Eastern front movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant eastern front movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out suspenseful, tense, serious, realistic, bleak and captivating films and TV shows about / with world war two, eastern front, military, soldier, war, battles, world war, nazi, survival and danger plots mostly in War, Drama and History genres shot in Russia, Germany, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as eastern front: The Turncoat (2020), Unknown Soldier (2017), The Misfit Brigade (1987), Attack and Retreat (1964), Stalingrad (1993), Dear Elza! (2014), Cross of Iron (1977), Brothers War (2009), Generation War (2013), Unknown Battle (2019).
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List of eastern front 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: Drama, War
Country: Finland, Belgium, Iceland
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
The film follows Finnish army machine gun company in Continuation War against Soviet Union, 1941–1944. Based on Väinö Linna's best selling novel Tuntematon Sotilas (The Unknown Soldier) and the novel's uncensored version, Sotaromaani ...
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, thought provoking, captivating, disturbing ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
world war two, infantry, military, eastern front, soldier, friendship, friend, husband wife relationship, insubordination, firing squad, battles, heroes ...
Time:
1940s, year 1941, year 1942, year 1943, 20th century ...
Place:
finland, germany, soviet union, ussr
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, War
Country: UK, Denmark, Yugoslavia, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
War story of the 27th Panzers, Hitler's heavy-duty combat regiment composed of prisoners.
Style:
independent film, bleak, rough, exciting, captivating ...
Plot:
tank, world war two, eastern front, nazism, german soldier, nazi, world war, behind enemy lines, sabotage, ss, german army, skinny dipping ...
Time:
1940s, year 1987, year 1943
Place:
germany, soviet union, ussr
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Italy, Soviet Union
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
Beautifully photographed and lyrically written, this largely factual account of Mussolini's disastrous invasion of Russia during World War II tells the story of an Italian regiment through the eyes of a farmer from Emilia, a plumber from Rome, ...
Style:
macaroni combat
Plot:
world war two, italian army, eastern front, politics, nazism, italian history, bravery, nazi, soldier, stalingrad, great patriotic war, execution ...
Time:
1940s, year 1942, year 1941
Place:
soviet union, russia, ussr
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
"Stalingrad" follows the progress of a German Platoon through the brutal fighting of the Battle of Stalingrad. After having half their number wiped out and after being placed under the command of a sadistic Captain, the Lieutenant of the ...
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, gloomy, epic ...
Plot:
world war two, war, battles, nazism, eastern front, soldier, german soldier, starvation, survival, military life, holocaust, winter ...
Time:
year 1942, year 1943, 1940s, 20th century
Place:
russia, germany, europe, italy, berlin germany ...
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Hungary
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
"Mankind is nature's greatest mistake. In his actions echoes millions of years of instinct and a few genius's idea's useless revolution." End of 1942, eastern front, Ukraine. Private Lombos, tied to his family and his ...
Plot:
world war two, eastern front, world war, jewish man, battles, combat, suicide, military, army, pow, behind enemy lines, forest ...
Time:
year 1942
Place:
soviet union, ussr
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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: History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The story is set in the latter days of World War 2, against the backdrop of fierce combat on the eastern front. Brother's War is based on real events.
Style:
serious, realistic, tense, suspenseful, bleak
Plot:
eastern front, world war two, friendship, battles, human spirit, military, survival, life is a bitch, confined, on the run, war, heroes ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, post world war two
Place:
europe, germany
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Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 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, thought provoking, serious, anime ...
Plot:
world war two, nazism, holocaust, soldier, military, nazi germany, guilt, danger, eastern front, atrocity, wehrmacht, friends ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
germany, berlin germany, east germany, hawaii, soviet union ...
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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: War
Country: UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A dwindling group of German soldiers battle to return to their lines on the harsh Eastern Front.
Style:
bleak, suspenseful, tense, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
world war two, eastern front, battles, soldier, frontline, german soldier, wehrmacht, survival, war, military, military service, wartime ...
Time:
year 1945, 1940s
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: West Germany
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Starting in late May 1944, during the German retreat on the Eastern Front, Captain Stransky (Helmut Griem) orders Sergeant Steiner (Richard Burton) to blow up a railway tunnel to prevent Russian forces from using it. Steiner's platoon fails in ...
Plot:
world war two, eastern front, world war, ss, nazi, german soldier, military, occupied france, holocaust, revolution, war, revolutionary ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1944, year 1979
Place:
normandy, france, paris france
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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: War
Country: Belarus
Story:
World War 2 - Eastern Front: A new batch of raw, inexperienced female Soviet snipers arrive at the front. To bolster them a commander picks a Tungus medic whose people are known for their hunting skills and marksmanship to lead them in battle. Soon ...
Style:
suspense, rough, disturbing, romantic, serious ...
Plot:
great patriotic war, courage, behind enemy lines, war, heroic mission, oldtimer, soldier, german army, battle zone, world war two, eastern front, strong female presence ...
Place:
soviet union
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Genre: War
Country: Russia
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Story:
The Secret Group of 5th Red Army Intelligence gets only extremely dangerous job. No one knows the names of soldiers of this unit, but their achievements will be never forgotten by the motherland. In service record of these heroes are hundreds of ...
Style:
suspense, patriotic, tense, historical drama, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
world war two, saboteur, military, eastern front, soviet army, great patriotic war, prospector, wartime, danger, heroic mission, chase, top secret ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
soviet union
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Genre: Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
In 1944 many Germans in Eastern Prussia believed like Lena von Mahlenberg, daughter of a local aristocrat, that Hitler would surrender and spare them from being invaded by the vengeful Russian Red Army. He didn't and they had to flee.
Style:
serious, realistic, emotional, touching, captivating
Plot:
world war two, third reich, eastern front, family relations, wartime life, parents and children, danger, survival, life is a bitch, nazi, fight, aristocracy ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
berlin germany, germany
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
In the Eastern Front of World War II in 1943, a five-man crew of a German Tiger tank is sent on a secret mission far behind the fiercely contested front line. Fueled by the Wehrmacht's methamphetamine, their assignment increasingly becomes a ...
Style:
tension, suspense, bleak, grim, gloomy
Plot:
eastern front, world war two, methamphetamine, anti war, wehrmacht, behind enemy lines, brotherhood, claustrophobia, moral ambiguity, survival, addiction, isolation ...
Time:
1940s, year 1943, year 1942
Place:
eastern europe, soviet union
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: UK
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
During WWII, the death camp at Treblinka had an escape, causing the Commandant at a similar camp in Sobibor to vow (actually threaten) that his camp would never experience the same thing. But those who were its captives, the Jewish laborers that had ...
Style:
tense, realistic, thought provoking, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot:
concentration camp, world war two, pow, holocaust, escape, shoah, against humanity, genocide, military, captivity, nazi, hopes ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
poland, europe
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
In November, 1942, near the Volga, Stanlingrad is under siege of Commander Friederich Paulus and his 330,000 men. The Russian high command unleashes an operation to protect the Mishkova River to avoid that about four hundred tanks join Paulus' ...
Plot:
artillery, eastern front, world war two, battlefield, world war, soviet army, stalingrad, nazi occupation, military officer, soldier, nurse, cold weather ...
Time:
year 1942
Place:
soviet union, russia, ussr
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Estonia, Finland
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The events of the war in 1944, from the Blue Hills to Sõrve Peninsula. Shown through the eyes of Estonian soldiers who had to pick sides and fight against fellow brothers. Choices have to be made, not only by the soldiers, but also by their loved ...
Style:
tense, captivating, suspense, psychological
Plot:
world war two, nazi, military, eastern front, nazi soldier, german army, soldier, enemy, death, retreat, battles, world war ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1944
Place:
estonia, europe, soviet union, ussr
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: UK, Italy
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Hitler: The Last Ten Days takes us into the depths of der Furher’s Berlin bunker during his final days. Based on the book by Gerhard Boldt, it provides a bleak look at the goings-on within, and without.
Style:
independent film, contemplative, serious, realistic, disturbing ...
Plot:
nazi, world war two, third reich, bunker, ss, military, world war, eastern front, biopic, hitler, suicide, holocaust ...
Time:
year 1945, 20th century, 1940s
Place:
germany, europe, berlin germany
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Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 400 min.
TV show
Story:
In 1939 Alexander von Foss, a young German aristocrat (Wolfgang Cerny), falls in love with Ekaterina Radonova (Tatyana Arntgolts), a Russian girl. When Germany invades Russia 4 years later, they meet again as professional Snipers, finding themselves ...
Style:
intense, suspenseful, romantic, suspense, emotional ...
Plot:
german officer, world war two, eastern front, frontline, sniper, battlefield, female assassin, hitman, love and romance, uninhibited rivalry, battle of the sexes, strong female presence ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
russia, germany
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Genre: Adventure, War
Country: Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
The prototype of the main character was the famous Soviet saboteur Kasym Kaysenov, who fought in Ukraine during the Great Patriotic War.
Style:
tense, suspense, captivating, period piece, historical drama ...
Plot:
sabotage, saboteur, great patriotic war, soldier, world war two, resistance, eastern front, one man army, behind enemy lines, struggle for survival, wartime, diversion ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
soviet union, kazakhstan
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, East Germany
Duration: 161 min.
Story:
A final episode in the trilogy about the Russian partisan's resistance during WWII. The film is set in 1944, when Russian partisans are making progress in their fighting against the Nazi occupation of Russia, Poland and Czechoslovakia. Lt. ...
Style:
period piece, tense, suspenseful, patriotic
Plot:
world war two, eastern front, behind enemy lines, guerilla warfare, resistance, occupation, sabotage, underground movement, sacrifice, resilience, heroism, patriotism ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
soviet union, russia, czechoslovakia, poland, ussr
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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, History, War
Country: Hungary, Latvia, France, Germany
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
World War II, occupied Soviet Union. István Semetka is a simple Hungarian farmer who serves as a Sub-Lieutenant in a special unit scouting for partisan groups. On their way to a remote village, his company falls under enemy fire. As the commander ...
Style:
suspense, tense, captivating, disturbing, bleak ...
Plot:
prospector, reconnaissance, soldier, partisan, realism, eastern front, military, military officer, fight for supremacy, ambush, war, struggle for survival ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
soviet union, germany
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
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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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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
October 1941. Thousands of fascists troops are advancing on Kalinin to capture the city and therefore open a direct route to Moscow. There are two thousand people able to defend the city and they are without tanks or artillery. The only hope of ...
Style:
atmospheric, serious, rough, suspenseful, touching ...
Plot:
world war two, protection, fight, diversion, battles, eastern front, sabotage, danger, spy, society, resistance, siege ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
soviet union
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 147 min.
Story:
Moldavia, 1944. An elite squad of Red Army scouts is sent to stop an equally elite squad of Germans soldiers committing war crimes behind Soviet lines.
Style:
suspenseful, bleak, rough, exciting, tense ...
Plot:
world war two, war crime, reconnaissance, behind enemy lines, battles, great patriotic war, military, heroic mission, danger, anti nazi, soviet army, eastern front ...
Place:
soviet union, russia, ukraine, crimea, ussr
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