Best Modern War movies

Actors : Ryan McParland, Ian Virgo, Valmike Rampersad, Tom Ainsley,
Directors : Louis Melville,

The story of five British soldiers trying to stay alive on the last night of the Afghan War, facing not just the Taliban, but also supernatural forces more terrifying than anything they've encountered before.

Actors : Marina Golbahari, Dad'ullah Ahmadzai, Gholam Farouq Baraki, Zbiullah Furutan,
Directors : Horace Shansab,

A rural Afghan family struggles to survive during the last, brutal year of the Taliban and the beginning of a new war that still rages. With war and conflict threatening their existence, the family copes by finding meaning in life's tragedies.

Actors : Gore Abrams, Eric Roberts, Chloe Hurst, Jordan Tisdale,

A journey into the mind of an Afghanistan War vet as he struggles with P.T.S.D. and white supremacists attempting to force him from his home.

Actors : Farajollah Salahshoor, Jafar Dehghan, Ali Yaghoob Zadeh, Tajbakhsh Fanaiyan,
Directors : Rasool Mollagholi Poor,

During Iran-Iraq war a group of Iranian soldiers are surrounded by Iraqi army. Four soldiers are chose to go get help but only one manages to make it through enemy lines.

Actors : Sawsan Arshid, Reham Alkassar, Oweiss Mkhallalati, Samer Ismail,
Directors : Soudade Kaadan,

In Syria in 2012 a mother ventures into a war zone to find a gas cylinder so she can prepare a meal for her son. She discovers that in the besieged area the people there have lost their shadows.

Actors : Ross Daniel Anderson, Michael Nardone, Orla Brady, Robert James-Collier,
Directors : Richard Jobson,

Wayland returns home after being in the war in Afghanistan. He returns home not only injured and suffering seizures but also to find the family he left behind has disintegrated in his ...

Actors : Peter Bussian, Joe Suba, Fawad Samani, Jawanmard Paiez,
Directors : Siddiq Barmak,

Two American soldiers wounded in the Afghanistan desert stumble across a Russian tank which has a group of Afghanis living inside.

Actors : Almila Bagriacik, Zübeyde Bulut, Maryam Boubani, Christoph Letkowski,
Directors : Daphne Charizani,

Rojda, a German soldier and native Kurd, volunteers for a mission to train female Kurdish soldiers in Iraq to fight ISIS. No one must know that she is actually looking for her missing sister.

Actors : Rebekah Kochan, Aida Rodriguez, Michael Madsen, James Hong,

Seven year-old old twin brothers, separated during the Civil War in Tajikistan, face each other years later in a new war where one is an American soldier and the other is Taliban.

Actors : Kaarel Karm, Helend Peep, Sirje Arbi, Hugo Laur,
Directors : Kaljo Kiisk,

A film of a life on a small, windy and desolate Estonian island during the Nazi-occupation. Only two rival tribes live on the island doing mostly fishing. War brings terror on the quiet ...

Actors : Fabrizio Ferracane, Valentina Carnelutti, Giuseppe Battiston, Paolo Pierobon,
Directors : Andrea Segre,

Corrado, a policeman for the European task force in charge of immigration control, is on a field assignment in Libya. During a night patrol in the desert, he meets Swada, a young Somaliwoman who left her war-ravaged country.

Actors : Ty Bankinson, Darren Bancroft, Marc Baylis, John Alford,

Wounded tells the story of former soldier John Woods. When he returns from Afghanistan with horrific injuries he settles into a new life haunted by the accident that caused his injuries. On...

Actors : Michael Beach, Robbie Kay, George Blagden, Charleene Closshey,
Directors : Jeremy Culver,

Sam, a brilliant computer hacker seeking a better life, always seems to make the wrong choices, even under the watchful eye of his probation officer, Harry. Now, barred from using the ...

Actors : Monré Aucamp, Gerald Copeland, Maxine Classen, Sharne Crezwill,
Directors : Kevin Singh,

Two best friends are pitted against each other when a new girl comes to town, matters are further complicated when they enlist together in the U S Army to fight in the Persian Gulf War, the...

Actors : Harry Jarvis, Florence Kasumba, Tamzin Merchant, Robert Lindsay,
Directors : Sacha Bennett,

A modern re-telling of the classic fantasy drama by William Shakespeare, Set in an exaggerated, modernist present day, where wars are honorable and frequent and technology is at the heart of everything.

Actors : Dori Torel, O.B.R., Lamar Corbitt, Eric Lane,
Directors : Parris Reaves,

The story unfolds with the beautiful Isis who meets Deandre, a street raised genius. They encounter a new and very special relationship together. But Deandre knows he can't and should not ...

Actors : Danny Trejo, Nick Chinlund, Kevin Grevioux, Adrian Paul,

A Platoon of U.S. Soldiers in Afghanistan searching for Taliban become trapped in a cave and are hunted down by a deadly creature.

Actors : Adam Probets, Tom Bott, Charlie Glossop, Aaron Jeffcoate,
Directors : Jon Rosling,

The lives of vastly separate people collide in interweaving stories of liberty, identity, tolerance, responsibility and class.

Actors : Denis Borisov, Tatyana Bedova, Aleksandr Susnin, Sergey Bystritskiy,
Directors : Stanislav Rostotskiy,

Story of life of Fyodor Kuzkin, who shared all the burdens of the 30s Stalins terror and after, WW2 and post-war years. For now Kuzkin decides to leave his collective farm (rus: kolkhoz)

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...