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Land of Bad(2024)

1h 50min | Action, Thriller, War
3.6/5 (with 248 votes)

When a Delta Force special ops mission goes terribly wrong, Air Force drone pilot Reaper has 48 hours to remedy what has devolved into a wild rescue operation. With no weapons and no communication other than the drone above, the ground mission suddenly becomes a full-scale battle when the team is discovered by the enemy.

Kandahar(2023)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 32min | Action, Thriller
3.5/5 (with 362 votes)

After his mission is exposed, an undercover CIA operative stuck deep in hostile territory in Afghanistan must fight his way out, alongside his Afghan translator, to an extraction point in Kandahar, all whilst avoiding elite enemy forces and foreign spies tasked with hunting them down.

Overlord(2018)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 50min | Horror, War, Science Fiction
3.3/5 (with 1,255 votes)

France, June 1944. On the eve of D-Day, some American paratroopers fall behind enemy lines after their aircraft crashes while on a mission to destroy a radio tower in a small village near the beaches of Normandy. After reaching their target, the surviving paratroopers realise that, in addition to fighting the Nazi troops that patrol the village, they also must fight against something else.

Courage Under Fire(1996)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 56min | Drama, Thriller, Mystery, War
3.3/5 (with 377 votes)

A US Army officer, who made a "friendly fire" mistake that was covered up, has been reassigned to a desk job. He is tasked to investigate a female chopper commander's worthiness to be awarded the Medal of Honor. At first all seems in order. But then he begins to notice inconsistencies between the testimonies of the witnesses...

Behind Enemy Lines(2001)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 46min | Action, Drama, Thriller, War
3.1/5 (with 619 votes)

While flying a routine reconnaissance mission over Bosnia, fighter pilot Chris Burnett photographs something he wasn't supposed to see and gets shot down behind enemy lines, where he must outrun an army led by a ruthless Serbian general. With time running out and a deadly tracker on his trail, Burnett's commanding officer decides to risk his career and launch a renegade rescue mission to save his life.

Centurion(2010)

FSK: 18+ years
| 1h 37min | Adventure, Action, Drama
3.1/5 (with 607 votes)

Britain, A.D. 117. Quintus Dias, the sole survivor of a Pictish raid on a Roman frontier fort, marches north with General Virilus' legendary Ninth Legion, under orders to wipe the Picts from the face of the Earth and destroy their leader, Gorlacon.

The Dirty Dozen(1967)

FSK: 16+ years
| 2h 30min | Action, Adventure, War
3.8/5 (with 499 votes)

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 mission and the possible commuting of their sentences.

The General(1926)

FSK: 6+ years
| 1h 19min | Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, War
4.0/5 (with 507 votes)

During America’s Civil War, Union spies steal engineer Johnnie Gray's beloved locomotive, 'The General'—with Johnnie's lady love aboard an attached boxcar—and he single-handedly must do all in his power to both get The General back and to rescue Annabelle.

Stealth(2005)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 1min | Science Fiction
2.7/5 (with 473 votes)

Deeply ensconced in a top-secret military program, three pilots struggle to bring an artificial intelligence program under control ... before it initiates the next world war.

Legionnaire(1998)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 38min | Action, War, Adventure, History
2.8/5 (with 245 votes)

Alain Lefevre is a boxer paid by a Marseille mobster to take a dive. When he wins the fight he attempts to flee to America with the mobster's girlfriend Katrina. This plan fails and he seeks escape by joining the foreign legion. As part of the legion he tangles with abusive lieutenant Steinkampf and bonds with legionnaires Luther, Mackintosh and Rosetti.

Iron Eagle(1986)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 57min | Action
2.7/5 (with 124 votes)

When Doug's father, an Air Force Pilot, is shot down by MiGs belonging to a radical Middle Eastern state, no one seems able to get him out. Doug finds Chappy, an Air Force Colonel who is intrigued by the idea of sending in two fighters piloted by himself and Doug to rescue Doug's father after bombing the MiG base.

The Marksman(2005)

2.8/5 (with 56 votes)

Chechen rebels take over a Russian nuclear plant and it's up to a mysterious agent(Snipes) to stop them.

Directed by Marcus Adams - With Wesley Snipes, Emma Samms, William Hope, Tania Popa
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The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mission(1988)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 34min | Adventure, War, Action
2.5/5 (with 17 votes)

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.

Shoulder Arms(1918)

38min | Comedy, War
3.4/5 (with 72 votes)

An American doughboy, stationed in France during the Great War, goes on a daring mission behind enemy lines and becomes a hero.

Saints and Soldiers(2003)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 30min | War, Drama, Action, Adventure, History
3.2/5 (with 115 votes)

Five American soldiers 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.

Iron Eagle III(1992)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 38min | Action, Thriller
2.0/5 (with 24 votes)

Chappy discovers a drug-smuggling scheme at his own air base. It turns out that the lives of some village people in Peru are at stake, and he decides to fly there with ancient airplanes and friends to free them.

Zone Troopers(1985)

2.6/5 (with 18 votes)

American soldiers, led by The Sarge, are stuck behind Nazi enemy lines. As they make their way across the Italian countryside, they come across an alien spaceship that has crash-landed in the woods. The alien pilot is dead, but one of the ship's passengers is on the loose. As the GIs hunt down the alien by splitting into smaller groups, they're not only tracked by the Nazis, but also a whole host of other aliens come to save their stranded party.

The Cockleshell Heroes(1955)

1h 37min | War
3.0/5 (with 12 votes)

During WW2, German ships are "safely" docked upriver at Bordeaux, but the British send a team of kayakers to attack them.

Running Red(1999)

3.0/5 (with 4 votes)

Gregori is an ex-Soviet Commando haunted by the death of his brother, and trying to forget his old life in the US. However, Gregori realizes after he has already started a family of his own that the past is never far behind. A former superior from his days as a Russkie hired gun orders him to kill some people or watch his new family die. It looks like Gregori doesn't have much of a choice, because he's grown fond of having Angie Everhart for a wife...

Directed by Jerry P. Jacobs

Kings Go Forth(1958)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 49min | Drama, Action, Romance / Love, War
3.2/5 (with 6 votes)

Toward the end of World War II, two American soldiers fighting in Southern France become romantically involved with a young, American woman. Her background will reveal more about them than her.

The Heifer(1985)

2h 2min | Comedy, War
3.4/5 (with 26 votes)

During the Spanish Civil War a platoon of mismatched Republican soldiers cross the front-line to steal the bull that the enemy is going to fight on the local holiday of the nearby village. In addition to ruining the Nationalist faction's celebration they want the animal in order to butcher it and feed their famished troops. They get caught in the process and have to go through a series of funny and pathetic incidents before they can get back to their side.

The Last Hunter(1980)

FSK: 18+ years
| 1h 35min | Action, Drama, Thriller, War
2.7/5 (with 11 votes)

During the Vietnam war, an American soldier gets trapped beind enemy lines. A squad of his buddies sets out to rescue him.

Delta Force One: The Lost Patrol(2000)

1h 33min | Action, War
2.7/5 (with 6 votes)

An elite commando unit must rescue a captured peacekeeping force from a ruthless international arms dealer.

Warbus(1986)

1h 32min | Action
2.5/5 (with 4 votes)

The plot concerns a small group of people who are forced to flee from their base (which happens to be a Mission) in an old school bus when the VC launch a vicious assault upon it. Along the way they are joined by a group of three battle hardened American Special Forces soldiers and together they desperately fight to make it to safety.

The Recce(2018)

2h 35min | Drama

After the South African Defense Force wrongfully declares young Recce Henk Viljoen dead behind enemy lines, it’s up to him alone to use every skill and tool in his arsenal to make it back to his grieving wife.

Wake Me When the War Is Over(1969)

1h 14min | Comedy, War, TV Movie
2.7/5 (with 3 votes)

During the latter days of WWII an American Lieutenant accidentally falls out of an airplane into German territory. He is taken in by a Baroness who becomes smitten with him and doesn't want him to leave, so she doesn't tell him that the war has ended...for five years!

Final Reprisal(1988)

1h 28min | Action, War
2.8/5 (with 1 vote)

Sergeant David Callahan leads a task force of U.S. Marines on a failed mission. Five years later, working as an adviser to Thai Special Forces, he is forced to return to the Vietnamese P.O.W. camp he escaped years before, to fight a deadly duel.

Directed by Teddy Page - With Gary Daniels

Men of the Blue Cross(1955)

55min | War, Drama
3.0/5 (with 4 votes)

The final film produced by Warsaw’s Documentary Film Studio is an epic re-enactment of a treacherous mission by the Voluntary Tatra Mountain Rescue Service to aid colleagues stranded behind enemy lines at the close of World War II (several real participants feature in the film). Based on a short story about the rescue by Adam Liberak, Munk’s final “documentary” is also arguably his first major exercise in the craft of narrative filmmaking.

Directed by Andrzej Munk - With Gustaw Holoubek, Stanisław Marusarz

The Bread of Love(1953)

1h 30min | Drama, War
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Four Swedish volunteer soldiers are trapped in Russia. In front of them lies the front with enemy outposts and patrols, behind them the enemy minefields. Hope to return to their own lines decreases each day. Corpses of fallen, "dead of cold and hard as iron", forms the macabre landmarks in the winter landscape. Nearby is a burnt Russian village.

The Quick and the Dead(1963)

1h 32min | War, Action, Drama
3.3/5 (with 1 vote)

A small group of soldiers capture a German observation post, but in turn are captured themselves. They soon escape and--with the aid of two women--try to fight their way to safety.

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