Top War Movies


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

131. 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, J.M. Kerrigan, Billy Bevan
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.

132. Lakshya

Year of Release: 2004
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Hindi
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Farhan Akhtar
Actors: Amitabh Bachchan, Hrithik Roshan, Preity Zinta, Om Puri, Sharad S. Kapoor, Rajendranath Zutshi

133. 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, Sigrid ten Napel, Lisa Zweerman
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.

134. To Be or Not to Be

Year of Release: 1983
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Alan Johnson
Actors: Mel Brooks, Anne Bancroft, Tim Matheson, Charles Durning, Christopher Lloyd, José Ferrer

135. Shenandoah

Year of Release: 1965
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Actors: James Stewart, Doug McClure, Glenn Corbett, Patrick Wayne, Rosemary Forsyth, Katharine Ross
Plot: A Virginia widower who is indifferent to the war between the states, is drawn into the conflict when his youngest son is captured by the Union, and accused of being a Confederate spy. He sets out to get his son back, so that his family can once again be whole.

136. Seraphim Falls

Year of Release: 2007
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: R
Director: David Von Ancken
Actors: Liam Neeson, Pierce Brosnan, Michael Wincott, Xander Berkeley, Anjelica Huston, Ed Lauter
Plot: An American Civil War colonel hunts down a man that he has a beef with.

137. Red Sorghum ( Hong gao liang )

Year of Release: 1989
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: Mandarin
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Yimou Zhang
Actors: Li Gong, Wen Jiang, Rujun Ten, Chun Hua Ji, Zhigang Chen, Yusheng Li
Plot: Taking place in 1930s China, a young woman is sent by her father to marry a leprous winery owner. Finding no love - she often travels to the nearby red sorghum fields, where she finds herself falling for a servant there. When her husband dies, she inherits the isolated business.

138. Seraphine

Year of Release: 2009
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Biography/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Martin Provost
Actors: Yolande Moreau, Ulrich Tukur, Anne Bennent, Geneviève Mnich, Nico Rogner, Adélaïde Leroux

139. To End All Wars

Year of Release: 2002
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: R
Director: David L. Cunningham
Actors: Robert Carlyle, Kiefer Sutherland, Mark Strong, Ciarán McMenamin, Yugo Saso, Sakae Kimura

140. 36 Hours

Year of Release: 1964
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: War/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: George Seaton
Actors: James Garner, Eva Marie Saint, Rod Taylor, Werner Peters, John Banner, Russell Thorson
Plot: An American officer is deceived into believing that he has suffered from
amnesia and that World War II has ended years ago in an effort to get him
to reveal a vital secret.

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