Suicide mission movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant suicide mission movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out tense, suspense, serious, suspenseful, realistic and exciting films and TV shows about / with suicide mission, suicide, survival, military, explosion, danger, heroes, soldier, violence and battles plots mostly in Action, Drama and War genres shot in USA, Japan, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as suicide mission: The Dirty Dozen (1967), Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016), Airliner Sky Battle (2020), The Grey War (2016), Recon (2019), Demon Spies (1974), The Cockpit (1993), Sinai Commados (1968), Godzina W (1980), Atomic Shark (2016).
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List of suicide mission movies
Genre: Action, Adventure, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
12 American military prisoners in World War II are ordered to infiltrate a well-guarded enemy château and kill the Nazi officers vacationing there. The soldiers, most of whom are facing death sentences for a variety of violent crimes, agree to the ...
Style:
tense, exciting, intense, suspense, serious ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night
Plot:
world war two, redemption, military, behind enemy lines, psychopath, shootout, soldier, squad, commando, nazi, world war, machismo ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, year 1967, year 1944
Place:
america, france, europe, london, brittany ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
A rogue band of resistance fighters unite for a mission to steal the Death Star plans and bring a new hope to the galaxy.
Style:
futuristic, visually stunning, saga, scenic, tense ...
Audience:
kids, teens, family outing, family friendly, adult
Plot:
star wars, space opera, female protagonist, robot, strong female lead, rebel, space travel, tough girl, self sacrifice, redemption, jedi, rebellion ...
Time:
future, year 2016, 2010s
Place:
space western, london
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Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Russian operatives hijack a commercial American jet, planning to crash it into a nuclear power plant near Washington, D.C. resulting in fallout that will devastate the Eastern seaboard. With little time for Air Force fighters to shoot it down, the ...
Style:
exciting, captivating, tense, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
hijacking, terrorism, propaganda, russophobia, terrorist, suicide mission, nuclear threat, suicide, terror, nuclear power plant, hostage situation, survival ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, War
Country: USA, Yugoslavia, Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A renegade team of World War II soldiers. This time, one of the 12 is a woman and, with a Nazi spy within their midst, they're up against German wartime geniuses out to establish a Fourth Reich.
Style:
suspenseful, rough, serious, realistic
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
military, soldier, resistance movement, against the odds, danger, good versus evil, heroic mission, heroes, world war, death sentence, suicide mission, suicide ...
Place:
liverpool, former yugoslavia, denmark
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Hungary
Duration: 64 min.
Story:
During World War I, an Austrian-Hungarian-Romanian reconnaissance team embarks on a treacherous mission beyond enemy lines to destroy an Italian post.
Style:
disturbing, suspense, captivating, bleak, tense ...
Plot:
world war one, behind enemy lines, war, reconnaissance, wartime life, military life, mission, fight, prospector, secret mission, wartime, military ...
Time:
1910s, year 1918
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Genre: Biography, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Four American soldiers in WW2, after witnessing the vicious murder of an innocent civilian at the hands of their platoon Sergeant, are sent on a reconnaissance/suicide mission led by a local partisan.
Style:
tense, heavy, harsh, dramatic, disturbing ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
world war two, soldier, partisan, moral ambiguity, war, war atrocity, warrior, military officer, sergeant, army sergeant, brutality, american soldier ...
Time:
1940s
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Genre: Action, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Deep in the mountains of feudal Japan, a group of children endure cruel and unorthodox training in order to become the Shogunate's most secret and deadly weapons - the Demon Spies! Their true identities are hidden - even from each other. Behind ...
Style:
suspenseful, tense, grim, bloody, period drama
Plot:
ninja, samurai, martial arts, feudal japan, infiltration, espionage, ruse, conspiracy, undercover, power struggle, violent, assassination ...
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Genre: Animation, Drama, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story:
A World War II anthology film based on Leiji Matsumoto's Battlefield manga. Kawajiri's Slipstream follows a Luftwaffe pilot on his mission to protect Germany's trump card: the world's first atomic bomb. Imanishi's Sonic Boom ...
Style:
anime, anthology, bleak, period piece, tense ...
Plot:
kamikaze, world war two, aviation, aerial combat, survival, suicide mission, tragic romance, bittersweet, fighter plane, mature, desperation, fatalism ...
Time:
1940s
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Genre: Drama, Action, Adventure, War
Country: Israel, West Germany, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
At the start of the 1967 Six-Day War (June 5-10) between Israel and the surrounding Arab nations, a team of eight Israeli commandos, with their female boat captain in tow, are sent on a suicide mission deep into the Sinai to destroy an important ...
Style:
tense, period piece, political, independent film
Plot:
commando, nationalism, patriotism, military, arab israeli conflict, battlefield, combat, heroism, special forces, propaganda, invasion, sacrifice ...
Time:
60s
Place:
middle east, israel
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
Tells the story of a very memorable in Warsaw - August 1, 1944. The Germans have been withdrawing for some time, everyone is waiting for the signal of the Polish uprising to start.
Style:
bleak, tension, period piece, suspense, patriotic ...
Plot:
world war two, german occupation, sacrifice, polish history, resistance movement, desperation, bravery, realism, guerilla warfare, last stand, suicide mission, moral dilemma ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
warsaw poland
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When a lifeguard catches wind of a dangerous anomaly off the coast of San Diego, she commissions a band of unlikely heroes to assist her on a suicide mission to save the west coast from total destruction.
Style:
tense, dread, captivating, entertaining, humorous ...
Plot:
shark, rescue mission, water, animal attack, monster, shark attack, killer shark, sharksploitation, creature feature, mission, ocean, predator ...
Place:
san diego california
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
When the Nazi high command learns in late 1943 that Winston Churchill will be spending time at a country estate in Norfolk, it hatches an audacious scheme to kidnap the prime minister and spirit him to Germany for enforced negotiations with Hitler.
Style:
exciting, suspense, tense, intense, serious ...
Plot:
world war two, espionage, spy, war, nazi germany, military, soldier, nazi soldier, commando mission, runaway, insubordination, rescue ...
Time:
1940s, year 1976, 20th century, year 1943
Place:
london, germany, poland, europe, england ...
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Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A seven-mile-wide space rock is hurtling toward Earth, threatening to obliterate the planet. Now, it's up to the president of the United States to save the world. He appoints a tough-as-nails veteran astronaut to lead a joint American-Russian ...
Style:
suspense, touching, serious, suspenseful, breathtaking ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
natural disaster, disaster, end of the world, catastrophe, apocalypse, nasa, survival, tsunami, astronomer, self sacrifice, spacecraft, president ...
Time:
90s, future, year 1998, 20th century
Place:
tucson arizona, washington d.c., new york, north america, atlanta georgia ...
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Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
During World War II, convicts are recruited by the Allies for an extremely hazardous mission.
Style:
independent film, serious, realistic, captivating, exciting ...
Plot:
world war two, commando raid, world war, war, nazi soldier, resistance, military officer, forgery, self sacrifice, prison escape, behind enemy lines, german soldier ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
europe, former yugoslavia, balkan, italy, cairo egypt
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Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Romance, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 144 min.
Story:
A young man Kentaro Saeki (Haruma Miura) keeps failing his bar test and does not know what to do any more. His older sister Keiko is a freelance writer. Kentaro and Keiko begin to search for information on their grandfather Kyuzo Miyabe (Junichi ...
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, exciting, sentimental ...
Plot:
world war two, aerial combats, aerial combat, pacific war, military, kamikaze, hopes, soldier, moral dilemma, battles, uncover truth, aviation ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 2000s, post world war two
Place:
japan, pearl harbor, asia, east asia
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Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
David Lord finds himself forced into the savage world of a modern gladiatorial arena, where men fight to the death for the entertainment of the online masses.
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, serious, exciting, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
underground fighting, fight to the death, tough heroes, survival, violence spree, escapades, car crash, violence, kidnapping, escape, blood, arena ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
london, seattle, sydney australia, mexico, paris france ...
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Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
A WWII film set on a Pacific island. Japanese and allied forces occupy different parts of the island. When a group of British soldiers are sent on a mission behind enemy lines, things don't go exactly to plan. This film differs in that some of ...
Style:
suspenseful, tense, suspense, realistic, psychological ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
world war two, jungle, war, survival, military, british army, anti war, danger, rivalry, soldier, rescue, combat ...
Time:
year 1942, 70s
Place:
the philippines, japan, tokyo, england
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
It's the year 2707. Earth's natural resources have all but been exhausted by mankind. Battles rage for the remainder between the competing Corporations. During one such battle the seal is broken and awakens an ancient and deadly machine ...
Style:
stylized, dieselpunk, exciting, serious, action packed ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
steampunk, mutant, corporation, post apocalypse, heroic mission, soldier, transformation, survival, fictional war, battles, humanity, military ...
Time:
future, year 2008, distant future
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
A German living in India during World War II is blackmailed by the English to impersonate an SS officer on board a cargo ship leaving Japan for Germany carrying a large supply of rubber for tyres. His mission is to disable the scuttling charges so ...
Style:
black and white, rough, suspenseful, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
world war two, submarine, sabotage, nazi, spy, mutiny, world war, secret mission, espionage, military, war, soldier ...
Time:
1940s, year 1942
Place:
japan, england, germany, asia, europe ...
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
When Norwegian resistance leader Lieutenant Erik Bergman reports the location of a German V-2 rocket fuel plant, the Royal Air Force's 633 Squadron is assigned the mission to destroy it. The plant is in a seemingly-impregnable location beneath ...
Style:
serious, realistic, exciting, suspenseful, spectacular ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
world war two, fishing, war, aviation, crash landing, behind enemy lines, death of brother, nazi, resistance fighter, airplane crash, warplane, battles ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1944
Place:
europe, scotland
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816
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Kimball Kinnison, a young man from the agricultural planet Mquie and his Valerian companinon, Buscirk find a dying man with a legendary crystal lens embedded in his hand. As the man was dying, he mysteriously passed on the Lens to Kim. With more ...
Style:
anime, psychedelic, 2d animation
Plot:
space, space opera, space battle, reptile, suicide mission, crystal, slave labor, human in outer space, dj, robot, son, admiral ...
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Story:
A former Marine, Chuck, copes with PTSD by living alone in the woods. He's a work-for-hire contractor taking care of peoples' problems. When a teenage girl mysteriously disappears, her desperate parents hire Chuck to find her. They tell ...
Style:
tense, psychological thriller, suspense, dark, crime drama ...
Plot:
ptsd, backwoods, investigation, moral ambiguity, anti hero, haunting, vigilante, lone wolves, search and rescue, family tragedy, manhunt, private investigator ...
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Genre: Action, Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
In 1916, a Mexican rebel named Cordoba steals six cannons from the forces of General Pershing who's been sent to bring order to the Texas-Mexico border. Pershing assigns a soldier named Rod Douglas to retrieve the cannons.
Style:
spaghetti western, exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
mexican revolution, soldier, cowboy, mexican american border, cannon, fort, border, rebel army, train robbery, battles, suicide mission, mexican border ...
Time:
1910s
Place:
usa, texas, latin america, sonora, mexico
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Genre: War
Country: South Korea, Hong Kong, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Korean War, September 1950. In order to fight the enemy forces based in the South of the peninsula, General MacArthur orders the start of the Incheon Landing Operation, deploying diversionary attacks in other locations. Without real military forces ...
Style:
bleak, suspense, tense, epic, disturbing ...
Plot:
korean war, combat, military, infantry, mission, soldier, battles, female reporter, heroism, bravery, courage, battle zone ...
Time:
50s, 1950s, year 1950
Place:
korea
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: West Germany
Duration: 149 min.
Story:
A German submarine hunts allied ships during the Second World War, but it soon becomes the hunted. The crew tries to survive below the surface, while stretching both the boat and themselves to their limits.
Style:
epic, suspense, atmospheric, realistic, factual ...
Plot:
submarine, world war two, naval battle, navy, military, ocean, war, nazi, survival, sea, courage, ship captain ...
Time:
year 1941, 20th century, 1940s, year 1942, year 1981
Place:
germany, atlantic ocean, mediterranean sea
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 67 min.
Story:
Some of the boys in South Park elementary find themselves on a balloon ride to an imaginary land. At arrival they're faced with an unimaginably threat.
Style:
funny, parody, humorous, witty, talky ...
Audience:
kids, adult
Plot:
adult humor, visceral, wager, mayor, escapades, imaginary, disorder, religions or cults, satire, imagination, good versus evil, greed ...
Time:
2000s, 70s
Place:
colorado
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Genre: Animation, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A member of an elite paramilitary counter-terrorism unit becomes traumatized after witnessing the suicide bombing of a young girl and is forced to undergo retraining. However, unbeknownst to him, he becomes a key player in a dispute between rival ...
Style:
anime, philosophical, heartbreaking, rough, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
conspiracy, little red riding hood, resistance fighter, dystopia, alternate history, politics, distopia, double agent, neo fascism, resistance, political unrest, dark hero ...
Time:
1950s
Place:
japan, east asia, poland, tokyo, germany
Is relevant?
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: Israel, Netherlands, Germany, France
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Paradise Now is filmed from the perspective of two Palestinian men who are preparing to perform a suicide attack in Israel. This is the first film to deal with the subject of suicide bombers.
Style:
disturbing, controversial, depressing, political, rough ...
Plot:
terrorism, politics, israeli palestinian conflict, terrorist, friendship, islam, suicide, destiny, muslim, conflict, israeli, manipulation ...
Time:
year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
middle east, palestine, israel, jerusalem, maghreb ...
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Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
After a lengthy space mission, two astronauts (Steve Barkett and Larry Latham) return to an Earth transformed by nuclear war. As renegade gangs and mutants rule Los Angeles, the astronauts join two pretty women and a couple of kids in a growing ...
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, rough, apocalyptic, retro ...
Plot:
post apocalypse, biker, gang, astronaut, survival, mutant, battles, chaos, danger, rivalry, civilization, one against many ...
Time:
80s
Place:
los angeles, usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Belgium, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Matt Travis is good-looking, popular, and his school's best competitive swimmer, so everyone is shocked when he inexplicably commits suicide. As the following year unfolds, each member of his family struggles to recover from the tragedy with ...
Style:
emotional, dark comedy, stylized, humorous, sentimental ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
gay, dysfunctional family, coming of age, family problems, family secret, loneliness, family drama, parenthood, youth, society, lifestyle, loss of son ...
Time:
year 2004, 21st century
Place:
atlanta georgia, seattle
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