Top War Movies


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

131. 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

132. 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.

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. 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.

135. 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.

136. 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

137. 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

138. 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.

139. The Boys in Company C

Year of Release: 1978
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Sidney J. Furie
Actors: Stan Shaw, Andrew Stevens, James Canning, Michael Lembeck, Scott Hylands, R. Lee Ermey
Plot: Follows the lives of five young Marine inductees from their training in
boot camp in 1967 through a tour in Vietnam in 1968 that quickly devolves
into a hellish nightmare.

140. Bridge, The ( Brücke, Die )

Year of Release: 1961
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Bernhard Wicki
Actors: Folker Bohnet, Fritz Wepper, Michael Hinz, Frank Glaubrecht, Karl Michael Balzer, Volker Lechtenbrink
Plot: A group of naive German schoolboys eagerly heads into battle toward the end of World War Two. They are soon disillusioned.

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