20 best movies like Every Time We Say Goodbye (1986)

List of the best movies like Every Time We Say Goodbye (1986): A Tale of Love and Darkness, Tolkien, Fateless, The Broken Tower, Official Secrets, On the Milky Road, The Exception, Yossi, Dear John, Ironclad 2: Battle for Blood.

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Markimdb: 6
Genremelodrama, drama, detective, military, biography, history
CountryIsrael, USA

The story of young Amos Oz, growing up in Jerusalem in the years before Israeli statehood with his parents; his academic father, Arieh, and his dreamy, imaginative mother, Fania.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genremelodrama, drama, military, biography
CountryUSA
Duration01:47

England, early 20th century. The future writer and philologist John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892-1973) and three of his schoolmates create a strong bond between them as they share the same passion for literature and art, a true fellowship that strengthens as they grow up, but the outbreak of World War I threatens to shatter it.

Markimdb: 7
Genremelodrama, drama, military
CountryHungary, Germany, United Kingdom, Israel, France, USA

An Hungarian youth comes of age at Buchenwald during World War II. György Köves is 14, the son of a merchant who's sent to a forced labor camp. After his father's departure, György gets a job at a brickyard; his bus is stopped and its Jewish occupants sent to camps. There, György find camaraderie, suffering, cruelty, illness, and death. He hears advice on preserving one's dignity and self-esteem. He discovers hatred. If he does survive and returns to Budapest, what will he find? What is natural; what is it to be a Jew? Sepia, black and white, and color alternate to shade the mood.

Markimdb: 4.9
Genremelodrama, drama, military, biography, history
CountryUSA
Duration01:47

Docudrama about American poet Hart Crane, who committed suicide in April 1932 at the age of 32 by jumping off the steamship SS Orizaba.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime, military, biography
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Luxembourg, China
Duration01:37

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.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama, military
CountrySerbia, United Kingdom, USA, Argentina, Mexico
Duration02:16

A man, shaken by fate after his wife's death, chooses to be a monk.

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: 7
Genremelodrama, drama, military
CountryIsrael

The sequel to "Yossi and Jagger" finds character Yossi (Ohad Knoller) leading a sad existence after losing his partner Jagger on the battlefield. A chance encounter with a middle-aged woman linked to his past shakes up his otherwise staid routine and sends him on a spontaneous pilgrimage to Tel Aviv. It is on the roads of southern Israel that he reignites the fire of his former self.

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: 4.3
    Genreaction, melodrama, drama, adventure, military, history
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Luxembourg, USA, Germany, Serbia
    Duration01:40

    A survivor of the Great Siege of Rochester Castle fights to save his clan from from Celtic raiders. A sequel to the 2011 film, "Ironclad."

    Markimdb: 4.6
    Genremelodrama, drama, military
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:07

    During the Bosnian War, Danijel, a soldier fighting for the Serbs, re-encounters Ajla, a Bosnian who's now a captive in his camp he oversees. Their once promising connection has become ambiguous as their motives have changed.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genreaction, thriller, melodrama, drama, military, biography, history
    CountryCzech Republic, United Kingdom, USA, France
    Duration02:24

    In December 1941, Czech soldier Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš parachute into their occupied homeland to assassinate Nazi officer Reinhard Heydrich

    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: 6.4
    Genreaction, melodrama, drama, military, history
    CountryRomania, Hungary, Canada, USA

    Regent Horthy is the leader of Hungary and a German ally, but his favorable standing with Hitler changes as the war comes to an end. Forced to cede Hungary’s power or else witness the execution of his son, Regent Horthy gives up control of his country to the Nazis, who quickly move Hungarians to ghettos and death camps, with no hope in sight. But the despair changes when a young man named Elek emerges. Separated from his family during the relocations and aided by the woman he loves , Elek defies the enemy by becoming one of them. In a race against time, disguised as a Nazi Officer he embarks on a mission to save his family and thousands of his countrymen.

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genremelodrama, drama, military
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:48

    A Ukrainian village must suddenly contend with the Nazi invasion of June 1941.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genremelodrama, drama, military
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:19

    Untrained, volunteer Nurses from America treat Allied soldiers behind and on the lines in France. They face the horrors of war, fight off the attentions of soldiers and face their own loneliness.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genremelodrama, drama, military
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:08

    World War I brings tribulations to an American woman married to a German.

    Markimdb: 5.6
    Genreaction, melodrama, drama, military
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:26

    A US submarine and its crew are captured by the Japanese on the eve of a major WWII battle.

    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: 6.4
    Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, detective, military
    CountryChina, USA
    Duration01:43

    An American man returns to a corrupt, Japanese-occupied Shanghai four months before Pearl Harbor and discovers his friend has been killed. While he unravels the mysteries of the death, he falls in love and discovers a much larger secret that his own government is hiding.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genreaction, melodrama, drama, adventure, military
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:01

    The adventures of oil well fire specialist Chance Buckman (based on real-life Red Adair), who extinguishes massive fires in oil fields around the world.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, military, history
    CountryTaiwan, USA, Hong Kong, China
    Duration02:37

    During World War II a secret agent must seduce, then assassinate an official who works for the Japanese puppet government in Shanghai. Her mission becomes clouded when she finds herself falling in love with the man she is assigned to kill.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genremelodrama, drama, military
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:42

    A naval aviator is assigned to bomb a group of heavily defended bridges during the Korean War.

    Markimdb: 5
    Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, military
    CountryUSA, Argentina
    Duration01:43

    Irene is a magazine editor living under the shadow of the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile. Francisco is a handsome photographer and he comes to Irene for a job. As a sympathizer with the underground resistance movement, Francisco opens her eyes and her heart to the atrocities being committed by the state.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genremelodrama, drama, military, biography
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:16

    The life of celebrated but reclusive author, J.D. Salinger, who gained worldwide fame with the publication of his novel, The Catcher in the Rye.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genreaction, melodrama, drama, military
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:31

    After his plane is downed in the South Pacific, a Navy flier recounts his life to a co-pilot while awaiting rescue.

    Markimdb: 5.2
    Genreaction, comedy, melodrama, drama, adventure, military
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:07

    A naval officer who had deserted several years earlier is drawn back to the Navy when World War II begins. He re-enlists under an assumed name, and is assigned to a minesweeper, where he has to perform hazardous duties while at the same time keeping his real identity a secret.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genremelodrama, drama, western, military
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:40

    In 1859, idealist John Wickliff Shawnessey, a resident of Raintree County, Indiana, is distracted from his high school sweetheart Nell Gaither by Susanna Drake, a rich New Orleans girl. This love triangle is further complicated by the American Civil War, and dark family history.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genreaction, melodrama, drama, military
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:21

    Larry Parks in a Cinecolor swashbuckler.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genremelodrama, drama, military
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:36

    This is the story of a young Irish woman who comes to Spain to escape from the pressures she feels about her impending marriage to a political activist in Ireland. But in Spain in the 1930's, taking a job of governess in a wealthy family, she finds the same kinds of political unrest. In fact, it isn't long before she finds herself attracted to a married man who is similarly involved in the struggle against fascism and Franco. This awakens her to her nature that brings her to such men and resolves for her what she must do about the life she left in Ireland

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

    Ride with the Devil follows four people who are fighting for truth and justice amidst the turmoil of the American Civil War. Director Ang Lee takes us to a no man's land on the Missouri/Kansas border where a staunch loyalist, an immigrant's son, a freed slave, and a young widow form an unlikely friendship as they learn how to survive in an uncertain time. In a place without rules and redefine the meaning of bravery and honor.




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