Wartime life movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant wartime life movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, captivating, emotional, tense and touching films and TV shows about / with wartime life, world war two, life is a bitch, war, nazi, female nudity, world war, family relations, danger and soldier plots mostly in Drama, War and Romance genres shot in UK, USA, Germany and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as wartime life: Strayed (2003), Nowhere in Africa (2001), Suite Française (2014), Female Agents (2008), Rose (2011), The Sleeping Voice (2011), Resistance (2011), In the Crosswind (2014), Land Girls (2009), In Tranzit (2008).

List of wartime life movies

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Strayed (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: France, UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Fleeing the June 1940 arrival of Hitler's army in Paris, a young war widow and her two children are rescued from dive-bombing German fighters by a cocky, reckless teenager. He finds them refuge in an abandoned house, but despite the fact that ...
Style: sincere, touching, suspenseful, serious, erotic ...
Plot: older woman younger man relationship, world war two, older woman teenage boy sex, older woman younger man, occupied france, wartime life, male nudity, refugee, survival, friendship, teenage life, love affair ...
Time: 1940s, year 2003
Place: paris france, france, europe, riviera, nice france
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Nowhere in Africa (2001)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Germany
Duration: 141 min.
Story: A Jewish woman named Jettel Redlich flees Nazi Germany with her daughter Regina, to join her husband, Walter, on a farm in Kenya. At first, Jettel refuses to adjust to her new circumstances, bringing with her a set of china dishes and an evening ...
Style: sincere, touching, emotional, thought provoking, captivating ...
Plot: world war two, friendship, childhood, holocaust, exile, farm, culture clash, immigrant, family relations, wartime life, anti semitism, understanding ...
Time: 1930s, year 2002, 20th century, 1940s
Place: kenya, africa, germany, south africa, east africa ...
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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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Female Agents (2008)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 148 min.
Story: May 1944, a group of French servicewomen and resistance fighters are enlisted into the British Special Operations Executive commando group under the command of Louise Desfontaines and her brother Pierre. Their mission, to rescue a British army ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspense, tense, historical drama ...
Plot: world war two, french resistance, wartime life, resistance, female agent, rescue, spy, betrayal, heroic mission, d day, hospital, military ...
Time: 1940s, year 1945, year 1944
Place: paris france, france, london, europe, england ...
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Rose (2011)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 90 min.
Story: This harrowing tale of survival centers on Rose, a Masurian woman, whose German soldier husband was killed in the war, leaving her alone on their farm. A single woman had no defense against Russian soldiers who raped as a form of revenge, nor ...
Style: rough, realistic, tense, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: wartime life, sexual abuse, world war two, soldier, countryside, life is a bitch, military, danger, farm, occupation, rape, holocaust ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, post world war two, year 1945
Place: poland
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The Sleeping Voice (2011)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Spain
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Pepita travels to Madrid to be near her sister Hortensia who is pregnant and in prison. Hortensia is sentenced to death. The execution will not be carried out until after the baby is delivered. Pepita tries everything to stay the execution, but when ...
Style: captivating, serious, emotional, suspenseful, political ...
Plot: spanish civil war, wartime life, political unrest, woman in danger, fall in love, life is a bitch, sister sister relationship, family relations, civil war, false accusation, rebellion, love and romance ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, 1940s
Place: spain, europe, madrid
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Resistance (2011)
Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story: It is 1944 and the D-Day invasion has failed, Germany's army have successfully invaded England and the Nazi war-machine is now heading west towards Wales. A group of women in an isolated Welsh village near the English border wake up to ...
Style: tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic, period drama ...
Plot: missing person, wartime life, life is a bitch, war, danger, espionage, undercover, world war two, alternate history, alternate universe, strong female presence, village ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1945, year 1944
Place: england, madagascar
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In the Crosswind (2014)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Estonia
Duration: 90 min.
Story: June 14, 1941, 3 a.m. Over 40000 people from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are deported by Soviets to Siberia. Among them is a philosophy student Erna, a happily married mother of a little girl. Separated from her husband Erna and her daughter are ...
Style: realistic, serious, atmospheric, bleak, black and white ...
Plot: stalinism, deportation, world war two, hunger, ethnic cleansing, wartime life, getting home, life is a bitch, family in danger, separation from family, family relations, danger ...
Time: year 1941, 1940s, 1950s, 20th century
Place: siberia, soviet union, baltics, europe, russia ...
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 7.0
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Land Girls (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 225 min.
TV show
Story: The lives, loves and highs and lows of four members of the Women's Land Army working at the Hoxley Estate during World War II.
Style: realistic, captivating, historical drama, costume drama, psychological ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: world war two, wartime life, strong female presence, life is a bitch, family relations, military, soldier, friendship, rise and fall, love, resistance, women ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: england, europe
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 5.7
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In Tranzit (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK, Russia
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Nazi POWs suspected of heinous acts are locked up in a Soviet women's prison run by vengeful female guards. To weed out the guilty, the innocent must pay. Can supposed enemies turn into great loves? Based on a true post-World War II story, this ...
Style: sincere, realistic, captivating, period piece, emotional ...
Audience: date night
Plot: wartime life, soldier, holocaust, captivity, life is a bitch, against humanity, prisoners of war, prison life, genocide, confined, society, heroes ...
Time: 1940s, post world war two
Place: soviet union, russia, st. petersburg russia, europe
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Two Hearts as One (2014)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Turkey
Duration: 126 min.
Story: A look inside the story of two newlyweds who are parted from each other and spend the next half-century of their lives trying to reunite.
Style: emotional, realistic, captivating, touching, stylized ...
Plot: husband wife reunion, labor camp, life is a bitch, wartime life, love affair, love, caucasian, marriage, couples, flashback, world war two, couple relations ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, 90s, year 1941
Place: europe, bosnia, turkey, kazakhstan
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The Crimson Field (2014)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: In a tented field hospital on the coast of France, a team of doctors, nurses and women volunteers work together to heal the bodies and souls of men wounded in the trenches.
Style: serious, period piece, realistic, emotional, suspenseful ...
Plot: world war one, military hospital, nurse, army, wartime life, friendship, lifesaver, love triangle, nursing, doctor, medicine, great war ...
Time: 1910s, 20th century
Place: france, europe
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Yanks (1979)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK, USA, West Germany
Duration: 138 min.
Story: During WWII, the United States set up army bases in Great Britain as part of the war effort. Against their proper sensibilities, many of the Brits don't much like the brash Yanks, especially when it comes to the G.I.s making advances on the ...
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, touching, historical drama ...
Plot: world war two, soldier, wartime life, prejudice, infidelity, racism, american abroad, couple relations, love affair, premarital sex, world war, opposites attract ...
Time: 1940s, year 1979, 20th century
Place: england, yorkshire, northern england, europe
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Winter in Wartime (2008)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Duration: 103 min.
Story: During World War II in the freezing Netherlands winter of 1944/1945 the western Netherlands are in the grip of a famine. Many people move east to provide for their families. Fourteen year old Michiel can't wait to join the Dutch resistance, to ...
Style: tense, exciting, realistic, serious, captivating ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: world war two, coming of age, resistance movement, children in wartime, resistance, nazi, wartime life, winter, execution, occupation, nazism, nazi occupation ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 2008
Place: netherlands, germany, europe, holland
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Aimee & Jaguar (1999)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Berlin 1943/44 ("The Battle of Berlin"). Felice, an intelligent and courageous Jewish woman who lives under a false name, belongs to an underground organization. Lilly, a devoted mother of four, though an occasional unfaithful wife, is ...
Style: erotic, romantic, sad, historical drama, romantic drama ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: lesbian, lesbian relationship, lesbian love, holocaust, lesbian interest, gender, woman in danger, nazi, gays and lesbians, world war two, couples, forbidden love ...
Time: year 1999, ancient times, 20th century, 1940s, year 1943 ...
Place: germany, europe, berlin germany
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 5.9
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Spring 1941 (2007)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Poland, Israel
Duration: 120 min.
Story: After Germany invades Poland and the Nazis order the confinement of all local Jews in the ghetto, medical doctor Artur Planck (Joseph Fiennes) manages to flee with his family, seeking refuge at the farm of Emilia (Kelly Harrison), their former ...
Style: captivating, serious, tense, emotional, realistic ...
Plot: world war two, wartime life, love triangle, family in danger, confined, love and romance, infidelity, dishonesty, couple relations, against humanity, couples, life is a bitch ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: middle east, eastern europe, poland, europe
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 7.2
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Beanpole (2019)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Set in post-WWII Leningrad as two female soldiers return from war and attempt to rebuild their lives in the ravaged city.
Style: heartbreaking, rough, art house, compassionate, sad ...
Plot: tall woman, wartime life, hospital, world war two, female soldier, female protagonist, euthanasia, devastation, hopes, lgbt, life is a bitch, lesbian ...
Time: post world war two, year 1945, 2010s, 1940s
Place: russia, st. petersburg russia, soviet union, germany
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Out of the Ashes (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: The real-life story of Gisella Perl, a Jewish Hungarian doctor imprisoned in the notorious Auschwitz death camp of World War II.
Style: realistic, serious, touching, contemplative, captivating ...
Plot: holocaust, concentration camp, wartime life, holocaust survivor, world war two, auschwitz, human spirit, anti semitism, life is a bitch, starting over, danger, moral dilemma ...
Time: 1940s
Place: hungary, europe, usa
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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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Simon & the Oaks (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Norway
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Epic story about two families and their friendship and common destiny in Sweden's Gothenburg in the 1940s and 1950s. Told from the perspective of young Simon Larsson, who learns that he's an adopted child who has a Jewish father from ...
Style: realistic, tense, touching, psychological, contemplative ...
Audience: teens
Plot: world war two, coming of age, wartime life, youth, boy, family relations, friendship, society, culture clash, working class, best friend, older woman younger man ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, post world war two, 50s
Place: europe, eastern europe
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 7.4
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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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Zhila-byla Odna Baba (2011)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 150 min.
Story: История частной жизни одной женщины и четверых ее мужчин. Главная героиня - неграмотная крестьянка, и действие фильма начинается с ее ...
Style: realistic, serious, stylized, bleak, gloomy ...
Plot: village life, wartime life, revolution, village, state affairs, village people, rape, countryside, communism, social injustice, russian civil war, woman ...
Time: 1910s, 1920s, 1900s
Place: russia, europe
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Wild Flower (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France, Germany
Duration: 119 min.
Story: The Benedetti family's wealth comes from gold stolen from the French army during the 18th century. When Jean (Michael Vartan), the lieutenant guarding the coins -- and lover of Elisabette Benedetti (Galatea Ranzi) -- is executed for a crime he ...
Style: emotional, serious, realistic, saga
Plot: children, wartime life, female nudity, summer, rivalry, soldier, betrayal, politics, dishonesty, fall in love, vengeance, love and romance ...
Time: year 1993
Place: italy, paris france, france, europe
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Frontier (2018)
Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy, History, Romance, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Michael's perfect life changes dramatically when he discovers a portal wich allows him to travel in time. He travels back to the World War II to go through the quest of time and find his one and only beloved.
Style: serious, rough, exciting, uplifting
Plot: time travel, wartime life, battles, battle zone, personal growth, world war two, military life, self sacrifice, heroic mission, great patriotic war, travel, love ...
Time: 1940s
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The Edelweiss Pirates (2004)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Germany, Netherlands
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Im Kölner Stadtteil Ehrenfeld lebt eine Gruppe von Arbeiterkindern kurz vor Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs ihren ganz eigenen Alltag. Die selbsternannten „Edelweißpiraten“ träumen von einer gerechten Welt und sehnen sich nach der unbeschwerten ...
Style: realistic, suspenseful, tense, captivating, serious ...
Plot: resistance, wartime life, world war two, young heroes, human spirit, rebellion, idealism, life is a bitch, against humanity, rebelliousness, danger, confined ...
Time: 1940s, year 1944, 20th century
Place: europe, germany
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 7.7
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The Cuckoo (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 99 min.
Story: September of 1944, a few days before Finland went out of the Second World War. A chained to a rock Finnish sniper-kamikadze Veikko managed to set himself free. Ivan, a captain of the Soviet Army, arrested by the Front Secret Police ...
Style: touching, atmospheric, political, offbeat, melancholic ...
Plot: culture clash, world war two, wartime, understanding, wartime life, wilderness, lapland, anti war, brutality, life is a bitch, hostility, military ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: russia, finland, ussr, siberia
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Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, War
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Nanny McPhee appears at the door of a harried young mother, Mrs. Isabel Green, who is trying to run the family farm while her husband is away at war. But once she’s arrived, Nanny McPhee discovers that the children are fighting a war of their own ...
Style: fairy tale, entertaining, scenic, touching, captivating ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, family friendly, girls' night ...
Plot: magic, nanny, witch, children, countryside, mischievous children, kids and family, world war two, farm, wartime life, fantasy world, destiny ...
Time: year 2010, 20th century, 1940s
Place: england, europe, london
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The Diary of Anne Frank (2009)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: UK
Duration: 150 min.
TV show
Story: Called the most accurate adaptation of Anne Frank’s moving diary, the film chronicles the Frank family as they flee from the Nazis in Amsterdam. Hiding behind a bookcase in a secret annex with random bombs exploding, Anne faces friction with her ...
Style: touching, serious, realistic, sincere, historical drama ...
Plot: holocaust, nazism, against humanity, world war two, diary, wartime life, survival, human spirit, confined, life is a bitch, danger, youth ...
Time: 1940s, 1900s, 20th century
Place: holland, europe, netherlands, amsterdam
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Straight Into Darkness (2004)
Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, War
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The movie encompasses several different elements-the perils of war, a touch of macabre, sadness and redemption.
Style: surreal, psychological, realistic, rough, bleak ...
Plot: world war two, wartime life, soldier, military, against humanity, danger, survival, battle zone, military life, battles, psychopath, war ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1945
Place: usa, texas
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Edges of the Lord (2001)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA, Poland
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A 12-year-old Jewish boy hides with a family of Catholic peasant farmers to escape the Nazis.
Style: touching, sentimental, emotional, realistic, contemplative ...
Audience: date night, family outing
Plot: holocaust, world war two, wartime life, catholic, nazi, coming of age, human spirit, survival, hidden identity, fish out of water, anti semitism, lifesaver ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: poland, europe
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