Best War movies of recent years

Actors : Will Poulter, Cosmo Jarvis, D'Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai,
Directors : Alex Garland, Ray Mendoza,

A platoon of Navy SEALs embark on a dangerous mission in Ramadi, Iraq, with the chaos and brotherhood of war retold through their memories of the event.

Actors : Henry Cavill, Alan Ritchson, Alex Pettyfer,
Directors : Guy Ritchie,

The British military recruits a small group of highly skilled soldiers to strike against German forces behind enemy lines during World War II.

Actors : Dar Salim, Jason Wong, Jake Gyllenhaal, Sean Sagar,
Directors : Guy Ritchie,

During the war in Afghanistan, a local interpreter risks his own life to carry an injured sergeant across miles of grueling terrain.

Actors : Jess Alexander, Troy Kotsur, Stephen Lang, Jorma Tommila, Richard Brake, Johnny Sequoyah,
Directors : Jalmari Helander, Johannes Roberts,

A man returns to dismantle his family's house, where they were murdered in war, to rebuild it elsewhere. When the killer, a Red Army commander, tracks him down, a brutal cross-country pursuit begins.

Actors : Sandra Hüller, Ralph Herforth, Freya Kreutzkam, Max Beck, Christian Friedel,
Directors : Jonathan Glazer,

The commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolf Höss, and his wife Hedwig, strive to build a dream life for their family in a house and garden next to the camp.

Actors : Lena Urzendowsky, Susanne Wuest, Hanna Heckt,
Directors : Mascha Schilinski,

A remote German farm harbors generations of secrets. Four women, separated by decades but united by trauma, uncover the truth behind its weathered walls.

Actors : Chiwetel Ejiofor, Erin Kellyman, June Squibb,
Directors : Scarlett Johansson,

After a devastating loss, witty and proudly troublesome Eleanor Morgenstein, 94, tells a tale that takes on its own dangerous life.

Actors : Mstyslav Chernov,
Directors : Mstyslav Chernov,

A Ukrainian platoon's mission: traverse a heavily fortified mile of forest to liberate a strategic village from Russian forces. A journalist accompanies them, witnessing the ravages of war and the growing uncertainty about its conclusion.

Actors : Ed Harris, Sonequa Martin-Green, Natalie Morales,
Directors : Kyle Hausmann-Stokes,

Engaged in a mysterious relationship with her dead best friend from the Army, a female Afghanistan veteran comes head to head with her Vietnam vet grandfather at the family's ancestral lake house.

Actors : Michael Caine, Myles Olofin, Graeme Dalling,
Directors : Oliver Parker,

Bernard Jordan escapes from his care home to attend the 70th Anniversary of the D-Day Landings in France.

Actors : Jason Bateman, Anastasiya Talyzina, Sergey Bezrukov, Chris Messina, Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Elena Lyadova,
Directors : Ben Affleck, Aleksey German Jr.,

Young female fighter pilots arrive to the frontline. They have different stories and different fates. They are getting older, falling in love and lose their closest ones as well as take their place in the world of men. The air has become their home. However, at war no one knows whose fate is to live and who is doomed to die.

Actors : Fatima Hassouna, Sepideh Farsi,
Directors : Sepideh Farsi,

A filmmaker connects with a Palestinian woman in Gaza who documents life under bombardment. Their 200+ days of digital exchanges, the meaning shifts after Fatem's death in an Israeli attack on 16/ April 2025.

Actors : Sanya Malhotra, Fatima Sana Shaikh, Vicky Kaushal,
Directors : Meghna Gulzar,

Revolves around the high and low points of Sam Manekshaw who became the first Indian Army officer to be promoted to the rank of Field Marshal.

Actors : Lisa Hagmeister, Jasper Billerbeck, Laura Tonke,
Directors : Fatih Akin,

In 1945 Amrum Island, 12-year-old Nanning hunts seals, fishes at night, and farms to help feed his family. Life feels idyllic on this windswept isle until peace reveals an unexpected danger closer to home.

Actors : Diljit Dosanjh, Varun Dhawan, Sunny Deol,
Directors : Anurag Singh,

Young Indian fighters prepared to protect their homeland from a greater threat during the 1971 Indo-Pak war.

Actors : Robert Maaser, Alexander Scheer, Marie Hacke, Jördis Triebel,
Directors : Peter Thorwarth,

At the end of World War II, a German soldier is looking for his daughter while an SS troop is looking for a Jewish treasure.

Actors : Erik Hivju, Sjur Vatne Brean, Philip Helgar,
Directors : John Andreas Andersen,

Young apprentice Gunnar Sønsteby from Rjukan decides to resist Nazi-Germany on the day of the invasion to later become the leader of the "Oslo-gang" carrying out countless daring acts of sabotage making him Norway's greatest war hero.

Actors : Michael Copon, Peter Shinkoda, Scott Adkins,
Directors : Louis Mandylor,

A British RAF Wing Commander during World War II is captured and forced to fight in a Japanese internment camp.

Actors : Stef Aerts, Matteo Simoni, Annelore Crollet,
Directors : Tim Mielants,

Wilfried Wils must survive as an auxiliary policeman during the German occupation of Antwerp.

Actors : Haoran Liu, Ye Gao, Chuan-jun Wang, Nathaniel Boyd,
Directors : Ao Shen,

During the 1937 Nanjing Massacre, postman A Chang posed as a photo developer, helping Japanese forces while secretly sheltering Chinese refugees. He later risked his life evacuating them and revealing evidence of the atrocities.