Best Modern War movies

Actors : Elliot Cowan, Gerard Kearns, Matthew McNulty, Naomi Bentley,
Directors : Marc Munden,

Uses detailed research and explosive new testimonies by soldiers who have served in Iraq to tell an emotional fictional story of two young men very much out of their depth.

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Jean-Pierre Léaud, Dominique Reymond, Johanna ter Steege, Lou Castel,
Directors : Philippe Garrel,

Middle-aged artistes provide the focus of this drama filmed in black and white. The story is set in Paris around the time of the Gulf War. Paul is an actor leading a drab directionless ...