Hidden Gems
Underrated War Movies
War films our TML Score rates highly that never found a big audience: critically strong, commercially overlooked. Ranked by our TML Score, a transparent blend of IMDb and Metascore, and filtered to titles with modest box office.
30 Underrated War Films
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Grave of the Fireflies
Isao Takahata·1988·AnimationTML 93★ 8.5$517K box officeTsutomu Tatsumi, Ayano Shiraishi +2
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Army of Shadows
Jean-Pierre Melville·1969·DramaTML 92★ 8.1$862K box officeLino Ventura, Paul Meurisse +2
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La battaglia di Algeri
Gillo Pontecorvo·1966·DramaTML 91★ 8.1$56K box officeBrahim Hadjadj, Jean Martin +2
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The Battle of Algiers
Gillo Pontecorvo·1966·DramaTML 91★ 8.1$880K box officeBrahim Hadjadj, Jean Martin +2
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The Great Dictator
Charles Chaplin·1940·ComedyTML 88★ 8.4$288K box officeCharles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard +2
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To Be or Not to Be
Ernst Lubitsch·1942·ComedyTML 88★ 8.2$3.3M box officeCarole Lombard, Jack Benny +2
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All Quiet on the Western Front
Lewis Milestone·1930·DramaTML 88★ 8$3.3M box officeLew Ayres, Louis Wolheim +2
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The Cranes Are Flying
Mikhail Kalatozov·1957·DramaTML 87★ 8.3$18K box officeTatyana Samoylova, Aleksey Batalov +2
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Bloody Sunday
Paul Greengrass·2002·DramaTML 86★ 7.6$773K box officeJames Nesbitt, Tim Pigott-Smith +2
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Uri: The Surgical Strike
Aditya Dhar·2018·ActionTML 86★ 8.2$4.2M box officeVicky Kaushal, Paresh Rawal +2
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Dara of Jasenovac
Predrag Antonijevic·2020·DramaTML 85★ 8.1$53K box officeBiljana Cekic, Zlatan Vidovic +2
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Forbidden Games
René Clément·1952·ComedyTML 84★ 8.0$20K box officeGeorges Poujouly, Brigitte Fossey +2
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Ivan's Childhood
Andrei Tarkovsky, Eduard Abalov·1962·DramaTML 84★ 8.0$22K box officeEduard Abalov, Nikolay Burlyaev +2
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Underground
Emir Kusturica·1995·ComedyTML 84★ 8.1$171K box officePredrag 'Miki' Manojlovic, Lazar Ristovski +2
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Beasts of No Nation
Cary Joji Fukunaga·2015·DramaTML 82★ 7.7$84K box officeAbraham Attah, Emmanuel Affadzi +2
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