Best War movies of 1996

Actors : Ralph Fiennes, Kristin Scott Thomas, Willem Dafoe, Juliette Binoche,
Directors : Anthony Minghella,

At the close of WWII, a young nurse tends to a badly-burned plane crash victim. His past is shown in flashbacks, revealing an involvement in a fateful love affair.

Actors : Nick Nolte, Alan Arkin, Bernard Behrens, Sheryl Lee,
Directors : Keith Gordon,

An American spy behind the lines during WWII serves as a Nazi propagandist, a role he cannot escape in his future life as he can never reveal his real role in the war.

Actors : Scott Glenn, Robert Carlyle, Oyanka Cabezas, Salvador Espinoza,
Directors : Ken Loach,

1987, love in time of war. A bus driver George Lennox meets Carla, a Nicaraguan exile living a precarious, profoundly sad life in Glasgow. Her back is scarred, her boyfriend missing, her ...

Actors : Sergey Bodrov, Jemal Sikharulidze, Oleg Menshikov, Susanna Mekhraliyeva,
Directors : Sergei Bodrov,

Two Russian soldiers, one battle-seasoned and the other barely into his boots and uniform, are taken prisoner by an anxious Islamic father from a remote village hoping to trade them for his captured son.

Actors : Shohreh Lorestani, Parviz Parastui, Sahereh Matin, Mahmud Azizi,
Directors : Kamal Tabrizi,

During the Iran-Iraq war, a television cinematographer, having financial problems, needs to get a loan from the TV to complete his half-built flat so one of his colleagues suggests him ...

Actors : Ghalia Lacroix, Madeleine Assas, Vicky Messica, Bérangère Allaux,
Directors : Jean-Luc Godard,

Jean-Luc Godard's densely packed rumination on the need to create order and beauty in a world ruled by chaos is divided into four distinct but tangentially related stories, including the ...

Actors : Vlatko Dulic, Ivan Brkic, Predrag 'Predjo' Vusovic, Ljubomir Kerekes,
Directors : Vinko Bresan,

Although being one of the first movies to take humoristic approach towards violent break-up of Yugoslavia, this motion picture is partly based on real events that took place in September of...

Actors : Gard B. Eidsvold, Anette Hoff, Ghita Nørby, Max von Sydow,
Directors : Jan Troell,

Norwegian Nobel Laureate Knut Hamsun's controversial support for the Nazi regime during WW2 and its consequences for the Hamsun family after the war.

Actors : Blanca Apilánez, Ariadna Gil, Victoria Abril, Ana Belén,
Directors : Vicente Aranda,

At the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, the nun Maria is forced to flee her convent. She takes refuge in a brothel, until it is liberated by a woman's anarchist group. Maria joins the ...

Actors : Philippe Torreton, Catherine Rich, Samuel Le Bihan, Bernard Le Coq,
Directors : Bertrand Tavernier,

The war exploits of French captain Conan and his men during World War I and during the Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War.

Actors : Ke-Yu Guo, Hsiao-Ling Hsu, Vladmill Nizmiroff,
Directors : Daying Ye,

It is 1940. Chuchu and Luo Xiaoman are Chinese students who have been sent to study in Moscow, at the International School. She is 13; he is 12. Xiaoman is from Yanan, Mao's base after the ...

Actors : Turan Mehrzad, Ali Mosaffa, Niki Karimi, Ali Nassirian,
Directors : Ebrahim Hatamikia,

Minoo who is married to Moosa recently, is moving to the new house. But Moosa receive a letter in which he being told to get back to the Minoo Island (a border island between Iran and Iraq)...

Actors : Doug McKeon, Camilla Søeberg, Norman Rodway, Peter Michael Goetz,
Directors : Barry J. Hershey,

Adolf Hitler faces himself and must come to terms with his infamous career in an imaginary post-war subterranean bunker where he reviews historical films, dictates his memoirs and ...

Actors : Golchehre Sajadieh, Khosro Shakibai, Mahmood Pakniat, Saeed Poursamimi,
Directors : Ahmad Reza Darvish,

With the beginning of Iran-Iraqi war a hospital in Khoramshar is surrounded by the Iraqi army and is being attacked from both land and sky. Jahan Ara the young leader of the Iranians wants ...

Actors : Rui Chen, Yulu Du, Ying Fu, Yue Gu,
Directors : Linyu Wei,

Set in the war of liberation, General Peng field army wipes out nationalist party forces in northwest China.

Actors : Teresa Budzisz-Krzyzanowska, Mark Folger, Katarzyna Figura, Scott Cleverdon,
Directors : Zbigniew Kaminski,

A wealthy German family is divided by the immorality of Nazi Germany, circa 1944. Former professional colleague, Joachim Peters, escapes from a Nazi concentration camp, and seeks refuge ...

Actors : Ahmad Abu Sal'oum, Hiam Abbass, Nawal Zaqout, Mohammad Bakri,
Directors : Rashid Masharawi,

Haifa, nicknamed after the city of his love and hope, goes around and comes around in a Palestinian refugee camp. Although he is everybody's fool, there are many things that only he knows. ...

Actors : Josiane Lévêque, Pierre-Arnaud Crespeau, Laure Duthilleul, Stanislas Forlani,
Directors : Jean-Denis Robert,

WW1: A woman ,whose husband refused to get back on the offensive -for the eleventh time!- and then was shot as an example ,is harassed by her "patriot" neighbors and the Police:she winds up in an insane asylum.

Actors : Brader Musiki, Husna Killi, Erçan Orhan, Halsho Hussain,
Directors : Ben Sombogaart,

Memo doesn't speak anymore, he's angry about his father's decision to move his family to The Netherlands.

Actors : Goran Navojec, Zarko Savic, Edita Majic, Vedran Lulic,
Directors : Davor Zmegac,

Three people on their road to Gospic during Croatian war of independence, each traveling with own personal reasons.