Best movies — guerre on Prime Video : 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

1979 · Francis Ford Coppola

Amid the peak of the Vietnam War, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a covert, off-the-books mission: locate and assassinate Colonel Walter Kurtz, a rogue Green Beret who has broken away to lead his own private army in illegal guerrilla operations deep inside enemy territory.

With Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Martin Sheen, Frederic Forrest, Laurence Fishburne, Albert Hall and Sam Bottoms

1986 · Oliver Stone

An inexperienced soldier sent to Vietnam, Chris Taylor watches his idealism crumble as the savagery of combat forces him to face a wrenching moral dilemma and the disturbing coexistence of compassion and cruelty within himself and those around him.

With Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe, Charlie Sheen, Forest Whitaker, Francesco Quinn, John C. McGinley and Richard Edson

1978 · Michael Cimino

Three factory hands sign up for the army and are deployed to Vietnam—one torn from a hastily begun marriage, the other two bound by affection for the same woman. The brutal experiences they endure on the battlefield irrevocably alter the course of their lives.

With Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, John Cazale, John Savage, Meryl Streep, George Dzundza and Rutanya Alda

1959 · Henri Verneuil

he leads a cow tethered on a rope as a decoy to slip past guards and checkpoints. With only the animal and his wits, he embarks on a perilous journey across wartime Germany, relying on improvisation, courage and unlikely encounters to try to make it back home to France.

With Fernandel, René Havard, Bernard Musson, Ellen Schwiers, Pierre-Louis, Franziska Kinz and Maurice Nasil

1957 · David Lean

In wartime Burma, a group of British prisoners are compelled by their Japanese captors to construct a strategically important bridge to support the occupiers’ military operations. When British and American intelligence agents plan a covert operation to demolish the span, the officer who oversaw its construction, Colonel Nicholson, grows deeply proud of his achievement and sets out to prevent the attack.

With William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Sessue Hayakawa, James Donald, Geoffrey Horne and André Morell

2019 · Sam Mendes

During the fiercest days of the First World War, two young British soldiers are forced to cross enemy territory to deliver a vital message that could avert a deadly assault on hundreds of their comrades.

With George MacKay, Dean-Charles Chapman, Mark Strong, Andrew Scott, Richard Madden, Claire Duburcq and Colin Firth

1969 · Gillo Pontecorvo

Determined to save their neighborhood from demolition, teenager Mikey Walsh and his friends set off on a daring hunt for the legendary treasure of Pirate One‑Eyed Willie. Their adventure takes a dangerous turn when they encounter a recently escaped clan of criminals—ruthless and desperate, the fugitives are bent on capturing the kids and beating them to the loot.

With Marlon Brando, Evaristo Márquez, Renato Salvatori, Dana Ghia, Valeria Ferran Wanani, Giampiero Albertini and Norman Hill

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

1994 · Edward Zwick

Set against the vast Montana wilderness of the early 1900s, retired Army officer William Ludlow raises his three sons—Alfred, Tristan, and Samuel—on an isolated ranch, shielding them from the constraints of polite society. Across decades their close, sometimes unruly family ties are strained by the violence of war and complicated by forbidden passions, forcing choices that will bind them together and drive them apart in a sweeping generational drama.

With Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins, Aidan Quinn, Julia Ormond, Henry Thomas, Karina Lombard and Gordon Tootoosis

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

1995 · Richard Loncraine

When multiple pipe bombs detonate at a packed concert, quick-thinking security guard Richard Jewell springs into action, helping evacuate attendees and averting far greater loss of life — only to find himself the target of a bungled FBI investigation and a frenzied media onslaught that wrongly casts him as the perpetrator.

With Ian McKellen, Annette Bening, Jim Broadbent, Robert Downey Jr., Kristin Scott Thomas, Adrian Dunbar and Maggie Smith

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

1932 · Frank Borzage

Set in Italy during World War I, an American ambulance driver, Lieutenant Frederic Henry, begins a passionate romance with Catherine Barkley, a young British nurse. When Frederic is reassigned, their bond is strained by separation and the escalating brutality of the conflict, forcing each of them to face severe hardships and make painful, life-altering choices as the war presses on.

With Helen Hayes, Gary Cooper, Adolphe Menjou, Mary Philips, Jack La Rue, Blanche Friderici and Mary Forbes

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

2006 · Ken Loach

In 1920s Ireland, young physician Damien O'Donovan is poised to leave for a hospital appointment in London when a visit to a friend's farm is shattered by an incursion of British Black and Tans that leaves a local man dead. Shocked and outraged, Damien enlists alongside his brother Teddy in the Irish Republican Army, but the escalating political turmoil and moral compromises of the struggle drive an increasing wedge between them.

With Cillian Murphy, Pádraic Delaney, Liam Cunningham, Orla Fitzgerald, Gerard Kearney, William Ruane and Roger Allam

1961 · Stanley Kramer

In 1947 a military tribunal assembles to try four former German judges accused of committing crimes against humanity while presiding under the Nazi regime. Chief Justice Haywood oversees a trial that unspools through testimony from the principal defendant, Ernst Janning, his defense counsel Hans Rolfe, and a series of witnesses including the widow of a Nazi general, an idealistic U.S. Army captain, and the reluctant Irene Wallner.

With Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Marlene Dietrich, Maximilian Schell, Judy Garland and Montgomery Clift