20 movies like Ashes and Diamonds, ordered by similarity : They Shall Not Grow Old(2018), The Password Is Courage(1962), My Name Is Ivan(1963), A City of Sadness(1989), Katyn(2007), Woodpeckers(2017), Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan(2019), Kanal(1957), Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison(1951), The Battleship Island(2017), The Water Diviner(2014), Instrument of War(2017) ...
Drama
1958
103 Minutes
Zbigniew Cybulski Ewa Krzyzewska Waclaw Zastrzezynsky Adam Pawlikowski Bogumil Kobiela Jan Ciecierski Stanislaw Milski Artur Mlodnicki
assassin soldier commanding officer barmaid son hotel desk clerk dark brooding powerful gripping poland warsaw, poland church tavern ruins world war ii war crime communism independence moral dilemma
A Communist commandant finds himself surrounded by the Polish resistance during the closing days of World War II.
8.3/10
Documentary, War, Drama, History
UK|New Zealand
2018
99 Minutes
soldier army recruit british officer british soldier british soldiers german soldier german troops bleak emotional moving patriotic powerful sad somber war zone france belgium united kingdom trenches training camp
A documentary about World War I with never-before-seen footage to commemorate the centennial of the end of the war.
6.8/10
Drama
UK|USA
1962
116 Minutes
Dirk Bogarde Maria Perschy Alfred Lynch Nigel Stock Reginald Beckwith Richard Marner Ed Devereaux Lewis Fiander George Mikell Richard Carpenter Margaret Whiting
british soldier sergeant german soldier nazi prisoner of war leader charming hilarious patriotic playful prison camp germany united kingdom poland train station charles coward prison break sabotage world war ii bravery
British N.C.O. Sergeant Major Charles Coward (Sir Dirk Bogarde) escapes from the Stalag VIII-B P.O.W. camp, and is mistakenly awarded with the Iron Cross by the Germans.
War, Drama
1963
97 Minutes
Kolya Burlyayev Valentin Zubkov Ye. Zharikov Stepan Krylov Nikolay Grinko Dmitri Milyutenko
nazi russian spy boy orphan captain chilling powerful dark russia prison camp east germany military academy spying war traumatic past murder world war ii prison break transformation revenge
During World War II, a 12-year-old Russian sneaks behind enemy lines to spy on the Germans who killed his parents.
7.9/10
Drama
Hong Kong|Taiwan
1989
158 Minutes
Tony Leung Hsin Shu-fen Chen Sown-yung
photographer soldier gangster rebel powerful disturbing sad gripping taiwan small town mountain rebellion political coup crime war family transformation sacrifice love 1940s
A beautiful, historical film based upon the complex lives of four brothers.
7.0/10
Drama
Poland
2007
121 Minutes
Joachim Paul Assböck Waldemar Barwinski Stanislawa Celinska Andrzej Chyra Magdalena Cielecka Maja Ostaszewska
lieutenant wife daughter soldier prisoner of war russian soldier bleak disheartening powerful emotional poland pow camp forest graveyard battlefield world war ii cover-up massacre marriage nazis
An examination of the Soviet slaughter of thousands of Polish officers and citizens in the Katyn forest in 1940.
Drama
2017
106 Minutes
Jean Jean Ramón Emilio Candelario Judith Rodriguez Jose Cruz Manuel Raposo Karina Valdez Aleja Johnson Carlota Carretero Keunis Álvarez Orestes Amador
prison guard prisoner prisoners messenger gangsters love interest romantic interest romantic rival rival dark disturbing emotional engaging gripping intense moving passionate powerful raw tense
Incarcerated in the Dominican Republic, an inmate uses sign language to communicate with his imprisoned girlfriend at an adjacent institution.
6.8/10
War, Drama, History
Australia
2019
118 Minutes
Travis Fimmel Luke Bracey Daniel Webber Richard Roxburgh Nicholas Hamilton Matt Doran Stephen Peacocke Myles Pollard Uli Latukefu Anthony Hayes Sam Parsonson
soldier friend enemy officer vietnamese man brooding engaging gripping intense vietnam war zone barracks war death power uncertainty hope strength discovery escape
In August 1966, in a Vietnamese rubber plantation called Long Tan, 108 young and inexperienced Australian and New Zealand soldiers are fighting for their lives against 2500 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong soldiers.
7.9/10
Drama
Poland
1957
96 Minutes
Teresa Izewska Tadeusz Janczar Wisczyslaw Glinski Emil Karewicz Vladek Sheybal Tadeusz Gwiazdowski Stanislaw Mikulski
resistance fighter nazi soldier bleak chilling dark tense powerful raw warsaw, poland sewer battlefield world war ii uprising destruction trapped struggle sacrifice fall underdog
In 1944, during the Warsaw uprising against the Nazis, Polish Lieutenant Zadra and his resistance fighters use Warsaw's sewer system to escape the German encirclement.
6.6/10
Drama
USA
1951
87 Minutes
Steve Cochran David Brian Philip Carey Ted de Corsia Scott Forbes Michael Tolan Dick Wesson Paul Picerni William Campbell
warden prison guard prisoner prison official sergeant inmate brooding intense engaging emotional brutal bleak folsom state prison reformation prison life prison riot prison break humanity human rights escape
At California's Folsom Prison, escape attempts and riots are on the rise due to the old-school sadistic style of management of a brutal warden.
7.1/10
Drama, History
South Korea
2017
132 Minutes
Jeong-min Hwang So Ji-sub Song Joong Ki Lee Jung-hyun Su-an Kim Kyeong-ho Yoon Seung-hwan Shin Seong-il Park
korean person prisoner japanese soldier rebel leader officer bleak brutal disturbing frenetic frightful shocking island prison japan labor camp ship imprisonment uprising power
During the Japanese colonial era, roughly 400 Korean people, who were forced onto Battleship Island ("Hashima Island") to mine for coal, attempt to a dramatic escape.
7.0/10
War, Drama, History
Australia|USA
2014
112 Minutes
Russell Crowe Olga Kurylenko Yilmaz Erdogan Cem Yilmaz Jai Courtney Dylan Georgiades Steve Bastoni Isabel Lucas Salih Kalyon Megan Gale Ryan Corr
farmer son soldier hotel owner friend wife brooding chilling intense australia turkey hotel street restaurant cemetery war loss father/son relationship search water
An Australian man travels to Turkey after the Battle of Gallipoli to try and locate his three missing sons.
6.0/10
War, Drama, Action
USA
2017
90 Minutes
Jack Ashton Elliot James Langridge Daniel Betts Rupert Simonian Urs Rechn Andrea Deck Andreas Wisniewski Callum McGowan Barney White Ethan Vincent
bomber pilot prisoner of war british soldier nazi german soldier tense suspenseful gripping dark engaging nazi germany world war ii prisoners of war survival captivity oppression escape pursuit quest rescue
When U.S. B-24 bomber pilot Clair Cline is shot down and captured in northern Germany, one war ends and another begins -- to keep hope alive. Now behind German barbed wire and oppression, ... See full summary »
8.1/10
Drama
Germany|USA
2008
117 Minutes
Clint Eastwood Christopher Carley Bee Vang Ahney Her Brian Haley Geraldine Hughes Dreama Walker Brian Howe John Carroll Lynch William Hill Brooke Chia Thao
veteran neighbor gang member son grandchild immigrant dark emotional gripping brooding powerful highland park, mich. household barbershop church street neighborhood crime friendship death
Disgruntled Korean War veteran Walt Kowalski sets out to reform his neighbor, Thao Lor, a Hmong teenager who tried to steal Kowalski's prized possession: a 1972 Gran Torino.
Drama
1944
126 Minutes
Irene Dunne Alan Marshal Frank Morgan Roddy McDowall Peter Lawford Dame May Whitty C. Aubrey Smith Gladys Cooper Van Johnson John Warburton Jill Esmond
pretty woman father british soldier son colonel girlfriend melodramatic moving london hotel hospital romance world war i world war ii mother/son relationship loss love growing up sacrifice 1940s
A woman (Irene Dunne) from Oklahoma marries an English aristocrat (Alan Marshal) and raises a son between World War I and World War II.
7.6/10
War, Drama
Poland
2016
150 Minutes
Michalina Labacz Arkadiusz Jakubik Wasyl Wasylik Adrian Zaremba Izabela Kuna Jacek Braciak Maria Sobocinska Oleksandr Zbarazkyi
young woman young man widower sister father villager dark disturbing emotional gripping intense village poland wedding market world war ii young love ethnic tension war crimes massacre
Despite being in love with a Ukrainian boy from the same village, Polish girl named Zosia is forced into marrying a wealthy widower. Soon World War II begins and ethnic tensions arise. Amidst the war chaos Zosia tries to survive.
6.4/10
Drama, Biography, War
Russia|Germany|Lithuania|Poland
2018
120 Minutes
Konstantin Khabensky Christopher Lambert Felice Jankell Dainius Kazlauskas Sergey Godin Roman Ageev
prisoner of war soviet soldier concentration camp survivor lieutenant nazi sergeant dark chilling intense disturbing frightening raw poland concentration camp survival nazis prisoners of war world war ii concentration camp uprising
Soviet officer Alexander Pechersky organizes a revolt and mass escape of prisoners from Sobibór extermination camp in October 1943.
7.4/10
Drama
Ireland
1991
189 Minutes
joseph stalin security head prisoner diplomat scientist gripping dark emotional profound labor camp russia embassy moral dilemma communism espionage technology imprisonment temptation sacrifice quest
When a field (which has been farmed by the McCabe family for generations) goes up for auction, the patriarch of the McCabe family will stop at nothing to prevent a rich American from buying it.
7.3/10
Drama, War
West Germany
1959
93 Minutes
Joachim Hansen Wilhelm Borchert Wolfgang Preiss Carl Lange Horst Frank Peter Carsten Richard Münch Günter Pfitzmann Sonja Ziemann Gunnar Möller
german officer nationalist german soldier enemy soldier engaging suspenseful fascinating gripping melodramatic heartwarming germany stalingrad stalingrad, russia war zone war world war ii ideologies nationalism national identity
In the winter of 1943, against the background of battle scenes, a young German Lieutenant who increasingly distrusts the inhuman Nazi ideology struggles with the concept of war.
Drama
2007
93 Minutes
David Haig Daniel Radcliffe Kim Cattrall Carey Mulligan Julian Wadham Martin McCann Richard Dormer
soldier family officer young man englishman moving tense trenches war zone france england war world war i trench warfare family sacrifice sacrifice rise 1910s
Author Rudyard Kipling (David Haig) and his wife (Kim Cattrall) search for their son (Daniel Radcliffe) after he goes missing in action during World War I.
7.0/10
Drama
UK
1946
108 Minutes
Michael Redgrave Rachel Kempson Jack Warner Frederick Leister Mervyn Johns Rachel Thomas Gladys Henson Gordon Jackson Elliott Mason Robert Wyndham Basil Radford
soldier prisoner of war czech wife impostor nazi gripping touching dark prison camp germany great britain assumed identity world war ii prisoners of war deception on the run marriage escape love
In 1940, a concentration-camp escapee assumes the identity of a dead British officer, only to become a prisoner of war.
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