Best drama war films - Charts
Best drama war films
1. Higher Principle (1960)
Czechoslovakia, Drama / War
Directed by: Jiří Krejčík
Cast: František Smolík, Jana Brejchová
2. Saving Private Ryan (1998)
USA, Drama / War
Directed by: Steven Spielberg
Cast: Tom Hanks, Edward Burns
3. The Pianist (2002)
France / Poland, Drama / Biography
Directed by: Roman Polański
Cast: Adrien Brody, Emilia Fox
4. Braveheart (1995)
USA, Drama / Historical
Directed by: Mel Gibson
Cast: Mel Gibson, Sophie Marceau
5. Life Is Beautiful (1997)
Italy, Comedy / Romance
Directed by: Roberto Benigni
Cast: Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi
7. Inglourious Basterds (2009)
USA / Germany, Drama / Adventure
Directed by: Quentin Tarantino
Cast: Brad Pitt, Mélanie Laurent
8. Black Hawk Down (2001)
USA / UK, Drama / Historical
Directed by: Ridley Scott
Cast: Josh Hartnett, Ewan McGregor
9. The Shop on Main Street (1965)
Czechoslovakia, Drama / War
Directed by: Ján Kadár, Elmar Klos
Cast: Ida Kamińska, Jozef Kroner
11. Hotel Rwanda (2004)
UK / USA, Drama / War
Directed by: Terry George
Cast: Don Cheadle, Sophie Okonedo
12. Full Metal Jacket (1987)
UK / USA, Drama / War
Directed by: Stanley Kubrick
Cast: Matthew Modine, Adam Baldwin
13. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
UK / USA, Adventure / Drama
Directed by: David Lean
Cast: William Holden, Alec Guinness
14. Apocalypse Now (1979)
USA, War / Drama
Directed by: Francis Ford Coppola
Cast: Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando
15. The Great Dictator (1940)
USA, Comedy / Drama
Directed by: Charlie Chaplin
Cast: Charlie Chaplin, Jack Oakie
16. The Great Escape (1963)
USA, Adventure / Drama
Directed by: John Sturges
Cast: Steve McQueen, James Garner
17. Paths of Glory (1957)
USA, Drama / War
Directed by: Stanley Kubrick
Cast: Kirk Douglas, Ralph Meeker
18. Riders in the Sky (1968)
Czechoslovakia, War / Drama
Directed by: Jindřich Polák
Cast: Jiří Bednář, Jiří Hrzán
20. Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
USA, Drama / Historical
Directed by: Stanley Kramer
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster
21. Divided We Fall (2000)
Czech Republic, Comedy / Drama
Directed by: Jan Hřebejk
Cast: Bolek Polívka, Csongor Kassai
22. The Last of the Mohicans (1992)
USA, Action / Adventure
Directed by: Michael Mann
Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Madeleine Stowe
24. Grave of the Fireflies (1988)
Japan, Animation / Drama
Directed by: Isao Takahata
Cast: Tsutomu Tatsumi, Ayano Shiraishi
25. Shake Hands with the Devil (2007)
Canada, Drama / Historical
Directed by: Roger Spottiswoode
Cast: Roy Dupuis, Deborah Kara Unger
27. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
USA, Drama / Romance
Directed by: William Wyler
Cast: Myrna Loy, Fredric March
28. Persepolis (2007)
France / USA, Animation / Drama
Directed by: Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi
29. All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
USA, War / Drama
Directed by: Lewis Milestone
Cast: Louis Wolheim, Lew Ayres
30. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
UK, Adventure / War
Directed by: David Lean
Cast: Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness
31. Barry Lyndon (1975)
UK, Drama / War
Directed by: Stanley Kubrick
Cast: Ryan O'Neal, Marisa Berenson
32. Casablanca (1942)
USA, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Michael Curtiz
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman
33. The Old Gun (1975)
France / West Germany, War / Thriller
Directed by: Robert Enrico
Cast: Philippe Noiret, Romy Schneider
34. The Longest Day (1962)
USA, War / Action
Directed by: Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton
Cast: Eddie Albert, Paul Anka
35. Bloody Sunday (2002)
UK / Ireland, Drama / War
Directed by: Paul Greengrass
Cast: James Nesbitt, Allan Gildea
37. Welcome to Dongmakgol (2005)
South Korea, Drama / Comedy
Directed by: Kwang-hyeon Park
Cast: Ha-kyun Shin, Jae-yeong Jeong
38. War and Peace: Part III (1967)
Soviet Union, Drama / War
Directed by: Sergei Fyodorovich Bondarchuk
39. Taegukgi: The Brotherhood of War (2004)
South Korea, Action / Drama
Directed by: Je-gyu Kang
Cast: Dong-gun Jang, Bin Won
40. The Search (1948)
USA / Switzerland, Drama / War
Directed by: Fred Zinnemann
Cast: Ivan Jandl, Jarmila Novotná
41. Death Is Called Engelchen (1963)
Czechoslovakia, Drama / War
Directed by: Ján Kadár, Elmar Klos
Cast: Jan Kačer, Eva Poláková
42. Waltz with Bashir (2008)
Israel / France, Animation / Documentary
Directed by: Ari Folman
Cast: Ari Folman, אורי סיון
43. The Fifth Seal (1976)
Hungary, Drama / Psychological
Directed by: Zoltán Fábri
Cast: Lajos Őze, László Márkus
44. The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2008)
UK / USA, Drama / War
Directed by: Mark Herman
Cast: Asa Butterfield, Jack Scanlon
45. Adelheid (1969)
Czechoslovakia, Drama / Psychological
Directed by: František Vláčil
Cast: Petr Čepek, Emma Černá
47. Cold Mountain (2003)
USA / UK, Drama / War
Directed by: Anthony Minghella
Cast: Jude Law, Nicole Kidman
48. Hacksaw Ridge (2016)
Australia / USA, Biography / War
Directed by: Mel Gibson
Cast: Andrew Garfield, Vince Vaughn
49. Gone with the Wind (1939)
USA, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Victor Fleming, George Cukor
Cast: Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh
50. Europa Europa (1990)
Germany / France, Drama / War
Directed by: Agnieszka Holland
Cast: Marco Hofschneider, Julie Delpy
51. Atonement (2007)
UK / France, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Joe Wright
Cast: James McAvoy, Keira Knightley
53. JSA - Joint Security Area (2000)
South Korea, Drama / Thriller
Directed by: Chan-wook Park
Cast: Byeong-heon Lee, Kang-ho Song
54. Underground (1995)
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia / France, Drama / Comedy
Directed by: Emir Kusturica
55. Coach to Vienna (1966)
Czechoslovakia, Drama / War
Directed by: Karel Kachyňa
Cast: Iva Janžurová, Jaromír Hanzlík
57. No Man's Land (2001)
Bosnia-Herzegovina / France, Drama / Comedy
Directed by: Danis Tanović
Cast: Branko Djuric, René Bitorajac
59. The Deer Hunter (1978)
USA / UK, Drama / War
Directed by: Michael Cimino
Cast: Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken
60. Come and See (1985)
Soviet Union, Drama / War
Directed by: Elem Klimov
Cast: Aleksey Kravchenko, Olga Mironova
61. Land of Mine (2015)
Denmark / Germany, War / Historical
Directed by: Martin Zandvliet
Cast: Roland Møller, Louis Hofmann
63. Farewell My Concubine (1993)
China / Hong Kong, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Kaige Chen
Cast: Leslie Cheung, Fengyi Zhang
64. A Bridge Too Far (1977)
USA / UK, War / Drama
Directed by: Richard Attenborough
Cast: Dirk Bogarde, James Caan
65. The Killing Fields (1984)
UK, Drama / War
Directed by: Roland Joffé
Cast: Sam Waterston, Haing S. Ngor
66. Two Women (1960)
Italy / France, Drama / War
Directed by: Vittorio De Sica
Cast: Sophia Loren, Jean-Paul Belmondo
68. Waterloo (1970)
Italy / Soviet Union, Drama / Action
Directed by: Sergei Fyodorovich Bondarchuk
Cast: Rod Steiger, Christopher Plummer
69. The Battle of Algiers (1966)
Italy / Algeria, Drama / War
Directed by: Gillo Pontecorvo
Cast: Jean Martin, Brahim Hadjadj
70. The Cranes Are Flying (1957)
Soviet Union, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Mikhail Kalatozov
Cast: Tatyana Samoylova, Aleksey Batalov
72. Enemy at the Gates (2001)
USA / Germany, Drama / Historical
Directed by: Jean-Jacques Annaud
Cast: Jude Law, Joseph Fiennes
73. Midnight Mass (1962)
Czechoslovakia, Drama / Psychological
Directed by: Jiří Krejčík
Cast: Ján Klimo, Hana Meličková
75. All My Loved Ones (1999)
Czech Republic / Slovakia, Drama / Historical
Directed by: Matej Mináč
Cast: Josef Abrhám, Libuše Šafránková
76. Shadows of a Hot Summer (1977)
Czechoslovakia, Drama / War
Directed by: František Vláčil
Cast: Marta Vančurová, Juraj Kukura
78. Valkyrie (2008)
USA / Germany, War / Historical
Directed by: Bryan Singer
Cast: Tom Cruise, Kenneth Branagh
79. Spartacus (1960)
USA, War / Historical
Directed by: Stanley Kubrick
Cast: Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier
80. Black Book (2006)
Netherlands / Belgium, Thriller / War
Directed by: Paul Verhoeven
Cast: Carice van Houten, Sebastian Koch
81. The Bridge (1959)
West Germany, Drama / War
Directed by: Bernhard Wicki
Cast: Folker Bohnet, Fritz Wepper
82. The Covenant (2023)
UK / Spain, Action / Drama
Directed by: Guy Ritchie
Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Dar Salim
83. Romeo, Juliet and Darkness (1959)
Czechoslovakia, Drama / War
Directed by: Jiří Weiss
Cast: Ivan Mistrík, Dana Smutná
84. Signum Laudis (1980)
Czechoslovakia, Drama / Psychological
Directed by: Martin Hollý ml.
Cast: Vlado Müller, Josef Bláha
85. Incendies (2010)
Canada / France, Drama / Mystery
Directed by: Denis Villeneuve
Cast: Rémy Girard, Lubna Azabal
86. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)
USA, War / Historical
Directed by: Peter Weir
Cast: Russell Crowe, Paul Bettany
87. Downfall (2004)
Germany / Austria, Drama / Historical
Directed by: Oliver Hirschbiegel
Cast: Bruno Ganz, Alexandra Maria Lara
88. The Dirty Dozen (1967)
UK / USA, Action / War
Directed by: Robert Aldrich
Cast: Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine
89. Forbidden Games (1952)
France, Drama / War
Directed by: René Clément
Cast: Georges Poujouly, Brigitte Fossey
91. Pretty Village, Pretty Flame (1996)
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, War / Drama
Directed by: Srdjan Dragojevic
Cast: Dragan Bjelogrlic, Nikola Kojo
92. The Reader (2008)
USA / Germany, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Stephen Daldry
Cast: Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes
93. War and Peace: Part I (1965)
Soviet Union, Drama / War
Directed by: Sergei Fyodorovich Bondarchuk
94. Before the Rain (1994)
Republic of Macedonia / France, Drama / War
Directed by: Milcho Manchevski
Cast: Katrin Cartlidge, Rade Serbedzija
95. City of Life and Death (2009)
China / Hong Kong, Drama / War
Directed by: Chuan Lu
Cast: Ye Liu, Yuanyuan Gao
97. Prisoner of the Mountains (1996)
Russia, Drama / War
Directed by: Sergey Bodrov
Cast: Oleg Menshikov, Sergey Bodrov Jr.
98. Europa (1991)
Denmark / Sweden, Drama / Thriller
Directed by: Lars von Trier
Cast: Jean-Marc Barr, Barbara Sukowa
99. Tangerines (2013)
Estonia / Georgia, War / Drama
Directed by: Zaza Urushadze
Cast: Mikheil Meskhi, Лембит Ульфсак
100. The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer (1961)
Japan, Drama / War
Directed by: Masaki Kobayashi
Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai, Chishû Ryû