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1. Reign of Fire (2002)
PG-13 | 101 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
A brood of fire-breathing dragons emerges from the earth and begins setting everything ablaze, establishing dominance over the planet.
Director: Rob Bowman | Stars: Matthew McConaughey, Christian Bale, Izabella Scorupco, Gerard Butler
Votes: 145,752 | Gross: $43.06M
2. The Longest Day (1962)
G | 178 min | Action, Drama, History
The events of D-Day, told on a grand scale from both the Allied and German points of view.
Directors: Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, Gerd Oswald, Bernhard Wicki, Darryl F. Zanuck | Stars: John Wayne, Robert Ryan, Richard Burton, Henry Fonda
Votes: 59,170 | Gross: $39.10M
3. Anthropoid (2016)
R | 120 min | Action, Drama, History
Based on the extraordinary true story of Operation Anthropoid, the WWII mission to assassinate SS General Reinhard Heydrich, the main architect behind the Final Solution and the Reich's third in command after Hitler and Himmler.
Director: Sean Ellis | Stars: Jamie Dornan, Cillian Murphy, Brian Caspe, Karel Hermánek Jr.
Votes: 54,448 | Gross: $2.96M
4. Night Flight (1933)
Passed | 84 min | Drama
Polio breaks out in Rio de Janeiro, the serum is in Santiago and there's only one way to get the medicine where it's desperately needed: flown in by daring pilots who risk the treacherous weather and forbidding peaks of the Andes.
Director: Clarence Brown | Stars: John Barrymore, Helen Hayes, Clark Gable, Lionel Barrymore
Votes: 976
5. Resistance (2020)
R | 120 min | Biography, Drama, History
The story of mime Marcel Marceau as he works with a group of Jewish boy scouts and the French Resistance to save the lives of ten thousand orphans during World War II.
Director: Jonathan Jakubowicz | Stars: Jesse Eisenberg, Clémence Poésy, Matthias Schweighöfer, Félix Moati
Votes: 9,010
6. Captain Corelli's Mandolin (2001)
R | 131 min | Drama, Music, Romance
When a fisherman leaves to fight with the Greek army during World War II, his fiancée falls in love with the local Italian commander.
Director: John Madden | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Penélope Cruz, John Hurt, Christian Bale
Votes: 36,018 | Gross: $25.54M
7. Army of Shadows (1969)
Not Rated | 145 min | Drama, War
An account of underground resistance fighters in Nazi-occupied France.
Director: Jean-Pierre Melville | Stars: Lino Ventura, Paul Meurisse, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Simone Signoret
Votes: 25,967 | Gross: $0.74M
8. What's New Pussycat (1965)
Approved | 108 min | Comedy
A playboy who refuses to give up his hedonistic lifestyle to settle down and marry his true love seeks help from a demented psychoanalyst who is having romantic problems of his own.
Director: Clive Donner | Stars: Peter Sellers, Peter O'Toole, Romy Schneider, Capucine
Votes: 11,093 | Gross: $18.82M
9. Alice (2022)
R | 100 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A slave in the antebellum South escapes her secluded plantation only to discover a shocking reality that lies beyond the tree line.
Director: Krystin Ver Linden | Stars: Keke Palmer, Common, Jonny Lee Miller, Gaius Charles
Votes: 3,288
10. Bloody Sunday (2002)
R | 111 min | Drama, History, War
A dramatization of the Irish civil rights protest march and subsequent massacre by British troops on January 30, 1972.
Director: Paul Greengrass | Stars: James Nesbitt, Tim Pigott-Smith, Nicholas Farrell, Allan Gildea
Votes: 25,786 | Gross: $0.77M
11. Saints and Soldiers (2003)
PG-13 | 90 min | Action, Drama, War
Four American soldiers and one Brit fighting in Europe during World War II struggle to return to Allied territory after being separated from U.S. forces during the historic Malmedy Massacre.
Director: Ryan Little | Stars: Corbin Allred, Alexander Polinsky, Kirby Heyborne, Larry Bagby
Votes: 21,447 | Gross: $1.31M
12. Don't Make Waves (1967)
Approved | 97 min | Comedy
Carlo goes on a vacation to Southern California, where he quickly becomes immersed in the easygoing local culture and becomes entangled in two beach-side romances.
Director: Alexander Mackendrick | Stars: Tony Curtis, Claudia Cardinale, Robert Webber, Joanna Barnes
Votes: 1,955
13. Madam Satan (1930)
Passed | 116 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
Angela and Bob Brooks are an upper-class couple. Unfortunately, Bob is an unfaithful husband, but Angela has a plan to win back her husband's affections.
Director: Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: Kay Johnson, Reginald Denny, Lillian Roth, Roland Young
Votes: 1,251 | Gross: $0.50M
14. Toto the Hero (1991)
PG-13 | 91 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Thomas believed he was switched at birth with Alfred. Feeling cheated, Thomas spent his life plotting revenge against Alfred, his perceived lifelong adversary who he felt stole the privileged life that should have been his.
Director: Jaco Van Dormael | Stars: Michel Bouquet, Mireille Perrier, Jo De Backer, Thomas Godet
Votes: 6,355 | Gross: $1.23M
15. The Ten (2007)
R | 96 min | Comedy, Romance
10 stories, each inspired by one of the 10 Commandments.
Director: David Wain | Stars: Paul Rudd, Jessica Alba, Winona Ryder, Adam Brody
Votes: 16,976 | Gross: $0.77M
16. Operation Daybreak (1975)
PG | 118 min | Drama, History, War
In 1942, Britain sends a group of British-trained Czech commandos to Prague to assassinate SS-General Reinhard Heydrich, head of the Nazi security services.
Director: Lewis Gilbert | Stars: Timothy Bottoms, Martin Shaw, Joss Ackland, Nicola Pagett
Votes: 2,397
17. Flying Down to Rio (1933)
Passed | 89 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
A bandleader woos a Latin flame who is already engaged to his employer.
Director: Thornton Freeland | Stars: Dolores Del Río, Gene Raymond, Raul Roulien, Ginger Rogers
Votes: 4,037 | Gross: $2.01M
18. Farewell to the King (1989)
PG-13 | 117 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Borneo, 1942: An American soldier escapes WWII and becomes the king of the headhunters in the jungle. Two British soldiers are parachuted into the area to find local support for the battle against the Japanese.
Director: John Milius | Stars: Nick Nolte, Nigel Havers, Frank McRae, Gerry Lopez
Votes: 3,138 | Gross: $2.42M
19. Danny Deckchair (2003)
PG-13 | 100 min | Comedy, Romance
An Aussie becomes a national sensation when he lifts off in his deck chair tied to balloons.
Director: Jeff Balsmeyer | Stars: Rhys Ifans, Miranda Otto, Justine Clarke, Rhys Muldoon
Votes: 5,244 | Gross: $0.16M
20. The Battle of Sutjeska (1973)
PG | 130 min | War
In 1943, 20,000 Yugoslav partisans led by Tito find themselves encircled by 120,000 well-armed Axis troops in the mountains of Bosnia and must break out of encirclement.
Director: Stipe Delic | Stars: Richard Burton, Ljuba Tadic, Velimir 'Bata' Zivojinovic, Irene Papas
Votes: 1,843
21. Jacquot of Nantes (1991)
PG | 118 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
A boy growing up in Nantes during World War II around his father's auto shop has a love for puppet shows and cinema and develops it into his own art. Jacques Demy, the artist at the end of his life, reflects on his childhood influences.
Director: Agnès Varda | Stars: Philippe Maron, Edouard Joubeaud, Laurent Monnier, Brigitte De Villepoix
Votes: 2,011 | Gross: $0.15M
22. Balibo (2009)
Not Rated | 111 min | Biography, Drama, History
War correspondent Roger East and the young Jose Ramos-Horta travel to East Timor to investigate the murders of the Balibo Five in 1975.
Director: Robert Connolly | Stars: Jane Hampson, Bea Viegas, Christine Martins, Ana Rosa Mendoça
Votes: 2,929
23. Tarzan and the Huntress (1947)
Passed | 72 min | Action, Adventure, Romance
To equip the American zoos with as many animals as possible, a cruel trio of big game hunters team up with an unexpected ally, threatening the African fauna. Will Tarzan allow the fiendish huntress to pillage the jungle?
Director: Kurt Neumann | Stars: Johnny Weissmuller, Brenda Joyce, Johnny Sheffield, Patricia Morison
Votes: 2,236
24. The Saviour (1971)
105 min | Drama, War
In 1943, rural French teenager Nanette meets an injured British airman and decides to give him shelter at her family's farm after falling in-love with him.
Director: Michel Mardore | Stars: Horst Buchholz, Muriel Catalá, Hélène Vallier, Roger Lumont
Votes: 279
25. The Gypsy Moths (1969)
R | 107 min | Action, Drama, Romance
Three skydivers and their travelling thrill show barnstorm through a small midwestern town one Fourth of July weekend.
Director: John Frankenheimer | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Deborah Kerr, Gene Hackman, Scott Wilson
Votes: 2,469
26. Invisible Agent (1942)
Passed | 81 min | Action, Adventure, Romance
The Invisible Man's grandson uses his secret formula to spy on Nazi Germany.
Director: Edwin L. Marin | Stars: Ilona Massey, Jon Hall, Peter Lorre, Cedric Hardwicke
Votes: 2,665
27. The Hook (1963)
Not Rated | 98 min | Drama, War
In the final days of the Korean War, an enemy airman is captured by three American soldiers who cannot bring themselves to follow the order to execute their prisoner.
Director: George Seaton | Stars: Kirk Douglas, Robert Walker Jr., Nick Adams, Pancho Magalona
Votes: 785
28. Safe Conduct (2002)
Not Rated | 170 min | Biography, Drama, History
In German-occupied France, two filmmakers solve the collaboration dilemma differently.
Director: Bertrand Tavernier | Stars: Jacques Gamblin, Denis Podalydès, Charlotte Kady, Marie Desgranges
Votes: 1,617 | Gross: $0.03M
29. J W Coop (1971)
GP | 112 min | Drama, Western
After losing 9 years 9 months and thirteen days to prison, cowboy J. W. Coop is released to return to life as a professional rodeo cowboy in the 60's. Determined to make up for the lost '... See full summary »
Director: Cliff Robertson | Stars: Cliff Robertson, Geraldine Page, Cristina Ferrare, R.G. Armstrong
Votes: 592
30. The Assassination (1964)
104 min | Action, Drama, History
The assasination of Heydrich in Prague during WWII.
Director: Jirí Sequens | Stars: Radoslav Brzobohatý, Rudolf Jelínek, Ladislav Mrkvicka, Ludek Munzar
Votes: 480
31. Hitler's Madman (1943)
Passed | 84 min | Drama, History, War
Story of the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, Nazi SS commander, by Czech partisans and the reprisals inflicted by the Nazis on the Czechs.
Director: Douglas Sirk | Stars: Patricia Morison, John Carradine, Alan Curtis, Howard Freeman
Votes: 920
32. Cairo (1942)
Passed | 101 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
Reporter Homer Smith accidentally draws Marcia Warren into his mission to stop Nazis from bombing Allied Convoys with robot-planes.
Director: W.S. Van Dyke | Stars: Jeanette MacDonald, Robert Young, Ethel Waters, Reginald Owen
Votes: 506
33. What War May Bring (2010)
120 min | Drama
Ilva runs her stepfather's Eden Palace cinema in wartime Paris against a background of Resistance activities, the frequent sight of less fortunate Parisians being shipped east in ... See full summary »
Director: Claude Lelouch | Stars: Audrey Dana, Dominique Pinon, Raphaël Haroche, Samuel Labarthe
Votes: 754
34. Shuttlecock (1991)
85 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Major James Prentis VC (Sir Alan Bates) is a British spy of World War II and war hero who goes under the code name of "Shuttlecock." Alienated from his family and children, he ends up in a mental institution in Lisbon, Portugal.
Director: Andrew Piddington | Stars: Alan Bates, Lambert Wilson, Kenneth Haigh, Jill Meager
Votes: 152
35. The Second Front (2005)
R | 88 min | Action, Romance, War
In the midst of World War 2, intelligence services from England, Germany and Russia collided in a fierce fight for the mind of Nicky Raus, a genius German Jewish scientist who has been developing a powerful state-of-the-art secret weapon.
Director: Dmitriy Fiks | Stars: Craig Sheffer, Todd Field, Svetlana Metkina, Ron Perlman
Votes: 353
36. Operation Silver A (2007 TV Movie)
149 min | Drama, History, War
Director: Jirí Strach | Stars: Klára Issová, Tatiana Dyková, Jirí Dvorák, Ivan Trojan
Votes: 95
37. Operation Leopard (1980)
96 min | Adventure, Drama, War
In 1978, a group of heavily armed rebels from Katanga attacked the mining town of Kolwezi in Zaire and started killing the civilians among whom many Europeans. France sent the legion to evacuate the civilian population.
Director: Raoul Coutard | Stars: Bruno Cremer, Jacques Perrin, Laurent Malet, Pierre Vaneck
Votes: 401
38. Passport to Destiny (1944)
Passed | 65 min | Comedy, War
A British cleaning woman believes a glass eye has magical powers that will protect her from harm. She travels from London to Berlin and manages to obtain a job as a cleaning woman at Hitler's headquarters. However, her assassination plan is foiled. But, she and other secret agents manage to escape to London during RAF bombing raid of the Reich Chancery.
Director: Ray McCarey | Stars: Elsa Lanchester, Gordon Oliver, Lenore Aubert, Lionel Royce
Votes: 364
39. Stuj, nebo se netrefím (1998)
89 min | Comedy, War
A period war comedy which signs on to the tradition of successful French crazy comedies. The protagonists, a train engineer (Josef Abrhám) and stoker (Radek Holub), find it necessary to ... See full summary »
Director: Jirí Chlumský | Stars: Josef Abrhám, Radek Holub, Jirí Bartoska, Ivana Chýlková
Votes: 111
40. Klíc (1971)
97 min | Drama, History, War
Jan Zika is the legendary hero of the communist resistance movement during World War II and leading functionary of the second underground Central Committee of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia.
Director: Vladimír Cech | Stars: Frantisek Vicena, Wilhelm Koch-Hooge, Zdenek Kampf, Vlasta Vlasáková
Votes: 43
41. Eto bylo v razvedke (1969)
93 min | War
The film tells about the fate of a twelve-year-old intelligence officer, a hero of the Great Patriotic War .
Director: Lev Mirsky | Stars: Viktor Zhukov, Valeri Malyshev, Vladimir Grammatikov, Viktor Filippov
Votes: 57
42. Nights with Théodore (2012 TV Movie)
59 min | Drama, Fantasy
A romantic connection blossoms between two young Parisians during a succession of dreamlike nocturnal visits to a singular, beguiling park. Anna meets Theodore at a party, and together they... See full summary »
Director: Sébastien Betbeder | Stars: Pio Marmaï, Agathe Bonitzer, Fabrice Adde, Sarah Le Picard
Votes: 72
43. Moonraker: Learning to Freefall - Skydiving Test Footage (2006 Video)
4 min | Documentary, Short
Extra original 1979 footage of the opening sequence aerial fight filmed in Northern California for the James Bond movie Moonraker (1979).
Stars: Michael G. Wilson, Richard Kiel, Jake Lombard, Ron Luginbill
Votes: 19
44. Ceiling Hero (1940)
6 min | Family, Animation, Short
A series of blackout gags parodying aviation and aviation films. Gags include a parchutist whose parachute reads "Good to the last drop", jokes about LA's expanding city limits, and a satire of test pilot and their bravery.
Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Mel Blanc, Robert C. Bruce
Votes: 128
45. La valse du gorille (1959)
100 min | Drama
The Russian, British, American and German secret services are fighting over plans for a missile. When the Gorilla learns that its former leader is threatened, it abandons its garrison in Bayonne to enter this waltz of spies
Director: Bernard Borderie | Stars: Charles Vanel, Jess Hahn, Ursula Herwig, Roger Hanin
Votes: 64
46. Flying Devils (1933)
Passed | 62 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Anny Hardy is a parachute-stunt diver with a flying-circus group of barnstorming pilots which her husband, "Speed" Hardy heads. She meets and falls in love with Bud Murray, the younger ... See full summary »
Director: Russell Birdwell | Stars: Arline Judge, Bruce Cabot, Eric Linden, Ralph Bellamy
Votes: 159
47. Muzzikanti (2017)
109 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
Robin Svátek is a young rock guitarist who is trying to break through with his band and finally earn money from his music. He and his band gave themselves a one-year deadline and now, even ... See full summary »
Director: Dusan Rapos | Stars: Patrik Dergel, Peter Cmorik, Michalina Olszanska, Hana Vagnerová
Votes: 80
48. Mer dare (1983)
47 min | Documentary
A man paves his own way to his own soul through an intellectual quest, tragedies of nations and personal drama. The road moving through the cosmic distances is a flight into one's internal ... See full summary »
Director: Artavazd Peleshian
Votes: 373
49. Inside 'A View to a Kill' (2000 Video)
37 min | Documentary, Short
The making of the film that would turn out to be Roger Moore's last outing as James Bond.
Director: John Cork | Stars: Albert R. Broccoli, Rosemary Lord, Michael G. Wilson, Richard Maibaum
Votes: 146
50. Skok do tmy (1964)
92 min | Drama
Director: Vladislav Delong | Stars: Martin Ruzek, Jaroslav Mares, Radoslav Brzobohatý, Václav Voska
Votes: 11