Dave Tompkins :: DVD Library :: 2-Genre Table :: War :: Thriller


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12 (2007)

12 jurors must decide the fate of a Chechen teenager charged with murdering his stepfather.

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49th Parallel (1941)

A WW2 U-boat crew is stranded in northern Canada. To avoid internment, they must make their way to the border and get into the still-neutral USA.

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Act of Valor (2012)

An elite team of Navy SEALs embark on a covert mission to recover a kidnapped CIA agent.

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Black Book (2006)

In the Nazi-occupied Netherlands during World War II, a Jewish singer infiltrates the regional Gestapo headquarters for the Dutch resistance.

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Brothers (2009)

A young man comforts his older brother's wife and children after he goes missing in Afghanistan.

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Cloak and Dagger (1946)

Toward the end of World War II, the allied secret service receives a partial message indicating that the Germans are researching nuclear energy to build atomic bombs. In Midwestern ...

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Coriolanus (2011)

A banished hero of Rome allies with a sworn enemy to take his revenge on the city.

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Defiance (2008)

Jewish brothers in Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe escape into the Belarussian forests, where they join Russian resistance fighters and endeavor to build a village in order to protect themselves and about 1,000 Jewish non-combatants.

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Enemy at the Gates (2001)

Two Russian and German snipers play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad.

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Fail-Safe (1964)

American planes are sent to deliver a nuclear attack on Moscow, but it's a mistake due to an electrical malfunction. Can all-out war be averted?

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Foreign Correspondent (1940)

On the eve of WW2, a young American reporter tries to expose enemy agents in London.

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The General's Daughter (1999)

When the daughter of a well-known and well-respected base commander is murdered, an undercover detective is summoned to look into the matter and finds a slew of cover-ups at West Point.

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The Great Escape (1963)

Several hundred Allied POWs plan a mass escape from a German POW camp.

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Green Zone (2010)

Discovering covert and faulty intelligence causes a U.S. Army officer to go rogue as he hunts for Weapons of Mass Destruction in an unstable region.

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The Hunting Party (2007)

A young journalist, a seasoned cameraman and a discredited war correspondent embark on an unauthorized mission to find the no...

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The Hurt Locker (2009)

Iraq. Forced to play a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse in the chaos of war, an elite Army bomb squad unit must come together in a city where everyone is a potential enemy and every object could be a deadly bomb.

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K19: The Widowmaker (2002)

When Russia's first nuclear submarine malfunctions on its maiden voyage, the crew must race to save the ship and prevent a nuclear disaster.

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Lifeboat (1944)

Several survivors of a torpedoed ship find themselves in the same boat with one of the men who sunk it.

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Lions For Lambs (2007)

Injuries sustained by two Army ranger behind enemy lines in Afghanistan set off a sequence of events involving a congressman, a journalist and a professor.

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A Man Escaped (1956)

French Resistance activist Andre Devigny is imprisoned by the Nazis, and devotes his waking hours to planning an elaborate escape. Then, on the same day, he is condemned to death, and given...

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A Mighty Heart (2007)

Mariane Pearl embarks on a frantic search to locate her journalist husband, Daniel, when he goes missing in Pakistan.

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Night Train to Munich (1940)

When the Germans march into Prague, armour-plating inventor Dr Bomasch flees to England. His daughter Anna escapes from arrest to join him...

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Paradise Now (2005)

Two childhood friends are recruited for a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv.

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Rambo (2008)

In Thailand, John Rambo joins a group of mercenaries to venture into war-torn Burma, and rescue a group of Christian aid workers who were kidnapped by the ruthless local infantry unit.

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Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985)

John Rambo is removed from prison by his former superior, Colonel Samuel Troutman, for a top-secret operation to bring back POW's still held in Vietnam...

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Red Dawn (2012)

A group of teenagers look to save their town from an invasion of North Korean soldiers.

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Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (2005)

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.

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To Have and Have Not (1944)

Harry Morgan and his alcoholic sidekick, Eddie, are based on the island of Martinique and crew a boat available for hire...

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Valkyrie (2008)

Based on actual events, a plot to assassinate Hitler is unfurled during the height of WWII.

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