The best Albert Lieven’s war movies

Albert Lieven

Albert Lieven

23/06/1906- 22/12/1971
Today we present the best Albert Lieven’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Albert Lieven’s movies.

The Guns of Navarone

The Guns of Navarone
7.5/10
  • Genre: ActionWar
  • Release: 27/04/1961
  • Character: Commandant
A team of allied saboteurs are assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held island and destroy the two enormous long-range field guns that prevent the rescue of 2,000 trapped British soldiers.

The Victors

The Victors
6.9/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 22/11/1963
  • Character: Herr Metzger
Intercutting dramatic vignettes with newsreel footage, the story follows the characters from an infantry squad as they make their way from Sicily to Germany during the end of World War II.

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
8/10
General Candy, who's overseeing an English squad in 1943, is a veteran leader who doesn't have the respect of the men he's training and is considered out-of-touch with what's needed to win the war. But it wasn't always this way. Flashing back to his early career in the Boer War and World War I, we see a dashing young officer whose life has been shaped by three different women, and by a lasting friendship with a German soldier.

Night Train to Munich

Night Train to Munich
7.2/10
  • Genre: DramaThrillerWar
  • Release: 31/08/1940
  • Character: Paul - KL Guard (uncredited)
Czechoslovakia, March 1939, on the eve of World War II. As the German invaders occupy Prague, inventor Axel Bomasch manages to flee and reach England; but those who need to put his knowledge at the service of the Nazi war machine, in order to carry out their evil plans of destruction, will stop at nothing to capture him.

The Devil's General

The Devil's General
7.3/10
  • Genre: DramaHistoryWar
  • Release: 23/02/1955
  • Character: Oberst Friedrich Eilers
Curt Jurgens stars as a courageous Luftwaffe officer. Jurgens loves the service, even though he barely tolerates the Hitler regime. Sickened by wartime Nazi atrocities, Jurgens renounces his government, and is imprisoned and tortured as a result. Once released, the general takes pity on a downtrodden Jewish family. This isolated act of kindness is a point in his favor when Jurgens stands before Satan himself for his final judgment. The Devil's General was based on an immensely successful postwar play by German author Carl Zuckmeyer.

Convoy

Convoy
6/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 28/09/1940
  • Character: Commander U.37
A tale of life on board a Royal Navy cruiser assigned to protect the vital convoys between America and England during WWII.

Frieda

Frieda
7.2/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 19/06/1947
  • Character: Richard
A young German girl marries an Englishman and moves into his family's household during the last days of World War II. The family and community have conflicting feelings about her presence in the community, and as a result, the family is forced to face their own moral code as they deal with their own prejudices and fears about the seemingly innocent German girl. The war ends, and she finally seems to be accepted into the family and community when her Nazi brother shows up to create havoc.

Foxhole in Cairo

Foxhole in Cairo
5.8/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 09/03/1960
  • Character: Field Marshal Rommel
A German spy in Cairo must report back to Rommel with information on British positions.

Yellow Canary

Yellow Canary
6.4/10
A socialite poses as a Nazi spy to mask her activities as a British agent.

The New Lot

The New Lot
7.1/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 01/01/1943
  • Character: Czech Soldier
A new batch of Army recruits, from diverse backgrounds and with varying degrees of commitment, is shaped into an efficient fighting unit.

Mystery Submarine

Mystery Submarine
6.7/10
  • Genre: War
  • Release: 03/03/1963
  • Character: Capt. Neymarck
A British convoy is trying to elude a group of German U-Boats.

The House of Intrigue

The House of Intrigue
5.7/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 30/11/1956
  • Character: Matt
A radio operator for the British Army is captured in a Nazi-occupied Dutch city.

The Big Blockade

The Big Blockade
5.4/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 19/01/1942
  • Character: Gunter
Wartime propaganda piece reporting on the success of the economic blockade of Germany in the early years of the war.

Conspiracy of Hearts

Conspiracy of Hearts
7.1/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 07/04/1960
  • Character: Colonel Horsten
In wartime Italy nuns in a convent regularly smuggle Jewish children out of a nearby internment camp. The Italian army officer in charge suspects what may be going on but deliberately turns a blind eye. When the Germans take over the camp security the nuns' activities become far more dangerous.

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