Films with the genre "War", sorted by revenue

, 1h55
Directed by Paul Greengrass
Origin France
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Action, Adventure
Themes Political films, United States Armed Forces in films
Actors Matt Damon, Greg Kinnear, Yigal Naor, Brendan Gleeson, Amy Ryan, Khalid Abdalla

On March 19, 2003, Iraqi General Mohammed Al-Rawi (Yigal Naor) meets with his officers and aides in Baghdad to discuss the invasion of Iraq. Al-Rawi decides to wait for the Americans to arrive and offer him a deal.

, 2h28
Directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel
Origin German
Genres Drama, War, Biography, Historical
Themes Films about suicide, Hitler, Political films
Actors Bruno Ganz, Alexandra Maria Lara Claudia Paolina, Corinna Harfouch, Ulrich Matthes, Juliane Köhler, Thomas Kretschmann

Downfall begins with footage of the real Traudl Junge expressing guilt and shame for admiring Hitler in her youth. The film continues showing Hitler (Bruno Ganz) hiring Junge (Alexandra Maria Lara) as his secretary at the Wolf's Lair in East Prussia in November 1942.

, 1h46
Directed by John Moore
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Action, Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Aviation films, Political films, Children's films, Disaster films, Films about aviation accidents or incidents, United States Armed Forces in films
Actors Owen Wilson, Gene Hackman, Gabriel Macht, Joaquim de Almeida, David Keith, Charles Malik Whitfield

In the final stages of the Bosnian War in December 1995, United States Navy flight officer Lieutenant Chris Burnett (Owen Wilson) and pilot Lieutenant Jeremy Stackhouse (Gabriel Macht), who are stationed on an aircraft carrier in the Adriatic Sea, are assigned a reconnaissance mission by their commanding officer, Admiral Reigart (Gene Hackman). The mission goes smoothly until they spot suspicious activity in the demilitarized zone where NATO aircraft and the warring factions are prohibited from engaging in military activity. Burnett persuades Stackhouse to fly their F/A-18 Hornet off-course to get a close look and photograph the target. They are unaware that they photographed mass graves, and Serb soldiers see the jet. The local Bosnian Serb paramilitary commander, General Miroslav Lokar (modelled on Arkan and his Tiger militia, and played by Olek Krupa), is conducting a secret genocidal campaign against the local Bosniak population. Not wanting the mass graves to be discovered, Lokar orders the jet be shot down.

, 2h38
Directed by S. S. Rajamouli
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, War, Fantasy, Action, Adventure, Historical
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Prabhas, Anushka Shetty, Rana Daggubati, Sathyaraj, Tamannaah Bhatia, Ramya Krishnan

In the ancient Kingdom of Mahishmati in India, Sivagami, the queen mother (Ramya Krishnan), carrying a baby in her arms, emerges from a cave adjoining a big waterfall. She kills the soldiers pursuing her and sacrifices herself to save the baby. Local villagers spot the queen's hand carrying baby in the river and rescues the infant. Sanga (Rohini) and her husband name the infant Shivudu and raise him as their own son. They seal the cave fearing the child's safety.

, 2h52
Directed by Franklin J. Schaffner
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Biography, Action, Historical
Themes Films set in Africa, Seafaring films, Transport films, Political films, Children's films
Actors George C. Scott, Karl Malden, Michael Bates, Karl Michael Vogler, Stephen Young, Carey Loftin

The film's beginning has General George S. Patton (George C. Scott) giving a speech to an unseen audience of American troops (based on his speech to the Third Army), with a huge American flag in the background. The scene then shifts to North Africa at the start of 1943, where Patton takes charge of the demoralized American II Corps in North Africa after the humiliating defeat at the Battle of the Kasserine Pass. After instilling discipline in his soldiers, he leads them to victory at the Battle of El Guettar, the first American victory over the Axis, though he is bitterly disappointed to learn afterward that Erwin Rommel (Karl Michael Vogler), whom he respects greatly as a general, was not his opponent. Patton's aide, Captain Jenson, is killed in the battle. Shortly after the battle, a new member of his staff, Lieutenant Colonel Codman assures Patton that, though Rommel was absent, that if Patton defeated Rommel's plan, then he had defeated Rommel.

, 1h50
Directed by Zack Snyder
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, War, Thriller, Fantastic, Fantasy, Action
Themes Feminist films, Medical-themed films, Psychologie, Films about sexuality, Films about psychiatry, Films set in psychiatric hospitals, Lobotomie, Films about virginity
Actors Emily Browning, Abbie Cornish, Jena Malone, Vanessa Hudgens, Jamie Chung, Carla Gugino

In the 1960s, a young woman nicknamed Babydoll (Emily Browning) is institutionalized by her abusive widowed stepfather (Gerard Plunkett) at the Lennox House for the Mentally Insane after she is blamed for the death of her younger sister. The stepfather bribes Blue Jones (Oscar Isaac), an asylum orderly, into forging the signature of the asylum's psychiatrist, Dr. Vera Gorski (Carla Gugino), to have Babydoll lobotomized so she cannot inform the authorities of the true circumstances leading to her sister's death. During her admission to the institution, Babydoll takes note of four items that she would need to attempt an escape.

, 1h50
Directed by Peter Berg
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Action, Adventure
Themes Films about terrorism, Political films
Actors Jamie Foxx, Ashraf Barhom, Chris Cooper, Jennifer Garner, Jason Bateman, Kyle Chandler

During a softball game at an American oil company housing compound in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, al-Qaeda terrorists set off a bomb, killing Americans and Saudis. While one team hijacks a car and shoots residents, a suicide bomber blows himself up, killing everyone near him. Sergeant Haytham (Ali Suliman) of the Saudi State Police kills several of the terrorists. The FBI Legal Attaché in Saudi Arabia, Special Agent Fran Manner (Kyle Chandler), calls his US colleague, Special Agent Ronald Fleury (Jamie Foxx), to advise him about the attack. Manner is discussing the situation with DSS Regional Security Officer Special Agent Rex Bura when an ambulance full of explosives is detonated killing Manner, Bura and many others.

, 2h1
Directed by Antoine Fuqua
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Action
Themes Films set in Africa, Seafaring films, Transport films, United States Armed Forces in films
Actors Bruce Willis, Monica Bellucci, Cole Hauser, Eamonn Walker, Johnny Messner, Tom Skerritt

Lieutenant A.K. Waters (Bruce Willis) and his U.S. Navy SEAL detachment Zee (Eamonn Walker), Slo (Nick Chinlund), Red (Cole Hauser), Lake (Johnny Messner), Silk (Charles Ingram), Doc (Paul Francis), and Flea (Chad Smith), are sent by Captain Bill Rhodes (Tom Skerritt) to Nigeria to extract a "critical persona", one Dr. Lena Fiore Kendricks (Monica Bellucci), a U.S. citizen by marriage. Their secondary mission is to extract the mission priest (Pierrino Mascarino) and two nuns (Fionnula Flanagan & Cornelia Hayes O'Herlihy).

, 1h54
Directed by Todd Phillips
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Biography, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Crime
Actors Miles Teller, Jonah Hill, Ana de Armas, Kevin Pollak, Shaun Toub, Barry Livingston

Two arms dealers, Efraim Diveroli and David Packouz, secure a $300 million government contract to supply weapons for US allies in Afghanistan. They soon find themselves in danger abroad and in trouble back home.

, 1h24
Directed by Steven Soderbergh, Aaron Seltzer
Origin USA
Genres War, Comedy
Themes Children's films
Actors Sean Maguire, Kevin Sorbo, Carmen Electra, Ken Davitian, Diedrich Bader, Travis Van Winkle

The film opens with a Spartan elder inspecting an ugly, talking baby (an ogre from Shrek the Third); it is abandoned to die for its deformity. A second baby, who is Vietnamese, is adopted by Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. Baby Leonidas is then inspected, having a six-pack, biceps and beard from birth. He is accepted as a Spartan and prepared for kinghood through his childhood training, from fighting his grandmother to enduring torture (a la Casino Royale). Leonidas (Sean Maguire) is then cast out into the wild, and survives the harsh winter and a gangsta penguin (Happy Feet). Returning a king for his inauguration wearing a penguin skin hat, Leonidas sees Margo (Carmen Electra) erotically dancing and asks her to marry him, to which she responds by giving him the combination to her chastity belt.

, 2h29
Directed by Wolfgang Petersen
Origin German
Genres Drama, War, Action, Adventure, Historical
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, La bataille de l'Atlantique, Underwater action films, Submarine films, Political films
Actors Jürgen Prochnow, Herbert Grönemeyer, Martin Semmelrogge, Otto Sander, Sky du Mont, Erwin Leder

The story is told from the viewpoint of Lt. Werner (Herbert Grönemeyer), who has been assigned as a war correspondent on the German submarine U-96 in October 1941. He meets its captain (Jürgen Prochnow), chief engineer (Klaus Wennemann), and the crew in a French nightclub. Thomsen (Otto Sander), another captain, gives a crude drunken speech to celebrate his Ritterkreuz award, in which he openly mocks not only Winston Churchill but implicitly Adolf Hitler as well.

, 2h24
Directed by Takashi Yamazaki
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, War
Themes Transport films, Aviation films
Actors Junichi Okada, Min Tanaka, Haruma Miura, Mao Inoue, Jun Fubuki, Isao Natsuyagi

In 2004, twenty-six-year-old Kentaro Oishi is repeatedly failing the national bar examination and is uncertain about his future. One day, after the funeral of his grandmother, Matsuno, he is startled to learn from his mother and older sister Keiko that his maternal grandfather Kenichiro was not his blood-relation. Keiko and Kentaro start hearing stories about their real grandfather, Kyuzo Miyabe and visit many of his former comrades all of whom begin by criticize his "timidity" in battle. Kentaro finally learns the reason why Miyabe became a Kamikaze pilot during the conversation with an old comrade of his grandfather called Izaki, who is in hospital dying of cancer. Izaki talks about his relationship with their grandfather to Keiko and Kentaro, claiming that only the "timid" Miyabe gave him the hope to save his own life after he was shot down over the ocean.

, 1h58
Directed by Guillermo del Toro
Origin Espagne
Genres Drama, Science fiction, War, Fantastic, Fantasy
Themes Pregnancy films, Films about magic and magicians, Films about sexuality, Les fées, Political films
Actors Sergi López, Maribel Verdú, Ivana Baquero, Doug Jones, Ariadna Gil, Álex Angulo

In a fairy tale, Princess Moanna, whose father is the king of the underworld, visits the human world, where the sunlight blinds her and erases her memory. She becomes mortal and succumbs to illness. The king believes that eventually, her spirit will return to the underworld.

, 1h30
Directed by Scott Waugh
Origin USA
Genres War, Thriller, Action, Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Films about terrorism, Transport films, United States Armed Forces in films
Actors Roselyn Sánchez, Nestor Serrano, Alex Veadov, Emilio Rivera, Gonzalo Menendez, Jason Cottle

In the Philippines, a terrorist kills the U.S. ambassador, his son, and dozens of children at an elementary school, using a vehicle-borne IED disguised as an ice cream truck. The mastermind, a Chechen terrorist named Abu Shabal (Jason Cottle), escapes to a training camp in Indonesia. Elsewhere in Costa Rica, two CIA operatives, Walter Ross (Nestor Serrano) and Lisa Morales (Roselyn Sánchez) meet to consolidate intelligence about their target, a drug smuggler named Mikhail "Christo" Troykovich. Christo's men kill Ross and capture Morales, who is imprisoned in a jungle compound and tortured.

, 1h48
Directed by Taika Waititi
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Black comedy
Themes Hitler, Children's films
Actors Scarlett Johansson, Thomasin McKenzie, Taika Waititi, Sam Rockwell, Rebel Wilson, Alfie Allen

En Allemagne durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, Jojo « Rabbit » Betzler, âgé de 10 ans, est maltraité par ses camarades. Il se console avec son ami imaginaire, Adolf Hitler. Amoureux de la « nation », il voit sa vie remise en cause lorsqu'il découvre que sa mère, Rosie, cache une jeune fille juive, Elsa Korr.