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1. The Tomorrow War (2021)
PG-13 | 138 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A family man is drafted to fight in a future war where the fate of humanity relies on his ability to confront the past.
Director: Chris McKay | Stars: Chris Pratt, Yvonne Strahovski, J.K. Simmons, Betty Gilpin
Votes: 228,136
2. Gangs of New York (2002)
R | 167 min | Crime, Drama
In 1862, Amsterdam Vallon returns to the Five Points area of New York City seeking revenge against Bill the Butcher, his father's killer.
Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Cameron Diaz, Daniel Day-Lewis, Jim Broadbent
Votes: 473,306 | Gross: $77.81M
3. The French Dispatch (2021)
R | 107 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A love letter to journalists set in an outpost of an American newspaper in a fictional twentieth century French city that brings to life a collection of stories published in "The French Dispatch Magazine".
Director: Wes Anderson | Stars: Benicio Del Toro, Adrien Brody, Tilda Swinton, Léa Seydoux
Votes: 150,824
5. The Searchers (1956)
Passed | 119 min | Adventure, Drama, Western
An American Civil War veteran embarks on a years-long journey to rescue his niece from the Comanches after the rest of his brother's family is massacred in a raid on their Texas farm.
Director: John Ford | Stars: John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles, Ward Bond
Votes: 96,398
6. Under the Shadow (2016)
PG-13 | 84 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
As a mother and daughter struggle to cope with the terrors of the post-revolution, war-torn Tehran of the 1980s, a mysterious evil begins to haunt their home.
Director: Babak Anvari | Stars: Narges Rashidi, Avin Manshadi, Bobby Naderi, Arash Marandi
Votes: 30,152 | Gross: $0.03M
7. There Is No Evil (2020)
151 min | Drama
The four stories that are variations on the crucial themes of moral strength and the death penalty that ask to what extent individual freedom can be expressed under a despotic regime and its seemingly inescapable threats.
Director: Mohammad Rasoulof | Stars: Baran Rasoulof, Zhila Shahi, Mahtab Servati, Mohammad Seddighimehr
Votes: 6,175
8. Queen & Country (2014)
TV-14 | 114 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
In this sequel to Hope and Glory (1987), Bill Rohan has grown up and is drafted into the army, where he and his eccentric best mate, Percy, battle their snooty superiors on the base and look for love in town.
Director: John Boorman | Stars: Callum Turner, Caleb Landry Jones, Pat Shortt, David Thewlis
Votes: 1,867 | Gross: $0.03M
9. Moffie (2019)
Not Rated | 104 min | Drama, Romance, War
A young man in 1981 South Africa must complete his brutal and racist two years of compulsory military service while desperately maintaining the secrecy of his homosexuality.
Director: Oliver Hermanus | Stars: Kai Luke Brummer, Barbara-Marié Immelman, Michael Kirch, Remano De Beer
Votes: 3,802
10. Vietnam (1987)
45 min | Drama, War
Vietnam is a stunningly powerful re-enactment of the bitterly controversial issue of Australia's involvement in what was perceived as an American war.
Stars: Barry Otto, Nicole Kidman, Nicholas Eadie, Veronica Lang
Votes: 593
11. Alice's Restaurant (1969)
GP | 111 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
A cinematic adaption of Arlo Guthrie's classic story-song.
Director: Arthur Penn | Stars: Arlo Guthrie, Patricia Quinn, James Broderick, Pete Seeger
Votes: 4,650 | Gross: $13.99M
12. Dust in the Wind (1986)
Not Rated | 109 min | Drama, Romance
A young couple leave their mining town home for Taipei where they struggle to eke out a living in an industrial wasteland.
Director: Hsiao-Hsien Hou | Stars: Grace Chen, Shu-Fang Chen, Shu-Fen Hsin, Chi-Ying Kao
Votes: 3,190
13. 9th Company (2005)
R | 139 min | Action, Drama, History
A group of Russian army recruits complete training and take their posting in late-1980s Afghanistan, where the insurgents are slowly gaining the upper hand.
Director: Fedor Bondarchuk | Stars: Artur Smolyaninov, Aleksey Chadov, Konstantin Kryukov, Ivan Kokorin
Votes: 21,689
14. The Greatest (1977)
PG | 101 min | Biography, Drama, Sport
Muhammad Ali plays himself in a reconstruction of the events that brought him to fame.
Directors: Tom Gries, Monte Hellman | Stars: Muhammad Ali, Ernest Borgnine, John Marley, Lloyd Haynes
Votes: 1,625 | Gross: $8.28M
15. Garoojigi (2008)
120 min | Comedy, Fantasy
A Tale of Legendary Libido.
Director: Hansol Shin | Stars: Bong Tae-gyu, Shim Yi-yeong, Oh Dal-su, Youn Yuh-jung
Votes: 934
16. Zenne Dancer (2011)
104 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
A feature film about an unusual trio: Daniel, a German photo-journalist in Istanbul without much knowledge about Turkish values. Can, a flamboyant, out and proud male belly dancer with lots... See full summary »
Directors: Caner Alper, Mehmet Binay | Stars: Kerem Can, Giovanni Arvaneh, Erkan Avci, Tilbe Saran
Votes: 2,867
17. Repmånad eller Hur man gör pojkar av män (1979)
85 min | Comedy
Jonsson is called back for refresher training. He meets Lövgren, Larsson and others who aren't very serious but instead, see it as an opportunity to have fun for a month away from work.
Director: Lasse Åberg | Stars: Janne Carlsson, Lasse Åberg, Ted Åström, Lasse Haldenberg
Votes: 4,109
18. Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys! (1958)
Approved | 106 min | Comedy
All about the citizens of Putnam's Landing and their reactions to an Army missile base in their backyard.
Director: Leo McCarey | Stars: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Joan Collins, Jack Carson
Votes: 1,377
19. The Day My Father Became a Bush (2016)
84 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
When Toda's dad is called away unexpectedly to defend his country, Toda undertakes an adventurous and challenging journey towards the neighbouring country in order to find her mum.
Director: Nicole van Kilsdonk | Stars: Celeste Holsheimer, Matsen Montsma, Teun Kuilboer, Anneke Blok
Votes: 192
20. The Square Peg (1958)
85 min | Comedy, War
A British road repairman gets into a feud with the army, gets drafted, and is mistakenly parachuted into German-occupied France where his physical resemblance to the local German commandant triggers a hilarious chain reaction.
Director: John Paddy Carstairs | Stars: Norman Wisdom, Honor Blackman, Edward Chapman, Campbell Singer
Votes: 1,596
21. Private Popsicle (1982)
R | 100 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Three young Israeli men join the army, and it soon turns out that they're more interested in chasing skirts than following orders.
Director: Boaz Davidson | Stars: Yftach Katzur, Zachi Noy, Jonathan Sagall, Dvora Kedar
Votes: 1,434
22. Loafing and Camouflage (1984)
99 min | Comedy
The "adventures" of some friends during their military service.
Director: Nicos Perakis | Stars: Nikos Kalogeropoulos, Giorgos Kimoulis, Takis Spyridakis, Stavros Xenidis
Votes: 3,648
23. Black Belt (2007)
Not Rated | 95 min | Action, Drama, Sport
A Karate master's three students join the army and go their separate ways, later to unite to battle together against corruption and uphold tradition.
Director: Shunichi Nagasaki | Stars: Akihito Yagi, Tatsuya Naka, Yûji Suzuki, Kenji Anan
Votes: 1,680
24. Private Manoeuvres (1983)
Not Rated | 90 min | Comedy, Drama
A spin-off film that centers around Yudale/Huey's mandatory Israeli army service, post boot camp. This time he helps his sergeant Shemesh beat a rival base, while also beating him to score with the visiting Swiss Ambassador's wife.
Director: Tzvi Shissel | Stars: Zachi Noy, Yosef Shiloach, Moshe Ish-Kassit, Devora Bakon
Votes: 405
25. The Plouffe Family (1981)
227 min | Drama
The lives of the average Quebecois Plouffe family during the final years of the depression and through World War II.
Director: Gilles Carle | Stars: Gabriel Arcand, Rémi Laurent, Pierre Curzi, Juliette Huot
Votes: 484
26. Commandos Strike at Dawn (1942)
Approved | 98 min | Drama, History, War
A gentle widower, enraged at German atrocities against his peaceful Norwegian fishing village, escapes to Britain and returns leading a commando force against the oppressors.
Director: John Farrow | Stars: Paul Muni, Anna Lee, Lillian Gish, Cedric Hardwicke
Votes: 969 | Gross: $1.30M
27. My Way Home (1978)
Not Rated | 71 min | Biography, Drama
Jamie leaves the children's home to live with his paternal grandmother. After working in a mine and in a tailor's shop, he is conscripted into the RAF, and goes to Egypt, where he is ... See full summary »
Director: Bill Douglas | Stars: Stephen Archibald, Paul Kermack, Jessie Combe, William Carrol
Votes: 864
28. Partis pour la gloire (1975)
102 min | Drama
In 1942 even after a formal promise from the Liberal Party of Canada in the last election: "Never the Conscription", the Canadian Government vote a Conscription Law. In Quebec where the ... See full summary »
Director: Clément Perron | Stars: Serge L'Italien, Rachel Cailhier, Jacques Thisdale, André Melançon
Votes: 130
29. Cyclops (1982)
138 min | Drama, War
Melkior Tresic is one of many intellectuals in 1941 Zagreb who is helplessly waiting for the encroaching war.
Director: Antun Vrdoljak | Stars: Frano Lasic, Ljuba Tadic, Rade Serbedzija, Mira Furlan
Votes: 365
30. Days of Rage: the Rolling Stones' Road to Altamont (2020)
107 min | Documentary, History, Music
The decade that began with peace and love was shattered in the late 1960s amidst riots, assassinations and a war that wouldn't end. The Rolling Stones became the voice of this new era, which came to a horrific end at the Altamont festival.
Director: Tom O'Dell | Stars: Michael Lydon, Sam Culter, Ronnie Schneider, Anthony DeCurtis
Votes: 104
31. Four Sons (1928)
Passed | 100 min | Drama, War
A family saga in which three sons of a Bavarian widow go to war for Germany and the fourth goes to America, Germany's eventual opponent.
Director: John Ford | Stars: James Hall, Margaret Mann, Charles Morton, Francis X. Bushman Jr.
Votes: 920
32. Privates (2013)
Drama
PRIVATES is the story of the last intake of conscripts for National Service in 1960; eight young men undertake basic training at a windswept camp in Yorkshire, as the end of the era of deference meets the world of rock n' roll.
Stars: Conor MacNeill, Sara Vickers, Alexander Vlahos, Ross Anderson
Votes: 241
33. Chasing the Deer (1994)
97 min | History, War
The Jacobite Rebellion of Scotland, and thirty years after the first battle, Bonnie Prince Charlie and his army make a stand at Culloden.
Director: Graham Holloway | Stars: Brian Blessed, Iain Cuthbertson, Matthew Zajac, Fish
Votes: 167
34. 08/15 (1954)
95 min | Drama, War
Shortly before the outbreak of World War II: Private Asch and gunner Vierbein belong to the same unit but could not be more contrary.
Director: Paul May | Stars: Joachim Fuchsberger, Helen Vita, Paul Bösiger, Emmerich Schrenk
Votes: 444
35. Hearts & Minds (2009)
87 min | Drama
Conscription has been introduced in Britain. Across the country, young people are being called upon to serve the nation in another reactionary Middle-Eastern conflict. They face war on a ... See full summary »
Director: Adam Tyler | Stars: Nicholas Prasad, Milly Thomas, Ladi Emeruwa, Zoe Willox Dunant
Votes: 12
36. Oh! My God (2006)
104 min | Action, Comedy, Romance
Im Jung Hwan is a playboy from rich family. He is a simple minded who likes to fooling around, wasting money for the girls and living his playboy lifestyle. He has not yet graduated from college majoring in drama after nine years.
Director: Jeong-woo Kim | Stars: Choi Seong-guk, Yi Shin, Baek Il-seob, Park Won-suk
Votes: 239
37. The Undeclared War (1992)
247 min | Documentary, History, War
Documentary on the French-Algerian conflict 1954-1962 which was never officially called a "war", including interviews with some of the survivors.
Director: Bertrand Tavernier | Stars: Patrick Rotman, Bertrand Tavernier
Votes: 118
38. The Summer of Love (2017 TV Movie)
Documentary, History, Music
The story of the cultural, social, and political changes that were brought about following the 1967 Summer of Love in San Francisco.
Director: Lyndy Saville | Stars: Ryan Mandrake, Johnnie Walker, Simon Crocker, Anne Nightingale
Votes: 33
39. Draftee Daffy (1945)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Daffy Duck is desperate to elude the draft board respresentative bearing his conscription order.
Director: Robert Clampett | Star: Mel Blanc
Votes: 881
40. Three Friends (1996)
92 min | Drama
Three young men prepare to take their university entrance exams while each dealing with real world problems that can effect every day people in Seoul.
Director: Soon-rye Yim | Stars: Hyun-sung Kim, Hee-suk Jung, Lee Jang-won, Young-soo Kim
Votes: 66
41. Trudeau II: Maverick in the Making (2005 TV Movie)
240 min | Biography, Drama
A prequel of the Trudeau miniseries which focuses on Pierre Trudeau's Quebec years before he came to Ottawa.
Director: Tim Southam | Stars: Stéphane Demers, Tobie Pelletier, Dany Duval, Karl Pruner
Votes: 60
42. Cyclops (1983)
60 min | Drama
The 1982 theatrical film of the same name reedited into a five part mini-series. In 1941, in pre-WW2 Zagreb, young bohemian artist and intellectual is conscripted and sent to a brutal boot camp that breaks him.
Stars: Frano Lasic, María Baxa, Ljuba Tadic, Rade Serbedzija
Votes: 72
43. Vääpeli Körmy ja marsalkan sauva (1990)
111 min | Comedy
The colonel's wife's tin pints need to be cleaned up, and Sergeant First Class Körmy tasks two privates to do so.
Director: Ere Kokkonen | Stars: Heikki Kinnunen, Pekka Huotari, Pertti Koivula, Jukka Puotila
Votes: 704
44. The Trials of Muhammad Ali (2013)
Not Rated | 86 min | Documentary, Biography, Sport
The legal battles of the great American boxer against being conscripted into the US military during the Vietnam War.
Director: Bill Siegel | Stars: Eamonn Andrews, Muhammad Ali, David Susskind, George W. Bush
Votes: 1,181 | Gross: $0.06M
45. Two Solitudes (1978)
117 min | Drama, History
The story of the problems caused by what became known as the Conscripton Crisis in 1917 Canada, which threatened to divide the country.
Director: Lionel Chetwynd | Stars: Jean-Pierre Aumont, Stacy Keach, Gloria Carlin, Chris Wiggins
Votes: 36
46. Brothers (I) (2008)
116 min | Drama
A religious fundamentalist Jewish lawyer arrives in Israel to both reacquaint himself with his secular brother and work an explosive trial dealing with the conscription of fundamentalist Jewish students into the Israel Defense Force.
Director: Igaal Niddam | Stars: Baruch Brener, Micha Celektar, Itai Ganot, Sharon Malki-Shemesh
Votes: 47
47. Cunnamulla (2000)
82 min | Documentary
Cunnamulla, 800 kilometres west of Brisbane, is the end of the railway line. In the months leading up to a scorching Christmas in the bush, there's a lot more going on than the annual ... See full summary »
Director: Dennis O'Rourke
Votes: 178
48. Flowers of Reverie (1985)
102 min | Drama, History
In 1849 the Hungarian revolution is beaten down by the Russian Army. Ferenc Majláth, who was an officer in the army of the revolution, has to choose between imprisonment or getting enlisted... See full summary »
Director: László Lugossy | Stars: György Cserhalmi, Grazyna Szapolowska, Jirí Adamíra, Boguslaw Linda
Votes: 133
49. A Dot and a Line (2004)
R | 105 min | Action, Crime, Drama
"Punto y raya" is the story of a young Colombian recruit who, while patrolling his country's border, is befriended by a Venezuelan adversary, and the tragic consequences of their relationship.
Directors: Elia Schneider, Elia K. Schneider | Stars: Roque Valero, Edgar Ramírez, Ramiro Meneses, Daniela Alvarado
Votes: 565
50. Drafty, Isn't It? (1957)
11 min | Comedy, Animation, Short
As a young man endures nightmares of being drafted into the US Army, an Army pixie invades his dreams to explain the realities of army life and the recruitment incentives available.
Director: Chuck Jones | Star: Daws Butler
Votes: 287