ambulance driver Ernest Hemingway (Chris O'Donnell) takes shrapnel in the leg during World War I, he falls in love with Agnes von Kurowsky (Sandra Bullock), a beautiful older nurse at the hospital where he's sent to recover. Their affair slowly blossoms, until Hemingway boldly asks Agnes to be his wife and journey to America with him. Richard Attenborough directs this drama based on the real-life experiences of the famed novelist.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genremelodrama, drama, military
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:52

    A sergeant must deal with his desires to save the lives of young soldiers being sent to Vietnam. Continuously denied the chance to teach the soldiers about his experiences, he settles for trying to help the son of an old army buddy.

    Markimdb: 8
    Genredrama, military
    CountrySoviet Union
    Duration01:36

    Poetic journey through the shards and shadows of one boy's war-ravaged youth.

    Markimdb: 7.7
    Genremelodrama, drama, military
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:48

    On the eve of World War II, a British officer revisits Waterloo Bridge and recalls the young man he was at the beginning of World War I and the young ballerina he met just before he left for the front. Myra stayed with him past curfew and is thrown out of the corps de ballet. She survives on the streets of London, falling even lower after she hears her true love has been killed in action. But he wasn't killed. Those terrible years were nothing more than a bad dream is Myra's hope after Roy finds her and takes her to his family's country estate.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genreaction, drama, military, history
    CountryBelarus, Russia
    Duration02:11

    A war drama set during the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, in which Russian troops held on to a border stronghold for nine days. The film shows the heroic defense of Brest Fortress, which has taken upon the first stroke of German fascist invaders on June 22 1941.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genremelodrama, drama, military, biography
    CountryNetherlands
    Duration02:10

    Waldemar Nods, a young man from Suriname, meets the older Dutch woman Rika van der Lans and they fall in love. In pre-WWII Netherlands they could not be more different. The one black, the other white, 17 years between them and on top of that Rika already has four children with another man. They love each other, but then Rika appears to be pregnant...

    Markimdb: 6
    Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime, military
    CountryUSA

    Marine officer Alexandra is tough enough to kick any guy's ass in a bar fight, but there's one opponent she can't beat: military policy. When she returns to her conservative hometown from Iraq with a mysterious personal life, she finds herself charged with preparing a tempestuous teenage girl to boot camp.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genremelodrama, drama, military
    CountryJapan
    Duration01:54

    Toward the end of World War II, middle-aged soldier Keita is entrusted with a postcard from a comrade who is sure he will die in battle. After the war ends, Keita visits his comrade's wife Yuko and bears witness to the tragic life she has led. This year's Oscar entry from Japan finds SHINDO in top form and his 49th and reportedly last film as fresh and poignant as ever.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genreaction, melodrama, drama, military
    CountryUSA

    Toward the end of World War II, two American soldiers fighting in Southern France become romantically involved with a young, American woman. Her background will reveal more about them than her.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryTurkey
    Duration01:58

    Year 1977, a September morning in Ankara... Yilmaz tries to rush his pregnant wife Neriman to the hospital and he crashes into Omer's car. The causes Omer's pregnant wife Inci, who was in the back seat, to have a pre-term labor. The babies are born on the same day. They see each other for the first time... This accident is the threshold of the coincidences that bring Ozgur and Deniz together. They come across each other in Ankara several times during their childhood and youth. Each intersection has a butterfly effect, resulting in drastic changes in their lives. They sometimes cause disasters, sometimes miracles. However, they can never be together. Whatever it is that brings them together, manages to build a transparent wall between them. Until they come across each other again in Istanbul, 25 years later... --Anonymous (imdb)

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genremelodrama, drama, military
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration02:26

    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.

    Markimdb: 5.1
    Genremelodrama, drama, military
    CountryRussia

    1945. Young German soldier is hiding from Soviet soldiers in abandoned house. Every day he sees a girl who moved to the house next door until finally he's failing in love with her.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryIndia
    Duration02:16

    In a village, a young archaeologist falls in love with a landlord's daughter. Their union seems doomed. But destiny brings them together a year later. Will they live happily ever after?

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genreaction, drama, adventure, military, history
    CountryUSA, India
    Duration02:26

      Follows a young man named Albert and his horse, Joey, and how their bond is broken when Joey is sold to the cavalry and sent to the trenches of World War One. Despite being too young to enlist, Albert heads to France to save his friend.

      Markimdb: 6.9
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryCanada, South Africa, United Kingdom, USA, India, Pakistan

      Determined to leave the ravages of war behind, 38 year old Gian Singh resigns from the British Indian Army to a quiet life. His world is soon thrown in turmoil, when he suddenly finds himself responsible for the life of a 17 year old girl, traumatized by the events that separated her from her family.

      Markimdb: 7
      Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, military
      CountryUnited Kingdom, France, Canada, Belgium, USA
      Duration01:47

      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.

      Markimdb: 5.6
      Genreaction, melodrama, drama, military, history
      CountryIndia

      Julia travels to the Indo-Burma border to perform for the troops during the World War II, on the insistence of Billimoria, her lover. She finds herself in love with Jemadar Malik, a soldier there.

      Markimdb: 7.5
      Genremelodrama, drama, military, history
      CountryFrance, Germany
      Duration02:05

      In the aftermath of WWI, a young German who grieves the death of her fiancé in France meets a mysterious French man who visits the fiance’s grave to lay flowers.

      Markimdb: 8.3
      Genremelodrama, drama, military, history
      CountrySoviet Union
      Duration01:37

      Veronika and Boris come together in Moscow shortly before World War II. Walking along the river, they watch cranes fly overhead, and promise to rendezvous before Boris leaves to fight. Boris misses the meeting and is off to the front lines, while Veronika waits patiently, sending letters faithfully. After her house is bombed, Veronika moves in with Boris' family, into the company of a cousin with his own intentions.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genremelodrama, drama, military
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:19

      A tale of the World War I love affair, begun in Italy, between American ambulance driver Lt. Frederic Henry and British nurse Catherine Barkley. Eventually separated by Frederic's transfer, tremendous challenges and difficult decisions face each as the war rages on.

      Markimdb: 7
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, military
      CountryItaly
      Duration01:58

      Love and injury in time of war. Attilio de Giovanni teaches poetry in Italy. He has a romantic soul, and women love him. But he is in love with Vittoria, and the love is unrequited. Every night he dreams of marrying her, in his boxer shorts and t-shirt, as Tom Waits sings. Vittoria travels to Iraq with her friend, Fuad, a poet; they are there with the second Gulf War breaks out. Vittoria is injured. Attilio must get to her side, and then, as war rages around him, he must find her the medical care she needs. In war, does love conquer all?

      Markimdb: 6.9
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, adventure, family, military
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:55

      The story revolves around three soldiers — Colee, T.K. and Cheaver — who return from the Iraq War after suffering injuries and learn that life has moved on without them. They end up on an unexpected road trip across the U.S.

      Markimdb: 6
      Genremelodrama, drama, military, history
      CountryChina, USA, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea
      Duration02:34

      A story of three couples and their intertwining love stories set in 1940s Taiwan and Shanghai, centered around the 1949 sinking of Taiping.

      Markimdb: 5.6
      Genreaction, melodrama, drama, adventure, military, biography, history
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Germany, Netherlands, France, Italy, Morocco, Thailand
      Duration02:55

        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.

        Markimdb: 7.1
        Genremelodrama, drama, military, history
        CountryIndia
        Duration03:09

        Rani Padmavati - the wife of Maharawal Ratan Singh, is known for her beauty and valour in 13th century India. She captures the fancy of the reigning Sultan of Delhi, the tyrant Alauddin Khilji, who becomes obsessed with her and goes to great lengths to fulfill his greed.

        Markimdb: 7.6
        Genremelodrama, drama, detective, military
        CountryFrance, USA
        Duration02:08

        In 1919, Mathilde was 19 years old. Two years earlier, her fiancé Manech left for the front at the Somme. Like millions of others he was "killed on the field of battle." It's written in black and white on the official notice. But Mathilde refuses to believe it. If Manech had died, she would know. She hangs on to her intuition as tightly as she would onto the last thread of hope linking her to her lover. A former sergeant tells her in vain that Manech died in the no man's land of a trench named Bingo Crepescule, in the company of four other men condemned to die for self-inflicted wounds. Her path ahead is full of obstacles but Mathilde is not frightened. Anything is possible to someone who is willing to challenge fate...

        Markimdb: 6.1
        Genreaction, comedy, melodrama, drama, military
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:43

        During the Battle of the Bulge, an anachronistic count shelters a ragtag squad of Americans in his isolated castle hoping they will defend it against the advancing Germans.

        Markimdb: 4.1
        Genreaction, melodrama, drama, military
        CountryUSA

        Rusty Wittenburg is a Navy SEAL struggling to balance his family life and his job. He fights daily to maintain the line between reality and the nightmares his PTSD conjures up for him. Dedicated to his team and his mission, he is willing to give the ultimate sacrifice for his fellow brothers and teammates.

        Markimdb: 8.5
        Genredrama, military
        CountrySoviet Union
        Duration01:27

        During World War II, оld Georgian peasant wine-grower Georgy (Sergo Zakariadze) leaves his Georgian village and goes off to the front line, hoping to find his son. George should see and transfer a lot of things, he becomes a soldier and only in the last days of war finds the son...

        Markimdb: 6.4
        Genremelodrama, drama, military, history
        CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, West Germany
        Duration02:21

        During WWII, the United States set up army bases in Great Britain as part of the war effort. Against their proper sensibilities, many of the Brits don't much like the brash Yanks, especially when it comes to the G.I.s making advances on the lonely British girls. One relationship that develops is between married John, an Army Captain, and the aristocratic Helen, whose naval husband is away at war. Helen loves her husband, but Helen and John are looking for some comfort during the difficult times.

        Markimdb: 7.8
        Genrethriller, drama, military
        CountryMexico, USA, Puerto Rico

        A young boy, in an effort to have a normal childhood in 1980's El Salvador, is caught up in a dramatic fight for his life as he desperately tries to avoid the war which is raging all around him

        Markimdb: 7.3
        Genremelodrama, drama, military
        CountryItaly, Spain
        Duration02:07

        Full-throttle melodrama about an ill-starred romance set against the backdrop of the siege of Sarajevo. A mother brings her teenage son to Sarajevo, where his father died in the Bosnian conflict years ago.

        Markimdb: 7.5
        Genremelodrama, drama, military
        CountryFrance, Italy

        In World War II, the widow Barny sees the Italian soldiers arriving in occupied Saint Bernard while walking to her job. Barny lives with her daughter and works correcting tests and feels a great attraction toward her boss Sabine. When the Germans arrive, Barny sends her half-Jewish daughter to live in a farm in the countryside and finds that Sabine's brother has been arrested and sent to a concentration camp. The atheist Barny decides to baptize her daughter to protect her and chooses priest Léon Morin to discuss with him themes related to religion and Catholicism and Léon lends books to her. Barny converts to the Catholicism and becomes closer to Léon, feeling an unrequited desire for him.

        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: 7.7
        Genremelodrama, drama, military, biography, history
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:14

        Alvin York a hillbilly sharpshooter transforms himself from ruffian to religious pacifist. He is then called to serve his country and despite deep religious and moral objections to fighting becomes one of the most celebrated American heroes of WWI.

        Markimdb: 7.3
        Genremelodrama, drama, military, history
        CountryUnited Kingdom, France, USA
        Duration02:33

        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.

        Markimdb: 5.9
        Genredrama, military
        CountryRussia
        Duration01:29

        Immigrants from around the world enter Los Angeles every day, with hopeful visions of a better life, but little notion of what that life may cost. Their desperate scenarios test the humanity of immigration enforcement officers. In Crossing Over, writer-director Wayne Kramer explores the allure of the American dream, and the reality that immigrants find – and create -- in 21st century L.A.

        Markimdb: 5.7
        Genremelodrama, drama
        CountryFrance, Belgium
        Duration01:38

        A romantic drama set in Germany just before WWI and centered on a married woman who falls in love with her husband's teacher. Separated by the war, they pledge their devotion to one another.

        Markimdb: 6.8
        Genremelodrama, drama, military, history
        CountryUnited 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.

        Markimdb: 6.3
        Genreaction, melodrama, drama, adventure, military
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:38

        An American pilot impulsively joins His Majesty's Royal Air Force in Britain in an attempt to impress his ex-girlfriend.

        Markimdb: 6.8
        Genremelodrama, drama, crime, military
        CountryUSA, Poland
        Duration01:35

        A 12-year-old Jewish boy hides with a family of Catholic peasant farmers to escape the Nazis.

        Markimdb: 6.9
        Genremelodrama, drama, adventure
        CountryRussia
        Duration01:40

        A widowed aeronautics engineer, who has lost his job, travels with his son hopping freight trains from Moscow to Koktebel, a town by the Black Sea, to start a new life with the father's sister.




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