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Best Movies about War/Conflict Times

by salmanmahmud947 • Created 8 years ago • Modified 1 year ago
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  • Downfall (2004)

    1. Downfall

    20042h 36mR82Metascore
    8.2 (389K)
    Traudl Junge, the final secretary for Adolf Hitler, tells of the Nazi dictator's final days in his Berlin bunker at the end of WWII.
    DirectorOliver HirschbiegelStarsBruno GanzAlexandra Maria LaraUlrich Matthes
  • Don Cheadle, Nick Nolte, Joaquin Phoenix, Mosa Kaiser, Sophie Okonedo, Ofentse Modiselle, and Mathabo Pieterson in Hotel Rwanda (2004)

    2. Hotel Rwanda

    20042h 1mPG-1379Metascore
    8.1 (384K)
    Paul Rusesabagina, a hotel manager, houses over a thousand Tutsi refugees during their struggle against the Hutu militia in Rwanda, Africa.
    DirectorTerry GeorgeStarsDon CheadleSophie OkonedoJoaquin Phoenix
  • Adrien Brody in The Pianist (2002)

    3. The Pianist

    20022h 30mR85Metascore
    8.5 (969K)
    During WWII, acclaimed Polish musician Wladyslaw faces various struggles as he loses contact with his family. As the situation worsens, he hides in the ruins of Warsaw in order to survive.
    DirectorRoman PolanskiStarsAdrien BrodyThomas KretschmannFrank Finlay
  • Tangerines (2013)

    4. Tangerines

    20131h 27mNot Rated73Metascore
    8.1 (51K)
    In 1992, war rages in Abkhazia, a breakaway region of Georgia. An Estonian man, Ivo, has decided to stay behind and harvest his crops of tangerines. In a bloody conflict at his door, a wounded man is left behind, and Ivo takes him in.
    DirectorZaza UrushadzeStarsLembit UlfsakElmo NüganenGiorgi Nakashidze
  • Black Bread (2010)

    5. Black Bread

    20101h 48mUnrated
    6.9 (5.2K)
    In the harsh post-war years' Catalan countryside, Andreu, a child that belongs to the losing side, finds the corpses of a man and his son in the forest. The authorities want his father to be made responsible of the deaths, but Andreu tries to help his father by finding out who truly killed them. In this search, Andreu develops a moral consciousness against a world of adults fed by lies. In order to survive, he betrays his own roots and ends up finding out the monster that lives within him.
    DirectorAgustí VillarongaStarsFrancesc ColomerMarina ComasNora Navas
  • Louis Hofmann, Emil Belton, and Zoe Zandvliet in Land of Mine (2015)

    6. Land of Mine

    20151h 40mR75Metascore
    7.8 (48K)
    In post-World War II Denmark, a group of young German POWs are forced to clear a beach of thousands of land mines under the watch of a Danish Sergeant who slowly learns to appreciate their plight.
    DirectorMartin ZandvlietStarsRoland MøllerLouis HofmannJoel Basman
  • Fernando Tielve in The Devil's Backbone (2001)

    7. The Devil's Backbone

    20011h 46mR78Metascore
    7.4 (73K)
    After Carlos - a 12-year-old whose father has died in the Spanish Civil War - arrives at an ominous boys' orphanage, he discovers the school is haunted and has many dark secrets which he must uncover.
    DirectorGuillermo del ToroStarsMarisa ParedesEduardo NoriegaFederico Luppi
  • Dolly Johur, Asaduzzaman Noor, Dilara, Shila Ahmed, Abul Hayat, Bipasha Hayat, Mozammel Hossain, Lutfur Rahman George, and Waliul Islam Bhuiyan in Aguner Poroshmoni (1994)

    8. Aguner Poroshmoni

    19942h 3m
    9.1 (3.5K)
    In the middle of the 1971;curfew is going on all over the Bangladesh. The liberation army is operated as effective guerrilla force - Badiul Alam is one them. Alam plans for starting guerrilla operation in the capital and hides himself in Mr. Matin's house. Mr. Matin lives with his loving wife Surma and two beautiful daughters Ratri and Opala. In association with other freedom fighters, Alam operates some successful guerrilla attacks against barbarous Pakistani military . But one after another his fellow freedom-fighters are getting caught by the military, tortured , murdered. Alam being shot and seriously injured is taken to Matin's house ; can he survive? Can he see the light of morning again ?
    DirectorHumayun AhmedStarsBipasha HayatAsaduzzaman NoorAbul Hayat
  • Back to 1942 (2012)

    9. Back to 1942

    20122h 25mNot Rated41Metascore
    6.9 (3.9K)
    A deadly drought in 1942 takes its toll on central China's Henan province during the war against Japan.
    DirectorXiaogang FengStarsGuoli ZhangHanyu ZhangWei Fan
  • Turtles Can Fly (2004)

    10. Turtles Can Fly

    20041h 38mPG-1385Metascore
    8.0 (22K)
    Near the Iraqi-Turkish border on the eve of an American invasion, refugee children, like 13-year-old Kak (Ebrahim), gauge and await their fate.
    DirectorBahman GhobadiStarsSoran EbrahimAvaz LatifHiresh Feysal Rahman
  • Sophia Loren in Two Women (1960)

    11. Two Women

    19601h 41mNot Rated
    7.7 (13K)
    In WWII Italy, a widow and her lonely daughter seek distance between themselves and the horrors of war.
    DirectorVittorio De SicaStarsSophia LorenJean-Paul BelmondoRaf Vallone
  • Empire of the Sun (1987)

    12. Empire of the Sun

    19872h 33mPG62Metascore
    7.7 (139K)
    A young English boy struggles to survive under Japanese occupation of China during World War II.
    DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsChristian BaleJohn MalkovichMiranda Richardson
  • Amar Bondhu Rashed (2011)

    13. Amar Bondhu Rashed

    20111h 36m
    8.3 (4K)
    Amar Bondhu Rashed, a fictional story based on the Liberation War of Bangladesh and written by the popular children's literature Dr Mohammad Jafar Iqbal
    DirectorMorshedul IslamStarsChowdhury Zawata AfnanAshraful TusharRayan Ibtesham Chowdhury
  • Ahmed Rubel, Azad Abul Kalam, Shatabdi Wadud, A.T.M. Shamsuzzaman, and Jaya Ahsan in Guerrilla (2011)

    14. Guerrilla

    20112h 20m
    8.1 (2.8K)
    Common people struggle during independence war of Bangladesh.
    DirectorNasiruddin YousuffStarsJaya AhsanFerdous AhmedShampa Reza
  • Asa Butterfield and Jack Scanlon in The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (2008)

    15. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

    20081h 34mPG-1355Metascore
    7.7 (262K)
    Through the innocent eyes of Bruno, the eight-year-old son of the commandant at a German concentration camp, a forbidden friendship with a Jewish boy on the other side of the camp fence has startling and unexpected consequences.
    DirectorMark HermanStarsAsa ButterfieldDavid ThewlisRupert Friend
  • Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi, and Giorgio Cantarini in Life Is Beautiful (1997)

    16. Life Is Beautiful

    19971h 56mPG-1358Metascore
    8.6 (779K)
    When an open-minded Jewish waiter and his son become victims of the Holocaust, he uses a perfect mixture of will, humor and imagination to protect his son from the dangers around their camp.
    DirectorRoberto BenigniStarsRoberto BenigniNicoletta BraschiGiorgio Cantarini
  • Fouzia El Kader, Brahim Hadjadj, and Jean Martin in The Battle of Algiers (1966)

    17. The Battle of Algiers

    19662h 1mNot Rated96Metascore
    8.1 (71K)
    In the 1950s, fear and violence escalate as the people of Algiers fight for independence from the French government.
    DirectorGillo PontecorvoStarsBrahim HadjadjJean MartinYacef Saadi
  • Tauquir Ahmed and Afsana Mimi in Chitra Nodir Pare (1999)

    18. Chitra Nodir Pare

    19991h 50m
    8.0 (245)
    After the partition of India in 1947, Shashikanta's family, like millions of other Hindu families of East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), faced the dilemma of whether to migrate from the land in which they have been living for centuries. But Shashikanta Sengupta, an eccentric lawyer, stubbornly refuses to leave his motherland. Widower Shashikanta has two children, Minoti and Bidyut. Anuprava Devi is an affectionate old aunt who lives with the family. The family has a house in Narail, a small provincial town on the bank of the Chitra river. Some Muslim neighbors eye Shashaikanta's house. But the family refuse to migrate. Shashikanta's children Minoti and Bidyut are friends with the neighboring Muslim children- Badal, Salma and Nazma. Minoti and Badal become more than friends. The children grow up. Badal goes to Dhaka University. Those were the days in 1960's when the atmosphere of the universities was charged with political radicalism. Badal got involved in anti-military student movement and while participating in a demonstration for democracy was killed by police firing.Shashikanta's brother Nidhukanta is an idealist doctor who lives in their ancestral village on the other side of the Chitra River. During the 1964 riot between the Hindus and the Muslims, his daughter Basanti, a widow, is raped. Basanti commits suicide by drowning herself in the Chitra River. Nidhukanta's family migrate to India. All these untoward incidents happening around affect Shashikanta's failing health. He suffers a heart stroke and passes away. Minoti and Anuprava finally leave for the border en route to Calcutta.
    DirectorTanvir MokammelStarsMomtazuddin AhmedAfsana MimiTauquir Ahmed
  • Nodir Naam Modhumoti (1996)

    19. Nodir Naam Modhumoti

    19962h 10m
    8.0 (140)
    During the 1971 liberation war of Bangladesh against Pakistan in a remote village beside the river Modhumoti, Motaleb Mollah, a landlord and a local Muslim leader, collaborated with the marauding Pakistan army. After the death of his elder brother, Motaleb married his sister-in-law who had a young son named Bachchu, by the elder brother. There was an idealist Brahmin teacher in the village, Amulya Chakrabarty, who had some influence over the young Bachchu. The teacher had a daughter, a widow, named- Shanti. When the war with Pakistan broke out, watching a genocide perpetrated by the Pakistani soldiers, Bachchu joined the Bengali guerrilla's. The experiences of the bitter war shattered Bachchu's world of innocence. His guerrilla unit was deployed on the other side of the Modhumoti river to conduct operations against the Pakistani soldiers and their collaborators. Motaleb Mollah, spurred by the title Chairman conferred upon him by the wily Pakistani captain, continued to create havoc on the people around. With his gradual moral degradation Motaleb developed a carnal desire for Shanti. Then one day Motaleb's retainers killed teacher Amulya Chakrabarty and Motaleb forced Shanti to marry him. In the code of the guerrilla's the penalty of a collaborator was death sentence. But as Motaleb was Bachchu's father, his comrades were procrastinating. Then one evening Bachchu himself took a decision and crossed the river Modhumoti with a dinghy and a rifle and with a determined sense of mission.
    DirectorTanvir MokammelStarsTauquir AhmedAly ZakerRaisul Islam Asad
  • Khalil, Razzak, Shabana, Baby Zaman, Syed Hasan Imam, Nuton, Altaf, Siddique Zamal Nantu, Khosru, Raju Ahmed, Firoz, Murad, Abu, Ata, Helaluddin, Monju, and Aleen in Ora 11 Jon (1972)

    20. Ora 11 Jon

    1972
    8.8 (494)
    The movie is about the liberation war of Bangladesh at 1971. This historical movie say about the sacrifice people had to do for the freedom of their country.
    DirectorChashi Nazrul IslamStarsKhosruMuradSiddique Zamal Nantu
  • Distant Thunder (1973)

    21. Distant Thunder

    19731h 41mNot Rated
    7.9 (1.8K)
    As food shortages reach catastrophic proportions, Gangacharan attempts to preserve his privileged situation while his generous wife Ananga conversely tries to help and support the community.
    DirectorSatyajit RayStarsSoumitra ChatterjeeBobitaSandhya Roy
  • Humayun Faridi, Riaz, Meher Afroz Shaon, Ahmed Rubel, Ejazul Islam, Tania Ahmed, Monir Khan Shimul, Faruque Ahmed, and Challenger in Shyamol Chhaya (2004)

    22. Shyamol Chhaya

    20041h 50m
    8.5 (2.5K)
    Twelve people are passengers on board.The boatmen are taking them to safety, far away from the fierce clutches of war. All the people on board are devastated by the horrors of war. As the story advances, different events unravel.
    DirectorHumayun AhmedStarsMeher Afroz ShaonRiazShadhin Khosru
  • Suchorita in Hangor Nodi Grenade (1997)

    23. Hangor Nodi Grenade

    19971h 53m
    8.6 (550)
    A tragic story of a mother who dedicates her only child for the sake of the freedom of the country during liberation war in 1971.
    DirectorChashi Nazrul IslamStarsSuchoritaSohel RanaAruna Biswas
  • No Man's Land (2001)

    24. No Man's Land

    20011h 38mR84Metascore
    7.9 (50K)
    Bosnia and Herzegovina during 1993 at the time of the heaviest fighting between the two warring sides. Two soldiers from opposing sides in the conflict, Nino and Ciki, become trapped in no man's land, whilst a third soldier becomes a living booby trap.
    DirectorDanis TanovicStarsBranko DjuricRene BitorajacFilip Sovagovic
  • The Enemy (2011)

    25. The Enemy

    20111h 48mNot Rated
    7.3 (2.9K)
    Serbian soldiers discover a man locked in a basement at the end of the war. After he is freed, people start disappearing.
    DirectorDejan ZecevicStarsAleksandar StojkovicVuk KosticTihomir Stanic

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