War atrocity movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant war atrocity movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, bleak, disturbing, crying and rough films and TV shows about / with war atrocity, war, murder, death, soldier, war crime, massacre, world war two, atrocity and military plots mostly in Drama, War and History genres shot in USA, UK, Germany and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as war atrocity: A Woman in Berlin (2008), City of Life and Death (2009), Hatred (2016), The Old Gun (1975), Zuleikha Opens Her Eyes (2020), Cross of Iron (1977), Tiger Milk (2017), All That Really Matters (1992), Occupation in 26 Pictures (1978), Dick Dynamite 1944 (2023).
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Germany, Poland
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
A nameless woman keeps a diary as the Russians invade Berlin in the spring of 1945. She is in her early 30s, a patriotic journalist with international credentials; her husband, Gerd, a writer, is an officer at the Russian front. She speaks Russian ...
Style:
realistic, bleak, serious, disturbing, sincere ...
Plot:
world war two, female nudity, war, rape, sexual abuse, forced sexual contact, brutal rape, war crime, brutality, post war germany, military, women ...
Time:
year 1945, year 2008, 20th century, 1940s, post world war two
Place:
germany, berlin germany, europe, east germany, west germany ...
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: China, Hong Kong, UK
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
City of Life and Death takes place in 1937, during the height of the Second Sino-Japanese War. The Imperial Japanese Army has just captured the then-capital of the Republic of China, Nanjing. What followed was known as the Nanking Massacre, or the ...
Style:
disturbing, rough, bleak, breathtaking, black and white ...
Plot:
sino japanese war, world war two, japanese army, war crime, sexual abuse, war atrocity, japanese occupation, rape, chinese history, atrocity, life is a bitch, japanese occupation of china ...
Time:
1930s, year 1938, year 2009, 2010s, 20th century ...
Place:
china, asia, shanghai
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
Summer of 1939. Zosia is a young Polish girl who is deeply in love with Ukrainian Petro. Their great love will be put to the test when her father decides to marry her to a wealthy widower Skiba. Right after wedding she is left alone because her ...
Style:
tense, thought provoking, suspense, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
genocide, world war two, war atrocity, murder, massacre, brutality, wedding, cheating wife, homicide, hanged woman, childbirth, nazi occupation ...
Time:
year 1943, year 1939, 1940s
Place:
poland
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Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
In Montauban in 1944, Julien Dandieu in a surgeon in the local hospital. Frightened by the German army entering Montauban, he asks his friend Francois to drive his wife and his daughter in the back country village where Julien has an old castle. One ...
Style:
anthology, disturbing, sincere, realistic, serious
Plot:
world war two, revenge, vengeance, french resistance, sex on first date, rape, nazi, world war, ss officer, secret passageway, war atrocity, one man army ...
Time:
1940s, year 1975, 20th century, year 1939, year 1944
Place:
france, south of france, normandy
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Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 49 min.
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Story:
The year is 1930. In a small Tartar village, a woman named Zuleikha watches as her husband is murdered by communists. Zuleikha herself is sent into exile, enduring a horrendous train journey to a remote spot on the Angara River in Siberia. ...
Style:
heartbreaking, disturbing, period piece, historical drama, poignant ...
Plot:
peasant, political repression, female protagonist, loss, propaganda, russophobia, political violence, oppression, survival, exile, power, threat ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
siberia, soviet union
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK, West Germany
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
It is 1943, and the German army, ravaged and demoralised, are hastily retreating from the Russian front. In the midst of all this madness, conflict brews between the aristocratic yet ultimately pusillanimous Captain Stransky and the courageous ...
Style:
freeze frame, political, cult classic, brutal, perverse ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
world war two, german soldier, eastern front, military, soldier, war, battlefield, german army, anti war, wehrmacht, nazi, blood ...
Time:
1940s, year 1943, 20th century, year 1977
Place:
bolivia, germany, siberia, france, russia ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Best friends Nini and Jameelah are both 14 years old and live in the same housing complex in Berlin. Jameelah's family is from Iraq and might be deported if their application for citizenship isn't approved, but right now, the girls try not ...
Style:
sexy, realistic, psychological, not serious, light
Plot:
underage drinking, teenage girl, best friend, teenage boy, party, mother daughter relationship, underage sex, teenager, love, dysfunctional family, discussion, fall in love ...
Place:
berlin germany
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Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Poland's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1992
Plot:
world war two, son, female nudity, wife, nkvd, famous people, illness, citizenship, camp, poet, war atrocity, separation ...
Time:
year 1939
Place:
poland, siberia, kazakhstan
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Set in Dubrovnik, this drama chronicles a friendship, between three men, that began just before World War II. One of the men is of Italian origin, another is the wealthy heir of a shipping fortune, and the third is the son of a Jewish antique-store ...
Style:
black and white, pre war
Plot:
world war two, children, bare breasts, black, friendship, female nudity, extreme violence, nazi, decapitation, communism, heir, brothel ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
croatia, eastern europe, balkan, former yugoslavia
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, War
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
In the dying days of World War II, Dick Dynamite and his ragtag team of Nazi-killing commandos must stop a group of depraved German scientists from turning the population of New York into flesh-eating zombies.
Style:
grindhouse, psychotronic, suspense, disturbing, scary ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
world war two, anti nazi, danger, death, great patriotic war, war atrocity, murder, martial law, society, camaraderie, battles, military service ...
Time:
year 1945, 1940s
Place:
europe, new york
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Genre: Biography, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Four American soldiers in WW2, after witnessing the vicious murder of an innocent civilian at the hands of their platoon Sergeant, are sent on a reconnaissance/suicide mission led by a local partisan.
Style:
tense, heavy, harsh, dramatic, disturbing ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
world war two, soldier, partisan, moral ambiguity, war, war atrocity, warrior, military officer, sergeant, army sergeant, brutality, american soldier ...
Time:
1940s
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Depicts a heist of old bills, retired from circulation and destined by the government to be "money to burn". However, more broadly, it addresses the issues of Black Americans' involvement in the Vietnam War and their subsequent ...
Style:
sexy, realistic, cult classic, neo noir, suspense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
violence, vietnam war, african american, heist, robbery, redemption, gangster, violent, blaxploitation, profanity, black, urban ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, 70s, year 1974, year 1970 ...
Place:
new york, bronx new york city, usa, asia, vietnam ...
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller, War
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
In the spring of 1945, Japan established a secret base, Unit 731 in Manchuria, where many innocent Chinese, Korean and Mongolian people were killed in grotesque experiments. An idealistic young doctor , Morishima, is horrified by the experiments ...
Style:
controversial, extreme horror, perverse, bloody, terrifying ...
Plot:
world war two, extreme, gory, torture, violence, murder, prisoner, decapitation, dismemberment, cruelty, autopsy, doctor ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
japan, china, asia, soviet union, russia ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Professor Lola Sánchez investigates the truth behind the events experienced by Rafael Sánchez Mazas, one of the founders of the Falange Española party, during the Spanish Civil War.
Style:
suspenseful, captivating, serious, sincere, political ...
Plot:
spanish civil war, soldier, writer's life, uncover truth, change of heart, lifesaver, society, political unrest, against humanity, writers, spanish history, civil war ...
Time:
year 1938, year 1937, year 1936, year 1939, 21st century
Place:
spain, iberian peninsula, basque country, madrid, europe ...
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Genre: Comedy, War
Country: Spain
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
A platoon of mismatched republican soldiers cross the front-line to steal the bull that the enemy is going to fight on the saint patron date of the village. In addition to ruining the nationals' celebration they want the animal in order to ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, intellectual, crying
Plot:
spanish civil war, anarchist, soldier, male pubic hair, skinny dipping, male nudity, mutant, platoon, behind enemy lines, republican, military, satire ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, year 1937, year 1938, year 1939 ...
Place:
spain, basque country, madrid, iberian peninsula, europe ...
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA, Ghana
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A group of native Liberian missionaries make a desperate cross-country trip through their war torn country to save one of their own.
Style:
realistic, emotional, suspenseful, independent film, serious ...
Plot:
hopes, missionary, human spirit, rescue, heroic mission, state affairs, danger, daring rescue, political unrest, racism, faith, bravery ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
liberia, africa, west africa
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Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Russia
Duration: 266 min.
Story:
The true history of Japanese Unit 731, from its beginnings in the 1930s to its demise in 1945, and the subsequent trials in Khabarovsk, USSR, of many of the Japanese doctors from Unit 731. The facts are told, and previously unknown evidence is ...
Style:
disturbing, extreme horror, rough, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
tortured to death, torture, world war two, transgression, sadism, experiment, male victim, extreme, violent, found footage, execution, brutality ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s
Place:
japan, russia, asia, korea, china ...
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Spain
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The film centres on Moncho and his coming-of-age experience in Galicia in 1936. Moncho develops a close relationship with his teacher Don Gregorio who introduces the boy to different things in the world. While the story centres on Moncho's ...
Style:
sentimental, touching, realistic, political, compassionate ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
spanish civil war, coming of age, civil war, friendship, children, teacher, childhood, altar boy, spanish history, depression, anarchist, family relations ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, year 1999, 90s, year 1936 ...
Place:
spain, iberian peninsula, barcelona, europe, galicia ...
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Spain, Italy, Belgium
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
At the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, the nun Maria is forced to flee her convent. She takes refuge in a brothel, until it is liberated by a woman's anarchist group. Maria joins the group and eventually goes to the front. The women's ...
Style:
political, social, sad, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
spanish civil war, anarchist, anarchism, feminism, spanish history, civil war, rebellion, revolution, radical, female soldier, revolt, strike ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, year 1938, year 1939, year 1936 ...
Place:
barcelona, iberian peninsula, europe, spain, basque country ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
In 1944 Poland, a Jewish shop keeper named Jakob is summoned to ghetto headquarters after being caught out after curfew. While waiting for the German Kommondant, Jakob overhears a German radio broadcast about Russian troop movements. Returned to the ...
Style:
sad, cult classic, emotional, uplifting, semi serious ...
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, jewish ghetto, shoah, nazi, gestapo, world war, radio, judaism, hopes, lie, death ...
Time:
1940s, year 1999, 20th century, year 1942, year 1939 ...
Place:
poland, germany, europe, russia
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Genre: Drama, History, Horror, War
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
The film is a graphic depiction of the war atrocities committed by the Japanese at Unit 731, the secret biological weapons experimentation unit of the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. The film details the various cruel medical experiments ...
Style:
extreme horror, controversial, bleak, brutal, rough ...
Plot:
world war two, gory, torture, japanese history, dehumanization, extreme, violence, violent, experiment, hardcore, chinese history, sino japanese war ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
china, asia, japan, korea, russia ...
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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, visually stunning, sentimental, harsh, realistic ...
Plot:
world war two, sino japanese war, atrocity, war, japanese occupation of china, holocaust, prostitute, suffering, wartime, japanese occupation, genocide, medieval ...
Time:
20th century, ancient times, year 1937, 1930s
Place:
china, asia, east asia, seattle, japan ...
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Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: Ireland, UK, France, Germany, USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
Enemy at the Gates is a war film from Jean-Jacques Annaud from 2001 that takes place during the battle of Stalingard in World War II between the Russians and the Germans.
Style:
sexy, epic, realistic, serious, breathtaking ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
war, world war two, sniper, military, stalingrad, world war, courage, friendship, nazi, wartime, hide and seek, winter ...
Time:
20th century, year 2001, 1940s, year 1940, year 1944 ...
Place:
germany, soviet union, iraq, persia, russia ...
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 170 min.
Story:
Based on the graphic novel by James Jones, The Thin Red Line tells the story of a group of men, an Army Rifle company called C-for-Charlie, who change, suffer, and ultimately make essential discoveries about themselves during the fierce World War II ...
Style:
philosophical, visually stunning, visually appealing, visual, epic ...
Plot:
war, world war two, sergeant, jungle, infantry, soldier, pacific war, anti war, u.s. army, pacific island, survival, existentialism ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, 90s, year 1998, year 1940 ...
Place:
asia, japan, america, germany, pacific ocean ...
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 169 min.
Story:
As U.S. troops storm the beaches of Normandy, three brothers lie dead on the battlefield, with a fourth trapped behind enemy lines. Ranger captain John Miller and seven men are tasked with penetrating German-held territory and bringing the boy home.
Style:
breathtaking, realistic, captivating, tense, inspirational ...
Audience:
manly, date night, chick flick, kids, adult
Plot:
war, world war two, military, courage, battles, self sacrifice, sniper, friendship, nazi, combat, army, machine gun ...
Time:
1940s, year 1944, year 1998, 90s, year 2013 ...
Place:
normandy, france, germany, poland, europe ...
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK, France, Italy, Germany, Spain
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
The movie narrates the story of David Carr, an unemployed worker and member of the Communist Party of Great Britain. In 1936 he decides to fight for the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War, an anti-fascist coalition of liberals, communists and ...
Style:
political, sad, hispanic, philosophical, social ...
Plot:
spanish civil war, politics, revolution, anarchist, working class, civil war, communist, trench warfare, anarchy, socialist, dictator, dictatorship ...
Time:
1930s, 90s, 20th century, year 1995, year 1937 ...
Place:
spain, catalonia, barcelona, europe, basque country ...
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 175 min.
TV show
Story:
If the conflict in Bosnia has become something of a forgotten war, it's not for the want of trying from the immensely powerful BBC film Warriors, the story of five young soldiers and their harrowing experiences in the region.
Style:
independent film, realistic, serious, bleak, disturbing ...
Plot:
balkan war, bosnian war, genocide, war crime, propaganda, yugoslav war, ethnic cleansing, war on terror, aid worker, slavery, soldier, military ...
Time:
90s, year 1992
Place:
bosnia herzegovina, iraq, former yugoslavia, europe, liverpool ...
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Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: Georgia, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
An American journalist and his cameraman are caught in the combat zone during the first Russian airstrikes against Georgia. Rescuing Tatia, a young Georgian schoolteacher separated from her family during the attack, the two reporters agree to help ...
Style:
realistic, tense, serious, rough, contemplative ...
Plot:
politics, news report, political unrest, state affairs, media, culture clash, life is a bitch, society, cameraman, media coverage, journalism, murder ...
Time:
year 2011, year 2008, year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
tbilisi, georgia, los angeles
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Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: Italy, France, West Germany, Switzerland, USA
Duration: 120 min.
TV show
Story:
A compelling drama/documentary chronicling the life and death of Il Duce himself, from his days as a terrorist to his alliance with Hitler to the betrayal of his son-in-law and untimely demise.
Style:
thought provoking, bleak, disturbing, serious, realistic
Plot:
fascism, world war two, italian history, dictator, italian fascism, fictional history, totalitarian state, world war, intrigue, political unrest, injustice, family problems ...
Time:
1930s, 1940s
Place:
europe, italy
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Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
The setting is the islands off the Dalmatian coast of Yugoslavia, during WW II. The islands are controlled by occupying Italian forces, and a resistence movement of Communists is dedicated to sabotaging and ending the occupation. When a wealthy ...
Style:
epic
Plot:
world war two, partisan, fascism, female nudity, inhumanity, nudity, marriage, friend, murder, sex, death, spy ...
Place:
balkan, former yugoslavia, italy
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