Best thriller & war movies streaming, ranked.

In the 1950s, fear and violence escalate as the people of Algiers fight for independence from the French government.

When the police in a German city are unable to catch a child-murderer, other criminals join in the manhunt.

Following the Normandy Landings, a group of U.S. soldiers go behind enemy lines to retrieve a paratrooper whose comrades have been killed in action.

A carpenter in the Fascist Slovak State is appointed "Aryan controller" of a Jewish widow's store.

During the Nazi occupation of Rome in 1944, the Resistance leader, Giorgio Manfredi, is chased by the Nazis as he seeks refuge and a way to escape.

A French boarding school run by priests seems to be a haven from World War II until a new student arrives. Occupying the next bed in the dormitory to the top student in his class, the two young boys begin to form a bond.

From the Boer War through World War II, a soldier rises through the ranks in the British military.

In post-war Berlin, an American private helps a lost Czech boy find his mother.

American military personnel interact warily with a variety of Italian locals over a year and a half in the push north during the Italian Campaign of WWII as German forces make their retreat.

Three Australian lieutenants are court martialed for executing prisoners as a way of deflecting attention from war crimes committed by their superior officers.

As World War II and the German occupation ends, the Polish resistance and the Soviet forces turn on each other in an attempt to take over leadership in Communist Poland.

In the mid 1960s, President Lyndon B. Johnson (Sir Michael Gambon) and his foreign-policy team debate the decision to withdraw from or escalate the war in Vietnam.

A group of German solders fight on the front line in France at the end of World War I.

A duel between a suspected murderer and a detective pressed by people who want results. But whose skin is really wanted.

A drama based on the experiences of Agu, a child soldier fighting in the civil war of an unnamed African country.

A boy in Nazi Germany, trying to conceal that he is Jewish, joins the Hitler Youth.

A merchant ship's crew tries to survive the loneliness of the sea and the coming of war.

April 6th, 1917. As an infantry battalion assembles to wage war deep in enemy territory, two soldiers are assigned to race against time and deliver a message that will stop 1,600 men from walking straight into a deadly trap.

During World War 2, a young lad's called up and, with increasing sense of foreboding, undertakes his army training for D-day.

After a newspaper reporter helps expose a Member of Parliament as a possible spy, he finds that there's much more to the story than that.

A platoon of Navy SEALs embark on a dangerous mission in Ramadi, Iraq, with the chaos and brotherhood of war retold through their memories of the event.

Hit-man In-Nam kills Japanese mobster, enraging vengeful brother. Ex-lover Young-joo pleads for help but dies, her daughter missing. In-Nam must decide: flee to Panama or search for girl? Paths may cross with mobster brother.

An Italian Countess is allied with Nationalists during the Italian-Austrian war of unification. However, she risks betraying their cause when she falls in love with an Austrian lieutenant.

This "story of a ship", the British destroyer H.M.S. Torrin, is told in flashbacks by survivors as they cling to a life raft.

A World War II U-boat crew are stranded in northern Canada. To avoid internment, they must make their way to the border and get into the still-neutral U.S.

In occupied Paris, an actress married to a Jewish theater owner must keep him hidden from the Germans while doing both of their jobs.

Ian wants to get as far away from humanity as possible and heads into the New Zealand bush, but a four day journey turns into a fight for survival.

A young German soldier's eagerness to serve his country quickly fades when he witnesses the horrors of combat on the Western Front during World War I.

The true story of how a group of African-American pilots overcame racist opposition to become one of the finest United States fighter groups in World War II.

Based on the remarkable true story of a satirical newspaper published on the front lines of World War One, this poignant yet comedic drama revels in the extraordinary resilience of the human spirit in the face of overwhelming adve...

It explores The Battle of Borodino through the eyes of Pierre.

When Sam is murdered in a remote lake, his consciousness begins to travel through the bodies of his friends in an effort to protect them from his killer. This dark passage leads him on a greater journey - discovering his own true ...

Nolan Bentley awakens bound to a tree in a distant forest, memory blank. As time ticks away, a cryptic figure emerges. Facing his inner demons, Nolan struggles to escape his dire predicament and unravel the mystery of his surround...

In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of stairs and stops growing. In 1939, World War II breaks out.

Napoleon's tumultuous relations with Russia including his disastrous 1812 invasion serve as the backdrop for the tangled personal lives of five aristocratic Russian families.

When the Hutu nationalists raised arms against their Tutsi countrymen in Rwanda in April 1994, the violent uprising marked the beginning of one of the darkest times in African history which resulted in the deaths of almost 800,000...

In the 1970s, Korea is under the absolute control of President Park, who controls the KCIA, the organization with the edge over any branch of government.

A demoted police inspector investigates a counterfeit jewelry racket, becoming entangled in a dangerous web of crime that puts his life at stake.

Young apprentice Gunnar Sønsteby from Rjukan decides to resist Nazi-Germany on the day of the invasion to later become the leader of the "Oslo-gang" carrying out countless daring acts of sabotage making him Norway's greatest war h...

For three Border Patrol agents working a remote desert checkpoint, the contents of one car will reveal an insidious plot within their own ranks. The next 24 hours will take them on a treacherous journey that could cost them their ...

Conflicts started to happen in Moosa Khader's home after the entry of a police officer and a murder convict.

Two men return home from World War II to work on a farm in rural Mississippi, where they struggle to deal with racism and adjusting to life after war.

In the aftermath of World War II, a writer forms an unexpected bond with the residents of Guernsey Island when she decides to write a book about their experiences during the war. Then she learns the secret they are afraid to reveal.

A down-on-his-luck chef with gambling problems flees to a Latin American villa, where he assumes the identity of another man.

The fates of several Copenhagen residents collide when a WWII bombing mission accidentally targets a school full of children.

A driver rescues a waitress from her ex and continues driving until he crashes in a snowstorm. Injured and trapped in a ravine, he fights for survival-but it soon becomes clear that the cold is not the greatest danger.

Danny, an ex-soldier homeless in Dublin, meets Will, a teen fleeing a drug gang. Their encounter forces them to confront their pasts while navigating the harsh realities they face.

What if it made perfect sense for ordinary people to kill each other for money? Better than slow grinding financial ruin and misery, and all done according to a strict code by consenting adults. This is Trading.

A couple find their lives turned upside-down when their daughter is cast alongside a controversial major star.

U.S. Border Patrol Agent, Angel Waters, makes a routine apprehension that will haunt him forever.

Ten years after saving his daughter Arya from a dark force, Atharva learns it never left her. When strange events begin again, he must fight to save her once more.

In WWII's final years, a soldier in the German army, a British glider pilot, and a Dutch resistance fighter's paths intertwine. Their choices shape destinies, impacting not only their freedom but also that of others.

Set in medieval Rajasthan, Queen Padmavati is married to a noble king and they live in a prosperous fortress with their subjects until an ambitious Sultan hears of Padmavati's beauty and forms an obsessive love for the Queen of Me...

A man returns to the idyllic beach of his childhood to surf with his son. When he is humiliated by a group of locals, the man is drawn into a conflict that keeps rising and pushes him to his breaking point.

The story about Riphagen, a cunning Dutch traitor during WW2 who helped Nazi round up Jews, stealing their treasures for himself. He destroyed Resistance groups, making many who pursued justice after the war look like fools.

An officer in the United States military becomes a whistleblower and pushes for survivability testing after corrupt generals in the Pentagon attempt to cover up glaring safety problems with the new Bradley Fighting Vehicle.

A private in the latter days of WWII on the German front struggles between his will to survive and what his superiors perceive as a battlefield instinct.

Introverted Gerona student Nacho meets two delinquents from the city's Chinatown and gets caught up in a summer onslaught of burglaries and hold ups that will change his life.

In 1950s America, an FBI agent and a blacklist victim uncover a plot to smuggle Nazi war criminals into the country.

The true story of the U.S. Government's 1932 Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, in which a group of black test subjects were allowed to die, despite a cure having been developed.

A man returns to dismantle his family's house, where they were murdered in war, to rebuild it elsewhere. When the killer, a Red Army commander, tracks him down, a brutal cross-country pursuit begins.

After her husband dies in a lab fire, a widowed mother of an autistic son must try to piece her life together while uncovering what really happened on that fateful night.

A soldier assigned to Guantanamo Bay befriends a man who has been imprisoned there.

Wilfried Wils must survive as an auxiliary policeman during the German occupation of Antwerp.

In ancient China, a young boy dreams of becoming the greatest general of the Qin Kingdom.

During World War II, 855 women joined the fight to fix the three-year backlog of undelivered mail. Faced with discrimination and a country devastated by war, they managed to sort more than 17 million pieces of mail ahead of time.

One of the most celebrated war correspondents of our time, Marie Colvin is an utterly fearless and rebellious spirit, driven to the frontline of conflicts across the globe to give voice to the voiceless.

A widowed doctor escorts a freed slave and her daughter across the West to find a distant faith healer, battling the mother's belief of possession and the doctor's suspicion of disease as everything the child touches dies.

On improvising a burglary at a shady tycoon's home, Fred takes refuge in the hip and surreal universe of the Paris Metro and encounters its assorted denizens, the tycoon's henchmen and his disenchanted young wife.

Depicts 8-year-old Bobo's life on her family's Rhodesian farm during the Bush War's final stages. It explores the family's bond with Africa's land and the war's impact on the region and individuals through Bobo's perspective.

After a devastating loss, witty and proudly troublesome Eleanor Morgenstein, 94, tells a tale that takes on its own dangerous life.

An aspiring script writer narrating his plots over booze to his 4 flat-mates.

It follows Li Xin and Wang Qi as they stand on the battlefield for the first time to fight off an invasion by Zhao, and it also follows Ying Zheng's unknown past.

Based on real-life events, Lt. Col. Michael Strobl, a volunteer military escort officer, accompanies the body of 19-year-old Marine Chance Phelps back to his hometown of Dubois, Wyoming.

During WWII, two intelligence officers use a corpse and false papers to outwit German troops.

April 1940. The eyes of the world are on Narvik, a small town in northern Norway, source of the iron ore needed for Hitler's war machinery. Through two months of fierce winter warfare, Hitler is dealt his first defeat.

A group of U.S. soldiers returning from Iraq struggle to integrate back into family and civilian life, while living with the memory of a war that threatens to destroy them long after they've left the battlefield.

A half man/demon is being guarded by a drunken Shaolin magician named Chan at the Shaolin temple. One day, Chan sneaks out to go on a drinking splurge, and the man/demon escapes. Chan, and his friend Ah Yuen, and his bride-to-be, ...

May 1984. An unemployed ice cream truck driver steps onto the game show Press Your Luck harboring a secret: the key to endless money. But his winning streak is threatened when the bewildered executives uncover his real motivations.

An aspiring actress responds to a mysterious classified ad and finds herself trapped in her new boss's twisted revenge fantasy.

A provocative thriller about a very close-knit family that is torn apart as a new movement, "The Change," envelops the country.

Two struggling young men involved in identity theft want to leave their criminal past behind, but must first turn to their dangerous mentor from the underworld for assistance.

After the mayor of an idyllic island village discovers a child with mysterious powers awash on their shores, the once peaceful community devolves into civil war, torn over the belief that the child is the next saviour.

Four black veterans battle the forces of man and nature when they return to Vietnam seeking the remains of their fallen squad leader and the gold fortune he helped them hide.

At the end of World War II, a German soldier is looking for his daughter while an SS troop is looking for a Jewish treasure.

Ben Campbell, a twenty-two-year-old gas station attendant in a small desert town, is looking to make some extra money. He is surprised when Madec, a wealthy lawyer, asks him to be his guide in a hunting trip in the desert. When Ma...

An ex-army captain travels to Dalyan to stop his friend's beloved from marrying another man, but grief and trauma from a combat tragedy mar his journey.

A boy who goes to a juvenile detention center on his own to avenge the death of his twin brother.

Follows acclaimed actor Stephen Lang as he tracks the ten year odyssey behind his one-man show about eight medal of honor recipients.

In 1948, Hassanin joins a platoon going to Palestine to liberate farmers. While documenting their mission, Hassanin's values are tested and both sides re-evaluate what they understand about war.

A college reunion spirals into violence when two former lovers reconnect and rediscover a dangerous secret.

Jodie Sweetin is a newly-separated mom who must fight to save her son (Alexander Elliot) from falling victim to the dark side of the internet in the new Lifetime original movie, Dateless to Dangerous: My Son's Secret Life.

A young journalist looks behind the curtain of a nearby mental hospital, only to uncover the grim and gruesome acts they bestow upon their "patients".

After her brother's death in the hands of ISIS, Zilan returns to her natal city, where the people's demonstrations are receiving brutal repression. In the fight for her people's freedom, she will not remain a passive witness.

A Psychiatrist with painful past, has witnessed his wife killed herself because she was raped. He suffered insomnia until he meets a beautiful girl. but every man who loved her has died mysteriously and she is a suspect in their m...

Raghuram and Suriya are siblings. Being the youngest child in the family, Suriya is pampered by everyone. Feeling rejected and ignored, Raghuram decides to ruin Suriya's life.

After killing his English partner, a Canadian businessman (Scarfe) assumes his identity. Things begin to fall apart for him when the murdered man's body is found.

The best Colombian thriller of the last decade. The discovery of an impaled corpse near Bogota, prostitutes, a real-estate fraud scheme, emerald hunters, and corrupt politicians reflect the actuality of the conflicting country.

An intense murder investigation unfolds when a man refuses to accept a death casually deemed natural by the police. As he digs deeper, what begins as doubt turns into a relentless pursuit of truth, uncovering layers of deception and danger