In Tenebras: Into the Darkness

Two brothers embark on an adventure of a lifetime, a journey deep inside the WW2 tunnels of Gibraltar, to find a lost treasure. Complications arise and what started off as an adventure will end up as a life or death situation to survive.

Wunderland

2018

English

3.4

♡ 44

8%

Steven Luke Director

Ryan J. Gilmer as German Soldier

Apostolos Gliarmis as Grace

Steven Luke as Lt. Cappa

Tom Berenger as Major McCulley

Christmas 1944, The Germans make one final push against the attacking allied armies in the West. Lt. Robert Cappa and his platoon of 2nd Infantry Division soldiers have been ordered to hold a vital road junction against the German aggressors. Cappa and his men must find their faith and strength to stand against their enemy in the epic fight know as "The Battle of The Bulge."

Decision Before Dawn

1951

English

7.2

♡ 9

100%

Anatole Litvak Director

Peter Martin Urtel as German Soldier

Harald Wolff as Hartmann

Richard Basehart as Lt. Dick Rennick

Hans Christian Blech as Sgt. Rudolf Barth - aka Tiger

WWII is entering its last phase: Germany is in ruins, but does not yield. The US army lacks crucial knowledge about the German units operating on the opposite side of the Rhine, and decides to send two German prisoners to gather information. The scheme is risky: the Gestapo retains a terribly efficient network to identify and capture spies and deserters. Moreover, it is not clear that "Tiger", who does not mind any dirty work as long as the price is right, and war-weary "Happy", who might be easily betrayed by his feelings, are dependable agents. After Tiger and another American agent are successfully infiltrated, Happy is parachuted in Bavaria. His duty: find out the whereabouts of a powerful German armored unit moving towards the western front.

Hell to Eternity

1960

English

6.9

♡ 5

83%

Phil Karlson Director

John Larch as Capt. Schwabe

Vic Damone as Cpl. Pete Lewis

Richard Eyer as Guy -

David Janssen as Sgt. Bill Hazen

Based on the story about Guy Gabaldon, a Los Angeles Hispanic boy raised in the 1930s by a Japanese-American foster family. After Pearl Harbor, his foster family is interned at the Manzanar camp for Japanese Americans, while he enlists in the Marines, where his ability to speak Japanese becomes a vital asset. During the Battle of Saipan, he convinces 800 Japanese to surrender after their general commits suicide.

Spirits' Homecoming

2016

Korean

6.7

♡ 1

38%

Action

comfort women

Drama

japanese occupation of korea

world war ii

Cho Jung-Rae Director

Kim Si-eun as Boon-sook, comfort woman Choi Ri

Choi Ri as Eun-Kyung

Jung Moo-Song as Kinoshita

Hong Se-na as Ok-boon

After the Japanese kidnap two Korean teenagers and take them to a comfort station to join other girls who are serving as sex slaves, only one of them survives. Decades later, the elderly woman tries to reunite with her friend's spirit.

A Compassionate Spy

2022

English

6.6

♡ 1

81%

Steve James Director

Joseph Stalin as Self

Ruth London as Self

Boria Sax as Self

Marcia Kunstel as Self

Physicist Ted Hall is recruited to join the Manhattan Project as a teenager and goes to Los Alamos with no idea what he'll be working on. When he learns the true nature of the weapon being designed, he fears the post-war risk of a nuclear holocaust and begins to pass significant information to the Soviet Union.

The Battle of Neretva

1969

Serbo-croatian

7.0

♡ 6

65%

Veljko Bulajic Director

Hardy Krüger as Kranzer

Curd Jürgens as Lohring

Franco Nero as Riva

Bozidar Smiljanic as Surgeon

In January 1943 the German army, afraid of an Allied invasion of the Balkans, launched a great offensive against Yugoslav Partisans in Western Bosnia. The only way out for Partisan forces and thousands of refugees was the bridge on the river Neretva.

The Butcher of Prague

2011

Czech

6.8

♡ 7

based on novel or book

prague, czech republic

War

war crimes

world war ii

Petr Nikolaev Director

Karel Roden as Frantisek Síma

Joachim Paul Assböck as Harald Wiesmann

Norbert Lichý as Mayor

Roman Luknár as Vlcek

Czechoslovakia, 1941. As the war continues, Reich Protector Reinhard Heydrich arrives in Nazi-occupied Prague and establishes a regime of terror that will force freedom fighters to act. But the price to pay will be too high.

Beachhead

1954

English

5.6

♡ 1

37%

Stuart Heisler Director

Tony Curtis as Burke

John Doucette as Maj. Scott

Mary Murphy as Nina Bouchard

Frank Lovejoy as Sgt. Fletcher

On a Japanese-occupied island during World War II, only two soldiers remain alive after a mission attempt goes horribly wrong. Trapped on the island, they must escort a scientist and his daughter to the other side of the island where their ship awaits. They must battle nature, hard terrain, and advancing Japanese troops.

Comandante

2023

Italian

6.5

♡ 2

One dark night during the early phases of WWII, the Italian Royal Navy submarine Cappellini sinks an armed merchant ship sailing with lights out. At that moment, its commander Salvatore Todaro makes a decision that was destined to go down in history: to save the 26 shipwrecked Belgians who otherwise would have drowned in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean and disembark them at the nearest safe harbor. To make room for them on board his submarine, he is forced to navigate on the surface of the water for three days, visible to the enemy forces and endangering his life and that of his men.

The Americanization of Emily

1964

English

7.3

♡ 10

92%

Arthur Hiller Director

Edward Binns as Adm. Thomas Healy

Sharon Tate as Beautiful Girl

Paul Newlan as Gen. William Hallerton

Keenan Wynn as Old Sailor

American sailor Charlie Madison falls for a pretty Englishwoman while trying to avoid a senseless and dangerous D-Day mission concocted by a deranged admiral.

Overlord

1975

English

7.1

♡ 8

90%

Stuart Cooper Director

Nicholas Ball as Arthur

Jack Le White as Barman

John Franklyn-Robbins as Dad

Davyd Harries as Jack

During World War II, a young man is called up and, with an increasing sense of foreboding, undertakes his army training ready for D-Day, June 6th, 1944.

The Railway Man

2013

English

7.1

♡ 33

67%

68%

Action

based on a true story

Biography

Drama

post traumatic stress disorder

post-traumatic stress disorder

post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd)

Jonathan Teplitzky Director

Colin Firth as Eric

Ken Watanabe as Japanese Guard

Nicole Kidman as Patti

Hiroyuki Sanada as Takeshi Nagase

A victim from World War II's "Death Railway" sets out to find those responsible for his torture. A true story.

The Last Rescue

2015

English

4.4

♡ 18

81%

Eric Colley Director

Elizabeth Rice as 2nd Lt. Nancy Bell

Gilles Marini as Bruno Travert

Tino Struckmann as Dittrich

Cody Kasch as Pvt. James Lewis

World World II: Shortly after D-Day, three American soldiers and two Army Corps nurses are stranded behind enemy lines. They take a high-ranking German officer as their prisoner and try to orchestrate an escape.

The Captive Heart

1946

English

7.0

♡ 11

72%

Basil Dearden Director

Ralph Michael as Capt. Thurston R.A.M.C.

Gordon Jackson as Lieut. Lennox

Basil Radford as Major Ossy Dalrymple

Sam Kydd as POW in Top Bunk

A series of stories about the lives and loves of men in a Prisoner of War camp over five years. The main story is of Hasek (Redgrave) a Czech soldier who needs to keep his identity a secret from the Nazis. To do this, he poses as a dead English Officer and corresponds with the man's wife. Other inmates’ stories are also revealed. Location shooting in the British occupied part of Germany adds believability.

Kokoda: 39th Battalion

2006

English

6.1

♡ 15

71%

Alister Grierson Director

Christopher James Baker as Blue

Jack Finsterer as Jack Scholt

Tom Budge as Johnno

William McInnes as The Colonel

A bitter battle is fought between Australian and Japanese soldiers along the Kokoda trail in New Guinea during World War II.

The Fighting Seabees

1944

English

6.4

♡ 17

100%

Edward Ludwig Director

Robert J. Wilke as Arriving Construction Worker

Addison Richards as Capt. Joyce

Forbes Murray as Navy Surgeon

Ben Welden as Yump Lumkin

Construction workers in World War II in the Pacific are needed to build military sites, but the work is dangerous and they doubt the ability of the Navy to protect them. After a series of attacks by the Japanese, something new is tried, Construction Battalions (CBs=Seabees). The new CBs have to both build and be ready to fight.

Chosen

2016

English

5.3

♡ 43

41%

Jasmin Dizdar Director

Florin Kevorkian as Csendor Policeman 2

Ioachim Ciobanu as German Guard

Jordan Renzo as Robi

Harvey Keitel as Sonson

An unassuming young lawyer leads a fight against the Nazis near the end of the Second World War.

Battleground

1949

English

7.4

♡ 28

78%

William A. Wellman Director

Jean Del Val as French Peasant Man

Douglas Fowley as 'Kipp' Kippton

George Chandler as Mess Sergeant

Bill Erwin as Warrant Officer

Members of the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division are fighting for their country amidst the rugged terrain of Bastogne, Belgium, in December 1944. Holley and his American compatriots have already seen one of their own, Roderigues, perish under enemy fire. The men try to rebuff another series of Nazi attacks, but what they really need is a change in the weather. Without clear skies, they'll never get the air support they need.

Playing for Time

1980

English

7.3

♡ 29

74%

Action

auschwitz-birkenau concentration camp

based on memoir or autobiography

Joseph Sargent Director

Clarence Felder as Commandant Kramer

Marisa Berenson as Elzvieta

Robin Bartlett as Etalina

Melanie Mayron as Marianne

When a Jewish songstress is plucked from the stage and sent to Auschwitz, she and other musicians find themselves assigned to a terrible task—using their talents to soothe fellow prisoners who are sentenced to die in the gas chambers.

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In Tenebras: Into the Darkness

Wunderland

Decision Before Dawn

Hell to Eternity

Spirits' Homecoming

A Compassionate Spy

The Battle of Neretva

The Butcher of Prague

Beachhead

Comandante

The Americanization of Emily

Overlord

The Railway Man

The Last Rescue

The Captive Heart

Kokoda: 39th Battalion

The Fighting Seabees

Chosen

Battleground

Playing for Time