Wartime movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant wartime movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, captivating, historical drama, touching and exciting films and TV shows about / with wartime, world war two, war, world war, nazi, military, soldier, wartime life, death and love plots mostly in Drama, War and Romance genres shot in USA, UK, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as wartime: Malena (2000), Mother of Mine (2005), Suite Française (2014), Atonement (2007), Battle for Sevastopol (2015), The Way Back (2010), Dunkirk (2017), Shining Through (1992), Pearl Harbor (2001), Sister (2019).

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 7.4
 111K
Malena (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: On the day in 1940 that Italy enters the war, two things happen to the 12-year-old Renato: he gets his first bike, and he gets his first look at Malèna. She is a beautiful, silent outsider who's moved to this Sicilian town to be with her ...
Style: erotic, sexy, sexual, melancholic, serious ...
Audience: adult
Plot: hot and sexy, world war two, older woman younger man relationship, coming of age, older woman younger man, wartime, longing, unrequited love, women, sexuality, life is a bitch, fascism ...
Time: 1940s, year 2000, ancient times, 20th century, year 1940
Place: italy, sicily, europe, southern italy, mediterranean sea
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Mother of Mine (2005)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Finland, Sweden
Duration: 111 min.
Story: 1943: Nine-year-old Eero whose father is killed during the war is brought to Sweden to foster parents to his protection like thousands of other Finnish children. Eero feels lost, particularly as his foster mother Signe behaves very unfriendly. She ...
Style: emotional, touching, melancholic, bleak, realistic ...
Plot: world war two, coming of age, secrets, children, boy, loneliness, wartime, life is a bitch, family relations, wartime life, adoption, human spirit ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: finland
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Suite Française (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: UK, France, Canada, Belgium, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: emotional, realistic, romantic, period piece, serious ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: world war two, forbidden love, nazi occupation, german officer, german soldier, war, fall in love, wartime life, occupied france, nazi occupied france, adultery, nazi officer ...
Time: 1940s, year 1940, ancient times, 20th century
Place: france, europe, paris france
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 7.8
 298K
Atonement (2007)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, War
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: As a 13-year-old, fledgling writer Briony Tallis irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit.
Style: touching, emotional, heartbreaking, sad, period piece ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens, adult
Plot: world war two, wartime, tragic love, redemption, injustice, unfulfilled love, love story, false accusation, love and romance, forbidden love, innocence, life is a bitch ...
Time: 1940s, 1930s, year 2007, 2000s, victorian era ...
Place: england, london, britain, dunkirk, europe ...
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Battle for Sevastopol (2015)
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Ukraine, Russia
Duration: 110 min.
Story: The breakout of the war shatters the world of a young student, Lyudmila Pavlichenko, forcing her to enlist in the army in 1941. The maiden turns out to be a natural-born sniper, her impressive skill and prowess make her stand out among men and women ...
Style: dramatic, rough, realistic, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: sniper, world war two, female protagonist, female soldier, nazi, wartime, war, female warrior, wartime life, enemy, strong female lead, great patriotic war ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: soviet union, ukraine, chicago, usa, odessa ukraine ...
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 7.3
 122K
The Way Back (2010)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: USA, United Arab Emirates, Poland, India
Duration: 133 min.
Story: Peter Weir's follow-up to Master & Commander (2003) is the stark & brilliant The Way Back, which takes on the theme of man's struggle for freedom. At the dawn of WWII, several men escape from a Russian gulag. The film ...
Style: epic, realistic, inspirational, road movie, rough ...
Plot: survival, escape, prison escape, wilderness, war, freedom, journey, world war two, desert, gulag, pow, convict ...
Time: 2010s, 1940s, 20th century
Place: himalaya, russia, soviet union, asia, mongolia ...
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 7.8
 733K
Dunkirk (2017)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: UK, Netherlands, France, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: The story of the miraculous evacuation of Allied soldiers from Belgium, Britain, Canada and France, who were cut off and surrounded by the German army from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk between May 26th and June 4th 1940 during World War II.
Style: epic, dramatic, atmospheric, suspense, visually stunning ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: world war two, military, survival, war, wartime, soldier, evacuation, military officer, beach, shell shock, air attack, combat ...
Time: 1940s, year 1940, year 2017, 2010s, 20th century ...
Place: france, england, english channel, dover england, britain ...
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Shining Through (1992)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 132 min.
Story: Spirited New Yorker Linda Voss goes to work for international lawyer and secret Office of Strategic Services operative Ed Leland just before World War II. As they fall in love, the United States enters the fight against Hitler, and Linda volunteers ...
Style: suspenseful, sentimental, suspense, melancholic, exciting ...
Plot: nazi germany, espionage, world war two, double agent, wartime, spy, wartime life, behind enemy lines, secret agent, working undercover, love and romance, destiny ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: germany, new york, berlin germany, europe, usa
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 6.2
 350K
Pearl Harbor (2001)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 183 min.
Story: The lifelong friendship between Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker is put to the ultimate test when the two ace fighter pilots become entangled in a love triangle with beautiful Naval nurse Evelyn Johnson. But the rivalry between the friends-turned-foes ...
Style: romantic, sentimental, emotional, epic, period piece ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens, date night
Plot: world war two, war, love, military, combat, airplane, love triangle, navy, fighter pilot, wartime, aviation, love and romance ...
Time: year 2001, 1940s, 50s, 20th century, year 1942 ...
Place: hawaii, pearl harbor, japan, asia, america ...
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 7.1
 485
Sister (2019)
Genre: Drama, Family, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 94 min.
Story: How many Yamil remembers himself, war has always been. He is very much waiting for it to end - after all, then the father will return, whom the boy knows only from photographs and letters. One day, Mom leaves for a distant city and brings the silent ...
Style: sincere, captivating, touching, sentimental, disturbing
Plot: traumatic childhood, wartime, kids in trouble, little girl, family relations, life is a bitch, struggle for survival, world war two, father, fascism, hunger, care ...
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 7.3
 15K
Hope and Glory (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: British writer/director John Boorman (The Emerald Forest) draws us into an astonishing and exhilarating portrait of his own childhood, set against the terrors of a London torn apart by the onset of WWII. Seven-year-old Billy Rohan (Sebastian Rice ...
Style: touching, realistic, humorous, sentimental, intense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: world war two, wartime, childhood, children in wartime, war, boy, youth, wartime life, coming of age, character study, unlikely friendships, ethnic conflict ...
Time: 1940s, year 1939, year 1987
Place: england, london, europe, britain, big ben london
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Krepkaya Bronya (2019)
Genre: War
Country: Russia
TV show
Story: Young soldier Vasya Rusakov graduates from the Saratov Tank School and is assigned to the front. Vasily is an ordinary guy with a fiery gaze, ready to defend his homeland to the last drop of blood. At the same time, he is also a young man in love, ...
Style: exciting, tense, suspense, psychological
Audience: boys' night
Plot: great patriotic war, wartime, military, heroism, courage, world war two, heroic mission, soldier, uncover truth, danger, good versus evil, love ...
Time: 1940s
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The Flowers of War (2011)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: China
Duration: 146 min.
Story: A Westerner finds refuge with a group of women in a church during Japan's rape of Nanking in 1937. Posing as a priest, he attempts to lead the women to safety.
Style: touching, emotional, realistic, harsh, visually stunning ...
Plot: world war two, atrocity, war, japanese occupation of china, prostitution, holocaust, sino japanese war, prostitute, wartime, genocide, oppression, rape ...
Time: 20th century, year 1937, ancient times, 1930s
Place: china, asia, east asia, seattle
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Max Manus: Man of War (2008)
Genre: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: Norway, Denmark, Germany
Duration: 118 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: tense, intense, factual, brutal, melancholic ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: world war two, resistance, nazi, nazism, war, wartime, military, nazi occupation, gestapo, courage, manhunt, terrorism ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1940
Place: scotland, europe, finland, stockholm sweden, scandinavia ...
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Testament of Youth (2014)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: UK, Denmark, USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Testament of Youth is a powerful story of love, war and remembrance, based on the First World War memoir by Vera Brittain, which has become the classic testimony of that war from a woman’s point of view. A searing journey from youthful hopes and ...
Style: touching, period piece, captivating, serious, romantic ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, teens
Plot: world war one, wartime, war, aspiring writer, women, death, poetry, nurse, life is a bitch, wartime life, love and romance, love affair ...
Time: 1910s, 20th century, 1920s, edwardian era, 2010s ...
Place: england, oxford university, london, yorkshire, france ...
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 7.0
 113K
Greyhound (2020)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: USA, Canada, China
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A first-time captain leads a convoy of allied ships carrying thousands of soldiers across the treacherous waters of the “Black Pit” to the front lines of WW2. With no air cover protection for 5 days, the captain and his convoy must battle the ...
Style: serious, exciting, emotional, compassionate, inspirational ...
Audience: adult
Plot: world war two, submarine, war, u.s. navy, navy, warship, convoy, wartime, ocean, battleship, naval officer, captain ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1942
Place: san francisco, atlantic ocean
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 6.8
 22
Aleks Ljutyj (2020)
Genre: Crime, History, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 47 min.
TV show
Style: tense, disturbing, captivating, exciting
Plot: wartime, fighting crime, uncover truth, murder mystery, secret identity, investigation, agent, dark secret, military
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 7.2
 20K
Flame & Citron (2008)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: Denmark, Germany, Norway, France, Sweden, Finland, Czech Republic
Duration: 130 min.
Story: During Nazi occupation, red-headed Bent Faurschou-Hviid ("Flame") and Jørgen Haagen Schmith ("Citron"), assassins in the Danish resistance, take orders from Winther, who's in direct contact with Allied leaders. One shoots, ...
Style: realistic, sincere, period piece, atmospheric, factual ...
Audience: date night
Plot: world war two, gestapo, wartime, betrayal, spy, nazi, nazism, world war, double agent, resistance, war, organized crime ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, year 1940, year 1944
Place: denmark, germany, copenhagen, scandinavia, europe ...
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 7.2
 161K
The Post (2017)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: USA, UK, India
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A cover-up that spanned four U.S. Presidents pushed the country's first female newspaper publisher and a hard-driving editor to join an unprecedented battle between journalist and government. Inspired by true events.
Style: political thriller, political, factual, tense, inspirational ...
Audience: family friendly, adult
Plot: journalism, journalist, truth, expose, newspaper office, whistleblower, newspaper, lie, cover up, wartime, freedom of the press, u.s. government ...
Time: 2010s, year 2017, 90s, 70s, year 1965 ...
Place: washington d.c., usa, vietnam
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 6.4
 22K
Enigma (2001)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: UK, USA, Germany, Netherlands
Duration: 119 min.
Story: A romantic thriller based around the World War 2 project to crack the codes behind the Enigma machine, used by the Germans to encrypt messages sent to their submarines.
Style: factual, tricky, clever, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot: world war two, nazi, code breaking, espionage, submarine, wartime, war, mathematics, conspiracy, secret service, cryptography, idealism ...
Time: 1940s, year 2001, 20th century
Place: poland, scotland, europe, big ben london, london
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A Very Long Engagement (2004)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, War
Country: France, USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story: In 1919, Mathilde was 19 years old. Two years earlier, her fiancé Manech left for the front at the Somme. Like millions of others he was "killed on the field of battle." It's written in black and white on the official notice. But ...
Style: romantic, touching, atmospheric, epic, colorful ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: world war one, war, love and romance, wartime, life & death, private detective, investigation, obsession, tragedy, relationships, lighthouse, against the odds ...
Time: 2000s, 1920s, year 2004, 1910s, 20th century ...
Place: france, paris france, europe, marseille, brittany ...
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 7.4
 7K
Twin Sisters (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Netherlands, Luxembourg
Duration: 137 min.
Story: Twin Sisters is an epic love story based on the Dutch bestseller by Tessa de Loo that has been read by more than 3.5 million readers in Holland and Germany.
Style: captivating, thought provoking, serious, realistic, touching ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: world war two, twins, wartime life, family reunited, family relations, ss officer, life is a bitch, culture clash, orphan, society, human nature, reconciliation ...
Time: 1940s, 1930s, 20th century, 1920s
Place: germany, europe, holland, netherlands
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Captain Corelli's Mandolin (2001)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance, War
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story: When a Greek fisherman leaves to fight with the Greek army during WWII, his fiancee falls in love with the local Italian commander. The film is based on a novel about an Italian soldier's experiences during the Italian occupation of the Greek ...
Style: sentimental, romantic, intense, melancholic, realistic ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: world war two, war, italian army, wartime, resistance fighter, fascism, world war, love and romance, social relations, fall in love, impossible love, wartime life ...
Time: 1940s, year 2001, 20th century
Place: greece, europe, albania
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The English Patient (1996)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA, UK, Italy
Duration: 162 min.
Story: In the 1930s, Count Almásy is a Hungarian map maker employed by the Royal Geographical Society to chart the vast expanses of the Sahara Desert along with several other prominent explorers. As World War II unfolds, Almásy enters into a world of ...
Style: romantic, sentimental, emotional, touching, heartbreaking ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: world war two, adultery, love story, tragic love, betrayal, desert, life philosophy, beautiful scenery, life & death, war, wartime, power of love ...
Time: 1940s, 1930s, year 1944, year 1942, 90s ...
Place: sahara, italy, africa, ottoman empire, cairo egypt ...
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 7.1
 168K
Allied (2016)
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: In 1942, an intelligence officer in North Africa encounters a female French Resistance fighter on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. When they reunite in London, their relationship is tested by the pressures of war.
Style: sexy, emotional, suspense, intense, romantic ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: world war two, spy, nazi, double agent, female agent, espionage, love, betrayal, war, husband wife relationship, british secret service, danger ...
Time: 1940s, year 2016, future, 1900s, 2010s ...
Place: london, france, england, south africa, north africa ...
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 7.7
 6K
The Tunnel (2001)
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 150 min.
Story: Inspired by true events, Olympic swimmer Harry Melchior defects from East Germany in the 1960s and hatches a daring plot to help his sister and others flee East Berlin through a 145-yard underground tunnel.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, tense, political, compassionate ...
Plot: berlin wall, tunnel, politics, communism, betrayal, cold war, breast feeding, political unrest, wartime, freedom, brutality, heroes ...
Time: 60s, ancient times, year 2001
Place: east germany, germany, berlin germany, west berlin west germany, german democratic republic ...
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 7.4
 3K
The Halcyon (2017)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The story of a bustling and glamorous five star hotel at the centre of London society and a world at war.
Style: costume drama, realistic, disturbing, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: hotel, world war two, aristocracy, manager, wartime, society, bellhop, chef, maid, gay lead character, world war one, lgbt ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: england, london
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 8.4
 32K
Generation War (2013)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 270 min.
TV show
Story: Berlin, 1941. Five friends eager to become heroes in an adventure that will change the face of Europe - and that will forever change them as well.
Style: tense, captivating, serious, thought provoking, anime ...
Plot: world war two, holocaust, nazism, military, friendship, nazi germany, danger, against humanity, eastern front, atrocity, friends, wehrmacht ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: germany, berlin germany, east germany, hawaii, soviet union
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 5.6
 12K
Ghosts of War (2020)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller, War
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A group of World War II American soldiers encounter a supernatural enemy as they occupy a French castle previously under Nazi control.
Style: captivating, mystical, suspense, exciting, twist ending ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: world war two, wartime, military, ghost, vengeful ghost, puzzle, mysticism, supernatural, military life, supernatural power, soldier, american soldier ...
Time: 2020s, year 1944
Place: france
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 7.3
 10K
In Harm's Way (1965)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 165 min.
Story: A naval officer reprimanded after Pearl Harbor is later promoted to rear admiral and gets a second chance to prove himself against the Japanese.
Style: realistic, tense, factual, exciting, suspenseful ...
Plot: war, world war two, naval battle, military, wartime, naval officer, father son relationship, u.s. navy, military life, suicide, marital infidelity, navy ...
Time: year 1941, year 1965, 1940s, year 1942
Place: pearl harbor, hawaii, pacific ocean, san francisco, polynesia
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