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war movies

by vatiitroorkee • Created 14 years ago • Modified 13 years ago
i hate war but i love war movies
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  • Tom Hanks, Matt Damon, Tom Sizemore, and Edward Burns in Saving Private Ryan (1998)

    1. Saving Private Ryan

    19982h 49mR91Metascore
    8.6 (1.6M)
    Following the Normandy Landings, a group of U.S. soldiers go behind enemy lines to retrieve a paratrooper whose comrades have been killed in action.
    DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsTom HanksMatt DamonTom Sizemore
    an ultimate masala war movie
  • Jarhead (2005)

    2. Jarhead

    20052h 5mR58Metascore
    7.0 (217K)
    A psychological study of Marine's state of mind during the Gulf War. Told through the eyes of a U.S. Marine sniper who struggles to cope with boredom, a sense of isolation, and other issues back home.
    DirectorSam MendesStarsJake GyllenhaalJamie FoxxLucas Black
    awesome soundtrack!
  • Scott Grimes, Damian Lewis, Ron Livingston, Shane Taylor, and Peter Youngblood Hills in Band of Brothers (2001)

    3. Band of Brothers

    200110 epsTV-MATV Mini Series
    9.4 (566K)
    The story of Easy Company of the U.S. Army 101st Airborne Division and their mission in World War II Europe, from Operation Overlord to V-J Day.
    StarsScott GrimesDamian LewisRon Livingston
    in many ways better than SPR.
  • Full Metal Jacket (1987)

    4. Full Metal Jacket

    19871h 56mR78Metascore
    8.2 (826K)
    A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue.
    DirectorStanley KubrickStarsMatthew ModineR. Lee ErmeyVincent D'Onofrio
  • Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)

    5. Letters from Iwo Jima

    20062h 21mR89Metascore
    7.8 (174K)
    The story of the battle of Iwo Jima between the United States and Imperial Japan during World War II, as told from the perspective of the Japanese who fought it.
    DirectorClint EastwoodStarsKen WatanabeKazunari NinomiyaTsuyoshi Ihara
    sometimes i think that it should be at the first position because of 2 reasons:
    1.directed by clint eastwood
    2.only movie i've seen which is explained from the loosing side
  • Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi, and Giorgio Cantarini in Life Is Beautiful (1997)

    6. Life Is Beautiful

    19971h 56mPG-1358Metascore
    8.6 (783K)
    When an open-minded Jewish waiter and his son become victims of the Holocaust, he uses a perfect mixture of will, humor and imagination to protect his son from the dangers around their camp.
    DirectorRoberto BenigniStarsRoberto BenigniNicoletta BraschiGiorgio Cantarini
  • Eric Bana in Munich (2005)

    7. Munich

    20052h 44mR74Metascore
    7.5 (248K)
    After the Black September capture and massacre of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympics, five men are chosen to eliminate the people responsible for that fateful day.
    DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsEric BanaDaniel CraigMarie-Josée Croze
  • Richard Attenborough, Steve McQueen, and James Garner in The Great Escape (1963)

    8. The Great Escape

    19632h 52mApproved86Metascore
    8.2 (270K)
    Allied officers in a German prisoner of war camp during World War II making a daring plan for a mass escape by hundreds of their men, hoping to draw German personnel and resources away from combat operations.
    DirectorJohn SturgesStarsSteve McQueenJames GarnerRichard Attenborough
  • Adrien Brody in The Pianist (2002)

    9. The Pianist

    20022h 30mR85Metascore
    8.5 (974K)
    During WWII, acclaimed Polish musician Wladyslaw faces various struggles as he loses contact with his family. As the situation worsens, he hides in the ruins of Warsaw in order to survive.
    DirectorRoman PolanskiStarsAdrien BrodyThomas KretschmannFrank Finlay
  • Carice van Houten, Michiel Huisman, and Sebastian Koch in Black Book (2006)

    10. Black Book

    20062h 25mR71Metascore
    7.7 (82K)
    In the Nazi-occupied Netherlands during World War II, a Jewish singer infiltrates the regional Gestapo headquarters for the Dutch resistance. Things get complicated when she falls for the enemy.
    DirectorPaul VerhoevenStarsCarice van HoutenSebastian KochThom Hoffman
  • Empire of the Sun (1987)

    11. Empire of the Sun

    19872h 33mPG62Metascore
    7.7 (139K)
    A young English boy struggles to survive under Japanese occupation of China during World War II.
    DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsChristian BaleJohn MalkovichMiranda Richardson
  • Saints and Soldiers (2003)

    12. Saints and Soldiers

    20031h 30mPG-1356Metascore
    6.7 (22K)
    Four American soldiers and one Brit fighting in Europe during World War II struggle to return to Allied territory after being separated from U.S. forces during the historic Malmedy Massacre.
    DirectorRyan LittleStarsCorbin AllredAlexander PolinskyKirby Heyborne
  • Tom Cruise in Born on the Fourth of July (1989)

    13. Born on the Fourth of July

    19892h 25mR75Metascore
    7.2 (121K)
    The biography of Ron Kovic. Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, he becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country for which he fought.
    DirectorOliver StoneStarsTom CruiseBryan LarkinRaymond J. Barry
  • Flags of Our Fathers (2006)

    14. Flags of Our Fathers

    20062h 15mR79Metascore
    7.1 (132K)
    The life stories of the six men who raised the flag at the Battle of Iwo Jima, a turning point in World War II.
    DirectorClint EastwoodStarsRyan PhillippeBarry PepperJoseph Cross
  • Daniel Craig in Defiance (2008)

    15. Defiance

    20082h 17mR58Metascore
    7.1 (159K)
    Jewish brothers in German-occupied Eastern Europe escape into a Belorussian forest, where they join Russian resistance fighters, and endeavor to build a village, in order to protect themselves and about one thousand Jewish non-combatants.
    DirectorEdward ZwickStarsDaniel CraigLiev SchreiberJamie Bell
  • Jeremy Renner in The Hurt Locker (2008)

    16. The Hurt Locker

    20082h 11mR95Metascore
    7.5 (486K)
    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
  • Rescue Dawn (2006)

    17. Rescue Dawn

    20062h 5mPG-1377Metascore
    7.3 (114K)
    A U.S. fighter pilot's epic struggle of survival after being shot down on a mission over Laos during the Vietnam War.
    DirectorWerner HerzogStarsChristian BaleSteve ZahnJeremy Davies
  • Behind Enemy Lines (2001)

    18. Behind Enemy Lines

    20011h 46mPG-1349Metascore
    6.4 (117K)
    A disillusioned navigator, shot down over war-torn Bosnia, goes on the run from the local military as well as an assassin, while his commanding officer risks all to save him.
    DirectorJohn MooreStarsGene HackmanOwen WilsonGabriel Macht
  • Tommy Lee Jones and Charlize Theron in In the Valley of Elah (2007)

    19. In the Valley of Elah

    20072h 1mR65Metascore
    7.1 (77K)
    A retired military investigator works with a police detective to uncover the truth behind his son's disappearance following his return from a tour of duty in Iraq.
    DirectorPaul HaggisStarsTommy Lee JonesCharlize TheronJonathan Tucker
  • Josh Hartnett in Black Hawk Down (2001)

    20. Black Hawk Down

    20012h 24mR74Metascore
    7.7 (442K)
    The story of one hundred and sixty elite U.S. soldiers who dropped into Mogadishu in October 1993 to capture two top lieutenants of a renegade warlord, but found themselves in a desperate battle with a large force of heavily armed Somalis.
    DirectorRidley ScottStarsJosh HartnettEwan McGregorTom Sizemore
  • I Want to Be a Soldier (2010)

    21. I Want to Be a Soldier

    20101h 29m
    5.9 (784)
    Alex, an eight-year-old boy, seems to have a macabre fascination for violent images that he sees on television. After his two brothers are born, he feels lonely, and he makes up two imaginary friends. Hurt and betrayed, he blackmails his father to get a television for his room. Through television, he discovers the violence of wars, and he is left fascinated.
    DirectorChristian MolinaStarsFergus RiordanCameron AntrobusAndrew Tarbet
    "to feel pain , is human and to rise above it, is soldier. to cry is fear and a soldier does not fear"
    "everything i know , i learned it form you"
  • Keira Knightley and James McAvoy in Atonement (2007)

    22. Atonement

    20072h 3mR85Metascore
    7.8 (316K)
    Thirteen-year-old fledgling writer Briony Tallis irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit.
    DirectorJoe WrightStarsKeira KnightleyJames McAvoyBrenda Blethyn
  • Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Peter O'Toole, José Ferrer, and Jack Hawkins in Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

    23. Lawrence of Arabia

    19623h 47mPG100Metascore
    8.3 (331K)
    The story of T.E. Lawrence, the English officer who successfully united and led the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes during World War I in order to fight the Turks.
    DirectorDavid LeanStarsPeter O'TooleAlec GuinnessAnthony Quinn
  • Mel Gibson in We Were Soldiers (2002)

    24. We Were Soldiers

    20022h 18mR65Metascore
    7.2 (156K)
    The story of the first major battle of the American phase of the Vietnam War, and the soldiers on both sides that fought it, while their wives wait nervously and anxiously at home for the good news or the bad news.
    DirectorRandall WallaceStarsMel GibsonMadeleine StoweGreg Kinnear
  • Tom Cruise in Valkyrie (2008)

    25. Valkyrie

    20082h 1mPG-1356Metascore
    7.1 (268K)
    A dramatization of the July 20, 1944 assassination and political coup plot by desperate renegade German Army officers against Adolf Hitler during World War II.
    DirectorBryan SingerStarsTom CruiseBill NighyCarice van Houten

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