Military enlistment movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant military enlistment movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, touching, serious, sentimental, crying and sincere films and TV shows about / with military enlistment, friendship, family relations, husband wife relationship, hopes, father son relationship, telephone call, death, soldier and military plots mostly in Drama, War and Comedy genres shot in USA, UK, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as military enlistment: Stripes (1981), Dog Jack (2010), Walking the Streets of Moscow (1964), Heaven Will Wait (2016), Swing Shift (1984), That Thing You Do! (1996), The Last Picture Show (1971), The Land Girls (1998), Record of Youth (2020), Jayne Mansfield's Car (2012).

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 6.8
 79K
Stripes (1981)
Genre: Comedy, War
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: John Winger, an indolent sad sack in his 30s, impulsively joins the U.S. Army after losing his job, his girlfriend and his apartment.
Style: humorous, feel good, intense, not serious, laugh out loud ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: basic training, boot camp, cold war, soldier, friendship, military, u.s. army, slacker, obstacle course, flirting, military training, military enlistment ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: czechoslovakia, italy, milan italy, kentucky, west germany ...
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 5.3
 170
Dog Jack (2010)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: "Dog Jack" is the story of a slave boy and his dog who escape the master's plantation, join the union army, and have to face their former master on the battlefield. The story is inspired by the historical true-life adventures of the ...
Style: captivating, realistic, serious, uplifting, bleak ...
Plot: american civil war, military, soldier, heroes, civil war, slave, plantation, dog, military enlistment, teenage boy, scout, black ...
Time: 19th century, 1860s
Place: pittsburgh, pennsylvania
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Walking the Streets of Moscow (1964)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 78 min.
Story: "I Am Walking Along Moscow" aka "Ya Shagayu Po Moskve" (1963) is a charming lyrical comedy directed by Georgi Daneliya in 1963 that was nominated for Golden Palm at Cannes Film Festival. Daneliya proved that it is possible to ...
Style: sentimental, humorous, sincere
Plot: military enlistment, wedding, army, love and romance, family relations, society, friendship, boyhood, ridicule, subway, love, writers ...
Place: moscow russia, russia, soviet union, ussr
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Heaven Will Wait (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Mélanie, 16 years old, lives with her mother. She likes going to school, her friends, playing the cello, and she wants to change the world. But when she meets a boy on the Internet and falls in love with him, her world changes as she is gradually ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, thought provoking
Plot: islam, propaganda, jihad, teenage girl, religion, conspiracy theory, nudity, indoctrination, terrorist, parents daughter relationship, teenager, little sister ...
Time: 2010s
Place: france
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 5.9
 5K
Swing Shift (1984)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In 1941 America Kay and her husband are happy enough until he enlists after Pearl Harbor. Against his wishes, his wife takes a job at the local aircraft plant where she meets Hazel, the singer from across the way the two soon become firm friends and ...
Style: sentimental, emotional, touching, semi serious, humorous ...
Plot: world war two, friendship, love triangle, wartime, courage, adultery, storytelling, unlikely friendships, betrayal, fascism, love and romance, sexism ...
Time: 1940s, year 1941, 20th century
Place: los angeles, california, santa monica california
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That Thing You Do! (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A Pennsylvania band scores a hit in 1964 and rides the star-making machinery as long as it can, with lots of help from its manager.
Style: humorous, sentimental, feel good, light, sincere ...
Audience: kids, family outing, date night, teen drama
Plot: music, drummer, recording studio, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, rock and roll, fictional band, showbiz, small town, music band, jazz, friendship, rising to stardom ...
Time: 60s, 50s, 90s, year 1996, 20th century
Place: pennsylvania, columbus ohio, ohio, usa, las vegas ...
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The Last Picture Show (1971)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: The coming of age of a youth named Sonny in a small Texas town in the 1950s.
Style: black and white, sentimental, realistic, thought provoking, captivating ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, small town, friendship, high school, older woman younger man relationship, self discovery, teenager, elopement, nostalgia, graduation, death, depression ...
Time: 1950s, 20th century, 50s, year 1971, year 1951 ...
Place: texas, usa, austin texas, midwest, oklahoma ...
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The Land Girls (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK, France
Duration: 111 min.
Story: During World War II, the organisation "The Women's Land Army" recruited women to work on British farms while the men were off to war. Three such "land girls" of different social backgrounds - quiet Stella, young hairdresser ...
Style: period piece, touching, sentimental, realistic, historical drama ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: world war two, friendship, love, wartime life, working class, war, countryside, farm, woman, women, wine, world war ...
Time: 1940s, year 1998, 20th century
Place: england, united kingdom, english channel, europe, britain ...
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Record of Youth (2020)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 70 min.
TV show
Story: In a cutthroat world where the life you’re born into decides your success, three aspiring youths are determined to change that perception as they fight for their dreams.
Style: dorama, touching, sincere, captivating, light ...
Plot: makeup artist, love triangle, youth, actor, follow your dream, fandom, modeling, professional rivalry, fashion, declaration of love, multiple contestants, entertainment ...
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Jayne Mansfield's Car (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Russia
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Alabama; 1969: The death of a clan's estranged wife and mother brings together two very different families. Do the scars of the past hide differences that will tear them apart, or expose truths that could lead to unexpected collisions?
Style: realistic, captivating, psychological, light, semi serious ...
Plot: culture clash, family relations, loss of wife, family feud, society, eccentric family, spouse leaving, widower, soul searching, grief, car, family gatherings ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, year 1969
Place: alabama, usa, southern usa
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 6.7
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Love Letters (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: United States Senator, Andrew Ladd, revisits his life after a woman he loved, but only wrote letters to, dies. Having met as children the two grow apart as he enters politics and she aspires to be an artist. While success follows him, she has a more ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, sentimental, humorous, touching
Plot: fall in love, in love, senator, female artist, unfaithful husband, love, best friend, tragic love, unfulfilled love, love affair, looking for love, crumbling marriage ...
Time: 90s
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Goodbye Christopher Robin (2017)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Family
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: The behind the scenes story of the life of A.A. Milne and the creation of the Winnie the Pooh stories inspired by his son Christopher Robin.
Style: sad, factual, melancholic, thought provoking, cynical ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, toddlers
Plot: childhood, father son relationship, winnie the pooh, traumatic childhood, writers, biopic, fame, husband wife relationship, marital problem, playwright, nanny, toys ...
Time: post world war one, year 2017, future, 1930s, 20th century ...
Place: england, london, new york, west end london
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Egon Schiele: Death and the Maiden (2016)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Austria, Luxembourg
Duration: 110 min.
Story: At the beginning of the 20th Century Egon Schiele is one of the most provocative artists in Vienna. His life and work are driven by beautiful women and an era that is coming to an end. Two women will have a lasting impact on him - his sister and ...
Style: serious, captivating, touching, realistic, art house ...
Plot: painter, art, art history, biopic, love, trial, model, death of brother, terminal illness, art exhibition, money problems, brother sister relationship ...
Time: 1910s, year 1918
Place: vienna
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American Pastime (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sport, War
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: American Pastime tells a poignant story set against the Japanese-American internment camps during World War II. Rounded up and uprooted from their everyday lives, they remained loyal to the United States and ironically turned to that most American ...
Style: captivating, sincere, touching, emotional, uplifting ...
Plot: world war two, interracial relations, human spirit, baseball, immigrant, rivalry, hopes, society, anti war, racism, wartime life, small town ...
Time: 1940s
Place: los angeles, utah, pearl harbor
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Love at First Fight (2014)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Arnaud, facing an uncertain future and a dearth of choices in a small French coastal town, meets and falls for the apocalyptic-minded Madeleine, who joins an army boot camp to learn military and survival skills to prepare for the upcoming ...
Style: touching, sentimental, captivating, light, sincere ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: coming of age, family business, forest, teenage love, love and romance, military, fall in love, couples, disorder, parents and children, summer, women ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: france, south of france
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Short Stories (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: Russia
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A young writer brings a collection of short stories to a big Moscow publishing house. The manuscript stays at the office and mysteriously influences the lives of anyone who opens it and reads at least one page. There are four stories in the ...
Style: psychological, captivating, feel good, thought provoking, unusual plot structure ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: bribe, corruption, multiple storylines, family life, librarian, storytelling, society, family relations, couples, plan, supernatural, older man younger woman relationship ...
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 5.5
 24K
Valiant (2005)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story: Set in 1944, Valiant is a woodland pigeon who wants to become a great hero someday. When he hears they are hiring recruits for the Royal Homing Pigeon Service, he immediately sets out for London. On the way, he meets a smelly but friendly pigeon ...
Style: light, humorous, not serious, computer animated, entertaining ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens, preschool
Plot: bird, world war two, friendship, anthropomorphic animal, hopes, heroic mission, human spirit, danger, escapades, against the odds, war, animal ...
Time: 1940s, year 2005, 20th century
Place: london, england, france, europe, big ben london
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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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 11K
Tokyo Sonata (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan, Netherlands, Hong Kong
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Ryûhei Sasaki (Teruyuki Kagawa) is keeping a secret from his wife, Megumi (Kyôko Koizumi), and his two teenage sons. Even though he leaves the house every day, he's not really going to work. He's going to an employment office. He ...
Style: lyrical, stylized, talky, serious, touching ...
Plot: family relations, unemployment, rebellion, youth, job seeking, housewife, layoff, hopes, family secret, chinawoman, human nature, dishonesty ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place: tokyo, japan, east asia, asia, china
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There Goes My Baby (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A group of high school seniors meets in the summer of 1965 and all struggle with the choices they have to make.
Style: independent film, contemplative, realistic, serious, sentimental ...
Audience: teens
Plot: vietnam war, coming of age, high school, rock and roll, surfer, gay, education, teenager, lgbtq, college, hopes, unrequited love ...
Time: 60s, year 1994, year 1965
Place: los angeles, california, asia, usa, vietnam
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 7.4
 15K
Taking Chance (2009)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story: Lt. Col. Michael Strobl, a volunteer military escort accompanies the body of Lance Cpl. Chance Phelps to his hometown in Wyoming.
Style: realistic, touching, sincere, sentimental, sad ...
Plot: war, military, iraq war, soldier, marines, self discovery, ritual, military life, ethnic conflict, unlikely friendships, father son relationship, patriotism ...
Time: 20th century, year 2004, 21st century
Place: iraq, wyoming, afghanistan, baghdad iraq, usa ...
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 7.6
 3K
The Round-Up (1966)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Hungary
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Set in a detention camp in Hungary in 1869 at a time of guerilla campaigns against the ruling Austrians.
Style: political, contemplative, experimental, visual, anamorphic ...
Plot: female nudity, prison life, protest, european, anti fascism, capitalism, minimal dialogue, american civil war, reform, snitch, rebellion, life is a bitch ...
Time: 19th century, year 1966, 1860s
Place: hungary, eastern europe, europe, budapest, central europe
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The Spitfire Grill (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Percy, upon being released from prison, goes to the small town of Gillead, to find a place where she can start over again. She is taken in by Hannah, to help out at her place, the Spitfire Grill. Percy brings change to the small town, stirring ...
Style: christian film, sentimental, emotional, touching, serious ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: small town, friendship, bittersweet, self discovery, restaurant, solitude, hospital, storytelling, death, food, christian, abortion ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
Place: maine, vermont, usa, new england, ohio ...
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Slaughterhouse-Five (1972)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi, War
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: "Listen: Billie Pilgrim has come unstuck in time." Slaughterhouse-Five is an award-winning 1972 film adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut's novel of the same name. Director Hill faithfully renders for the screen Vonnegut's obsessive story ...
Style: surreal, atmospheric, philosophical, non-linear, talky ...
Plot: world war two, time travel, assassination, surrealism, sent to the future, parents and children, alien encounter, imaginary, space and aliens, war, family relations, distopia ...
Time: future, 1940s, 1900s, 20th century, 1930s ...
Place: indiana, europe, new england, philadelphia, montana ...
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 1K
Safe Passage (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A mother with seven sons feels like she's losing control of her life and her family. But personal...
Style: touching, realistic, melancholic, serious, sentimental ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, mother son relationship, character study, pain, family relations, family problems, life is a bitch, family life, parents and children, couples, estrangement, hopes ...
Time: 90s, year 1994
Place: new jersey, middle east, utah, beirut lebanon
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Private Benjamin (1980)
Genre: Comedy, War
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A sheltered young high society woman joins the army on a whim and finds herself in a more difficult situation than she ever expected.
Style: sentimental, funny, semi serious, light, feel good ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, date night
Plot: basic training, wedding, boot camp, self discovery, paratrooper, women, fish out of water, transformation, soldier, female soldier, military life, gender ...
Time: 80s, 70s, 20th century
Place: belgium, paris france, usa
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Operation Snafu (1961)
Genre: Comedy, War
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Tricked into joining the RAF by a wily judge, wide boy Horace Pope sets his sights on the main chance, teams with slow-witted, good-hearted gypsy Pedlar Pascoe, and works up a lucrative racket in conning both his colleagues and the RAF. By means of ...
Style: independent film, vintage
Plot: world war two, 007, royal air force, train, pub, british, englishman abroad, wager, air raid, british military, british army, buddy ...
Time: 1940s, year 1961
Place: france
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The Notorious Bettie Page (2005)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Bettie Page grew up in a conservative religious family in Tennessee and became a photo model sensation in 1950s New York. Bettie's legendary pin-up photos made her the target of a Senate investigation into pornography, and transformed her into ...
Style: erotic, melancholic, black and white, factual, bleak ...
Plot: rape, sexual abuse, photographer, photography, female nudity, bdsm, fetishism, photograph, female protagonist, investigation, model, sexuality ...
Time: 50s, 1950s, 1940s, 20th century, year 2005 ...
Place: usa, tennessee, new york, manhattan new york city, brooklyn new york city ...
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 6K
My Boy Jack (2007)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: UK, USA, Ireland
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Author Rudyard Kipling and his wife search for their 17-year-old son after he goes missing during WWI.
Style: realistic, serious, suspense, costume drama, tense ...
Plot: world war one, battles, military, british army, family relations, writers, teenage life, officers and cadets, parents and children, missing person, great war, father son relationship ...
Time: 1910s, year 1915
Place: france, dublin ireland, england, germany
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Lions for Lambs (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Three stories told simultaneous in ninety minutes of real time: a Republican Senator who's a presidential hopeful gives an hour-long interview to a skeptical television reporter, detailing a strategy for victory in Afghanistan; two special ...
Style: serious, political, psychological, thought provoking, realistic ...
Plot: war on terror, terrorist, propaganda, state affairs, politics, terrorism, iraq war, conservative, war, hopes, danger, soldier ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: afghanistan, middle east, iraq, washington d.c., usa ...
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