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japanese occupation of korea

Drama

War

world war ii

Je-kyu Kang Director

Bingbing Fan as Shirai

Shingo Tsurumi as Takakura

Shirô Sano as Tatsuo's Father

Kumi Nakamura as Tatsuo's mother

During the invasion of Normandy the photograph of a slim Korean man in German uniform was found. It transpired that the man had served as a soldier in the Japanese, Russian and German armies. His incredible story inspired director Kang Je-Gyu to create this epic war drama.

Company of Heroes

2013

5.0

♡ 13

33%

War

world war ii

Don Michael Paul Director

Vinnie Jones as Brent Willoughby

Dimitri Diatchenko as Ivan Puzharski

Melia Kreiling as Kestrel

Neal McDonough as Lt. Joe Conti

American soldiers lost behind enemy lines during the WWII make a horrific discovery: Hitler has a super bomb in development. Against all odds, they set out to find the scientist in charge of the program who is looking to defect.

...and the Fifth Horseman Is Fear

1965

Czech

7.2

♡ 5

Zbynek Brynych Director

Jirí Vrstála as Komisar

Jirí Adamíra as majitel domu JUDr. Karel Veselý l

Mirko Musil as Policista v civilu

Olga Scheinpflugová as Ucitelka hudby

In Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia, a doctor-turned-warehouse employee reluctantly agrees to treat a gravely wounded political fugitive, putting himself and everyone living in his building complex in danger.

Dynamite Fighters

1987

Cn

6.5

♡ 3

Drama

female martial artist

martial arts

world war ii

David Chung Director

Yamson Domingo as (as Yeung Sing)

Michelle Yeoh as Fok Ming-Ming

Jing Chen as Gunrunner

Richard Ng as Paulina Wong

A daredevil airplane pilot and spy, who fights against the occupying Japanese forces in China, must rescue the ruler of the city of Kaal from the hands of a ruthless Japanese general and his advancing army.

Nathalie: Escape from Hell

1978

French

4.4

♡ 9

Alain Payet Director

Johnny Wessler as

Richard Allan as (as Richard Lemieuvre)

Barbara Moose as Gertrude

Patrizia Gori as Nathalie Baskova

When a Russian doctor (Patrizia Gori) falls foul of the Nazis, she finds herself imprisoned at Fort Stilberg, a luxury brothel for German top brass where the women are overseen by sadistic SS officer Helga Hortz (Jacqueline Laurent). The doctor's medical skills bring her to the attention of Nazi Lieutenant Erik Mueller (Jack Taylor), who saves the lovely lady from becoming one of the establishment's 'hostesses' by assigning her to the infirmary.

O.S.S.

1946

oss (office of strategic services)

6.6

♡ 3

33%

anti-nazi resistance

Drama

Irving Pichel Director

Jean Del Val as Conductor

Geraldine Fitzgerald as Ellen Rogers / Elaine Duprez

Don Beddoe as Gates

Jack Lambert as German Lieutenant

The (O)ffice of (S)trategic (S)ervices' Cmdr. Brady (Patric Knowles) forms Operation "Applejack" (based on a composite of actual incidents during WWII) and sends Lt. (j.g.) Philip Masson, U.S.N.R. aka John Martin as spy Philippe Martine (Alan Ladd) along with Miss Ellen Rogers posing as her college roommate, Madame Elaine Duprez (Geraldine Fitzgerald) and Robert Bouchet, Tech Sgt., A.U.S. as Albert Bernardito (Richard Benedict) to acquire secret Nazi plans. After nearly getting caught they succeed and get new identities. However they discover a secret that could change the war and risk their lives to get the information back to London before it jeopardizes their lives.

Resistance

2020

6.6

♡ 28

57%

Jonathan Jakubowicz Director

Bella Ramsey as Elsbeth

Clémence Poésy as Emma

Ed Harris as George S. Patton

Jesse Eisenberg as Marcel

The story of mime Marcel Marceau as he works with a group of Jewish boy scouts and the French Resistance to save the lives of ten thousand orphans during World War II.

Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence

1983

Japanese

7.2

♡ 17

christmas movie alternative

Nagisa Ôshima Director

Daisuke Iijima as Corporal Ueki

Takeshi Kitano as Hara

Masanori Okada as Japanese Soldier

Hiroshi Mikami as Japanese Soldier

Island of Java, 1942, during World War II. British Major Jack Celliers arrives at a Japanese prison camp, run by the strict Captain Yonoi. Colonel John Lawrence, who has a profound knowledge of Japanese culture, and Sergeant Hara, brutal and simpleton, will witness the struggle of wills between two men from very different backgrounds who are tragically destined to clash.

International Lady

1941

6.6

♡ 3

95%

Tim Whelan Director

Ilona Massey as Carla Nillson

Harold Goodwin as Decoder on Piano

Trevor Bardette as Krell, the Chemist

Martin Garralaga as Lisbon Cab Driver

Tim Hanley, an American agent, posing as a lawyer with the United States Embassy in London, and Reggie Oliver, a Scotland Yard detective, posing as a music critic are both keeping their eye on Carla Nillson, a famous singer, whom they suspect of espionage. They all meet in London, then in Lisbon, and eventually in New York City, where Carla sings on the radio.

The Great Raid

2005

6.6

♡ 53

39%

70%

based on a true story

John Dahl Director

James Franco as Captain Prince

Marton Csokas as Captain Redding

Connie Nielsen as Margaret Utinsky

Sam Worthington as PFC Lucas

As World War II rages, the elite Sixth Ranger Battalion is given a mission of heroic proportions: push 30 miles behind enemy lines and liberate over 500 American prisoners of war.

Battle of Okinawa

1971

Japanese

6.9

♡ 4

Kihachi Okamoto Director

Kenjirô Ishiyama as

Yûsuke Kawazu as

Eijirô Tôno as

Michitarô Mizushima as

The Americans are swiftly closing on Okinawa, an island just south of the Japanese mainland. The Imperial command sends top generals and several army divisions to defend it at all costs. The mission quickly degenerates as vital resources and troops are diverted to other islands. After a civilian evacuation ends in tragedy most of non-combatants are forced to remain on the island. Many convert to soldier status. Tokyo sends mixed messages that squander time and resources, as when they order the defenders to build an airstrip for aircraft that never come. The truth soon becomes obvious: the high command decides that the island cannot be held and effectively abandons the Okinawan defenders. When the Americans land many troops are deployed in the wrong places. As the slaughter mounts, a suicidal attitude takes hold. Okinawa becomes a death trap, for civilian volunteers and non-combatants as well.

Confidence

1980

Hungarian

7.5

♡ 3

István Szabó Director

Gyöngyi Dorogi as

Béla Éless as (as Béla Éles)

László Littmann as Dr. Czakó

Danielle du Tombe as Elza

Janos and Kata are thrown together during the Second World War and forced to pose as husband and wife to hide from the Nazis. The intensity and suffocating intimacy of their new relationship and the circumstances in which they find themselves, forces them to confront past prejudices and assumptions and challenge what they truly believe.

Dark Blue World

2001

Czech

7.1

♡ 23

62%

Jan Sverák Director

John Norton as Rear Gunner Captain

David Fisher as Telephonist

Miroslav Táborský as Vilha Houf

Charles Dance as Wing Commander Bentley

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.

Force 10 from Navarone

1978

6.4

♡ 29

68%

56%

Guy Hamilton Director

Harrison Ford as Barnsby

Harry Fielder as German

Leslie Schofield as Interrogation Officer 1

Barbara Bach as Maritza

World War II, 1943. Mallory and Miller, the heroes who destroyed the guns of Navarone, are sent to Yugoslavia in search of a ghost from the past.

The Guns of Navarone

1961

7.5

♡ 55

92%

J. Lee Thompson Director

Carl Duering as German Radar Operator

James Robertson Justice as Jensen / Prologue Narrator

James Darren as Spyros Pappadimos

Richard Harris as Squadron Leader Barnsby

A team of allied saboteurs are assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held island and destroy the two enormous long-range field guns that prevent the rescue of 2,000 trapped British soldiers.

Gramps Is in the Resistance

1983

French

6.7

♡ 1

Jean-Marie Poiré Director

Jean Carmet as André Bourdelle

Dominique Lavanant as Bernadette Bourdelle

Thierry Lhermitte as Le colonel SS

Christian Clavier as Michel Taupin

It is 1943 in Paris. Like so many others, the Bourbelle family's home has been taken over by the Germans and they now live in their cellar. Little do they know that the son, Guy-Hubert Bourdelle, is far from being the cowardly hairdresser he pretends. He is in truth the Germans’ most feared opponent: le super-résistant!

The Last Days

1998

7.9

♡ 5

96%

James Moll Director

Adolf Hitler as Self - Führer und Reichskanzler

Renee Firestone as Self - Holocaust Survivor

Hermann Göring as Self - Walks with Hitler

Joseph Goebbels as Self - with Hitler

Five Jewish Hungarians, now US citizens, tell their stories: before March 1944, when Nazis began to exterminate Hungarian Jews, months in concentration camps, and visiting childhood homes more than 50 years later. An historian, a Sonderkommando, a doctor who experimented on Auschwitz prisoners, and US soldiers who were part of the liberation in April 1945.

Eyewitness: D-Day

6.5

Hereward Pelling Director

John Black as Major John Nigel Taylor

Christopher Adams as Second Lieutenant John Spalding

Leandro Omuri as Sergeant Louis Ramundo

James Oliver Wheatley as Technical Sergeant Philip Streczyk

One famous day. Five heroes. Five key turning points that changed the course of World War II during the D-Day landings, told through the eyes of the people who made a difference. Using rarely seen archival footage dramatic reconstruction and written accounts from eye witnesses, and personal testimony from five heroes, this is D-Day as never seen before.

Bombsight Stolen

1941

6.7

♡ 6

60%

Anthony Asquith Director

Michael Wilding as Alan Trently

Alastair Sim as Charles Dimble

George Cole as Ronald

Arthur Hambling as Scotland Yard Inspector

Allied spies and Nazi Agents insinuate themselves at a Scottish cottage (converted to a wartime hospital) with interests on an inventor's nearly perfected bomb sight.

Tanks of Fury

2014