War has an awful face, it destroys lives and ruins families. At the same time, it calls on our duty and morality. It tests who we really are as human beings. Though countries may be at war, many people don’t want to fight with and kill each other.
Relationships at war times and with soldiers are also a hard topic. It’s indeed awful to know that your love can die, though in glory and protecting your homeland. No glory can heal the wound in the heart of the soldier’s close people. One more aspect is the relationship between people from different cultures and even the war sides. Can love manage to overcome even the hatred between nations and countries? Romance war movies try to give us an answer to these questions.
Today, our partners and the owners of a popular interracial dating site offer you a list of war romance movies that will definitely touch your soul.
The Flowers of War, 2017
This is a Chinese-Hong Kong historical drama war film. The movie starts with a Nanking Massacre depiction. Schoolgirls had to run and hide in the sanctuary. Seeking for a place to hide, they get stuck together with John Miller, an American mortician, who accidentally appears in the same sanctuary, and a group of prostitutes. The Japanese army gives the order to deliver the schoolgirls to sing at their victory event. And prostitutes decide to play their roles so as to give girls a chance to survive. This movie shows the ugliness of war and at the same time the beauty and courage that ordinary people show while saving someone’s life.
The Last Samurai, 2003
This one is a truly interracial love and war story. The film is about the 1870s in Japan. Captain Nathan Algren, an American military officer is hired by the Emperor of Japan to teach the country’s army. The government tries to get rid of the ancient Samurai tradition and the people who stand by it. Accidentally, Nathan Algren appears between two epochs and two struggling classes of people. He is taken prisoner and lives with the samurai for some time. Nathan learns more about the culture of the samurai and falls in love with Taka, the sister of the samurai leader. This is a beautiful story of love and honor, which can move anyone.
The Crossing, 2014
These two-part films tell a story about the times of World War II and the clashes between the Chinese National Revolutionary Army and the Imperial Japanese Army in Manchuria. You will see a very sophisticated plot with many storylines. Yu is a poor illiterate young woman who is waiting for her boyfriend to come back from war. She has to go through a very hard life, including dancing in a nightclub and prostitution, so as to find her missing lover. At the same time, there’s one love story between Zhou Yunfen and General Lei. They quickly get married despite the protest of her family. While Lei is fighting and risking his life, Zhou keeps their love.
Love in Flames of War, 2022
This film tells the story of the hard times that people survived in China at the beginning of the 20th century, from disputes among warlords to battles with Japan.
Lin Hang Jing, a daughter of a minister, is a strong young girl who gets into trouble when her father has a dispute with the warlord. Xiao Bei Chen is the eldest son of Xiao Hai Shan and a real troublemaker. The story happens during the 20th century when warlords are fighting with each other to gain power in China. The father of Lin Hang Jing sends her to his friend Xiao Hai Shan to take care of her. At first, Hang Jing doesn’t have any feelings for Bei Chen, until she sees how he changes and bravely saves other people. As the war intensifies, Bei Chen stays to lead the army against Japanese troops. Hang Jing wants to stay with her lover, but he drugs her and sends her on the ship to London. Six years later Hang Jing goes back to China still hoping to find her beloved Bei Chen.
American Sniper, 2014
This is a strong and touching movie about a navy S.E.A.L. sniper Chris Kyle who becomes a true legend on the war scene. However, when he returns home to his family, he suddenly understands that he can’t overcome his war past, the evil of fights, and the guilt that now lives in his heart. The story shows how awful the face of war is, and how hard it is to come back to family life after it. Bradley Cooper and Sienna Miller will introduce you to this beautiful biographical drama.