Best movies — guerre on Disney+ : our Top 20

2009 · Quentin Tarantino

In occupied France during World War II, a squad of Jewish-American soldiers known as the Basterds is assembled to spread terror inside the Third Reich by relentlessly hunting and killing Nazi personnel. Led by Lieutenant Aldo Raine, their brutal campaign soon intersects with the life of a young Jewish-French woman who runs a movie theater in Paris—a modest venue that becomes central to the dangerous plans unfolding around them.

With Brad Pitt, Mélanie Laurent, Christoph Waltz, Eli Roth, Michael Fassbender, Diane Kruger and Daniel Brühl

1998 · Terrence Malick

A band of soldiers from an Army rifle company known as "C‑for‑Charlie" is tested to its limits on Guadalcanal, undergoing physical and emotional transformations as the campaign grinds on. Their voyage begins with an eerily easy landing, but soon gives way to relentless, brutal engagements that strip away illusions and force each man to confront fear, loss, and what it means to endure. Through confusion, comradeship, and sacrifice, they are remade by war — and the story closes with the quiet, hard-won departure of the handful who survive.

With Sean Penn, Jim Caviezel, Adrien Brody, Ben Chaplin, Elias Koteas, John Cusack and Woody Harrelson

2013 · Brian Percival

In wartime Germany, young Liesel copes with fear by quietly lifting books and circulating their stories to anyone who will listen. Hidden in a cramped space beneath the family’s staircase, a Jewish refugee is kept safe by her adoptive parents, forging a fragile household bond amid the dangers and deprivations of the Nazi era.

With Geoffrey Rush, Sophie Nélisse, Emily Watson, Nico Liersch, Ben Schnetzer, Heike Makatsch and Barbara Auer

1970 · Franklin J. Schaffner

A cinematic portrait of General George S. Patton, this film traces the rise of a brilliant and contentious U.S. armor commander during World War II. It follows his campaigns from the deserts of North Africa to the advance into Germany and the eventual collapse of the Third Reich, while also examining the darker side of his character—his explosive temper, frequent clashes with superiors, and tendency toward insubordination—and how those flaws affected his career and legacy.

With George C. Scott, Stephen Young, Frank Latimore, Karl Michael Vogler, Karl Malden, Michael Strong and Carey Loftin

1980 · François Truffaut

By decree of King Charles VI, Sir Jean de Carrouges is forced to resolve his bitter feud with his estranged squire, Jacques Le Gris, by facing him in a formally sanctioned duel.

With Catherine Deneuve, Gérard Depardieu, Jean Poiret, Andréa Ferréol, Paulette Dubost, Jean-Louis Richard and Maurice Risch

2005 ·

After losing everything in the Great Recession, a woman in her sixties converts a van into a makeshift home and sets out across the American West, reinventing herself as a modern-day nomad while navigating vast landscapes, fragile connections, and the unexpected freedoms and hardships of life on the road.

With Kuno Becker, Jay Hernandez, Jason Scott Lee, Doskhan Zholzhaksynov, Ayanat Ksenbai, Mark Dacascos and Aziz Beyshenaliev

2002 · Atom Egoyan

A childless couple—one a recently released convict, the other a former police officer—take in one of a wealthy family's quintuplets and raise the child as their own; what begins as a second chance at family soon becomes far more complicated than they ever expected.

With Simon Abkarian, Charles Aznavour, Christopher Plummer, Arsinée Khanjian, David Alpay, Marie-Josée Croze and Elias Koteas

2005 · John Dahl

In Sheffield, a recently laid-off steelworker called Gaz, desperate for fast money, persuades his circle of friends to put on a one-night-only strip act in a bid to raise cash.

With Franklin D. Roosevelt, Benjamin Bratt, James Franco, Connie Nielsen, Logan Marshall-Green, Joseph Fiennes and Marton Csokas

2006 · Werner Herzog

In 2018, an international coalition of divers, rescuers and volunteers mounted a desperate, against-the-odds operation to free twelve young soccer players and their coach who were trapped deep inside a flooded cave system in northern Thailand.

With Christian Bale, Steve Zahn, Toby Huss, François Chau, Marshall Bell, Jeremy Davies and Pat Healy

1970 · Mike Nichols

A World War II aviator, desperate to stop flying deadly sorties, deliberately stages a psychiatric collapse to be declared mentally unfit and taken off duty — only to find that the label of insanity carries its own unforeseen and dangerous consequences.

With Alan Arkin, Martin Balsam, Richard Benjamin, Art Garfunkel, Jack Gilford, Buck Henry and Bob Newhart

1999 · José Luis Cuerda

A nature documentary traces the monarch butterfly’s journey from egg to adult while chronicling its astonishing, continent-spanning annual migration across North America.

With Fernando Fernán Gómez, Manuel Lozano, Uxía Blanco, Gonzalo Uriarte, Alexis de los Santos, Jesús Castejón and Guillermo Toledo