War trauma movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant war trauma movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out captivating, bleak, psychological, melancholic, suspenseful and intense films and TV shows about / with war trauma, life is a bitch, grief, soldier, moral ambiguity, survival, ptsd, veteran, violence and vietnam war plots mostly in Drama, War and Thriller genres shot in USA, France, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as war trauma: Brothers (2009), Coming Home (1978), Homeland (2011), The Yellow Birds (2017), Jacob's Ladder (1990), Skin (2008), La Garçonne (2020), Prisoners of War (2009), 84C MoPic (1989), Dead Presidents (1995).
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170K
Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
When his helicopter goes down during his fourth tour of duty in Afghanistan, Marine Sam Cahill is presumed dead. Back home, brother Tommy steps in to look over Sam’s wife, Grace, and two children. Sam’s surprise homecoming triggers domestic ...
Style:
touching, tense, melancholic, clever, suspense ...
Plot:
family drama, presumed dead, war, american soldier, adultery, marine, marital infidelity, brothers, released from prison, murder, dysfunctional family, twists and turns ...
Time:
year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
afghanistan, iraq, america, usa
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
The wife of a Marine serving in Vietnam, Sally Hyde (Jane Fonda) decides to volunteer at a local veterans hospital to occupy her time. There she meets Luke Martin (Jon Voight), a frustrated wheelchair-bound vet who has become disillusioned with the ...
Style:
political, erotic, realistic, emotional, romantic ...
Plot:
vietnam war, paraplegic, hospital, love, disability, vietnam veteran, love story, soldier, military, suicide, dysfunctional marriage, war hero ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, year 1978, 70s
Place:
california, los angeles, usa, hong kong, vietnam ...
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381K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
CIA officer Carrie Mathison is tops in her field despite being bipolar, which makes her volatile and unpredictable. With the help of her long-time mentor Saul Berenson, Carrie fearlessly risks everything, including her personal well-being and even ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, tense, sexy, captivating ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
terrorism, espionage, spy, cia, national security, war on terror, treason, secret service, investigation, terrorist, danger, top secret ...
Time:
2020s, 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
israel, langley virginia, usa, iraq, america ...
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Two young soldiers, Bartle and Murph, navigate the terrors of the Iraq war under the command of the older, troubled Sergeant Sterling. All the while, Bartle is tortured by a promise he made to Murph's mother before their deployment.
Style:
tense, disturbing, captivating, thought provoking, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
soldier, iraq war, military, terrorist, war zone, sex scene, military officer, friendship, courage, brutality, danger, heroes ...
Place:
iraq, afghanistan, virginia
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A traumatized Vietnam war veteran finds out that his post-war life isn't what he believes it to be when he's attacked by horned creatures in the subway and his dead son comes to visit him...
Style:
twist ending, disturbing, surreal, scary, surprise ending ...
Plot:
nightmare, paranoia, delusion, memory, hallucination, twists and turns, haunted by the past, conspiracy, plot twist, dealing with death, soldier, macabre ...
Time:
year 1990, 90s, 20th century, year 1971, 70s
Place:
new york, vietnam, usa, asia, brooklyn new york city ...
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1K
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
In the late Seventies, a Dutch teenager named Frankie, who is the son of a holocaust survivor, lives in a working class area in Holland. Frankie’s mother is taken to hospital in a terminal condition, causing a bigger rift between him and his ...
Style:
serious, realistic, disturbing, bleak, non-linear ...
Plot:
racism, punk, war trauma, gang, vandalism, society, youth, downfall, rebelliousness, life is a bitch, teenage life, prison life ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
holland
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 305 min.
TV show
Story:
Louise, framed for murder, sees the only solution is to pose as her twin brother who has just been assigned a job as a detective. The discovery of the body of a woman modelling for artists leads her into the decadent world of high society.
Style:
suspense, talky, suspenseful, psychological, detective
Plot:
police department, fake identity, war trauma, crime investigation, cross dressing, hospital, disguise, murder investigation, artist's model, murder mystery, uncover truth, heroes ...
Time:
1920s, post world war one, year 1919, 1910s, 20th century
Place:
paris france, france
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Israel
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
TJFF presents the pilot episode of the award-winning Israeli series that inspired the American hit, Homeland. Set in 2008, this first episode focuses on two Israeli soldiers being released after 17 years of captivity in Lebanon. It powerfully ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, realistic, tense, emotional ...
Plot:
terrorism, mossad, torture, pow, investigation, homecoming, soldier, haunted by the past, twists and turns, held captive, spy, government agency ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
israel, middle east
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A cameraman embedded with a reconnaissance patrol charts their mission across territory controlled by the Vietnamese. An impressively naturalistic Vietnam film. Impressive performance by unknown actors in this low-budget Vietnam drama. The story is ...
Style:
rough, suspenseful, bleak, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
vietnam war, military, survival, escapades, anti war, against the odds, danger, battles, military life, heroic mission, war trauma, jungle ...
Time:
year 1989, 60s
Place:
vietnam, asia, indochina
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Depicts a heist of old bills, retired from circulation and destined by the government to be "money to burn". However, more broadly, it addresses the issues of Black Americans' involvement in the Vietnam War and their subsequent ...
Style:
sexy, realistic, cult classic, neo noir, suspense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
violence, vietnam war, african american, heist, robbery, redemption, gangster, violent, blaxploitation, profanity, black, urban ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, 70s, year 1974, year 1970 ...
Place:
new york, bronx new york city, usa, asia, vietnam ...
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Genre: Drama, War, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
During the Civil War, a young man enthusiastically joins the Union army thirsting to find glory and honor, but his first battle opens his eyes to reality.....
Style:
bleak, reflective, historical drama, melancholic
Audience:
adult
Plot:
american civil war, civil war, union soldier, courage, loss of innocence, war trauma, coming of age, frustration, u.s. civil war, male protagonist, moral ambiguity, violence ...
Time:
1860s, 19th century, 1800s
Place:
virginia
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
A traumatized Vietnam veteran goes on a killing spree, targeting the men with whom he served in the army.
Style:
dark, psychological thriller, crime drama, intense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
serial killer, vietnam veteran, revenge, war trauma, post traumatic stress, retribution, ex military, violent, vigilante, revenge killing, obsession, paranoia ...
Time:
70s
Place:
vietnam
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
In this wartime drama, a young soldier spends much of stint in Vietnam remembering his life and his 12 love affairs. The story ends before he can have a 13th.
Style:
independent film, psychological, existential, surreal, experimental ...
Plot:
vietnam war, memory, war trauma, post traumatic stress, flashback, identity crisis, mature, male protagonist, alienation, confession, intimate, autobiography ...
Place:
vietnam
Is relevant?
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Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
It turns awry for a Vietnam veteran with problems during an exercise at a survival camp, and he believes that he is back in Vietnam. He kills many of the leaders whom he believes is the Vietcong. The other participants venture out to find him and ...
Style:
grim, action thriller, independent film
Plot:
vietnam war, vietnam veteran, ptsd, war trauma, post traumatic stress, driven mad, paranoia, killing spree, moral ambiguity, manhunt, vigilante, violence ...
Place:
vietnam
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
France has been living alone in her apartment since the death of her husband. When she hears on the radio that the Singa association puts homeless migrants in contact with people who can take them in, she decides, against the advice of her family, ...
Style:
melancholic, art house
Plot:
compassion, immigration, war trauma, empathy, humanity, loneliness, grief, social issues, exile, human rights, solidarity, integration ...
Place:
france, afghanistan
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Battling insomnia and undiagnosed PTSD, a war veteran works nights as a projectionist at a decrepit theater. While struggling to adapt to civilian life, he soon finds himself tangled in an inescapable web of seduction, addiction, and violence.
Style:
bleak, dark, tense, captivating, intense ...
Plot:
veteran, ptsd, post traumatic stress disorder, obsession, post war, loneliness, drug, character study, war trauma, society, social relations, social misfits ...
Place:
afghanistan
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Spain
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
In 1945, at the end of World War II, Neus Català returns to France, where she recalls her life under the Nazi yoke.
Style:
historical drama, bleak, captivating, harsh, serious ...
Plot:
world war two, survival, female protagonist, concentration camp, concentration camp survivor, forced labor, war trauma, life is a bitch, survival horror, struggle for survival, life, woman ...
Time:
1940s
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
The story of a young American soldier hit by an artillery shell on the last day of the First World War. The film takes place in the mind of a quadruple amputee who has also lost his eyes, ears, nose, and mouth. Regaining consciousness, 20 year-old ...
Style:
psychological, thrilling, suspenseful, captivating, heartbreaking ...
Plot:
world war one, soldier, traumatized man, anti war, problem, war trauma, disabled character, disability, spectacle, ex soldier, male protagonist, physical disability ...
Time:
1910s
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27K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Finland
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A US soldier suffers a traumatic brain injury while fighting in Afghanistan and struggles to adjust to life back home in New Orleans. When she meets local mechanic James, the pair begin to forge an unexpected bond.
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, suspenseful, aesthetic ...
Plot:
female protagonist, mental health, veteran, brain injury, swimming pool, soldier, engineer, american soldier, ex soldier, war trauma, social problems, changing lives ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
new orleans, afghanistan
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
This film is the story of the last years of the life of T.E. Lawrence - Lawrence of Arabia - a scholar, writer, soldier and reluctant hero. Retiring to his cottage in Dorset he hopes to escape his past but is pulled into political intrigue. While ...
Style:
historical drama, captivating, thrilling, disturbing, period piece ...
Plot:
heroes, world war one, character study, biopic, political intrigue, troubled past, confronting the past, family drama, hidden identity, war, post war, social differences ...
Place:
middle east, britain
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A war drama set in Germany at the end od WWII.
Style:
tension, bleak
Audience:
adult
Plot:
world war two, soviet army, frontline, eastern front, survival, friendship, resilience, courage, war trauma, duty, military operation, realism ...
Time:
year 1945
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
Artyom (Armen Dzhigarkhanyan) is a scientist who buries himself in his work after the woman he loves dies during the war. He is informed of his sweetheart's death by a young woman, and soon love blossoms between the lonely doctor and the ...
Style:
reflective, emotional, poignant, meditative, existential ...
Plot:
physicist, grief, post war, loss, memory, character study, war trauma, memories, nostalgia, mourning, loneliness, introspection ...
Place:
armenia, caucasus, moscow russia, russia, soviet union ...
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A ten-year-old Israeli boy whose father died years earlier during the Six-Day-War is determined to find out more about his father's death. He skips school and, with the help of a friendly cab driver, heads to Jerusalem to find the men who ...
Style:
emotional, historical drama, reflective, period piece, educational ...
Plot:
coming of age, father son relationship, war trauma, national identity, boyhood, grief, road trip, memory, post war, humanism, investigation, mourning ...
Place:
jerusalem, tel aviv israel, israel
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Tim Murphy is a Vietnam Vet. When he loses his job he starts to relive all the pain and horror of his time in Vietnam. The stresses and strains nearly destroy his marriage and his family. Only after joining a veterans' therapy group does Tim ...
Style:
realistic, intense, heartfelt, melancholic, bleak ...
Plot:
vietnam war, nightmare, vietnam veteran, support group, ptsd, veteran, post traumatic stress, recovery, family drama, war trauma, mental health, group therapy ...
Time:
year 1985, 80s
Place:
vietnam, usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: Bangladesh
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Refugees from East Pakistan flee West Pakistani soldiers aboard a rickety steamboat.
Style:
historical drama, intense, bleak, poignant, emotional ...
Plot:
bangladesh liberation war, refugee, war trauma, steamship, survival, evacuation, realism, ethnic conflict, loss, survivor, grief, danger ...
Place:
bangladesh
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
The nurse Helga meets Baltic nobleman Arno when he's wounded in the Russo-Finnish war. They have a short but passionate affair before Arno is called back to the front and dies. Helga has a daughter, Dorli, as a result of the affair and they ...
Style:
historical drama, family saga, bleak, dramatic, period piece ...
Plot:
mother daughter relationship, tragedy, survival, loss, secret police, post war, political persecution, war trauma, torture, humiliation, exile, occupation ...
Time:
1940s, 1950s, 60s, 50s
Place:
czechoslovakia, africa
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Genre: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Political thriller about an Iraq war veteran seeking the truth about his brother's death.
Style:
political thriller, psychological, captivating, thrilling, suspenseful ...
Plot:
investigation, iraq war, social problems, politics, political unrest, social issues, political intrigue, war veteran, murder investigation, life is a bitch, iraq war veteran, iraq veteran ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
An African high school teacher flees his war-torn country for France, where he falls in love with a Frenchwoman who offers a roof for him and his family.
Style:
emotional, realistic, melancholic, political, tense ...
Plot:
illegal immigrant, illegal alien, refugee, immigration, war trauma, immigrant family, survival, bureaucracy, alienation, exile, integration, resilience ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
paris france, africa
Is relevant?
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
When a mission in South America goes wrong a mercenary is left for dead, but he is nursed back to health and reborn with a new outlook on life. But his peaceful days are short-lived when mercenaries he used to work with cross his path again and he ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, captivating, thrilling, intense ...
Plot:
mercenary, revenge, redemption, lifestyle change, changing lives, soldier, ex soldier, faith, confronting the past, belief in god, war trauma, violent ...
Place:
south america
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: France
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
The story of Adèle, a youg woman who’s literally haunted by the death of her husband, killed in a trench during World War One. Desperate and unable to face this tragic loss, Adèle turns to black magic in the hope to bring her lover back. The ...
Style:
suspenseful, creepy, psychological horror, thrilling, captivating ...
Plot:
black magic, grief, death, mourning, supernatural, tragic love, psychological torment, occult ritual, loss of family member, bereavement, loss of husband, loss of spouse ...
Time:
1910s
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