Best movies — guerre on Netflix : our Top 20

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

1996 ·

A Hungarian cartographer hired by the Royal Geographical Society spends the 1930s leading expeditions across the Sahara alongside renowned explorers, mapping its endless sands. When World War II erupts, his work and relationships are drawn into a tangled web of passion, betrayal and political maneuvering that will redefine his fate.

With Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche, Willem Dafoe, Kristin Scott Thomas, Naveen Andrews, Colin Firth and Julian Wadham

2024 · John Andreas Andersen

As Europe descends into World War II, a determined young Norwegian commits himself to resisting the Nazi threat, a choice that transforms his life and helps reshape his nation’s future.

With Sjur Vatne Brean, Erik Hivju, Lisa Loven Kongsli, Lars Berge, Espen Lervaag, August Wittgenstein and Ines Høysæter Asserson

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

2022 · John Madden

they intend to let a corpse carrying forged documents wash ashore on the Spanish coast to trick Nazi intelligence into thinking the Allied invasion will target Greece instead of Sicily.

With Colin Firth, Matthew Macfadyen, Kelly Macdonald, Penelope Wilton, Johnny Flynn, Jason Isaacs and Mark Gatiss

2010 · Roselyne Bosch

A rigorously researched, historically grounded dramatization that reconstructs the 1942 Vel' d'Hiv roundup and the circumstances leading up to it as well as its immediate aftermath.

With Jean Reno, Mélanie Laurent, Gad Elmaleh, Raphaëlle Agogué, Sylvie Testud, Hugo Leverdez and Oliver Cywie

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 · 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

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

2013 · Brian Percival

En Allemagne, pendant le régime nazi, un jeune juif nommé Max Vanderburg trouve refuge chez Hans et Rosa Hubermann, qui vivent près du camp de concentration de Dachau. Liesel, une jeune fille élevée par le couple, se lie d'amitié avec Max. Celui-ci est obligé de se cacher dans la cave et ne peut pas sortir, sinon il risque d'être arrêté et envoyé dans les camps. Pour le divertir, Liesel vole des livres car elle est passionnée de lecture. Cependant, la famille se retrouve de plus en plus menacée et l'étau se resserre autour d'eux.

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

1979 · Steven Spielberg

In the wake of Pearl Harbor, California erupts in fear as a military officer spurs a mob of civilians into a wild pursuit of a rumored Japanese submarine along the coast.

With Dan Aykroyd, Ned Beatty, John Belushi, Lorraine Gary, Murray Hamilton, Christopher Lee and Tim Matheson

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

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