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Mark | imdb: 8.3 |
Genre | melodrama, drama, military, history |
Country | Soviet Union |
Duration | 01:37 |
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.
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: 8.3 |
Genre | melodrama, drama, military, history |
Country | Soviet Union |
Duration | 06:13 |
The first film of a four-part adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s 1869 novel . In St. Petersburg of 1805, Pierre Bezukhov, the illegitimate son of a rich nobleman, is introduced to high society. His friend, Prince Andrei Bolkonsky, joins the Imperial Russian Army as aide-de-camp of General Mikhail Kutuzov in the War of the Third Coalition against Napoleon.
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: 5.5 |
Genre | melodrama, drama, military, history |
Country | Russia |
Duration | 01:50 |
By miracle he avoided death and returns to the house where he was born. In the house now lives the love of his life. But the hope for happiness turns sour with a terrible discovery: his beloved is the daughter of his enemy.
Mark | imdb: 7.3 |
Genre | melodrama, drama, military, history |
Country | Armenia |
Just like its first part, The Line 2. 25 Years Later, is a story about ourselves, marking our achievements and failures, happiness and grief, our beloved ones and enemies, love, dreams and our war - Through the destinies of the central characters of the previous film, The Line 2 shows the long path we passed in the past 25 years.
Mark | imdb: 6.1 |
Genre | melodrama, drama, military, biography, history |
Country | Slovakia, Czech Republic |
Arnost Lustig was one of the world's most renowned literary authors of our times. Lustig's novel 'A girl from Antwerp' upon which our film Colette is based, draws on the author's personal Nazi Concentration Camp experience and his own recollection of several escape attempts from the hell of Auschwitz. The story of The Pulitzer Prize nominee Lustig is about the power of love under an extreme life circumstances. It is a story of young lovers and their vigorous determination to escape from a hopeless life condition and theirs courage to face death.
Mark | imdb: 4.9 |
Genre | melodrama, drama, military, history |
Country | Poland |
An epic tale of Poles, Ukrainians, Jews who are deported to Russia. Their fate is shown from the perspective of a young boy Staszek, who goes to Siberia with his family and neighbors from a small village in the eastern Polish borderlands. Together with his companions he starts hard struggle for survival, where the most fearsome opponent turns out to be terrible, merciless nature... Circumstances force the boy to reevaluate his life and grow up faster. Soon he will have to learn the essential struggle for survival and make decisions that will where rate will be life of his relatives. He will also have to choose between love for the Jewish Zinnia and the Russian Luybka.
Mark | imdb: 6.1 |
Genre | action, thriller, melodrama, drama, adventure, military, history |
Country | Spain |
Duration | 02:25 |
In 17th century Spain Diego Alatriste, a brave and heroic soldier, is fighting in his King's army in the Flandes region. His best mate, Balboa, falls in a trap and, near to death, asks Diego to look after his son and teach him to be a soldier.
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: 7.5 |
Genre | thriller, melodrama, drama, military, history |
Country | Taiwan, USA, Hong Kong, China |
Duration | 02:37 |
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.
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: 7 |
Genre | melodrama, drama, adventure, western, military, history |
Country | USA |
Duration | 02:06 |
Based on the Kenneth Roberts novel of the same name, this film tells the story of two friends who join Rogers' Rangers, as the legendary elite force engages the enemy during the French and Indian War. The film focuses on their famous raid at Fort St. Francis and their marches before and after the battle.
Mark | imdb: 7 |
Genre | melodrama, drama, military, history |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:58 |
Norfolk, England, 1770. The nephew of an innkeeper and the son of a reverend maintain a very close friendship until, after living a great adventure, they must separate their paths. The former will head his footsteps to London and bound his destiny to Lloyd's, a thriving insurance company; the latter will eventually become one of the greatest heroes in the history of the British Empire.
Mark | imdb: 6.8 |
Genre | melodrama, drama, military, history |
Country | France, Germany |
Duration | 02:05 |
Grace Dalrymple Elliot is a British aristocrat trapped in Paris during the French Revolution. Determined to maintain her stiff upper lip and pampered life despite the upheaval, Grace continues her friendship with the Duke of Orléans while risking her life and liberty to protect a fugitive.
Mark | imdb: 6.6 |
Genre | melodrama, drama, military, history |
Country | Lithuania |
Duration | 01:30 |
The coming-of-age tale of 16-year-old Lina Vilkas who is deported to Siberia amid Stalin's reign of terror in the Baltic region during WWII. An aspiring artist, she secretly documents her harrowing journey with her drawings.
Mark | imdb: 3.4 |
Genre | melodrama, drama, military, history |
Country | Germany |
The elaborately staged and lovingly furnished melodrama tells the moving story of a wife and mother after the Second World War. In the title role Christine Neubauer shows another facet of her versatility. Timothy Peach and Martin Feifel play at their side. Other main roles include Eva-Maria Hagen and Peter Sodann. Gaby Kubach directed a book by the renowned author Felix Huby.