Highest-Rated Movies about 'Resistance Fighter', Sort by Popularity

Paragraph 175 (2000), Casablanca (1942), To Have and Have Not (1944), Kanal (1957), Closely Watched Trains (1966), This Land Is Mine (1943), The Story of Qiu Ju (1992), The Guns of Navarone (1961) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Resistance Fighter movies.

#16. Night Train to Lisbon (2013)

Storyline: This movie is about aging Swiss Professor Raimund Gregorius (Jeremy Irons) of classical languages who, after a chance encounter with a Portuguese woman, quits his job and travels to Lisbon in the hope of discovering the fate of a certain author, a doctor and poet who fought against Portuguese Dictator Antonio de Oliveira Salazar.

Plot Keywords: college professor, mysterious woman, doctor, optician, resistance fighter, priest, brooding ...

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#17. Safe Conduct (2002)

Storyline: In occupied France, German-run Continental Films calls the shots in the movie business. Assistant director and Resistance activist Jean Devaivre works for Continental, where he can get "in between the wolf's teeth and avoid being chewed up". Fast-living screenwriter Jean Aurenche uses every possible argument to avoid working for the enemy. For both, wartime is a battle for survival.—Aline

Plot Keywords: resistance fighter, assistant director, screenwriter, german, wife, brother, emotional ...

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#18. We Dive at Dawn (1943)

Storyline: The crew of submarine H.M.S. Sea Tiger have their leave (and assorted family problems) cut short when they are recalled for a special mission: sink the new German battleship Brandenburg. En route, they learn that their target has entered the heavily defended Baltic. Rather than fail, they follow it. Tension builds as they approach their target. After the attempt, escape seems impossible, unless they can refuel in enemy waters.—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>

Plot Keywords: commanding officer, sailor, military officer, enemy, resistance fighter, patriotic, underwater ...

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#19. The Cheap Detective (1978)

Storyline: Lou Peckinpaugh (Peter Falk), the Cheap detective has entered a world that is half Casablanca (1942) and half The Maltese Falcon (1941). A parody of Humphrey Bogart's movies in which Lou goes through a series of scenes from the two movies trying to keep ahead of the Police who think he killed his partner and find the black bird.—John Vogel <jlvogel@comcast.net>

Plot Keywords: detective, resistance fighter, old flame, sexy woman, police detective, amusing, lighthearted ...

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#20. The Heroes of Telemark (1965)

Storyline: Set in German-occupied Norway, this is an embellished account of the remarkable efforts of the Norwegian resistance to sabotage the German development of the atomic bomb. Resistance fighter Knut Straud (Richard Harris) enlists the reluctant physicist Dr. Rolf Pedersen (Kirk Douglas) in an effort to destroy the German heavy water production plant near the village of Rjukan in rural Telemark. In the process, Pedersen discovers that his ex-wife Anna (Ulla Jacobsson) and her uncle (Sir Michael Redgrave) have also joined the resistance. British commandos dispatched to destroy the plant are killed when their glider hits the mountainside at night. An improvised raid by the resistance ends in the partial destruction of the heavy water canisters, but the contingency plans of Reichskommissar Terboven (Eric Porter) enable the Germans to resume production quickly. Pedersen wants to recommend to London that the Allies bomb the plant. Straud opposes him because of the potential death toll on Norwegian civilians and a fight ensues. They send in separate recommendations, and the air raid takes place, but it fails to destroy the heavy water. A Norwegian traitor gives away the resistance hideout, and Anna's uncle is killed. The Germans load the canisters onto a ferry for shipment to Germany, and the resistance rig explosives to sink the ferry in the fjord. As the ferry is about to leave, it is boarded by the widow and baby of one of Pedersen's and Straud's colleagues. Pedersen boards the ferry and organizes a children's game of "lifejacket" in order to minimize civilian deaths. This movie closes with resistance members rescuing passengers as the ferry sinks.—Peter Grosvenor

Plot Keywords: resistance fighter, physicist, ex-wife, uncle, british intelligence agent, nazi, thrilling ...

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#21. Charlotte Gray (2001)

Storyline: Charlotte (Cate Blanchett), a young Scottish woman, who has studied in France, is living in London during World War II. Within a few weeks she falls in love with a young pilot and is recruited by the Secret Service to act as a courier for the French Resistance. However, her mission behind enemy lines becomes a personal mission to find her lover who has been shot down. Assigned to a Communist Resistance group, she encounters acts of betrayal from sometimes unexpected sources, but meets the violence of war and her own disappointment with hope.—<johnno.r@xtra.co.nz>

Plot Keywords: scottish person, resistance fighter, lover, pilot, communist, nazi, intense ...

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#22. The Yellow Rolls-Royce (1964)

Storyline: Three stories about the lives and loves of those who own a certain yellow Rolls-Royce: **First purchased by Lord Charles Frinton - The Marquess of Frinton (Sir Rex Harrison) for his wife as a belated anniversary present. Lady Eloise Frinton - The Marchioness of Frinton (Jeanne Moreau) finds her own use for the vehicle, one which prompts her husband to sell the car in disgust. **Gangster Paolo Maltese's (George C. Scott's) moll, Mae Jenkins (Shirley MacLaine), thinks the Rolls is a "classy" car in which to tour Paolo's home town in Italy. When Paolo is called away to the U.S. to finish some "business", a bored Mae takes the Rolls-Royce on a spin through the country, enjoying both the sights and handsome Italian photographer Stefano (Alain Delon), who crosses her path. **By the outbreak of World War II, the car has come into the possession of socialite Gerda Millett (Ingrid Bergman). While on her way to visit Yugoslavian royalty, Gerda and the Rolls-Royce become (at first) unwitting and then (eventually) most willing participants in the Yugoslavian fight.—A.L.Beneteau <albl@inforamp.net>

Plot Keywords: marquess, wife, gangster, girlfriend, widow, resistance fighter, intricate ...

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#23. 633 Squadron (1964)

Storyline: 633 Squadron of the RAF is tasked with an operation that is vital to the Allied invasion of France. They need to destroy a German base in Norway that is producing fuel for German rockets. It is an incredibly dangerous mission: due to where it is situated, getting to the base will require daring and precise flying and then there's the hordes of anti-aircraft batteries. The Norwegian Resistance are tasked with taking out the AA guns but if anything goes wrong with the plan it will be a suicide mission.—grantss

Plot Keywords: pilot, soldier, british officer, nazi, resistance fighter, sister, patriotic ...

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#25. Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (2015)

Storyline: The second chapter of the epic "Maze Runner" saga. Thomas (Dylan O'Brien) and his fellow Gladers face their greatest challenge yet: searching for clues about the mysterious and powerful organization known as WCKD. Their journey takes them to the Scorch, a desolate landscape filled with unimaginable obstacles. Teaming up with resistance fighters, the Gladers take on WCKD's vastly superior forces and uncover its shocking plans for them all.

Plot Keywords: teen boy, resistance fighter, team leader, teammate, mysterious man, enemy, brooding ...

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#27. This Is the Sea (1997)

Storyline: The film is set in Northern Ireland shortly after 1994 cease-fire. Hazel is a Protestant and Malachy a Catholic. Romance between them is threatened by Rohan (leader in militant underground and pal of Malachy's brother Padhar), who wants Malachy to be recruited and fight for the cause and by Hazel's brother Jef, who spies on her meetings.—Anonymous

Plot Keywords: young woman, young man, neighbor, brother, resistance fighter, mother, melodramatic ...

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#28. A Day in October (1990)

Storyline: This story, based on fact, is about the movement of Danish Jews out of Denmark to neutral Sweden in the 1940's. It focuses on a single family and tells of their involvement with the underground and of their own, initially reluctant, participation in sabotaging a munitions plant, and of the daughter's affection for one of the movements leaders.—BOB STEBBINS <stebinsbob@aol.com>

Plot Keywords: resistance fighter, accountant, jew, daughter, guard, nazi, powerful ...

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#29. Solomon Kane (2009)

Storyline: Once a mercenary of Queen Elizabeth I fighting Spaniards in Africa, Solomon met the Devil's Reaper and discovered he was bound for hell. Barely escaping, he soon renounced violence to atone for his past sins, seeking out redemption in a life of peace. That is until the followers of sorcerer Malachi kidnap a Puritan girl, Meredith Crowthorn, and brutally slaughter her family before his very eyes, forcing Solomon to take up arms and return to his violent ways once more to rescue her.

Plot Keywords: mercenary, sorcerer, damsel in distress, brother, resistance fighter, frightening, tense ...

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#30. The Pigeon That Took Rome (1962)

Storyline: Charlton Heston stars as an American soldier behind Italian lines in World War II. In order to communicate German movements to the Allies, he uses carrier pigeons fitted with messages. As he grows more and more in love with the daughter of the family he stays with, the father accidentally feeds the pigeons to his family for Easter Dinner.—Jeremy Kirk <kirkman316@yahoo.com>

Plot Keywords: soldier, spy, resistance fighter, father, pregnant woman, fiancé, amusing ...

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