Cinema HoundSniffing out great movies.Explore war, military conflict and its human consequences.
Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 2,832 films · Page 50.
Drama, War Film, war film
In an alternative reality set in 1944 in which D-Day has failed and the United Kingdom has been successfully invaded by Germany, German occupiers arrive in a remote valley on the Welsh border. The local women awaken to find their husbands …
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Action, War Film
During the Vietnam War, a group of soldiers on a mission to gain intelligence materials, encounter enemy Vietcong (VC) forces in the extensive underground tunnel complexes that the VC have constructed below ground across South Vietnam duri…
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Drama, War Film, action film, drama film, war film
The pilots of No. 303 Squadron RAF, part of the Free Polish Air Force, have escaped from Europe, following the Nazi invasions of Poland and France, to join the Royal Air Force. Czech Josef František, refusing to become a bomber pilot, invi…
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Sci-Fi, adventure film, drama film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
During an 1864 battle of the American Civil War, a lone Union soldier, Captain Lee Briggs (Bradley Horne), is dispatched on a mission to investigate a mysterious object reported to Union forces. He leaves to venture on the mission. Fast fo…
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Romance Film, Thriller, War Film, drama film, romance film
In present-day London, Michael Walton visits his older cousins, Walter and Oliver Page. Interested in family history, he asks them about his great-aunt, Anne Keyes, the sister of his grandmother, Celia. Anne, an actress, was the eldest of …
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Drama, Gangster Film, crime film, drama film
Dennis "D" Campbell lives with his peace-loving brother Jerry Dread in 1973 West Kingston, Jamaica. D loves a local schoolgirl named Yvonne but their relationship is hindered by an ongoing gang war between the Tappas, led by Skeeter, and t…
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Biographical picture, drama film
The movie opens in 1923 with studio executive Frank N. Thayer receiving a letter in the mail, alongside a medallion of the Virgin of Guadalupe. Thayer then flashes back to the height of the Mexican Revolution.
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War Film, drama film, war film
In 1943 during WWII, the lead platoon of the Texas Division is delivered by landing craft to a beach near Salerno, Italy. They make their way to a nearby wooded area, by which time their lieutenant, platoon sergeant, and medic have been ki…
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Drama, War Film, war film
Lt. Kenneth Braden, a newly trained U.S. Navy frogman, is unexpectedly ordered to report for duty without being able to notify his new girlfriend Sally Johnson.
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Classical Western, Western film, drama film, romance film, silent film
The action is set in 1848. Two caravans of expatriates unite in Kansas and travel 2,000 miles west to start a new life in Oregon. The leader of the settlers is the elderly father and natural authority, Wingate.
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Tragic Comedy Film, War Film, biographical film
Sergeant-Major Charles Coward is a senior British NCO incarcerated in the prisoner of war camp Stalag VIII-B. He encourages his fellow inmates to escape, and tries to humiliate the German guards at every opportunity. When he is being trans…
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Drama, Fantasy, drama film, experimental film, fantasy film, horror film, independent film
A group of young hippies, having recently moved into an old house in the woods, slowly become aware of an otherworldly presence residing in the basement of the house.
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Romance Film, drama film, film noir, romance film, war film
In Baltimore, Elizabeth ("Liz") and John Andrew MacDonald had only been married for a year when John enlisted to fight in World War I. Just before Christmas in 1918, while awaiting word of his return after the war's end, Liz is notified by…
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Drama, Historie, Melodrama, Thriller
In 1950, the best friends Jack McAuliffe, Leo Kritzky, and Yevgeny Tsipin graduate from Yale and prepare to go their separate ways; Jack and Leo are recruited to the CIA by Frank "The Wizard" Wisner, and Yevgeny goes home to Moscow, where …
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Action, War Film, action film, drama film, war film
A group of US Army soldiers, trained in underground warfare, arrive at base camp in the jungle of South Vietnam. The soldiers spend the first day and night getting to know each other. The next morning they begin to explore the Viet Cong's …
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Historie, drama film, propaganda film, war film
left|thumb|Joseph Stalin (Manart Kippen) greets U.S. ambassador Joseph E. Davies (Walter Huston) in Mission to Moscow.
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Komödie, comedy drama, war film
In 1943, U.S. Navy Lieutenant Rip Crandall, an expert yachtsman in civilian life, is based at Townsville, in Australia. He is surprised to be assigned command of a sailing ship, the USS Echo, a unique ship in the Pacific Fleet.
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Drama, War Film, drama film
Joe Connor is a teacher at the École Technique Officielle outside Kigali, run by Father Christopher. The school is also home to a company of Belgian soldiers under the command of Captain Delon, as part of the UN peacekeeping mandate. Joe i…
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Adventure, Drama, War Film
On June 12, 1944, a small fleet of Japanese supply ships are attacked by American planes between Japan and New Guinea. Only twelve seamen, some soldiers and some fishermen drafted into service, are able to make it to the nearby jungle isla…
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War Film
The story begins in 1987. At the critical point of the Cold War, two US Air Force airmen monitor their radar screens at a quiet and remote NORAD facility in Alaska. Suddenly, one of the radar operators notices an unidentified aircraft snea…
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Drama, War Film, drama film, war film
Starting in late May 1944, during the German retreat on the Eastern Front, Captain Stransky (Helmut Griem) orders Sergeant Steiner (Richard Burton) to blow up a railway tunnel to prevent Russian forces from using it. Steiner's platoon fail…
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Drama, drama film
The story begins in 1930s Germany, against the backdrop of the Third Reich's ascendancy. John Halder is a German university professor who lives with his overly anxious wife, 2 children and a mother with senile dementia. He writes a paper c…
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Classical Western, Western, Western film
Jim Killian arrives at the town of Vinegaroon, which is divided between cattlemen and sheepherders, and purchases a vacant barn. Cattle rancher Asa Beck, his son Coke, and his cowhands constantly harass the sheepherders, sometimes with let…
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Drama, War Film, drama film
Louisa Gould hides an escaped young Russian forced labourer, Fyodor Buriy, played by Julian Kostov, from the German forces occupying Jersey during World War II, assisted by her sister Ivy Forster and her brother Harold Le Druillenec.
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