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War-time Movies

by albertosabini • Created 6 years ago • Modified 9 months ago
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  • Kristin Scott Thomas, Matthias Schoenaerts, and Michelle Williams in Suite Française (2014)

    1. Suite Française

    20141h 47mNot Rated63Metascore
    7.0 (30K)
    During the early years of German occupation of France in World War II, romance blooms between Lucile Angellier (Michelle Williams), a French villager, and Lieutenant Bruno von Falk (Matthias Schoenaerts), a German soldier.
    DirectorSaul DibbStarsMichelle WilliamsKristin Scott ThomasMargot Robbie
  • Géza Röhrig in Son of Saul (2015)

    2. Son of Saul

    20151h 47mR91Metascore
    7.4 (54K)
    A Jewish-Hungarian concentration camp prisoner sets out to give a child he mistook for his son a proper burial.
    DirectorLászló NemesStarsGéza RöhrigLevente MolnárUrs Rechn
  • Jeroen van Koningsbrugge in Riphagen (2016)

    3. Riphagen

    20162h 11m
    7.1 (9.1K)
    The story about Riphagen, a cunning Dutch traitor during WW2 who helped Nazi round up Jews, stealing their treasures for himself. He destroyed Resistance groups, making many who pursued justice after the war look like fools.
    DirectorPieter KuijpersStarsGuido PollemansAnna RaadsveldHuub Smit
  • Patton (1970)

    4. Patton

    19702h 52mPG86Metascore
    7.9 (112K)
    The World War II phase of the career of controversial American general George S. Patton.
    DirectorFranklin J. SchaffnerStarsGeorge C. ScottKarl MaldenStephen Young
  • Marlon Brando and Martin Sheen in Apocalypse Now (1979)

    5. Apocalypse Now

    19792h 27mR94Metascore
    8.4 (747K)
    A U.S. Army officer serving in Vietnam is tasked with assassinating a renegade Special Forces Colonel who sees himself as a god.
    DirectorFrancis Ford CoppolaStarsMartin SheenMarlon BrandoRobert Duvall
  • Alec Guinness, William Holden, Jack Hawkins, Sessue Hayakawa, Geoffrey Horne, and Ann Sears in The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)

    6. The Bridge on the River Kwai

    19572h 41mPG88Metascore
    8.1 (244K)
    British POWs are forced to build a railway bridge across the river Kwai for their Japanese captors in occupied Burma, not knowing that the allied forces are planning a daring commando raid through the jungle to destroy it.
    DirectorDavid LeanStarsWilliam HoldenAlec GuinnessJack Hawkins
  • Gettysburg (1993)

    7. Gettysburg

    19934h 14mPG
    7.6 (33K)
    In 1863, the Northern and Southern forces fight at Gettysburg in the decisive battle of the American Civil War.
    DirectorRon MaxwellStarsTom BerengerMartin SheenStephen Lang
  • Anthropoid (2016)

    8. Anthropoid

    20162hR59Metascore
    7.2 (57K)
    Based on the extraordinary true story of Operation Anthropoid, the WWII mission to assassinate SS General Reinhard Heydrich, the main architect behind the Final Solution and the Reich's third in command after Hitler and Himmler.
    DirectorSean EllisStarsJamie DornanCillian MurphyBrian Caspe
  • Andrzej Chyra, Jan Englert, Artur Zmijewski, and Pawel Malaszynski in Katyn (2007)

    9. Katyn

    20072h 1mNot Rated81Metascore
    7.0 (18K)
    An examination of the Soviet slaughter of thousands of Polish officers and citizens in the Katyn forest in 1940.
    DirectorAndrzej WajdaStarsAndrzej ChyraMaja OstaszewskaArtur Zmijewski
  • Andrew Garfield in Hacksaw Ridge (2016)

    10. Hacksaw Ridge

    20162h 19mR71Metascore
    8.1 (645K)
    World War II American Army Medic Desmond T. Doss, serving during the Battle of Okinawa, refuses to kill people and becomes the first man in American history to receive the Medal of Honor without firing a shot.
    DirectorMel GibsonStarsAndrew GarfieldSam WorthingtonLuke Bracey
  • The Winter War (1989)

    11. The Winter War

    19893h 19m
    7.6 (9K)
    In 1939, two Finnish brothers are conscripted in the army to fight in the war between Finland and the Soviet Union.
    DirectorPekka ParikkaStarsTaneli MäkeläVesa VierikkoTimo Torikka
  • Zero Dark Thirty (2012)

    12. Zero Dark Thirty

    20122h 37mR95Metascore
    7.4 (332K)
    A chronicle of the decade-long hunt for al-Qaeda terrorist leader Osama bin Laden after the September 2001 attacks, and his death at the hands of the Navy S.E.A.L.s Team 6 in May 2011.
    DirectorKathryn BigelowStarsJessica ChastainJoel EdgertonChris Pratt
  • Jeremy Renner in The Hurt Locker (2008)

    13. The Hurt Locker

    20082h 11mR95Metascore
    7.5 (487K)
    During the Iraq War, a Sergeant recently assigned to an army bomb squad is put at odds with his squad mates due to his maverick way of handling his work.
    DirectorKathryn BigelowStarsJeremy RennerAnthony MackieBrian Geraghty
  • David Costabile, James Badge Dale, Max Martini, Pablo Schreiber, Dominic Fumusa, and Alexia Barlier in 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (2016)

    14. 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi

    20162h 24mR48Metascore
    7.3 (173K)
    During an attack on a U.S. compound in Libya, a security team struggles to make sense out of the chaos.
    DirectorMichael BayStarsJohn KrasinskiPablo SchreiberJames Badge Dale
  • MacArthur (1977)

    15. MacArthur

    19772h 10mPG
    6.5 (5.5K)
    Biopic of General Douglas MacArthur covering his war exploits during WW2 and the Korean War.
    DirectorJoseph SargentStarsGregory PeckDan O'HerlihyEd Flanders
  • Restrepo (2010)

    16. Restrepo

    20101h 33mR85Metascore
    7.4 (25K)
    A year with one platoon in the deadliest valley in Afghanistan.
    DirectorsTim HetheringtonSebastian JungerStarsThe Men of Battle Company 2nd of the 503rd Infantry Regiment 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat TeamJuan 'Doc RestrepoDan Kearney
  • Francofonia (2015)

    17. Francofonia

    20151h 28mNot Rated71Metascore
    6.6 (3.1K)
    A history of the Louvre during the Nazi occupation and a meditation on the meaning and timelessness of art.
    DirectorAleksandr SokurovStarsLouis-Do de LencquesaingBenjamin UtzerathVincent Nemeth
  • Sharon Gans, Perry King, Valerie Perrine, and Michael Sacks in Slaughterhouse-Five (1972)

    18. Slaughterhouse-Five

    19721h 44mR66Metascore
    6.8 (14K)
    Billy Pilgrim has mysteriously become unstuck in time. He goes on an uncontrollable trip back and forth from his birth in New York to life on a distant planet and back again to the horrors of the 1945 fire-bombing of Dresden.
    DirectorGeorge Roy HillStarsMichael SacksRon LeibmanEugene Roche
  • Korengal (2014)

    19. Korengal

    20141h 24mR67Metascore
    6.7 (4.2K)
    Korengal picks up where Restrepo (2010) left off--with the same men, in the same valley, with the same commanders--but presents a very different look at the experience of war.
    DirectorSebastian JungerStarsLaMonta CaldwellMiguel CortezStephen Gillespie
  • Richard Burton, Henry Fonda, Robert Mitchum, John Wayne, Sean Connery, Sal Mineo, Eddie Albert, Richard Beymer, Red Buttons, Jeffrey Hunter, Roddy McDowall, Rod Steiger, Robert Wagner, Paul Anka, Arletty, Mel Ferrer, Steve Forrest, Gert Fröbe, Fabian, Jean-Louis Barrault, Bourvil, Ray Danton, Irina Demick, Leo Genn, Henry Grace, John Gregson, Paul Hartmann, Werner Hinz, Curd Jürgens, Alexander Knox, Peter Lawford, Christian Marquand, Kenneth More, Edmond O'Brien, Ron Randell, Madeleine Renaud, Robert Ryan, Tommy Sands, Richard Todd, Tom Tryon, Peter van Eyck, and Stuart Whitman in The Longest Day (1962)

    20. The Longest Day

    19622h 58mG75Metascore
    7.7 (61K)
    The events of D-Day, told on a grand scale from both the Allied and German points of view.
    DirectorsKen AnnakinAndrew MartonGerd OswaldStarsJohn WayneRobert RyanRichard Burton
  • Man Behind the Sun (1988)

    21. Man Behind the Sun

    19881h 45mNot Rated
    6.1 (7.8K)
    Japanese troops round up Chinese and Russian prisoners of war and take them to unit 731, where they're horribly tortured and experimented on to test new biological weapons.
    DirectorTun-Fei MouStarsDai Yao WuGang WangYing Git Wong
  • Barefoot Gen (1976)

    22. Barefoot Gen

    19761h 47m
    7.1 (92)
    The story of Gen Nakaoka and his family, who lived in Hiroshima at the time it was atom-bombed, and their struggles and trials amidst the nuclear holocaust.
    DirectorTengo YamadaStarsSachiko HidariHirokazu IshimatsuChizuko Iwahara
  • The Bunker (2001)

    23. The Bunker

    20011h 28mR
    5.4 (6.3K)
    Germany, 1944. The forests of the Ardennes. A platoon of battle weary German soldiers, forced into confusion and retreat by advancing Allied forces, take refuge in an isolated Siegfried Line bunker.
    DirectorRob GreenStarsJason FlemyngAndrew TiernanChristopher Fairbank
  • Burt Lancaster in Castle Keep (1969)

    24. Castle Keep

    19691h 47mR
    6.1 (3.7K)
    During the Battle of the Bulge, an anachronistic count shelters a ragtag squad of Americans in his remote 10th Century castle hoping a battle there against the advancing Germans will not lead to its destruction and all the heritage within.
    DirectorSydney PollackStarsBurt LancasterPatrick O'NealJean-Pierre Aumont
  • Jean-Pierre Cassel, Paul Meurisse, Simone Signoret, and Lino Ventura in Army of Shadows (1969)

    25. Army of Shadows

    19692h 25mNot Rated99Metascore
    8.1 (28K)
    An account of underground resistance fighters in Nazi-occupied France.
    DirectorJean-Pierre MelvilleStarsLino VenturaPaul MeurisseJean-Pierre Cassel

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