Subgenre Sampler
War: 954 Films to Buy & Rent
Sky Crawlers, The (2008)
- Dir. Mamoru Oshii
- Mamoru Oshii’s (GHOST IN THE SHELL) latest head–scratcher conceives an alternate World War II–reality around another conceptually dense…
Standard Operating Procedure (2008)
- Dir. Errol Morris
- To see or not to see: that is the question posed by acclaimed director Errol Morris as he attempts to understand what took place inside the walls of…
Stop-Loss (2008)
- Dir. Kimberly Peirce
Feat. Ryan Phillippe, Abbie Cornish, Channing Tatum…
- Sincerely handled melodrama from the director of BOYS DON'T CRY, dealing with a disillusioned Texan soldier (Phillippe) who goes AWOL after returning…
Three Blind Mice (2008)
- Dir. Matthew Newton
Feat. Ewen Leslie, Toby Schmitz, Matthew Newton
- Playful Australian drama focused around three young Navy officers who hit the town in Sydney for one last night before they're shipped off to fight…
Tropic Thunder (2008)
- Dir. Ben Stiller
Feat. Ben Stiller, Robert Downey Jnr., Jack Black…
- Ferociously funny action comedy from actor–director Ben Stiller, following a group of pretentious actors on a mission to create the biggest…
Tunnel Rats (2008)
- Dir. Uwe Boll
Feat. Wilson Bethel, Michael Pare, Mitch Eakins
- Inept Vietnam War pic with U.S Special Forces sent into an elaborate underground maze to kill the Vietcong.
By consensus this is Boll's "best"…
Un Secret (2008)
- Dir. Claude Miller
Feat. Cecile De France, Ludivine Sagnier, Julie Depardieu…
- Graceful, poignant French wartime drama centred on the son of a Jewish family who uncovers a piece of unsettling family history at the time of the…
Valkyrie (2008)
- Dir. Bryan Singer
Feat. Tom Cruise, Kenneth Branagh, Tom Wilkinson…
- Hollywood crosses enemy lines with Tom Cruise perversely cast as a disaffected Nazi officer who leads a plot to assassinate Hitler.
Dispensing…
Waltz With Bashir (Vals Im Bashir) (2008)
- Dir. Ari Folman
- This striking hybrid animation is an audacious attempt to recall, through anecdote, dream, and documentary, the 1982 Israeli–Lebanon war.…
War, Inc. (War Inc.) (2008)
- Dir. Joshua Seftel
Feat. John Cusack, Hilary Duff, Marisa Tomei…
- Hit–and–miss satire with Cusack as a weary hitman sent to assassinate an oil minister in a Middle Eastern country occupied by an American…