Frontline movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant frontline movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, epic and tense films and TV shows about / with frontline, soldier, world war two, war, military, world war, battles, german soldier, wartime and death plots mostly in War, Drama and Action genres shot in USA, France, Germany and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as frontline: In Praise of Older Women (1997), Fortress of War (2010), The Best in Hell (2022), Adama (2015), Battalion (2015), Flag (2006), War Sailor (2023), The Eastern Front (2020), The Long Way Home (2015), Another Day of Life (2018).

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In Praise of Older Women (1997)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Spain
Duration: 105 min.
Story: In the turmoil of the Spanish Civil War, a young man comes of age sexually, through a string of relationships with a wide range of mature, older women.
Style: erotic, sexy, serious, realistic, sexual ...
Plot: older woman younger man relationship, older woman teenage boy sex, frontline, nudity, prostitute, age-gap relationship, politics, love, relationships, civil war, teen romance, coming of age ...
Time: year 1936, 90s
Place: spain, europe, italy, barcelona
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Fortress of War (2010)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, 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, military, battles, war, red army, infantrymen, wehrmacht, border guard, nazism, heroes, nazi, invasion ...
Time: 1940s, year 1941, 2010s, 20th century
Place: russia, europe
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The Best in Hell (2022)
Genre: War
Country: Russia
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Units of the "whites" (PMC "Wagner") perform an assault operation to capture buildings. They are opposed by the "yellow" units, which have dug in these buildings and are also ready to fight to the end.
Style: suspenseful, serious, harsh, captivating, tense ...
Plot: war zone, frontline, fictional war, man killed, combat, mission, tasks, assignment, dangerous mission, fighter, killing, historical event ...
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 6.7
 352
Adama (2015)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family, War
Country: France
Duration: 82 min.
Story: 12 year-­old Adama lives in a remote village in West Africa, sheltered by the Cliffs. Out, beyond, lies "the land of breaths", the kingdom of wicked spirits hungry for war. When Samba, his elder brother, suddenly vanishes from the ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, psychological, touching, sincere ...
Plot: boy, soldier, world war one, frontline, wounded, brother brother relationship, wound, journey, children, black, snow, nurse ...
Time: 1910s
Place: paris france, africa
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 6.5
 2K
Battalion (2015)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Russia, 1917, WWI. This is the story of the 1st Russian Women's Battalion of Death, formed as part of an ill-conceived propaganda ploy by the Russian Provisional Government in late May of 1917.
Style: captivating, tense
Plot: female warrior, revolution, girl heroine, frontline, strong female lead, great war, showdown, fight, bravery, wartime, heroine, manhood ...
Time: edwardian era, 1910s, year 1917
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 6.5
 139
Flag (2006)
Genre: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi, War
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: Saeko Shirasu is a 25-year-old war front-line photo-journalist who became a celebrity after taking a picture of civilians raising a makeshift UN flag in war-torn Uddiyana. The image then became an instant symbol for peace. However, just before the ...
Style: anime, mecha, suspenseful, captivating, tense ...
Plot: journalist, military officer, journalism, un, frontline, military, extremism, fight, terrorist, extremist, terrorism, wartime ...
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 7.2
 2K
War Sailor (2023)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Norway, Germany, Malta
Duration: 175 min.
TV show
Story: When WWII erupts, two sailors on a Norwegian merchant ship face brutal conditions as they fight to survive a conflict they were never asked to join. Based on true stories of Norwegian merchant sailors and their families during and after World War II.
Style: captivating, tense, suspenseful, serious
Plot: world war two, world war, sailor, ocean, war, danger, wartime, ocean voyage, frontline, ship, sea, survival ...
Place: atlantic ocean
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The Eastern Front (2020)
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: serious, tense, suspenseful, bleak
Plot: world war two, battles, wehrmacht, german soldier, eastern front, frontline, soldier, military service, military, war, wartime
Time: year 1945
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The Long Way Home (2015)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, War
Country: South Korea
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Nam-bok, a middle-aged South Korean farmer is conscripted and assigned a mission to deliver a classified military document that may decide the fate of the war. After losing it while under attack from the enemy, he then faces a teenage North Korean ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, humorous, captivating, tense
Plot: military, korean war, war, wartime life, wartime, confrontation, frontline, eastern front, mission, soldier, secret mission, korean army ...
Time: 2010s
Place: korea
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Another Day of Life (2018)
Genre: Animation, Biography
Country: Spain, Poland, Belgium, Germany, France, Hungary
Duration: 85 min.
Story: In 1975, Ryszard Kapuściński, a veteran Polish journalist, embarked on a seemingly suicidal road trip into the heart of the Angola's civil war. There, he witnessed once again the dirty reality of war and discovered a sense of helplessness ...
Style: adult animation, psychological, thought provoking, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot: conflict, civil war, investigation, life risking, african, war, liberation, news report, travel, frontline, military life, wartime ...
Time: 20th century, 2010s
Place: angola, africa, portugal, poland, south africa ...
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All Quiet on the Western Front (2022)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: Germany, USA, UK
Duration: 148 min.
Story: Paul Baumer and his friends Albert and Muller, egged on by romantic dreams of heroism, voluntarily enlist in the German army. Full of excitement and patriotic fervour, the boys enthusiastically march into a war they believe in. But once on the ...
Style: suspenseful, captivating, entertaining, thrilling, novela ...
Audience: adult
Plot: world war one, trench warfare, battles, military, battlefield, soldier, death of friend, german army, infantry, dying young, german soldier, death ...
Time: year 1917, year 1914, 2020s, year 1918, 1910s ...
Place: germany, france
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When Trumpets Fade (1998)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In WWII Western Germany, Private David Manning reluctantly leaves behind a mortally wounded fellow soldier and searches for survivors from his platoon, only to learn from commanding officer Captain Pritchett that they have all been killed in action. ...
Style: rough, suspenseful, serious, captivating, realistic ...
Plot: world war two, military, heroic mission, military life, world war, battles, anti war, battle zone, siblings relations, wartime life, danger, tank ...
Time: year 1944, 1940s
Place: germany, europe, france
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Kalashnikov (2020)
Genre: Biography, Drama, 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, disturbing, rough, suspenseful, informative ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: world war two, inventor, human spirit, red army, life & death, soldier, weapons, russian soldier, soviet soldier, world war, danger, engineer ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: ussr, soviet union, moscow russia, russia, kazakhstan
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 7.5
 2K
Silent Night (2002)
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Fact-based World War II story set on Christmas Eve, 1944, finds a German Mother and her son seeking refuge in a cabin on the war front. When she is invaded by three American soldiers and then three German soldiers, she successfully convinces the ...
Style: captivating, uplifting, realistic, serious, christmas special ...
Audience: family outing, girls' night
Plot: christmas eve, anti war, world war two, christmas, american soldier, soldier, military, friendship, nazi, boy, danger, single parent ...
Time: 1940s, year 1944
Place: germany, europe, africa, dunkirk
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Many Wars Ago (1970)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy, Yugoslavia
Duration: 101 min.
Story: On the Italian/Austrian front during World War I, a disastrous Italian attack upon the Austrian positions leads to a mutiny among the decimated Italian troops.
Style: historical drama, realistic, serious, captivating, rough ...
Plot: world war one, death penalty, great war, war, italian history, world war, bureaucracy, anti war, soldier, man killed, death, execution ...
Time: 1910s, year 1916, 20th century
Place: alps, italy
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 8.2
 373K
Downfall (2004)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Germany, Austria, Italy
Duration: 156 min.
Story: In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the east and the Allied Expeditionary Force attacking from the west. In Berlin, capital of the Third Reich, Adolf Hitler proclaims that Germany will still ...
Style: psychological, bleak, dramatic, disturbing, harsh ...
Audience: adult
Plot: world war two, hitler, nazism, suicide, nazi, war, holocaust, fascism, third reich, national socialism, nazi germany, dictatorship ...
Time: 1940s, year 1945, year 2004, 20th century, 2000s ...
Place: germany, berlin germany, prague, europe, frankfurt germany ...
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The Winter War (1989)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Finland
Duration: 199 min.
Story: Russia attacked Finland in late November 1939. This film tells the story of a Finnish platoon of reservists from the municipality of Kauhava in the province of Pohjanmaa/Ostrobothnia who leave their homes and go to war. The film focuses on the ...
Style: realistic, epic, tense, bleak, captivating ...
Plot: war, world war two, winter, wartime, military, world war, invasion, cold weather, battlefield, tank, politics, great war ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, 1930s, year 1939
Place: finland, russia, baltics, europe, soviet union
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Hell Is for Heroes (1962)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: World War II drama where the action centers around a single maneuver by a squad of GIs in retaliation against the force of the German Siegfried line. Reese joins a group of weary GIs unexpectedly ordered back into the line when on their way to a ...
Style: realistic, suspenseful, serious, rough, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: world war two, military, war, battles, infantry, soldier, american abroad, rebellion, military life, heroic mission, world war, fighting the system ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1962, year 1944
Place: germany, iraq, europe, france
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Captain Conan (1996)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Bulgaria near the end of World War I: Conan, warrior and wolf, leads a band of 50 ruthless French fighters who love hand-to-hand combat. Their motto: "We forgot to take prisoners, Captain." At war's end, the unit goes to Bucharest, ...
Style: rough, serious, realistic, suspense
Plot: world war one, french army, military life, brutality, society, heroism, great war, insubordination, danger, interwar period, world war, european ...
Time: year 1918, 20th century, year 1996, 1910s, year 1919 ...
Place: macedonia, bulgaria, romania, europe, balkan ...
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 7.2
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Clear Skies (1961)
Genre: Romance, War, Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 110 min.
Story: At the outset of the War, Alexei,an airman, marries Sasha Lvova, a young factory worker. One day, Alexei does not return from his mission and he is thought to be dead. Some time after the end of hostilities though, he reappears : taken prisoner, he ...
Plot: iron curtain, air force, totalitarian regime, soviet army, love, drunkenness, communism, pilot, stalinism, family relations, fighter pilot, frontline ...
Place: soviet union, ussr
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 6.9
 584
The Hot Snow (1972)
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: eastern front, artillery, world war two, world war, soviet army, female soldier, tank, military officer, soldier, nurse, russian soldier, red army ...
Time: year 1942
Place: soviet union, russia
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 7.2
 165K
War Horse (2011)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, War
Country: USA, India
Duration: 146 min.
Story: Follows a young man named Albert and his horse, Joey, and how their bond is broken when Joey is sold to the cavalry and sent to the trenches of World War One. Despite being too young to enlist, Albert heads to France to save his friend.
Style: touching, emotional, epic, uplifting, sentimental ...
Audience: family outing, date night, girls' night, teens, teen drama ...
Plot: world war one, horse, war, friendship, animal training, animal, battles, human spirit, wartime, battlefield, danger, military ...
Time: 1910s, 20th century, 2010s, 1920s, year 2011 ...
Place: england, belgium, britain, america, europe ...
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 6.7
 11K
Journey's End (2017)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Set in a dugout in Aisne in 1918, a group of British officers, led by the mentally disintegrating young officer Stanhope, variously await their fate.
Style: suspense, psychological, period piece, thought provoking, captivating ...
Audience: date night
Plot: world war one, trench warfare, war, great war, british army, mentally unstable, army, officer, world war two, battles, fear, nightmare ...
Time: year 1918, 1910s, future
Place: france
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Wrota Europy (1999)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 73 min.
Story: War drama directed by Jerzy Wojcik.
Plot: sacrifice, doctor, rape, nurse, hospital, wound, bolshevik, atrocity, frontline, patient, world war one
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The Alive and the Dead (1964)
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: epic
Plot: world war two, great patriotic war, red army, cold weather, war correspondent, soldier, frontline, soviet army, tank, bombing, russian soldier, uniform ...
Time: year 1941
Place: soviet union, ussr, russia
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Welcome in Vienna (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria, West Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 127 min.
Story: In the conclusion of Axel Corti's trilogy (following God Does Not Believe In Us Anymore and Santa Fe) Freddy, a Viennese Jew who emigrated to New York after Hitler's invasion, and Adler, a left-wing intellectual originally from Berlin, ...
Style: bilingual
Plot: world war two, jewish life, trafficking, theater, skating, frontline, black market, actress, christmas eve, american soldier, deserter, treason ...
Time: year 1945, 1940s, year 1986, year 1944, post world war two
Place: vienna
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 6.3
 1K
War Hunt (1962)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Recruits head to the front lines towards the close of the Korean War. The interaction between two of the soldiers...an idealistic newcomer and a psychotic who goes on one-man patrols slitting enemy throats under cover of night...and the orphan boy ...
Style: neo noir, serious, realistic, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot: korean war, world war two, soldier, psychopath, heroes, innocence lost, idealism, buddies, danger, obsession, military, army investigation ...
Time: year 1962, 50s, 1950s, year 1953
Place: iraq, korea, asia
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A Very Long Engagement (2004)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, War
Country: France, USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story: In 1919, Mathilde was 19 years old. Two years earlier, her fiancé Manech left for the front at the Somme. Like millions of others he was "killed on the field of battle." It's written in black and white on the official notice. But ...
Style: romantic, touching, atmospheric, epic, colorful ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: world war one, war, love and romance, wartime, life & death, private detective, investigation, obsession, tragedy, relationships, lighthouse, against the odds ...
Time: 2000s, 1920s, year 2004, 1910s, 20th century ...
Place: france, paris france, europe, marseille, brittany ...
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 7.4
 7K
Twin Sisters (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Netherlands, Luxembourg
Duration: 137 min.
Story: Twin Sisters is an epic love story based on the Dutch bestseller by Tessa de Loo that has been read by more than 3.5 million readers in Holland and Germany.
Style: captivating, thought provoking, serious, realistic, touching ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: world war two, twins, wartime life, family reunited, family relations, ss officer, life is a bitch, culture clash, orphan, society, human nature, reconciliation ...
Time: 1940s, 1930s, 20th century, 1920s
Place: germany, europe, holland, netherlands
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Merry Christmas (2005)
Genre: Drama, History, Music, Romance, War
Country: France, Germany, UK, Belgium, Romania, Japan
Duration: 116 min.
Story: In 1914, World War I, the bloodiest war ever at that time in human history, was well under way. However on Christmas Eve, numerous sections of the Western Front called an informal, and unauthorized, truce where the various front-line soldiers of the ...
Style: uplifting, touching, emotional, sincere, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: christmas, world war one, truce, war, soldier, holiday, human spirit, idealism, christmas eve, friendship, trench warfare, prejudice ...
Time: 1910s, 20th century, year 2005, 1920s, year 1914
Place: france, europe, berlin germany, holland, prussia ...
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