Went the Day Well? (1942), Bat 21 (1988), Bitter Victory (1958), Fury (2014), Five Graves to Cairo (1943), Man Hunt (1941), Night Train to Munich (1940), Decision Before Dawn (1951) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Behind Enemy Lines movies.
Storyline: Residents of an English village unwittingly welcome Nazi soldiers who intend to take over their town.
Plot Keywords: war, world war ii, british, spy, village, resistance, nazi ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A U.S. pilot (Danny Glover) races an air-strike deadline to find an air-strike expert (Gene Hackman) downed in Vietnam.
Plot Keywords: war, vietnam war, military, rescue, based on true story, american film, 1980s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A British captain (Richard Burton) goes on a raid in World War II Libya with a major (Curt Jurgens) he knows his wife (Ruth Roman) has slept with.
Plot Keywords: war, drama, adventure, romance, psychological, military, desert ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: 1945, in World War II Germany, the tough Sergeant Don 'Wardaddy' Collier commands a tank and survives a German attack with his veteran crew composed of Boyd 'Bible' Swan, Trini 'Gordo' Garcia and Grady 'Coon-Ass' Travis. He receives a rookie soldier Norman Ellison as the substitute for his deceased gunner and he tries to harden the youth along the way.
Plot Keywords: war, world war ii, nazi germany, combat, bloody, violence, brotherhood ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: June, 1942. The British Army, retreating ahead of victorious Rommel, leaves a lone survivor on the Egyptian border--Corporal John Bramble, who finds refuge at a remote desert hotel...soon to be German HQ. To survive, Bramble assumes an identity which proves perilous. The new guest of honor is none other than Rommel, hinting of his secret strategy, code-named 'five graves.' And the fate of the British in Egypt depends on whether a humble corporal can penetrate the secret...—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: war, world war ii, spy, suspense, drama, historical, military ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: British hunter Thorndike vacationing in Bavaria has Hitler in his gun sight. He is captured, beaten, left for dead, and escapes back to London where he is hounded by German agents and aided by a young woman.
Plot Keywords: thriller, suspense, war, espionage, adventure, action, film noir ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: After the Germans march into Prague, Czechoslovakia, armor-plating inventor Dr. Axel Bomasch (James Harcourt) flees to England. His daughter Anna (Margaret Lockwood) escapes from arrest to join him, but the Gestapo manages to kidnap them both back to Berlin. As war looms, British Secret Service Agent Dickie Randall (Sir Rex Harrison) follows, disguised as a senior German Army officer. His ploy is the not unpleasant one of pretending to woo Anna to the German cause.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
Plot Keywords: spy, world war ii, thriller, suspense, british film, film noir, escape ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: WWII is entering its last phase: Germany is in ruins, but does not yield. The US army lacks crucial knowledge about the German units operating on the opposite side of the Rhine, and decides to send two German prisoners to gather information. The scheme is risky: the Gestapo retains a terribly efficient network to identify and capture spies and deserters. Moreover, it is not clear that "Tiger", who does not mind any dirty work as long as the price is right, and war-weary "Happy", who might be easily betrayed by his feelings, are dependable agents. After Tiger and another American agent are successfully infiltrated, Happy is parachuted in Bavaria. His duty: find out the whereabouts of a powerful German armored unit moving towards the western front.—Eduardo Casais <eduardo.casais@research.nokia.com>
Plot Keywords: war, espionage, world war ii, psychological warfare, germany, american film, black and white ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A young British soldier is accidentally abandoned by his unit following a terrifying riot on the streets of Belfast in 1971. Unable to tell friend from foe, the raw recruit must survive the night alone and find his way to safety through a disorienting, alien and deadly landscape.
Plot Keywords: war, history, action, thriller, drama, british, conflict ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In the 1943 invasion of Italy, one American platoon lands, digs in, then makes its way inland to blow up a bridge next to a fortified farmhouse, as tension and casualties mount. Unusually realistic picture of war as long quiet stretches of talk, punctuated by sharp, random bursts of violent action whose relevance to the big picture is often unknown to the soldiers.—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: war, world war ii, soldiers, psychological stress, military operation, tactics, sacrifice ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: During the Allied Bombing offensive of World War II the public was often informed that "A raid took place last night over (city name). One (or often more) of our aircraft Is missing." Behind these sombre words hid tales of death, destruction, and derring-do. This is the story of one such bomber crew who were shot down, and the brave Dutch patriots who helped them home.—Steve Crook <steve@brainstorm.co.uk>
Plot Keywords: war, world war ii, british, crew, survival, behind enemy lines, resistance ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: When Flight Lt Forbes and his crew are shot down after bombing their target, they discover valuable information, about a hidden German aircraft factory, that must get back to England. In their way across Germany, they try and cause as much damage as possible. Then with the chasing Germans about to pounce, they come up with an ingenious plan to escape.—mike.wilson6@btinternet.com
Plot Keywords: war, action, adventure, world war ii, american film, 1940s, black and white ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: During World War I, a young nurse in a hospital in German-occupied Belgium is secretly feeding military information to the British. Complicating matters is the guilt she feels when she has to treat the German casualties inflicted as a result of the information she's passed on, and the fact that the local German commandant is falling in love with her.—frankfob2@yahoo.com
Plot Keywords: spy, war, history, drama, british, black and white, 1930s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: 1943, The war is entering its final stages and Germany is teetering on the brink of defeat. An increasingly unhinged Hitler, orders a mission to have British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill kidnapped and brought to Germany. The plan seems ludicrous in the extreme, but a message sent from a German spy in the Norfolk countryside makes one German officer realize that such a mission may just feasible.
Plot Keywords: war, world war ii, spy, nazi, england, germany, special forces ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In 1944, in London, Lieutenant Pierre Desfontaines assigns his sister Louise Desfontaines to convince three other women to form a five-woman task force under his command to rescue a British geologist from a German hospital in the countryside. The geologist was assigned by Colonel Maurice Buckmaster in a reconnaissance mission of the soil of the beaches at Normandy for the D-Day and had been captured by the Germans. Louise and Pierre force the prostitute Jeanne Faussier that is imprisoned for murdering her pimp; the explosives expert Gaëlle Lemenech that misses action; and the former dancer and fiancé of Colonel Karl Heindrich, Suzy Desprez, using blackmail and unethical methods to fly to France and join the Italian agent Maria Luzzato in the assignment. They are well-succeeded but when they deliver the geologist to the British aeroplane, Pierre betrays the group. He forces the women to travel to Paris to kill Colonel Heindrich who suspects that the landing of the allied forces will be through Normandy, in a dangerous mission.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Plot Keywords: war, world war ii, women, france, resistance, history, action ...
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