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Shooter(2007)

R
| 2h 4min | Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Crime
3.5/5 (with 2,154 votes)

A top Marine sniper, Bob Lee Swagger, leaves the military after a mission goes horribly awry and disappears, living in seclusion. He is coaxed back into service after a high-profile government official convinces him to help thwart a plot to kill the President of the United States. Ultimately double-crossed and framed for the attempt, Swagger becomes the target of a nationwide manhunt. He goes on the run to track the real killer and find out who exactly set him up, and why, eventually seeking revenge against some of the most powerful and corrupt leaders in the free world.

Directed by Antoine Fuqua - With Mark Wahlberg, Danny Glover, Ned Beatty, Michael Peña, Kate Mara, Elias Koteas, ...
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The A-Team(2010)

PG-13
| 1h 57min | Thriller, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime
3.2/5 (with 2,086 votes)

A group of Iraq War veterans goes on the run from U.S. military forces while they try to clear their names after being framed for a crime they didn't commit. Along the way, Col. Hannibal Smith, Capt. H.M. ‘Howling Mad’ Murdock , Sgt. Bosco ‘B.A.’ Baracus, and Lt. Templeton ‘Faceman’ Peck help out various people they encounter.

Directed by Joe Carnahan - With Liam Neeson, Bradley Cooper, Quinton Jackson, Sharlto Copley, Jessica Biel, Patrick Wilson, ...
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In the Valley of Elah(2007)

R
| 2h 4min | History, Drama, Thriller, Crime, Mystery
3.4/5 (with 422 votes)

A career officer and his wife work with a police detective to uncover the truth behind their son's disappearance following his return from a tour of duty in Iraq.

Directed by Paul Haggis - With Tommy Lee Jones, Charlize Theron, Susan Sarandon, Jason Patric, Frances Fisher, James Franco, ...
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Black Snake Moan(2006)

R
| 1h 56min | Drama
3.4/5 (with 372 votes)

A God-fearing bluesman takes to a wild young woman who, as a victim of childhood sexual abuse, is looking everywhere for love, but never quite finding it.

Directed by Craig Brewer - With Samuel L. Jackson, Christina Ricci, Justin Timberlake, S. Epatha Merkerson, David Banner, Michael Raymond-James, ...
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Major Payne(1995)

PG-13
| 1h 35min | Adventure, Comedy, Kids & Family
3.2/5 (with 325 votes)

Major Benson Winifred Payne is being discharged from the Marines. Payne is a killin' machine, but the wars of the world are no longer fought on the battlefield. A career Marine, he has no idea what to do as a civilian, so his commander finds him a job - commanding officer of a local school's JROTC program, a bunch of ragtag losers with no hope.

Directed by Nick Castle - With Damon Wayans, Karyn Parsons, William Hickey, Michael Ironside, Albert Hall, Orlando Brown, ...
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Basic(2003)

R
| 1h 38min | Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Crime
3.3/5 (with 445 votes)

A DEA agent investigates the disappearance of a legendary Army ranger drill sergeant and several of his cadets during a training exercise gone severely awry.

Directed by John McTiernan - With John Travolta, Connie Nielsen, Samuel L. Jackson, Tim Daly, Giovanni Ribisi, Brian Van Holt, ...
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The Presidio(1988)

R
| 1h 37min | Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
2.9/5 (with 140 votes)

Jay Austin is now a civilian police detective. Colonel Caldwell was his commanding officer years before when he left the military police over a disagreement over the handling of a drunk driver. Now a series of murders that cross jurisdictions force them to work together again. That Austin is now dating Caldwell's daughter is not helping their relationship.

Directed by Peter Hyams - With Sean Connery, Mark Harmon, Meg Ryan, Jack Warden, Jenette Goldstein, Mark Blum, ...
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In Harm's Way(1965)

NR
| 2h 45min | War, Drama
3.3/5 (with 61 votes)

A naval officer reprimanded after Pearl Harbor is later promoted to rear admiral and gets a second chance to prove himself against the Japanese.

Directed by Otto Preminger - With John Wayne, Kirk Douglas, Henry Fonda, Patricia Neal, Brandon deWilde, Tom Tryon, ...
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Foxtrot(2017)

R
| 1h 53min | Drama
3.4/5 (with 88 votes)

A troubled family must face facts when tragedy strikes their son's desolate military post.

Directed by Samuel Maoz - With Lior Ashkenazi, Sarah Adler, Karin Ugowski, Shira Haas
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Yossi & Jagger(2002)

1h 5min | War, Drama, Romance / Love
3.4/5 (with 44 votes)

A sociological study of two men in the Israeli army who are lovers. The others in the unit react to their situation, suspecting, but not always understanding. One will leave the military soon, a few months away, as a snowy and desolate outpost is guarded from attack.

Directed by Eytan Fox - With Ohad Knoller, Yehuda Levi, Asi Cohen, Aya Koren, Hani Furstenberg, Yuval Semo, ...
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Breaker Morant(1980)

PG
| 1h 47min | Drama, History, War
3.6/5 (with 57 votes)

During the Boer War, three Australian lieutenants are on trial for shooting Boer prisoners. Though they acted under orders, they are being used as scapegoats by the General Staff, who hopes to distance themselves from the irregular practices of the war. The trial does not progress as smoothly as expected by the General Staff, as the defence puts up a strong fight in the courtroom.

Directed by Bruce Beresford - With Edward Woodward, Jack Thompson, Bryan Brown, Lewis Fitz-Gerald, Bud Tingwell, Chris Haywood, ...
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There Is No Evil(2020)

2h 31min | Drama
3.8/5 (with 40 votes)

Every country that enforces the death penalty needs people to kill other people. Four men are put in front of an unthinkable but simple choice. Whatever they decide, it will directly or indirectly corrode them selves, their relationships, and their entire lives.

Directed by Mohammad Rasoulof - With Mahtab Servati
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Moffie(2020)

1h 44min | Drama, War, Romance / Love
3.5/5 (with 31 votes)

Moffie (a derogatory Afrikaans term for a gay man) follows the story of Nicholas van der Swart: from a very young age, he realises he is different. Try as he may, he cannot live up to the macho image expected of him by his family, by his heritage. Set during the South African border war against communism, this is a long-overdue story about the emotional and physical suffering endured by countless young men.

Directed by Judy Naidoo

Private Popsicle(1982)

1h 47min | Comedy, Romance / Love
3.1/5 (with 17 votes)

Three young Israeli men join the army, and it soon turns out that they're more interested in chasing skirts than following orders.

Directed by Boaz Davidson - With Jonathan Sagall, Yftach Katzur

Rookies Run Amok(1971)

1h 25min | Comedy
2.9/5 (with 43 votes)

Les Bidasses en Folie, a french movie from 1971, is a very short, easy to watch, slapstick hippie comedy.

Directed by Claude Zidi - With Gérard Rinaldi, Jean-Guy Fechner, Jean Sarrus, Gérard Filippelli, Luis Rego, Christian Fechner, ...

Live and Become(2005)

NR
| 2h 20min | Drama
3.8/5 (with 83 votes)

In 1980 the black Falashas in Ethiopia are recognised as genuine Jews and are secretly carried to Israel. The day before the transport the son of a Jewish mother dies. In his place and with his name (Schlomo) she takes a Christian 9-year-old boy.

Directed by Radu Mihăileanu - With Sirak M. Sabahat, Yaël Abecassis, Roschdy Zem, Zinedine Zidane, Rami Danon, Shmil Ben Ari, ...

The Call-up(1979)

1h 25min | Comedy
2.8/5 (with 17 votes)

It's time for Jonsson to return to his old regiment to rehearse what he learned during conscription a few years ago. He meets his old friends, platoon leader Larsson and the music loving captain 'Beethoven'. Jonsson and his comrades doesn't take it very serious - but they have a jolly good time. A female journalist follows the exercise to write an article, and gets interested in him. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.

Directed by Lasse Åberg, Peter Hald - With Janne Carlsson, Lasse Åberg, Ted Åström, Weiron Holmberg, Agneta Prytz, Lars Amble, ...

Alice's Restaurant(1969)

R
| 1h 51min | Drama, Comedy, Music
3.1/5 (with 27 votes)

After getting kicked out of college, Arlo decides to visit his friend Alice for Thanksgiving dinner. After dinner is over, Arlo volunteers to take the trash to the dump, but finds it closed for the holiday, so he just dumps the trash in the bottom of a ravine. This act of littering gets him arrested, and sends him on a bizarre journey that ends with him in front of the draft board.

Directed by Arthur Penn - With James Broderick, Pete Seeger, Lee Hays, Arlo Guthrie, Pat Quinn, Tina Chen, ...

Canary(2018)

2h 3min | Music, Drama
3.3/5 (with 9 votes)

Kanarie (Afrikaans for 'Canary') is a coming-of-age musical war drama. Drafted into the South African army during apartheid, a young soldier joins the military's traveling choir, and romance on the battlefield causes him to deal with his long-repressed sexual identity through hardship, camaraderie, first love, and the liberating freedom of music, the true self can be discovered.

Directed by Christiaan Olwagen

Tunes of Glory(1960)

NR
| 1h 46min | Drama
3.5/5 (with 23 votes)

Following World War II in peacetime Scotland, brigade headquarters replaces commanding officer Major Jock Sinclair, a boisterous battalion leader, with the strict, temperamental Lieutenant Colonel Basil Barrow. Resentful toward his replacement, Sinclair undermines Barrow's authority and damages his successor's reputation among the soldiers. Barrow faces an uphill battle in regaining the discipline and respect of his battalion.

Directed by Ronald Neame - With Alec Guinness, John Mills, Dennis Price, Susannah York, Gordon Jackson, Kay Walsh, ...
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Rookies Run Amok 2(1983)

1h 25min | Comedy
2.8/5 (with 7 votes)

The sequel of a successful French comedy "Rookies Run Amok" (1971) again with "Les Charlots" group.

Directed by Michel Vocoret - With Gérard Rinaldi, Jean Sarrus, Gérard Filippelli, Danièle Hazan, Franck-Olivier Bonnet, François Jaubert, ...

Sweet Mud(2006)

1h 37min | Drama
3.5/5 (with 5 votes)

Set in mid-70's, 12-year old Dvir Avni navigates between the equality values of his home-born Kibbutz and the relationship with his undermined mother, whom the Kibbutz members will to denounce.

Directed by Dror Shaul - With Ronit Yudkevitz, Shai Avivi, Gal Zaid, Henri Garcin, Yosef Carmon, Rivka Neumann, ...

The Battle of Reefer(1981)

1h 42min | Comedy
2.6/5 (with 1 vote)

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Directed by Joan Minguell i Soriano

Stage Door Canteen(1943)

2h 12min | Comedy, Music, Romance / Love, War
3.0/5 (with 6 votes)

A young soldier on a pass in New York City visits the famed Stage Door Canteen, where famous stars of the theater and films appear and host a recreational center for servicemen during the war. The soldier meets a pretty young hostess and they enjoy the many entertainers and a growing romance.

Directed by Frank Borzage - With Cheryl Walker, Lon McCallister, Margaret Early, Francis Pierlot, Louis Jean Heydt, Terry Harknett, ...
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Je suis loin de toi mignonne(1976)

1h 50min | Comedy
1.5/5 (with 1 vote)

In 1940, two sisters work in an ammunition factory, but dream of marriage.

Directed by Claude Fournier - With Gilbert Sicotte, Denis Drouin, Bernard Gosselin, Marc Legault, Denise Filiatrault, Juliette Huot, ...
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Serving in Secret: Love, Country, and Don't Ask, Don't Tell(2023)

Documentary

Tracing the U.S. military's long history of discrimination against the gay community and one couple's personal journey for acceptance.

Soldiers Three(1951)

NR
| 1h 32min | Adventure, Comedy, War
2.8/5 (with 2 votes)

Kiplingesque tale of British forces in 19th-century India.

Directed by Tay Garnett - With Stewart Granger, Walter Pidgeon, David Niven, Robert Newton, Cyril Cusack, Michael Ansara, ...

Two Years, Four Months and One Day(2020)

1h 35min | Documentary

The documentary tells the story of six friends who fought against compulsory military service in the Basque Country. They were all imprisoned for refusing to perform military service, and they all preferred prison to the army. They showed great courage and stubbornness, until they managed to win the antimilitarist struggle against the Spanish State.

La quinta del porro(1981)

1h 47min | Comedy
2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

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Directed by Francesc Bellmunt

Flesh and the Woman(1954)

1h 40min | Drama
2.5/5 (with 2 votes)

In this romance, a jilted lawyer joins the French Foreign Legion to help him forget his faithless love. While in the desert he espies a village beauty who is the exact double of his true-love.

Directed by Robert Siodmak - With Gina Lollobrigida, Jean-Claude Pascal, Arletty, Raymond Pellegrin, Peter van Eyck, Darling Légitimus, ...
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