World War One
"world war one" Movies and TV Shows
#1
No Dogs or Italians Allowed
Synopsis:
Early 20th century, in the Ughetto family's home village, Ughettera, Northern Italy. Life in the region had become very difficult and the Ughettos dreamed of a better life abroad. Legend has it that Luigi Ughetto crossed the Alps and started a new life in France, thus changing his beloved family's destiny forever. His grandson retraces their story.
Starring:
Ariane Ascaride,
Alain Ughetto,
Stefano Paganini
Plot:
animal in title,
nationality in title,
voice over,
voice over narration,
1900s,
1910s,
ruin,
italy,
priest,
chestnut
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#2
Bunker
Synopsis:
Trapped in a bunker during World War I, a group of soldiers are faced with an ungodly presence that slowly turns them against each other.
Starring:
Julian Feder,
Roger Clark,
Luke Baines
Plot:
british soldiers,
american soldier,
fear,
trapped,
hell,
world war one,
german soldier,
paranoia,
trenches,
self mutilation
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#3
Pearl
Synopsis:
Trapped on her family’s isolated farm, Pearl must tend to her ailing father under the bitter and overbearing watch of her devout mother. Lusting for a glamorous life like she’s seen in the movies, Pearl’s ambitions, temptations, and repressions collide.
Starring:
Mia Goth,
Matthew Sunderland,
David Corenswet
#4
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Synopsis:
Born under unusual circumstances, Benjamin Button springs into being as an elderly man in a New Orleans nursing home and ages in reverse. Twelve years after his birth, he meets Daisy, a child who flits in and out of his life as she grows up to be a dancer. Though he has all sorts of unusual adventures over the course of his life, it is his relationship with Daisy, and the hope that they will come…
Starring:
Brad Pitt,
Mahershala Ali,
Jared Harris
Plot:
diary,
navy,
funeral,
tea,
travel,
premature aging,
old age,
reverse aging,
no title at beginning,
no opening credits
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#5
All Quiet on the Western Front
Synopsis:
Paul Baumer and his friends Albert and Muller, egged on by romantic dreams of heroism, voluntarily enlist in the German army. Full of excitement and patriotic fervour, the boys enthusiastically march into a war they believe in. But once on the Western Front, they discover the soul-destroying horror of World War I.
Starring:
Daniel Brühl,
Thibault de Montalembert,
Felix Kammerer
Plot:
based on novel or book,
world war i,
tank,
battle,
period drama,
world war one,
trench warfare,
flamethrower,
no man's land,
mud
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#6
Twelve Monkeys
Synopsis:
In the year 2035, convict James Cole reluctantly volunteers to be sent back in time to discover the origin of a deadly virus that wiped out nearly all of the earth's population and forced the survivors into underground communities. But when Cole is mistakenly sent to 1990 instead of 1996, he's arrested and locked up in a mental hospital. There he meets psychiatrist Dr. Kathryn Railly, and patient…
Starring:
Christopher Plummer,
Brad Pitt,
Bruce Willis
Plot:
time travel,
virus,
plague,
underground,
epidemic,
psychiatrist,
future,
ecoterrorism,
psychiatric hospital,
bald man
...
#7
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
Synopsis:
In the midst of the Great Depression, manipulative emcee Rocky enlists contestants for a dance marathon offering a $1,500 cash prize. Among them are a failed actress, a middle-aged sailor, a delusional blonde and a pregnant girl.
Starring:
Bonnie Bedelia,
Bruce Dern,
Jane Fonda
#8
The War of the Worlds
Synopsis:
The residents of a small town are excited when a flaming meteor lands in the hills, until they discover it is the first of many transport devices from Mars bringing an army of invaders invincible to any man-made weapon, even the atomic bomb.
Starring:
Cedric Hardwicke,
Ann Robinson,
Lewis Martin
Plot:
alien,
martian,
invasion,
atomic bomb,
panic,
alien invasion,
invasion of earth,
national film registry,
flashlight,
california
...
#9
The Time Machine
Synopsis:
A Victorian Englishman travels to the far future and finds that humanity has divided into two hostile species.
Starring:
Rod Taylor,
Sebastian Cabot,
Whit Bissell
Plot:
post apocalypse,
dystopia,
future,
distant future,
morlock,
london england,
time travel,
based on novel,
time machine,
utopia
...
#10
The Public Enemy
Synopsis:
Two young Chicago hoodlums, Tom Powers and Matt Doyle, rise up from their poverty-stricken slum life to become petty thieves, bootleggers and cold-blooded killers. But with street notoriety and newfound wealth, the duo feels the heat from the cops and rival gangsters both. Despite his ruthless criminal reputation, Tom tries to remain connected to his family, however, gang warfare and the need for…
Starring:
James Cagney,
Robert Emmett O'Connor,
Joan Blondell
Plot:
criminal,
gangster,
punched in the face,
violence,
anti hero,
robbery,
organized crime,
shot in the back,
beer,
tough guy
...
#11
The Great War
Synopsis:
Italy, 1916. Oreste Jacovacci and Giovanni Busacca are called, as all the Italian youths, to serve the army in the WWI. They both try in every way to avoid serving the army.
Starring:
Vittorio Gassman,
Bernard Blier,
Romolo Valli
#12
The Great Dictator
Synopsis:
Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.
Starring:
Billy Gilbert,
Charlie Chaplin,
Paulette Goddard
#13
The African Queen
Synopsis:
At the start of the First World War, in the middle of Africa’s nowhere, a gin soaked riverboat captain is persuaded by a strong-willed missionary to go down river and face-off a German warship.
Starring:
Katharine Hepburn,
Humphrey Bogart,
Robert Morley
Plot:
boat,
leech,
stuck in mud,
missionary,
torpedo,
death sentence,
repairing an engine,
german military,
steamship,
boat pilot
...
#14
Paths of Glory
Synopsis:
A commanding officer defends three scapegoats on trial for a failed offensive that occurred within the French Army in 1916.
Starring:
Joe Turkel,
Kirk Douglas,
Richard Anderson
Plot:
trench warfare,
military officer,
courtroom,
rifle,
world war one,
bayonet,
fear of death,
soldier,
military,
general
...
#15
Out of Africa
Synopsis:
Out of Africa tells the story of the life of Danish author Karen Blixen, who at the beginning of the 20th century moved to Africa to build a new life for herself. The film is based on the autobiographical novel by Karen Blixen from 1937.
Starring:
Michael Gough,
Robert Redford,
Meryl Streep
Plot:
africa,
tribal chief,
kenya,
coffee plantation,
adventurer,
colonial africa,
colonialism,
1910s,
lion,
based on book
...
#16
Legends of the Fall
Synopsis:
An epic tale of three brothers and their father living in the remote wilderness of 1900s USA and how their lives are affected by nature, history, war, and love.
Starring:
Brad Pitt,
Anthony Hopkins,
Aidan Quinn
#17
Lawrence of Arabia
Synopsis:
The story of British officer T.E. Lawrence's mission to aid the Arab tribes in their revolt against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. Lawrence becomes a flamboyant, messianic figure in the cause of Arab unity but his psychological instability threatens to undermine his achievements.
Starring:
Jack Hawkins,
José Ferrer,
Peter O'Toole
Plot:
desert,
arabia,
ottoman empire,
arab,
bedouin,
world war one,
prince feisal,
sexual sadism,
british military,
masochist
...
#18
Jules and Jim
Synopsis:
In the carefree days before World War I, introverted Austrian author Jules strikes up a friendship with the exuberant Frenchman Jim. Both men fall for the impulsive and beautiful Catherine, but it's Jules who wins her hand. After the war, Jim visits Jules, Catherine and their daughter in their Austrian home and discovers not only that his feelings for Catherine are unchanged, but also that they'r…
Starring:
Marie Dubois,
Jeanne Moreau,
Oskar Werner
#19
Johnny Got His Gun
Synopsis:
Joe, a young American soldier, is hit by a mortar shell on the last day of World War I. He lies in a hospital bed with a fate worse than death as a quadruple amputee who has lost his arms, legs, eyes, ears, mouth and nose. Unbeknown to his doctors, he remains conscious and able to think, thereby reliving his life through strange dreams and memories.
Starring:
Donald Sutherland,
Timothy Bottoms,
Jason Robards
#20
It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
Synopsis:
This classic "Peanuts" tale focuses on the thumb-sucking, blanket-holding Linus, and his touching faith in the "Great Pumpkin." When Linus discovers that no one else believes in the creature, he sets out to prove that the Pumpkin's no myth—by spending the night alone in a pumpkin patch.
Starring:
Bill Melendez,
Ann Altieri,
Sally Dryer
Plot:
halloween,
pumpkin patch,
pumpkin,
peanuts,
trick or treating,
waiting,
belief,
sincerity,
letter writing,
halloween special
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