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1. A League of Their Own (1992)
PG | 128 min | Comedy, Drama, Sport
Two sisters join the first female professional baseball league and struggle to help it succeed amid their own growing rivalry.
Director: Penny Marshall | Stars: Tom Hanks, Geena Davis, Lori Petty, Madonna
Votes: 121,415 | Gross: $107.53M
2. Malena (2000)
R | 108 min | Drama, Romance, War
Amidst the war climate, a teenage boy discovering himself becomes love-stricken by Malèna, a sensual woman living in a small, narrow-minded Italian town.
Director: Giuseppe Tornatore | Stars: Monica Bellucci, Giuseppe Sulfaro, Luciano Federico, Matilde Piana
Votes: 112,282 | Gross: $3.45M
3. A Small Light (2023)
TV-14 | 50 min | Biography, Drama, History
Follows the remarkable story of Miep Gies, a Dutch woman who risked her life to shelter Anne Frank's family from the Nazis for more than two years during World War II.
Stars: Bel Powley, Joe Cole, Amira Casar, Billie Boullet
Votes: 12,707
4. Out of Africa (1985)
PG | 161 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
In 20th-century colonial Kenya, a Danish baroness/plantation owner has a passionate love affair with a free-spirited big-game hunter.
Director: Sydney Pollack | Stars: Meryl Streep, Robert Redford, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Michael Kitchen
Votes: 86,550 | Gross: $87.10M
5. The Magic of Ordinary Days (2005 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 98 min | Drama
Pregnant out of wedlock, an educated young woman is pressured by her father into an arranged marriage with a lonely farmer in this drama set during WWII.
Director: Brent Shields | Stars: Keri Russell, Skeet Ulrich, Mare Winningham, Tania Gunadi
Votes: 6,109
6. 1900 (1976)
Unrated | 317 min | Drama, History
The epic tale of a class struggle in twentieth-century Italy as seen through the eyes of two childhood friends on opposing sides.
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci | Stars: Robert De Niro, Gérard Depardieu, Dominique Sanda, Francesca Bertini
Votes: 27,328
7. Wil (2023)
110 min | Drama, History, War
Wilfried Wils must survive as an auxiliary policeman during the German occupation of Antwerp.
Director: Tim Mielants | Stars: Stef Aerts, Matteo Simoni, Annelore Crollet, Kevin Janssens
Votes: 5,093
8. Narvik: Hitler's First Defeat (2022)
TV-14 | 108 min | Drama, History, War
April 1940. The eyes of the world are on Narvik, a small town in northern Norway, source of the iron ore needed for Hitler's war machinery. Through two months of fierce winter warfare, Hitler is dealt his first defeat.
Director: Erik Skjoldbjærg | Stars: Kristine Hartgen, Carl Martin Eggesbø, Christoph Gelfert Mathiesen, Henrik Mestad
Votes: 17,552
9. War Sailor (2022)
TV-MA | 150 min | Drama, War
The sailor Alfred is in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean when World War II breaks out. Suddenly the sailors are in the front of the war, without any weapons.
Director: Gunnar Vikene | Stars: Kristoffer Joner, Pål Sverre Hagen, Ine Marie Wilmann, Henrikke Lund Olsen
Votes: 3,981
10. Enemy at the Door (1978–1980)
TV-14 | 650 min | Drama, War
During the Second World War, the inhabitants of Guernsey, one of the Channel Islands, try to cope with the German occupation.
Stars: Alfred Burke, Bernard Horsfall, Antonia Pemberton, Simon Cadell
Votes: 398
11. A Promise (2013)
R | 98 min | Drama, Romance
A romantic drama set in Germany just before WWI and centered on a married woman who falls in love with her husband's protégé. Separated first by duties and then by the war, they pledge their devotion to one another.
Director: Patrice Leconte | Stars: Rebecca Hall, Alan Rickman, Richard Madden, Toby Murray
Votes: 4,526
12. Racing with the Moon (1984)
PG | 108 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
In 1942 California, two young men await induction into the U.S. Marines and say goodbye to their girlfriends.
Director: Richard Benjamin | Stars: Sean Penn, Elizabeth McGovern, Nicolas Cage, John Karlen
Votes: 5,257 | Gross: $6.05M
13. The Resistance Banker (2018)
TV-MA | 123 min | Biography, Drama, War
In Nazi-occupied Amsterdam, banker brothers Walraven and Gijs van Hall face their greatest challenge yet when they decide to help fund the Dutch resistance.
Director: Joram Lürsen | Stars: Jacob Derwig, Barry Atsma, Fockeline Ouwerkerk, Pierre Bokma
Votes: 10,717
14. Poldark (1996 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 102 min | Drama, History
Ross Poldark returns from war to right wrongs and reunite with the love of his life.
Director: Richard Laxton | Stars: John Bowe, Mel Martin, Michael Attwell, Ioan Gruffudd
Votes: 394
15. My Mother and Other Strangers (2016)
TV-14 | 60 min | Drama, Romance, War
In 1943, the Coyne family and their neighbours struggle to maintain a normal life after a US Army Air Force base is set up in the middle of their rural parish.
Stars: Ciarán Hinds, Michael Nevin, Hattie Morahan, Owen McDonnell
Votes: 1,781
16. Renoir (2012)
R | 111 min | Biography, Drama, History
Set on the French Riviera in the summer of 1915, Jean Renoir -- son of the Impressionist painter, Pierre-Auguste -- returns home to convalesce after being wounded in World War I. At his ... See full summary »
Director: Gilles Bourdos | Stars: Michel Bouquet, Christa Théret, Vincent Rottiers, Thomas Doret
Votes: 5,997 | Gross: $2.29M
17. Eyes in the Night (1942)
Passed | 80 min | Crime, Mystery
A blind detective and his seeing-eye dog investigate a murder and discover a Nazi plot.
Director: Fred Zinnemann | Stars: Edward Arnold, Ann Harding, Donna Reed, Stephen McNally
Votes: 1,962
18. La casa delle donne (2003)
98 min | Drama
After Rocco marries, he gets his sister-in-law pregnant. Then his maid. They and their children and grandchildren all live in a house together. Further complications ensue.
Directors: Domenico Mongelli, Mimmo Mongelli | Stars: Vito Bruno, Stefania Caito, Ilaria Cangialosi, Francesco Capotorto
Votes: 35
19. Passion and Paradise (1989)
Not Rated | 185 min | Crime, Drama, History
Sir Harry Oakes is a wealthy magnate, living amongst the British aristocrats who have made their home in the Bahamas just prior to World War II. Their small community is one of privilege ... See full summary »
Director: Harvey Hart | Stars: Armand Assante, Catherine Mary Stewart, Mariette Hartley, Kevin McCarthy
Votes: 131
20. Cider with Rosie (1971 TV Movie)
94 min | Biography
A semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story set in the Cotswolds during and immediately after the First World War.
Director: Claude Whatham | Stars: Rosemary Leach, Stephen Grendon, Philip Hawkes, Peter Chandler
Votes: 81
21. Who Is the Black Dahlia? (1975 TV Movie)
100 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
In Los Angeles in 1947, a police detective tries to solve the shocking and grisly murder of 22-year-old aspiring actress Elizabeth Short, whose nude body was dumped in a lot after being ... See full summary »
Director: Joseph Pevney | Stars: Brooke Adams, Donna Mills, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Ronny Cox
Votes: 404
22. The Distant Barking of Dogs (2017)
91 min | Documentary, War
THE DISTANT BARKING OF DOGS is set in Eastern Ukraine on the frontline of the war. The film follows the life of 10-year-old Ukrainian boy Oleg throughout a year, witnessing the gradual ... See full summary »
Director: Simon Lereng Wilmont | Stars: Oleg Afanasyev, Alexandra Ryabichkina, Jarik
Votes: 649
23. The Stork Club (1945)
Passed | 98 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
A hat-check girl at the Stork Club (Hutton) saves the life of a drowning man (Fitzgerald). A rich man, he decides to repay her by anonymously giving her a bank account, a luxury apartment ... See full summary »
Director: Hal Walker | Stars: Betty Hutton, Barry Fitzgerald, Don DeFore, Robert Benchley
Votes: 747
24. Passion (1999)
102 min | Biography, Drama, Music
The complicated relationship between Percy Grainger, famous Australian-born early 20th century folk musician, and his abusive unstable mother that lead to his interest in S&M, instability and failed relationships with women.
Director: Peter Duncan | Stars: Barbara Hershey, Richard Roxburgh, Emily Woof, Claudia Karvan
Votes: 313
25. The Earth Is Blue as an Orange (2020)
74 min | Documentary, War
To cope with the daily trauma of living in a war-zone, Anna and her children are making a film together about their life in the most surreal surroundings.
Director: Iryna Tsilyk | Stars: Danylo Dydenko, Ganna Gladka, Olena Gladka, Olga Gladka
Votes: 774
26. Lotus (III) (2020)
17 min | Short, Drama
In 1941, a Greek teenager falls for an Italian soldier. She does not realize her kid sister has also fallen for the soldier. The younger girl's attempt to seduce her sister's boyfriend ends in tragedy.
Director: Marietta Pappa | Stars: Anna Valeria Giannotti, Loukia Konidari, Nikos Kaloudis, Natalia Kapodistria
28. Blindfold (2020)
100 min | Drama, Sport
Young MMA fighter Yuliya has lost her boyfriend in the war in eastern Ukraine. She starts a new relationship to make her life move forward.
Director: Taras Dron | Stars: Maryna Koshkina, Oleg Shulga, Larysa Rusnak, Aleksandr Mavrits
Votes: 115
29. Daughter-in-Law (1972)
81 min | Drama
A woman whose husband has been killed in WWII lives with her father-in-law in the desert. She cannot leave and go back to her family, because that would mean the end of hope that her husband, a heroic pilot, might return one day.
Director: Khodzha Kuli Narliyev | Stars: Maya-Gozel Aimedova, Khodzhan Ovezgelenov, Khodzhaberdy Narliyev, Khommat Mullyk
Votes: 148
30. Somnambulance (2003)
129 min | Drama
1944, Estonia. An impending Russian invasion forces thousands to flee. Eetla leaves the last boat, thus giving up her chance to escape. Defying the cold wind and rain of autumn, she returns to the lighthouse manned by her father Gottfrid.
Director: Sulev Keedus | Stars: Katariina Unt, Evald Aavik, Ivo Uukkivi, Jan Uuspõld
Votes: 294
31. The Town Went Wild (1944)
Approved | 77 min | Comedy, Romance
Feuding fathers deal with the shocking news that their sons were switched at birth, meaning that one of their daughters is about to marry her own brother.
Director: Ralph Murphy | Stars: Freddie Bartholomew, Jimmy Lydon, Edward Everett Horton, Tom Tully
Votes: 191
32. Mother. In the Name of the Millions (2014)
23 min | Short, Drama, History
A mother hides another mother's son, facing her destiny as millions in those days, lest we forget.
Director: Vyacheslav Bihun | Stars: Lesia Lypchuk, Aleksandr Ivashkevich, Siim Pyvi, Lana Vatsel
Votes: 149
33. The Mystery of the Double Cross (1917)
350 min | Action, Adventure
As the S. S. Huron returns from her summer trip to Europe laden with many passengers, a mysterious lady in room 7 is never seen, and the whole boat starts to gossip about her. In the ... See full summary »
Directors: William Parke, Louis J. Gasnier | Stars: Mollie King, Léon Bary, Ralph Stuart, Gladden James
Votes: 42
34. One Hundred Percent American (1918)
14 min | Short
A girl wants to go to a ball, admission one Liberty Bond, but rather than go herself, she loans the bond to a girlfriend. A soldier and a sailor find out and take her to the ball with them.
Director: Arthur Rosson | Stars: Mary Pickford, Loretta Blake, Theodore Reed, Henry Bergman
Votes: 119
35. Summerwar (2019)
80 min | Documentary, War
Two kids, one war, one camp. Jasmin and Jastrip grow up in Ukraine. Surrounded by war and rising nationalism, they visit the Azovez camp. There they become real patriots and that is what they came for - but it's not why they stay.
Director: Moritz Schulz
Votes: 38
36. En el balcón vacío (1962)
48 min | Drama
A woman who was a child refugee from the Spanish Civil War is now living as an adult in Mexico City. She tries to remember the traumatic events of her childhood.
Director: Jomí García Ascot | Stars: Alicia Bergua, Martín Bergua, María Luisa Elio, Belina García
Votes: 118
37. Oyuki the Virgin (1935)
78 min | Drama, War
During a war in the 19th century, a village linked to rebellious forces is attacked by the government army, so a rich family decides to run away; two courtesans travel along them.
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi | Stars: Isuzu Yamada, Komako Hara, Daijirô Natsukawa, Eiji Nakano
Votes: 265
38. Home Maid (1944)
10 min | Comedy, Short
Wartime housekeeping tips by a home-economics pro who comes to the aid of a bumbling, vertically challenged husband and his statuesque bride.
Director: Will Jason | Stars: Polly Patterson, Pete Smith
39. London 1942 (1943)
14 min | Documentary, Short
Propaganda short about the capital's efforts to adapt to the third year of war.
Director: Ken Annakin | Stars: Robert Speaight, Bill Owen
Votes: 9
40. Closest to God (2016)
20 min | Documentary, Short, Drama
A Ukraine's epic story about two families torn by war.
Director: Vyacheslav Bihun | Stars: Iryna, Oleksandr Kolodyazhnyy, Julia, Oleksandr Tyschyk
Votes: 83
41. Hoot Toot (1918)
Comedy, Short
Magnolia Milkshake wants to help the war effort to compensate for her husband who is exempt for being overweight. She tries to join the Red Cross, then the rifle corps.
Director: James D. Davis | Star: Alice Howell
42. Die Brücke (1949)
85 min | Drama
After the end of WWII, a group resettlers reaches a small village in central Germany, which has been spared from destruction. The new arrivals, who live in a resettlement camp separated by ... See full summary »
Director: Arthur Pohl | Stars: Karl Hellmer, Fritz Wagner, Arno Paulsen, Steffie Spira
Votes: 142
43. The Queen of Beechwood Drive (2009)
13 min | Short, Drama
Experimental narrative about a young women's journey into her past. Presented in a variety of formats, the story enters the surreal realm of a jail cell where a mother and daughter discover their shared common history on a taboo subject.
Director: Caroline Blair | Stars: Kate Donnellon, Darcy Brown-Martin, Beth Deitchman, Jody Gelb
44. Long Echo (2016)
87 min | Documentary
"Long echo" - Of the explosion not far from the city? Of the time when the people searched for a new idea for their country? Or from the Maidanrevolution that seemed to divide the country ... See full summary »
Directors: Veronika Glasunowa, Lukasz Lakomy
Votes: 8
45. Country Town (1945)
17 min | Documentary, Short
Life and industry in a Lincolnshire town.
Director: Julian Wintle | Star: Philip Robinson
Votes: 6
46. Kyjiv Moskva (2017)
25 min | Short, Drama, War
Renata's brother is away at war. One day she gets a work assignment to take care of a young man who comes from the enemy's country.
Director: Anna Lyubynetska | Stars: Sasha Stelchenko, Elena Vatrushkina
47. Postcards from Ukraine (2016)
84 min | Documentary
Postcards from Ukraine is a documentary dealing with the crisis in Ukraine. After traveling all over Ukraine, Sieva, the director, chose to focus on 5 young characters whose lives have been... See full summary »
Director: Sieva Diamantakos | Stars: Konstantin, Alina Lizunova, Illya Machekhin, Sergii Sevidov
Votes: 10
48. Crofters (1945)
24 min | Documentary, Short
The story of a crofting community in Sutherland in the 1940s.
Director: Ralph Keene
Votes: 19
49. Shell shock (2015 TV Movie)
59 min | Documentary | Completed
An incisive examination of the daily lives of people living in the combat zone in the Donbas in eastern Ukraine.
Director: Elena Starodubtseva
50. Frontier Church (2015)
31 min | Documentary, Short, War
A journey through the war-torn Donbas region in Ukraine following Father Dmytro (Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyivan Patriarchate) as he carries out his service and interacts with the soldiers, his 'camouflaged flock'.
Director: Zee Upitis | Star: Dmytro Povorotniy
Votes: 10