Red army movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant red army movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out suspenseful, tense, suspense, captivating, realistic and period drama films and TV shows about / with red army, world war two, soldier, military, eastern front, soviet army, military uniform, great patriotic war, heroism and survival plots mostly in War, Drama and History genres shot in Russia, Soviet Union, Germany and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as red army: The Turncoat (2020), Fortress of War (2010), The Great Battle (1969), A Woman in Berlin (2008), Fortress on Wheels (1961), Unknown Battle (2019), Sniper: Weapon of Retaliation (2009), White Tiger (2012), Battle of Xiangjiang River (2017), The Alive and the Dead (1964).
Best films
New films
| Red Notice (2021) | 6.3 | |
| Sunstroke (2014) | 5.8 | |
| Unknown Battle (2019) | 6.1 | |
| The Final Journey (2017) | 6.9 | |
| Good News (2025) | 6.6 |
List of red army movies
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story:
Directed by Academy Award-winner Florian Gallenberger from Sigefried Lenz's international bestseller, "Der Überläufer" is set in the summer of 1944. German soldier Walter Proska is about to return to the Eastern Front when his train ...
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, suspense, unusual plot structure, captivating ...
Plot:
world war two, german soldier, partisan, nazi germany, pow, eastern front, defector, political repression, nazi occupied poland, border crossing, swamp, jail ...
Time:
1940s, year 1945, year 1956, post world war two, year 1944
Place:
berlin germany, east berlin, germany, hamburg germany
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Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: Belarus, Russia
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
A war drama set during the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, in which Russian troops held on to a border stronghold for nine days. The film shows the heroic defense of Brest Fortress, which has taken upon the first stroke of German ...
Style:
serious, realistic, tense, exciting, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
world war two, war, military, battles, red army, wehrmacht, infantrymen, border guard, nazism, squad, heroes, invasion ...
Time:
1940s, year 1941, 2010s, 20th century
Place:
russia, europe
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Soviet Union, East Germany, Poland, Italy
Duration: 470 min.
TV show
Story:
Two great armies duel to the death with a million guns and ten thousand tanks - THE GREAT BATTLE.
Plot:
world war two, red army, great patriotic war, tank, soviet army, communist propaganda, propaganda, russian soldier, uniform, rocket launcher, ammunition, armor
Time:
year 1945
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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, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
A story about an armored train number 56 and his actions during WWII.
Style:
patriotic, intense, period piece, tension, action drama ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
red army, world war two, soldier, military, railway, battles, protection, fortress, eastern front, heroism, frontline, combat ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
soviet union, ukraine, kiev ukraine, ussr
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
During WW2, in 1942 and 1943, a series of not-so-well known yet bloody battles occurred near the town of Rzhev. Those battles received the name of ‘Rzhev Meat Grinder’. The film is based on the award-winning novel by Vyacheslav Kondratyev, which ...
Style:
rough, epic, suspenseful, serious, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
infantry, soviet army, world war two, wehrmacht, heroism, death, war, battles, soldier, battle zone, great patriotic war, winter ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
soviet union, ussr
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Genre: Action, Drama, Romance, War
Country: Belarus, Russia
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story:
This world war two story depicts the personal war between a Soviet sniper and a German sniper. Their feud continues after the war in Soviet occupied Germany. At the same time a Nazi rocket scientist continues his research while a Soviet secret ...
Plot:
world war two, sniper, revenge, vendetta, german army, soviet soldier, red army, cold war, theatrical producer, nkvd, secret document, killing ...
Time:
year 1941, year 1945
Place:
soviet union, ukraine, ussr
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Great Patriotic War, early 1940s. After barely surviving a battle with a mysterious, ghostly-white Tiger tank, Red Army Sergeant Ivan Naydenov becomes obsessed with its destruction.
Style:
exciting, tense, serious, suspenseful
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
world war two, war, eastern front, tank, amnesia, obsession, amnesiac, soviet army, field hospital, burn victim, military life, supernatural ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
russia, soviet union
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: China
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
From November 27, 1934 to December 1, the Red Army fought with the Kuomintang army in Xing'an County, Quanzhou County and Guanyang County in the territory of Guangxi province for 5 days, finally, the Red Army through Xiangjiang in the border of ...
Style:
tense, historical drama, disturbing, suspense, captivating ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
red army, battles, military, chinese civil war, war, revolution, army, blockade, soldier, fight for supremacy, wartime, wartime life ...
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 201 min.
Story:
A Russian war correspondent is drafted into the war and finds himself in the middle of battle. When he loses his party card, however, he is treated as a deserter until he finds help from a kind man. This Soviet war feature was considerably outspoken ...
Style:
historical drama, melancholic, period piece, bleak, tense ...
Plot:
world war two, great patriotic war, red army, eastern front, survival, camaraderie, wehrmacht, realism, moral ambiguity, battlefield, anti war, retreat ...
Time:
year 1941
Place:
soviet union, siberia, ussr, russia
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
The continuation of a story started by Alexander Stolper epic movie "Zhivye i Myortvye".
Style:
historical drama, serious, period piece, realistic, grim ...
Plot:
world war two, red army, stalingrad, great patriotic war, soldier, sacrifice, military, siege, eastern front, battlefield, survival, brutality ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
soviet union
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
During World War II, оld Georgian peasant wine-grower Georgy (Sergo Zakariadze) leaves his Georgian village and goes off to the front line, hoping to find his son. George should see and transfer a lot of things, he becomes a soldier and only in ...
Style:
rough, tense, suspenseful, touching, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
great patriotic war, world war two, military, father son relationship, red army, soldier, fatherhood, dead son, wound, death of son, eastern front, spirituality ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
soviet union, georgia, caucasus, berlin germany, russia ...
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Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Tank commander Kalashnikov is severely injured in battle in 1941. The accident leaves him incapacitated and unable to return to the front. While recovering in the hospital he begins creating the initial sketches of what will become one of the ...
Style:
captivating, rough, disturbing, suspenseful, informative ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
world war two, inventor, human spirit, red army, soviet soldier, life & death, soldier, russian soldier, weapons, world war, danger, engineer ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
soviet union, ussr, moscow russia, kazakhstan, russia
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, History, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
A group of American pilots from Alaska ferry Airacobra fighter planes across the ocean on Lend-lease. The orderly course of life is disrupted when it becomes clear that the American pilots are attractive and charming young women. The feelings of the ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, captivating, satirical
Plot:
world war two, red army, wartime, wartime life, military, relationships, relationship problems, couple relations, pilot, war, male female relationship, cultural difference ...
Place:
soviet union, alaska, ussr
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Klavdia Vavilova, a Red Army cavalry commissar, is waylaid by an unexpected pregnancy. She stays with a Jewish family to give birth and is softened somewhat by the experience of family life.
Style:
bleak, realistic, serious, emotional, atmospheric ...
Plot:
children, breast feeding, pregnancy, russian civil war, pregnant woman, life is a bitch, wartime life, female soldier, jewish family, soldier, baby, newborn baby ...
Time:
year 1967, 1920s, 20th century
Place:
russia, soviet union, ussr
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Italy, UK, USA
Duration: 197 min.
Story:
Doctor Zhivago is the filmed adapation of the Russian novel by Boris Pasternak from director David Lean that was an international success and today deemed a classic. Omar Sharif and Julie Christie play two protagonists who in fact love each other ...
Style:
costume drama, epic, period piece, breathtaking, visually stunning ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
world war one, revolution, war, communism, love story, train, forbidden love, rape, poet, deportation, love triangle, wartime ...
Time:
1910s, 20th century, 1920s, 1940s, ancient times ...
Place:
russia, soviet union, moscow russia, ussr
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Genre: War
Country: Yugoslavia, Soviet Union
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
October 20, 1944, Belgrade was liberated by Red Army and Tito's partisans. But the capital of Yugoslavia is still fraught with danger - retreating aggressor mined the city . A special partisan squad goes into underground maze of tunnels to find ...
Style:
tension, suspenseful, realistic, grim, political ...
Plot:
world war two, red army, partisan, minefield, occupation, survival, sacrifice, brave, underground, sabotage, patriotism, guerilla warfare ...
Time:
1940s, year 1944
Place:
former yugoslavia, belgrade, serbia, belgrade serbia
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Genre: Drama, Horror, War
Country: Poland, Netherlands, Germany
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Summer of 1945. A temporary orphanage is established in an abandoned palace surrounded by forests for the eight children liberated from the Gross-Rosen camp. Hanka, also a former inmate, becomes their guardian. After the atrocities of the camp, the ...
Style:
perverse, thought provoking, psychological, suspenseful, melancholic ...
Plot:
concentration camp, bully, world war two, dog, holocaust, killed by a dog, dog training, escape, bullying, soldier, escape attempt, rape ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1945
Place:
europe, central europe, germany, poland
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Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
USSR, Late November, 1941. Based on the account by reporter Vasiliy Koroteev that appeared in the Red Army's newspaper, Krasnaya Zvezda, shortly after the battle, this is the story of Panifilov's Twenty-Eight, a group of twenty-eight ...
Style:
touching, rough, captivating, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
world war two, red army, russian soldier, infantry, heroism, bravery, eastern front, military life, wartime, protector, russian history, german soldier ...
Time:
year 1941, 1940s, 20th century
Place:
germany, russia, ussr
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 158 min.
Story:
In July 1942, in the Second World War, the rearguard of the Russian army protects the bridgehead of the Don River against the German army while the retreating Russian troops cross the bridge. While they move back to the Russian territory through the ...
Style:
heroic, sentimental, tense, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
world war two, red army, heroism, world war, war, camaraderie, life & death, retreat, soviet soldier, eastern front, military, nazi ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, year 1942
Place:
soviet union, ussr, russia
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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: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Russia
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Five young filmmakers retrace the steps of a doomed group of hikers in pursuit of an unsolvable mystery.
Style:
scary, suspenseful, atmospheric, suspense, factual ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
survival, found footage, mountain, supernatural, snow, danger, uncover truth, mountain climbing, murder, missing person, winter, lone hero ...
Time:
year 1980, 21st century
Place:
russia, antarctica
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
To the young lieutenant Maleshkin the war is a minor obstacle, if compared to his personal battle to command his subordinates, while conducting an armored vehicle at the same time he's trying to impress his superior Soviet officers who put him ...
Style:
thought provoking, disturbing, realistic, captivating, patriotic
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
soviet army, world war two, machine gun, great patriotic war, friendship, military, red army, soldier, heroism, battles, leadership, transformation ...
Time:
1940s, year 1943
Place:
soviet union, russia
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Genre: Comedy, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
On the way to Partisans camp Sgt. Tsybulya suddenly lands in the middle of German troops. Now he must find a way to return to the Red Army.
Style:
tension, tense, suspenseful, period piece, grim
Audience:
adult
Plot:
world war two, soldier, red army, eastern front, behind enemy lines, danger, escape, guerilla warfare, courage, sabotage, heroism, sacrifice ...
Place:
soviet union
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 285 min.
TV show
Story:
A story of a several days of intense fighting on the Eastern Front during one of the Soviet offensives in WWII.
Style:
suspenseful, rough, disturbing, suspense
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
world war two, red army, war, battles, military, life & death, heroic mission, patriotism, betrayal, heroism, red herring, great patriotic war ...
Time:
1940s, year 1942
Place:
ussr
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Georgia
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Story of ethnic Georgians fighting in the Red Army during the Soviet invasion of Kerch peninsula.
Style:
thought provoking, captivating, historical drama, bleak, emotional ...
Plot:
world war two, soldier, battles, heroism, military, fight, wartime, war, military life, showdown, red army, soviet army ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
georgia, soviet union
Is relevant?
168
Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: USA, Russia, Belarus
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
On the Eastern front in 1941, German troops attack a Red Army's field hospital destroying it and causing a massive loss of life. The surviving soldiers try to fight back but have to retreat, among them a young pilot , Vyacheslav with his dog ...
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, sentimental, rough, thought provoking ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
german shepherd, military, world war two, dog training, dog, killer dog, eastern front, red army, courage, bravery, heroes, brutality ...
Place:
soviet union, russia
Is relevant?
404
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
The action of the series takes place from 1938 to 1948 years, and covers key events of the era.
Style:
tense, captivating, disturbing, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot:
thief, love triangle, gang of thieves, gang, impersonating, deception, organized crime, money, robbery, frame up, betrayal, escapades ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
soviet union
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Genre: War
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
On their journey West, Captain von Stock and his battle group are arrive in a small village located not far from a strategically important river crossing. The village is frequented by a constant stream of refugees fleeing the advancing Soviet army.
Style:
sincere, suspense, disturbing, bleak, grim ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
world war two, refugee, wartime, soldier, war refugee, war, small village, village, russian army, red army, life is a bitch, wartime life ...
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Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story:
The Eastern Front, 1943. Two Soviet pilots, straight out of training, join a veteran fighter squadron on the front line.
Style:
tense, captivating, dramatic, exciting, serious ...
Plot:
world war two, aerial combat, soviet army, air force, aviation, eastern front, military service, war, red army, military, military training, wartime life ...
Place:
soviet union, ukraine
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