Best adventure war films - Charts
Best adventure war films
1. Inglourious Basterds (2009)
USA / Germany, Drama / Adventure
Directed by: Quentin Tarantino
Cast: Brad Pitt, Mélanie Laurent
2. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
UK / USA, Adventure / Drama
Directed by: David Lean
Cast: William Holden, Alec Guinness
3. The Great Escape (1963)
USA, Adventure / Drama
Directed by: John Sturges
Cast: Steve McQueen, James Garner
4. The General (1926)
USA, Comedy / Romance
Directed by: Buster Keaton, Clyde Bruckman
Cast: Buster Keaton, Marion Mack
5. The Last of the Mohicans (1992)
USA, Action / Adventure
Directed by: Michael Mann
Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Madeleine Stowe
6. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
UK, Adventure / War
Directed by: David Lean
Cast: Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness
7. Barry Lyndon (1975)
UK, Drama / War
Directed by: Stanley Kubrick
Cast: Ryan O'Neal, Marisa Berenson
9. Where Eagles Dare (1968)
UK / USA, Action / Adventure
Directed by: Brian G. Hutton
Cast: Richard Burton, Clint Eastwood
10. The African Queen (1951)
UK / USA, Adventure / Romance
Directed by: John Huston
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn
12. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)
USA, War / Historical
Directed by: Peter Weir
Cast: Russell Crowe, Paul Bettany
15. Von Ryan's Express (1965)
USA, War / Drama
Directed by: Mark Robson
Cast: Frank Sinatra, Trevor Howard
16. As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me (2001)
Germany, War / Drama
Directed by: Hardy Martins, Dmitriy Astrakhan
Cast: Bernhard Bettermann, Iris Böhm
17. The Horseman on the Roof (1995)
France, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Jean-Paul Rappeneau
Cast: Juliette Binoche, Olivier Martinez
18. Casualties of War (1989)
USA, Drama / War
Directed by: Brian De Palma
Cast: Michael J. Fox, Sean Penn
22. How I Unleashed World War II (1970)
Poland, Comedy / War
Directed by: Tadeusz Chmielewski
Cast: Marian Kociniak, Zdzislaw Kuzniar
24. The Guns of Navarone (1961)
USA / Yugoslavia, War / Adventure
Directed by: J. Lee Thompson
Cast: Gregory Peck, David Niven
25. Objective, Burma! (1945)
USA, War / Adventure
Directed by: Raoul Walsh
Cast: Errol Flynn, James Brown
26. Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. (1951)
UK / USA, War / Action
Directed by: Raoul Walsh
Cast: Gregory Peck, Virginia Mayo
27. Zulu Dawn (1979)
USA / South Africa, Adventure / Drama
Directed by: Douglas Hickox
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Simon Ward
28. The Eagle Has Landed (1976)
UK, War / Adventure
Directed by: John Sturges
Cast: Michael Caine, Donald Sutherland
29. Rescue Dawn (2006)
USA, Action / Adventure
Directed by: Werner Herzog
Cast: Christian Bale, Steve Zahn
30. To Have and Have Not (1944)
USA, Thriller / War
Directed by: Howard Hawks
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Walter Brennan
31. The Fortress (1979)
Hungary, Sci-fi / War
Directed by: Miklós Szinetár
Cast: Bella Tanay, Sándor Oszter
32. Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985)
USA, Action / Adventure
Directed by: George P. Cosmatos
Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Richard Crenna
33. The Enemy Below (1957)
USA, War / Action
Directed by: Dick Powell
Cast: Robert Mitchum, Curd Jürgens
35. The Final Countdown (1980)
USA, Drama / Adventure
Directed by: Don Taylor
Cast: Kirk Douglas, Martin Sheen
36. Force 10 from Navarone (1978)
UK, War / Adventure
Directed by: Guy Hamilton
Cast: Robert Shaw, Harrison Ford
37. Play Dirty (1969)
UK, War / Adventure
Directed by: André De Toth
Cast: Michael Caine, Nigel Davenport
38. The Last of the Mohicans (1936)
USA, Adventure / Drama
Directed by: George B. Seitz
Cast: Randolph Scott, Binnie Barnes
39. The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936)
USA, Action / Adventure
Directed by: Michael Curtiz
Cast: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland
40. Kingdom of Heaven (2005)
UK / Spain, Action / Historical
Directed by: Ridley Scott
Cast: Orlando Bloom, Eva Green
41. For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943)
USA, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Sam Wood
Cast: Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman
42. The War Lover (1962)
USA / UK, War / Adventure
Directed by: Philip Leacock
Cast: Steve McQueen, Robert Wagner
44. That Hamilton Woman (1941)
USA, Adventure / Drama
Directed by: Alexander Korda
Cast: Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier
45. The Blue Max (1966)
UK, Adventure / Drama
Directed by: John Guillermin
Cast: George Peppard, James Mason
46. The Crusades (1935)
USA, Drama / Adventure
Directed by: Cecil B. DeMille
Cast: Loretta Young, Henry Wilcoxon
47. Father Goose (1964)
USA, Adventure / Comedy
Directed by: Ralph Nelson
Cast: Cary Grant, Leslie Caron
48. H.M.S. Defiant (1962)
UK, Adventure / Drama
Directed by: Lewis Gilbert
Cast: Alec Guinness, Dirk Bogarde
49. Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle (2021)
France / Germany, Adventure / Drama
Directed by: Arthur Harari
50. The Tiger (2015)
South Korea, Adventure / Drama
Directed by: Hoon-jung Park
Cast: Min-shik Choi, Man-sik Jung
51. Khartoum (1966)
UK, Drama / War
Directed by: Basil Dearden
Cast: Charlton Heston, Laurence Olivier
52. Australia (2008)
USA / Australia, Adventure / Drama
Directed by: Baz Luhrmann
Cast: Hugh Jackman, Nicole Kidman
53. Arn: The Knight Templar (2007)
Sweden / UK, Historical / Drama
Directed by: Peter Flinth
Cast: Joakim Nätterqvist, Sofia Helin
54. The Greatest Beer Run Ever (2022)
USA, Drama / War
Directed by: Peter Farrelly
Cast: Zac Efron, Russell Crowe
55. Ice-Cold in Alex (1958)
UK, Adventure / War
Directed by: J. Lee Thompson
Cast: John Mills, Sylvia Syms
57. Beau Geste (1939)
USA, Action / Adventure
Directed by: William A. Wellman
Cast: Gary Cooper, Ray Milland
58. The Mercenaries (1968)
UK / USA, War / Adventure
Directed by: Jack Cardiff
Cast: Rod Taylor, Yvette Mimieux
59. The Four Feathers (1939)
UK, Adventure / War
Directed by: Zoltan Korda
Cast: John Clements, Ralph Richardson
60. The Undefeated (1969)
USA, Western / Action
Directed by: Andrew V. McLaglen
Cast: John Wayne, Rock Hudson
61. Wizards (1977)
USA, Animation / Sci-fi
Directed by: Ralph Bakshi
Cast: Susan Tyrrell, Mark Hamill
62. At Home Among Strangers (1974)
Soviet Union, Adventure / War
Directed by: Nikita Mikhalkov
Cast: Yuri Bogatyryov, Nikita Mikhalkov
63. Cabiria (1914)
Italy, Adventure / Drama
Directed by: Giovanni Pastrone
Cast: Carolina Catena, Lidia Quaranta
65. Duel of the Titans (1961)
Italy / France, Action / Drama
Directed by: Sergio Corbucci
Cast: Steve Reeves, Gordon Scott
66. Across the Pacific (1942)
USA, Action / Adventure
Directed by: Vincent Sherman, John Huston
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor
67. Bal-Can-Can (2005)
Republic of Macedonia / Italy, Drama / Comedy
Directed by: Darko Mitrevski
Cast: Vlado Jovanovski, Nikola Kojo
69. Wonder Woman (2017)
USA / Hong Kong, Action / Adventure
Directed by: Patty Jenkins
Cast: Gal Gadot, Chris Pine
70. Destination Tokyo (1943)
USA, Adventure / War
Directed by: Delmer Daves
Cast: Cary Grant, John Garfield
71. The Turkish Gambit (2005)
Russia / Bulgaria, War / Action
Directed by: Dzhanik Fayziev
Cast: Ольга Красько, Egor Beroev
72. The Star (2002)
Russia, War / Drama
Directed by: Nikolay Lebedev
Cast: Igor Petrenko, Aleksey Kravchenko
73. Major Dundee (1965)
USA, Western / Adventure
Directed by: Sam Peckinpah
Cast: Charlton Heston, Richard Harris
74. The Battle of the River Plate (1956)
UK, War / Action
Directed by: Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell
Cast: John Gregson, Anthony Quayle
75. Guerreros (2002)
Spain, Adventure / War
Directed by: Daniel Calparsoro
Cast: Eduardo Noriega, Rubén Ochandiano
76. The Best of Enemies (1961)
Italy / USA, Adventure / War
Directed by: Guy Hamilton
Cast: David Niven, Michael Wilding
77. The Wild Geese (1978)
UK / Switzerland, Action / War
Directed by: Andrew V. McLaglen
Cast: Richard Burton, Roger Moore
79. The Purple Plain (1954)
UK, Adventure / Drama
Directed by: Robert Parrish
Cast: Gregory Peck, Win Min Than
80. The 300 Spartans (1962)
USA, Adventure / Drama
Directed by: Rudolph Maté
Cast: Richard Egan, Ralph Richardson
81. Fire Over England (1937)
UK, Adventure / War
Directed by: William K. Howard
Cast: Flora Robson, Raymond Massey
82. The Great Locomotive Chase (1956)
USA, Family / Adventure
Directed by: Francis D. Lyon
Cast: Fess Parker, Jeffrey Hunter
84. St. Wenceslas (1929)
Czechoslovakia, Drama / Historical
Directed by: Jan S. Kolár
Cast: Zdeněk Štěpánek, Bohumil Heš
85. Captain Lightfoot (1955)
USA, Adventure / Drama
Directed by: Douglas Sirk
Cast: Rock Hudson, Barbara Rush
86. Cloak and Dagger (1946)
USA, Romance / Adventure
Directed by: Fritz Lang
Cast: Gary Cooper, Lilli Palmer
87. The Lost Patrol (1934)
USA, Adventure / War
Directed by: John Ford
Cast: Victor McLaglen, Boris Karloff
88. Desperate Journey (1942)
USA, War / Action
Directed by: Raoul Walsh
Cast: Errol Flynn, Ronald Reagan
89. Night Train to Munich (1940)
UK, Thriller / War
Directed by: Carol Reed
Cast: Margaret Lockwood, Rex Harrison
90. Touch and Go (1971)
France / Italy, Comedy / Adventure
Directed by: Philippe de Broca
Cast: Marlène Jobert, Michael York
91. Map of the Human Heart (1992)
Australia / UK, Adventure / Drama
Directed by: Vincent Ward
Cast: Jason Scott Lee, Anne Parillaud
92. Southern Comfort (1981)
USA / Switzerland, Drama / Thriller
Directed by: Walter Hill
Cast: Keith Carradine, Powers Boothe
94. The Horse Soldiers (1959)
USA, Adventure / War
Directed by: John Ford
Cast: John Wayne, William Holden
95. Northern Pursuit (1943)
USA, Adventure / War
Directed by: Raoul Walsh
Cast: Errol Flynn, Julie Bishop
96. I cavalieri che fecero l'impresa (2001)
Italy / France, Adventure / Drama
Directed by: Pupi Avati
Cast: Raoul Bova, Edward Furlong
97. The Sovereign's Servant (2007)
Russia, Action / Adventure
Directed by: Oleg Ryaskov
Cast: Dmitriy Miller, Aleksey Chadov
98. The Profession of Arms (2001)
Italy / France, Drama / Adventure
Directed by: Ermanno Olmi
Cast: Hristo Jivkov, Sandra Ceccarelli
99. Saints and Soldiers (2003)
USA, Action / War
Directed by: Ryan Little
Cast: Corbin Allred, Larry Bagby
100. Tropic Thunder (2008)
USA / Germany, Action / Comedy
Directed by: Ben Stiller
Cast: Ben Stiller, Robert Downey Jr.