Best "resistance fighter" Movies of All Time

28 movies found (page 1/1):

Total Recall(2012)

PG-13

| 2h 1min | Action, Science Fiction, Thriller

3.0/5 (with 2,476 votes)

Welcome to Rekall, the company that can turn your dreams into real memories. For a factory worker named Douglas Quaid, even though he's got a beautiful wife who he loves, the mind-trip sounds like the perfect vacation from his frustrating life - real memories of life as a super-spy might be just what he needs. But when the procedure goes horribly wrong, Quaid becomes a hunted man. Finding himself on the run from the police - controlled by Chancellor Cohaagen, the leader of the free world - Quaid teams up with a rebel fighter to find the head of the underground resistance and stop Cohaagen. The line between fantasy and reality gets blurred and the fate of his world hangs in the balance as Quaid discovers his true identity, his true love, and his true fate.

Directed by Len Wiseman - With Colin Farrell, Kate Beckinsale, Jessica Biel, Bryan Cranston, John Cho, Bill Nighy, ...

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Skylines(2020)

| 1h 53min | Science Fiction, Action

2.8/5 (with 230 votes)

When a virus threatens to turn the now earth-dwelling friendly alien hybrids against humans, Captain Rose Corley must lead a team of elite mercenaries on a mission to the alien world in order to save what's left of humanity.

Directed by Liam O'Donnell - With Lindsey Morgan, Jonathan Howard, Daniel Bernhardt, Rhona Mitra, James Cosmo, Alexander Siddig, ...

The 12th Man(2017)

| 2h 16min | War, Drama

3.7/5 (with 220 votes)

After a failed anti-Nazi sabotage mission leaves his eleven comrades dead, a Norwegian resistance fighter finds himself fleeing the Gestapo through the snowbound reaches of Scandinavia.

Directed by Harald Zwart - With Thomas Gullestad, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Julia Bache-Wiig, Mads Sjøgård Pettersen, Erich Redman, Marie Blokhus, ...

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The Interpreter(2005)

PG-13

| 2h 8min | Crime, Thriller

3.2/5 (with 633 votes)

After Silvia Broome, an interpreter at United Nations headquarters, overhears plans of an assassination, an American Secret Service agent is sent to investigate.

Directed by Sydney Pollack - With Nicole Kidman, Sean Penn, Catherine Keener, Jesper Christensen, Yvan Attal, George Harris, ...

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Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade(1999)

| 1h 42min | Animation, Science Fiction, Thriller

3.7/5 (with 193 votes)

A member of an elite paramilitary counter-terrorism unit becomes traumatized after witnessing the suicide bombing of a young girl and is forced to undergo retraining. However, unbeknownst to him, he becomes a key player in a dispute between rival police divisions, as he finds himself increasingly involved with the sister of the girl he saw die.

Directed by Hiroyuki Okiura - With Yoshikatsu Fujiki, Hiroyuki Kinoshita, Eri Sendai, Kōsei Hirota, Yoshisada Sakaguchi

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Underground(1995)

2h 50min | Comedy, Drama, War

3.9/5 (with 276 votes)

A group of Serbian socialists prepares for the war in a surreal underground filled by parties, tragedies, love and hate.

Directed by Emir Kusturica - With Miki Manojlović, Slavko Štimac, Lazar Ristovski, Mirjana Joković, Srđan Todorović, Mirjana Karanović, ...

Au Revoir les Enfants(1987)

| 1h 45min | Drama, War

3.8/5 (with 271 votes)

Au revoir les enfants tells a heartbreaking story of friendship and devastating loss concerning two boys living in Nazi-occupied France. At a provincial Catholic boarding school, the precocious youths enjoy true camaraderie—until a secret is revealed. Based on events from writer-director Malle’s own childhood, the film is a subtle, precisely observed tale of courage, cowardice, and tragic awakening.

Directed by Louis Malle - With Gaspard Manesse, Raphaël Fejtö, François Berléand, Philippe Morier-Genoud, Francine Racette, Arnaud Henriet, ...

Captain Corelli's Mandolin(2001)

| 2h 11min | Drama, Romance / Love, War

3.0/5 (with 226 votes)

When a fisherman leaves to fight with the Greek army during World War II, his fiancée falls in love with the local Italian commander.

Directed by John Madden - With Nicolas Cage, Penélope Cruz, John Hurt, Christian Bale, David Morrissey, Irene Papas, ...

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The Heroes of Telemark(1965)

2h 11min | Action, Drama, War

3.5/5 (with 65 votes)

Set in German-occupied Norway, resistance fighter Knut Straud enlists the reluctant physicist Rolf Pedersen in an effort to destroy the German heavy water production plant in rural Telemark.

Directed by Anthony Mann - With Kirk Douglas, Richard Harris, Ulla Jacobsson, Michael Redgrave, Richard Harris, Roy Dotrice, ...

The Last American Soldier(1988)

1h 39min | Action

2.9/5 (with 2 votes)

Commander and his small band of freedom fighters make life difficult for the VC after the Vietnam War is over. They free Vietnamese prisoners, and destroy enemy convoys every chance they can get. This severely upsets the evil Russian Vlasov, who is working with the VC in various nefarious enterprises. An ultra-violent, Rambo style movie filmed in the Philippines.

Directed by Ignazio Dolce - With Mike Monty

This Life(2012)

1h 50min | Drama, War

3.0/5 (with 9 votes)

The true story of the Fiil's a family of innkeepers who during Nazi-Germany's occupation of Denmark took up arms against the German occupiers. But in the fight for freedom, some must die so that others may live.

Directed by Anne-Grethe Bjarup Riis - With Jens Jørn Spottag, Bodil Jørgensen, Bjarne Henriksen, Thomas Ernst, Anne Louise Hassing, Peder Holm Johansen, ...

The Poem(1961)

1h 39min | War, Drama

An influential Serbian poet decides to leave Nazi-occupied Belgrade and join partisans in the country. A young resistance activist, however, is not so thrilled with the idea because the old and womanizing intellectual doesn't fit in with his strict moralistic standards.

Directed by Radoš Novaković - With Zoran Milosavljević, Vasa Pantelić, Rade Marković, Stanislava Pešić, Velimir Bata Živojinović, Mihajlo Viktorović, ...

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Men Without Wings(1946)

1h 19min | War, Drama

2.7/5 (with 3 votes)

After an attack against the guard of the Third Reich, Nazi repression intensifies, and the Czechoslovakian resistance's organized sabotage in an aircraft factory leads to Gestapo shootings.

Directed by František Čáp - With Gustav Nezval, Eduard Linkers, Jiřina Petrovická, Ladislav Struna, Vladimír Hlavatý, Jan W. Speerger, ...

A Man in Our House(1961)

2h 33min | Drama, History, Romance / Love

3.3/5 (with 6 votes)

A Man in Our House is a 1961 Egyptian film about the resistance to British rule in Egypt which ended in the exile of King Farouk in 1954 and the rise to power of Gamal Abdel Nasser.

Directed by Henry Barakat - With Omar Sharif, Rushdy Abaza, Hasan Yusef

Signal Over the City(1960)

1h 31min | War, Action

2.4/5 (with 3 votes)

The movie is based on true events that occured in Croatian city of Karlovac in 1941. In order to save the imprisoned high ranking member of the resistance movement, the group of Partizans are conducting daring raid in the very center of the enemy stronghold.

Directed by Žika Mitrović - With Aleksandar Gavrić, Tonko Lonza, Velimir Bata Živojinović

To My Unborn Son(1943)

9min | Drama, War

3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

A Yugoslav man, dying after being shot while attempting to help defend his village, writes a letter of encouragement and hope to his unborn child, explaining what he was fighting for in resisting the Nazi invasion of his homeland. A John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short.

Assignment in Brittany(1943)

1h 36min | Drama, War

3.4/5 (with 2 votes)

A French Resistance fighter discovers he's a dead ringer for a Nazi official.

Directed by Jack Conway - With Jean-Pierre Aumont, Susan Peters

Contestação(1969)

15min | Documentary

A short film produced between September and October of 1969, during the course of the Brazilian military dictatorship. It's authorship remained anonymous for a long time and the precariousness of the production was due because of its clandestinity. The film is a collage of images of popular repression, ruling power violence and its people resistance around the world.

Immortal Youth(1948)

1h 50min | War

2.9/5 (with 2 votes)

A group of young illegals collect weapons in order to help partisans to liberate the occupied city of Belgrade.

Directed by Vojislav Nanovic - With Irena Kolesar, Rade Marković, Milutin Mića Tatić, Jovan Gec, Branko Vojnović

Xi Bai Po: Wang Er Xiao(2013)

1h 24min | Animation, War

1.0/5 (with 1 vote)

A 13-year-old boy whose parents are killed in the Second Sino-Japanese War finds vengeance as a key player in the village resistance.

Bil'in Habibti(2006)

55min | Documentary

5.0/5 (with 1 vote)

The Israeli filmmaker Shai Corneli Polak records the building of the 'security wall' through Palestinian territory at the village of Bil'in. The villagers protest mostly peacefully, while the Israeli army doesn't react peacefully. By now the Israeli High Court has ruled that the building of the wall was illegal.

Nights and Days(1959)

1h 29min | War, Drama, Thriller

A partisan battalion who was surrounded from all sides brings up decision to enter the city, so that the fighters could rest and recover. Due to fear of one of the partisans, the enemy discovers their plan, but fails to sabotage it.

Clay Pigeon(1966)

1h 29min | War

2.9/5 (with 2 votes)

The martyrdom of two workers who fall into the hands of the Gestapo during the occupation of Sarajevo.

Directed by Toma Janić - With Zoran Radmilović, Velimir Bata Živojinović, Stole Aranđelović, Dušan Janićijević, Ranko Gučevac, Miloš Kandić, ...

Guerrilla Girl(1953)

1h 22min | Drama, Thriller, War

Thriller - During World War II, Helmut Dantine specialized in playing villainous Nazis in Hollywood melodramas. He offers a compelling performance in a variation of these earlier roles in this suspense filled and politically loaded tale of intrigue. The story opens in German-occupied Athens during the darkest hours of the war. Civilians are not allowed on the streets after dark. - Helmut Dantine, Marianna, Irene Champlin.

Directed by Giannis Hristodoulou - With Helmut Dantine

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