Japan, 1943, during World War II. Young Suzu leaves her village near Hiroshima to marry and live with her in-laws in Kure, a military harbor. Her creativity to overcome deprivation quickly makes her indispensable at home. Inhabited by an ancestral wisdom, Suzu impregnates the simple gestures of everyday life with poetry and beauty. The many hardships, the loss of loved ones, the frequent air raids of the enemy, nothing alters her enthusiasm…

Cross of Iron

1977

English

7.4

♡ 30

71%

world war ii russian front

Sam Peckinpah Director

Maximilian Schell as Hauptmann

David Warner as Hauptmann

Heinz Engelmann as Oberst

James Coburn as Unteroffizier Feldwebel

It is 1943, and the German army—ravaged and demoralised—is hastily retreating from the Russian front. In the midst of the madness, conflict brews between the aristocratic yet ultimately pusillanimous Captain Stransky and the courageous Corporal Steiner. Stransky is the only man who believes that the Third Reich is still vastly superior to the Russian army. However, within his pompous persona lies a quivering coward who longs for the Iron Cross so that he can return to Berlin a hero. Steiner, on the other hand is cynical, defiantly non-conformist and more concerned with the safety of his own men rather than the horde of military decorations offered to him by his superiors.

A Town Like Alice

1956

English

7.2

♡ 6

77%

Action

australia

based on novel or book

Jack Lee Director

Sam Kydd as Australian Driver

Peter Finch as Joe Harman

Jean Anderson as Miss Horsefall

Geoffrey Keen as Solicitor

In 1941 Malaysia, the advancing Japanese army captures a lot of British territory very quickly. The men are sent off to labor camps, but they have no plan on what to do with the women and children of the British.

Objective, Burma!

1945

English

7.3

♡ 5

86%

Raoul Walsh Director

Errol Flynn as Capt. Nelson

William Hudson as Fred Hollis

John Alvin as Hogan

Richard Erdman as Pvt. Nebraska Hooper

A group of men parachute into Japanese-occupied Burma with a dangerous and important mission: to locate and blow up a radar station. They accomplish this well enough, but when they try to rendezvous at an old air-strip to be taken back to their base, they find Japanese waiting for them, and they must make a long, difficult walk back through enemy-occupied jungle.

Leningrad

2009

English

6.0

♡ 3

st. petersburg, russia

War

wolf's lair

world war ii

Aleksandr Buravskiy Director

Armin Mueller-Stahl as Fon Leeb

Mira Sorvino as Keyt

Yuri Kolokolnikov as Nemetskiy letchik

Gabriel Byrne as Parker

When in 1941 Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union, their troops quickly besieged Leningrad. Foreign journalists are evacuated but one of them, Kate Davies, is presumed dead and misses the plane. Alone in the city she is helped by Nina Tsvetnova a young and idealist police officer and together they will fight for their own survival and the survival of the people in the besieged Leningrad.

The Girl Who Wore Freedom

2020

English

8.2

100%

liberation of prisoners

normandy, france

war veteran

world war ii

Christian Taylor Director

Corey Johnson as General James Gavin

Sharon Anderlik as Journalist

Christian Taylor as Narrator

Janine Perry as Self

Discover the untold stories of D-Day from the men, women and children who lived through German occupation and Allied liberation of Normandy, France. Powerful and deeply personal, THE GIRL WHO WORE FREEDOM tells the stories of an America that lived its values, instilling pride in a country that's in danger of becoming a relic of the past.

Mosquito Squadron

1969

English

5.7

♡ 5

25%

Boris Sagal Director

Suzanne Neve as Beth Scott

Vladek Sheybal as Lieutenant Schack

David Buck as Sqn. Ldr. David 'Scotty' Scott

Bryan Marshall as Sqn. Ldr. Neale

England, World War II. Quint Munroe, RAF officer and new leader of a Mosquito squadron, is tasked with destroying a secret Nazi base in France while trying to overcome the disappearance of a brother-in-arms.

Final Account

2020

German

7.3

♡ 5

93%

Luke Holland Director

A depiction of the last living generation of German participants in Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich.

Paradise

7.0

Andrey Konchalovskiy Director

Jakob Diehl as Fogel

Yuliya Khlynina as Italian Memories Cast

Peter Kurth as Obersturmbannführer Hans Krause

Yuliya Vysotskaya as Olga

The historical drama set during the Second World War centres on three people whose paths cross: a Russian aristocratic emigrant and member of the French resistance, a French collaborator and a high-ranking German SS officer.

The Battle of the Rails

1946

French

7.0

♡ 4

René Clément Director

Jacques Desagneaux as Athos

Pierre Latour as Cheminot

Pierre Lozach as Cheminot

Charles Boyer as Narrator

A dramatized account of the French Resistance, this wartime film depicts how railway workers sabotaged German trains to disrupt troop movements and supply lines during the Nazi occupation. Blending documentary realism with fiction, it pays tribute to the courage and sacrifice of ordinary workers who became central to the fight for liberation.

Invaders of the Lost Gold

1982

English

3.4

♡ 2

Alan Birkinshaw Director

Woody Strode as Cal

Glynis Barber as Janice Jefferson

Ken Watanabe as Lieutenant Toyoda

Stuart Whitman as Mark Forrest

In the last days of WWII, a Japanese platoon is attacked by headhunters while attempting to hide millions in gold. Thirty-six years later, a grizzled guide is hired to lead an expedition into a jungle inferno of greed, violence, nudity, and murder.

Lucie Aubrac

1997

French

6.6

♡ 3

74%

occupied france (1940-44)

War

world war ii

Claude Berri Director

Peter Bonke as

Heino Ferch as Barbie

Jean-Roger Milo as Maurice

Daniel Auteuil as Raymond

A love story or a tale of the resistance, this poignant movie tells both the haunting story of a French resistance cell in Lyon but also the love of Lucie Aubrac for her husband...

The Eagle of the Pacific

1953

Japanese

6.9

♡ 5

Ishirô Honda Director

Koreya Senda as

Toshirô Mifune as 1st Lieutenant Tomonaga

Eijirô Yanagi as Premier Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai

Rentarô Mikuni as Staff Officer

Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, a brilliant tactician, is a loyal subject of the emperor, despite his grave misgivings about leading Japan's navy into war with the United States. He opposes the attack on Pearl Harbor, but, overruled, he leads his forces to the best of his ability.

The Diary of Anne Frank

1959

English

7.4

♡ 23

81%

77%

Action

amsterdam, netherlands

George Stevens Director

Millie Perkins as Anne Frank

Douglas Spencer as Kraler

Diane Baker as Margot Frank

Lou Jacobi as Mr. Hans Van Daan

The true, harrowing story of a young Jewish girl who, with her family and their friends, is forced into hiding in an attic in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam.

The Good Nazi

2018

English

7.1

♡ 2

Ric Esther Bienstock Director

Neil Bennett as Major Karl Plagge

By tracking scientists and Holocaust survivors in Lithuania, The Good Nazi tells the story of a Schindler-type Nazi officer who turned his back on his dark ideology and risked his life to save hundreds of Jews.

Fortress

2012

English

5.0

♡ 2

26%

Mike Phillips Director

John Laughlin as Base Commander

Matt Biedel as Monroe

Jeremy Ray Valdez as Tom

Drew Van Acker as Tremaine

When the commander of the crew of a B-17 Flying Fortress bomber is killed in action in a raid over Sicily in 1943, his replacement, a young, naive pilot struggles to be accepted by the plane's already tight-knit Irish American crew.

When the Wind Blows

1986

English

7.7

♡ 25

88%

husband wife relationship

nuclear war

War

world war ii

Jimmy T. Murakami Director

Peggy Ashcroft as Hilda Bloggs

Harry S. Truman as Himself

Joseph Stalin as Himself

John Mills as Jim

With the help of government-issued pamphlets, an elderly British couple build a shelter and prepare for an impending nuclear attack, unaware that times and the nature of war have changed from their romantic memories of World War II.

A Walk in the Clouds

1995

English

6.7

♡ 62

46%

Alfonso Arau Director

Giancarlo Giannini as Alberto Aragon

Mary Pat Gleason as Bus Driver

Keanu Reeves as Paul Sutton

Aitana Sánchez-Gijón as Victoria Aragon

World War II vet Paul Sutton falls for a pregnant and unwed woman who persuades him -- during their first encounter -- to pose as her husband so she can face her family.

Raid on Rommel

1971

English

5.5

♡ 7

31%

Henry Hathaway Director

Christopher Cary as Conscientious Objector

Patrick Whyte as Flag Captain

Richard Burton as Foster

Danielle De Metz as Vivi

Captain Foster plans on raiding German-occupied Tobruk with hand- picked commandos, but a mixup leaves him with a medical unit led by a Quaker conscientious objector.