War Movies

Die Prinzessin von Montpensier

65/100

Bertrand Tavernier is in top form with this gripping, superbly mounted drama set against the savage Catholic/Protestant wars that ripped France apart in the 16th century. Based on a novella... See full summary »

Goodnight, Mister Tom

79/100

A shy and quiet World War II evacuee is housed by a disgruntled old man, and they soon develop a close bond.

Hatred

77/100

Despite being in love with a Ukrainian boy from the same village, Polish girl named Zosia is forced into marrying a wealthy widower. Soon World War II begins and ethnic tensions arise. Amidst the war chaos Zosia tries to survive.

Sky Hook

80/100

All Through the Night

71/100

Runyonesque Broadway gamblers turn patriotic when they stumble onto a cell of Nazi saboteurs.

The Steel Helmet

75/100

A ragtag group of American stragglers battles against superior Communist troops in an abandoned Buddhist temple during the Korean War.

Nanking

78/100

Through readings of historical account by actors and the testimony of survivors, the events of the Nanjing Massacre are recounted.

Back to Bataan

67/100

In 1942, after the fall of the Philippines to the Japanese, U.S. Army Col. Joseph Madden stays behind to organize the local resistance against the Japanese invaders.

The Kingdom of Solomon

66/100

Solomon, Prophet and the King, has asked God to give him an ideal kingdom which has never been given to anybody before. He is told to prepare himself and his subjects with evil and unearthly creatures that haunt the men.

Wolf Warrior

55/100

A Chinese special force soldier with extraordinary marksmanship is confronted by a group of deadly foreign mercenaries who are hired to assassinate him by a vicious drug lord.

The Resistance Banker

69/100

In Nazi-occupied Amsterdam, banker brothers Walraven and Gijs van Hall face their greatest challenge yet when they decide to help fund the Dutch resistance.

Vacas - Kühe

72/100

Set in the Basque region, a story of the rivalry of two families, period 1870-1935

Red Sands

43/100

During a mission in the Middle East, a group of US soldiers destroy a statue out of boredom only to then be visited by something the next day.

Man nannte es den großen Krieg

83/100

The Italian Army fought against the Austrians during World War I.

The Old Gun

77/100

In Montauban in 1944, Julien Dandieu in a surgeon in the local hospital. Frightened by the German army entering Montauban, he asks his friend Francois to drive his wife and his daughter in ... See full summary »

Rangoon

58/100

A love triangle forms against the backdrop of the Second World War.

Taras Bulba

64/100

In the 16th century Ukraine, the Polish overlords and the Cossacks fight for control of the land but frequent Turkish invasions force them to unite against the common Turkish foe.

Zelary

77/100

A nurse and her surgeon-lover are part of a resistance movement in 1940s Czechoslovakia. When they are discovered, her lover flees and she must find a place to hide. A patient whose life ... See full summary »

Nackt unter Wölfen

72/100

Taking place at the Concentration camp Buchenwald at the end of March 1945, prisoner Hans Pippig discovers in a carrying case of an incoming prisoner a Jewish child. If reported the ... See full summary »

Flying Tigers

68/100

Capt. Jim Gordon's command of the famed American mercenary fighter group in China is complicated by the recruitment of an old friend who is a reckless hotshot.

Divine Intervention

66/100

Separated by a checkpoint, Palestinian lovers from Jerusalem and Ramallah arrange clandestine meetings.

Address Unknown

73/100

Romances end in blood and the frail hopes of individuals are torn apart in a vile karmic continuity of colonialism, civil war and occupation. After surviving Japanese colonization, Korea ... See full summary »

Raintree County

64/100

A student falls in love with a Southern belle, but their relationship is complicated by her troubled past and the onset of the Civil War.

Leily Is with Me

77/100

During the war with Iraq, an absurd set of events has an Iranian documentary cinematographer seemingly unable to get out of a dangerous project documenting the war.

A Walk in the Sun

72/100

During WWII, a platoon of American soldiers trudge through the Italian countryside in search of a bridge they have been ordered to blow up, encountering danger and destruction along the way.