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Displaying Search Results: 39 Best Movies in Genre War

Hotaru no haka ( 1988 )

Genre:   Animation | Drama | War

Runtime:  88

Country:  Japan

Language:  Japanese

Director:  Isao Takahata

Writer:   Akiyuki Nosaka | Isao Takahata

Stars:   Tsutomu Tatsumi | Ayano Shiraishi | Yoshiko Shinohara | Akemi Yamaguchi

Plot:    A young boy and his little sister struggle to survive in Japan during World War II.

Apocalypse Now ( 1979 )

Genre:   Drama | Mystery | War

Runtime:  147

Country:  United States

Language:  English | French | Vietnamese

Director:  Francis Ford Coppola

Writer:   John Milius | Francis Ford Coppola | Michael Herr | Joseph Conrad

Stars:   Marlon Brando | Martin Sheen | Robert Duvall | Frederic Forrest

Plot:    A U.S. Army officer serving in Vietnam is tasked with assassinating a renegade Special Forces Colonel who sees himself as a god.

Das Boot ( 1981 )

Genre:   Drama | War

Runtime:  149

Country:  West Germany

Language:  German | English | French

Director:  Wolfgang Petersen

Writer:   Wolfgang Petersen | Lothar G. Buchheim

Stars:   Jürgen Prochnow | Herbert Grönemeyer | Klaus Wennemann | Hubertus Bengsch

Plot:    A German U-boat stalks the frigid waters of the North Atlantic as its young crew experience the sheer terror and claustrophobic life of a submariner in World War II.

Idi i smotri ( 1985 )

Genre:   Drama | Thriller | War

Runtime:  142

Country:  Soviet Union

Language:  Belarusian | Russian | German

Director:  Elem Klimov

Writer:   Ales Adamovich | Elem Klimov

Stars:   Aleksey Kravchenko | Olga Mironova | Liubomiras Laucevicius | Vladas Bagdonas

Plot:    After finding an old rifle, a young boy joins the Soviet resistance movement against ruthless German forces and experiences the horrors of World War II.

Full Metal Jacket ( 1987 )

Genre:   Drama | War

Runtime:  116

Country:  United Kingdom | United States

Language:  English | Vietnamese

Director:  Stanley Kubrick

Writer:   Stanley Kubrick | Michael Herr | Gustav Hasford | Gustav Hasford

Stars:   Matthew Modine | Adam Baldwin | Vincent D'Onofrio | R. Lee Ermey

Plot:    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.

Ran ( 1985 )

Genre:   Action | Drama | War

Runtime:  160

Country:  Japan | France

Language:  Japanese

Director:  Akira Kurosawa

Writer:   Akira Kurosawa | Hideo Oguni | Masato Ide | William Shakespeare

Stars:   Tatsuya Nakadai | Akira Terao | Jinpachi Nezu | Daisuke Ryû

Plot:    In Medieval Japan, an elderly warlord retires, handing over his empire to his three sons. However, he vastly underestimates how the new-found power will corrupt them and cause them to turn on each other...and him.

The Deer Hunter ( 1978 )

Genre:   Drama | War

Runtime:  183

Country:  United States | United Kingdom

Language:  English | Vietnamese | French

Director:  Michael Cimino

Writer:   Michael Cimino | Deric Washburn | Louis Garfinkle | Quinn K. Redeker | Deric Washburn | Meryl Streep

Stars:   Robert De Niro | John Cazale | John Savage | Christopher Walken

Plot:    An in-depth examination of the ways in which the Vietnam War impacts and disrupts the lives of several friends in a small steel mill town in Pennsylvania.

The Message ( 1976 )

Genre:   Biography | Drama | History | War

Runtime:  177

Country:  Lebanon | Libya | Kuwait

Language:  Arabic | English

Director:  Moustapha Akkad

Writer:   H.A.L. Craig | Abdel Hamid Gouda El Sahhar | Tewfik El-Hakim | A.B. Rahman El-Sharkawi | Mohammad Ali Maher

Stars:   Anthony Quinn | Irene Papas | Michael Ansara | Johnny Sekka

Plot:    Historical fresco recounting the life and times of the Prophet Mohammed, the last of the Abrahamic religion, in the sense that, according to Islam, he completed and sealed the monotheistic revelation made to Abraham.

Barry Lyndon ( 1975 )

Genre:   Adventure | Drama | War

Runtime:  185

Country:  United Kingdom | United States

Language:  English | German | French

Director:  Stanley Kubrick

Writer:   Stanley Kubrick | William Makepeace Thackeray

Stars:   Ryan O'Neal | Marisa Berenson | Patrick Magee | Hardy Krüger

Plot:    An Irish rogue wins the heart of a rich widow and assumes her dead husband's aristocratic position in 18th-century England.

Platoon ( 1986 )

Genre:   Drama | War

Runtime:  120

Country:  United States | United Kingdom

Language:  English | Vietnamese

Director:  Oliver Stone

Writer:   Oliver Stone

Stars:   Keith David | Forest Whitaker | Francesco Quinn | Kevin Dillon

Plot:    Chris Taylor, a neophyte recruit in Vietnam, finds himself caught in a battle of wills between two sergeants, one good and the other evil. A shrewd examination of the brutality of war and the duality of man in conflict.

Au revoir les enfants ( 1987 )

Genre:   Drama | War

Runtime:  104

Country:  France | West Germany | Italy

Language:  French | German | English

Director:  Louis Malle

Writer:   Louis Malle

Stars:   Gaspard Manesse | Raphael Fejtö | Francine Racette | Stanislas Carré de Malberg

Plot:    A French boarding school run by priests seems to be a haven from World War II until a new student arrives. Occupying the next bed in the dormitory to the top student in his class, the two young boys begin to form a bond.

Patton ( 1970 )

Genre:   Biography | Drama | War

Runtime:  172

Country:  United States

Language:  English | German | French

Director:  Franklin J. Schaffner

Writer:   Francis Ford Coppola | Edmund H. North | Francis Ford Coppola | Edmund H. North | Ladislas Farago | Omar N. Bradley

Stars:   George C. Scott | Karl Malden | Stephen Young | Michael Strong

Plot:    The World War II phase of the career of controversial American general George S. Patton.

Johnny Got His Gun ( 1971 )

Genre:   Drama | War

Runtime:  111

Country:  United States

Language:  English

Director:  Dalton Trumbo

Writer:   Dalton Trumbo | Dalton Trumbo | Luis Buñuel

Stars:   Timothy Bottoms | Kathy Fields | Marsha Hunt | Jason Robards

Plot:    During World War I, a patriotic young American is rendered blind, deaf, limbless, and mute by a horrific artillery shell attack. Trapped in what's left of his body, he desperately looks for a way to end his life.

Glory ( 1989 )

Genre:   Biography | Drama | History | War

Runtime:  122

Country:  United States

Language:  English

Director:  Edward Zwick

Writer:   Kevin Jarre | Lincoln Kirstein | Peter Burchard | Robert Gould Shaw

Stars:   Matthew Broderick | Denzel Washington | Cary Elwes | Morgan Freeman

Plot:    Robert Gould Shaw leads the U.S. Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices from both his own Union Army, and the Confederates.

The Killing Fields ( 1984 )

Genre:   Biography | Drama | History | War

Runtime:  141

Country:  United Kingdom

Language:  English | French | Central Khmer

Director:  Roland Joffé

Writer:   Bruce Robinson

Stars:   Sam Waterston | Haing S. Ngor | John Malkovich | Julian Sands

Plot:    A journalist is trapped in Cambodia during Pol Pot's bloody Year Zero cleansing campaign.

'Breaker' Morant ( 1980 )

Genre:   Drama | History | War

Runtime:  107

Country:  Australia

Language:  English | Afrikaans

Director:  Bruce Beresford

Writer:   Jonathan Hardy | David Stevens | Bruce Beresford | Harold Lander | Kenneth G. Ross | Kit Denton

Stars:   Edward Woodward | Jack Thompson | John Waters | Bryan Brown

Plot:    Three Australian lieutenants are court martialed for executing prisoners as a way of deflecting attention from war crimes committed by their superior officers.

The Man Who Would Be King ( 1975 )

Genre:   Adventure | Drama | War

Runtime:  129

Country:  United Kingdom | United States

Language:  English | Arabic | Urdu

Director:  John Huston

Writer:   John Huston | Gladys Hill | Rudyard Kipling

Stars:   Sean Connery | Michael Caine | Christopher Plummer | Saeed Jaffrey

Plot:    In 1880s India, two former British soldiers decide to set themselves up as Kings in Kafiristan, a land where no white man has set foot since Alexander the Great.

Empire of the Sun ( 1987 )

Genre:   Drama | War

Runtime:  153

Country:  United States

Language:  English | Japanese | Mandarin

Director:  Steven Spielberg

Writer:   Tom Stoppard | J.G. Ballard | Menno Meyjes

Stars:   Christian Bale | John Malkovich | Miranda Richardson | Nigel Havers

Plot:    A young English boy struggles to survive under Japanese occupation of China during World War II.

When the Wind Blows ( 1986 )

Genre:   Animation | Drama | War

Runtime:  84

Country:  United Kingdom

Language:  English

Director:  Jimmy T. Murakami

Writer:   Raymond Briggs | Raymond Briggs

Stars:   Peggy Ashcroft | John Mills | Robin Houston | James Russell

Plot:    A naive elderly British rural couple survive the initial onslaught of a nuclear war.

Love and Death ( 1975 )

Genre:   Comedy | War

Runtime:  85

Country:  United States

Language:  English

Director:  Woody Allen

Writer:   Woody Allen

Stars:   Woody Allen | Diane Keaton | Georges Adet | Frank Adu

Plot:    In czarist Russia, a neurotic soldier and his distant cousin formulate a plot to assassinate Napoleon.

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