Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "army-deserter"

1. Cold Mountain (2003)

R | 154 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

In the waning days of the American Civil War, a wounded soldier embarks on a perilous journey back home to Cold Mountain, North Carolina to reunite with his sweetheart.

Director: Anthony Minghella | Stars: Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, Renée Zellweger, Eileen Atkins

Votes: 155,962 | Gross: $95.64M

2. Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956)

Passed | 113 min | Biography, Drama, Sport

Boxer Rocky Graziano's biopic, based on his autobiography, from childhood to his World Middleweight Championship title win at age 28 in 1947.

Director: Robert Wise | Stars: Paul Newman, Pier Angeli, Everett Sloane, Eileen Heckart

Votes: 9,014

3. Dead for a Dollar (2022)

R | 107 min | Action, Drama, Western

A famed bounty hunter runs into his sworn enemy, a professional gambler and outlaw that he had sent to prison years before.

Director: Walter Hill | Stars: Christoph Waltz, Willem Dafoe, Rachel Brosnahan, Warren Burke

Votes: 6,374

4. In a Valley of Violence (2016)

R | 104 min | Action, Western

A mysterious stranger and a random act of violence drag a town of misfits and nitwits into the bloody crosshairs of revenge.

Director: Ti West | Stars: Ethan Hawke, John Travolta, Taissa Farmiga, James Ransone

Votes: 20,779 | Gross: $0.05M

5. Miracle in Cell No. 7 (2019)

TV-14 | 132 min | Drama

A story of love between a mentally-ill father who was wrongly accused of murder and his lovely six year old daughter. Prison will be their home. Based on the 2013 Korean movie Miracle in Cell No. 7 (2013).

Director: Mehmet Ada Öztekin | Stars: Aras Bulut Iynemli, Nisa Sofiya Aksongur, Deniz Baysal, Celile Toyon Uysal

Votes: 55,545

6. The Captain (2017)

118 min | Drama, History, Thriller

In the last moments of World War II, a young German soldier fighting for survival finds a Nazi captain's uniform. Impersonating an officer, the man quickly takes on the monstrous identity of the perpetrators he's escaping from.

Director: Robert Schwentke | Stars: Max Hubacher, Alexander Fehling, Sebastian Rudolph, Max Thommes

Votes: 21,534 | Gross: $0.11M

7. More American Graffiti (1979)

PG | 110 min | Comedy, Drama, War

Told in four different New Year's Eves in the mid 1960s, John, Terry, Debbie, Steve and Laurie deal with adulthood, the Vietnam war, peace rallies, and relationships.

Director: Bill Norton | Stars: Candy Clark, Bo Hopkins, Ron Howard, Paul Le Mat

Votes: 5,072 | Gross: $15.01M

8. Arrow in the Dust (1954)

Approved | 79 min | Western

A cavalry deserter risks his life to warn and protect a wagon train from an impending Indian attack.

Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Keith Larsen, Tom Tully

Votes: 506

9. The Young Lions (1958)

Approved | 167 min | Action, Drama, War

The lives of three young men, a German and two Americans, during WWII.

Director: Edward Dmytryk | Stars: Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, Dean Martin, Hope Lange

Votes: 8,772 | Gross: $9.96M

10. Eagle's Wing (1979)

PG | 111 min | Western

A white trapper steals a white mustang called "Eagle Wing" from a Kiowa Indian, who pursues him to get his horse back.

Director: Anthony Harvey | Stars: Martin Sheen, Sam Waterston, Harvey Keitel, Stéphane Audran

Votes: 924

11. Seven Beauties (1975)

R | 116 min | Comedy, Drama, War

The defense of honor, a strong value in Neapolitan society, and its effects on the life of everyman Pasquale Frafuso.

Director: Lina Wertmüller | Stars: Giancarlo Giannini, Fernando Rey, Shirley Stoler, Elena Fiore

Votes: 6,477 | Gross: $0.01M

12. Bronco Billy (1980)

PG | 116 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

An idealistic, modern-day cowboy struggles to keep his Wild West show afloat in the face of hard luck and waning interest.

Director: Clint Eastwood | Stars: Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Geoffrey Lewis, Scatman Crothers

Votes: 12,721 | Gross: $24.27M

13. P'tang, Yang, Kipperbang (1982 TV Movie)

PG | 85 min | Comedy

Alan Duckworth (known as 'Quack Quack' to his friends) is a socially awkward fourteen-year-old who is obsessed with cricket and Ann Lawton, a girl in his class. Alan daydreams throughout ... See full summary »

Director: Michael Apted | Stars: John Albasiny, Alison Steadman, Abigail Cruttenden, Maurice Dee

Votes: 1,003

14. Banana Joe (1982)

96 min | Action, Comedy

A man is living happily on an island with his family, growing bananas. When a local mobster with an eye on man's property tries to take it from him, he must go to the town for the first time to get some help.

Director: Steno | Stars: Bud Spencer, Marina Langner, Mario Scarpetta, Gianfranco Barra

Votes: 8,861

15. Port of Shadows (1938)

Not Rated | 91 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

A military deserter finds love and trouble (and a small dog) in a foggy, French port city.

Director: Marcel Carné | Stars: Jean Gabin, Michel Simon, Michèle Morgan, Pierre Brasseur

Votes: 9,949 | Gross: $0.03M

16. The Guns of Fort Petticoat (1957)

Approved | 82 min | Action, Romance, War

Union Army deserter, Lt. Hewitt, trains a rag tag band of all-female homesteaders to defend themselves against a Comanche tribe on the warpath.

Director: George Marshall | Stars: Audie Murphy, Kathryn Grant, Hope Emerson, Jeff Donnell

Votes: 1,620

17. Sunset Song (2015)

R | 135 min | Drama

The daughter of a Scottish farmer comes of age in the early 1900s.

Director: Terence Davies | Stars: Ken Blackburn, Mark Bonnar, Stuart Bowman, Emily-Jane Boyle

Votes: 4,051 | Gross: $0.16M

18. Beyond Rangoon (1995)

R | 100 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Laura is trying to pick up the pieces of her life after the murder of her husband and son, and goes on vacation with her sister to Burma. After losing her passport at a political rally, she... See full summary »

Director: John Boorman | Stars: Patricia Arquette, U Aung Ko, Frances McDormand, Spalding Gray

Votes: 5,445 | Gross: $5.75M

19. Edge of the City (1957)

Approved | 85 min | Drama

The growing friendship of two NYC longshoremen is threatened by a notably repellent punk.

Director: Martin Ritt | Stars: John Cassavetes, Sidney Poitier, Jack Warden, Kathleen Maguire

Votes: 3,586

20. The Loves of Carmen (1948)

Approved | 99 min | Adventure, Drama, Music

A beautiful but amoral gypsy girl entices a young dragoon to betray his honor and get cashiered from the service, and for her sake he soon turns to a life of crime.

Director: Charles Vidor | Stars: Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, Ron Randell, Victor Jory

Votes: 1,396

21. Passage to Marseille (1944)

Passed | 109 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

Five patriotic convicts are helped to escape imprisonment in Devil's Island so they can fight for occupied Free French forces against the Nazis.

Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Claude Rains, Michèle Morgan, Philip Dorn

Votes: 5,030

22. The Devil's Backbone (1970)

PG | 100 min | Drama, Western

Army deserter Capt. Viktor Kaleb is offered a pardon and reinstatement in the cavalry if he agrees to lead a special forces group in a raid against an Apache stronghold into Mexico.

Directors: Burt Kennedy, Niksa Fulgosi | Stars: Bekim Fehmiu, Richard Crenna, Chuck Connors, Ricardo Montalban

Votes: 520

23. Return of the Hero (2018)

PG | 90 min | Comedy, History

1809, France. Captain Neuville is called to the front, leaving his future bride heartbroken. Her sister decides to write letters on his behalf to cheer her up. But it all goes south when Neuville reappears.

Director: Laurent Tirard | Stars: Jean Dujardin, Mélanie Laurent, Noémie Merlant, Christophe Montenez

Votes: 4,483 | Gross: $0.04M

24. A Distant Trumpet (1964)

Approved | 117 min | Drama, Western

West Point graduate Lt. Hazard is posted to Fort Delivery, Arizona, where he has to deal with lax discipline, romantic complications, Apaches and his conflicting feelings toward the Indians.

Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Troy Donahue, Suzanne Pleshette, Diane McBain, James Gregory

Votes: 1,104

25. Lines of Wellington (2012)

Not Rated | 151 min | Drama, History, War

On September 27, 1810, the French troops commanded by Marshal Massena, were defeated in the Serra do Buçaco by the Anglo-Portuguese army of general Wellington. Despite the victory, ... See full summary »

Director: Valeria Sarmiento | Stars: Nuno Lopes, Soraia Chaves, Marisa Paredes, John Malkovich

Votes: 1,570

26. Man on a Tightrope (1953)

Approved | 105 min | Drama, Thriller

A Czech circus owner/clown and his entire troupe employ a daring stratagem in order to escape en masse from behind the iron curtain.

Director: Elia Kazan | Stars: Fredric March, Terry Moore, Gloria Grahame, Cameron Mitchell

Votes: 1,831

27. Django the Bastard (1969)

PG | 98 min | Action, Drama, Horror

A mysterious stranger appears to take terrifying revenge on former Confederate officers who during the Civil War betrayed and were responsible for the massacre of their unit.

Director: Sergio Garrone | Stars: Anthony Steffen, Paolo Gozlino, Luciano Rossi, Teodoro Corrà

Votes: 1,265

28. Habermann (2010)

PG-13 | 104 min | Drama, Romance, War

A mill owner in the Sudetenland and his family's lives are changed as Europe heats up in 1938.

Director: Juraj Herz | Stars: Mark Waschke, Karel Roden, Ben Becker, Hannah Herzsprung

Votes: 1,300

29. Shock Troops (1967)

Approved | 110 min | Action, Drama, History

A French resistance group liberates some prisoners from the German. Could one of the prisoners be a spy?

Director: Costa-Gavras | Stars: Charles Vanel, Bruno Cremer, Jean-Claude Brialy, Michel Piccoli

Votes: 817

30. Way of a Gaucho (1952)

Passed | 93 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

In 1875 Argentina, after killing a man, a gaucho is sentenced to harsh army duty but he deserts the army and becomes a bandit leader.

Director: Jacques Tourneur | Stars: Rory Calhoun, Gene Tierney, Richard Boone, Hugh Marlowe

Votes: 819

31. Undead or Alive: A Zombedy (2007)

R | 91 min | Comedy, Horror, Western

Elmer Winslow is a soldier on the run from the Union Army, and Luke Budd is a cowboy with a broken heart. When the two misfits rob the corrupt sheriff of an old west town, they have no idea that a plague of zombies is sweeping the country, or that Geronimo's sexy niece may be their only hope of survival.

Director: Glasgow Phillips | Stars: Lew Alexander, Todd Anderson, Matt Besser, Chris Coppola

Votes: 2,161

32. Durango (1999 TV Movie)

TV-PG | 98 min | Drama, Romance

In 1939 Ireland, a young man decides to lead a forty mile cattle drive rather than selling his cattle to an unscrupulous local buyer. Brenda Fricker appears as Keeslar's aunt and Mark ... See full summary »

Director: Brent Shields | Stars: Matt Keeslar, Patrick Bergin, George Hearn, Brenda Fricker

Votes: 290

33. They Have Escaped (2014)

102 min | Drama, Mystery

Two teenage outcasts run away from a halfway house and embark on a rambling cross-country journey.

Director: J.-P. Valkeapää | Stars: Roosa Söderholm, Teppo Manner, Petteri Pennilä, Jari Pehkonen

Votes: 1,027

34. Gunman in the Streets (1950)

86 min | Crime, Drama

American army deserter turned criminal-on-the-run Eddy Roback must evade the French authorities in a nation-wide manhunt as he attempts to cross the border into Belgium.

Director: Frank Tuttle | Stars: Dane Clark, Simone Signoret, Fernand Gravey, Robert Duke

Votes: 492

35. The Scent of Mandarin (2015)

110 min | Drama, Romance

During World War I, a home care nurse treats a man who lost one leg on the front lines. A strong bond arises between them and evolves into a passionate love affair.

Director: Gilles Legrand | Stars: Olivier Gourmet, Georgia Scalliet, Dimitri Storoge, Hélène Vincent

Votes: 360

36. O lipotaktis (1970)

91 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller

A Greek army deserter hides out in a farm where a neglected wife and a passionate farm girl destructively compete on who should win his affection.

Director: Christos Kefalas | Stars: Hristos Politis, Franca Parisi, Stefanos Stratigos, Giorgos Oikonomou

Votes: 94

37. Blackmailed (1951)

Approved | 73 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Mrs. Christopher (Fay Compton), a kindly volunteer worker at a large hospital, does a favor for a patient by delivering a sum of money to Mr. Sine (James Robertson Justice). After she ... See full summary »

Director: Marc Allégret | Stars: Mai Zetterling, Dirk Bogarde, Fay Compton, Robert Flemyng

Votes: 44

38. Stray Cat Rock: Machine Animal (1970)

Not Rated | 82 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Two Japanese men help a Vietnam war deserter escape from Japan for Sweden. They plan to fund the escape by selling LSD pills. After word of the drug deal gets spread around they find themselves fending off rival gangs.

Director: Yasuharu Hasebe | Stars: Tatsuya Fuji, Noriko Kurosawa, Eiji Gô, Meiko Kaji

Votes: 423

39. The Taste of Vengeance (1968)

119 min | Drama, Western

A group of Northern vigilantes, roaming the post Civil War south, attack and kill the fiancee of war veteran Brian who is rescued by his friend, Daniel. The two, with brother Robert, set ... See full summary »

Director: Mario Siciliano | Stars: Gianni Garko, Ivan Rassimov, Elisa Montés, Roberto Miali

Votes: 172

40. Wyoming (1940)

Passed | 88 min | Drama, Western

After the Civil War, an ex-Confederate soldier is murdered by cattle-rustlers when he returns home to Wyoming, but a fugitive train-robber steps in to avenge his death and aid his family in their fight against a local land-grabber.

Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: Wallace Beery, Leo Carrillo, Ann Rutherford, Lee Bowman

Votes: 297

41. Zone Drifter (2021)

94 min | Sci-Fi

In the distant future, a former soldier battles through a ravaged post-war wasteland, and faces an army of programmed killers while searching for his missing brother.

Director: Charles Conkin | Stars: Aaron Jude, Charles Conkin, Kaitie Peters, Rob Doane

Votes: 160

42. Red Sky (2017)

91 min | Drama, War

A drama where amorous passion and political engagement mingle, carried by two young idealists at the heart of the First Indochina War. Between sensuality and violence, power of feelings and cruelty of the war.

Director: Olivier Lorelle | Stars: Cyril Descours, Audrey Giacomini

Votes: 40

43. 13 Fighting Men (1960)

Approved | 69 min | Drama, War, Western

A Union Captain and his troops guard a load of gold from a group of Confederates at the end of the war

Director: Harry Gerstad | Stars: Grant Williams, Brad Dexter, Carole Mathews, Robert Dix

Votes: 111

44. Le café du pont (2010)

95 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama

Ten-year-old Pierrot is just another kid. For the time being, he grows with his younger brother Jeannot in a flat above "Le Café du Pont", run by his loving parents, a place that attracts ... See full summary »

Director: Manuel Poirier | Stars: Bernard Campan, Cécile Rebboah, Thomas Durastel, Julien Demarty

Votes: 122

45. The Blue Exile (1993)

108 min | Biography, Drama

Cevat Sakir is an exile punished for publishing an article regarding that government executed deserters from army, subsequently he was sent to Bodrum where he realized Bodrum is a heavenly ... See full summary »

Director: Erden Kiral | Stars: Kürsat Alniaçik, Mevlüt Demiryay, Suavi Eren, Halil Ergün

Votes: 197

46. Les hors-la-loi (1969)

107 min | Drama

Very very very very good movie. Excellent music from « Georges Moustaki» Takes place before the independence Algerian war. Shows how people restart to fight after a 100 year of colonization And after the end of «emir Abdelkader».

Director: Tewfik Fares | Stars: Sid Ahmed Agoumi, Cheikh Nourredine, Mohamed Chouikh, Malek Kateb

Votes: 20

47. Metaihmio (1994)

85 min | Drama

Centres on two brothers, Stelios and Yannis. Yannis, now a city cop, begins a search for his lost brother that takes him across many borders: between past and present, Greece and its neighboring countries, one identity and another.

Director: Panos Karkanevatos | Stars: Aris Lebessopoulos, Christos Kalavrouzos, Stavros Zalmas, Takis Moshos

Votes: 85

48. Film Fun (1955)

Approved | 9 min | Comedy, Short

A nostalgic look at film clips from the Silent Era.

Stars: Ward Wilson, Lionel Barrymore, Harry Carey, Lillian Gish

Votes: 89

49. The Wednesday Play (1964–1970)
Episode: The Hunting of Lionel Crane (1970)

75 min | Drama

An army deserter hides out on a country estate but falls foul of the gamekeeper.

Director: Michael Tuchner | Stars: Robert Powell, Michael Robbins, Don Hawkins, Geoffrey Hughes

50. Columbo (1971–2003)
Episode: Fade in to Murder (1976)

TV-PG | 73 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

An egotistical but successful star of a TV detective show murders his blackmailing producer and makes it look like a robbery.

Director: Bernard L. Kowalski | Stars: Peter Falk, William Shatner, Bert Remsen, Alan Manson

Votes: 2,425