Children and war - long list
by emurer | created - 06 Oct 2017 | updated - 01 Nov 2017 | PublicFilms about war's effect on children
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1. Defense of Sevastopol (1911)
100 min | History, War
First film ever that was shot by two cameras. Set in 1854-1855, in Sevastopol and Yalta during the Crimean War. Admirals Kornilov (Mozzhukhin) and Nakhimov (Gromov) organize the defense ... See full summary »
Directors: Vasili Goncharov, Aleksandr Khanzhonkov | Stars: Andrey Gromov, N. Semyonov, Olga Petrova-Zvantseva, Ivan Mozzhukhin
Votes: 250
2. On the Firing Line (1912)
Short, Drama
With drums beating and colors flying the gay Italian regiment marches down to the wharves to be transported to Tripoli, Colonel Sandor is in command and he directs affairs with rare ... See full summary »
3. The Drummer of the 8th (1913)
28 min | Short, War, Drama
When the Civil War begins, young Billy runs away from home to enlist in the Northern Army as a drummer; he's wounded in battle and taken prisoner. He manages to escape and deliver an ... See full summary »
Director: Thomas H. Ince | Stars: Cyril Gardner, Mildred Harris, Frank Borzage
Votes: 126
4. Dødsklokken (1914)
50 min | Drama
Lt. Charley is sent to deliver a message and has to get there before the enemy crosses the territory. But a spy intercepts the message and the Lieutenant is accused of being a traitor.
Director: Alf Nielsen | Stars: Charles Løwaas, Alf Nielsen, George Schnéevoigt, Axel Strøm
5. La piccola vedetta lombarda (1915)
Director: Vittorio Rossi Pianelli | Stars: Vittorio Petrugiaro, Telemaco Ruggeri
Votes: 12
6. Il tamburino sardo (1915)
Short, Drama
Director: Vittorio Rossi Pianelli | Stars: Luigi Petrungaro, Telemaco Ruggeri
7. La guerra ed il sogno di Momi (1917)
37 min | Animation, Short, Fantasy
An old man explains a war story to his grandson, who sleeps and dreams about a battle scenes performed by puppets.
Directors: Segundo de Chomón, Giovanni Pastrone | Stars: Romilde Toschi, Alberto Nepoti, Enrico Gemelli, Luigi Petrungaro
Votes: 119
8. A Man There Was (1917)
Not Rated | 65 min | Drama, War
Terje Vigen, a sailor, suffers the loss of his family through the cruelty of another man. Years later, when his enemy's family finds itself dependent on Terje's beneficence, Terje must decide whether to avenge himself.
Director: Victor Sjöström | Stars: Victor Sjöström, August Falck, Edith Erastoff, Bergliot Husberg
Votes: 2,324
9. Hearts of the World (1918)
TV-PG | 117 min | Drama, War
Young lovers in a French village are torn apart with the coming of the Great War.
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Lillian Gish, Dorothy Gish, Robert Harron, Adolph Lestina
Votes: 1,105
10. La Belgique martyre (1919)
69 min | Drama
Director: Charles Tutelier | Stars: Nadia D'Angely, Rose Deny, Fernand Liesse, Émile Mylo
Votes: 20
11. Xiao Wanyi (1933)
114 min | Drama, War
Sister Ye is the master craftswoman in a village of toymakers that is subject to outside attacks. A series of personal tragedies reduces her to a shell of herself, until she breaks and rallies the townsfolk to fight their oppressors.
Director: Yu Sun | Stars: Lingyu Ruan, Congmei Yuan, Li-li Li
Votes: 225
12. The Keeper of the Bees (1935)
Passed | 75 min | Drama, Romance, War
A severely traumatized World War I veteran, believing that he's living on borrowed time, comes upon a peaceful little village and meets an old man called Bee Master and his protégé, Little ... See full summary »
Director: Christy Cabanne | Stars: Neil Hamilton, Betty Furness, Emma Dunn, Edith Fellows
Votes: 75
13. La tragédie de Marchienne (1937)
60 min | Drama, War
The tragedy of Marchienne is about a little girl of ten, Yvonne Vieslet, who was gunned down before the horrified eyes of the inhabitants of Marchienne by a roughneck German soldier for offering her morsel of bread to a French prisoner.
Director: Francis Martin | Star: Francis Martin
14. Mitka Lelyuk (1938)
77 min | Adventure, War
Directors: Aleksey Maslyukov, Mechislava Mayevskaya | Stars: Lyonya Fesechko, Edik Boyarchuk, Leka Gitlin, Vitya Konovalov
Votes: 23
15. Kadetten (1939)
94 min | Drama, War
During the 18th century's Seven-Year War, a group of young Prussian army cadets are captured by Russian soldiers. After enduring brutal treatment, the cadets come up with a plan to escape ... See full summary »
Director: Karl Ritter | Stars: Mathias Wieman, Carsta Löck, Andrews Engelmann, Theo Shall
Votes: 40
16. Boy pod sokolom (1942)
52 min | War
Early 40s, USSR. The plot of the picture is based on a story about schoolchildren who, like all their peers, love to play Cossack robbers and war games. The guys are divided into two teams,... See full synopsis »
Director: Aleksandr Razumnyj | Stars: Kolya Leonov, Viktor Boika, Tolya Gorodulin, Petya Grokhovskiy
Votes: 14
17. Journey for Margaret (1942)
Passed | 81 min | Drama, Romance, War
John Davis, a married American newspaper reporter in London, covers the story of a home for children displaced by the war and meets two kids who grow attached to him.
Directors: W.S. Van Dyke, Herbert Kline | Stars: Robert Young, Laraine Day, Fay Bainter, Nigel Bruce
Votes: 965
18. Mrs. Miniver (1942)
Approved | 134 min | Drama, Romance, War
A British family struggles to survive the first months of World War II.
Director: William Wyler | Stars: Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Teresa Wright, May Whitty
Votes: 19,469 | Gross: $13.50M
19. On the Sunny Side (1942)
Passed | 69 min | Drama, War
Because of the war, a 12-year-old boy from England, Hugh, is sent to live with the Andrews family in Ohio. Don, the Andrews' 11-year-old son, eagerly accepts the English boy and is happy ... See full summary »
Director: Harold D. Schuster | Stars: Roddy McDowall, Jane Darwell, Stanley Clements, Katharine Alexander
Votes: 178
20. The Pied Piper (1942)
87 min | Drama, War
While traveling in France during the Nazi invasion of 1940, an Englishman is entrusted with the care of a group of refugee children.
Director: Irving Pichel | Stars: Monty Woolley, Roddy McDowall, Anne Baxter, Otto Preminger
Votes: 736
21. The Human Comedy (1943)
Passed | 117 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
Teenager Homer Macauley stays at home in small-town Ithaca to support his family while his older brother Marcus prepares to go to war.
Director: Clarence Brown | Stars: Mickey Rooney, Frank Morgan, James Craig, Marsha Hunt
Votes: 2,452
22. The Silent Village (1943)
36 min | Documentary, Drama, Short
The true story of the massacre of a small Czech village by the Nazis is retold as if it happened in Wales.
Director: Humphrey Jennings | Stars: Villagers of Cwmgiedd, Arwel Michael
Votes: 194
23. Since You Went Away (1944)
Approved | 177 min | Drama, Romance, War
With her husband away to fight in World War II, a housewife must care for their two daughters alone.
Directors: John Cromwell, Edward F. Cline, Tay Garnett, David O. Selznick | Stars: Claudette Colbert, Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Shirley Temple
Votes: 5,095
24. Shoeshine (1946)
Not Rated | 87 min | Drama
Two shoeshine boys in postwar Rome, Italy save up to buy a horse, but their involvement as dupes in a burglary lands them in juvenile prison; the experience take a devastating toll on their friendship.
Director: Vittorio De Sica | Stars: Rinaldo Smordoni, Franco Interlenghi, Annielo Mele, Bruno Ortensi
Votes: 8,118
25. Record of a Tenement Gentleman (1947)
72 min | Drama
A young boy follows Tashiro home to his tenement housing complex on the outskirts of Tokyo, the boy who was separated from his carpenter father somehow and somewhere in Kudan. All Tashiro ... See full summary »
Director: Yasujirô Ozu | Stars: Chôko Iida, Hôhi Aoki, Eitarô Ozawa, Mitsuko Yoshikawa
Votes: 2,254
26. The Boy with Green Hair (1948)
Approved | 82 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
This parable looks at public reaction when the hair of an American war orphan mysteriously turns green.
Director: Joseph Losey | Stars: Pat O'Brien, Robert Ryan, Barbara Hale, Dean Stockwell
Votes: 3,261
27. Germany Year Zero (1948)
Not Rated | 78 min | Drama
A young German boy faces the problems of the tough life in the immediate post-WWII Berlin.
Director: Roberto Rossellini | Stars: Edmund Moeschke, Ernst Pittschau, Ingetraud Hinze, Franz-Otto Krüger
Votes: 13,719
28. Children of the Beehive (1948)
86 min | Drama
The movie focuses on the plight of ten war orphans hailing from different cities across Japan. With nowhere to go, they scavenge around train stations, scratching out an existence by means ... See full summary »
Director: Hiroshi Shimizu | Stars: Shunsaku Shimamura, Natuski Masako, Gosho Shoichi, Kiyomi Imoto
Votes: 314
29. The Search (1948)
Approved | 104 min | Drama, War
In post-war Berlin, an American private helps a lost Czech boy find his mother.
Director: Fred Zinnemann | Stars: Montgomery Clift, Ivan Jandl, Aline MacMahon, Wendell Corey
Votes: 4,840
30. Border Street (1948)
110 min | Drama, War
The story of Polish and Jewish families living side by side in one Warsaw street. Everything changes once and for all with the Nazi invasion.
Director: Aleksander Ford | Stars: Mieczyslawa Cwiklinska, Jerzy Leszczynski, Wladyslaw Godik, Wladyslaw Walter
Votes: 254
31. It Happened in Europe (1947)
100 min | Drama
A band of runaways and orphans of the war scour the countryside in search of food and shelter. They invade and then taken in by a musician and former concert pianist who's hiding out in a ... See full summary »
Director: Géza von Radványi | Stars: Artúr Somlay, Miklós Gábor, Zsuzsa Bánki, György Bárdy
Votes: 1,075
32. Vlcie diery (1948)
123 min | Drama, War
Director: Palo Bielik | Stars: Beta Ponicanová, Jozef Budský, Mikulás Huba, Juraj Sebok
Votes: 116
33. Three Came Home (1950)
Not Rated | 106 min | Drama, War
During Word War II, American author Agnes Newton Keith is imprisoned by the Japanese in various POW camps in North Borneo and Sarawak.
Director: Jean Negulesco | Stars: Claudette Colbert, Patric Knowles, Florence Desmond, Sessue Hayakawa
Votes: 2,138
34. Boy Partisans (1951)
97 min | Drama, War
"Boy Partisans", one of the first Korean films to be shot during the war, tells the story of a group of teenagers who decide to form a Partisan unit after the Americans temporarily take over cities liberated by the Communists.
Director: Yong-Gyu Yoon | Stars: Se-Yong Kim, Ye-bong Mun, Seung-min Nam, Chansook Byun
Votes: 19
35. Children of Hiroshima (1952)
Not Rated | 97 min | Drama, War
Post war Hiroshima: It's been four years since the last time she visited her hometown. Takako faces the after effects of the A-bomb when she travels around the city to call on old friends.
Director: Kaneto Shindô | Stars: Nobuko Otowa, Osamu Takizawa, Masao Shimizu, Jûkichi Uno
Votes: 1,372
36. Forbidden Games (1952)
Not Rated | 86 min | Comedy, Drama, War
A young French girl orphaned in a German air attack is befriended by the son of a poor farmer, and together they try to come to terms with the realities of death.
Director: René Clément | Stars: Georges Poujouly, Brigitte Fossey, Amédée, Laurence Badie
Votes: 13,108 | Gross: $0.01M
37. The Barefoot Battalion (1953)
Approved | 89 min | Drama, War
A young survivor of World War II and former member of the reputed "Barefoot Battalion", a close-knit pack of disciplined orphaned boys, recounts to a homeless street urchin the story of 160 orphans who aided the Resistance.
Director: Gregg G. Tallas | Stars: Maria Kosti, Nikos Fermas, Vasileios Fragedakis, Antonis Voulgaris
Votes: 235
38. Twenty-Four Eyes (1954)
Not Rated | 156 min | Drama
Schoolteacher Hisako Oishi forms an emotional bond with her pupils and teaches them various virtues, while at the same time worrying about their future.
Director: Keisuke Kinoshita | Stars: Hideko Takamine, Itsuo Watanabe, Makoto Miyagawa, Takeo Terashita
Votes: 2,831
39. Three Stripes in the Sun (1955)
Approved | 93 min | Drama, Romance, War
Army Master Sergeant Hugh O'Reilly is stationed in Japan after World War II. He hates the Japanese. He meets a pretty young Japanese woman, an interpreter for the Army, and through her ... See full summary »
Director: Richard Murphy | Stars: Aldo Ray, Philip Carey, Dick York, Chuck Connors
Votes: 149
40. Valley of Peace (1956)
82 min | Drama, War
During WWII in Slovenia, two orphaned children seeking the imaginary Valley of Peace run into a downed black American pilot who tries to protect them from the Germans until the Yugoslav Partisans can arrive.
Director: France Stiglic | Stars: John Kitzmiller, Evelyne Wohlfeiler, Tugo Stiglic, Boris Kralj
Votes: 402
41. Battle Hymn (1957)
Passed | 108 min | Biography, Drama, History
A remorseful bomber pilot-turned-minister rejoins for the Korean War.
Director: Douglas Sirk | Stars: Rock Hudson, Martha Hyer, Dan Duryea, Don DeFore
Votes: 1,307
42. The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (1958)
Approved | 158 min | Biography, Drama, War
A tenacious British woman becomes a missionary and runs an inn for travelling merchants in China during the Japanese invasion and the tumultuous years leading up to the Second World War.
Director: Mark Robson | Stars: Ingrid Bergman, Robert Donat, Curd Jürgens, Michael David
Votes: 5,422
43. The Bridge (1959)
Not Rated | 103 min | Drama, History, War
In 1945, Germany is being overrun, and nobody is left to fight but teenagers.
Director: Bernhard Wicki | Stars: Volker Bohnet, Fritz Wepper, Michael Hinz, Frank Glaubrecht
Votes: 8,656
44. The Diary of Anne Frank (1959)
Approved | 180 min | Biography, Drama, Family
During World War II, a teenage Jewish girl named Anne Frank and her family are forced into hiding in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands.
Director: George Stevens | Stars: Millie Perkins, Shelley Winters, Joseph Schildkraut, Richard Beymer
Votes: 13,695 | Gross: $5.01M
45. Two Women (1960)
Not Rated | 101 min | Drama, War
In WWII Italy, a widow and her lonely daughter seek distance between themselves and the horrors of war.
Director: Vittorio De Sica | Stars: Sophia Loren, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Raf Vallone, Eleonora Brown
Votes: 12,438
46. Conspiracy of Hearts (1960)
Not Rated | 113 min | Drama, War
Catholic nuns risk their lives to help Jewish children in an Italian internment camp escape to Palestine during World War II.
Director: Ralph Thomas | Stars: Lilli Palmer, Sylvia Syms, Yvonne Mitchell, Ronald Lewis
Votes: 560
47. Prace (1962)
84 min | Family, War
A young Czech boy is freed from a concentration camp and ends up working for the army against the Germans.
Director: Karel Kachyna | Stars: Michal Koblic, Marienka Magdolenova, Vladimír Hlavatý, Gustáv Valach
Votes: 119
48. Higher Principle (1960)
104 min | Drama, War
The story of High school in Czechia (then Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia) during occupation by Nazi Germany, where three students are arrested by Gestapo.
Director: Jirí Krejcík | Stars: Frantisek Smolík, Jana Brejchová, Ivan Mistrík, Alexander Postler
Votes: 668
49. Piesen o sivom holubovi (1961)
98 min | Drama, War
During the WW2 a group of Slovak children goes a trip on the mountains with their teacher.
Director: Stanislav Barabas | Stars: Karol Machata, Jirí Sovák, Radoslav Bartoník, Michal Belák
Votes: 98
50. Birth Certificate (1961)
99 min | Drama, War
Three episodes dealing with the harsh situation of children at the time of war. They stay at orphanages, wait for their parents to come back, help the soldiers, hide in the forests and do their best to survive.
Director: Stanislaw Rózewicz | Stars: Henryk Hryniewicz, Beata Barszczewska, Andrzej Banaszewski, Edward Mincer
Votes: 421
51. Chickamauga (1962)
30 min | Short, Drama
Adapted from a short story by Ambrose Bierce, a young, deaf-mute witnesses the carnage of the American Civil War as a surrealistic dream.
Director: Robert Enrico | Stars: Pierre Boffety, Anne Cornaly, Roger Jacquet, Edwine Moatti
Votes: 103
52. Ivan's Childhood (1962)
Not Rated | 95 min | Drama, War
During WWII, Soviet orphan Ivan Bondarev strikes up a friendship with three sympathetic Soviet officers while working as a scout behind the German lines.
Directors: Andrei Tarkovsky, Eduard Abalov | Stars: Nikolay Burlyaev, Valentin Zubkov, Evgeniy Zharikov, Stepan Krylov
Votes: 39,946
53. Pojat (1962)
106 min | Comedy, Drama, War
A group of mischievous Finnish boys experience the ups and downs of life during World War 2.
Director: Mikko Niskanen | Stars: Pentti Tarkiainen, Vesa-Matti Loiri, Uti Saurio, Hannu Vironmäki
Votes: 977
54. Reach for Glory (1962)
86 min | Drama, War
During World War II, in a small English coastal town, teenage boys eager to join the army but unable to do so participate in their own homemade private brutal war games with tragic results.
Director: Philip Leacock | Stars: Michael Anderson Jr., Oliver Grimm, Martin Tomlinson, Alexis Kanner
Votes: 194
55. Sasa (1962)
88 min | Drama, War
A mysterious person is killing pro-Nazi officials in a small Serbian town. A group of children accidentally reveal his identity.
Director: Radenko Ostojic | Stars: Rade Markovic, Dusica Zegarac, Predrag Ceramilac, Ratko Miletic
Votes: 156
56. Ty ne sirota (1963 TV Movie)
81 min | Drama
This is a true story film referred to as 'You are not an orphan'. It's about Shoakhmet Shamakhmudov and his wife Bakhri Akramova, an Uzbek family of blacksmiths who gave shelter to fifteen ... See full summary »
Director: Shukhrat Abbasov | Stars: Lyutfi Sarymsakova, Abid Dshalilov, Gena Tkachenko, Fima Kaminer
Votes: 62
57. Naked Among Wolves (1963)
Not Rated | 100 min | Drama, War
In the last weeks of World War II, inmates of Buchenwald concentration camp hide a Polish child from the SS guards, hoping that the advance of the American forces will set them free.
Director: Frank Beyer | Stars: Erwin Geschonneck, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Krystyn Wójcik, Fred Delmare
Votes: 837
58. Opasni put (1963)
96 min | War
In the last days of World War II, two children from Yugoslavia manage to escape a German concentration camp. They begin a long and dangerous journey home.
Director: Mate Relja | Stars: Marinko Cosic, Zlatko Kovacic, Zoran Relja, Vanja Drach
Votes: 43
59. Diamonds of the Night (1964)
Not Rated | 67 min | Drama, War
Two Jewish boys escape from a train transporting them from one concentration camp to another. The film goes beyond the themes of war and anti-Nazism and concerns itself with man's struggle to preserve human dignity.
Director: Jan Nemec | Stars: Ladislav Jánsky, Antonín Kumbera, Ilse Bischofova, Jan Riha
Votes: 2,905
60. Don't Cry Peter (1964)
92 min | Adventure, War
Two partisan coalminers need to take three orphan children away from dangerous area to the liberated land.
Director: France Stiglic | Stars: Lojze Rozman, Bert Sotlar, Majda Potokar, Zlatko Sugman
Votes: 790
61. At' zije Republika (1965)
134 min | Drama, War
It is the spring 1945 and the front line is getting closer to the small Moravian village of Nesovice. Twelve-year old Oldrich Vareka, nicknamed Shorty for his tiny stature, observes the ... See full summary »
Director: Karel Kachyna | Stars: Frank Argus, Josef Barta, P. Bohdanecky, Eduard Bredun
Votes: 307
62. The Demilitarized Zone (1965)
62 min | Drama, War
The film exposes the atrocities of war through the eyes of two children who are stranded in the DMZ after the end of the Korean War. The DMZ, strewn with abandoned tanks, dead bodies, land ... See full summary »
Director: Sang-ho Park | Stars: Mi-lyeong Jo, Won Namkung, Bin-a Ju, Yeong-kwan Lee
Votes: 156
63. My Way Home (1965)
108 min | Drama, War
In the final days of WWII, a seventeen-year-old boy wanders the countryside. He is captured by Soviet troops, then released, then captured once more - after he has donned a German uniform ... See full summary »
Director: Miklós Jancsó | Stars: András Kozák, Sergey Nikonenko, Béla Barsi, Jurij Bodovszkij
Votes: 790
64. Orlovi rano lete (1966)
91 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
A group of kids from the Bosnian village often run away from school from the terror of Pepper, a teacher who got his nickname because of his red nose. Soon they formed a brigand division, ... See full summary »
Director: Soja Jovanovic | Stars: Pavle Jovanovic, Pavle Polacek, Ljubomir Popovic, Dragoljub Benisek
Votes: 973
65. The Soldier (1966)
103 min | Drama, War
A story of a boy, forced to grow mature before his time and to die too early because of the cruel war circumstances. This film is dedicated to all the children who have died during the National Liberation War.
Director: George P. Breakston | Stars: Rade Markovic, Fraser MacIntosh, Branka Zoric, Petar Banicevic
Votes: 27
66. Ya rodom iz detstva (1966)
105 min | Drama, War
In a half-ruined town of Belorussia, life is returning to normal in 1945. The children are undernourished and emotionally scarred. The community displays solidarity and common sacrifice, as they recovered from the ravages of war.
Director: Viktor Turov | Stars: Tanya Ovchinko, Edik Dovnar, Valeriy Zubarev, Viktor Kolodkin
Votes: 96
67. The Two of Us (1967)
Not Rated | 86 min | Comedy, Drama
In German-occupied France, a Jewish child is sent away from his family and conceals his religious affiliation from the anti-Semitic elderly man that takes care of him.
Director: Claude Berri | Stars: Michel Simon, Roger Carel, Paul Préboist, Luce Fabiole
Votes: 2,513 | Gross: $0.05M
68. Bloody Tale (1969)
88 min | War
The Kragujevac Massacre in Serbia is described to a group of shoeshine boys. At that time, thousands of workers refused to work for the occupying Germans, and the whole city was exposed to ... See full summary »
Director: Branimir Tori Jankovic | Stars: Zorica Miladinovic, Mira Stupica, Mija Aleksic, Slobodan Mladenovic
Votes: 207
69. Keby som mal pusku (1971)
90 min | Comedy, Drama
This is a tragicomic story about boys who even in times of war remember how to play soldiers, dream of heroic deeds, spy on girls, show off in front of friends, and make up fantastic adventures.
Director: Stefan Uher | Stars: Marián Bernát, Jozef Gráf, Emília Doseková, Ludovít Króner
Votes: 200
70. La maison des bois (1971)
360 min | Comedy, Drama
Realistic chronicle of everyday life during the Great War. A ranger collects in his family several Parisian children refugees because of the conflict. All share the life of the country village, the school, the news from the front.
Stars: Pierre Doris, Jacqueline Dufranne, Agathe Natanson, Hervé Lévy
Votes: 284
71. Then I Sentenced Them All to Death (1972)
103 min | War, Drama
In order to avoid reprisals from the Wehrmacht for the murder of a soldier, intellectuals from a Romanian village try to convince Ipu, the village idiot, to take the blame for the murder and save everybody.
Director: Sergiu Nicolaescu | Stars: Amza Pellea, Cristian Sofron, Ion Besoiu, Gheorghe Dinica
Votes: 990
72. The Spirit of the Beehive (1973)
Not Rated | 98 min | Drama, Fantasy
In 1940, after watching and being traumatized by the movie Frankenstein (1931), a sensitive seven year-old girl living in a small Spanish village drifts into her own fantasy world.
Director: Víctor Erice | Stars: Fernando Fernán Gómez, Teresa Gimpera, Ana Torrent, Isabel Tellería
Votes: 20,682
73. Mirko and Slavko (1973)
91 min | War
Live-action adaptation of the popular Yugoslav comic book about two young Partisan couriers in World War II. The story takes place in Serbia in 1941 during World War II, when only children ... See full summary »
Director: Branimir Tori Jankovic | Stars: Vladimir Radenkovic, Dragan Radonjic, Predrag Bojak, Ljiljana Stankovic
Votes: 159
74. Captain Mikula, the Kid (1974)
95 min | Drama, War
In late 1943 German forces are advancing towards Dalmatian coast, forcing many people to flee to Allied or Partizan controled areas. Group of children get stranded on a deserted island ... See full summary »
Director: Obrad Gluscevic | Stars: Petar Prlicko, Tonci Vidan, Josko Pazanin, Manojlo Cvijanovic
Votes: 168
75. Sparkling Red Star (1974)
101 min | Drama, War
The adventure of Dongzi Pan, a boy whose father left home for the Long March in the Red Army and whose mother was killed by gangster of the evil landlord Hu.
Directors: Ang Li, Jun Li | Stars: Baocheng Gao, Xuehong Li, Jiang Liu, Jizhong Liu
Votes: 127
77. Sirius (1975)
50 min | Drama, War
A young Czechoslovakian boy and the German shepherd that loves him - set during the Nazi occupation.
Director: Frantisek Vlácil | Stars: Michal Vavrusa, Jana Hlavácková, Karel Chromík, Vladimir Jedenáctik
Votes: 54
78. Wintering in Jakobsfeld (1975)
108 min | War
The story takes place during WW II in Vojvodina. Two boys, Milan and Rasa, are sent from a partisan squad to a village for the winter. Soon Rasa becomes very ill and Milan goes to a nearby ... See full summary »
Director: Branko Bauer | Stars: Slavko Stimac, Svetislav 'Bule' Goncic, Slobodan 'Cica' Perovic, Ljubica Kovic
Votes: 349
79. Salas u Malom Ritu (1976)
126 min | Drama, War
Set in a small village during WWII, a group of boys have to rely on their cunning to fool a dangerous Nazi policeman who's come to their village to find out who burned down the German corn supply.
Director: Branko Bauer | Stars: Slavko Stimac, Miodrag Radovanovic, Pavle Vuisic, Renata Ulmanski
Votes: 1,002
80. Tomka and His Friends (1977)
74 min | Drama, Family, War
The Wehrmacht arrives in a small Albanian town after Italy capitulates to the Allies. Tomka and his gang decide to exact revenge when the German soldiers set up camp on their football pitch.
Director: Xhanfize Keko | Stars: Sotiraq Çili, Zehrudin Dokle, Pavlina Oça, Xhelal Tafaj
Votes: 364
81. Bosko Buha (1978)
124 min | Biography, Drama, War
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Branko Bauer | Stars: Marko Nikolic, Zarko Radic, Ljubisa Samardzic, Miroljub Leso
Votes: 775
82. The Tin Drum (1979)
R | 142 min | Drama, War
In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of stairs and stops growing. In 1939, World War II breaks out.
Director: Volker Schlöndorff | Stars: David Bennent, Mario Adorf, Angela Winkler, Katharina Thalbach
Votes: 25,758
83. Rainy Days (1979)
114 min | Drama, War
A family, ideologically divided but living under the same roof, experience the Korean War as tragedies shake their daily existence.
Director: Yu Hyun-mok | Stars: Jeong-sun Hwang, Dae-kun Lee, Shin-jae Kim, Seok-hun Kim
Votes: 51
84. The Unknown Soldier's Patent Leather Shoes (1979)
85 min | Drama
This is a story of lifetime. A story full of spiritual power biography, behind which stays a whole age in the national development of Bulgaria.
Director: Rangel Vulchanov | Stars: Slavka Ankova, Emiliya Myrynska, Ivan Stoychev, Borislav Tsankov
Votes: 345
85. Germany Pale Mother (1980)
152 min | Drama, History, War
Germany 1939. Hans and Lene marry the day before the war breaks out, and Hans is sent to the Eastern front. During a bombing raid their daughter Anna is born. The house is destroyed and ... See full summary »
Director: Helma Sanders-Brahms | Stars: Eva Mattes, Ernst Jacobi, Elisabeth Stepanek, Angelika Thomas
Votes: 848
86. Little Alexander (1981)
98 min | Drama, War
A realistic portrayal of the early days in the Russian occupation of Berlin.
Director: Vladimir Fokin | Stars: Boris Tokarev, Yuriy Nazarov, Mikhail Kokshenov, Olaf Schneider
Votes: 117
87. Liten Ida (1981)
87 min | Drama
Little Ida's mother is working for the Germans during World War II, and she is also having a relationship with a German SS officer. Ida is experiencing the problems of having a mother who ... See full summary »
Director: Laila Mikkelsen | Stars: Sunniva Lindekleiv, Lise Fjeldstad, Arne Lindtner Næss, Howard Halvorsen
Votes: 140
88. Alsino and the Condor (1982)
R | 89 min | Drama, War
Alsino, a boy of 10 or 12, lives with his grandmother in a remote area of Nicaragua. He's engulfed in the war between rebels and government troops when a US advisor orders the army to open ... See full summary »
Director: Miguel Littin | Stars: Dean Stockwell, Alan Esquivel, Carmen Bunster, Alejandro Parodi
Votes: 359
89. Blood and Honor: Youth Under Hitler (1982– )
300 min | Drama
Follows a German boys involvement in the Hitler Youth during the pre WWII years.
Stars: Marlies Engel, Rolf Becker, Leslie Malton, Gila von Weitershausen
Votes: 129
90. Don't Cry, It's Only Thunder (1982)
PG | 108 min | Drama, War
During the Vietnam War, Brian Anderson (Dennis Christopher), a young Army medic, is stationed in Saigon. Initially apathetic and self-serving, he eventually has his heart won over by the ... See full summary »
Director: Peter Werner | Stars: Dennis Christopher, Susan Saint James, Roger Aaron Brown, Robert Englund
Votes: 263
91. The Night of the Shooting Stars (1982)
R | 107 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
In 1944, the residents of a small Italian town under Axis control flee their homes to seek out the liberating Allied forces.
Directors: Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani | Stars: Omero Antonutti, Margarita Lozano, Claudio Bigagli, Massimo Bonetti
Votes: 4,652
92. Barefoot Gen (1983)
TV-PG | 83 min | Animation, Biography, Drama
A powerful statement against war, Barefoot Gen is a disturbing story about the effect of the atomic bomb on a boy's life and the lives of the Japanese people.
Director: Mori Masaki | Stars: Issei Miyazaki, Catherine Battistone, Yoshie Shimamura, Iona Morris
Votes: 9,212
93. The Revolt of Job (1983)
98 min | Drama
An elderly Jewish couple, adopt an unruly non-Jewish child to whom they intend to pass on their wealth and knowledge before Nazi oppression engulfs Hungary.
Directors: Imre Gyöngyössy, Barna Kabay | Stars: Hédi Temessy, Ferenc Zenthe, Gábor Fehér, Heinrich Starhemberg
Votes: 698
94. Ballad of the Little Soldier (1984)
Not Rated | 46 min | Documentary, War
The film focuses on a group of Miskito in Nicaragua who used child soldiers in their resistance against the Sandinistas.
Directors: Werner Herzog, Denis Reichle | Stars: Werner Herzog, Denis Reichle
Votes: 1,018
95. Come and See (1985)
Not Rated | 142 min | Drama, Thriller, War
After finding an old rifle, a young boy joins the Soviet resistance movement against ruthless German forces and experiences the horrors of World War II.
Director: Elem Klimov | Stars: Aleksey Kravchenko, Olga Mironova, Liubomiras Laucevicius, Vladas Bagdonas
Votes: 97,338
96. Barefoot Gen 2 (1986)
TV-PG | 85 min | Animation, Biography, Drama
Three years after the Hiroshima bombing, a teenager helps a group of orphans to survive and find their new life.
Director: Toshio Hirata | Stars: Issei Miyazaki, Masaki Kôda, Kei Nakamura, Takami Aoyama
Votes: 1,420
97. The Assault (1986)
PG | 144 min | Drama, History, Romance
A Dutch doctor, haunted by grueling childhood memories of World War II, struggles to find peace as he spends his life looking for answers about the tragic night that shaped him.
Director: Fons Rademakers | Stars: Derek de Lint, Marc van Uchelen, Monique van de Ven, John Kraaijkamp Sr.
Votes: 3,404 | Gross: $0.20M
98. Goodbye, Children (1987)
PG | 104 min | Drama, War
A French boarding school run by priests seems to be a haven from World War II until a new student arrives. Occupying the next bed in the dormitory to the top student in his class, the two young boys begin to form a bond.
Director: Louis Malle | Stars: Gaspard Manesse, Raphael Fejtö, Francine Racette, Stanislas Carré de Malberg
Votes: 36,127 | Gross: $4.54M
99. Empire of the Sun (1987)
PG | 153 min | Drama, War
A young English boy struggles to survive under Japanese occupation of China during World War II.
Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Christian Bale, John Malkovich, Miranda Richardson, Nigel Havers
Votes: 134,349 | Gross: $22.24M
100. Hope and Glory (1987)
PG-13 | 113 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Bill, a young boy living on the outskirts of London experiences the exhilaration of World War II. During this period, Bill learns about sex, death, love, hypocrisy, and the faults of adults as he prowls the ruins of bombed houses.
Director: John Boorman | Stars: Sarah Miles, David Hayman, Sebastian Rice-Edwards, Geraldine Muir
Votes: 14,603 | Gross: $10.02M
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