Top 20 movies like Azem Galica
Top 20 Movies like Azem Galica
- 1. The Last Runway 2, Commando Yaguareté
- 2. Tana
- 3. Wolf of Prokletije
- 4. The Wind That Shakes the Barley
- 5. First Blood
- 6. The (Silent) War
- 7. Innocent Voices
- 8. When the Mountains Tremble
- 9. Leal
- 10. How to Die
- 11. North
- 12. Bandit Queen
- 13. Inglourious Basterds
- 14. Diary of an Unknown Soldier
- 15. Kastriota
- 16. Red Dawn
- 17. Gunfight
- 18. Wag the Dog
- 19. Death Is Called Engelchen
- 20. Kapitán Dabač
1. The Last Runway 2, Commando Yaguareté (Leal 2, Comando Yaguareté)
Betty Jara reassembles the Yaguareté Commandos to exchange an imprisoned criminal for one of her own agents. A risky operation becomes even more so when she realizes they are not just fighting a drug ring but the highest spheres of power.
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
2. Tana (Tana)
The movie is based on a Fatmir Gjata screenplay. Gjata had written a novel with the same title earlier. The events evolve in the 1950s. The main character, Tana, is a smart, outgoing and progressive young woman. She is in love with Stefan and they both live in an unnamed mountain village in Albania. Tana has to face the old mentality of her old grandfather and she also has to fight the jealousy of Lefter . It is a love game, while socialist progress is highlighted as is often in the socialist realism.
3. Wolf of Prokletije (Uka i Bjeshkëve të nemura)
Uka is an old Albanian who lives in the mountains on the border of Kosovo and Albania. As an honorable man, he must deal with his son who befriended Italian fascists during WW2.
It has an average vote of 5.4 on TMDB.
4. The Wind That Shakes the Barley
In 1920s Ireland young doctor Damien O'Donovan prepares to depart for a new job in a London hospital. As he says his goodbyes at a friend's farm, British Black and Tans arrive, and a young man is killed. Damien joins his brother Teddy in the Irish Republican Army, but political events are soon set in motion that tear the brothers apart.
It has an average vote of 7.384 on TMDB.
5. First Blood
When former Green Beret John Rambo is harassed by local law enforcement and arrested for vagrancy, he is forced to flee into the mountains and wage an escalating one-man war against his pursuers.
It has an average vote of 7.492 on TMDB.
6. The (Silent) War (Sordo)
Northern Spain, October 1944. Several groups of guerrilla fighters, former Republican soldiers exiled in France after the end of the Spanish Civil War, infiltrate the country in order to provoke a popular uprising against General Franco's dictatorship.
It has an average vote of 5.9 on TMDB.
7. Innocent Voices (Voces inocentes)
A young boy, in an effort to have a normal childhood in 1980s El Salvador, is caught up in a dramatic fight for his life as he desperately tries to avoid the war which is raging all around him
It has an average vote of 8.185 on TMDB.
8. When the Mountains Tremble (When the Mountains Tremble)
A documentary on the war between the Guatemalan military and the Mayan population, with first hand accounts by Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchú.
It has an average vote of 9.5 on TMDB.
9. Leal (Leal)
Former Colonel Fernandez is appointed Minister of the National Anti-Drug Agency and purges the special forces to fight the first of many battles against drug trafficking on the border of Paraguay and Argentina.
It has an average vote of 7.18 on TMDB.
10. How to Die (Si të vdiset)
Destinies of two friends-fighters during WW2.
11. North (Bakur)
Bakur is a documentary that invites its audience to reflect on a war that has been continuing for decades and gives an insightful look on its main subject, the PKK. The film follows the lives of the guerilla in three different camps on the Kurdish region that lies within Turkish borders.
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
12. Bandit Queen (बैंडिट क्वीन)
Born a lower-caste girl in rural India's patriarchal society, "married" at 11, repeatedly raped and brutalized, Phooland Devi finds freedom only as an avenging warrior, the eponymous Bandit Queen. Devi becomes a kind a bloody Robin Hood; this extraordinary biographical film offers both a vivid portrait of a driven woman and a savage critique of the society that made her.
It has an average vote of 6.647 on TMDB.
13. Inglourious Basterds
In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Basterds" are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds, lead by Lt. Aldo Raine soon cross paths with a French-Jewish teenage girl who runs a movie theater in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers.
It has an average vote of 8.219 on TMDB.
14. Diary of an Unknown Soldier (Pamiętnik nieznanego żołnierza)
WWII through the memories of a simple underground soldier, who struggles to keep his senses while caught up in a meaningless bloodshed. Moments of everyday life during three years of war inspired by real diary.
15. Kastriota (Kastriota)
The Balkans 1443 . After a long successful military experience in the Turkish army, the reputation of the young Kastriota reached Albania and people began to hope in his return to his homeland, from which he was taken away as a child. When the Sultan gives the hero the task of facing János Hunyadi, Kastriota will start a journey towards finding his true self and choosing his path.
16. Red Dawn
It is the dawn of World War III. In mid-western America, a group of teenagers band together to defend their town—and their country—from invading Soviet forces.
It has an average vote of 6.282 on TMDB.
17. Gunfight (Obračun)
In this sequel to "Captain Leshi", a group of Albanian nationalist movement continues obstruction of the new Yugoslavian authorities even after the war. Captain Leshi manages to fight them successfully, as well as to fulfill his romance with beautiful Azira.
It has an average vote of 5.5 on TMDB.
18. Wag the Dog
During the final weeks of a presidential race, the President is accused of sexual misconduct. To distract the public until the election, the President's adviser hires a Hollywood producer to help him stage a fake war.
It has an average vote of 6.955 on TMDB.
19. Death Is Called Engelchen (Smrt si říká Engelchen)
Pavel is a Czech partisan fighter in the waning days of the war. Just as peace is declared, Pavel is shot in the spine and sent to the hospital emergency ward. As he fades in and out of consciousness, he recalls the events that led to his participation in the underground. Holding German occupation commander Engelchen responsible for all the horrors and deprivations heaped upon his comrades, Pavel is kept alive by the possibility of recovering and exacting vengeance upon the Nazi officer - no matter how long it takes.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
20. Kapitán Dabač (Kapitán Dabač)
(Kapitán Dabač)
It has an average vote of 5.4 on TMDB.