Top War Movies


The Top War Movies List is calculated by overall movie ratings and members' "Top War List". Lists are calculated daily.

121. The Four Feathers

Year of Release: 1939
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Zoltan Korda
Actors: John Clements, Ralph Richardson, C. Aubrey Smith, June Duprez
Plot: the first talking version of the story of a guy who must prove to his friends that he is no the coward they suppose him to be. To prove this he must go to extra-ordinary measures.

122. The Search

Year of Release: 1948
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Fred Zinnemann
Actors: Montgomery Clift, Aline MacMahon, Jarmila Novotna, Wendell Corey
Plot: An American G.I. finds a silent, 9-year-old Czech boy who has survived the horrors of Auschwitz. Meanwhile his mother, the only surviving member of his family, frantically searches for his son amidst the sea of refugees.

123. Tigerland

Year of Release: 2000
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Joel Schumacher
Actors: Colin Farrell, Matthew Davis, Clifton Collins Jr., Tom Guiry
Plot: A group of infantry recruits in Fort Polk, LA ends their training in Tigerland - a swamp that serves as a substitute for Vietnam. Yet with tensions running high and personalities clashing the war might begin before they finish training.

124. 12 Strong

Year of Release: 2018
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Nicolai Fuglsig
Actors: Chris Hemsworth, Michael Shannon, Michael Peña, Trevante Rhodes
Plot: Follows the story of the first special forces group deployed to Afghanistan after 9/11, including dealing with a new captain as well as joining forces with a local warlord in order to take down the Taliban.

125. The Big Red One

Year of Release: 1980
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Samuel Fuller
Actors: Lee Marvin, Mark Hamill, Robert Carradine, Bobby Di Cicco
Plot: Follows sergeant and his inner circle during WWII, as a sea of faceless men die while under their command.

126. King Rat

Year of Release: 1965
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: War/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Bryan Forbes
Actors: George Segal, Tom Courtenay, James Fox, John Mills

127. Brothers

Year of Release: 2009
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Jim Sheridan
Actors: Jake Gyllenhaal, Natalie Portman, Tobey Maguire, Mare Winningham
Plot: Family man and life-long soldier Sam Cahill goes MIA in Afghanistan. His brother, Tommy Cahill leaves his former drifter lifestyle behind to care for his brother's wife and two daughters. When Sam returns and finds his life has been taken from his by his own brother, no one's life will be the same.

128. Riphagen

Year of Release: 2016
Overall Rating: 3.7 out of 4 stars
Language: Dutch
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Pieter Kuijpers
Actors: Britte Lagcher, Jeroen van Koningsbrugge, Kay Greidanus, Huub Smit
Plot: Based on the story of Andries Riphagen, a Dutch war criminal who collaborated with the
Nazis, blackmailing and betraying Jews while amassing a huge amount of money through
his crimes.

129. Shop on Main Street, The ( Obchod na korze )

Year of Release: 1966
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: Yiddish
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Ján Kadár, Elmar Klos
Actors: Ida Kaminska, Jozef Króner, Hana Slivková, Martin Hollý
Plot: During WWII an elderly, Jewish woman in Czechoslovakia loses her button shop, and must then rely on the man who takes it over to protect her from further persecution.

130. The Lost Patrol

Year of Release: 1934
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: John Ford
Actors: Victor McLaglen, Boris Karloff, Wallace Ford, Reginald Denny
Plot: A group of British soldiers crossing the Mesopotomian desert finds themselves in dire straights when their commanding officer is killed. As he was the only one who knew their final destination, a sergeant takes over the duty the keeps them heading north. But a stop at an oasis may become their last when an Arab enemy entraps them.

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