20 best movies like Today We Live (1933)

List of the best movies like Today We Live (1933): A Tale of Love and Darkness, In the Land of Blood and Honey, Walking with the Enemy, Burning Blue, Love and Honor, The Broken Tower, Ironclad 2: Battle for Blood, Les Misérables, Sirocco, The Aftermath.

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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: 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: 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: 6.2
Genremelodrama, drama, military, biography
CountryUSA

Two Navy fighter pilots find themselves in the midst of a forbidden relationship throwing their lives and careers into disarray.

Markimdb: 5.7
Genremelodrama, drama, military
CountryUSA
Duration01:32

When a young soldier in Vietnam gets dumped by his hometown girl, he and his best friend decide to go AWOL and return to the States to win her back.

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: 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: 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: 6.2
    Genreaction, melodrama, drama, film noir, military
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:38

    A mysterious American gets mixed up with gunrunners in Syria.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genremelodrama, drama, military
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany, USA
    Duration01:44

    In the aftermath of World War II, a British colonel and his wife are assigned to live in Hamburg during the post-war reconstruction, but tensions arise with the German widower who lives with them.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genremelodrama, drama, adventure, military
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:54

    Writer Harry Street reflects on his life as he lies dying from an infection while on safari in the shadow of Mount Kilimanjaro.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genremelodrama, drama, military
    CountryUSA, Italy
    Duration03:28

    Napoleon's tumultuous relations with Russia including his disastrous 1812 invasion serve as the backdrop for the tangled personal lives of two aristocratic families.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, military, music, biography
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:34

    After a confrontation with one of his idols dashes his dreams of studying public speaking in college, Richard Pimentel joins the Army and ships off to Vietnam. During his service, Richard loses nearly all of his hearing. Joining a new circle of friends, including a man with cerebral palsy and an alcoholic war veteran, Richard discovers his gift for motivational speaking and becomes an advocate for people with disabilities.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genremelodrama, drama, military
    CountryUSA

    An Oklahoma National Guard unit, comprised mainly of Native Americans, is called up for duty at the start of World War II.

    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: 7.2
    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: 7.5
    Genremelodrama, drama, western, military
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:13

    An epic tale of three brothers and their father living in the remote wilderness of 1900s USA and how their lives are affected by nature, history, war, and love.

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genremelodrama, drama, military
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:06

    American naval forces are using a port in Iceland as a base for anti-submarine patrols to protect North Atlantic convoys from Nazi subs. The Nazis send undercover agents into the port in a scheme to blow up the entrance to the harbor and keep the patrols blocked in. The officers in charge of the patrols have to find the spies and stop them before they achieve their objective.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genremelodrama, drama, military
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:12

    Two brothers, Jack and Tom, are in love with the same woman, Molly. While the two brothers go off to war and Molly does her part in the effort, Tom believes that Rose is waiting for him, while in fact, she loves Jack and only turned to Tom on the rebound. Jack and Molly meet while he is on leave, and when he returns to battle, he doesn't know how to handle the situation with his brother.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, adventure, western, military
    CountryAustralia, United Kingdom, USA
    Duration02:39

    Set in northern Australia before World War II, an English aristocrat who inherits a sprawling ranch reluctantly pacts with a stock-man in order to protect her new property from a takeover plot. As the pair drive 2,000 head of cattle over unforgiving landscape, they experience the bombing of Darwin, Australia, by Japanese forces firsthand.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genremelodrama, drama, military
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:32

    A Farewell to Arms is a 1957 American drama film directed by Charles Vidor. The screenplay by Ben Hecht, based in part on a 1930 play by Laurence Stallings, was the second feature film adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's 1929 semi-autobiographical novel of the same name. It was the last film produced by David O. Selznick.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genreaction, melodrama, drama, military
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:42

    Jim Gordon commands a unit of the famed Flying Tigers, the American Volunteer Group which fought the Japanese in China before America's entry into World War II. Gordon must send his outnumbered band of fighter pilots out against overwhelming odds while juggling the disparate personalities and problems of his fellow flyers.

    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: 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: 6.3
      Genremelodrama, drama, military
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:31

      Matt Braddock is a civil engineer during World War II who has new ideas for shipbuilding. Braddock tries to establish yards for building prefabricated ships on the West Coast, but he is hindered by the former superintendent of the shipyard, Joel Kennedy. A disappointed lover fails to deliver an important message on welds and it leads to the collapse of a new ship's superstructure and the death of a boy.

      Markimdb: 5.4
      Genreaction, melodrama, drama, adventure, military
      CountryUSA

      Story of test pilots at a school that trains new flyers.

      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: 6.8
      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: 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: 6.2
      Genremelodrama, drama, adventure, military, history
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:32

      A boggy swashbuckler of Irish freedom-fighter Michael Martin.

      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: 6.5
        Genreaction, melodrama, drama, military, history
        CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
        Duration02:20

        The adventures of the Lafayette Escadrille, young Americans who volunteered for the French military before the U.S. entered World War I, and became the country's first fighter pilots.




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