Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "bombed-out-building"

1. Catch-22 (1970)

R | 122 min | Comedy, Drama, War

A man is trying desperately to be certified insane during World War II, so he can stop flying missions.

Director: Mike Nichols | Stars: Alan Arkin, Martin Balsam, Richard Benjamin, Art Garfunkel

Votes: 26,528 | Gross: $24.91M

2. Things to Come (1936)

Not Rated | 100 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, War

The story of a century: a decades-long second World War leaves plague and anarchy, then a rational state rebuilds civilization and attempts space travel.

Director: William Cameron Menzies | Stars: Raymond Massey, Edward Chapman, Ralph Richardson, Margaretta Scott

Votes: 9,085

3. Their Finest (2016)

R | 117 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A former secretary, newly appointed as a scriptwriter for propaganda films, joins the cast and crew of a major production while the Blitz rages around them.

Director: Lone Scherfig | Stars: Gemma Arterton, Sam Claflin, Bill Nighy, Richard E. Grant

Votes: 21,320 | Gross: $3.60M

4. Taking Sides (2001)

Not Rated | 108 min | Drama, Music, War

After the end of World War II, a famous German conductor is accused of loyalty to the Nazi regime. He argues that art and politics are separate. An investigator thinks otherwise.

Director: István Szabó | Stars: Harvey Keitel, Stellan Skarsgård, Moritz Bleibtreu, Birgit Minichmayr

Votes: 3,831 | Gross: $0.19M

5. 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: 14,623 | Gross: $10.02M

6. Rome, Open City (1945)

Not Rated | 103 min | Drama, Thriller, War

During the Nazi occupation of Rome in 1944, the Resistance leader, Giorgio Manfredi, is chased by the Nazis as he seeks refuge and a way to escape.

Director: Roberto Rossellini | Stars: Anna Magnani, Aldo Fabrizi, Marcello Pagliero, Vito Annichiarico

Votes: 29,016

7. Asylum (2005)

R | 99 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller

A woman becomes very curious about one of her psychiatrist husband's inmates, a man who was found guilty of the murder and disfigurement of his former wife.

Director: David Mackenzie | Stars: Natasha Richardson, Sean Harris, Marton Csokas, Ian McKellen

Votes: 5,449 | Gross: $0.37M

8. Room at the Top (1958)

Not Rated | 115 min | Drama, Romance

An ambitious young accountant plots to wed a wealthy factory owner's daughter despite falling in love with a married older woman.

Director: Jack Clayton | Stars: Laurence Harvey, Simone Signoret, Heather Sears, Donald Wolfit

Votes: 7,342

9. The Dresser (1983)

PG | 118 min | Drama

Personal assistant Norman struggles to get deteriorating veteran actor Sir through a difficult performance of King Lear.

Director: Peter Yates | Stars: Albert Finney, Tom Courtenay, Edward Fox, Zena Walker

Votes: 5,708 | Gross: $5.31M

10. Tonight and Every Night (1945)

Approved | 92 min | Drama, Musical, War

The theater in which this film is set was called The Windmill and performers there refused to be deterred by the blitz that was leveling much of London at the time.

Director: Victor Saville | Stars: Rita Hayworth, Lee Bowman, Janet Blair, Marc Platt

Votes: 1,139

11. Superpower (2023)

115 min | Documentary

Follows the events happening in Ukraine and the truth about Russia's invasion of the country.

Directors: Aaron Kaufman, Sean Penn | Stars: Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Andrii Yermak, Steven Pifer, Christopher Miller

Votes: 1,618

12. Hue and Cry (1947)

82 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime

A gang of street boys foil a master crook who sends commands for robberies by cunningly altering a comic strip's wording each week, unknown to writer and printer. The first of the Ealing comedies.

Director: Charles Crichton | Stars: Alastair Sim, Frederick Piper, Harry Fowler, Vida Hope

Votes: 1,792

13. A Canterbury Tale (1944)

Not Rated | 124 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery

Three modern-day pilgrims investigate a bizarre crime in a small town while on their way to Canterbury.

Directors: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | Stars: Eric Portman, Sheila Sim, Dennis Price, John Sweet

Votes: 6,496

14. The Island on Bird Street (1997)

PG-13 | 107 min | Biography, Drama, War

During World War II a Jewish boy is left on his own for months in a ruined house in the Warsaw Ghetto, where he must learn all the tricks of survival under constantly life-threatening conditions.

Director: Søren Kragh-Jacobsen | Stars: Patrick Bergin, Jordan Kiziuk, Jack Warden, James Bolam

Votes: 1,903

15. Murderers Among Us (1946)

Not Rated | 85 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller

After returning from a concentration camp, Susanne finds an ex-soldier living in her apartment. Together the two try to move past their experiences during World War II.

Director: Wolfgang Staudte | Stars: Hildegard Knef, Elly Burgmer, Erna Sellmer, Hilde Adolphi

Votes: 2,548

16. The Locket (1946)

Approved | 85 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Just before a wedding, the bridegroom hears a complex tale painting his lovely bride as devilish and unbalanced.

Director: John Brahm | Stars: Laraine Day, Robert Mitchum, Brian Aherne, Gene Raymond

Votes: 3,066

17. Shoulder Arms (1918)

36 min | Short, Comedy, War

Charlie is a boot camp private who has a dream of being a hero who goes on a daring mission behind enemy lines.

Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Syd Chaplin, Loyal Underwood

Votes: 7,435

18. 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: 1,378

19. Homecoming (1948)

Approved | 113 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance

At the end of WW2, aboard a repatriation ship, an Army doctor reminisces about his war years while being interviewed by a reporter.

Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Clark Gable, Lana Turner, Anne Baxter, John Hodiak

Votes: 1,093

20. The Weapon (1956)

77 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller

A boy accidentally shoots a friend with a gun he found in the rubble of a destroyed building. The gun turns out to be a clue in a ten-year-old murder case.

Directors: Val Guest, Hal E. Chester | Stars: Steve Cochran, Lizabeth Scott, George Cole, Herbert Marshall

Votes: 431

21. Gunner Palace (2004)

PG-13 | 85 min | Documentary, War

American soldiers of the 2/3 Field Artillery, a group known as the "Gunners," tell of their experiences in Baghdad during the Iraq War. Holed up in a bombed out pleasure palace built by Sadaam Hussein, the soldiers endured hostile situations some four months after President George W. Bush declared the end of major combat operations in the country.

Directors: Petra Epperlein, Michael Tucker | Stars: Bryant Davis, Devon Dixon, Javorn Drummond, Elliot Lovett

Votes: 1,953 | Gross: $0.61M

22. Springtime in a Small Town (2002)

PG | 116 min | Drama, Romance

The eight-year marriage of Liyan and Yuwen has left them both unfulfilled and distant. A visitor arrives from Shanghai, a doctor who's an old school friend of Liyan's and, unbeknownst to her husband, Yuwen's childhood sweetheart.

Director: Zhuangzhuang Tian | Stars: Jingfan Hu, Jun Wu, Bai Qing Xin, Xiaokeng Ye

Votes: 1,366 | Gross: $0.04M

23. A Walk in the Old City of Warsaw (1958)

18 min | Documentary, Short

A girl strolls through the Old Town streets of Warsaw and listens to the sounds of the city, which change from random noise into a kind of outdoor concert.

Director: Andrzej Munk

Votes: 152

24. Blitz on Berlin (2014 Video)

56 min | Documentary, History, War

A detailed account of the allied bombing raids on the city of Berlin in World War Two.

Director: Stanley Joseph | Stars: Barbara Von Rimscha, Anne-Marie Von Mutius, Adolf Hitler, Kaiser Wilhelm II

Votes: 6

25. Reunion in Paris (1955)

10 min | Short

A lumber and feed man from Ohio takes a road trip with his wife to France, eleven years after he fought at Normandy during WWII. He remembers a girl who served him wine at a Paris café and becomes determined to see her again.

Director: Justin Herman

26. London 1942 (1943)

14 min | Documentary, Short

Propaganda short about the capital's efforts to adapt to the third year of war.

Director: Ken Annakin | Stars: Robert Speaight, Bill Owen

Votes: 9

27. EZ Streets (1996–1997)
Episode: A Terrible Beauty (1997)

TV-14 | Crime, Drama, Romance

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Director: George Bloomfield | Stars: Ken Olin, Joe Pantoliano, Jason Gedrick, Sarah Trigger

Votes: 15

28. The World at War (1973–1974)
Episode: Stalingrad: June 1942-February 1943 (1974)

TV-PG | 52 min | Documentary, History, War

The mid-war German situation in Southern Russia resulting in the German defeat at the Battle of Stalingrad.

Director: Hugh Raggett | Stars: Laurence Olivier, Andrey Yeryomenko, Hermann Göring, Franz Halder

Votes: 469

29. Hitler's Circle of Evil (2018)
Episode: Meltdown (2018)

TV-14 | 52 min | Documentary, Biography, History

Exit strategies are put into action by the members of the inner circle when the Allies surround the capitol and Hitler perishes by his own hand.

Director: Vicky Matthews | Stars: Robert Gerwarth, Sönke Neitzel, Guy Walters, Emma Craigie

Votes: 139