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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

  1. 1
    Poster for Casablanca
    Michael Curtiz·1942·Drama
    TML 958.5$1.0M box office

    Starring

    Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains

  2. 2
    Poster for Grave of the Fireflies
    Isao Takahata·1988·Animation
    TML 938.5$517K box office

    Starring

    Tsutomu Tatsumi, Ayano Shiraishi, Akemi Yamaguchi, Yoshiko Shinohara

  3. 3
    Poster for Army of Shadows
    Jean-Pierre Melville·1969·Drama
    TML 928.1$862K box office

    Starring

    Lino Ventura, Paul Meurisse, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Simone Signoret

  4. 4
    Poster for Ran
    Akira Kurosawa·1985·Action
    TML 928.2$4.1M box office

    Starring

    Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Terao, Jinpachi Nezu, Daisuke Ryû

  5. 5
    Poster for La battaglia di Algeri
    Gillo Pontecorvo·1966·Drama
    TML 918.1$56K box office

    Starring

    Brahim Hadjadj, Jean Martin, Yacef Saadi, Samia Kerbash

  6. 6
    Poster for The Battle of Algiers
    Gillo Pontecorvo·1966·Drama
    TML 918.1$880K box office

    Starring

    Brahim Hadjadj, Jean Martin, Yacef Saadi, Samia Kerbash

  7. 7
    Poster for Come and See
    Elem Klimov·1985·Drama
    TML 888.4$72K box office

    Starring

    Aleksey Kravchenko, Olga Mironova, Liubomiras Laucevicius, Vladas Bagdonas

  8. 8
    Poster for The Great Dictator
    Charles Chaplin·1940·Comedy
    TML 888.4$288K box office

    Starring

    Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Jack Oakie, Reginald Gardiner

  9. 9
    Poster for To Be or Not to Be
    Ernst Lubitsch·1942·Comedy
    TML 888.2$3.3M box office

    Starring

    Carole Lombard, Jack Benny, Robert Stack, Felix Bressart

  10. 10
    Poster for All Quiet on the Western Front
    Lewis Milestone·1930·Drama
    TML 888$3.3M box office

    Starring

    Lew Ayres, Louis Wolheim, John Wray, Arnold Lucy

  11. 11
    Poster for The Cranes Are Flying
    Mikhail Kalatozov·1957·Drama
    TML 878.3$18K box office

    Starring

    Tatyana Samoylova, Aleksey Batalov, Vasiliy Merkurev, Aleksandr Shvorin

  12. 12
    Poster for To Live
    Yimou Zhang·1994·Drama
    TML 878.3$2.3M box office

    Starring

    You Ge, Gong Li, Ben Niu, Wu Jiang

  13. 13
    Poster for Turtles Can Fly
    Bahman Ghobadi·2004·Drama
    TML 868.0$259K box office

    Starring

    Soran Ebrahim, Avaz Latif, Saddam Hossein Feysal, Hiresh Feysal Rahman

  14. 14
    Poster for Bloody Sunday
    Paul Greengrass·2002·Drama
    TML 867.6$773K box office

    Starring

    James Nesbitt, Tim Pigott-Smith, Nicholas Farrell, Allan Gildea

  15. 15
    Poster for Kagemusha
    Akira Kurosawa·1980·Drama
    TML 868.0$4.0M box office

    Starring

    Tatsuya Nakadai, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Ken'ichi Hagiwara, Jinpachi Nezu

  16. 16
    Poster for Uri: The Surgical Strike
    Aditya Dhar·2018·Action
    TML 868.2$4.2M box office

    Starring

    Vicky Kaushal, Paresh Rawal, Mohit Raina, Yami Gautam

  17. 17
    Poster for Ugetsu
    Kenji Mizoguchi·1953·Drama
    TML 858.1$11K box office

    Starring

    Masayuki Mori, Machiko Kyô, Kinuyo Tanaka, Mitsuko Mito

  18. 18
    Poster for Dara of Jasenovac
    Predrag Antonijevic·2020·Drama
    TML 858.1$53K box office

    Starring

    Biljana Cekic, Zlatan Vidovic, Anja Stanic, Luka Saranovic

  19. 19
    Poster for La Grande Illusion
    Jean Renoir·1937·Drama
    TML 858.1$173K box office

    Starring

    Jean Gabin, Dita Parlo, Pierre Fresnay, Erich von Stroheim

  20. 20
    Poster for No Man's Land
    Danis Tanovic·2001·Comedy
    TML 857.9$1.1M box office

    Starring

    Branko Djuric, Rene Bitorajac, Filip Sovagovic, Georges Siatidis

  21. 21
    Poster for Son of Saul
    László Nemes·2015·Drama
    TML 857.4$1.8M box office

    Starring

    Géza Röhrig, Levente Molnár, Urs Rechn, Todd Charmont

  22. 22
    Poster for Forbidden Games
    René Clément·1952·Comedy
    TML 848.0$20K box office

    Starring

    Georges Poujouly, Brigitte Fossey, Amédée, Laurence Badie

  23. 23
    Poster for Ivan's Childhood
    Andrei Tarkovsky, Eduard Abalov·1962·Drama
    TML 848.0$22K box office

    Starring

    Eduard Abalov, Nikolay Burlyaev, Valentin Zubkov, Evgeniy Zharikov

  24. 24
    Poster for City of Life and Death
    Chuan Lu·2009·Drama
    TML 847.7$123K box office

    Starring

    Ye Liu, Wei Fan, Hideo Nakaizumi, Yuanyuan Gao

  25. 25
    Poster for Underground
    Emir Kusturica·1995·Comedy
    TML 848.1$171K box office

    Starring

    Predrag 'Miki' Manojlovic, Lazar Ristovski, Mirjana Jokovic, Slavko Stimac

  26. 26
    Poster for Beau travail
    Claire Denis·1999·Drama
    TML 847.3$248K box office

    Starring

    Denis Lavant, Michel Subor, Grégoire Colin, Richard Courcet

  27. 27
    Poster for Timbuktu
    Abderrahmane Sissako·2014·Drama
    TML 837.1$1.1M box office

    Starring

    Ibrahim Ahmed, Abel Jafri, Toulou Kiki, Layla Walet Mohamed

  28. 28
    Poster for Beasts of No Nation
    Cary Joji Fukunaga·2015·Drama
    TML 827.7$84K box office

    Starring

    Abraham Attah, Emmanuel Affadzi, Ricky Adelayitor, Andrew Adote

  29. 29
    Poster for Tangerines
    Zaza Urushadze·2013·Drama
    TML 828.1$145K box office

    Starring

    Lembit Ulfsak, Elmo Nüganen, Giorgi Nakashidze, Misha Meskhi

  30. 30
    Poster for Mandariinid
    Zaza Urushadze·2013·Drama
    TML 828.2$145K box office

    Starring

    Lembit Ulfsak, Elmo Nüganen, Giorgi Nakashidze, Misha Meskhi