Partisan movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant partisan movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out period piece, suspense, bleak, epic, serious and realistic films and TV shows about / with partisan, world war two, nazi, soldier, fear, murder, death, battles, explosion and betrayal plots mostly in War, Drama and Romance genres shot in Yugoslavia, USA, Soviet Union and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as partisan: Alyosha (2020), The Turncoat (2020), The Bridge (1969), Defiance (2008), The Red Ghost (2020), The Ascent (1977), Owl Mountain (2018), The Battle of Sutjeska (1973), Berenshtein (2021), Broken Promise (2009).
Best films
New films
| Fairview (2022) | 1.4 | |
| Monos (2019) | 6.8 | |
| Bandoleros (2021) | 5.8 | |
| Alyosha (2020) | 6.0 | |
| Railway Heroes (2021) | 5.6 |
List of partisan movies
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Russia
TV show
Story:
Summer 1944. The Second World War rages. On one side, elite German soldiers serving in the most dangerous and cruel army the world has ever seen. On the other, Russian partisans-fatigued, wounded and hungry, they have almost forgotten the warmth of ...
Style:
suspense, captivating, tense, harsh, brutal ...
Plot:
partisan, world war two, soldier, patriotism, heroism, russian soldier, great patriotic war, combat, camaraderie, brotherhood, battlefield, wartime life ...
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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: Action, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
In order to check the German offensive, Partizans send an elite team of explosive experts to blow up a strategically important bridge. Besides being heavily guarded, that bridge is almost indestructible and the only man who knows weak spots in the ...
Plot:
partisan, world war two, mountain, engineer, church, swamp, truck, traitor, nun, nazi, tank, mission ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
former yugoslavia
Is relevant?
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Genre: Action, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
Based on a true story, during World War II, four Jewish brothers escape their Nazi-occupied homeland of West Belarus in Poland and join the Soviet partisans to combat the Nazis. The brothers begin the rescue of roughly 1,200 Jews still trapped in ...
Style:
sincere, period piece, epic, historical drama, dramatic ...
Audience:
manly, adult
Plot:
world war two, holocaust, war, nazi, genocide, partisan, shoah, judaism, world war, red army, hopes, rebellion ...
Time:
year 2008, 20th century, year 1941, 1940s, year 1942 ...
Place:
poland, germany, indiana, europe, russia ...
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Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
December 30, 1941. Vyazma ('Vyazemsky cauldron') is a small detachment of Soviet soldiers, by fatal coincidence, in an unequal battle with a special unit of the Wehrmacht. However, none of them think about giving up. Each of them was ready ...
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, suspense, rough, tense ...
Plot:
partisan, world war two, military, male nudity, world war, soldier, society, violence, battles, legend, death, fight ...
Time:
year 1941, 20th century, 1940s
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Two Soviet partisans leave their starving band to get supplies from a nearby farm. The Germans have reached the farm first, so the pair must go on a journey deep into occupied territory, a voyage that will also take them deep into their souls.
Style:
cerebral, bleak, depressing, contemplative, philosophical ...
Plot:
world war two, partisan, cold weather, execution, betrayal, winter, torture, nazi, war, starvation, collaboration, nazi occupation ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1977, year 1942
Place:
ussr, soviet union, iraq, europe, russia
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Genre: Drama
Country: Lithuania
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Radio Free Europe, BBC, and Voice of America can only rarely get through the Iron Curtain and Soviet mufflers to Lithuania, a country torn by a war between the local resistance movement and the Soviet regime that is forced onto Lithuanian people by ...
Style:
historical drama, captivating, suspense, psychological, bleak ...
Plot:
partisan, iron curtain, cold war, sacrifice, resistance movement, hopes, political oppression, post war, society, showdown, fight for supremacy, fighting the system ...
Time:
post world war two
Place:
lithuania
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Genre: War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
The film tells the story of the Battle of Sutjeska which occurred in Nazi-occupied Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1943.
Style:
mythical, crying, epic
Plot:
world war two, partisan, child, murder, nazi soldier, wound, mountain, parachutist, revolutionary war, rock climbing, balkan war, military ...
Time:
1940s, year 1943
Place:
former yugoslavia, bosnia herzegovina, bosnia
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Genre: Biography, History, War
Country: Israel
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
The unbelievable story of Leonid Bernshtein, a young Jewish soldier who rose to become the leader and led the operation to destroy the secret facility of the notorious Nazi V2 ballistic missiles.
Style:
thought provoking, historical drama, disturbing, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
world war two, moral dilemma, soldier, guerilla warfare, nazi occupation, military, life is a bitch, holocaust, nazi germany, german officer, military life, german soldier ...
Time:
1940s
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Family, Sport, War
Country: Slovakia, Czech Republic, USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
In the face of insurmountable odds, one man will risk everything to take back his country. Czechoslovakia, 1943, and the world is enveloped by the dark clouds of war. Showing unimaginable bravery, a Jewish teenager manages to escape the clutches of ...
Style:
captivating, suspenseful, suspense, exciting, student film
Plot:
football, nazi occupation, brother brother relationship, football player, christian, monastery, world war, dictatorship, dictator, soccer, partisan, boy ...
Place:
slovakia, czechoslovakia
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Genre: Romance, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Commander Pavle receives partisan Jovan to shot him for not executing his orders. While listening to his unfortunate love story from the war, Pavle remembers his own relationship which had an equally bitter epilogue, and decides to set Jovan free.
Style:
tense, serious, melancholic, reflective, bleak ...
Plot:
partisan, world war two, execution, flashback, memory, moral dilemma, justice, soldier, grief, regret, remorse, tragedy ...
Place:
bosnia, former yugoslavia
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
This movie tells a true story about events in Zagreb in 1941. Nazis and their collaborators organized the great gathering of students on Dubrava stadium. The intention was to publicly separate Jews from them which would lead to future pogrom. The ...
Style:
historical drama, tension, serious, period piece, bleak ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
world war two, partisan, nazi occupation, political conflict, political repression, student protest, human rights, holocaust, resistance movement, fear, identity, memory ...
Time:
year 1941
Place:
eastern europe
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
The two enemies from war, Slovenian partisan Berk and German soldier Bitter, meet each other during holidays in Spain. Recalling the war through conversation, Berk remembers Anton, his fellow comrade he had spend the most time with.
Style:
psychological, dramatic, melancholic, reflective, period piece ...
Plot:
partisan, world war two, memory, flashback, anti war, german soldier, character study, memories, enemy, moral ambiguity, post war, reconciliation ...
Place:
spain
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Poland, France
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Two intellectuals, a writer and a director, begin to play a mysterious psychological game in a peaceful countryside manor house during the Nazi occupation.
Style:
serious, realistic, psychological, emotional, biting ...
Plot:
losing-it hero, world war two, nazi occupation, soldier, countryside, social differences, life is a bitch, obsession, teenage life, haunted by the past, wartime life, holocaust ...
Time:
1940s, post world war two
Place:
poland, europe, warsaw poland
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: France, Belgium, Georgia, Switzerland
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Bahar, the commanding officer of the Daughters of the Sun, a battalion made up entirely of Kurdish female soldiers, is on the cusp of liberating their town, which has been overrun by ISIS extremists.
Style:
independent film, islamic
Plot:
kurd, isis, islam, partisan, terrorist, woman with a gun, woman, female terrorist, propaganda, extremist, military, journalism ...
Place:
kurdistan, middle east, maghreb
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK, Yugoslavia
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
World War II finally reaches a Yugoslavian lake, where a lifeguard shelters a refugee and her son.
Style:
historical drama, suspense, melancholic, period piece, political ...
Plot:
world war two, partisan, refugee, nazi, summer, lifeguard, ethical dilemma, occupation, danger, river, widow, coming of age ...
Time:
year 1944
Place:
former yugoslavia
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Genre: Comedy, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A group of musicians, whose band is called "Balkan express", in fact a quintet of small-time crooks , trying to make some money in Nazi-occupied Serbia.
Style:
tragicomedy, black comedy, period piece, slapstick, dark comedy ...
Plot:
partisan, world war two, nazi occupation, resistance movement, anti fascist, brothel, espionage, hiding, dark humor, underground movement, escape, survival ...
Time:
1940s, year 1944
Place:
former yugoslavia, balkan, serbia
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia, Austria
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
A nurse and her surgeon-lover are part of a resistance movement in 1940s Czechoslovakia. When they are discovered, her lover flees and she must find a place to hide. A patient whose life she saved, a man from a remote mountain village where time ...
Style:
touching, realistic, sincere, contemplative, epic ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
world war two, redemption, small town, resistance, couple relations, marriage, betrayal, older man younger woman relationship, self discovery, life is a bitch, hopes, society ...
Time:
1940s, year 2003, 20th century, post world war two
Place:
central europe, prague, czechoslovakia, germany
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Two best friends, former Partisans, must face new challenges after the war.
Style:
tension, suspense, political, period piece
Plot:
world war two, partisan, mission, resistance, sabotage, post war, danger, dangerous mission, friendship, brotherhood, bravery, loyalty ...
Time:
post world war two
Place:
former yugoslavia
Is relevant?
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
In June of 1942 Germans and their collaborators decide to get rid of partisans and their stronghold in the woods of Mount Kozara in Northern Bosnia. They encircle the mountain and begin the mop up operation. Out gunned and outnumbered the partisans ...
Style:
epic, crying, epic war, black and white
Plot:
world war two, partisan, mountain, world war, woods, fate, innocence, wounded, nazi collaborator, retribution, dead body, inhumanity ...
Time:
year 1942
Place:
bosnia, balkan, bosnia herzegovina, former yugoslavia
Is relevant?
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A group of kids from the Bosnian village often run away from school from the terror of Pepper, a teacher who got his nickname because of his red nose. Soon they formed a brigand division, but have been discovered and caught. The sudden arrival of ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
partisan, world war two, woods, hiding place, tower, parents, cave, water, child, darkness, nazi, game ...
Time:
year 1941
Place:
bosnia
Is relevant?
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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
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 162 min.
Story:
In the 1930s, Count Almásy is a Hungarian map maker employed by the Royal Geographical Society to chart the vast expanses of the Sahara Desert along with several other prominent explorers. As World War II unfolds, Almásy enters into a world of ...
Style:
romantic, sentimental, touching, emotional, scenic ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night
Plot:
world war two, love story, desert, beautiful scenery, tragic love, power of love, love and romance, passion, adultery, sex scene, doomed love, life philosophy ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, year 1944, year 1942, 90s ...
Place:
sahara, italy, ottoman empire, cairo egypt, africa ...
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Genre: War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Two partisans, a man and a woman, try to escape a Nazi manhunt in the infernal landscape of WW2 Vojvodina.
Style:
epic
Plot:
partisan, world war two, persecution, battles, hiding place, hunting, massacre, fear, escape, murder, machine gun, death ...
Time:
year 1941
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
The Germans held the strategically important airport, where planes were taking off to bombard partisans positions. Headquarters of one a partisan unit sent a few commandos to blow up airplanes and airport in the air.
Style:
tension, suspenseful, tense, period piece, realistic ...
Plot:
world war two, partisan, sabotage, resistance, covert operation, espionage, commando raid, guerilla warfare, sacrifice, loyalty, heroism, weapons ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
eastern europe, czechoslovakia, former yugoslavia
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Silent Gunpowder (Serbo-Croatian: Gluvi barut) is a Yugoslavian war film Based on a novel by Branko Ćopić and set during World War II, the film tells the story of a Serbian village in the mountains of Bosnia and its villagers who found themselves ...
Style:
silent
Plot:
world war two, partisan, mountain, communism, civil war, ideology, mountain village, fire, priest, death, fear, drowning ...
Place:
bosnia herzegovina, bosnia, former yugoslavia
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Genre: War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
When a warrior dies, a star is born, a company of us die when born to a group of stars. Small children are fascinated by ancient legends and stories of old people, people replace their signature ready to be shot and put yourself in front of the ...
Style:
epic, bleak, poetic, melancholic, reflective ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
partisan, world war two, warrior, sacrifice, heroism, legend, folklore, death, mythology, symbolism, memories, tradition ...
Time:
year 1941
Place:
former yugoslavia, serbia
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A Russian POW joins the partisan guerrillas and proves his loyalty fighting the Nazis.
Style:
political, black and white
Plot:
world war two, partisan, great patriotic war, nazi, prisoners of war, prisoner, pow, redemption, collaborator, suspicion, nazi occupation, eastern front ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
soviet union, russia, ussr
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 317 min.
TV show
Story:
In the Soviet village occupied by the Germans, a resistance group occurs, led by a modest girl Anna Morozova. For each victory (important, albeit small on a scale of the war) they have to pay a heavy price.
Style:
rough, thought provoking, bleak, realistic
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
world war two, espionage, partisan, fight, behind enemy lines, diversion, occupation, bombing, danger, brutality, life is a bitch, storytelling ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
soviet union, russia, ussr
Is relevant?
Genre: War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
German forces in Yugoslavia set out to destroy the stronghold of Tito with a traitor's help, but are overcome by Partisan resistance.
Style:
epic
Plot:
partisan, world war two, mountain, world war, legend, tank, letter, paratrooper, cinema, commander, tragic event, raid ...
Place:
former yugoslavia, bosnia
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