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1	The Guns of Navarone (1961) more movies like this directed by J. Lee Thompson featuring Gregory Peck, David Niven, Anthony Quinn, Stanley Baker, Anthony Quayle, James Darren The guns of Navarone are huge Nazi cannons, installed on an Aegean island behind enemy lines. Anthony Quayle is the officer assigned by the British to lead a task force to put the guns out of commission. When Quayle is injured, the mission winds up in the relatively inexperienced hands of Gregory Peck. There's little love lost between Peck, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $15.65!
2	For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943) more movies like this directed by Sam Wood featuring Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman, Akim Tamiroff, Katina Paxinou, Arturo de Cordova, Vladimir Sokoloff Based on the novel by Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls is a romantic drama set against the turbulent tapestry of the Spanish Civil War. Gary Cooper plays Robert Jordan, an idealistic American fighting with a Spanish guerilla band. He is assigned to blow up a crucial bridge in order to halt the enemy's progress. He falls in love with Maria ... see all copies from $3.29! new only from $4.99!
3	Julia (1977) more movies like this directed by Fred Zinnemann featuring Jane Fonda, Vanessa Redgrave, Jason Robards, Jr., Maximilian Schell, Hal Holbrook The film traces the lifelong relationship between playwright Lillian Hellman and Julia, a wealthy girl who turns her back on her upbringing to follow her ideals. In the 1930s, while the adult Hellman (Jane Fonda) struggles to establish herself as a playwright with the help of her lover, Dashiell Hammett (Jason Robards), Julia (Vanessa Redgrave) ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.15!
4	Black Book (2007) more movies like this directed by Paul Verhoeven featuring Carice van Houten, Sebastian Koch, Thom Hoffman, Halina Reijn, Waldemar Kobus Filmmaker Paul Verhoeven returned to the Netherlands after more than twenty years of success in Hollywood to direct this epic-scale war drama based on a true story. Rachel Steinn (Carice van Houten) is a beautiful Jewish woman living in German-occupied Holland during late 1944. Her family members - who have been falsely promised safe passage to ... see all copies from $15.59! new only from $15.59!
5	The Train (1964) more movies like this directed by John Frankenheimer featuring Burt Lancaster, Paul Scofield, Jeanne Moreau, Michel Simon, Suzanne Flon John Frankenheimer directs Burt Lancaster in the tense spy thriller The Train. Lancaster plays Labiche, a French railway inspector. Allied forces are threatening to liberate Paris, so Col. Franz von Waldheim (Paul Scofield) is ordered to move the priceless works of art from the Jeu de Paume Museum to the fatherland. The head of the museum (Suzanne ... see all copies from $9.66!
6	Fortunes of War (1988) more movies like this directed by James Cellan-Jones Originally produced for the BBC, the seven-part Fortunes of War was adapted from Olivia Manning's "The Balkan Trilogy" and "The Levant Trilogy". Kenneth Branagh and Emma Thompson, who in 1987 were husband and wife, star as Guy and Harriet Pringle, a British couple who move to Rumania in 1939. As the war clouds gather, Guy becomes involved in ... see all copies from $2.41! new only from $9.95!
7	Charlotte Gray (2001) more movies like this directed by Gillian Armstrong featuring Cate Blanchett, Billy Crudup, Michael Gambon, Rupert Penry-Jones, Anton Lesser Based on the best-selling novel by Sebastian Faulks, this drama, set in Europe during World War II, stars Cate Blanchett as Charlotte, a Scottish woman living in London. Charlotte falls in love with Peter (Rupert Penry-Jones), a handsome RAF pilot, and the two are soon caught up in a torrid affair. Before long, Peter is sent off on a mission over ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.51!
8	Army of Shadows (1969) more movies like this directed by Jean-Pierre Melville featuring Lino Ventura, Paul Meurisse, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Simone Signoret, Serge Reggiani In this war drama set during the French Resistance of WW II, a courageous fighter escapes Gestapo headquarters and returns to Marseille. There he and his gang capture a traitor and throttle him. They then try to rescue a Resistance fighter in Lyons. As they do so, the hero is again captured and his partner killed. Again the hero escapes just ... see all copies from $31.73! new only from $31.73!
9	Come and See (1985) more movies like this directed by Elem Klimov featuring Alexei Kravchenko, Olga Mironova, Liubomiras Lauciavicius, Vladas Bagdonas A rare look at World War II from the Soviet side, Come and See is based on the real-life experiences of Ales Adamovich, who fought with Russian partisans in Belarus in 1943, when the Nazis systematically torched over 600 villages and slaughtered their inhabitants. Adamovich and director Elem Klimov co-authored the screenplay, which shows the ... see all copies from $7.00! new only from $22.90!
10	Plenty (1985) more movies like this directed by Fred Schepisi featuring Meryl Streep, Charles Dance, Tracey Ullman, John Gielgud, Sting Plenty boasts a cast of actors ranging from John Gielgud as an ethical and caustic senior diplomat to Meryl Streep as Susan Traherne, a woman looking for solace and a decent life in the aftermath of World War II. After World War II has ended, along with her work in the French Resistance movement and an idealized love affair with a soldier, Susan ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.14!
11 view cover	Uprising (2001) more movies like this directed by Jon Avnet featuring Leelee Sobieski, Hank Azaria, David Schwimmer, Jon Voight, Donald Sutherland Uprising is based on the true story of the Jewish Fighting Organization, a courageous band of youthful Polish guerrillas and freedom fighters who refused to knuckle under to the Nazis during World War II. Led by schoolteacher Mordechai Anielewicz (Hank Azaria), the organization comes into being as the Warsaw Jewish ghetto is being systemically ... see all copies from $4.50! new only from $8.80!
12 view cover	Open City (1945) more movies like this directed by Roberto Rossellini featuring Vito Annicchiarico, Nando Bruno, Aldo Fabrizi, Harry Feist, Anna Magnani Roberto Rossellini's Roma, Città Aperta (known in English as Open City) was one of the landmark films of the 1940s on several levels. Aesthetically, it was one of the first major works of Italian neorealist filmmaking and perhaps the single most influential example of the style. Historically, it was among the first postwar European films to gain ... see all copies from $4.01! new only from $14.99!
13 view cover	Lucie Aubrac (1997) more movies like this directed by Claude Berri featuring Carole Bouquet, Daniel Auteuil, Jean-Roger Milo, Patrice Chéreau During the French Resistance, Lucie, a courageous wife, struggles to save her husband, Raymond Samuel, from a firing squad. He was arrested after blowing up a train during the war. Lucie is also a freedom fighter who goes by the moniker of Aubrac. She helps free Raymond by directly threatening a prosecutor. After his release, Raymond is given a ... see all copies from $8.12!
14 view cover	Hangmen Also Die! (1943) more movies like this directed by Fritz Lang featuring Brian Donlevy, Walter Brennan, Anna Lee, Gene Lockhart, Dennis O'Keefe Hangmen Also Die is set in Czechoslovakia during the Nazi occupation. Czech loyalist Brian Donlevy assassinates the vicious Gestapo leader Heydrich, then goes into hiding. The wounded patriot is sheltered by history professor Walter Brennan, who is already under surveillance by the Nazis thanks to his veiled classroom attacks on the Third Reich. ... see all copies from $9.95! new only from $23.55!
15 view cover	Monsignor Renard (1999) more movies like this directed by David Wheatley, Malcolm Mowbray featuring John Thaw, Cheryl Campbell Created by Russell Lewis, the four-episode British miniseries Monsignor Renard was set in the French town of St-Josse-des-Bois during the Nazi occupation of the 1940s. The title character, played by John Thaw of Inspector Morse fame, initially tried to keep himself above politics. Ultimately, however, Monsignor Renard became intimately involved ... see all copies from $4.94! new only from $14.27!
16 view cover	The North Star (1943) more movies like this directed by Lewis Milestone featuring Anne Baxter, Dana Andrews, Walter Huston, Walter Brennan, Ann Harding, Farley Granger In this bit of WWII propaganda (designed to boost support of America's alliance with Russia against Germany), Kolya (Dana Andrews), Kurin (Walter Huston), Damian (Farley Granger), and Marina (Anne Baxter) are members of a farming collective in the Ukraine known as the North Star. The hard-working but happy members of the North Star find their way ... see all copies from $4.21! new only from $4.21!
17 view cover	Ivanovo Detstvo (1962) more movies like this directed by Andrei Tarkovsky featuring Nikolai Burlyayev, Valentin Zubkov, Yevgeny Zharikov, Nikolai Grinko, Valentina Malyavina, Stepan Krylov This debut feature-length wartime drama by noted Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky was a remarkable introduction to a remarkable career. The poetic touch of Tarkovsky's hand and his measured pace is already evident as the tale of the young, twelve-year-old Ivan (Nikolai Burlyayev) evolves. Ivan is orphaned after his village is wiped out by an ... see all copies from $9.00! new only from $24.47!
18 view cover	Un Heros Très Discret (1996) more movies like this directed by Jacques Audiard featuring Mathieu Kassovitz, Anouk Grinberg, Sandrine Kiberlain, Albert Dupontel Irony abounds in this French comedy that tells the tale of an unsophisticated, rather dim-bulbed country lad who follows the advice of a former French freedom fighter and tries to change himself into a hero of the recently ended French Resistance. Poor Albert is no stranger to deceit. For his first 12-years, his mother led him to believe that his ... see all copies from $1.99!
19 view cover	It Happened Here (1964) more movies like this directed by Andrew Mollo, Kevin Brownlow featuring Pauline Murray, Sebastian Shaw, Nicolette Bernard, Bart Allison, Stella Kemball, Fiona Leland Fledgling filmmaker (and future film historian) Kevin Brownlow worked in collaboration with Andrew Mollo for nearly ten years to create It Happened Here. Shot on 16-millimeter stock in stark quasi-documentary fashion, the film is predicated on the postulation that Germany had invaded--and defeated--England in World War II. Brownlow and Mollo's ... see all copies from $4.98! new only from $23.70!
20 view cover	A Generation (1954) more movies like this directed by Andrzej Wajda featuring Tadeusz Lomnicki, Urszula Modrzinska, Tadeusz Janczar A Generation is the first of Polish filmmaker Andrzej Wajda's "underground trilogy"-and also Wajda's first-ever feature film. Originally titled Pokolenie, the film dissects the impact that World War II had on the youth of Poland. Tadevsz Lomnicki plays an impressionable young Warsaw resident who falls in love with resistance leader Ursula ... see all copies from $8.03!
21 view cover	Cry of Battle (1963) more movies like this directed by Irving Lerner featuring Van Heflin, Rita Moreno, James MacArthur, Leopoldo Salcedo, Sidney Clute Surely Benjamin Appel's novel Fortress in the Rice was more interesting than its static film adaptation Cry of Battle. Van Heflin plays a crusty soldier of fortune fighting with the Philippine partisans during World War II. James MacArthur co-stars as the wealthy, aimless son of a businessman who joins the partisan cause for a lark. He is ... see all copies from $3.99! new only from $4.70!
22 view cover	La Bataille Du Rail (1945) more movies like this directed by René Clément featuring Jean Daurand, Tony Laurent, Jean Clarieux, Jacques Desagneaux La Bataille du Rail (Battle of the Rails) is regarded by many cineastes as the one truly great French "resistance" film. Based on fact, the episodic plotline details the courageous efforts by French railray workers to sabotage Nazi reinforcement-troop trains. The film's thesis is that this underground activity was largely responsible for the ... see all copies from $22.90! new only from $22.90!
23 view cover	State Department File 649 (1949) more movies like this directed by Sam Newfield featuring Virginia Bruce, William Lundigan, Jonathan Hale, Frank Ferguson, Richard Loo Those scurrilous Chinese communists are up to their old tricks in the 1949 flagwaver State Department - File 649. William Lundigan plays Ken, an operative of the U.S. Foreign Service stationed in North China. Ken is one of several people trapped in a remote village by evil warlord Yun Usu (Richard Loo), who intends to sell his services to the ... see all copies from $6.55! new only from $6.55!
24 view cover	The Commandos Strike at Dawn (1942) more movies like this directed by John Farrow featuring Paul Muni, Anna Lee, Lillian Gish, Cedric Hardwicke, Robert Coote, Ray Collins Scripted by Irwin Shaw from a story by C. S. Forester (of "Captain Horatio Hornblower" fame), Commandos Strike at Dawn is a wartime morale-booster, largely set in coastal Norway. Paul Muni stars as Eric Toresen, an apolitical and basically pacifistic Norwegian fisherman who is galvanized into action when his village is occupied by the Nazis. With ... see all copies from $12.95!
25 view cover	One of Our Aircraft Is Missing (1941) more movies like this directed by Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell featuring Godfrey Tearle, Eric Portman, Hugh Williams, Bernard Miles, Hugh Burden, Pamela Brown This subtle, unadorned British war drama was the second collaboration between "The Archers," Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. Six British bomber crewmen are obliged to bail out over Holland. To escape detection from the Nazis, the crewmen accept the hospitality of several Hollanders, all dedicated to the freedom-fighting activities of the ... see all copies from $6.49! new only from $12.00!

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