20 best movies like Ode to My Father (2014)

List of the best movies like Ode to My Father (2014): War Horse, The War, Secrets of War, The Front Line, What the Day Owes the Night, Birdy, Little Boy, Ilo Ilo, Testament of Youth, Paradise Road.

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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: 6.7
    Genredrama, adventure, family, military
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:05

    The son of a Vietnam War Veteran must deal with neighborhood bullies as well as his dad's post-traumatic stress disorder while growing up in the deep south in the 1970's.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genredrama, family, military
    CountryNetherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg
    Duration01:32

    Tuur and Lambert are best friends. But the war is closing in and is about to change their lives forever. Tuurs dad joined the resistance and even his big brother seems so be part of it. Lamberts family on the other hand choose to obey the Germans. Then a new girls from the city shows up, befriending the boys but telling her secret to only one of them. A choice that separates the boys and ultimately gets her in trouble.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genreaction, drama, military, history
    CountrySouth Korea
    Duration02:13

    In 1951 ceasefire is declared, but two remaining armies fought their final battle on the front line Towards the end of the Korean War, a South Korean battalion is fiercely battling over a hill on the front line border against the North in order to capture a strategic point that would determine the new border between two nations. The ownership of this small patch of land would swap multiple times each day. Kang is dispatched to the front line in order to investigate the tacit case that’s been happening there. But he gets spiraled into the war that’s more terrifying than death itself when he meets his friend Kim, who has transformed into a war machine, and his unit. As the countdown for ceasefire begins, both sides become more vicious, resulting in deaths of countless lives until the last man could claim the land.

    Markimdb: 7.7
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryFrance
    Duration02:42

    Algeria, the 1930s. Younes is nine years old when he is put in his uncle's care in Oran. Rebaptized Jonas, he grows up among the Rio Salado youths, with whom he becomes friends. Emilie is one of the gang; everyone is in love with her. A great love story develops between Jonas and Emilie, which is soon unsettled by the conflicts troubling the country.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genredrama, military
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:00

    Two young men are seriously affected by the Vietnam war. One of them has always been obsessed with birds - but now believes he really is a bird, and has been sent to a mental hospital. Can his friend help him pull through?

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genredrama, military, history
    CountryMexico, USA
    Duration02:16

    An eight-year-old boy is willing to do whatever it takes to end World War II so he can bring his father home. The story reveals the indescribable love a father has for his little boy and the love a son has for his father.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genredrama
    CountrySingapore, Japan, Taiwan, France
    Duration01:39

    Set in the mid 1990s in Singapore, ILOILO chronicles the relationship between a family and their maid from Ilo Ilo, a province in the Philippines.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genredrama, military, biography, history
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Denmark
    Duration02:09

    Testament of Youth is a powerful story of love, war and remembrance, based on the First World War memoir by Vera Brittain, which has become the classic testimony of that war from a woman’s point of view. A searing journey from youthful hopes and dreams to the edge of despair and back again, it’s a film about young love, the futility of war and how to make sense of the darkest times.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genredrama, military, history
    CountryAustralia, USA
    Duration02:02

    A group of English, American, Dutch and Australian women creates a vocal orchestra while being imprisoned in a Japanese POW camp on Sumatra during World War II.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genreaction, drama, military, history
    CountryUSA
    Duration03:28

    The theme is the founding of the state of Israel. The action begins on a ship filled with Jewish immigrants bound for Israel who are being off loaded on Cyprus. An Intelligence officer succeeds in getting them back on board their ship only to have the harbor blocked by the British with whom they must negotiate. The second part deals with declaring independence and the resulting warring.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genredrama, military, biography, history
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:48

    Battle Hymn was inspired by the true story of American minister Dean Hess, played here with rare sensitivity by Rock Hudson. A bomber pilot during World War II, Hess inadvertently releases a bomb which destroys a German orphanage. Tortured by guilt, Hess relocates in Korea after the war to offer his services as a missionary. Combining the best elements of Christianity and Eastern spiritualism, Hess establishes a large home for orphans. The preacher's efforts are threatened when the Korean "police action" breaks out in 1950.

    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: 6.5
    Genredrama, military, history
    CountryJapan, USA
    Duration01:45

    As the Japanese surrender at the end of WWII, Gen. Fellers is tasked with deciding if Emperor Hirohito will be hanged as a war criminal. Influencing his ruling is his quest to find Aya, an exchange student he met years earlier in the U.S.

    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: 7.3
    Genreaction, drama, military, history
    CountrySouth Korea
    Duration02:00

    A civil war broke out in the 1950s between North and South Korea which changed the country forever. 71: Into the Fire centers on the struggles of 71 student soldiers who fought through the Korean War. Using real people and events based on the opening moves of the Battle of P'ohang-dong, the film exposes the personal and physical conflicts that these students faced when finding themselves on the last line of defense at P'ohang-dong Girl's Middle School against the NKPA's advancement, needing to hold out until back up from other Korean troops and the Allies arrived.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genredrama, military, music, history
    CountrySouth Korea
    Duration01:21

    Rebellious Ki-soo from North Korea is mesmerized by tap dance in prison camps. Ki-soo joins as a team member of a dance team named ‘Swing Kids’. Yet suddenly, their dreams about dancing in prison camps are put in danger.

    Markimdb: 4.1
    Genredrama, military, history
    CountryNetherlands
    Duration01:45

    A thrilling love story between the young boxer Vincent and the German Eva, who soon has to marry with the middle-aged Dirk to save her family. While the war starts in the Netherlands their impossible love inflames. May 14, 1940, the day that the centre of Rotterdam is bombed and the young lovers lose sight of each other.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genredrama, adventure, military, history
    CountryAustralia
    Duration01:50

    As World War I rages, brave and youthful Australians Archy and Frank—both agile runners—become friends and enlist in the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps together. They later find themselves part of the Dardanelles Campaign on the Gallipoli peninsula, a brutal eight-month conflict which pit the British and their allies against the Ottoman Empire and left over 500,000 men dead.

    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
    Genrecomedy, drama, history
    CountryUnited Kingdom, France, USA
    Duration02:00

    Based on a true story, the film is set in the summer of 1984 – when Margaret Thatcher is in power and the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) is on strike. At the Gay Pride March in London, a group of gay and lesbian activists decides to raise money to support the families of the striking miners. But there is a problem - the union seems embarrassed to receive their support. However the activists are not deterred. They decide to ignore the union and go direct to the miners. They identify a mining village of Onllwyn, in the Dulais Valley in Wales, and later set off in a mini bus to make their donation in person. And so begins the extraordinary story of two seemingly alien communities who form a surprising and ultimately triumphant partnership.

    Markimdb: 3.4
    Genreaction, drama, military, history
    CountryUSA

    Untold and lost history. A true story of the American Pathfinders, the volunteer paratroopers whose deadly mission was to land 30 minutes before the Normandy invasion, locate and mark strategic "drop zones" and set up the top-secret navigation equipment needed to guide the main airborne assault on D-Day.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genremelodrama, drama, military, history
    CountryPoland
    Duration02:07

    A beautiful story about youth, love, friendship and the pursuit of adventure during the bloody and brutal reality of the Warsaw Uprising.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genredrama, military, history
    CountryAustralia, USA
    Duration01:51

    In 1919, Australian farmer Joshua Connor travels to Turkey to discover the fate of his three sons, reported missing in action. Holding on to hope, Joshua must travel across the war-torn landscape to find the truth and his own peace.

    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: 5.9
    Genreaction, drama, military, history
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:00

    The story of the Tuskegee Airmen, the first African-American pilots to fly in a combat squadron during World War II.

    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: 6.9
    Genredrama, military, history
    CountryHong Kong, USA
    Duration02:05

    Disheartened by futile combat, appalled by the corruption of their South Vietnamese ally, and constantly endangered by the incompetence of their own company commander, the young men find a possible way out of the war. They are told that if they purposely lose a soccer game against a South Vietnamese team, they can spend the rest of their tour playing exhibition games behind the lines.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genredrama
    CountrySouth Korea

    The fashionable Hye-joo is focused on her career at a brokerage house. She's making a decent living, but her co-workers look down on her. Tae-hee is sick of living under the thumb of her domineering father. She spends her time doing volunteer work for a poet with cerebral palsy. Sullen Ji-young lives in poverty with her grandparents and struggles to find work. The girls, close friends in high school, find themselves drifting apart as their adult lives begin to take shape.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountrySouth Korea

    It’s a sweltering summer, but Jung-won, a terminally ill, thirty-something photographer, is already in the winter of his life when he begins a tentative romance with a young traffic cop who doesn’t know about his condition. Is their relationship doomed before it even begins?

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genredrama, military, sport
    CountryGermany
    Duration01:55

    In 1942, Friedrich Weimer's boxing skills get him an appointment to a National Political Academy (NaPolA) – high schools that produce Nazi elite. Over his father's objections, Friedrich enrolls. During his year in seventh column,Friedrich encounters hazing, cruelty, death, and the Nazi code. His friendship with Albrecht, the ascetic son of the area's governor, is central to this education.

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genremelodrama, drama, military, history
    CountryRussia
    Duration01:50

    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.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genremelodrama, drama, military, history
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:39

    In Paris during WWII, an Algerian immigrant is inspired to join the resistance by his unexpected friendship with a Jewish man. Based on not very known facts about the Muslim community in Paris during WWII, when the Paris Mosque and its dynamic leader played a pivotal role in supporting the resistance and rescuing Jews.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genredrama, military, music
    CountryGermany
    Duration01:40

    Three musically talented children look to the future, but their hopes crumble when Germany and Russia enter into war.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genremelodrama, drama, military, history
    CountryFrance, Vietnam, Malaysia
    Duration02:33

    Eliane Devries is the seemingly repressed owner of a prosperous rubber plantation in French Indochina, circa 1930. Her steely exterior, however, is only a mask intended to hide her torrid love affairs from upper class society

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genredrama
    CountryIsrael, Germany, France

    A young Arab is caught between cultures as he is sent to a prestigious Jewish boarding school in Israel in the 1980s.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genredrama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:11

    Two boys find a fugitive hiding out on an island in the Mississippi River and form a pact to help him reunite with his lover and escape.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genredrama, sport
    CountrySouth Korea
    Duration01:50

    A deadbeat teacher helps an angry, aimless teenager find direction in life during his final year of high school.

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genreaction, drama, adventure, military, history
    CountryNew Zealand, United Kingdom
    Duration01:54

    An intimate story set during the 1860s in which a young Irish woman Sarah and her family find themselves on both sides of the turbulent wars between British and Maori during the British colonization of New Zealand.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genredrama, military, biography, history
    CountryPoland, Germany, United Kingdom

    The story of Polish pedagogue Janusz Korczak and his dedication to protecting Jewish orphans during the war.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genremelodrama, drama, adventure, military, history
    CountryUSA, Italy, Romania, United Kingdom
    Duration02:28

    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.

    Markimdb: 7.7
    Genreaction, drama, military, history
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom
    Duration02:33

    Jamie Graham, a privileged English boy, is living in Shanghai when the Japanese invade and force all foreigners into prison camps. Jamie is captured with an American sailor named Basie, who looks out for him while they are in the camp together. Even though he is separated from his parents and in a hostile environment, Jamie maintains his dignity and youthful spirits, providing a beacon of hope for the others held captive with him.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genremelodrama, drama, musical, military, history
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration02:38

      An adaptation of the successful stage musical based on Victor Hugo's classic novel set in 19th-century France, in which a paroled prisoner named Jean Valjean seeks redemption.

      Markimdb: 8
      Genredrama, military
      CountryFrance, West Germany, Italy
      Duration01:44

      Au revoir les enfants tells a heartbreaking story of friendship and devastating loss concerning two boys living in Nazi-occupied France. At a provincial Catholic boarding school, the precocious youths enjoy true camaraderie—until a secret is revealed. Based on events from writer-director Malle’s own childhood, the film is a subtle, precisely observed tale of courage, cowardice, and tragic awakening.

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genredrama
      CountryRepublic of Ireland, United Kingdom

      Centred around greyhound racing in a Catholic community after the "Troubles" have ended but where their legacy remains strong. Donal is a 14-year old who works in a greyhound racing kennel owned by Good Joe. If Donal's favourite greyhound, The Mighty Celt, wins three races in a row, Good Joe has promised him full ownership.

      Markimdb: 5.7
      Genremelodrama, drama, family, history
      CountryUSA

      Savannah is the true story of Ward Allen, a romantic and bombastic character who rejects his plantation heritage for the freedom of life on a river. Ward navigates the change of early 20th century America on the wrong side of the law and society, his long-time friend, a freed slave named Christmas Moultrie, at his side. Master of Shakespeare, and the shotgun that provides Savannah's markets with fowl, Ward fights for his rights as a hunter. His charisma and eloquent rhetoric win the heart of a society woman who defies her father to marry him. An elderly Moultrie tells the story of life on the river with his friend to a little boy, who passes the legendary Ward Allen down to the next generation.

      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: 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: 6.5
      Genredrama, western, military, history
      CountryMexico
      Duration02:25

      A chronicle of the Cristeros War (1926-1929), which was touched off by a rebellion against the Mexican government's attempt to secularize the country.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genremelodrama, drama, military, history
      CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany, China, USA
      Duration02:15

      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.




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