Best Modern War movies

Actors : Nooreddin Goodarzi, Mehrshad Karkhani, Golshifteh Farahani, Parsa Pirouzfar,
Directors : Azizollah Hamidnezhad,

During the Iran-Iraq war,a soldier and a Kurdish girl come to a new understanding of the notion of animosity despite their supposedly opposite circumstances.

Actors : Moussa Cissé, Georgette Paré, Adama Ouédraogo, Naky Sy Savane,
Directors : Fanta Régina Nacro,

La Nuit de la Vérité is situated in an imaginary West African country. After ten years of civil war between the government army of the Nayak, led by 'Le président', and the Bonande rebels ...

Actors : Sheetal Sheth, Andrew Fognani, Clayton Hoff, Will Wallace,
Directors : Kimberly Jentzen,

During a U.S. military operation, designed to bait Iraqi insurgents, local civilians get caught in the crossfire and an American soldier's life is forever changed by an encounter with an Iraqi woman.

Actors : Chad McQueen, Teri Fruichantie, Melanie Shatner, Michael Madsen,
Directors : Rodney McDonald,

Two marines, who are brothers, travel to the Persian Gulf to sort out an Iraqi terrorist situation. When one brother is shot down behind enemy lines, the other defies orders to rescue him. ...

Actors : Jefferson Moore, Keith McGill, Tom Luce, Christina Fougnie,
Directors : Jefferson Moore,

An abused runaway changes the life of a homeless Gulf War vet.

Actors : August Zirner, Hanns Schuschnig, Anna Fischer, Itay Tiran,
Directors : Barbara Albert,

The personal journey of young Sita is not only an expedition into her family's burdened past during World War 2. It is also a journey to the abyss of modern European society, a trip which ...

Actors : Jean-Yves Tual, Dyna Gauzy, Anita Ekberg, Michel Peyrelon,
Directors : Yvan Le Moine,

Lucien is a dwarf, who works hard in a large legal office. His only friend is trapeze circus artist Isis. One day he gets the attention of singer Paola Bendoni and falls in love with her.

Actors : Samira Wiley, Brian Tyree Henry, Jennifer Lawrence, Stephen McKinley Henderson,
Directors : Lila Neugebauer,

A US soldier suffers a traumatic brain injury while fighting in Afghanistan and struggles to adjust to life back home.

Actors : Ranjeet, Raj Babbar, Anita Raj, Amjad Khan,
Directors : Hrishikesh Mukherjee,

Mohammad Sher Khan is a Pathan who has re-located to India from Afghanistan and befriends Phagwara-born Veer Singh. Both are quite naive, they steal a truck from a businessman who has 20 ...

Actors : Hazar Awad, Ghassan Azeb, Fares Al-Helou, Nizar Abou Ajar,
Directors : Mohamed Malas,

The Night is set in the village of Quneytra, which borders on the Golan, a key battlefield in the 1967 war between Syria and Israel. We are led to the grave of the filmmakers' father, an ...

Actors : Anna-Maria Sekulova, Nikolai Urumov, Stoyan Aleksiev, Aleksandr Morfov,
Directors : Radoslav Spassov,

There is a time of terror in Bulgaria after the Second World War. Angel is romantic and naive boy. He provokes a rebellion by the people of Gipsy population. The communist authority ...

Actors : Manish Patel, Tony Bowden, Jass Bassi, Jonathan Reason,
Directors : Manish Patel,

Film drama about the start of the War on Terror in Afghanistan. The movie follows the fortunes of five British Muslims caught in Afghanistan and taken to Camp Xray in Cuba for interrogation.

Actors : Anthony Beselle, Aren Devlin, Jane Dodd, Anthony Maddalena,
Directors : Obi Emelonye,

Fatima and Abdul are separated during the war in Sierra Leone. They both, unknown to the other, end up in London and after 10 years, when they are each with someone else, fate causes their paths to cross again.

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 : Mohamed Dhrif, Zakaria Ben Ayyed, Imen Cherif, Mouna Mejri,
Directors : Mohamed Ben Attia,

A Tunisian middle class couple with high hopes for the future of their only son discover he's left to join ISIS in Syria.

Actors : Brianne Davis, Judd Nelson, Casper Van Dien, Griff Furst,
Directors : Chris Helton,

When a relaxing getaway turns deadly, a former Marine must risk his life once again to save his wife and best friend from a modern day pirate; all the while trying to hold himself together as he faces the ghosts of the war he left behind.

Actors : Arif Demîr, Arjîn Baysal, Delîl Pîran, Sahire Ozhan,
Directors : Ersin Çelik,

After her brother's death in the hands of ISIS, Zilan returns to her natal city, where the people's demonstrations are receiving brutal repression. In the fight for her people's freedom, she will not remain a passive witness.

Actors : Tillie Allen, Dick Barton, Jim Boles, Victoria Carroll,
Directors : Clyde Ware,

Bluff Jackson is a smooth talking drifter with a questionable past. His travels take him to an isolated backwoods station where two sisters, totally ignorant of the modern world, are caring for their elderly civil war veteran grandfather.

Actors : Merle Shenk, Jonathan Pienaar, Claire Winters, Stephen Preston,
Directors : Wilbur Eddings,

In worn-torn Afghanistan, young marine Tyler's life is changed when he is saved by a fellow soldier, Quincy, who dies in doing so. Before he dies, he asks Tyler to find his sister who works...

Actors : Traci Ann Wolfe, Jakob Hawkins, Marci Adilman, Ben Hindell,
Directors : Patrick J. Donnelly,

A wounded soldier returning form Iraq finds solace in the arms of a mysterious and beautiful woman.