The Exception (2016)

Goodbye Children (1987)

Summary: A French boarding school run by priests seems to be a haven from World War II until a new student arrives. Occupying the next bed in the dormitory to the top student in his class, the two young boys begin to form a bond.

Release Date: October 07, 1987

Genres: Drama, War

Director: Louis Malle

Writer: Louis Malle

Runtime: 1 h 44 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Nouvelles Éditions de Films (NEF), MK2 Productions, Stella Film, NEF Filmproduktion & Vertrieb (I), Soficas Investimages, Images Investissements, Sofica Créations, Rai 1

Distributor: Orion Classics, HBO Max, Orion Home Video, The Criterion Channel, The Criterion Collection

Countries: France, Italy, West Germany

Language: French

Domestic: $ 4,542,825

International: $ 32,788

Patton (1970)

Summary: The World War II phase of the career of controversial American general George S. Patton.

Release Date: April 02, 1970

Genres: Drama, Biography, War

Director: Franklin J. Schaffner

Writers: Francis Ford Coppola

, Edmund H. North

, Ladislas Farago

Runtime: 2 h 52 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Twentieth Century Fox

Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox, American Broadcasting Company (ABC), Magnetic Video, National Broadcasting Company (NBC), 20th Century Fox Video, CBS/Fox, Fox Video, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, 20th Television

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 12,000,000

Domestic: $ 61,749,765

The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979)

Summary: Maria marries Hermann Braun in the last days of World War II, only for him to go missing in the war. Alone, Maria puts to use her beauty and ambition in order to find prosperity during Germany's "economic miracle" of the 1950s.

Release Date: March 23, 1979

Genre: Drama

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Writers: Pea Fröhlich

, Peter Märthesheimer

, Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Runtime: 2 h 00 min

MPAA: R

Production: Albatros Filmproduktion, Fengler Films, Filmverlag der Autoren, Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR)

Distributor: RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video, The Criterion Collection, HBO Max, New Yorker Films

Country: West Germany

Language: German

Movie budget: $ 1,975,000

Domestic: $ 8,144

International: $ 3,715

Deathwatch (2002)

Summary: In the middle of World War I, nine British soldiers caught behind enemy lines seek refuge in a complex network of German trenches. What they soon discover is that they aren't alone - and it isn't a German soldier that's hunting th...

Release Date: December 06, 2002

Genres: Drama, Horror, War

Director: M.J. Bassett

Writer: M.J. Bassett

Runtime: 1 h 34 min

MPAA: R

Production: ApolloMedia Distribution, Bavaria Film, F.A.M.E. Film & Music Entertainment AG, F.A.M.E. Film & Music Entertainment AG, Film and Music Entertainment (F&ME), Portobello Pictures, Q&Q Medien GmbH

Countries: United Kingdom, Germany

Language: English

Journey's End (2017)

Summary: Set in a dugout in Aisne in 1918, it is the story of a group of British officers, led by mentally-disintegrating young Officer Stanhope, as they await their fate.

Release Date: February 02, 2018

Genres: Drama, War

Director: Saul Dibb

Writers: Simon Reade

, R.C. Sherriff

, Vernon Bartlett

Runtime: 1 h 47 min

MPAA: R

Production: Fluidity Films, British Film Company, Third Wednesday Films

Distributor: Good Deed Entertainment

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

Domestic: $ 161,796

International: $ 809,013

Charlotte Gray (2001)

Summary: A young Scottish woman joins the French Resistance during World War II to rescue her Royal Air Force boyfriend who is lost in France.

Release Date: January 11, 2002

Genres: Drama, Romance, Thriller

Director: Gillian Armstrong

Writers: Sebastian Faulks

, Jeremy Brock

Runtime: 2 h 01 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Ecosse Films, FilmFour, Pod Film

Countries: United Kingdom, Australia, Germany

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 20,000,000

Domestic: $ 741,394

International: $ 4,581,715

The Dirty Dozen (1967)

Summary: During World War II, a rebellious U.S. Army Major is assigned a dozen convicted murderers to train and lead them into a mass assassination mission of German officers.

Release Date: October 22, 1967

Genres: Action, Adventure, War

Director: Robert Aldrich

Writers: Nunnally Johnson

, Lukas Heller

, E.M. Nathanson

Runtime: 2 h 30 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), MKH, MKH, Seven Arts Productions

Distributor: CBS, MGM/UA Home Entertainment, MGM Home Entertainment, Creative Design, Warner Home Video, HBO Max

Countries: United Kingdom, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 5,400,000

Surviving Picasso (1996)

Summary: The passionate Merchant Ivory drama tells the story of Françoise Gilot (Natascha McElhone), the only lover of Pablo Picasso (Sir Anthony Hopkins) who was strong enough to withstand his ferocious cruelty, and move on with her life.

Release Date: September 20, 1996

Genres: Drama, Romance, Biography

Director: James Ivory

Writers: Arianna Huffington

, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Runtime: 2 h 05 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Merchant Ivory Productions, David L. Wolper Productions

Distributor: Warner Bros., Warner Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 16,000,000

Domestic: $ 2,021,348

The Guns of Navarone (1961)

Summary: A team of Allied saboteurs is assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held Greek island and destroy the two enormous long-range field guns that prevent the rescue of 2,000 trapped British soldiers.

Release Date: April 28, 1961

Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama

Director: J. Lee Thompson

Writers: Alistair MacLean

, Carl Foreman

Runtime: 2 h 38 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Highroad Productions

Distributor: CBS, Columbia TriStar Home Video, RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video, Sony Pictures Television, Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment, Sony Pictures Television International, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Countries: United Kingdom, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 6,000,000

Closely Watched Trains (1966)

Summary: An apprentice train dispatcher at a village station seeks his first sexual encounter and becomes despondent when he is unable to perform.

Release Date: November 18, 1966

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Director: Jirí Menzel

Writers: Bohumil Hrabal

, Jirí Menzel

Runtime: 1 h 32 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Filmové studio Barrandov

Distributor: Sigma III Corp., RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video, Image Entertainment, The Criterion Collection

Country: Czechoslovakia

Language: Czech

Saints and Soldiers (2003)

Summary: Four American soldiers and one Brit fighting in Europe during World War II struggle to return to Allied territory after being separated from U.S. forces during the historic Malmedy Massacre.

Release Date: March 25, 2005

Genres: Action, Drama, War

Director: Ryan Little

Writers: Geoffrey Panos

, Matt Whitaker

Runtime: 1 h 30 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Go Films, Medal of Honor Productions LLC, Go Films

Distributor: BigStar.TV, Cinedigm Entertainment Group, GoDigital Media Group, IndieFlix, IndieReign, Topics Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 780,000

Domestic: $ 1,310,470

Good (2008)

Summary: John Halder, a German literature professor in the 1930s, is initially reluctant to accept the ideas of the Nazi Party. He is pulled in different emotional directions by his wife, his mother, his mistress, and a Jewish friend.

Release Date: April 17, 2009

Genres: Drama, Romance, War

Director: Vicente Amorim

Writers: C.P. Taylor

, John Wrathall

Runtime: 1 h 32 min

MPAA: R

Production: Good Films Collective, Miromar Entertainment

Distributor: THINKFilm

Countries: United Kingdom, Germany

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 15,000,000

Domestic: $ 27,276

International: $ 1,524,748

Triumph of the Spirit (1989)

Summary: In Greece during World War II, a young Jewish boxer, his girlfriend, and their families are sent to Auschwitz. When the camp guards learn of his boxing abilities, they force him to participate in weekly boxing matches.

Release Date: December 23, 1989

Genres: Drama, Biography, History

Director: Robert M. Young

Writers: Shimon Arama

, Zion Haen

, Andrzej Krakowski

Runtime: 2 h 00 min

MPAA: R

Production: Nova International Films

Distributor: Triumph Releasing Corporation, Europafilm AS, PolyGram Video, RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video, MGM Home Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 12,000,000

Domestic: $ 408,839

The Train (1964)

Summary: In 1944, a German colonel loads a train with French art treasures to send to Germany. The Resistance must stop it without damaging the cargo.

Release Date: September 23, 1964

Genres: Thriller, War

Director: John Frankenheimer

Writers: Franklin Coen

, Frank Davis

, Rose Valland

Runtime: 2 h 13 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Les Films Ariane, Les Productions Artistes Associés, Dear Film Produzione, United Artists, Vides Cinematografica

Distributor: United Artists, National Broadcasting Company (NBC), MGM Television, MGM Home Entertainment, Twilight Time, Kino Lorber

Countries: France, Italy, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 6,700,000

Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (2005)

Summary: A dramatization of the final days of Sophie Scholl, one of the most famous members of the German World War II anti-Nazi resistance movement, The White Rose.

Release Date: February 24, 2005

Genres: Drama, Crime, Biography

Director: Marc Rothemund

Writer: Fred Breinersdorfer

Runtime: 2 h 00 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Broth Film, Goldkind Filmproduktion, ARTE, Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR)

Distributor: Zeitgeist Films

Country: Germany

Language: German

Domestic: $ 680,331

International: $ 10,123,984