Paradise Road(1997)

Combined Rating:
39
Combined Critics Rating: 39

Fact-based recounting of a group of women who are imprisoned on the island of Sumatra by the Japanese during World War II and used music as a relief to their misery.



Guizi lai le(2000)

Combined Rating:
38
Combined Critics Rating: 35

During the Japanese occupation of China, two prisoners are dumped in a peasant's home in a small town. The owner is bullied into keeping the prisoners until the next New Year, at which time...



La commune (Paris, 1871)(2000)

Combined Rating:
37
Combined Critics Rating: 51

In this war drama blurring the lines between documentary and fiction, the working class and the bourgeoisie of 19th century Paris are interviewed and covered on television, before and during a tragic workers' class revolt.



Musíme si pomáhat(2000)

Combined Rating:
36
Combined Critics Rating: 35

In Nazi occupied Czechoslovakia, a childless couple agree to hide a Jewish friend at great personal risk of discovery and execution.



Memphis Belle(1990)

Combined Rating:
36
Combined Critics Rating: 16

In 1943, the crew of a B-17 based in UK prepares for its 25th and last bombing mission over Germany before returning home to the USA.



Gettysburg(1993)

Combined Rating:
36
Combined Critics Rating: 15

In 1863, the Northern and Southern forces fight at Gettysburg in the decisive battle of the American Civil War.



Before the Rain(1994)

Combined Rating:
35
Combined Critics Rating: 21

In the republic of Macedonia, amid war in Bosnia, an Albanian girl being hunted by Christians is offered protection by a monk who has taken a vow of silence.



Lucie Aubrac(1997)

Combined Rating:
35
Combined Critics Rating: 46

A love story or a tale of the resistance, this poignant movie tells both the haunting story of a French resistance cell in Lyon but also the love of Lucie Aubrac for her husband, and the ...



In the Army Now(1994)

Combined Rating:
33
Combined Critics Rating: 20

Two misguided youths join the reserves to make some money for their entrepreneurial dreams. No sooner than they finish basic training are they called up to do their part to save the free world.



Le temps retrouvé, d'après l'oeuvre de Marcel Proust(1999)

Combined Rating:
31
Combined Critics Rating: 36

A lush, elegant epic taking us on a time-swirling trip down the infinitely complex labyrinth that is Marcel Proust's memory lane.



Europa Europa(1990)

Combined Rating:
30
Combined Critics Rating: 13

A boy in Nazi Germany, trying to conceal that he is Jewish, joins the Hitler Youth.



Takhté siah(2000)

Combined Rating:
29
Combined Critics Rating: 32

Itinerant Kurdish teachers, carrying blackboards on their backs, look for students in the hills and villages of Iran, near the Iraqi border during the Iran-Iraq war. Said falls in with a ...



Underground(1995)

Combined Rating:
29
Combined Critics Rating: 0

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



Mediterraneo(1991)

Combined Rating:
28
Combined Critics Rating: 10

In WW2, an Italian Army unit of misfits occupies an isolated non-strategic Greek island for the duration of the war.



Havana(1990)

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Combined Rating:
27
Combined Critics Rating: 17

Cuba, December 1958: The professional gambler Jack visits Havana to organize a big Poker game. On the ship he meets Roberta and falls in love with her. Shortly after they arrive in Cuba, ...



The Trench(1999)

Combined Rating:
27
Combined Critics Rating: 29

A story about a group of soldiers' last days before the battle of the Somme in 1916, showing the conditions in the trenches during World War 1 and taking you into the minds of the soldiers.



Stalingrad(1993)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 0

The story follows a group of German soldiers, from their Italian R&R in the summer of 1942 to the frozen steppes of Soviet Russia and ending with the battle for Stalingrad.



Goya en Burdeos(1999)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 31

Francisco Goya (1746-1828), deaf and ill, lives the last years of his life in voluntary exile in Bordeaux, a Liberal protesting the oppressive rule of Ferdinand VII. He's living with his ...



Land and Freedom(1995)

Combined Rating:
25
Combined Critics Rating: 10

David is an unemployed communist that comes to Spain in 1937 during the civil war to enroll the republicans and defend the democracy against the fascists. He makes friends between the soldiers.



Mother Night(1996)

Combined Rating:
25
Combined Critics Rating: 17

An American spy behind the lines during WWII serves as a Nazi propagandist, a role he cannot escape in his future life as he can never reveal his real role in the war.




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