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Neither of these is the better film. They are just at opposite ends.
45 films tagged war
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2001 · Fantasy
A young hobbit inherits a ring that has to be destroyed, and sets out from a very comfortable village with eight companions and a long way to walk. The first of three, and it ends mid-journey.
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1964 · Comedy
An American general goes off the reservation and orders a nuclear strike on the Soviet Union, and the men in the war room try to call it back. A comedy, played entirely straight.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2023 · Drama
The physicist who ran the Manhattan Project builds the bomb, then spends years in rooms answering for it. Three hours, mostly of men talking, cut between two timelines.
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2019 · War
Two young British soldiers are sent on foot across enemy ground to call off an attack that would walk sixteen hundred men into a trap. Shot to look like one unbroken take, so it runs at their pace.
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2006 · Action
Three hundred Spartan soldiers march out to hold a narrow coastal pass against a Persian army many times their size. It is one fight after another, shot in slow motion, with a narrator carrying you between them.
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2024 · Comedy
Two cousins who have drifted apart take a group tour of Poland to see the town their grandmother left. It is mostly the two of them talking, funny and awkward by turns.
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2022 · War
A German schoolboy signs up in 1917 with his friends, excited about the war, and is sent to the trenches of the Western Front. It is loud and muddy and there is almost no let-up.
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2007 · Romance
On a hot day in 1935 at an English country house, a thirteen-year-old girl tells a lie about her older sister. It then follows the people that lie touched, across years and into the war.
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2009 · Science fiction
A paralysed marine ships out to a moon on the far side of the galaxy, where a lab-grown body lets him walk among the people whose forest sits on what his employers want. Long, and built to be looked at.
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2015 · Action
A young man raised in a village under a huge waterfall climbs it and finds a kingdom that has been waiting a long time for someone like him. Enormous: armies, cliffs, and fights that ignore what a body can actually do.
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2024 · War
Four journalists drive from New York to Washington through a United States at war with itself, trying to reach the president before the fighting does. A road trip, with quiet stretches between loud ones.
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Little-known
2020 · Drama
Four Black veterans go back to Vietnam for the body of their squad leader and the crate of gold buried with him. Long, cutting between now and the war, and stopping to argue about history.
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2017 · War
Churchill takes over as prime minister in May 1940, with France falling and his own cabinet pushing him to negotiate. Mostly arguments in small rooms and corridors.
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2004 · War
The last days in Hitler's bunker under Berlin, watched mostly by the young woman hired to type his letters. Almost all of it is underground, in German, with the shelling going on above.
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2021 · Science fiction
A noble family is handed control of a desert planet that supplies the most valuable substance in the universe, which the family it was taken from has no intention of accepting. It is long, slow, and heavy on names and factions.
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2024 · Science fiction
A young duke living among the desert people of a spice planet learns their ways while the family that destroyed his keeps hold of the harvest. Huge and loud and slow all at once, with a lot of sand and prophecy.
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2017 · War
Hundreds of thousands of British soldiers are trapped on a French beach with the sea behind them, followed here through a soldier, a small boat and a fighter pilot. Almost no dialogue, and the tension barely lets up.
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2014 · Science fiction
An officer with no combat experience is dropped into a losing war against aliens and wakes up at the start of the same day every time he is killed. Most of it is him getting better at it, and it is funnier than it sounds.
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2000 · Action
A Roman general betrayed by the new emperor is sold into slavery and fights his way back up through the arenas towards Rome. Big battles, big crowds, and a story that runs in a straight line.
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2023 · Science fiction
A pilot who came home from the war alive and ashamed is rebuilding a life in flattened Tokyo when something huge starts coming ashore. Half of it is a family drama, half is a city being wrecked.
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2016 · War
A young man from Virginia signs up as an army medic in 1942 and will not touch a rifle, which his own side refuses to accept. The first half is home and boot camp, the second is Okinawa, and it is very violent.
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2011 · Fantasy
The last of the Harry Potter films picks up mid-run, with three teenagers hunting the objects keeping a dark wizard alive, and ends at the school where it all started. Most of it is the final battle.
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2004 · Animation
A quiet young hatmaker is cursed into the body of an old woman and takes shelter in the walking castle of a wizard everyone is afraid of. Hand-drawn, warm, and it wanders rather than hurries.
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2010 · Drama
Twins in Montreal open their mother's will and find two letters: one for a father they thought was dead, one for a brother they never knew about. They go looking, and it keeps cutting back to her life.
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2009 · War
In occupied France a squad of American soldiers hunts Nazis behind the lines while a young cinema owner in Paris makes plans of her own. It is built out of long talking scenes that keep tightening.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2008 · Action
A quiet martial arts master in 1930s Foshan avoids fighting until the Japanese occupation leaves him nowhere to stand. Fights every ten minutes, and the rest is his household getting poorer.
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2019 · Comedy
A ten-year-old in the Hitler Youth, whose imaginary friend is a clownish Adolf Hitler, finds out his mother is hiding a Jewish girl in the attic. Broad silly jokes sitting right next to the worst thing in the room.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2003 · Adventure
During the Napoleonic wars a British captain is ordered to chase a faster French warship around the tip of South America, with the ship's doctor as his closest friend. Life aboard one ship, in detail.
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2006 · Fantasy
A girl moves with her pregnant mother to the forest post of her new stepfather, an army captain hunting rebels in 1944 Spain, and finds something living in an old maze. Fairy tale and war run side by side, and both turn violent.
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2016 · Science fiction
A group of fighters with little in common are sent to steal the plans for the Empire's new weapon. It sits right before the first Star Wars, and the last hour is one long battle on a beach.
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2015 · Science fiction
A scavenger on a desert planet and a stormtrooper who walks off his post end up carrying something the new empire badly wants. Big and fast, and built to feel like the ones from the seventies.
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2023 · Animation
During the war a Tokyo boy is moved out to his family's country estate after losing his mother, and a talking heron leads him into a tower with another world inside. It wanders, and the rules are never explained.
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2024 · Drama
A Hungarian architect who survived the war arrives in Pennsylvania with nothing, and a rich man hires him to build something enormous on a hill. Three and a half hours, with an interval in the middle.
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Little-known
2013 · Action
The life of Ip Man, the martial arts teacher who later taught Bruce Lee, told through the men he fought and the woman he could not have. The fights are slowed down and shot in the rain.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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Little-known
2014 · Thriller
A polite young soldier turns up at the door of a family whose son died overseas, says he was a friend, and they let him stay. Small town, synth music, and tension that climbs scene by scene.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2003 · Action
An American officer worn down by the Indian wars is hired to train Japan's new conscript army in the 1870s, and ends up living among the swordsmen it was built to defeat. Big battles and long stretches in a mountain village.
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2003 · Fantasy
Two hobbits climb toward a volcano with a ring while everyone else fights to keep an army looking the wrong way. Well over three hours, with the biggest battles of the three films.
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2002 · Fantasy
The broken company splits three ways: two hobbits heading for the enemy's land behind a strange guide, the rest into a horse kingdom about to be attacked. Three hours, three storylines, and a very long battle at the end.
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2012 · Drama
A drifting navy veteran with a bad drinking problem attaches himself to the leader of a new movement in post-war America. Slow and loose, mostly the two of them circling each other.
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2023 · Drama
A German officer and his wife bring up their children in a house with a nice garden, on the other side of a wall from the camp he runs. Almost nothing happens on screen; you hear what is happening next door.
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2022 · Action
A test pilot who never got promoted is sent back to the Navy's fighter school to train young pilots for one very hard mission. Most of it is flying, shot in real jets with the actors actually up there.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2008 · Comedy
A war film shooting in Southeast Asia runs so far over budget that the director drops his spoiled cast in the jungle to shoot it guerrilla-style. Loud, rude, and stuffed with actors playing awful actors.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2017 · Action
A warrior raised on a hidden island of women pulls a pilot out of the sea, learns there is a world war on, and goes to stop it. Origin story first, then trenches and very big fights.
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2008 · War
A bomb disposal team in Iraq gets a new sergeant who takes risks the other two cannot stand, with a month left on their tour. Built one defusal at a time, each one long and tense.
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2012 · Thriller
A CIA analyst spends a decade of her working life on one question: where bin Laden is. Procedural and cold, years of cables and interrogations and meetings, and then one long night raid.
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