Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Drama > War: 414 Films to Rent
- Triage (2009)
- Dir. Danis Tanovic
Feat. Colin Farrell, Paz Vega, Christopher Lee…
- An absorbing Colin Farrell performance carries this pensive, unexpectedly subdued drama from the director of NO MAN'S LAND. Farrell plays a battered…
- Within the Whirlwind (2009)
- Dir. Marleen Gorris
Feat. Emily Watson, Ulrich Tukur, Ian Hart…
- The memoirs of Eugenia Ginzburg, a Russian academic sentenced to ten years labor in a Siberian Gulag, are brought to life in this harrowing account…
- Adam Resurrected (2008)
- Dir. Paul Schrader
Feat. Jeff Goldblum, Willem Dafoe, Derek Jacobi…
- Troubling tale of a former Jewish circus entertainer who was spared from the gas chamber by serving as the camp commandant's pet dog.
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- Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, The (2008)
- Dir. Mark Herman
Feat. Asa Butterfield, Zac Mattoon O'Brien, Vera Farmiga…
- Emotive wartime parable set in Nazi Germany where the young son of a concentration camp commander befriends a Jewish boy on the other side of the…
- Children Of The Silk Road (The Children of Huang Shi) (2008)
- Dir. Roger Spottiswoode
Feat. Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Radha Mitchell, Chow Yun-Fat…
- Inspired by real events, this solid WWII epic reveals the story of a young British journalist and Australian nurse who led sixty orphans to safety…
- Edge of Love, The (2008)
- Dir. John Maybury
Feat. Keira Knightley, Sienna Miller, Cillian Murphy…
- Atmospheric wartime romance based on the life of Welsh poet Dylan Thomas (Rhys) and his love for two free–spirited women who become firm…
- Generation Kill (TV Mini-series) (2008)
- Feat. Alexander Skarsgard, James Ransone, Lee Tergesen…
- Superlative HBO series from the makers of THE WIRE following the U.S. Marine reconnaissance battalion in the first year of the Iraq invasion.…
- Giovanna's Father (2008)
- Dir. Pupi Avati
Feat. Silvio Orlando, Francesca Neri, Alba Rohrwacher…
- Set during the second world ward this is a sad character study of a naive father who covers for his daughter's terrible crime.
- In Tranzit (2008)
- Dir. Tom Roberts
Feat. John Malkovich, Vera Farmiga, Thomas Kretschmann…
- Bleak POW drama set in Soviet Russia during the aftermath of World War 2. With the prisons overflowing makeshift accommodation is found for German…
- Lucky Ones, The (2008)
- Dir. Neil Burger
Feat. Tim Robbins, Rachel McAdams, Michael Pena
- Low–key drama sees Robbins, McAdams and Pena play three soldiers who go on an unexpected road–trip together through the USA after…