Best Modern War movies

Actors : Esben Smed, Arbi Alviati, Mikkel Aarestrup, Toby Kebbell,

The story of Danish photographer Daniel Rye, who was captured by ISIS in Syria in 2013 and held hostage for 398 days.

Actors : Shirley Anne Field, Yul Brynner, Richard Basehart, George Chakiris,
Directors : J. Lee Thompson,

On the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, the Native American tribe of chief Black Eagle clashes with the Mayan tribe of king Balam.

Actors : Michael Matthias, Nancy Young, Armand Assante, Vinnie Jones,
Directors : Charlie Picerni,

Surrounded by carnage, slaughter, brutal crashes and total mayhem, Shawn Black is in a race to save the world from pure evil.

Actors : Barkhad Abdi, Luke Spencer Roberts, Martha Canga Antonio, Aja Naomi King,
Directors : Mary McGuckian,

Based on the testimony of Ifrah Ahmed, who - having made the extraordinary journey to escape war-torn Somalia - emerged as one of the world's foremost international activists against Gender...

Actors : Pierre Clémenti, Dominique Sanda, Max von Sydow, Carla Romanelli,
Directors : Fred Haines,

In the bourgeois circles of Europe after the Great War, can anything save the modern man? Harry Haller, a solitary intellectual, has all his life feared his dual nature of being human and ...

Actors : Ed Harris, Ho Nguyen, Donald Moffat, Amy Madigan,
Directors : Louis Malle,

A despondent Vietnam veteran in danger of losing his livelihood is pushed to the edge when he sees Vietnamese immigrants moving into the fishing industry in a Texas bay town.

Actors : Pamela Dickerson, Mark Ruffalo, Susan Heimbeinder, Dan Zukovic,
Directors : Dan Zukovic,

From a bland tract house on the outskirts of Los Angeles, Simon Geist (with occasional help from his platonic girlfriend Darla) wages war against all of modern American popular culture. ...

Actors : Lili Monori, Padmé Hamdemir, Goya Rego, Annamária Láng,
Directors : Kornél Mundruczó,

Episodes trace three generations of a family, from a surreal memory of World War II to modern day Berlin, unable to process their past in a society still coping with the wounds of its history.

Actors : William Baldwin, Tim Rozon, Abbie Cornish, Patrick Muldoon,
Directors : Kirk Harris,

It centers on Kate, a widow who lost her husband in the war in Afghanistan and is struggling to maintain her small-town farm with her daughter while also running the local volunteer fire department.

Actors : Colin Lawrence, Steven Cree Molison, Steve Bacic, Michael Madsen,
Directors : Allan Harmon,

Haunted by the fact that he left a man behind in Afghanistan, a soldier (Bacic) pulls together a special task force to save his comrade.

Actors : Hristo Shopov, Atheer Adel, Antoni Królikowski, Bartlomiej Topa,
Directors : Krzysztof Lukaszewicz,

Year 2004, operation Iraqi freedom. Iraqi rebels loyal to Shiite leader Muqtada Al-Sadr, launched an insurgency. Karbala City Hall is cut off, leaving inside 40 Poles and 40 Bulgarian soldiers with supplies of food and ammo to 24h fight.

Actors : Amina, Qodrat, Sahar, Sediqa,
Directors : Shahrbanoo Sadat,

Based upon unpublished diaries, the film assumes the role of an anthropologist observing remote shepherd communities in Afghanistan where wolves and sheep have equal importance.

Actors : Aaron Brandenburg, Wendy R. Anderson, Robert Ryan Pirelli, Nancy M. Pirelli,

Freelance female war reporter Alex Quade covers U.S. Special Operations Forces (SOF) on highly classified combat missions. Since 2001, she has embedded with elite SOF, including the U.S. ...

Actors : Xiaoming Huang, Ziyi Zhang, Chen Chang, Leehom Wang,
Directors : Fangfang Li,

From World War, to revolution and ultimately rebirth, Forever Young is the story of four generations spanning a hundred years of modern Chinese history. Each generation faces its own unique...

Actors : Kevin Sizemore, Eric Roberts, Scott Pryor, Darrin Dewitt Henson,
Directors : J.M. Berrios,

After two marines make it home following an ISIS interrogation, one struggles to survive while the other fights his way back into the mixed martial arts world that he left behind years ago... looking for a fight worth living for.

Actors : Hayat Kamille, Waleed Elgadi, Suhail Dabbach, Thaer Al-Shayei,
Directors : Matthew Michael Carnahan,

A police unit from Mosul fight to liberate the Iraqi city from thousands of ISIS militants.

Actors : Adam West, Tom Dunne, Viveca Lindfors, Rudolf Martin,
Directors : Richard W. Haines,

Former KGB plot a terrorist attack on New York City

Actors : Billy Zane, Lisa Collins, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Robert Downey Jr.,
Directors : Allan Eastman,

American mining engineer gets involved in civil war and international conspiracy in an African country.

Actors : Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Arian Kashef, Albert Rudbeck Lindhardt,
Directors : Charlotte Sieling,

A father enters war-torn Syria seeking his son Adam, facing deadly challenges that test his limits and beliefs. A journey of parental love, sacrifice, powerlessness and forgiveness.

Actors : Oleg Taktarov, Mario Cimarro, Vitali Baganov, Nicholas Gonzalez,

Trane is a decorated war hero just shipped home to the States from Afghanistan after the brutal murder of his wife and child back in Rockaway, Queens. Upon his return, Trane encounters his ...