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Rental > Drama > War: 388 Films to Rent on DVD
Kiss Me Baby (Baciami Piccina) (2006)
- Dir. Roberto Cimapnelli
Feat. Neri Marcore, Vincenzo Salemme, Elena Russo
- Elegant blend of love–story, witty road movie and historical drama tells the story of a couple on their honeymoon at the most unlikely of times…
Letters From Iwo Jima (2006)![Recommended Recommended](/img/arorecsm.gif)
- Dir. Clint Eastwood
Feat. Ken Watanabe
- Reading from the letters of fallen comrades, Clint Eastwood crosses enemy lines in the second part of his Pacific War twofer, encapsulating the…
Pan's Labyrinth (El Laberinto del fauno) (2006)![Aro Favourite Aro Favourite](/img/arofavsm.gif)
- Dir. Guillermo Del Toro
Feat. Ariadna Gil, Ivana Baquero, Sergi Lopez…
- A stunning, sinister netherworld fantasy that parallels an equally compelling story of uprising against a fascist military unit in WWII Spain, this…
Rescue Dawn (2006)![Aro Favourite Aro Favourite](/img/arofavsm.gif)
- Dir. Werner Herzog
Feat. Christian Bale, Steve Zahn, Jeremy Davies
- In dramatizing the unforgettable true story of Dieter Dengler – heroic subject matter of doco LITTLE DIETER NEEDS TO FLY – Werner Herzog…
Situation, The (2006)
- Dir. Philip Haas
Feat. Damian Lewis, Connie Nielsen, Mido Hadama
- A noted fictional dramatisation of the Iraq conflict and its many complex participants and victims, this film interweaves a love triangle with…
Wind That Shakes the Barley, The (2006)![Recommended Recommended](/img/arorecsm.gif)
- Dir. Ken Loach
Feat. Cillian Murphy, Liam Cunningham, Gerard Kearney
- Thoroughly gripping Cannes winner from "kitchen sink" exponent Ken Loach, retelling with parochial force Ireland's tumultuous twenties, where the…
Airlift, The (2005)
- Dir. Dror Zahavi
Feat. Heino Ferch, Ulrich Tukur, Bettina Zimmerman
- Sweeping historical drama set in post–WWII Berlin with the love affair between a German single mother and an American General complicated by…
Colditz (TV Mini-series) (2005)
- Dir. Stuart Orme
Feat. Damian Lewis, Sophia Myles, Laurence Fox…
- Respectable mini–series focusing on the WW2 'Colditz' story of three British officers escaping a notoriously impenetrable POW camp to begin a…
Fateless (Sorstalanság) (2005)![Recommended Recommended](/img/arorecsm.gif)
- Dir. Lajos Koltai
Feat. Marcell Nagy, Aron Dimeny, Daniel Craig
- Harrowing and distilled vision of the Holocaust adapted from a novel by concentration–camp survivor and Nobel prize–winning author Imre…
Jarhead (2005)
- Dir. Sam Mendes
Feat. Jake Gyllenhaal, Jamie Foxx, Peter Sarsgaard
- An arresting and grimly ironic vision of the 1991 Gulf War, based on the memoir of ex–marine Anthony Swofford, and depicting the experiences of…