Top rated harrowing movies with a pacifism

Check out today’s highest ranked harrowing movies with a pacifism! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best harrowing movies with a pacifism, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.

1 All Quiet on the Western Front (2022)

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.

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2022-10-07 | Drama / War

Cast

Felix Kammerer, Albrecht Schuch

Rating

rating icon 7.735
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    visceral
  2. Ranked #2 for
    remarkable
  3. Ranked #2 for
    disturbingly realistic

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2 Quo Vadis, Aida? (2021)

Bosnia, July 1995. Aida is a translator for the UN in the small town of Srebrenica. When the Serbian army takes over the town, her family is among the thousands of citizens looking for shelter in the UN camp. As an insider to the negotiations Aida has access to crucial information that she needs to interpret. What is at the horizon for her family and people – rescue or death? Which move should she take?

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2021-02-26 | War / Drama

Cast

Jasna Đuričić, Izudin Bajrović

Rating

rating icon 7.639
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    true representation
  2. Ranked #1 for
    leaving theater thinking
  3. Ranked #1 for
    cosmopolitan

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Quo Vadis, Aida? trailer
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3 Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle (2021)

Japan, 1944. Trained for intelligence work, Hiroo Onoda, 22 years old, discovers a philosophy contrary to the official line: no suicide; stay alive whatever happens; the mission is more important than anything else. Sent to Lubang, a small island in the Philippines where the Americans are about to land, this role will be to wage a guerrilla war until the return of the Japanese troops. The Empire will surrender soon after; Onoda, 10,000 days later.

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2021-07-21 | Drama / Adventure

Cast

Yuya Endo, Kanji Tsuda

Rating

rating icon 7.11
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    idealism
  2. Ranked #1 for
    steadfast character
  3. Ranked #2 for
    feeling of isolation

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4 The Shadow in My Eye (2021)

On March 21st, 1945, the British Royal Air Force set out on a mission to bomb Gestapo's headquarters in Copenhagen. The raid had fatal consequences as some of the bombers accidentally targeted a school and more than 120 people were killed, 86 of whom were children.

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2021-10-28 | War / Drama

Cast

Bertram Bisgaard Enevoldsen, Ester Birch

Rating

rating icon 7.816
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    extraordinarily well-done
  2. Ranked #1 for
    tragic
  3. Ranked #1 for
    eloquent

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5 The Outpost (2020)

A small unit of U.S. soldiers, alone at the remote Combat Outpost Keating, located deep in the valley of three mountains in Afghanistan, battles to defend against an overwhelming force of Taliban fighters in a coordinated attack. The Battle of Kamdesh, as it was known, was the bloodiest American engagement of the Afghan War in 2009 and Bravo Troop 3-61 CAV became one of the most decorated units of the 19-year conflict.

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2020-06-24 | War / Drama

Cast

Scott Eastwood, Caleb Landry Jones

Rating

rating icon 6.874
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    authentic
  2. Ranked #1 for
    indefensible character
  3. Ranked #2 for
    epic battle sequence

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6 Navalny (2022)

Follows the man who survived an assassination attempt by poisoning with a lethal nerve agent in August 2020. During his months-long recovery, he makes shocking discoveries about the attempt on his life and decides to return home.

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2022-04-08 | Documentary

Cast

Alexey Navalny, Yulia Navalnaya

Rating

rating icon 7.215
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    rotten to the core
  2. Ranked #1 for
    tyrant
  3. Ranked #1 for
    evil dictator

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7 For Sama (2019)

A love letter from a young mother to her daughter, the film tells the story of Waad al-Kateab’s life through five years of the uprising in Aleppo, Syria as she falls in love, gets married and gives birth to Sama, all while cataclysmic conflict rises around her. Her camera captures incredible stories of loss, laughter and survival as Waad wrestles with an impossible choice– whether or not to flee the city to protect her daughter’s life, when leaving means abandoning the struggle for freedom for which she has already sacrificed so much.

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2019-07-26 | Documentary / War

Cast

Sama Al-Khateab, Hamza Al-Khateab

Rating

rating icon 8.3
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    incredibly difficult
  2. Ranked #1 for
    unvarnished
  3. Ranked #1 for
    sugar-coated

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8 Jojo Rabbit (2019)

A World War II satire that follows a lonely German boy whose world view is turned upside down when he discovers his single mother is hiding a young Jewish girl in their attic. Aided only by his idiotic imaginary friend, Adolf Hitler, Jojo must confront his blind nationalism.

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2019-10-18 | Comedy / War

Cast

Roman Griffin Davis, Thomasin McKenzie

Rating

rating icon 8.027
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    serious drama
  2. Ranked #1 for
    semi-serious
  3. Ranked #1 for
    comical

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9 Mosul (2019)

An Iraqi journalist joins an army of uneasy allies and unforgettable characters in the epic battle to liberate the city of Mosul from the Islamic State.

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2019-05-14 | Documentary

Cast

Ali Maula

Rating

rating icon 7.1
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    proper perspective
  2. Ranked #1 for
    most accurate depiction
  3. Ranked #1 for
    most harrowing

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10 Mr. Jones (2019)

In 1933, Welsh journalist Gareth Jones travels to Ukraine, where he experiences the horrors of a famine. Everywhere he goes he meets henchmen of the Soviet secret service who are determined to prevent news about the catastrophe from getting out. Stalin’s forced collectivisation of agriculture has resulted in misery and ruin—the policy is tantamount to mass murder.

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2019-10-03 | Thriller / Drama

Cast

James Norton, Vanessa Kirby

Rating

rating icon 6.753
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    like a history lesson
  2. Ranked #2 for
    ultimate downfall
  3. Ranked #2 for
    evil tyrant

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Mr. Jones trailer
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