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Mark | imdb: 7.5 |
Genre | drama, military |
Country | United Kingdom, Spain, Germany, Italy, France |
Duration | 01:49 |
David Carr is a British Communist who is unemployed. In 1936, when the Spanish Civil War begins, he decides to fight for the Republican side, a coalition of liberals, communists and anarchists, so he joins the POUM militia and witnesses firsthand the betrayal of the Spanish revolution by Stalin's followers and Moscow's orders.
Mark | imdb: 6.7 |
Genre | comedy, drama, military |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:47 |
In London, during October 1993, England is playing Holland in the preliminaries of the World Cup. The Bosnian War is at its height, and refugees from the ex-Yugoslavia are arriving. Football rivals, and political adversaries from the Balkans all precipitate conflict and amusing situations. Meanwhile, the lives of four English families are affected in different ways by encounter with the refugees.
Mark | imdb: 7.5 |
Genre | drama, military |
Country | Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Luxembourg, Belgium |
Duration | 02:07 |
In 1920s Ireland young doctor Damien O'Donovan prepares to depart for a new job in a London hospital. As he says his goodbyes at a friend's farm, British Black and Tans arrive, and a young man is killed. Damien joins his brother Teddy in the Irish Republican Army, but political events are soon set in motion that tear the brothers apart.
Mark | imdb: 6.5 |
Genre | melodrama, drama, history |
Country | Greece, France, Italy, Germany, Russia |
A, an American film director of Greek ancestry, is making a film that tells his story and the story of his parents. It is a tale that unfolds in Italy, Germany, Russia, Kazakhstan, Canada and the USA. The main character is Eleni, who is claimed and claims the absoluteness of love. At the same time the film is a long journey into the vast history and the events of the last fifty years that left their mark on the 20th century. The characters in the film move as though in a dream. The dust of time confuses memories. A searches for them and experiences them in the present.
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 | action, melodrama, drama, military |
Country | Czech Republic, United Kingdom, Germany, Denmark, Italy, France, USA |
Duration | 01:52 |
Lt. Franta Slama is a top pilot in the Czech Air Force who is assigned to train a promising young flier, Karel Vojtisek, and they soon become friends. When Nazi Germany invades Czechoslovakia in 1939, they both reject the authority of their new leaders and escape to England where they join other Czech exiles in the RAF. While flying a mission over England, Karel crash lands and happens upon the farmhouse of Susan, a young woman whose husband is in the Navy. Karel soon falls head over heels for Susan but, while they enjoy a brief fling, in time Susan decides she prefers the company of the older and more worldly Franta. As Franta and Karel struggle to maintain their friendship despite their romantic rivalry.
Mark | imdb: 7.7 |
Genre | drama, military, history |
Country | United Kingdom, Germany |
Duration | 01:55 |
Two westerners, a priest and a teacher find themselves in the middle of the Rwandan genocide and face a moral dilemna. Do they place themselves in danger and protect the refugees, or escape the country with their lives? Based on a true story.
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: 7.2 |
Genre | drama, crime, military, biography |
Country | France, Germany, Romania |
Duration | 01:43 |
Kurt Gerstein—a member of the Institute for Hygiene of the Waffen-SS—is horrified by what he sees in the death camps. he is then shocked to learn that the process he used to purify water for his troops by using Zyklon-B, is now used to kill people in gas chambers.
Mark | imdb: 7.8 |
Genre | drama, military |
Country | Italy, France, Germany |
The final film in Rossellini's war film trilogy (the first two being Rome, Open City and PaisĂ ). Germany Year Zero takes place in post-war Germany, unlike the others, which take place in German-occupied Rome and post-war Italy, respectively. The story follows a twelve-year-old boy, Edmund Kohler, who is mainly left to his own devices in order to survive and to help his family do the same.
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: 7.3 |
Genre | drama, military |
Country | Israel, 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?
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: 7.7 |
Genre | melodrama, drama, military, music, history |
Country | France, Germany, United Kingdom, Belgium, Romania |
Duration | 01:51 |
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.
Mark | imdb: 7.9 |
Genre | melodrama, drama, military |
Country | Macedonia, France, United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:53 |
The circularity of violence seen in a story that circles on itself. In Macedonia, during war in Bosnia, Christians hunt an ethnic Albanian girl who may have murdered one of their own. A young monk who's taken a vow of silence offers her protection. In London, a photographic editor who's pregnant needs to talk it out with her estranged husband and chooses a toney restaurant.
Mark | imdb: 5.9 |
Genre | drama, adventure, detective, military, history |
Country | Germany, France, Italy, Russia, Poland, Canada, Turkey, Jordan |
Duration | 02:19 |
In 1915 a man survives the Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire, but loses his family, speech and faith. One night he learns that his twin daughters may be alive, and goes on a quest to find them.
Mark | imdb: 7 |
Genre | drama |
Country | United Kingdom, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Luxembourg |
Duration | 01:50 |
Maya is a quick-witted young woman who comes over the Mexican border without papers and makes her way to the LA home of her older sister Rosa. Rosa gets Maya a job as a janitor: a non-union janitorial service has the contract, the foul-mouthed supervisor can fire workers on a whim, and the service-workers' union has assigned organizer Sam Shapiro to bring its "justice for janitors" campaign to the building. Sam finds Maya a willing listener, she's also attracted to him. Rosa resists, she has an ailing husband to consider. The workers try for public support; management intimidates workers to divide and conquer. Rosa and Maya as well as workers and management may be set to collide.
Mark | imdb: 6.6 |
Genre | drama, adventure, military |
Country | France, Italy, Qatar, Tunisia |
Duration | 02:10 |
On the Arabian Peninsula in the 1930s, two warring leaders come face to face. The victorious Nesib, Emir of Hobeika, lays down his peace terms to rival Amar, Sultan of Salmaah. The two men agree that neither can lay claim to the area of no man’s land between them called The Yellow Belt. In return, Nesib adopts Amar’s two boys Saleeh and Auda as a guarantee against invasion. Twelve years later, Saleeh and Auda have grown into young men. Saleeh, the warrior, itches to escape his gilded cage and return to his father’s land. Auda cares only for books and the pursuit of knowledge. One day, their adopted father Nesib is visited by an American from Texas. He tells the Emir that his land is blessed with oil and promises him riches beyond his wildest imagination. Nesib imagines a realm of infinite possibility, a kingdom with roads, schools and hospitals all paid for by the black gold beneath the barren sand. There is only one problem. The precious oil is located in the Yellow Belt.
Mark | imdb: 6.9 |
Genre | drama, military |
Country | Israel, France, Germany, United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:33 |
During the First Lebanon War in 1982, a lone tank and a paratroopers platoon are dispatched to search a hostile town.
Mark | imdb: 7 |
Genre | drama, military |
Country | Afghanistan, France, Germany, United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:42 |
In a war ridden country a woman watches over the husband reduced to a vegetable state by a bullet in the neck, abandoned by Jihad companions and brothers. One day, the woman decides to say things to him she could never have done before.
Mark | imdb: 7.2 |
Genre | fantastic, thriller, comedy, melodrama, drama |
Country | Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom, Greece, France, Netherlands, USA |
Duration | 01:36 |
In a dystopian near future, single people, according to the laws of The City, are taken to The Hotel, where they are obliged to find a romantic partner in forty-five days or are transformed into beasts and sent off into The Woods.
Mark | imdb: 6.2 |
Genre | melodrama, drama, military |
Country | United Kingdom, Germany, Hungary, Cayman Islands |
Duration | 01:36 |
The rise of national socialism in Germany should not be regarded as a conspiracy of madmen. Millions of "good" people found themselves in a society spiralling into terrible chaos. A film about then, which illuminates the terrors of now.
Mark | imdb: 7.5 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, drama, military, music |
Country | Serbia, France, Italy |
Duration | 02:35 |
Set during the Bosnian war in the early 1990s, Luka is a mild-mannered railway clerk whose life is turned upside down, not just by the outbreak of the war, but when his wife runs off with a local musician. Then Luka's son is conscripted and eventually captured in the fighting. To recover his son, Luka is commanded to guard a pretty young Muslim nurse who will be used in a hostage swapping operation.
Mark | imdb: 7.3 |
Genre | drama, biography |
Country | United Kingdom, Germany, Romania, France, Italy |
Duration | 02:08 |
Set in Paris in 1919, biopic centers on the life of late Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani, focusing on his last days as well as his rivalry with Pablo Picasso. Modigliani, a Jew, has fallen in love with Jeanne, a young and beautiful Catholic girl. The couple has an illegitimate child, and Jeanne's bigoted parents send the baby to a faraway convent to be raised by nuns. Modigliani is distraught and
Mark | imdb: 7.5 |
Genre | melodrama, drama, military, history |
Country | Germany, Austria, Canada, Hungary, France, United Kingdom, USA |
The story of a Jewish family living in Hungary—through three generations—rising from humble beginnings to positions of wealth and power in the crumbling Austro-Hungarian Empire. The patriarch becomes a prominent judge but is torn when his government sanctions anti-Jewish persecutions. His son converts to Christianity to advance his career as a champion fencer and Olympic hero, but is caught up in the Holocaust. Finally, the grandson, after surviving war, revolution, loss and betrayal, realizes that his ultimate allegiance must be to himself and his heritage.
Mark | imdb: 6.7 |
Genre | melodrama, drama |
Country | Greece, France, Belgium |
Strangers in their own birthplace, a camp 16-year-old, lollipop-sucking Dany and his 18-year-old brother Odysseus cross the entire country (along with pet rabbit Dido ) in search of their Greek father, who they only know as “The Nameless”, after the death of their Albanian mother. They hope to get Greek passports and citizenship but on the journey they encounter racism and prejudice.
Mark | imdb: 7.1 |
Genre | drama, military, music |
Country | France, United Kingdom, Germany, Austria |
Duration | 02:22 |
One of the most spectacular and renowned conductors of the 1930s, Wilhelm Furtwangler's reputation rivaled that of Toscanini's. After the war, he was investigated as part of the Allies' de-Nazification programme. In the bombed-out Berlin of the immediate post-war period, the Allies slowly bring law and order to bear on an occupied Germany. An American major is given the Furtwangler file, and is told to find everything he can and to prosecute the man ruthlessly. Tough and hard-nosed, Major Steve Arnold sets out to investigate a world of which he knows nothing.
Mark | imdb: 7.1 |
Genre | drama, military |
Country | Australia, Germany, United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:48 |
Lore leads her four younger siblings across a war-torn Germany in 1945. Amidst the chaos she encounters a mysterious refugee who shatters her fragile reality with hatred and desire.
Mark | imdb: 7.1 |
Genre | action, drama, military, biography |
Country | Germany, France, Poland |
Duration | 01:48 |
Run Boy Run is the true story of Jurek, an eight-year-old boy, who escapes from the Warsaw ghetto, then manages to survive in the woods and working as a farmhand, disguising himself as a Polish orphan. He encounters people who will betray him for a reward, who will beat him up or try to kill him, and he meets those, who will do and risk almost everything to help him. Jurek’s resilience is put to the ultimate test, when an accident cripples him, making it harder to find work. But he struggles on against all odds. Eventually the Russians reach his area and Jurek even finds a family where he could stay. Yet he is betrayed again, and a young man from a Jewish orphanage forcefully tries to bring Jurek back to his people and his faith.
Mark | imdb: 7.5 |
Genre | melodrama, drama, military |
Country | France, 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 LĂ©on Morin to discuss with him themes related to religion and Catholicism and LĂ©on lends books to her. Barny converts to the Catholicism and becomes closer to LĂ©on, feeling an unrequited desire for him.
Mark | imdb: 6.7 |
Genre | melodrama, drama |
Country | Germany, France, Greece |
Duration | 01:57 |
Walter Faber has survived a crash with an airplane. His next trip is by ship. On board this ship he meets the enchanting Sabeth and they have a passionate love affair. Together they travel to her home in Greece, but the rational Faber doesn't know what fate has in mind for him for past doings.
Mark | imdb: 7.3 |
Genre | thriller, fantasy, drama |
Country | United Kingdom, Germany, Greece, France |
Duration | 01:58 |
A depressed musician reunites with his lover in the desolate streets of Detroit. Though their romance has endured several centuries, it is tested by the arrival of her capricious and unpredictable younger sister.
Mark | imdb: 5.2 |
Genre | melodrama, drama |
Country | France, Luxembourg, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg, United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:37 |
English-language adaptation of Albert Cohen's epic Swiss tale of a tortured love affair between a high-ranking Jewish official and the protestant wife of one of his employees.
Mark | imdb: 7.2 |
Genre | melodrama, drama, military |
Country | Romania, France |
Duration | 01:22 |
In 1925 Romania, young Marie-Therese Von Debretsy refuses the flirtatious advances of her husband's commanding officer. As a result, the cosmopolitan family is reassigned to a brutally bleak and dangerous outpost on the Bulgarian/Romanian frontier where both their relationship and humanity are severely tested.
Mark | imdb: 6.5 |
Genre | melodrama, drama, military |
Country | France, United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:35 |
Fleeing the June 1940 arrival of Hitler's army in Paris, a young war widow and her two children are rescued from dive-bombing German fighters by a cocky, reckless teenager. He finds them refuge in an abandoned house, but despite the fact that the family quickly comes to be depending much on his cunning and survival abilities, their cohabitation proves uneasy.
Mark | imdb: 6.8 |
Genre | action, drama, military, biography, history |
Country | USA, United Kingdom, France |
Duration | 02:20 |
Le Ly lives in a small Vietnamese village whose serenity is shattered when war breaks out. Caught between the Viet Cong and the South Vietnamese army, the village is all but destroyed. After being both brutalized and raped, Le Ly resolves to flee. She leaves for the city, surviving desperate situations, but surviving nonetheless. Eventually she meets a U.S. Marine named Steve Butler who treats her kindly and tells her he would like to be married -- maybe to her.
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.