Best thriller war films - Charts
Best thriller war films
2. The Old Gun (1975)
France / West Germany, War / Thriller
Directed by: Robert Enrico
Cast: Philippe Noiret, Romy Schneider
3. JSA - Joint Security Area (2000)
South Korea, Drama / Thriller
Directed by: Chan-wook Park
Cast: Byeong-heon Lee, Kang-ho Song
6. Valkyrie (2008)
USA / Germany, War / Historical
Directed by: Bryan Singer
Cast: Tom Cruise, Kenneth Branagh
7. The Covenant (2023)
UK / Spain, Action / Drama
Directed by: Guy Ritchie
Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Dar Salim
8. Black Book (2006)
Netherlands / Belgium, Thriller / War
Directed by: Paul Verhoeven
Cast: Carice van Houten, Sebastian Koch
9. Europa (1991)
Denmark / Sweden, Drama / Thriller
Directed by: Lars von Trier
Cast: Jean-Marc Barr, Barbara Sukowa
10. The Train (1964)
USA / France, Thriller / War
Directed by: John Frankenheimer, Arthur Penn
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Paul Scofield
11. Rambo (2008)
USA / Germany, Action / Thriller
Directed by: Sylvester Stallone
Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Julie Benz
12. Anthropoid (2016)
UK / Czech Republic, Historical / Thriller
Directed by: Sean Ellis
Cast: Cillian Murphy, Jamie Dornan
13. Salvador (1986)
USA / UK, Drama / Thriller
Directed by: Oliver Stone
Cast: James Woods, Jim Belushi
14. Brothers (2009)
USA, Drama / War
Directed by: Jim Sheridan
Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Natalie Portman
15. 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (2016)
Malta / Morocco, Action / Drama
Directed by: Michael Bay
Cast: John Krasinski, James Badge Dale
16. The Passage (1979)
UK, War / Drama
Directed by: J. Lee Thompson
Cast: Anthony Quinn, Malcolm McDowell
17. K-19 (2002)
USA / UK, Drama / Thriller
Directed by: Kathryn Bigelow
Cast: Harrison Ford, Liam Neeson
18. The Hurt Locker (2008)
USA, War / Drama
Directed by: Kathryn Bigelow
Cast: Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie
20. Allied (2016)
UK / USA, Action / Drama
Directed by: Robert Zemeckis
Cast: Brad Pitt, Marion Cotillard
21. Incident at Owl Creek (1961)
France, Short / Drama
Directed by: Robert Enrico
Cast: Pierre Danny, Roger Jacquet
22. Lust, Caution (2007)
Taiwan / USA, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Ang Lee
Cast: Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Joan Chen
23. Lone Survivor (2013)
USA, War / Biography
Directed by: Peter Berg
Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Taylor Kitsch
24. Saboteur (1942)
USA, Thriller / War
Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Priscilla Lane, Robert Cummings
25. The Gleiwitz Case (1961)
East Germany, Drama / Thriller
Directed by: Gerhard Klein
Cast: Hannjo Hasse, Herwart Grosse
26. The Eagle Has Landed (1976)
UK, War / Adventure
Directed by: John Sturges
Cast: Michael Caine, Donald Sutherland
27. Foreign Correspondent (1940)
USA, Action / Romance
Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Joel McCrea, Laraine Day
28. To Have and Have Not (1944)
USA, Thriller / War
Directed by: Howard Hawks
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Walter Brennan
29. The Beguiled (1971)
USA, Drama / Thriller
Directed by: Don Siegel
Cast: Clint Eastwood, Geraldine Page
30. The Siege of Jadotville (2016)
Ireland / South Africa, Drama / Action
Directed by: Richie Smyth
Cast: Jamie Dornan, Jason O'Mara
31. Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985)
USA, Action / Adventure
Directed by: George P. Cosmatos
Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Richard Crenna
32. The Enemy Below (1957)
USA, War / Action
Directed by: Dick Powell
Cast: Robert Mitchum, Curd Jürgens
35. The Bedford Incident (1965)
UK / USA, Thriller / Drama
Directed by: James B. Harris
Cast: Richard Widmark, Sidney Poitier
36. Green Zone (2010)
USA / UK, Drama / War
Directed by: Paul Greengrass
Cast: Matt Damon, Greg Kinnear
37. Eye in the Sky (2015)
UK, Drama / Thriller
Directed by: Gavin Hood
Cast: Helen Mirren, Aaron Paul
38. Crimson Tide (1995)
USA, Action / Drama
Directed by: Tony Scott
Cast: Denzel Washington, Gene Hackman
39. U-571 (2000)
France / USA, Action / Drama
Directed by: Jonathan Mostow
Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Bill Paxton
40. The Sum of All Fears (2002)
USA / Germany, Action / Drama
Directed by: Phil Alden Robinson
Cast: Ben Affleck, Morgan Freeman
41. Five Graves to Cairo (1943)
USA, Thriller / War
Directed by: Billy Wilder
Cast: Franchot Tone, Anne Baxter
42. Flame & Citron (2008)
Denmark / Germany, Drama / Thriller
Directed by: Ole Christian Madsen
Cast: Mads Mikkelsen, Thure Lindhardt
43. Paradise Now (2005)
Palestine / France, Drama / Crime
Directed by: Hany Abu-Assad
Cast: Kais Nashif, Ali Suliman
44. Soldier of Orange (1977)
Netherlands / Belgium, Drama / Thriller
Directed by: Paul Verhoeven
Cast: Rutger Hauer, Jeroen Krabbé
45. The Night of the Generals (1967)
UK / France, Drama / Thriller
Directed by: Anatole Litvak
Cast: Peter O'Toole, Omar Sharif
46. Shock Troops (1967)
France / Italy, Action / War
Directed by: Costa-Gavras
Cast: Bruno Cremer, Jean-Claude Brialy
47. Lore (2012)
Germany / Australia, Drama / Thriller
Directed by: Cate Shortland
Cast: Saskia Rosendahl, Nele Trebs
48. Curveball (2020)
Germany, Comedy / Drama
Directed by: Johannes Naber
Cast: Sebastian Blomberg, Virginia Kull
52. Tears of the Sun (2003)
USA, Action / Thriller
Directed by: Antoine Fuqua
Cast: Bruce Willis, Monica Bellucci
53. Cloak and Dagger (1946)
USA, Romance / Adventure
Directed by: Fritz Lang
Cast: Gary Cooper, Lilli Palmer
54. 49th Parallel (1941)
UK, Drama / Thriller
Directed by: Michael Powell
Cast: Eric Portman, Niall MacGinnis
55. Rendition (2007)
USA / South Africa, Thriller / Drama
Directed by: Gavin Hood
Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Reese Witherspoon
56. Pornography (2003)
Poland / France, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Jan Jakub Kolski
Cast: Krzysztof Majchrzak, Adam Ferency
57. Night Train to Munich (1940)
UK, Thriller / War
Directed by: Carol Reed
Cast: Margaret Lockwood, Rex Harrison
58. Es geschah am 20. Juli (1955)
West Germany, Drama / Thriller
Directed by: Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Cast: Bernhard Wicki, Carl Wery
59. Act of Valor (2012)
USA, Action / Thriller
Directed by: Mike McCoy, Scott Waugh
Cast: Roselyn Sanchez, Jason Cottle
62. Zaytoun (2012)
UK / Israel, Drama / War
Directed by: Eran Riklis
Cast: Stephen Dorff, Alice Taglioni
63. They Met in the Dark (1943)
UK, Mystery / Romance
Directed by: Karel Lamač
Cast: James Mason, Tom Walls
64. Southern Comfort (1981)
USA / Switzerland, Drama / Thriller
Directed by: Walter Hill
Cast: Keith Carradine, Powers Boothe
65. Lions for Lambs (2007)
USA, War / Drama
Directed by: Robert Redford
Cast: Tom Cruise, Meryl Streep
66. The East (2020)
Netherlands, Drama / Thriller
Directed by: Jim Taihuttu
Cast: Martijn Lakemeier, Marwan Kenzari
67. Operation Finale (2018)
USA, Biography / War
Directed by: Chris Weitz
Cast: Oscar Isaac, Ben Kingsley
68. Shining Through (1992)
USA, Thriller / Drama
Directed by: David Seltzer
Cast: Michael Douglas, Melanie Griffith
69. Went the Day Well? (1942)
UK, Thriller / War
Directed by: Alberto Cavalcanti
Cast: Leslie Banks, C.V. France
70. Buffalo Soldiers (2001)
Germany / UK, Comedy / Drama
Directed by: Gregor Jordan
Cast: Joaquin Phoenix, Ed Harris
71. The Exit Room (2013)
USA, Short / Drama
Directed by: Todd Wiseman Jr.
Cast: Christopher Abbott, Ana Cruz Kayne
72. The Wall (2017)
USA, Drama / Thriller
Directed by: Doug Liman
Cast: Aaron Taylor-Johnson, John Cena
73. Centurion (2010)
UK / France, Action / Adventure
Directed by: Neil Marshall
Cast: Michael Fassbender, Dominic West
74. Der Verlorene (1951)
West Germany, Drama / Thriller
Directed by: Peter Lorre
Cast: Peter Lorre, Gisela Trowe
76. Madras Cafe (2013)
India, Thriller / Drama
Directed by: Shoojit Sircar
Cast: John Abraham, Nargis Fakhri
77. Behind Enemy Lines (2001)
USA, Action / Drama
Directed by: John Moore
Cast: Owen Wilson, Gene Hackman
78. The Manchurian Candidate (2004)
USA, War / Mystery
Directed by: Jonathan Demme
Cast: Denzel Washington, Meryl Streep
79. The Small Back Room (1949)
UK, Drama / Thriller
Directed by: Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell
Cast: David Farrar, Kathleen Byron
80. The Battle of Jangsari (2019)
South Korea, War / Thriller
Directed by: Gyeong-taek Kwak, Tae-hoon Kim
Cast: Megan Fox, George Eads
81. A Call to Spy (2019)
USA, Drama / Biography
Directed by: Lydia Dean Pilcher
Cast: Sarah Megan Thomas, Stana Katic
82. The Message (2009)
China, Drama / Thriller
Directed by: Kuo-fu Chen, Qunshu Gao
Cast: Xiaoming Huang, Bingbing Li
83. Northern Limit Line (2015)
South Korea, War / Thriller
Directed by: Hak-soon Kim
Cast: Moo-yeol Kim, Gu Jin
85. Essential Killing (2010)
Poland / Norway, Thriller / War
Directed by: Jerzy Skolimowski
Cast: Vincent Gallo, Emmanuelle Seigner
86. Operation Red Sea (2018)
China / Hong Kong, War / Action
Directed by: Dante Lam
Cast: Yi Zhang, Michelle Bai
87. Wild Geese II (1985)
UK / Australia, Action / Thriller
Directed by: Peter R. Hunt
Cast: Scott Glenn, Barbara Carrera
88. Dead Presidents (1995)
USA, Crime / Drama
Directed by: Allen Hughes, Albert Hughes
Cast: Larenz Tate, Keith David
89. Operation Chromite (2016)
South Korea, War / Thriller
Directed by: John H. Lee
Cast: Jung-jae Lee, Liam Neeson
90. Fear and Desire (1953)
USA, Drama / Thriller
Directed by: Stanley Kubrick
Cast: Frank Silvera, Paul Mazursky
91. How I Live Now (2013)
UK, Drama / Thriller
Directed by: Kevin Macdonald
Cast: Saoirse Ronan, George MacKay
92. Off Limits (1988)
USA, Action / Thriller
Directed by: Christopher Crowe
Cast: Willem Dafoe, Gregory Hines
93. British Intelligence (1940)
USA, Thriller / War
Directed by: Terry O. Morse
Cast: Boris Karloff, Margaret Lindsay
95. Imperium (2016)
USA, Biography / War
Directed by: Daniel Ragussis
Cast: Daniel Radcliffe, Toni Collette
96. The Enemy (2011)
Serbia / Bosnia-Herzegovina, Drama / Horror
Directed by: Dejan Zecevic
Cast: Vuk Kostic, Slavko Stimac
97. Rambo III (1988)
USA, Action / Adventure
Directed by: Peter MacDonald
Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Richard Crenna
99. Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade (2018)
South Korea, Drama / Sci-fi
Directed by: Jee-woon Kim
Cast: Dong-won Gang, Hyo-joo Han
100. Waiting for Anya (2020)
UK / Belgium, Drama / War
Directed by: Ben Cookson
Cast: Anjelica Huston, Jean Reno