Top War Movies


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

181. Birdy

Year of Release: 1984
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Alan Parker
Actors: Matthew Modine, Nicolas Cage, John Harkins, Sandy Baron
Plot: After two friends return home from the Vietnam War one becomes mentally unstable and obsesses with becoming a bird.

182. Murphy's War

Year of Release: 1971
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: War/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Peter Yates
Actors: Peter O'Toole, Siân Phillips, Philippe Noiret, Horst Janson

183. Triage

Year of Release: 2009
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Danis Tanovic
Actors: Colin Farrell, Jamie Sives, Paz Vega, Kelly Reilly

184. Amen

Year of Release: 2003
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Costa-Gavras
Actors: Ulrich Tukur, Mathieu Kassovitz, Ulrich Mühe, Hanns Zischler
Plot: A priest and a member of the SS work together to try to stop the massacre of Jews in Nazi Germany.

185. Strike Commando

Year of Release: 1987
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/War
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Bruno Mattei
Actors: Reb Brown, Christopher Connelly, Alex Vitale, Luciano Pigozzi

186. Windtalkers

Year of Release: 2002
Overall Rating: 2.4 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/War
MPAA Rating: R
Director: John Woo
Actors: Nicolas Cage, Adam Beach, Peter Stormare, Noah Emmerich
Plot: Two Marines are assigned to protect America's greatest asset on the WWII Pacific Front: the Navajo code talkers whose language is the one code the Japanese cannot break.

187. Pack Up Your Troubles

Year of Release: 1932
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: George Marshall, Ray McCarey
Actors: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Don Dillaway, Jackie Lyn Dufton
Plot: Laurel and Hardy search for their dead friend's wife to give her back her daughter.

188. Paison ( Paisà )

Year of Release: 1948
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: Italian
Genre: War/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Roberto Rossellini
Actors: Carmela Sazio, Merlin Berth, William Tubbs, Maria Michi

189. Behold a Pale Horse

Year of Release: 1964
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Fred Zinnemann
Actors: Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn, Omar Sharif, Raymond Pellegrin

190. Don't Look Now - We're Being Shot At! ( Grande vadrouille, La )

Year of Release: 1969
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Comedy/War
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Gérard Oury
Actors: Bourvil, Louis de Funès, Claudio Brook, Andréa Parisy
Plot: Summer 1941. Over German Nazi occupied France, a Royal Air Force AVRO Lancaster gets lost after a mission and is shot down over Paris by German flak. The crew, Reginald, Peter Cunningham and Alan MacIntosh, parachute out right over the city. They are hidden by a house painter, Augustin Bouvet, and the grumbling conductor of the Opéra National de Paris, Stanislas Lefort. Involuntarily, Lefort and Bouvet get themselves involved in the manhunt against the aviators led by Wehrmacht Major Aschbach. They have to help the flyboys to go back to England with the help of Resistance fighters and sympathizers.

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