Max Manus: Man of War
Dec 18, 2008 | IMDB 7.1
118 min Watch NowHistory, War, Action, Crime
Max Manus is a Norwegian 2008 biographic war film based on the real events of the life of resistance fighter Max Manus (1914–96), after his contribution in the Winter War against the Soviet Union. The story follows Manus through the outbreak of World War II in Norway until peacetime in 1945.
MOVIE COMMENTS
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The Square Peg
Fantasy Mission Force
A Fork in the Road
Hackers Wanted
Mediterraneo
The Informant
Tombstone of the Fireflies
Saints and Soldiers: The Void
Tertium Non Datur
Bear Island
River of Death
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Lili Marleen
Rome, Open City
Das Boot
Inside Man
Willenbrock
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IMDB 0 | Nov , 1963
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IMDB 0 | Mar , 1974
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IMDB 7.9 | Oct , 1957
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IMDB 6.5 | Dec , 1958
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IMDB 4.7 | Feb , 1983
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IMDB 5.8 | Apr , 2010
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IMDB 6 | Jan , 2009
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IMDB 7.6 | Feb , 1991
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IMDB 6.3 | Mar , 1997
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IMDB 7.3 | Jul , 2008
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IMDB 5.1 | Aug , 2014
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IMDB 4.9 | Sep , 1989
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IMDB 6.4 | Jan , 1981
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IMDB 7.4 | Mar , 2006
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IMDB 6.1 | Mar , 2005
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