The best Wolfgang Zilzer’s war movies

Wolfgang Zilzer

Wolfgang Zilzer

20/01/1901- 26/06/1991
Today we present the best Wolfgang Zilzer’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 Wolfgang Zilzer’s movies.
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To Be or Not to Be

To Be or Not to Be
8.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyWar
  • Release: 05/03/1942
  • Character: Man in Bookstore (uncredited)
During the Nazi occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's efforts to track down a German spy.

Underground

Underground
7.2/10
A World War II Hollywood propaganda film detailing the dark underside of Nazism and the Third Reich set between two brothers, Kurt and Erik Franken, whom are SS officers in the Nazi party. Kurt learns and exposes the evils of the system to Erik and tries to convince him of the immoral stance that marches under the symbol of the swastika.

Hotel Berlin

Hotel Berlin
6.8/10
An assortment of diverse characters gather at the Hotel Berlin in World War II Germany.

Counter-Attack

Counter-Attack
6.7/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 26/04/1945
  • Character: Krafft
Two Russians fight to escape the seven Nazi soldiers trapped with them in a bombed building.

Confessions of a Nazi Spy

Confessions of a Nazi Spy
6.7/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 06/05/1939
  • Character: Westphal
FBI agent Ed Renard investigates the pre-War espionage activities of the German-American Bund.

Hitler - Beast of Berlin

Hitler - Beast of Berlin
5.1/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 07/10/1939
  • Character: Kleswing
Hans Memling, a young intellectual, patriotic German, is secretly opposed to the Nazi regime. With the aid of Gustav Schultz, Father Pommer, Anna Wahl and others, he is gleaning accurate information from foreign radio broadcasts and distributing it through Germany with an underground-press operation. He convinces his brother-in-law Karl Bach, the brother of his wife Elsa, that Hitler is leading Germany toward a second world war. Karl, in love with Anna, joins the movement, determined to restore German culture and save the people from the brutality of the Storm Troopers and the Gestapo. The group has an inside link through Albert Stalhelm, a Storm Trooper and one of Hitler's Elite Guards. Albert is sickened by the brutalities he sees and wants to resign and flee Germany, but Hans persuades him to remain until they can find a replacement. He agrees, but warns the group that he is forced to join in the Nazi orgies and liquor loosens his tongue...

Enemy of Women

Enemy of Women
5.1/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 10/11/1944
  • Character: Dr. Joseph Goebbels
Playwright Joseph Goebbels (Paul Andor) turns Nazi propagandist and loses his girlfriend (Claudia Drake) to another man (Donald Woods).

Behind the Rising Sun

Behind the Rising Sun
5.6/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 01/08/1943
  • Character: Max
A Japanese publisher urges his American-educated son to side with the Axis.

Margin for Error

Margin for Error
5.8/10
Margin for Error is a 1943 American drama film directed by Otto Preminger. The screenplay by Lillie Hayward and Samuel Fuller is based on the 1939 play of the same title by Clare Boothe Luce.

Espionage Agent

Espionage Agent
5.9/10
When Barry Corvall discovers that his new bride is a possible enemy agent, he resigns from the diplomatic service to go undercover to route out an espionage ring planning to destroy American industrial capability.

So Ends Our Night

So Ends Our Night
6.8/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 27/02/1941
  • Character: Vogt (uncredited)
An anti-Nazi on the run and a young Jewish couple race across Europe trying to escape Hitler's ever powerful influence.

Bomber's Moon

Bomber's Moon
6.3/10
An American pilot swears to get revenge on the German ace who shot his brother in this war movie set in war-torn Europe. Montgomery is the pilot. After he sees his brother die while trying to parachute to safety, Montgomery's plane is shot down over Germany. He is placed in a POW camp. There he meets a Russian medic and a Czech. Together the trio escapes.

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