Best movies — guerre on Netflix : our Top 20

2006 · Paul Verhoeven

A fast-food-obsessed hitman, his contemplative accomplice, a narcotics-addled mobster’s companion and a once-promising prizefighter collide in a wide-ranging, darkly comic crime romp. Their intertwined misadventures play out across three interlocking episodes that slyly leap backward and forward through time.

With Carice van Houten, Sebastian Koch, Thom Hoffman, Halina Reijn, Waldemar Kobus, Matthias Schoenaerts and Theo Maassen

2008 · Vicente Amorim

John Halder is thrust into the spotlight when senior Nazi officials appropriate his newest novel to bolster their cause, elevating his career and social standing overnight. But as he uncovers the regime’s monstrous designs and watches how their plans will devastate the people he cares about, he faces a brutal moral crossroads: remain complicit to protect his success, or risk everything by opposing them.

With Viggo Mortensen, Jason Isaacs, Mark Strong, Steven Mackintosh, Jodie Whittaker, Gemma Jones and Anastasia Hille

1998 · Steven Spielberg

As Allied forces sweep onto the beaches of Normandy, three brothers are killed in combat and a fourth is left stranded behind enemy lines. Captain John Miller, a U.S. Army Ranger, leads a seven-man squad on a dangerous incursion into German-held territory to find the young soldier and bring him home.

With Tom Hanks, Tom Sizemore, Edward Burns, Matt Damon, Barry Pepper, Adam Goldberg and Vin Diesel

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

1988 · Isao Takahata

During the closing months of World War II, fourteen-year-old Seita and his younger sister Setsuko become orphans after their mother is killed in a bombing raid on Kobe. After a dispute with their aunt, the siblings take refuge in an abandoned air-raid shelter. With no remaining relatives and their emergency provisions exhausted, Seita and Setsuko struggle to survive amid the ruins.

With Tsutomu Tatsumi, Ayano Shiraishi, Yoshiko Shinohara, Akemi Yamaguchi, Kozo Hashida, Masayo Sakai and Masayo Sakai

2008 · Mark Herman

After his family moves from Berlin to an isolated house in wartime Poland, young Bruno, restless and curious, explores the surrounding grounds and discovers Shmuel, a thin boy confined behind a barbed-wire fence where everyone beyond it wears striped uniforms. Oblivious to Shmuel’s status as a Jewish prisoner and to the fact that Bruno’s father holds a senior position connected to the camp, Bruno’s friendship blinds him to the danger until his determination drives him to attempt a risky crossing into the enclosure to be with his friend.

With Asa Butterfield, Jack Scanlon, Vera Farmiga, David Thewlis, Rupert Friend, David Hayman and Sheila Hancock

1962 · Takis Kanellopoulos

A hampi ritual vase is installed at the Open-Air Museum of the Republic of Niger in Niamey amid a ceremony marked by possession dances. Filmmaker Jean Rouch extends his ethnographic cinema on Songhay ritual objects, showing that relocating a hampi into a museum setting can demand a formal ritual to secure the gods’ assent. At the time, however, recording a possession dance for the inauguration of a museum shrine raised ethical and curatorial doubts, and was regarded as problematic from a museological perspective.

With Aimilia Pitta, Faidon Georgitsis, Takis Emmanuel, Eleni Zafeiriou, Niki Triantafillidi, Costas Messaris and Stavros Tornes

2024 · Tyler Perry

Set against the backdrop of World War II, the U.S. Army’s only all-Black, all-female battalion is handed an extraordinary assignment: they must sort through a three-year backlog of seventeen million undelivered letters and packages meant for American soldiers—and complete the task in just six months.

With Kerry Washington, Sam Waterston, Susan Sarandon, Oprah Winfrey, Ebony Obsidian, Milauna Jackson and Kylie Jefferson

1965 · Sidney Lumet

In 1934, retired Texas Rangers Frank Hamer and Manny Gault are pulled back into duty to stop a brutal crime spree led by Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow — an infamous pair of robbers and killers whose violent exploits have, paradoxically, made them heroes in the eyes of many.

With Sean Connery, Harry Andrews, Ian Bannen, Alfred Lynch, Ossie Davis, Roy Kinnear and Jack Watson

2023 · Peter Thorwarth

As Nazi Germany collapses, a weary German soldier drifts through shattered towns searching for the daughter he lost in the chaos, clinging to the only thing that makes life bearable. Meanwhile, a ruthless SS detachment hunts for a hidden cache of valuables stolen from Jewish families, determined to secure one last prize before the world they know vanishes. When their paths intersect, loyalties and conscience are tested, forcing both men into a desperate struggle between survival, redemption, and the cost of what they’re willing to take or protect.

With Robert Maaser, Jördis Triebel, Marie Hacke, Alexander Scheer, Roy McCrerey, Stephan Grossmann and Florian Schmidtke

2015 · David Oelhoffen

U.S. Marshal Sam Gerard is escorting a plane full of prisoners from Chicago to New York when the aircraft crashes in a violent, chaotic wreck. Amid the debris, one inmate—Mark Sheridan—seizes the chance to vanish. Gerard is joined by Diplomatic Security Agent John Royce to track him down, but as they pursue Sheridan his true nature and hidden agenda emerge, revealing he is far more dangerous and complex than a typical murderer.

With Viggo Mortensen, Reda Kateb, Djemel Barek, Vincent Martin, Nicolas Giraud, Jean-Jérôme Esposito and Yann Goven

2023 · Shinsuke Sato

When a surprise invasion threatens the kingdom, a legendary general returns to the front lines, joined by a war orphan—now grown—driven by a hunger for glory.

With Kento Yamazaki, Ryo Yoshizawa, Kanna Hashimoto, Nana Seino, Hiroshi Tamaki, Koichi Sato and Takao Osawa

2023 · Shinsuke Sato

When an unexpected invasion menaces the kingdom, a legendary general rides back into battle to hold the line, joined by a war orphan who has grown into a young warrior hungry for honor and glory.

With Kento Yamazaki, Ryo Yoshizawa, Kanna Hashimoto, Nana Seino, Hiroshi Tamaki, Koichi Sato and Takao Osawa

1930 · Howard Hughes

After war engulfs Europe, Oxford undergraduates Roy and Monte Rutledge sign up to serve with the Royal Flying Corps.

With Ben Lyon, James Hall, Jean Harlow, John Darrow, Lucien Prival, Frank Clarke and Roy Wilson

2011 ·

In the shadow of the Spanish Civil War, a young journalist investigating the contentious canonization of a prominent cleric stumbles upon a hidden, ruinous link between the man up for sainthood and his long-absent father. As Robert follows leads through archives, witnesses and family lore, the story unfolds into a darker history of secrecy, religious power and personal betrayal that forces him to confront the truth about his family and the man he thought he knew.

With Charlie Cox, Dougray Scott, Wes Bentley, Rodrigo Santoro, Jordi Mollà, Derek Jacobi and Ana Torrent

2023 · Guy Ritchie

A spellbinding cinematic adaptation of the Torah, The Covenant vividly dramatizes the lives of Adam and Eve, Noah, Abraham, Moses and other foundational figures. Produced by Lumo Project Films, the feature delivers the Pentateuch in faithful, verse‑by‑verse narration, pairing reverent storytelling with immersive visuals.

With Jake Gyllenhaal, Dar Salim, Antony Starr, Alexander Ludwig, Jonny Lee Miller, Emily Beecham and Jason Wong

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