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, bleak and tense films and TV shows about / with wartime life, world war two, war, life is a bitch, holocaust, female nudity, society, nazi, survival and family relations plots mostly in Drama, War and History genres shot in UK, USA, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as wartime life: Strayed (2003), Land Girls (2009), Rose (2011), Zhila-byla Odna Baba (2011), Suite Française (2014), In the Crosswind (2014), Nowhere in Africa (2001), Female Agents (2008), The Crimson Field (2014), Savior (1998).
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List of wartime life movies
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, erotic, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot:
older woman younger man relationship, wartime life, world war two, older woman teenage boy sex, age difference, teenage boy, escape, refugee, age-gap relationship, older woman younger man sex, capture, outdoor sex ...
Time:
1940s, year 2003
Place:
paris france, france, europe, nice france, riviera
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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:
costume drama, realistic, captivating, historical drama, atmospheric ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
wartime life, world war two, strong female presence, military, family relations, friendship, soldier, abbey, rise and fall, love, intrigue, women ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
england, europe
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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, world war two, farm, soldier, countryside, military, danger, occupation, sexual abuse, german woman, household, holocaust ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, post world war two, year 1945
Place:
poland
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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:
stylized, serious, realistic, bleak, epic ...
Plot:
village life, rape, wartime life, revolution, village, state affairs, village people, countryside, social injustice, communism, russian civil war, public nudity ...
Time:
1910s, 1920s, 1900s, 20th century
Place:
russia, europe
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Genre: Drama, History, 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:
realistic, emotional, romantic, period piece, costume drama ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
world war two, forbidden love, nazi occupied france, nazi occupation, german officer, german soldier, wartime, fall in love, wartime life, war, occupied france, nazi officer ...
Time:
1940s, ancient times, year 1940, 20th century, 18th century
Place:
france, europe, paris france, germany, england ...
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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, wartime life, hunger, ethnic cleansing, separation from family, getting home, life is a bitch, family in danger, danger, family relations ...
Time:
year 1941, 1940s, 1950s, 20th century, 50s
Place:
siberia, soviet union, baltics, europe, russia ...
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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, emotional, touching, thought provoking, visually stunning ...
Plot:
world war two, friendship, farm, childhood, holocaust, anti semitism, culture clash, immigrant, wartime life, hopes, food shortage, hockey ...
Time:
1930s, year 2002, 20th century, 1940s
Place:
kenya, africa, germany, south africa, east africa ...
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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:
realistic, serious, suspense, tense, historical drama ...
Plot:
world war two, french resistance, wartime life, female agent, resistance, rescue, betrayal, heroic mission, gestapo, hospital, espionage, military ...
Time:
1940s, year 1945, year 1944, post world war two
Place:
london, france, paris france, europe, england ...
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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:
period piece, costume drama, realistic, emotional, serious ...
Plot:
military hospital, world war one, nurse, army, wartime life, friendship, lifesaver, love triangle, nursing, doctor, medicine, great war ...
Time:
1910s, 20th century, year 1915
Place:
france, europe, english channel
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A hardened mercenary in the Foreign Legion begins to find his own humanity when confronted with atrocities during the fighting in Bosnia
Style:
disturbing, depressing, tense, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot:
terrorism, rape, atrocity, redemption, breast feeding, bosnian war, mercenary, ethnic cleansing, hopes, genocide, soldier, pregnancy ...
Time:
90s, year 1998, 20th century
Place:
bosnia, former yugoslavia, europe, serbia, bosnia herzegovina ...
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A WWII Drama about a German/Jewish industrialist who, in order to ensure his family's safe passage out of Germany, is forced to hand over his business to the Nazis.
Style:
serious, psychological, captivating, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot:
concentration camp, world war two, holocaust, undercover, survival, forbidden love, genocide, german army, gestapo, anti semitism, moral dilemma, life is a bitch ...
Time:
1940s, year 1944, post world war two
Place:
germany, switzerland, hungary, europe
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Genre: Drama, History, 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, fall in love, franco regime (francoism), impossible love, political unrest, woman in danger, life is a bitch, sister sister relationship, civil war, family relations, false accusation ...
Time:
1930s, 1940s, 20th century
Place:
spain, europe, madrid
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 59 min.
TV show
Story:
In 1934, four brilliant Cambridge men are recruited to spy for Russia. Fueled by youthful idealism, a passion for social justice and a talent for lying, they take huge personal risks to pass Britain's biggest secrets to Moscow. Based on true ...
Style:
contemplative, realistic, serious, period piece, tense ...
Plot:
espionage, kgb, treason, politics, traitor, communist, betrayal, university, homosexuality, cold war, spy, secret agent ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, 20th century
Place:
russia, england, europe, london, big ben london
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
March 1945 Asolo, Italy. Livia Mazzion, the attractive wife of a top ministry official, slips into the car of lawyer Ugo Oggiano, Livia's admirer and her husband's informer. Livia must reach Venice and her lover Helmut Schultz, a Wermacht ...
Style:
sexy, erotic, captivating, disturbing, serious ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
sex, fascism, affair, sexual relations, destiny, love affair, love triangle, unfaithful wife, infidelity, family problems, wartime life, danger ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
italy, venice, europe
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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:
realistic, emotional, captivating, touching, exciting ...
Plot:
love affair, husband wife reunion, labor camp, life is a bitch, wartime life, love, caucasian, marriage, couples, world war two, flashback, relationships ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 1940s, year 1941
Place:
europe, bosnia, turkey, kazakhstan
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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, forbidden love, premarital sex, american abroad, prejudice, racism, infidelity, couple relations, love affair, world war ...
Time:
1940s, year 1979, 20th century, year 1942
Place:
england, yorkshire, northern england, europe
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Hungary, Germany, Austria, France
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
In a village on the Hungarian border, two young brothers grow up during war time with their cruel grandmother and must learn every trick of evil to survive in the absurd world of adults.
Style:
bleak, rough, realistic, serious, sad ...
Plot:
countryside, world war two, child abuse, boy, holocaust, twins, starvation, wartime life, teenage life, life is a bitch, nazi, teenager ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, year 1944
Place:
hungary
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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:
sex scene, wartime life, male nudity, public nudity, holocaust, soldier, prisoners of war, captivity, against humanity, genocide, prison life, heroes ...
Time:
1940s, post world war two
Place:
soviet union, europe, russia, st. petersburg russia, ussr
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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, sexual, romantic drama, historical drama ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
lesbian, lesbian relationship, lesbian love, lgbtq, lesbian interest, holocaust, gays and lesbians, woman in danger, nazi, society, forbidden love, couples ...
Time:
ancient times, year 1999, 1940s, 20th century, year 1943 ...
Place:
germany, europe, berlin germany
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Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
TV show
Story:
An epic family saga set in the Russian Urals before, during and after the Second World War. The story is centered on the Morozov family - Aleksey, Stepan, Aliona and Varvara - two brothers and two sisters, with a multitude of complex relationships ...
Style:
captivating, historical drama, family saga, tense, emotional ...
Plot:
world war two, life is a bitch, family life, war, brother sister relationship, wartime, wartime life, family problems, dysfunctional family, relationship problems, reconciliation, survival ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: UK, USA
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 ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
nazi germany, double agent, espionage, behind enemy lines, world war two, wartime, spy, wartime life, destiny, secret agent, working undercover, love and romance ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
germany, berlin germany, new york, usa, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: Romania
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Eva meets Tudor on the day of her 16th birthday. It is Tudor who is to make her feel whole as a woman. He becomes for her a source of both love and suffering through his constant mysterious departures and reappearances.
Style:
serious, touching, realistic, sincere, gloomy
Plot:
holocaust, lovers reunited, world war two, tragic hero, love triangle, life turned upside down, life is a bitch, couple relations, political unrest, couples, society, tragic love ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
romania, europe
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, War
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
TV show
Story:
A young British girl travels to Israel/Palestine, retracing the steps of her grandfather - a British soldier stationed there in the 1940s.
Style:
disturbing, emotional, realistic, serious, historical drama ...
Plot:
israeli palestinian conflict, occupation, soldier, diary, military, wartime life, military life, society, life is a bitch, youth, political unrest, loss of family member ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
palestine, israel, middle east, palestinian authority
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 66 min.
TV show
Story:
Island at War is a British television series that tells the story of the German Occupation of the Channel Islands. It primarily focuses on three local families: the upper class Dorrs, the middle class Mahys and the working class Jonases, and four ...
Style:
atmospheric, suspenseful, captivating, tense, historical drama ...
Plot:
occupation, wartime, island, wartime life, military, society, against humanity, oppression, genocide, anti semitism, world war two, holocaust ...
Time:
post world war two
Place:
britain, england, europe
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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, danger, espionage, undercover, world war two, alternate history, alternate universe, strong female presence, war, women ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1945, year 1944
Place:
england, madagascar
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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, emotional ...
Plot:
holocaust, concentration camp, holocaust survivor, wartime life, world war two, auschwitz, anti semitism, genocide, human spirit, life is a bitch, starting over, nazi ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
hungary, europe, usa, poland
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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:
tense, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot:
resistance, wartime life, world war two, nazi germany, human spirit, rebellion, young heroes, captivity, rebelliousness, life is a bitch, against humanity, idealism ...
Time:
1940s, year 1944, 20th century, post world war two
Place:
europe, germany
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, War
Country: UK, France, Japan, 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:
entertaining, fairy tale, sweet, scenic, touching ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, family friendly, girls' night ...
Plot:
magic, children, nanny, countryside, mischievous children, kids and family, fantasy world, destiny, witch, objects come to life, world war two, farm ...
Time:
year 2010, 20th century, 1940s
Place:
england, europe, london
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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, realistic, psychological, rough, bleak ...
Plot:
world war two, wartime life, soldier, battle zone, military life, survival, military, against humanity, danger, battles, psychopath, genocide ...
Time:
20th century, year 1945, 1940s, post world war two
Place:
usa, texas
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Finland
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
A movie based on real wartime diaries tells the story of the Swedish speaking Finns' infantry regiment 61. The story follows the regiment during the Continuation War from 1942 to 1944 and from Syväri to the Karelian Isthmus where they faced ...
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, tense
Plot:
world war two, russo finnish war, soldier, military, wartime life, battles, chaos and mayhem, heroic mission, state affairs, politics, against humanity, war ...
Time:
1940s, year 1942, year 1943, year 2002, 20th century ...
Place:
finland, russia, europe, eastern europe
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