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Movies: Best "partisan" Movies

Partisan film (Serbo-Croatian: partizanski film, партизански филм) is the name for a subgenre of war films made in FPR/SFR Yugoslavia during the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. In the broadest sense, main characteristics of Partisan films are that they are set in Yugoslavia during World War II and have Yugoslav Partisans as main protagonists, while the antagonists are Axis forces and their collaborators. According to Croatian film historian Ivo Škrabalo, Partisan film is "one of the most authentic genres that emerged from the Yugoslav cinema". ()
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Defiance(2008)

R
| 2h 17min | Action, Drama, History, War
3.4/5 (with 768 votes)

Based on a true story, during World War II, four Jewish brothers escape their Nazi-occupied homeland of West Belarus in Poland and join the Soviet partisans to combat the Nazis. The brothers begin the rescue of roughly 1,200 Jews still trapped in the ghettos of Poland.

Directed by Edward Zwick - With Daniel Craig, Liev Schreiber, Jamie Bell, George MacKay, Alexa Davalos, Allan Corduner, ...
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Force 10 from Navarone(1978)

PG
| 1h 58min | Drama, Adventure, War
3.1/5 (with 119 votes)

World War II, 1943. Mallory and Miller, the heroes who destroyed the guns of Navarone, are sent to Yugoslavia in search of a ghost from the past.

Directed by Guy Hamilton - With Robert Shaw, Harrison Ford, Edward Fox, Barbara Bach, Carl Weathers, Franco Nero, ...
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The Red Ghost(2020)

1h 36min | War, Drama, History
3.2/5 (with 24 votes)

December 30, 1941. Vyazma ('Vyazemsky cauldron') is a small detachment of Soviet soldiers, by fatal coincidence, in an unequal battle with a special unit of the Wehrmacht. However, none of them think about giving up. Each of them was ready to sacrifice his life in order to protect his native land. None of these brave people was born a hero. The myth of the red ghost is a heroic deed without a soldier's Soviet soldier in the Great Patriotic War who instilled in the animals, deadly fear of German soldiers. In place of one of the dead hero was inserted another, and the born myth of the invincible Soviet soldier. The film 'The Red Ghost' is about the hope that each soldier will have.

Directed by Andrei Bogatyryov - With Aleksey Shevchenkov, Vladimir Gostyukhin, Mikhail Gorevoy

The Ascent(1977)

1h 51min | Drama, War
3.9/5 (with 76 votes)

Two Soviet partisans leave their starving band to get supplies from a nearby farm. The Germans have reached the farm first, so the pair must go on a journey deep into occupied territory, a voyage that will also take them deep into their souls.

Directed by Larisa Shepitko - With Anatoly Solonitsyn, Boris Plotnikov, Vladimir Gostyukhin

Miracle at St. Anna(2008)

R
| 2h 40min | Drama, War
3.1/5 (with 160 votes)

Miracle at St. Anna chronicles the story of four American soldiers who are members of the all-black 92nd "Buffalo Soldier" Division stationed in Tuscany, Italy during World War II.

Directed by Spike Lee - With Derek Luke, Michael Ealy, Laz Alonso, Omar Benson Miller, Pierfrancesco Favino, Valentina Cervi, ...

General Della Rovere(1959)

2h 12min | War, Drama
3.8/5 (with 54 votes)

The Gestapo forces con man Victorio Bardone to impersonate a dead partisan general in order to extract information from his fellow inmates.

Directed by Roberto Rossellini - With Vittorio De Sica, Hannes Messemer, Vittorio Caprioli, Giovanna Ralli, Sandra Milo, Anne Vernon, ...
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The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mission(1988)

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.

Directed by Lee H. Katzin - With Telly Savalas, Ernest Borgnine, Hunt Block, Alex Cord, Heather Thomas, Erik Estrada, ...

Storm Over Asia(1928)

2h 7min | Drama, War, History
3.4/5 (with 24 votes)

In 1918 a young and simple Mongol herdsman and trapper is cheated out of a valuable fox fur by a European capitalist fur trader. Ostracized from the trading post, he escapes to the hills after brawling with the trader who cheated him. In 1920 he becomes a Soviet partisan, and helps the partisans fight for the Soviets against the occupying British army. However he is captured by the British when they try to requisition cattle from the herdsmen at the same time as the commandant meets with a reincarnated Grand Lama. After the trapper is shot, the army discovers an amulet that suggests he is a direct descendant of Genghis Khan. They find him still alive, so the army restores his health and plans to use him as the head of a puppet regime. The trapper is thus thrust into prominence as he is placed in charge of the puppet government. By the end, however, the "puppet" turns against his masters in an outburst of fury.

Directed by Vsevolod Pudovkin - With Valéry Inkijinoff, Boris Barnet, Anna Sten

Wild Wind(1985)

1h 31min | War
2.1/5 (with 4 votes)

August 1943, Europe. The tentacles of the German octopus have begun to recoil. As the Nazis retreat, their concern focuses on the supply of oil from the refineries of Romania. Without the flow of "black gold", Germany's doom is sealed. Armadas of American bombers from bases in North Africa have begun to assault Pioesti - and there is another threat from the Partisans across the border of Yugoslavia. Against the tableau of spectacular events, the dramatic story of WILD WIND unfolds.

Directed by Valeriu Jereghi - With Milan Puzić, Miroljub Lešo, Vladan Živković, Branislav Lečić, Dušan Janićijević, Dragomir Felba, ...

Massacre in Rome(1973)

1h 39min | Drama, History, War
3.1/5 (with 11 votes)

In the Nazi occupied city of Rome, an assault on an SS brigade draws retaliation from the military governship. "Massacre in Rome" is the true story of how this partisan attack led to the mass execution of Italian nationals under the orders of SS-Lieutenant Colonel Kappler.

Directed by George P. Cosmatos - With Richard Burton, Marcello Mastroianni, John Steiner, Delia Boccardo, Renzo Montagnani, Peter Vaughan, ...

The Terrorist(1963)

1h 35min | Drama, War
3.2/5 (with 5 votes)

In Venice in 1943, a group of partisans led by Renato Braschi organize a series of autonomous terrorist attacks against the fascists while the National Liberation Committee urges caution. Renato is determined to carry out his ideas, risking his own life, and not only that...

Directed by Gianfranco De Bosio - With Gian Maria Volonté, Philippe Leroy, Tino Carraro, Anouk Aimée, Giulio Bosetti, Raffaella Carrà, ...

The Bridge(1969)

1h 45min | War, Action
3.2/5 (with 5 votes)

In order to check the German offensive, Partizans send an elite team of explosive experts to blow up a strategically important bridge. Besides being heavily guarded, that bridge is almost indestructible and the only man who knows weak spots in the construction is the architect who built it. He is, however, reluctant to cooperate because he doesn't want to see his masterpiece destroyed.

Directed by Hajrudin Krvavac - With Velimir Bata Živojinović, Relja Bašić, Sibina Mijatović, Boro Begović, Jovan Janićijević Burduš, Jovan Milićević, ...
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Boško Buha(1978)

1h 56min | Drama, War
3.1/5 (with 6 votes)

The movie is based on the true story about a group of children, barely teenagers, who joined Yugoslav Partizans after losing their families in WW2. At first, Partizans want to get rid of them, but later they are joining combat ranks. Among them, Bosko Buha would become a legend because of his skill in destroying enemy bunkers.

Directed by Branko Bauer - With Žarko Radić

Kozara(1962)

2h 4min | War
2.9/5 (with 5 votes)

In June of 1942 Germans and their collaborators decide to get rid of partisans and their stronghold in the woods of Mount Kozara in Northern Bosnia. They encircle the mountain and begin the mop up operation. Out gunned and outnumbered the partisans must not only take care of themselves but try to protect thousands of refugees too.

Directed by Veljko Bulajić - With Velimir Bata Živojinović, Milena Dravić, Olivera Marković, Ljubiša Samardžić, Dragomir Felba, Mihajlo Kostić Pljaka, ...

Two Nights in a Day(1963)

1h 37min | Romance / Love, War
2.7/5 (with 2 votes)

Commander Pavle receives partisan Jovan to shot him for not executing his orders. While listening to his unfortunate love story from the war, Pavle remembers his own relationship which had an equally bitter epilogue, and decides to set Jovan free.

With Predrag Ćeramilac, Jelena Žigon, Jovan Janićijević Burduš, Petar Kralj, Janez Vrhovec, Ranko Kovačević, ...

Ill Met by Moonlight(1957)

NR
| 1h 44min | Action, Adventure, Drama, History, War
3.1/5 (with 13 votes)

Led by British officers, partisans on Crete plan to kidnap the island's German commander and smuggle him to Cairo to embarrass the occupiers.

Directed by Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger - With Dirk Bogarde, Marius Goring, David Oxley, Cyril Cusack, Christopher Lee, Michael Gough, ...

North Korean Partisan in South Korea(1990)

2h 37min | War, History, Drama
3.3/5 (with 4 votes)

Reporter for a North Korean news service joins the partisans when the Americans and UN forces invade South Korea.

Directed by Chung Ji-young - With Ahn Sung-ki

The Battle of the Eagles(1979)

2h 10min | Drama, History, War
3.1/5 (with 5 votes)

The first Yugoslav Partisan air force unit. Loosely based on historical facts.

Directed by Hajrudin Krvavac - With Bekim Fehmiu, Velimir Bata Živojinović, Ljubiša Samardžić, Radoš Bajić, Branko Pleša, Faruk Begolli, ...

The Battle of Sutjeska(1973)

1h 57min | War
3.1/5 (with 8 votes)

The headquarters of the Marshal Tito's Liberation Army are surrounded by Axis forces. The Partisans have no choice but to fight their way out of the encirclement and face the enemy on the plains of Sutjeska.

Directed by Stipe Delić - With Richard Burton, Irene Papas, Günter Meisner, Ljuba Tadić, Velimir Bata Živojinović, Milena Dravić, ...

They Were Known Only By Their Faces(1967)

1h 27min | War, Drama, Adventure
2.8/5 (with 1 vote)

Explosions are raging in one of the ports in the territory occupied by the German fascist invaders. An old and experienced military leader, Admiral Reinhardt, arrives to investigate these emergencies. Together with the head of the Gestapo, SS Standartenfuehrer Hübe, he takes all measures to suppress the activity of the partisans, raids and arrests, but all in vain. Underwater sabotage continues. A detachment of fighters with experience of submarine warfare is sent from Italy to fight the demolitions.

Directed by Anton Tymonyshyn - With Irina Miroshnichenko, Alexander Belyavsky

The Taebaek Mountains(1994)

2h 48min | War, Drama
3.0/5 (with 4 votes)

Based on the great river story, The Taebaek Mountains chronicles the lasting generational conflict between proprietors and peasants in South Korea.

Directed by Im Kwon-taek - With Ahn Sung-ki, Bang Eun-jin

The Written Off(1974)

1h 28min | War, Drama
3.8/5 (with 3 votes)

Careless lives of few Belgrade youths are shattered when Nazis occupy their town in 1941. Soon they join the resistance movement and their activities bring their names to Gestapo's termination list. This movie inspired the series that would get cult status in former Yugoslavia.

Directed by Aleksandar Đorđević - With Dragan Nikolić, Vojislav Brajović, Miki Manojlović, Vladan Holec, Čedomir Petrović, Rade Marković, ...

Great Transport(1983)

2h 14min | War, Drama, Action
3.6/5 (with 4 votes)

This WW2 epic was one of the last movies of that kind made in former Yugoslavia. It tells the true story of great transport of Partizans from Vojvodina to Bosnia in 1943.

Directed by Veljko Bulajić - With Velimir Bata Živojinović, Dragana Varagić, Ljiljana Blagojević, Tihomir Arsić, Dragomir Felba, Dušan Janićijević, ...

Mount of Lament(1968)

1h 36min | War, Drama
3.2/5 (with 2 votes)

Lado Tajovic, a student, is charged by the communist party to go to his home in the Montenegrin Mountains, to illegally spread the liberation movement's propaganda. Alone, surrounded by enemies, always awake and ready to evade traps and ambushes, Lado fights on the verge of sleep, against people which are cowards ready to betrayal. He fights his own temptations, hallucinations that constantly besiege him. Although he perseveres in holding to party directives: no killing and no revenge, Lado at one moment of weakness falls to a primal human act vengeance.

Directed by Zdravko Velimirović - With Milivoje Živanović, Veljko Mandić, Stole Aranđelović, Boro Begović, Vojislav Mićović

SS Strike at Dawn(1958)

1h 26min | Drama, War
2.5/5 (with 2 votes)

During the Battle of Sutjeska, headquarters one of the a partisan detachment, decides to enter deeper into the forest to save a few soldiers and wounded from inevitable death. Commander of the detachment, sent a group of fighters in the reconnaissance. As time goes on, the Germans are getting closer to discovering the detachment and wounded, hunger, exhaustion, forcing people to surrender, but at the time of surrender, and when the Germans discovered detachment, there is a sudden rescue from the group that was in the field reconnaissance.

Directed by Stole Janković - With Branko Pleša, Predrag Laković, Stole Aranđelović, Vera Čukić, Branislav Jerinić, Dragomir Bojanić, ...

We'll Go to the City(1966)

1h 42min | War, Drama
4.0/5 (with 3 votes)

"Andremo in città" (We'll Go to the City) is a 1966 Italian drama film directed by Nelo Risi. It is based on the novel of the same name by Edith Bruck, Risi's wife. Bruck, a Hungarian concentration camp-survivor, settled in Italy after the Second World War and wrote about her experiences in autobiographical and fictional formats.[1] The film stars Geraldine Chaplin and Nino Castelnuovo.

Directed by Nelo Risi - With Geraldine Chaplin, Nino Castelnuovo, Stefania Careddu, Giovanni Ivan Scratuglia, Slavko Simić, Dragomir Felba, ...

Manhunt(1977)

1h 44min | War
3.3/5 (with 2 votes)

The leftover disbanded partisan battalion draws Chetniks' attention, who push their plans of attacking the partisan headquarters aside and start hunting them instead.

Directed by Živojin Pavlović - With Rade Šerbedžija, Pavle Vuisić, Lazar Ristovski, Jovan Janićijević Burduš, Danilo Lazović, Boro Begović, ...

The Peaks of Zelengore(1976)

1h 46min | Drama, History
2.9/5 (with 2 votes)

During the Battle of Sutjeska, partisan troops must endure 24 hours of big and heavy attacks on German units Ljubino grave, to the main Partisan units, with the wounded and the Supreme Headquarters, pulled out the ring that is tightened around them.

Directed by Zdravko Velimirović - With Velimir Bata Živojinović, Sergei Bondarchuk, Veljko Mandić, Alain Noury, Radoš Bajić, Ljiljana Dragutinović, ...

On Distant Shores(1958)

1h 29min | Drama, War, Action
3.3/5 (with 3 votes)

The film portrays the life of the legendary Azerbaijani guerrilla of the Second World War Mehdi Huseynzadeh, who fought the Nazi forces in the present-day Italy and Slovenia, hence the film's name On distant shores referring to the Adriatic Sea.

Directed by Tofig Taghizade - With Nodar Şaşıqoğlu, Yury Bogolyubov, Alasgar Alakbarov, Lev Bordukov, Andrei Fajt, Grigory Shpigel, ...

In the Mountains of Yugoslavia(1946)

1h 25min | War
2.5/5 (with 2 votes)

Yugoslav farmer-turned-partisan Slavko Babić starts an uprising against the fascist Germans and their allies.

Directed by Abram Room, Eduard Tisse - With Vjekoslav Afrić, Ivan Bersenev, Bojan Stupica, Nikolay Mordvinov, Olga Zhizneva, Vsevolod Sanayev, ...
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