Four Seasons Lodge (2008), So Proudly We Hail (1943), Cross of Iron (1977), Blizzard of Souls (2019), Bataan (1943), Jungle Fighters (1961), The Bridge at Remagen (1969), Eight Iron Men (1952) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Retreat movies.
Storyline: Every summer, some Holocaust survivors, mostly Polish Jews, gather at the Four Seasons Lodge in the Catskill Mountains. After moving to America after the war, the survivors sought each other out to create a large family to help fill the void left by those they lost. Though many of them are well into their 90s, at the Four Seasons they play poker, cook, dance and tell jokes, creating for one another a loving experience that is the antithesis of the nightmare they survived.
Plot Keywords: documentary, holocaust, survivors, jewish, retreat, community, aging ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A group of U.S. Army nurses leaves San Francisco for their tour of duty in Hawaii in December 1941. The attack on Pearl Harbor changes their destination, and their lives. Sent to Bataan, in the Philippines, the nurses are led by Lt. Janet Davidson. She is faced with untested nurses who expected an easy time in Honolulu, but who quickly become battle-weary veterans dealing with daily bombardments by the Japanese, overwhelmed by the numbers of wounded, and dwindling supplies. Some of "Davey's" unit also have to deal with romantic entanglements with men they met onboard ship. When Bataan falls, the American forces flee to the offshore island of Corregidor, where they find the Japanese assault just as intense.—Ron Kerrigan <mvg@whidbey.com>
Plot Keywords: war, world war ii, philippines, pearl harbor, military, romance, sacrifice ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In 1943, on the Russian front, decorated leader Rolf Steiner (James Coburn) is promoted to Sergeant after another successful mission. Meanwhile, upper-class and arrogant Prussian Captain Hauptmann Stransky (Maximilian Schell) is assigned as the new commander of his squad. After a bloody battle of Steiner's squad against the Russian troops led by the brave Lieutenant Meyer (Igor Galo), who dies in combat, the coward Stransky claims that he led his squad against the Russian and requests to be awarded with the Iron Cross to satisfy his personal ambition together with that of his aristocratic family. Stransky gives the names of Steiner and of the homosexual Lieutenant Triebig (Roger Fritz) as witnesses of his accomplishment, but Steiner, who has problems with the chain of command in the Army, and with the arrogance of Stransky, refuses to participate in the fraud. When Colonel Brandt (James Mason) gives the order to leave the position in the front, Stransky does not retransmit the order ...
Plot Keywords: war, world war ii, germany, soviet union, soldiers, brutality, survival ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A brave 16-year-old dreams of becoming a hero while fighting for Latvia during World War I.
Plot Keywords: war, history, world war i, soldier, coming of age, tragedy, survival ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Japan has just invaded the Phillipines and the US Army attempts a desperate defence. Thirteen men are chosen to blow up a bridge on the Bataan peninsula and keep the Japanese from rebuilding it.—<khunt@eng.morgan.edu>
Plot Keywords: war, world war ii, philippines, combat, sacrifice, heroism, historical drama ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A troop of British soldiers are out in the jungle to record jungle noises and troop noises in the jungle so that the recordings can be played back by other troops to divert the enemy to their whereabouts. As they progress to what they think is closer to the base camp they find themselves farther and farther from radio range until the only channel they can get clearly is that of a Japanese broadcast. They now realize they are probably only 10 to 15 miles from a Japanese camp! The tension is added to by rowdy and openly admitted "non-hero" Private Bamforth who has nothing good to say about anyone and especially Corporal Johnstone (who holds an equal dislike for Bamforth). When a Japanese soldier is taken as their prisoner, the true colors of each man comes to the surface ...—McGinty <McGinty@aol.com>
Plot Keywords: war, action, adventure, drama, history, military, world war ii ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In the last days of World War II, the Allied Army desperately searched for a bridgehead across the impenetrable Rhine River, in order to launch a major assault into the center of Germany. "Bridge at Remagen" tells the true story of the battle for this last bridgehead, from both the German and American perspective.—Anthony Hughes <husnock31@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: war, world war ii, history, military, action, drama, usa ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Stanley Kramer's WW-II character study has Lee Marvin as the Sergeant of a small squad laid over during fighting in Italy. During the otherwise boring time between battles, tensions arise as they are ordered not to rescue a squad mate pinned down by the enemy, for fear of risking more lives. Based on the stage play "A Sound of Hunting", by Harry Brown.—CineTiger
Plot Keywords: war, korean war, military, squad, survival, brotherhood, courage ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: An innocent Russian call girl believes that she would make use of her influential contacts to get Swiss nationality.
Plot Keywords: war, history, retreat, military, france, russia, survival ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: During the Korean War, a U.S. Marine battalion must fight its way out of a frozen mountain pass despite diminishing supplies, freezing temperatures and constant attacks by overwhelming numbers of Chinese soldiers.—frankfob2@yahoo.com
Plot Keywords: war, korean war, military, combat, retreat, history, patriotism ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Aspiring teenage astronauts reveal that a journey to Mars is closer than you think.
Plot Keywords: war, history, world war ii, germany, soldiers, survival, brotherhood ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Tells the story of a young man's struggle to keep his world from changing. Placed in the rural setting of the mid 1950s, it revolves around William Jamison and his colorful old Grampa Jack. Since Will was born, they have shared the same bed and often the same dreams. William is a boy of great imagination who stumbles between fantasy and reality and who, with the gentle guidance of Grampa Jack, discovers they can be one and the same. The family farm, on a rolling piece of spacious countryside, is William's favorite spot on the face of the earth. He is devastated to learn of the family's decision to move to the city, far away from his friends and the love of his life, his cousin Kate. He revolts at the threat of being uprooted and desperately fights to hold on to the only life he has known . - childhood.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: war, history, drama, world war ii, germany, soviet union, military ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A group of British soldiers, retreating from the Germans toward Dunkirk in WW2 are captured. A renowned British boxer among them is forced in the ring to fight an equally talented German boxer as they struggle to escape.
Plot Keywords: war, history, world war ii, retreat, british, french, soldiers ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: TYLER comes home from a injury that could end his career and has him in the dugout coaching in a high-stake game of softball against KENZIE, a pretty face and a feisty coach, with whom he has a history. They don't exactly hit it off in the game opener where she pitches him some love--competitiveness and love don't mix. They must rekindle their love, learn to forgive and forget, and leave their complicated history behind. Love strikes in different ways when iconic Christian girl TIFFANY runs away from her vows and randomly jumps into the car of CHASE, a free-spirited maverick who quickly sweeps her off her feet and leaves her questioning her faith and values. Tyler must choose between love and a career, and Kenzie must let go and give him a second chance. Will he choose his baseball career over love? And will she steal his heart, or strike out in the game of love?
Plot Keywords: romance, romantic, retreat, 2019, drama, comedy, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A dwindling group of German soldiers battle to return to their lines on the harsh Eastern Front.
Plot Keywords: war, world war ii, history, military, germany, soviet union, nazi ...
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