Best Modern War movies

Actors : Chloe Lukasiak, Aidan Alexander, Bailee Madison, Pat Boone,
Directors : Timothy Armstrong,

Seventeen-year-old Dusty Rhodes (Bailee Madison) goes to live with her grandfather (Pat Boone) because both of her Army parents are fighting in the Afghanistan war. Dusty attends a new high...

Actors : Vera Alentova, Anatoliy Lobotskiy, Aleksandr Feklistov, Gérard Depardieu,
Directors : Vladimir Menshov,

The film takes place in early autumn 1983 in Moscow, in an atmosphere of acute cold war (including the war in Afghanistan, the incident with the South Korean "Boeing", etc.).The main ...

Actors : David Caves, Anthony Howell, Virginia McKenna, Miranda Raison,
Directors : Alexandra Boyd,

Eve's husband has been killed in Afghanistan. She takes her young son to a Suffolk beach house on the edge of the North Sea to grieve. But someone else is in the house grieving her loss from another war.

Actors : Mustafa Nadarevic, Boris Cavazza, Moamer Kasumovic, Nina Ivanisin,
Directors : Goran Vojnovic,

Piran - Pirano tells a story about three individuals and how their destinies are unusually intertwined. An Italian Antonio, a Bosnian Veljko and a Slovenia girl Anica face the terror of war...

Actors : Youssra, Hanan Turk, Hani Salama, Mohamed Nagati,
Directors : Khaled Youssef,

This drama from Egyptian filmmaker Khaled Youssef offers Western audiences an unusual perspective on the Gulf War, as a family is torn apart by conflicting personal and political ...

Actors : Alexander Godunov, Lara Harris, Ben Gazzara, Robert Davi,
Directors : Barry Zetlin,

Former Gulf War hero Rowdy Welles (Davi) is framed for murder by unscrupulous CIA boss Dick Althorp (Gazzara). As his price of freedom, Welles is ordered to undertake a deadly mission to ...

Actors : Andrew J McGuinness, Cuyle Carvin, Marlene Mc'Cohen, Jenny Allford,
Directors : David Palmieri,

SAM BATTLE is injured during his tour of duty in the Gulf War. He loses an eye and is near death. His good friend, BRANDON STORM, who is a scientist, injects him with a secret serum that he...

Actors : Dedee Pfeiffer, Ali Faulkner, Amy Maner, Scott Muller,
Directors : Brad Keller,

Mia Williams, raised on the family Bed & Breakfast by Sara, a loving single mom grows up believing her father was lost, M.I.A., in the Gulf War. A tragic accident results in the sudden ...

Actors : Jwan Alqatami, Isa Aouifia, Khaled Alqatami, Ashraf Barhom, Aliki Andriomenou,
Directors : Abbe Hassan,

A professional smuggler tries to save a 12-year-old girl whose family has gone missing in the Syrian war.

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

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Harry Jarvis, Tamzin Merchant, Florence Kasumba, 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 : 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 : 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 : 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.