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.

Swing Kids

2018

Korean

7.5

♡ 13

63%

96%

Action

Drama

inter-korean relations

Hyeong-Cheol Kang Director

Ross Kettle as Brigadier General Roberts

A.J. Simmons as Jamie

In-Kwon Baek as Prisoner of war

Kyung-soo Do as Roh Gi-soo

Rebellious Ki-soo from North Korea is mesmerized by tap dance in prison camps. Ki-soo joins as a team member of a dance team named 'Swing Kids'. Yet suddenly, their dreams about dancing in prison camps are put in danger.

Arise, My Love

1940

English

6.9

♡ 3

71%

Mitchell Leisen Director

Douglas Kennedy as College Boy

Jean Del Val as Conductor

Amzie Strickland as Girl at Maxim's

Nestor Paiva as Uniformed Clerk

A dashing pilot and a vivacious reporter have romantic and dramatic adventures in Europe as World War II begins.

Mysterious Island

2010

English

3.5

♡ 5

Mark Sheppard Director

Susie Abromeit as Abby Fogg

Lochlyn Munro as Captain Cyrus Harding

Pruitt Taylor Vince as Gideon Spilett

Lawrence Turner as Tom Ayrton

During the American Civil War, five northern POWs make the decision to escape the war by hijacking a hot air balloon. Drifting through the night, they wake to find themselves marooned on a desert island, but they aren't alone.

Women of Valor

1986

English

5.7

♡ 9

62%

Buzz Kulik Director

Susan Sarandon as Col. Margaret Ann Jessup

Alberta Watson as Lt. Helen Prescott

Terry O'Quinn as Maj. Tom Patterson

John Philbin as Paraplegic soldier

A group of American Army nurses are captured by the Japanese in April 1942 and spend three years in a prisoner-of-war camp in Bataan. Lt Margaret Ann Jessup, the head army nurse, survives the camp and testifies against the Japanese in front of the United States Congressional subcommittee years later as a colonel.

Von Ryan's Express

1965

English

7.1

♡ 23

90%

Mark Robson Director

Edward Mulhare as Costanzo

Ian Abercrombie as English POW

Trevor Howard as Major Eric Fincham

William Berger as Man from the Gestapo

Von Ryan's Express stars Frank Sinatra as a POW colonel who leads a daring escape from WWII Italy by taking over a freight train, but he has to win over the British soldiers he finds himself commanding.

The Catch

1961

Japanese

6.8

♡ 4

Nagisa Ôshima Director

Akiko Koyama as Hiroko Ishii

Sadako Sawamura as Katsu, Kazumasa's wife

Rentarô Mikuni as Kazumasa Takano

Teruko Kishi as Masu Tsukada

Towards the end of WWII, a black American pilot is captured and imprisoned by rural Japanese villagers, who await official instructions as to how to proceed with their 'catch'.

The McKenzie Break

1970

English

6.5

♡ 4

47%

Lamont Johnson Director

Brian Keith as Capt. Jack Connor

John Abineri as Capt. Kranz

Gregg Palmer as Lt. Berger

Tom Kempinski as Lt. Schmidt

A German U-Boat commander plans a daring escape from a PoW camp in Scotland.

Instrument of War

2017

English

6.0

85%

Adam Thomas Anderegg Director

Andrea Deck as Anne Cline

Tomas Zaibus as German Soldier

Barney White as Jack Findlay

Elliot James Langridge as Reed 'Whit' Whitaker

When U.S. B-24 bomber pilot Clair Cline is shot down and captured in northern Germany, one war ends and another begins -- to keep hope alive. Now behind Nazi barbed wire and oppression, Cline and his fellow POW's must find a way to bond together to not just survive but transcend their captivity. Inspired by true events.

In Enemy Hands

2004

English

6.0

♡ 3

45%

Tony Giglio Director

William H. Macy as Chief of Boat Nathan Travers

Ian Somerhalder as Danny Miller

Lauren Holly as Mrs. Rachel Travers

Roy Werner as U 1221 Kapitan

At the height of Hitler's infamous U-boat war, the crew of the U.S.S. Swordfish were heading home after months at sea. They never made it. Now prisoners of war aboard U-boat 429, a small group of American survivors will find their loyalties put to the ultimate test when they're forced to join their German captors to fight for their very lives.

The Bridge on the River Kwai

1957

English

8.1

♡ 102

96%

93%

Action

Adventure

based on novel or book

David Lean Director

Geoffrey Horne as Lieutenant Joyce

James Donald as Major Clipton

Jack Hawkins as Major Warden

William Holden as Shears

The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their Japanese captors. British and American intelligence officers conspire to blow up the structure, but Col. Nicholson, the commander who supervised the bridge's construction, has acquired a sense of pride in his creation and tries to foil their plans.

The Secret War of Harry Frigg

1968

English

6.3

♡ 5

40%

Jack Smight Director

Norman Fell as Captain Stanley

John Williams as General Mayhew

Paul Newman as Harry Frigg

Richard X. Slattery as M.P. Sergeant

When 5 allied generals are captured in Italy in WWII, it is a propaganda nightmare for the allies. The generals are all 1 star and refuse to take orders from each other in order to plan an escape. Harry Frigg is a private who has escaped from the guard house dozens of times. He is promoted to Major General and ordered to get the generals out once he is captured. Harry is willing to escape, but then he meets the countess...

Ten Seconds to Hell

1959

English

6.5

♡ 3

31%

Robert Aldrich Director

Jack Palance as Eric Koertner

Richard Wattis as Maj. Haven

Martine Carol as Margot Hofer

Michael Pate as Narrator

Two rivals from a German bomb squad are left to deactivate duds in postwar Berlin.

Rolling Thunder

1977

English

6.9

♡ 19

82%

post traumatic stress disorder

post-traumatic stress disorder

post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd)

John Flynn Director

Cassie Yates as Candy

Tommy Lee Jones as Johnny Vohden

William Devane as Major Charles Rane

James Best as Texan

A Vietnam veteran, Charles Rane, returns home after years in a POW camp and is treated as a hero. He has a hard time adjusting, and things go badly. A movie about the walking dead, before that meant just flesh-eating zombies.

The Hook

1963

English

6.5

♡ 2

41%

based on novel or book

George Seaton Director

Frank Richards as Crewman Kaskevitch

John Alderson as Crewman Svenson

Pancho Magalona as Kim

William Challee as Schmidt

Three soldiers in Korea go through inner torment when they're ordered to execute an enemy soldier.

Suite Française

2014

English

7.0

♡ 15

75%

69%

Action

based on novel or book

Saul Dibb Director

Margot Robbie as Celine Joseph

Michelle Williams as Lucile Angellier

Kristin Scott Thomas as Madame Angellier

Ruth Wilson as Madeleine Labarie

France, 1940. In the first days of occupation, beautiful Lucile Angellier is trapped in a stifled existence with her controlling mother-in-law as they both await news of her husband: a prisoner of war. Parisian refugees start to pour into their small town, soon followed by a regiment of German soldiers who take up residence in the villagers' own homes. Lucile initially tries to ignore Bruno von Falk, the handsome and refined German officer staying with them. But soon, a powerful love draws them together and leads them into the tragedy of war.

Rescue Dawn

2006

English

7.2

♡ 122

90%

Werner Herzog Director

Marshall Bell as Admiral

Christian Bale as Dieter Dengler

Steve Zahn as Duane

François Chau as Province Governor

A US Fighter pilot's epic struggle of survival after being shot down on a mission over Laos during the Vietnam War.

Act of Violence

1948

English

7.4

♡ 8

Fred Zinnemann Director

Margaret Bert as Bystander

Janet Leigh as Edith Enley

Van Heflin as Frank R. Enley

Barbara Billingsley as Voice

A former prisoner of war, Frank Enley is hailed as a hero in his California town. However, Frank has a shameful secret that comes back to haunt him when fellow survivor Joe Parkson emerges, intent on making Frank pay for his past deeds.

Missing in Action

1984

English

5.5

♡ 58

19%

Joseph Zito Director

James Hong as Gen. Trau

M. Emmet Walsh as Jack Tucker

Erich Anderson as Masucci

Jean-Claude Van Damme as Soldier

American servicemen are still being held captive in Vietnam and it's up to one man to bring them home in this blistering, fast-paced action/adventure starring martial arts superstar Chuck Norris. Following a daring escape from a Vietnamese POW camp, Special Forces Colonel James Braddock (Norris) is on a mission to locate and save remaining MIAs.