Best war films - Charts
Best war films
102. Valkyrie (2008)
USA / Germany, War / Historical
Directed by: Bryan Singer
Cast: Tom Cruise, Kenneth Branagh
103. Spartacus (1960)
USA, War / Historical
Directed by: Stanley Kubrick
Cast: Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier
105. Black Book (2006)
Netherlands / Belgium, Thriller / War
Directed by: Paul Verhoeven
Cast: Carice van Houten, Sebastian Koch
106. The Bridge (1959)
West Germany, Drama / War
Directed by: Bernhard Wicki
Cast: Folker Bohnet, Fritz Wepper
107. The Covenant (2023)
UK / Spain, Action / Drama
Directed by: Guy Ritchie
Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Dar Salim
108. Romeo, Juliet and Darkness (1959)
Czechoslovakia, Drama / War
Directed by: Jiří Weiss
Cast: Ivan Mistrík, Dana Smutná
109. Signum Laudis (1980)
Czechoslovakia, Drama / Psychological
Directed by: Martin Hollý ml.
Cast: Vlado Müller, Josef Bláha
110. Incendies (2010)
Canada / France, Drama / Mystery
Directed by: Denis Villeneuve
Cast: Rémy Girard, Lubna Azabal
111. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)
USA, War / Historical
Directed by: Peter Weir
Cast: Russell Crowe, Paul Bettany
112. Downfall (2004)
Germany / Austria, Drama / Historical
Directed by: Oliver Hirschbiegel
Cast: Bruno Ganz, Alexandra Maria Lara
113. The Dirty Dozen (1967)
UK / USA, Action / War
Directed by: Robert Aldrich
Cast: Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine
114. Forbidden Games (1952)
France, Drama / War
Directed by: René Clément
Cast: Georges Poujouly, Brigitte Fossey
116. Lessons of Darkness (1992)
Germany / UK, Documentary / War
Directed by: Werner Herzog
Cast: Werner Herzog
117. The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara (2003)
USA, Documentary / War
Directed by: Errol Morris
Cast: Robert McNamara, Errol Morris
119. Pretty Village, Pretty Flame (1996)
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, War / Drama
Directed by: Srdjan Dragojevic
Cast: Dragan Bjelogrlic, Nikola Kojo
120. The Reader (2008)
USA / Germany, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Stephen Daldry
Cast: Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes
121. War and Peace: Part I (1965)
Soviet Union, Drama / War
Directed by: Sergei Fyodorovich Bondarchuk
122. Before the Rain (1994)
Republic of Macedonia / France, Drama / War
Directed by: Milcho Manchevski
Cast: Katrin Cartlidge, Rade Serbedzija
123. The Last Days (1998)
USA, Documentary / Historical
Directed by: James Moll
Cast: Adolf Hitler, Hans Frank
124. City of Life and Death (2009)
China / Hong Kong, Drama / War
Directed by: Chuan Lu
Cast: Ye Liu, Yuanyuan Gao
126. Prisoner of the Mountains (1996)
Russia, Drama / War
Directed by: Sergey Bodrov
Cast: Oleg Menshikov, Sergey Bodrov Jr.
127. Europa (1991)
Denmark / Sweden, Drama / Thriller
Directed by: Lars von Trier
Cast: Jean-Marc Barr, Barbara Sukowa
128. Tangerines (2013)
Estonia / Georgia, War / Drama
Directed by: Zaza Urushadze
Cast: Mikheil Meskhi, Лембит Ульфсак
129. The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer (1961)
Japan, Drama / War
Directed by: Masaki Kobayashi
Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai, Chishû Ryû
131. Pan's Labyrinth (2006)
Mexico / Spain, Fantasy / War
Directed by: Guillermo del Toro
Cast: Ivana Baquero, Doug Jones
132. The Human Condition I: No Greater Love (1959)
Japan, Drama / War
Directed by: Masaki Kobayashi
Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai, Sō Yamamura
133. 1900 (1976)
Italy / France, Drama / Historical
Directed by: Bernardo Bertolucci
Cast: Robert De Niro, Gérard Depardieu
135. Battle of Britain (1969)
UK, War / Drama
Directed by: Guy Hamilton
Cast: Harry Andrews, Michael Caine
136. The Burmese Harp (1956)
Japan, Drama / War
Directed by: Kon Ichikawa
Cast: Rentarô Mikuni, Taketoshi Naitō
137. The Long Day's Dying (1968)
UK, Drama / War
Directed by: Peter Collinson
Cast: David Hemmings, Tony Beckley
138. The Diary of Anne Frank (1959)
USA, Drama / War
Directed by: George Stevens
Cast: Millie Perkins, Joseph Schildkraut
139. El Cid (1961)
Italy / USA, Romance / War
Directed by: Anthony Mann
Cast: Charlton Heston, Sophia Loren
140. Cross of Honour (2012)
Norway / Sweden, Action / Drama
Directed by: Petter Næss
Cast: Florian Lukas, David Kross
141. Life Is a Miracle (2004)
Serbia and Montenegro / France, Comedy / Drama
Directed by: Emir Kusturica
Cast: Slavko Stimac, Nataša Tapušković
142. Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)
USA / Japan, War / Action
Directed by: Richard Fleischer, Kinji Fukasaku
Cast: Martin Balsam, Sō Yamamura
143. Rome, Open City (1945)
Italy, Drama / War
Directed by: Roberto Rossellini
Cast: Aldo Fabrizi, Anna Magnani
145. Empire of the Sun (1987)
USA, Drama / War
Directed by: Steven Spielberg
Cast: Christian Bale, John Malkovich
146. Dark Blue World (2001)
Czech Republic / UK, War / Drama
Directed by: Jan Svěrák
Cast: Ondřej Vetchý, Kryštof Hádek
147. Michael Collins (1996)
UK / Ireland, Drama / Biography
Directed by: Neil Jordan
Cast: Ian Hart, Julia Roberts
148. Korczak (1990)
Poland / Germany, Drama / Biography
Directed by: Andrzej Wajda
Cast: Wojciech Pszoniak, Ewa Dalkowska
149. Long Live the Republic! (1965)
Czechoslovakia, Drama / War
Directed by: Karel Kachyňa
Cast: Zdeněk Lstibůrek, Naděžda Gajerová
151. Forty-Four Mutineers (1957)
Czechoslovakia, Drama / War
Directed by: Paľo Bielik
Cast: Juraj Sarvaš, Dušan Blaškovič
152. Brothers (2004)
Denmark / UK, War / Drama
Directed by: Susanne Bier
Cast: Connie Nielsen, Ulrich Thomsen
153. Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (2005)
Germany, Drama / War
Directed by: Marc Rothemund
Cast: Julia Jentsch, Alexander Held
154. No End in Sight (2007)
USA, Documentary / War
Directed by: Charles Ferguson
Cast: Campbell Scott, George W. Bush
155. The Train (1964)
USA / France, Thriller / War
Directed by: John Frankenheimer, Arthur Penn
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Paul Scofield
156. Waterloo Bridge (1940)
USA, Drama / War
Directed by: Mervyn LeRoy
Cast: Vivien Leigh, Robert Taylor
157. The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity (1959)
Japan, Drama / War
Directed by: Masaki Kobayashi
Cast: Taketoshi Naitō, Tatsuya Nakadai
158. The Breadwinner (2017)
Canada / Ireland, Animation / War
Directed by: Nora Twomey
Cast: Saara Chaudry, Ali Hassan
159. Patton (1970)
USA, Drama / War
Directed by: Franklin J. Schaffner
Cast: George C. Scott, Karl Malden
160. Good Morning, Vietnam (1987)
USA, Drama / Comedy
Directed by: Barry Levinson
Cast: Robin Williams, Forest Whitaker
161. Unknown Soldier (2017)
Finland / Belgium, War / Drama
Directed by: Aku Louhimies
Cast: Eero Aho, Johannes Holopainen
162. Cross of Iron (1977)
UK / West Germany, War / Drama
Directed by: Sam Peckinpah
Cast: James Coburn, Maximilian Schell
163. Tomorrow Was the War (1987)
Soviet Union, Drama / War
Directed by: Yuri Kara
Cast: Sergey Nikonenko, Нина Русланова
164. Heaven & Earth (1993)
USA / France, Drama / War
Directed by: Oliver Stone
Cast: Hiep Thi Le, Tommy Lee Jones
165. Von Ryan's Express (1965)
USA, War / Drama
Directed by: Mark Robson
Cast: Frank Sinatra, Trevor Howard
167. Ivan's Childhood (1962)
Soviet Union, Drama / War
Directed by: Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky
Cast: Nikolay Burlyaev, Valentin Zubkov
168. From Here to Eternity (1953)
USA, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Fred Zinnemann
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift
169. Richard III (1955)
UK, Drama / Historical
Directed by: Laurence Olivier
Cast: Laurence Olivier, Cedric Hardwicke
170. The English Patient (1996)
USA / UK, Romance / Drama
Directed by: Anthony Minghella
Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche
171. Dunkirk (2017)
UK / Netherlands, Action / War
Directed by: Christopher Nolan
Cast: Fionn Whitehead, Tom Hardy
172. Memories (1995)
Japan, Animation / Anthology
Directed by: Kōji Morimoto, Tensai Okamura
Cast: Kōichi Yamadera, Shigeru Chiba
174. Under the Flag of the Rising Sun (1972)
Japan, Drama / Historical
Directed by: Kinji Fukasaku
Cast: Kanemon Nakamura, Sachiko Hidari
175. As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me (2001)
Germany, War / Drama
Directed by: Hardy Martins, Dmitriy Astrakhan
Cast: Bernhard Bettermann, Iris Böhm
176. The Damned (1969)
Italy / Switzerland, Drama / War
Directed by: Luchino Visconti
Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Ingrid Thulin
178. Merry Christmas (2005)
France / Germany, War / Drama
Directed by: Christian Carion
Cast: Diane Kruger, Benno Fürmann
179. The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939)
USA, Musical / Romance
Directed by: H.C. Potter
Cast: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers
180. Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)
USA, Drama / War
Directed by: Clint Eastwood
Cast: Ken Watanabe, Kazunari Ninomiya
183. The King (2019)
UK / Hungary, Drama / Historical
Directed by: David Michôd
Cast: Timothée Chalamet, Joel Edgerton
184. Address Unknown (2001)
South Korea, Drama / War
Directed by: Ki-duk Kim
Cast: Dong-geun Yang, Yeong-min Kim
185. Canal (1957)
Poland, Drama / War
Directed by: Andrzej Wajda
Cast: Teresa Izewska, Tadeusz Janczar
186. The Captain (2017)
Germany / France, Drama / Historical
Directed by: Robert Schwentke
Cast: Max Hubacher, Milan Peschel
187. Kým kohút nezaspieva (1972)
Czechoslovakia, Drama / War
Directed by: Jozef Pálka
Cast: Ladislav Chudík, Jozef Kroner
188. Turtles Can Fly (2004)
Iran / France, Drama / War
Directed by: Bahman Ghobadi
Cast: Soran Ebrahim, Avaz Latif
189. Legends of the Fall (1994)
USA, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Edward Zwick
Cast: Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins
190. The Winter War (1989)
Finland, Drama / War
Directed by: Pekka Parikka
Cast: Taneli Mäkelä, Vesa Vierikko
191. A Bag of Marbles (2017)
France / Canada, Drama / War
Directed by: Christian Duguay
Cast: Dorian Le Clech, Batyste Fleurial
192. Rambo (2008)
USA / Germany, Action / Thriller
Directed by: Sylvester Stallone
Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Julie Benz
193. Run Boy Run (2013)
Germany / France, Drama / War
Directed by: Pepe Danquart
Cast: Andrzej Tkacz, Kamil Tkacz
194. Born on the Fourth of July (1989)
USA, Drama / War
Directed by: Oliver Stone
Cast: Tom Cruise, Willem Dafoe
195. Henry V (1989)
UK, Historical / Drama
Directed by: Kenneth Branagh
Cast: Derek Jacobi, Kenneth Branagh
196. Army of Shadows (1969)
France / Italy, Drama / War
Directed by: Jean-Pierre Melville
Cast: Lino Ventura, Paul Meurisse
197. Will Not End Here (2008)
Croatia / Serbia, Drama / Comedy
Directed by: Vinko Brešan
Cast: Ivan Herceg, Nada Šargin
198. Greatest Silence, The: Rape in the Congo (2007)
USA, Documentary / War
Directed by: Lisa F. Jackson
199. The Wind Rises (2013)
Japan, Animation / War
Directed by: Hayao Miyazaki
Cast: Hideaki Anno, Miori Takimoto
200. Johnny Got His Gun (1971)
USA, Drama / War
Directed by: Dalton Trumbo
Cast: Timothy Bottoms, Marsha Hunt