Nighthawk (2019), The Travelling Players (1975), Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance (1993), To Be or Not to Be (1942), Cool Hand Luke (1967), Closely Watched Trains (1966), Julia (1977), A Monkey in Winter (1962) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Resistance movies.
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Plot Keywords: hunter, mayor, mercenary, matriarch, villager, teacher, intense ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In World War II Greece, a woman (Eva Kotamanidou) and her lover betray her husband, the leader of an acting troupe, then his son avenges him.
Plot Keywords: actor, actress, brother, sister, mother, father, melodramatic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: This Canadian documentary portrays the 1990 showdown between the Mohawk Nation and the predominantly white Quebec town of Oka, which is intent on developing land deemed sacred by the native people. When members of the Mohawk tribe protest plans to expand a golf course into their territory, they form a barricade, leading to an armed standoff with provincial police that becomes increasingly tense, with the possibility of violence looming over the heads of everyone involved.
Plot Keywords: native, police officer, soldier, politician, tense, emotional, spirited ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In occupied Poland during WWII, a troupe of ham stage actors (led by Joseph Tura and his wife Maria) match wits with the Nazis. A spy has information which would be very damaging to the Polish resistance and they must prevent it's being delivered to the Germans.
Plot Keywords: actor, actress, lieutenant, spy, nazi, madcap, hilarious ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Luke Jackson is a cool, gutsy prisoner in a Southern chain gang, who, while refusing to buckle under to authority, keeps escaping and being recaptured. The prisoners admire Luke because, as Dragline explains it, "You're an original, that's what you are!" Nevertheless, the camp staff actively works to crush Luke until he finally breaks.
Plot Keywords: prisoner, warden, guard, police officer, mother, brash, cool ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A young man follows his father's footsteps and joins the railway company, where he learns the job and has his first affair. Set in the country, during the German occupation.—Michael Crew <m.crew@bbcnc.org.uk>
Plot Keywords: train conductor, apprentice, father, resistance fighter, offbeat, cheeky, tender ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Playwright Lillian Hellman (Jane Fonda) recalls World War II, her best friend (Vanessa Redgrave) and writer Dashiell Hammett (Jason Robards).
Plot Keywords: activist, childhood friend, touching, engaging, russia, germany, new england ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Albert is an inn owner who vowed never to drink again if he and his wife survived the war. They did, and the reformed alcoholic keeps his vow. But times have changed and soon after the war, Albert comes in contact with Gabriel, a young man prone to heavy bouts with the bottle. Gabriel is conflicted over visiting his young daughter in a nearby school and in a moment of nostalgia, Albert takes off with him on one major binge -- and havoc results.—EuropaCorp
Plot Keywords: alcoholic, young man, child, advertiser, innkeeper, wife, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A Navy officer (Howard Keel) and others (Nicole Maurey, Janette Scott) not blinded by meteorites seek a way to stop cosmic plants from killing people.
Plot Keywords: military officer, scientist, wife, young girl, creature, campy, suspenseful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Her husband away at war, a lonely Frenchwoman (Michelle Williams) begins a tentative romance with the refined German soldier (Matthias Schoenaerts) who has taken up residence in her mother-in-law's house.
Plot Keywords: frenchwoman, german officer, husband, german soldier, mother-in-law, townspeople, engaging ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The Final Days is the true story of Germany's most famous anti-Nazi heroine brought to life. Sophie Scholl is the fearless activist of the underground student resistance group, The White Rose. Using historical records of her incarceration, the film re-creates the last six days of Sophie Scholl's life: a journey from arrest to interrogation, trial and sentence in 1943 Munich. Unwavering in her convictions and loyalty to her comrades, her cross-examination by the Gestapo quickly escalates into a searing test of wills as Scholl delivers a passionate call to freedom and personal responsibility that is both haunting and timeless.
Plot Keywords: brother, prisoner, political activist, judge, secret police, student, disturbing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Based on real events, A Hidden Life is the story of an unsung hero, Bl. Franz Jägerstätter, who refused to fight for the Nazis in World War II. When the Austrian peasant farmer is faced with the threat of execution for treason, it is his unwavering faith and his love for his wife, Fani, and children that keeps his spirit alive.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: farmer, austrian, pacifist, bleak, emotional, inspiring, incredible ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Everyday Rebellion is an impressionistic documentary essay as well as a web platform about non-violent forms of protest and civil disobedience in the 21st century. A project about methods of resistance supported by technology, seen not only through the current movements of the Arabian and Iranian uprisings, but also through former successful and less successful revolts. The film describes the everyday conscious and subconscious of resistance of societies fighting suppression and repression.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: arab, inspiring, iran, protest, rebellion, resistance, civil disobedience ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Bombolini is a fairly worthless drunk in the small Italian town of Santa Vittoria in the closing days of World War II. When word comes that the Fascist government has surrendered, he climbs a water tower to tear down the flag. He can't get down and someone gets the crowd to chant his name to give him confidence. The Fascist town council hears this and believes that he is the town's new leader. They surrender to him and make him the new mayor. He rises to the occasion and when he finds that the Germans plan to occupy his town and take their wine (over a million bottles) he works out a plan to hide it.—John Vogel <jlvogel@comcast.net>
Plot Keywords: mayor, townsperson, captain, nazi, drunk, endearing, inspiring ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: During Nazi occupation, red-headed Bent Faurschou-Hviid ("Flame") and Jørgen Haagen Schmith ("Citron"), assassins in the Danish resistance, take orders from Winther, who's in direct contact with Allied leaders. One shoots, the other drives. Until 1944, they kill only Danes; then Winther gives orders to kill Germans. When a target tells Bent that Winther's using them to settle private scores, doubt sets in, complicated by Bent's relationship with the mysterious Kitty Selmer, who may be a double agent. Also, someone in their circle is a traitor. Can Bent and Jørgen kill an über-target, evade capture, and survive the war? And is this heroism, naiveté, or mere hatred?
Plot Keywords: resistance fighter, assassin, nazi, collaborator, femme fatale, double agent, brutal ...
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