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5.9

♡ 33

83%

David Blair Director

Iwan Rheon as Jan Zumbach 'Donald'

Milo Gibson as John Kent 'Kentowski'

Joan Kempson as Queenie

Michael Keogh as W.O. Jones

The story of the Polish fliers who found themselves fighting for the freedom of their own country in foreign skies. Seen through the eyes of a Polish fighter ace and adventurer, it tells how the Poles—driven across Europe by the German war machine—finally make their last stand. Flying Hurricanes for the RAF over Britain, they became a key component in the legend of ‘The Few’. Up against the might of the Luftwaffe they hoped that, by saving Great Britain from Nazi invasion, they were keeping the dream of a free Poland alive.

Little Boy

2015

7.3

♡ 64

27%

Alejandro Monteverde Director

Kevin James as Dr. Fox

Emily Watson as Emma Busbee

Michael Rapaport as James Busbee

Ted Levine as Sam

An eight-year-old boy is willing to do whatever it takes to end World War II so he can bring his father home. The story reveals the indescribable love a father has for his little boy and the love a son has for his father.

Marooned in Iraq

2002

Kurdish

7.3

♡ 5

93%

82%

Drama

older woman seduces younger guy

Bahman Ghobadi Director

Maryam Boubani as

Shilan Rahmani as

Hossein Rashid-Ghamat as The Soldier

Saeed Mohammadi as The Teacher

During the war between Iran and Iraq, a group of Iranian Kurd musicians set off on an almost impossible mission. They will try to find Hanareh, a singer with a magic voice who crossed the border and may now be in danger in the Iraqi Kurdistan. As in his previous films, this Kurdish director is again focusing on the oppression of his people.

Improve Every Day

6.6

Ruaridh M. Turner Director

A Scottish soldier is forced to redefine his identity after losing his legs in combat and becomes a 'strongman' with the help of a former Royal Marine.

All Things Fair

1995

Swedish

6.8

♡ 19

79%

Romance

world war ii

Bo Widerberg Director

Mikael Bengtsson as Klass 3B Malmö Kommunala Mellanskola

Frida Farrell as Lina

Karin Huldt as Lisbet - Stig's Schoolmate

Björn Kjellman as Sigge - Stig's Brother

Stig is a 15-year-old pupil of 37-year-old teacher Viola. He is attracted by her beauty and maturity while she is drawn to him by his youth and innocence, a relief from her drunk and miserable husband.

My Dead Friend Zoe

2024

post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd)

6.5

♡ 11

94%

powerful

support group

Kyle Hausmann-Stokes Director

Ed Harris as Dale

Morgan Freeman as Dr. Cole

Gloria Reuben as Kris

Sonequa Martin-Green as Merit

Merit, a U.S. Army veteran suffering from PTSD, is repeatedly tortured by visions of her deceased friend and company buddy Zoe. After her Afghanistan service in 2016, she attends group therapy until Dale, her grandfather and former Lieutenant Colonel, is recently diagnosed with Alzheimer's. Merit steps up to his aide, and discovers more about herself and her family, while also gaining the courage to put her metaphorical demons to rest.

Sword of War

2009

German

4.4

♡ 4

14%

middle ages (476-1453)

Renzo Martinelli Director

Rutger Hauer as Federico Barbarossa

Christo Jivkov as Gherardo Negro

Ángela Molina as Ildegarda di Binden

F. Murray Abraham as Siniscalco Barozzi

Year 1100. Italy.The Northern lands are ruled by a German emperor: Fredrick aka "Barbarossa. His dream is to conquer also the lands in the Center and in the South so as to revive the Empire that was once of the one Charles Magno.But in the North a young man from Milan has formed an army of 900 young men coming from different cities: the "company of death". This young man's name is Alberto Da Giussano. His dream is to defeat the Emperor and to give back freedom to the Northern lands.

Katyn

2007

Polish

7.0

♡ 38

91%

75%

Action

based on a true story

Andrzej Wajda Director

Magdalena Cielecka as Agnieszka

Maja Ostaszewska as Anna

Joachim Paul Assböck as Obersturmbannführer Brunon Müller

Danuta Stenka as Róza

On September 1st, 1939, Nazi Germany invades Poland, unleashing World War II. On September 17th, the Soviet Red Army crosses the border. The Polish army, unable to fight on two fronts, is defeated. Thousands of Polish men, both military and government officials, are captured by the invaders. Their fate will only be known several years later.

Naked Among Wolves

2015

German

7.2

♡ 22

90%

Philipp Kadelbach Director

Peter Schneider as André Höfel

Thorsten Merten as Hans Bochow

Sabin Tambrea as Hermann Reineboth

Paula Hartmann as Pippigs Sister

Taking place at the Concentration camp Buchenwald at the end of March 1945, prisoner Hans Pippig discovers in a carrying case of an incoming prisoner a Jewish child. If reported the three-year-old is sure to die. On the other hand, a violation of the rules of the camp would threaten the long prepared uprising of the concentration camp prisoners against the SS.

Wooden Crosses

1932

French

7.7

♡ 1

90%

Raymond Bernard Director

Paul Azaïs as Soldat Broucke

Raymond Aimos as Soldat Fouillard

Raymond Cordy as Soldat Vairon

Christian-Jaque as Un lieutenant

The young and patriotic student Demachy joins the French army in 1914 to defend his country. But he and his comrades soon experience the terrifying, endless trench war in Champagne, where more and more wooden crosses have to be erected for this cannon fodder.

Japan's Longest Day

1967

Japanese

7.7

♡ 6

79%

Action

Kihachi Okamoto Director

Kenjirô Ishiyama as General Shizuichi Tanaka - C-in-C Eastern District Army

Tadao Nakamaru as Lt. Colonel Jiro Shiizaki - Military Affairs Section

Tatsuyoshi Ehara as Nobumasa Kawamoto - Private Secretary to Shimomura

Toshirô Mifune as War Minister General Korechika Anami

Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and the government clash over the demand from the Allies for unconditional surrender. Minister of the Army Anami leads the military officers who propose to fight on, even to the death of every Japanese citizen. Emperor Hirohito, however, joins with his ministers in asking the unthinkable, the peaceful surrender of Japan. When the military plots a coup to overthrow the Emperor's civilian government, Anami must face the choice between his desires and loyalty to his Emperor.

Little Dieter Needs to Fly

1997

8.0

♡ 2

93%

Werner Herzog Director

Dieter Dengler as Self

Eugene Deatrick as Self

Werner Herzog as Self - Narrator

Three decades after German-American pilot Dieter Dengler was shot down over Laos, he returns to the places where he was held prisoner during the early years of the Vietnam War. Accompanied by director Werner Herzog, Dengler describes in unusually candid detail his captivity, the friendships he made, and his daring escape. Not willing to stop there, Herzog even persuades his subject to re-enact certain tortures, with the help of some willing local villagers.

Shout at the Devil

1976

6.2

♡ 10

57%

Peter R. Hunt Director

Bernard Horsfall as Captain Joyce

Lee Marvin as Colonel Flynn O'Flynn

Ian Holm as Mohammed, O'Flynn's Mute Servant

Barbara Parkins as Rosa O'Flynn / Oldsmith

During World War One an English adventurer, an American elephant poacher and the latter's attractive young daughter, set out to destroy a German battle-cruiser which is awaiting repairs in an inlet just off Zanzibar. The story is based on a novel by Wilbur Smith, which in turn is very loosely based on events involving the light cruiser SMS Königsberg, which was sunk after taking refuge in Rufigi delta in 1915.

The Garden of the Finzi-Continis

1970

Italian

7.2

♡ 2

Vittorio De Sica Director

Helmut Berger as Alberto Finzi Contini

Joshua Sinclair as (as Gianni Loffredo)

Dominique Sanda as Micòl Finzi Contini

Adolf Hitler as Self - Acknowledges Hess

In 1930s Italy, a wealthy Jewish family tries to maintain their privileged lifestyle, hosting friends for tennis and parties at their villa. As anti-Semitism intensifies under Fascism, they must ultimately face the horrors of the Holocaust.

Star Trek: Nemesis

2002

6.4

♡ 62

37%

Stuart Baird Director

Dina Meyer as Commander Donatra

Whoopi Goldberg as Guinan

Tom Hardy as Shinzon

Ron Perlman as Viceroy

En route to the honeymoon of William Riker to Deanna Troi on her home planet of Betazed, Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise receives word from Starfleet that a coup has resulted in the installation of a new Romulan political leader, Shinzon, who claims to seek peace with the human-backed United Federation of Planets. Once in enemy territory, the captain and his crew make a startling discovery: Shinzon is human, a slave from the Romulan sister planet of Remus, and has a secret, shocking relationship to Picard himself.

Hannibal Brooks

1969

6.6

♡ 3

83%

Michael Winner Director

John Alderton as Bernard

Ernst Fritz Fürbringer as Elephant Keeper Kellermann

Oliver Reed as Stephen 'Hannibal' Brooks

Til Kiwe as Von Haller's Sergeant

A POW in World War II is put to work in a Munich zoo, looking after an Asian elephant. The zoo is bombed by the Americans and the director of the zoo decides it is not safe for his Asian elephant Lucy to remain there. So he sends Brooks to safety with Lucy. They escape and go on the run in order to get to Switzerland.

Gunjan Saxena: The Kargil Girl

2020

Hindi

5.5

♡ 24

100%

Sharan Sharma Director

Pankaj Tripathi as Colonel Anup Saxena

Manav Vij as Commanding officer Gautam Sinha

Vineet Kumar Singh as Fight commander officer Dileep Singh

Janhvi Kapoor as Gunjan Saxena

Inspired by the life of a fearless young officer who made history by becoming the first Indian female Air Force officer to fly in a combat zone during the 1999 Kargil War

Max Manus: Man of War

2008

Norwegian

7.3

♡ 32

Joachim Rønning Director

Ken Duken as Kriminolrot Siegfried Fehmer

Oliver Stokowski as Oberschirführer Karl Höhler

Ron Donachie as Oberst John Skinner Wilson

Pål Sverre Hagen as Roy Nilsen

Max Manus is a Norwegian 2008 biographic war film based on the real events of the life of resistance fighter Max Manus (1914–96), after his contribution in the Winter War against the Soviet Union. The story follows Manus through the outbreak of World War II in Norway until peacetime in 1945.

Born on the Fourth of July

1989

post traumatic stress disorder

7.2

♡ 69

84%

76%

Action

based on a true story

Biography

Drama

post-traumatic stress disorder

post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd)

vietnam veteran

vietnam war

Oliver Stone Director

Willem Dafoe as Charlie

Raymond J. Barry as Mr. Kovic

William Baldwin as Platoon - Vietnam

Tom Cruise as Ron Kovic

Brian Tarantina as Vet #2 - Miami Convention

Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, Ron Kovic becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country he fought for.

Salvador

1986