| It's Gonna Get Worse (2007) | 7.4 | |
| Catch-22 (2019) | 7.7 | |
| Torn Curtain (1966) | 6.6 | |
| Onibaba (1964) | 7.8 | |
| Barry Lyndon (1975) | 8.1 |
Desertion movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant desertion movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out tense, melancholic, bleak, historical drama, captivating and suspense films and TV shows about / with desertion, betrayal, soldier, escape, survival, military, world war two, moral ambiguity, isolation and danger plots mostly in Drama, War and Action genres shot in USA, UK, South Korea and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as desertion: Risen (2016), The White Crow (2018), The Hunt for Red October (1990), Escape (2024), D.P. (2021), An Englishman Abroad (1983), Faneflukt (1975), Eight Kilos of Happiness (1980), Barry Lyndon (1975), Forest of the Hanged (1965).
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List of desertion movies
33K
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Clavius, a powerful Roman military tribune, and his aide, Lucius, are tasked with solving the mystery of what happened to Jesus in the weeks following the crucifixion, in order to disprove the rumors of a risen Messiah and prevent an uprising in ...
Style:
biblical, christian film, atmospheric, costume drama, historical drama ...
Audience:
family friendly, kids
Plot:
christianity, apostle, investigation, jesus christ, roman empire, jesus, desert, messiah, resurrection, crucifixion of jesus, religion, religious ...
Time:
1st century, biblical epic, 1930s
Place:
jerusalem, china, rome italy, spain, latin america ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, France, Serbia, USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Director Ralph Fiennes captures the raw physicality and brilliance of Rudolf Nureyev, whose escape to the West stunned the world at the height of the Cold War. With his magnetic presence, Nureyev emerged as ballet’s most famous star, a wild and ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, captivating, tense, retro ...
Audience:
boys' night, chick flick
Plot:
ballet, dancer, gay, politics, cold war, dancing, nudity, painting, desertion, kgb, biopic, male nudity ...
Time:
50s, year 1961, year 2019, 1950s, year 1938
Place:
paris france, soviet union, moscow russia, ussr
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
The story of Eddie Slovik, who was executed by the Army in 1945, the only American soldier to be executed for desertion since the Civil War.
Style:
period piece, grim, bleak, tragic
Plot:
world war two, firing squad, execution, desertion, death sentence, biopic, social commentary, court martial, world war, military, soldier, moral dilemma ...
Time:
1940s
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
A new Soviet nuclear missile sub (a Boomer) heading out on her maiden voyage that is being tracked by a Los Angeles class American submarine suddenly goes silent and "disappears". This focuses the attention of both U.S. Intelligence and ...
Style:
suspense, political thriller, political, exciting, clever ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly
Plot:
submarine, cold war, navy, espionage, spy, nuclear threat, politics, cold war era, water, cia, nuclear submarine, torpedo ...
Time:
80s, year 1990, year 1984, 20th century
Place:
russia, washington d.c., usa, atlantic ocean, maine ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
After completing his required decade of military service and being honored as a hero, a North Korean sergeant makes a sudden shocking attempt to defect to the South, risking life and limb for the chance to finally determine his own destiny.
Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
desertion, soldier, escape, escape attempt, war crime, military, military officer, military life, problem, border crossing, pursuit, manhunt ...
Place:
north korea, korea
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12K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
A young private’s assignment to capture army deserters reveals the painful reality endured by each enlistee during his compulsory call of duty.
Style:
captivating, disturbing, psychological, dark
Plot:
korean army, military police, soldier, desertion, deserter, military, army, team, military service, public service, officer, mission ...
Place:
korea, asia, south korea
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 61 min.
Story:
Actress Coral Browne travels to Moscow, and meets a mysterious Englishman. Turns out he's the notorious spy, Guy Burgess. Based on a true story, with Ms. Browne playing herself.
Style:
atmospheric, melancholic, intellectual, art house, period drama
Plot:
cold war, spy, desertion, cold war era, character study, intimate, biopic, identity, moral ambiguity, regret, isolation, political intrigue ...
Time:
60s
Place:
moscow russia, soviet union, london, ussr, russia
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Norway
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
1941, Norway. The young kitchen maid Liv and the German officer Franz meet in the military camp where Liv works. They develop a friendship and decides to flee to Sweden.
Style:
historical drama, romantic drama, bleak, tension, melancholic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
world war two, desertion, escape, occupation, military camp, forbidden romance, german soldier, survival, danger, young lovers, cross cultural relations, escape plan ...
Time:
1940s
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A film about an incident in the last war when a gypsy girl sacrifices herself for her lover, a partisan who has deserted.
Style:
tragic ending, poignant, bleak, emotional, intense ...
Plot:
world war two, desertion, sacrifice, gypsy, loss, partisan, female protagonist, loyalty, resistance movement, forbidden love, star crossed lovers, moral dilemma ...
Time:
80s, year 1941
Place:
former yugoslavia, serbia
Is relevant?
202K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 185 min.
Story:
In the Eighteenth Century, in a small village in Ireland, Redmond Barry is a young farm boy in love with his cousin Nora Brady. When Nora engages to the British Captain John Quin, Barry challenges him for a duel of pistols. He wins and escapes to ...
Style:
period piece, costume drama, epic, visually appealing, atmospheric ...
Plot:
nobility, rise and fall, aristocracy, opportunist, duel, card playing, british army, pistol duel, wealth, soldier, social climber, literary ...
Time:
18th century, georgian era, 20th century, year 1975, 19th century ...
Place:
ireland, england, prussia, berlin germany, britain ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Romania
Duration: 165 min.
Story:
At the Romanian front near the Austro-Hungarian border during World War I, a multinational group witnesses a hanging and other military deceptions.
Style:
melancholic, bleak, atmospheric, romantic drama, political drama
Plot:
world war one, desertion, hanging, identity crisis, loyalty, moral dilemma, death, tragedy, honor, ethnic conflict, nationalism, court martial ...
Time:
1910s, year 1916
Place:
transylvania, romania, balkan
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Spain
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
The Spanish troops in the Philippines Have to fight for their lives as they are forgot by the Spanish Empire
Style:
perverse
Plot:
military, siege, spanish history, paranoia, hallucination, desertion, respect, tribute, drug, jungle, dictator, dictatorship ...
Time:
19th century, ancient times, 1890s, victorian era
Place:
the philippines, southeast asia, spain, usa, asia ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
During the Cold War, an American scientist appears to defect to East Germany as part of a cloak and dagger mission to find the formula for a resin solution, but the plan goes awry when his fiancee, unaware of his motivation, follows him across the ...
Style:
suspense, enigmatic, tense, suspenseful, stylized ...
Plot:
cold war, espionage, spy, secret agent, stasi, iron curtain, politics, murder mystery, nobility, cold war era, secrets, police investigation ...
Time:
20th century, year 1966, 60s
Place:
east germany, berlin germany, germany, europe, east berlin ...
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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: New Zealand, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In 1942 Wellington, Daisy Edwards, 16 and pregnant, relies totally on her just-wed husband, Ed, who is little older than she. Ed is suddenly drafted into the army and is to be sent overseas to battle while Daisy is sent to her father in Auckland. ...
Style:
historical drama, bleak, tense, period piece, emotional ...
Plot:
world war two, miscarriage, desertion, wartime, marriage, pregnancy, military, sacrifice, love, fear, young couple, anxiety ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
new zealand
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Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
After learning that his grandfather is alive and living in Seoul, a North Korean musician must leave his fiancee behind and accompany his family to South Korea.
Style:
realistic, melancholic, emotional
Plot:
orchestra, separation, family drama, desertion, migration, lost love, culture shock, adaptation, identity crisis, desperation, refugee, survival ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
north korea, south korea, korea
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Based on Valentin Rasputin's story of the same title. The winter of 1945. In a village on the Angara embankment the women wait the return of their husbands from the front. The young soldier Andrei Guskov, who fled from the hospital, returns as ...
Style:
psychological, bleak, exciting, serious, captivating ...
Plot:
world war two, deserter, pregnancy, dishonesty, life risking, village, loneliness, social misfits, love, winter, post war, moral dilemma ...
Place:
soviet union, siberia
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Hungary
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
The film tells the story of a regiment of Hungarian hussars stationed in Poland. The hussars, mostly ordinary men, have heard news of the uprising and wish to return to the homeland to defend the newly independent country. The Empire, on the other ...
Style:
tense, tension, melancholic, epic, period drama ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
revolution, patriotism, military, desertion, escape, sacrifice, pursuit, courage, brotherhood, cavalry, nationalism, survival ...
Time:
19th century, 1800s
Place:
eastern europe, poland
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Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
An unexpected love story set in WW1 France between a young Australian baker who has deserted the front line, and a grieving French woman, who puts her own life at risk by sheltering him from the authorities.
Style:
thrilling, captivating, romantic, romantic drama, psychological ...
Plot:
male female relationship, world war one, military officer, relationship problems, fall in love, in love, military, desertion, love affair, couple relations, love and romance, soldier ...
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Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: Sweden, Lithuania, Denmark, Finland, Norway
Duration: 174 min.
TV show
Story:
In the year of our Lord 1678, Sweden is plagued by countless wars and a dysfunctional royal rule. One night, the young and devout Nils losing everything he holds dear and tragedy drives him on a quest for vengeance. It will be a raid, which makes ...
Style:
historical drama, suspense, depressing, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
resistance fighter, resistance, noble, escape, save the day, danger, solidarity, renegade, war, fugitives, anti war, insubordination ...
Time:
17th century
Place:
denmark
Is relevant?
23K
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Set in Italy during World War II, the series follows the story of the incomparable, artful dodger Yossarian, a bombardier for the U.S. Air Force, who is furious because thousands of people he has never met are trying to kill him. But his real ...
Style:
thought provoking, exciting, captivating, humorous, entertaining ...
Plot:
world war two, u.s. air force, aviator, war, air raid, soldier, world war, transformation, frustration, friendship, society, escapades ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1944
Place:
mediterranean sea, southern italy
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Recruited by the Russians during their days at Cambridge, three young Englishmen rise to become high-ranked MI5 agents until their exposure in 1949.
Style:
historical drama, period piece, tense, dark, atmospheric ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
cold war, spy, espionage, double agent, secrets, betrayal, spy thriller, biopic, political intrigue, moral ambiguity, desertion, conspiracy ...
Time:
60s, 1950s, year 1948, year 1949, 1940s
Place:
washington d.c., soviet union
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Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: France, Italy, West Germany, USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
A U.S. intelligence general (Robert Ryan) recalls three Cold War cases of Soviet (Henry Fonda), French and Italian (Vittorio Gassman) spies.
Style:
anthology, suspenseful, tense, period piece, retro ...
Plot:
espionage, cold war, spy thriller, intelligence, agent, reconnaissance, desertion, secret mission, kidnapping, betrayal, conspiracy, undercover ...
Place:
rome italy, east berlin, paris france, africa, russia ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
Boris Turganev (Murray) is a Russian scientist who has absconded from a Communist prison in an attempt to achieve a better life working for the British. As Boris struggles to make his superiors believe he is there to work and not to spy for the ...
Style:
tension, suspense, political thriller, period piece, independent film ...
Plot:
spy, espionage, cold war, cold war era, mistrust, double agent, suspicion, desertion, undercover, paranoia, betrayal, conspiracy ...
Time:
60s
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Genre: Western, Drama
Country: East Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
An Indian village is attacked by the American army. The Indians are cruelly killed. One of the soldiers called Harmonika is disgusted by the murders of the innocent women and children. He decides to leave the army. He goes to live with the Indians ...
Style:
historical drama, spaghetti western, tense, bleak, melancholic
Plot:
native american, native, violent, brutality, massacre, redemption, empathy, colonialism, desertion, ethnic cleansing, racial tension, imperialism ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
colorado
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Genre: Comedy, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Waclaw Orzeszko is unlucky soldier. Nobody from the platoon likes him. One day he decided to go away from platoon. At the castle he meet Russian soldier Marusia. At this time German forces came at the castle. They must hide. But there is also second ...
Style:
tension, suspense, black and white, comedy drama, tragicomedy ...
Plot:
world war two, castle, german occupation, occupation, hiding, desertion, underdog, survival, escape, fear, soviet soldier, manhunt ...
Time:
1940s, year 1945
Place:
poland
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, War
Country: Australia
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Frankie McCoy (Ken Shorter) is a born loser from the Sydney suburb of Newtown, and a gambler and a bit of an SP bookie. When he's conscripted into the army to fight in the Vietnam war, he deserts, but in pursuit of money, he falls into debt ...
Style:
bleak, crime drama, tense, period piece, noir
Plot:
conscription, bookies, gambling, murder, anti hero, debt, urban, realism, desertion, moral ambiguity, working class, tragedy ...
Time:
60s
Place:
vietnam, australia
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A Falklands War soldier missing, believed dead, turns up claiming amnesia.
Style:
bleak, intense, independent film
Plot:
falklands war, soldier, amnesia, british military, post war, ostracism, cowardice, desertion, traumatic memory, trauma, alienation, abuse ...
Place:
england
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Slovakia
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Soldier Jack deserts his unit and finds his wife Eva in isolated village in the mountains. She moved there to work in a factory unaware of the cruel owner Bar. Secret police arrives and it seems both Jack and Eva's time is up.
Style:
suspense, tense, tension, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot:
soldier, survival, danger, fear, oppression, secret police, world war two, military life, star crossed lovers, military officer, love affair, wartime ...
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Brazil, Italy, Portugal
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
During World War II, looking up the Mountain, in Italy, a Brazilian Expeditionary Force - FEB - mines weeping platoon is hit by a panic-attack that sets them running aimlessly right in the middle of 'no man's land'. Desperate cold and ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful
Plot:
world war two, survival, minefield, fear, sacrifice, moral ambiguity, anti war, desertion, moral dilemma, camaraderie, redemption, italian soldier ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
brazil
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