Best "desertion" Movies of All Time

44 movies found (page 1/2):

Cold Mountain(2003)

| 2h 34min | Drama, War, History, Adventure, Romance / Love

3.5/5 (with 769 votes)

In this classic story of love and devotion set against the backdrop of the American Civil War, a wounded Confederate soldier named W.P. Inman deserts his unit and travels across the South, aiming to return to his young wife, Ada, who he left behind to tend their farm. As Inman makes his perilous journey home, Ada struggles to keep their home intact with the assistance of Ruby, a mysterious drifter sent to help her by a kindly neighbor.

Directed by Anthony Minghella - With Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, Renée Zellweger, Eileen Atkins, Kathy Baker, Brendan Gleeson, ...

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Dances with Wolves(1990)

PG-13

| 3h 1min | Adventure, Drama, Western

3.9/5 (with 1,830 votes)

Wounded Civil War soldier, John Dunbar tries to commit suicide—and becomes a hero instead. As a reward, he's assigned to his dream post, a remote junction on the Western frontier, and soon makes unlikely friends with the local Sioux tribe.

Directed by Kevin Costner - With Mary McDonnell, Rodney A. Grant, Kevin Costner, Graham Greene, Maury Chaykin, Floyd Red Crow Westerman, ...

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Virus(1999)

| 1h 39min | Horror, Action, Science Fiction

2.7/5 (with 260 votes)

When the crew of an American tugboat boards an abandoned Russian research vessel, the alien life form aboard regards them as a virus which must be destroyed.

Directed by John Bruno - With Jamie Lee Curtis, William Baldwin, Donald Sutherland, Joanna Pacuła, Marshall Bell, Cliff Curtis, ...

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Black '47(2018)

| 1h 40min | Drama, Western

3.3/5 (with 128 votes)

In 1847, when Ireland is in the grip of the Great Famine that has ravaged the country for two long years, Feeney, a hardened Irish Ranger who has been fighting for the British Army abroad, returns home to reunite with his estranged family, only to discover the cruelest reality, a black land where death reigns.

Directed by Lance Daly - With Hugo Weaving, Stephen Rea, James Frecheville, Freddie Fox, Barry Keoghan

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Onibaba(1964)

NC-17

| 1h 45min | Horror, Drama

3.8/5 (with 150 votes)

While her son, Kichi, is away at war, a woman and her daughter-in-law survive by killing samurai who stray into their swamp, then selling whatever valuables they find. Both are devastated when they learn that Kichi has died, but his wife soon begins an affair with a neighbor who survived the war, Hachi. The mother disapproves and, when she can't steal Hachi for herself, tries to scare her daughter-in-law with a mysterious mask from a dead samurai.

Directed by Kaneto Shindō - With Nobuko Otowa, Jitsuko Yoshimura, Kei Satō, Jūkichi Uno, Taiji Tonoyama

Rome, Open City(1945)

1h 43min | Drama, History, War

4.0/5 (with 361 votes)

During the Nazi occupation of Rome in 1944, the leader of the Resistance is chased by the Nazis as he seeks refuge and a way to escape.

Directed by Roberto Rossellini - With Aldo Fabrizi, Anna Magnani, Marcello Pagliero, Maria Michi, Francesco Grandjacquet, Giovanna Galletti, ...

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The Captain(2018)

| 1h 58min | War, Drama, History

3.6/5 (with 192 votes)

Germany, 1945. Soldier Willi Herold, a deserter of the German army, stumbles into a uniform of Nazi captain abandoned during the last and desperate weeks of the Third Reich. Newly emboldened by the allure of a suit that he has stolen only to stay warm, Willi discovers that many Germans will follow the leader, whoever he is.

Directed by Robert Schwentke - With Max Hubacher, Milan Peschel, Frederick Lau, Waldemar Kobus, Alexander Fehling, Samuel Finzi, ...

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Belle Époque(1992)

1h 49min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love

3.4/5 (with 76 votes)

In 1931, a young soldier deserts from the army and falls into a country farm, where he is welcomed by the owner due to his political ideas. Manolo has four daughters, Fernando likes all of them and they like him, so he has to decide which one to love.

Directed by Fernando Trueba - With Penélope Cruz, Fernando Fernán Gómez, Michel Galabru, Ariadna Gil, Agustín González, Chus Lampreave, ...

Story of a Prostitute(1965)

1h 36min | Drama, Romance / Love, War

3.4/5 (with 14 votes)

Volunteering as a "comfort woman" on the Manchurian front, where she is expected to service hundreds of soldiers, Harumi is commandeered by the brutal Lieutenant Narita but falls for the sensitive Mikami, Narita's direct subordinate. Seijun Suzuki's Story of a Prostitute is a tragic love story as well as a rule-bending take on a popular Taijiro Tamura novel, challenging military and fraternal codes of honor, as seen through Harumi's eyes.

Directed by Seijun Suzuki - With Yumiko Nogawa, Isao Tamagawa, Shoichi Ozawa

Dead Birds(2004)

1h 31min | Horror, Thriller, Western

2.9/5 (with 116 votes)

A group of Confederate soldiers hole up on an abandoned plantation after robbing a bank, and find themselves at the mercy of supernatural forces.

Directed by Alex Turner - With Henry Thomas, Nicki Aycox, Isaiah Washington, Patrick Fugit, Michael Shannon, Mark Boone Junior, ...

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The Flying Deuces(1939)

| 1h 9min | Comedy, War

3.3/5 (with 63 votes)

Ollie is in love with a woman. When he discovers that she is already married, he tries to kill himself. Of course, the suicide is avoided and the boys join the Foreign Legion to get away from their troubles. Finally, they are arrested for trying to desert the Legion and to escape the firing squad by stealing a plane.

Directed by A. Edward Sutherland - With Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Jean Parker, Reginald Gardiner, Charles Middleton, 1st Baron Barham, Jimmy Finlayson, ...

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Exit Speed(2008)

| 1h 31min | Action, Thriller

2.6/5 (with 19 votes)

On Christmas Eve, ten strangers board a bus traveling across Texas and are forced off the road by a motorcycle gang. The passengers then take refuge in an abandoned scrap yard. When their defense against the gang weakens and their numbers dwindle they must do the unthinkable go on the offense.

Directed by Scott Ziehl - With Fred Ward, Desmond Harrington, Lea Thompson, Julie Mond, Alice Greczyn, Gregory Jbara, ...

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Guns for San Sebastian(1968)

| 1h 51min | Western

3.6/5 (with 37 votes)

Leon Alastray is an outlaw who has been given sanctuary by Father John, whom he then escorts to the village of San Sebastian. The village is deserted, with its cowardly residents hiding in the hills from Indians, who regularly attack the village and steal all their supplies. When Father John is murdered, the villagers mistakenly think the outlaw is the priest. Alastray at first tells them he is not a priest, but they don't believe it, and an apparent miracle seems to prove they are correct. Eventually, he assists them in regaining their confidence and defending themselves.

Directed by Henri Verneuil, Gilberto Martínez Solares - With Anthony Quinn, Charles Bronson, Sam Jaffe, Emilio Fernández, Fernand Gravey, Anjanette Comer, ...

Mobile Suit Gundam: Cucuruz Doan's Island(2022)

1h 49min | Animation, Drama, Science Fiction, Action

3.2/5 (with 5 votes)

After a covert mission goes wrong, Mobile Suit pilot Amuro Ray and his comrades are stranded on a remote island. The battalion was sent to a land called the Island of No Return to clear off any enemy forces, only to find a group of children and an enemy mecha attack. Now Amuro must find a way for them all to escape this mysterious land, but not before meeting a strange man—Cucuruz Doan.

Directed by Yoshikazu Yasuhiko

King and Country(1964)

| 1h 25min | War, Drama

3.6/5 (with 23 votes)

During World War I, Army Private Arthur James Hamp is accused of desertion during battle. The officer assigned to defend him at his court-martial, Captain Hargreaves, finds out there is more to the case than meets the eye.

Directed by Joseph Losey - With Dirk Bogarde, Tom Courtenay, Leo McKern, Barry Foster, Peter Copley, James Villiers, ...

Three on a Match(1932)

1h 3min | Crime, Drama

3.2/5 (with 26 votes)

Although Vivian Revere is seemingly the most successful of a trio of reunited schoolmates, she throws it away by descending into a life of debauchery and drugs.

Directed by Mervyn LeRoy - With Joan Blondell, Bette Davis, Ann Dvorak, Anne Shirley, Warren William, Humphrey Bogart, ...

Eagle's Wing(1979)

1h 51min | Western, Drama

2.6/5 (with 9 votes)

Two men, an aging Native American and a ne'er-do-well trapper from North America, race to claim the stallion Eagle's Wing in antebellum Mexico, meeting marauded stagecoach travelers and garrisoned Mexicans along the way.

Directed by Anthony Harvey - With Martin Sheen, Sam Waterston, Harvey Keitel, Stéphane Audran, Claudio Brook, John Castle, ...

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The Flim-Flam Man(1967)

| 1h 44min | Comedy

3.6/5 (with 8 votes)

A veritable master of the trade, con man Mordecai Jones has taken part in his fair share of scams. When he happens upon a young army deserter, Curley, Jones decides to pass on his knowledge of swindling to the likable novice. As the two blaze through the rural South, Curley meets Bonnie Lee Packard, a girl of privilege, who helps the two crooks evade the local sheriff. But Curley soon questions his newfound profession.

Directed by Irvin Kershner - With George C. Scott, Sue Lyon, Michael Sarrazin, Harry Morgan, Jack Albertson, Alice Ghostley, ...

Farewell to the King(1989)

PG-13

| 1h 57min | War, Adventure

3.0/5 (with 27 votes)

An American soldier who escapes the execution of his comrades by Japanese soldiers in Borneo during WWII becomes the leader of a personal empire among the headhunters in this war story told in the style of Joseph Conrad and Rudyard Kipling. The American is reluctant to rejoin the fight against the Japanese on the urging of a British commando team but conducts a war of vengeance when the Japanese attack his adopted people.

Directed by John Milius - With Nick Nolte, Nigel Havers, Frank McRae, Gerry Lopez, James Fox, John Bennett Perry, ...

Cider with Rosie(2015)

1h 30min | Comedy, Drama

3.1/5 (with 6 votes)

A semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story set in the Cotswolds during and immediately after the First World War.

Sharpe's Gold(1995)

1h 41min | War, TV Movie, Adventure, Action, History

3.3/5 (with 11 votes)

Sharpe is sent on a mission to exchange rifles for deserters with a strange band of Spanish guerillas. He also has to chaperone two women looking for their missing husband.

Directed by Tom Clegg - With Sean Bean

The Triple Echo(1972)

1h 37min | Drama, War

3.2/5 (with 7 votes)

After her husband is captured during WWII, homesteader Alice is forced to maintain their land herself. One day, a wandering soldier named Barton stops by the farm and the pair begin a relationship. When the military police pass through the area looking for deserters, Barton is forced to disguise himself as a woman to stay with Alice. But he soon catches the eye of a sergeant posted nearby.

Directed by Michael Apted - With Glenda Jackson, Oliver Reed, Brian Deacon, Anthony May, Gavin Richards, Kenneth Colley, ...

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The Execution of Private Slovik(1974)

| 2h | War, Drama, TV Movie

3.5/5 (with 7 votes)

The story of Eddie Slovik, who was executed by the Army in 1945, the only American soldier to be executed for desertion since the Civil War.

Directed by Lamont Johnson - With Martin Sheen, Mariclare Costello, Ned Beatty, Gary Busey, Charlie Sheen

Gunman in the Streets(1950)

| 1h 26min | Crime

3.2/5 (with 6 votes)

An American is on the run in the streets and back alleys of France.

Directed by Frank Tuttle, Borys Lewin - With Dane Clark, Simone Signoret, Albert Dinan, Dominique Marcas, Edmond Ardisson, Fernand Gravey, ...

Sergeant Klems(1971)

1h 57min | Adventure

3.1/5 (with 1 vote)

A man masquerading as a dead soldier seeks to desert his post and join the enemy in their struggle.

Directed by Sergio Grieco

Yellowneck(1955)

1h 23min | Drama, Western, War

2.1/5 (with 3 votes)

A disgraced Confederate Colonel who has deserted his command flees to the Everglades where he encounters a disparate group of four other Southern deserters. Together they struggle to find their way out of the swamp and resolve their own personal demons under the eyes of hostile Seminoles as they battle to survive the elements and each other.

Directed by R. John Hugh - With Berry Kroeger, Bill Mason

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Chess(2003)

2h 8min

4.0/5 (with 1 vote)

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November Child(2008)

1h 35min | Drama

3.0/5 (with 5 votes)

Malchow, German Democratic Republic, 1980. 20-year-old Anne is hiding Juri, a deserter of the Red Army. The two fall in love with each other. But their love is threatened: there is an arrest warrant and possibly a death sentence waiting for Juri. The two leave the country and flee to the West, leaving Anne’s six-month-old daughter Inga behind. Inga grows up with her grandparents and thinks that her mother died during a swimming accident. 25 years later she meets the literature professor Robert, who sends her on the trail of her past. He met Inga’s mother Anne during one of his seminars. At first Inga is resistant, but then she asks for Robert’s help. Together they take off on a journey through Germany, in search of Inga’s mother Anne...

Directed by Christian Schwochow - With Anna Maria Mühe, Ulrich Matthes, Christine Schorn, Hermann Beyer, Jevgenij Sitochin, Thorsten Merten, ...