Top 20 movies like La otra Penélope
Top 20 Movies like La otra Penélope
- 1. Platoon
- 2. Good Morning, Vietnam
- 3. Saving Private Ryan
- 4. Tears of the Sun
- 5. Behind Enemy Lines
- 6. The Reader
- 7. Rescue Dawn
- 8. Across the Sea
- 9. The Butler
- 10. Music Box
- 11. In the Valley of Elah
- 12. The Last Comfort Women
- 13. Death Is Called Engelchen
- 14. The Hunting Party
- 15. Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams
- 16. Film znaleziony w Katyniu
- 17. Zbrodnia katyńska
- 18. Katyń
- 19. The skull from Katyn
- 20. Katyń. Prawda i kłamstwo o zbrodni
1. Platoon
As a young and naive recruit in Vietnam, Chris Taylor faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war and the duality of man.
It has an average vote of 7.745 on TMDB.
2. Good Morning, Vietnam
A disk jockey goes to Vietnam to work for the Armed Forces Radio Service. While he becomes popular among the troops, his superiors disapprove of his humour.
It has an average vote of 7.312 on TMDB.
3. Saving Private Ryan
As U.S. troops storm the beaches of Normandy, three brothers lie dead on the battlefield, with a fourth trapped behind enemy lines. Ranger captain John Miller and seven men are tasked with penetrating German-held territory and bringing the boy home.
It has an average vote of 8.216 on TMDB.
4. Tears of the Sun
Navy SEAL Lieutenant A.K. Waters and his elite squadron of tactical specialists are forced to choose between their duty and their humanity, between following orders by ignoring the conflict that surrounds them, or finding the courage to follow their conscience and protect a group of innocent refugees. When the democratic government of Nigeria collapses and the country is taken over by a ruthless military dictator, Waters, a fiercely loyal and hardened veteran is dispatched on a routine mission to retrieve a Doctors Without Borders physician.
It has an average vote of 6.863 on TMDB.
5. Behind Enemy Lines
While flying a routine reconnaissance mission over Bosnia, fighter pilot Lt. Chris Burnett photographs something he wasn't supposed to see and gets shot down behind enemy lines, where he must outrun an army led by a ruthless Serbian general. With time running out and a deadly tracker on his trail, Burnett's commanding officer, Admiral Reigart, decides to risk his career and launch a renegade rescue mission to save his life.
It has an average vote of 6.374 on TMDB.
6. The Reader
The story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a teenager in the late 1950s, had an affair with an older woman, Hanna, who then disappeared only to resurface years later as one of the defendants in a war crimes trial stemming from her actions as a concentration camp guard late in the war. He alone realizes that Hanna is illiterate and may be concealing that fact at the expense of her freedom.
It has an average vote of 7.467 on TMDB.
7. Rescue Dawn
A US Fighter pilot's epic struggle of survival after being shot down on a mission over Laos during the Vietnam War.
It has an average vote of 6.945 on TMDB.
8. Across the Sea (De L'Autre Côté de la Mer)
A former war photographer tries to ward off his personal ghosts by taking pictures of trees only. He lives alone among olive trees in southern Italy. One day he decides to cross the sea. Once in Albania, he goes near the location where he had made his last war picture, as if he was retracing his steps. He finds a tree he wants to photograph. He is just about to do so, when he discovers a runaway girl hiding in it with the sole objective of crossing the sea and getting to the other side. The man has no choice. He has to flee with her, follow her and guide her along until a storm separates them.
9. The Butler (Kamerdyner)
The love between Mateusz Krol, a Kashubian boy, and Marita von Krauss, a Prussian aristocrat in whose family home he is taken in when his mother dies, grows and matures thorough the years, while Kashubia, the northern Polish region where they live, suffers the consequences of the tragedies that will ravage Europe from the beginning of the 20th century until the end of the World War II.
It has an average vote of 6.5 on TMDB.
10. Music Box
A lawyer defends her father accused of war crimes, but there is more to the case than she suspects.
It has an average vote of 7.1 on TMDB.
11. In the Valley of Elah
A career officer and his wife work with a police detective to uncover the truth behind their son's disappearance following his return from a tour of duty in Iraq.
It has an average vote of 6.8 on TMDB.
12. The Last Comfort Women (마지막 위안부)
This film tells the story of three young women from South Korea, Japan, and China who were ravaged after becoming comfort women in the Japanese army.
13. 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.
14. The Hunting Party
A young journalist, an experienced cameraman and a discredited reporter find their bold plan to capture Bosnia's top war criminal quickly spiraling out of control when a UN representative mistakes them for a CIA hit squad.
It has an average vote of 6.519 on TMDB.
15. Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams (Grbavica)
A woman and her daughter struggle to make their way through the aftermath of the Balkan war.
It has an average vote of 6.933 on TMDB.
16. Film znaleziony w Katyniu (Film znaleziony w Katyniu)
(Film znaleziony w Katyniu)
17. Zbrodnia katyńska (Zbrodnia katyńska)
(Zbrodnia katyńska)
19. The skull from Katyn (Kraniet fra Katyn)
About the discovery of a mass grave with Polish officers in Katyn in Russia in 1943 and the identification of the skull that the Danish doctor Helge Tramsen took home
20. Katyń. Prawda i kłamstwo o zbrodni (Katyń. Prawda i kłamstwo o zbrodni)
(Katyń. Prawda i kłamstwo o zbrodni)