…perhaps? i was wondering about that after i watched
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Sofie, RAF — 10 months ago(May 25, 2025 10:49 AM)
…perhaps? i was wondering about that after i watched
Warfare
(2025) last night which was excellent. i don't like (mainstream US-centric) war movies in general, but i do like these:
Cabiria
(1914)
Hearts of the World
(1918)
J’accuse
(1919)
Battleship Potemkin
(1925)
The Big Parade
(1925)
The General
(1926)
What Price Glory
(1926)
Wings
(1927)
Storm Over Asia
(1928)
The Last Command
(1928)
All Quiet on the Western Front
(1930)
Westfront 1918
(1930)
Waterloo Bridge
(1931)
Wooden Crosses
(1932)
Broken Lullaby
(1932)
Outskirts
(1933)
Little Toys
(1933)
Grand Illusion
(1937)
The Four Feathers
(1939)
The Great Dictator
(1940)
Waterloo Bridge
(1940)
49th Parallel
(1941)
Casablanca
(1942)
To Be or Not to Be
(1942)
Mrs. Miniver
(1942)
Hangmen Also Die!
(1943)
The Seventh Cross
(1944)
Rome, Open City
(1945)
A Matter of Life and Death
(1946)
Paisan
(1946)
The Murderers Are Among Us
(1946)
The Best Years of Our Lives
(1946)
The Silence of the Sea
(1949)
I Was a Male War Bride
(1949)
Forbidden Games
(1952)
Senso
(1954)
The Burmese Harp
(1956)
Paths of Glory
(1957)
The Cranes Are Flying
(1957)
A Time to Love and a Time to Die
(1958)
Ashes and Diamonds
(1958)
Hiroshima mon amour
(1959)
Fires on the Plain
(1959)
Stars
(1959)
Ballad of a Soldier
(1959)
The Human Condition
(1959)
Violent Summer
(1959)
The Bridge
(1959)
Two Women
(1960)
Ivan's Childhood
(1962)
Le petit soldat
(1963)
The Carabineers
(1963)
War and Peace
(1965)
Chimes at Midnight
(1965)
Story of a Prostitute
(1965)
The Battle of Algier
(1966)
The Round-Up
(1966)
Red Angel
(1966)
Shame
(1968)
Army of Shadows
(1969)
Johnny Got His Gun
(1971)
The Dawns Here Are Quiet
(1972)
The Night Porter
(1974)
Barry Lyndon
(1975)
The Travelling Players
(1975)
Love and Death
(1975)
Seven Beauties
(1975)
Chronicle of the Year of Embers
(1975)
The Ascent
(1977)
The Night of the Shooting Stars
(1982)
When the Tenth Month Comes
(1984)
The Killing Fields
(1984)
Ran
(1985)
Come and See
(1985)
Full Metal Jacket
(1987)
Hope and Glory
(1987)
Au revoir les enfants
(1987)
Grave of the Fireflies
(1988)
Camp de Thiaroye
(1988)
Black Rain
(Japan, 1989)
The Last of the Mohicans
(1992)
The Puppetmaster
(1993)
Stalingrad
(1993)
To Live
(1994)
Before the Rain
(1994)
Underground
(1995)
Ulysses' Gaze
(1995)
The Thin Red Line
(1998)
Ride with the Devil
(1999)
Beau travail
(1999)
A Time for Drunken Horses
(2000)
Blackboards
(2000)
No Man's Land
(2001)
Cold Mountain
(2003)
Turtles Can Fly
(2004)
Innocent Voices
(2004)
A Very Long Engagement
(2004)
Hotel Rwanda
(2004)
Shooting Dogs
(2005)
Pan's Labyrinth
(2006)
Atonement
(2007)
Under the Bombs
(2007)
Waltz with Bashir
(2008)
A Woman in Berlin
(2008)
The Hurt Locker
(2008)
Incendies
(2010)
Lore
(2012)
The Wind Rises
(2013)
The Breadwinner
(2017)
In Syria
(2017)
Dunkirk
(2017)
1917
(2019)
A Hidden Life
(2019)
All Quiet on the Western Front
(2022)
Civil War
(2024)
Warfare
(2025)
i went by genre tags these movies were given on Letterboxd and Imdb. anything else i missed perhaps or that you would recommend to me? -
Sofie, RAF — 10 months ago(May 25, 2025 11:53 AM)
yes i've seen Der Untergang. i remember liking it at the time but i grew tired of German WWII films on the whole due to oversaturation, that's why i didn't include it here. it's really not a bad film tho.
not seen Das Boot yet tho. i know it's a classic, so i'll probably get to it one day. -
JohnnyBoy — 10 months ago(May 25, 2025 07:03 PM)
Der Untergang? No way. It's a remake of two superior films: Hitler The Last Ten Days and The Bunker.
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sheetsadam1 — 10 months ago(May 25, 2025 12:06 PM)
Yeah, that's all I can think of other than some of the ones you've listed. Maybe The Deer Hunter? But this is a genre I tend to actively avoid.
My favorite military movie would be The Last Detail (1973).
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Sofie, RAF — 10 months ago(May 25, 2025 12:11 PM)
yep, gotcha. i've seen The Deer Hunter but i did not like it mostly bc of the demonisation of the Viet Cong here when Americans clearly were the aggressors and invaders in that war. it's just a dishonest perspective and made me not caring for any of the characters here. same applies to pretty much every American Vietnam war film.
i haven't seen The Last Detail yet, but it is on my radar. -
sheetsadam1 — 10 months ago(May 25, 2025 12:19 PM)
Agree on that, and it's one reason why I tend to avoid the genre. Much of it is mindless flag-waving bullshit. But what I actually liked in The Deer Hunter all happened before and after the war scenes, especially Meryl Streep's character. It actually reminded me, in part, of Wanda (1970), but far less interesting because, again, it's interrupted by war ****.
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sheetsadam1 — 10 months ago(May 25, 2025 12:34 PM)
Not surprising. It definitely seems like something you'd like. It's certainly better than any war movie I can think of offhand lol. I do want to see Warfare, though. I just rewatched Men the other night and tend to enjoy Garlands work.
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Sofie, RAF — 10 months ago(May 25, 2025 12:57 PM)
Barbara Loden is a treasure, truly.
as with Alex Garland, same. i think i've seen everything he's directed so far and liked Ex Machina the least. his other films were really good imo. i was wondering, have you read his novel, The Beach tho? i picked up a copy from the side of the road the other day bc i know the movie but didn't know Garland wrote the source novel, so i was curious as hell. i haven't gotten around reading it yet tho.
