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 Train To Busan Is One Of The All-Time Great Zombie Movies

 

Train to Busan is a South Korean action horror film that predominantly takes place on a high-speed train as a group of passengers attempts to survive a zombie apocalypse. Historically, zombies have been portrayed as lumbering creatures; however, in Train to Busan, the zombies are highly aggressive and move with lightning quickness.

Train to Busan was a massive box-office success, becoming the highest-grossing film of the year in South Korea and the all-time highest-grossing Korean film in several Asian countries. The film has been praised for its thrilling entertainment value as well as its social commentary on class warfare.

2/10WALL-E Is The Greatest Animated Film Of All Time

Arguably the greatest animated film of all time, WALL-E is set in the aftermath of Earth becoming uninhabitable due to consumerism, corporate greed, and environmental neglect. Humanity has been forced to live on starships where sedentary lifestyles have caused the human race to become obese.

RELATED:10 Darkest Post-Apocalyptic AnimeEven though WALL-E's target audience is children, the film contains many heavy-handed themes, such as corporate corruption, technological abuse, waste management, and environmental devastation. WALL-E won an Oscar for Best Animated Feature, was named the best film of the decade by Time magazine, and was named one of the best films of the century by the BBC. In 2021, WALL-E was inducted into the National Film Registry.

3/10Take Shelter Features A Tour De Force Performance From Michael Shannon

Directed by Jeff Nichols, Take Shelter follows Curtis, a man who begins having apocalyptic visions. The narrative conflict arises when Curtis' family must decide what is the greater threat, the perceived impending apocalypse, or Curtis himself.

In Take Shelter, Michael Shannon delivers a tour de force performance, one of the most underrated of the 2010s. Take Shelter is also notable for its exploration of mental illness, marriage, and its highly debatable ambiguous ending. The film took home over forty award wins out of over eighty nominations, including three award wins at Cannes Film Festival.

4/10Mad Max: Fury Road Is One Of Cinema's Greatest Action Films

Mad Max: Fury Road serves as a reboot of the seminal Australian New Wave film series Mad Max. Set in a post-apocalyptic world where gasoline and water are scarce resources, Mad Max: Fury Road depicts Max and Furiosa's uprising against cult leader Immortan Joe.

Mad Max: Fury Road has become renowned for its brilliantly executed chase sequences that feature minimal use of CGI and rely mostly on practical effects. Widely regarded as one of the greatest films of all time, Mad Max: Fury Road was named one of the greatest films of the century by the BBC, The New York Times, and Empire magazine.

5/10Invasion Of The Body Snatchers Is A 1950s Sci-Fi Classic

Directed by action auteur Don Siegel, Invasion of the Body Snatchers depicts an attempted alien invasion of Earth. The extraterrestrials possess the ability to make exact copies of humans through giant plant pods. Sleeping humans are placed near the pods, and through assimilation, the alien gains the physical traits of the human it is copying.

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Viewed as a metaphor for McCarthyism and the fear of communism in the United States following World War II, Invasion of the Body Snatchers is a 1950s sci-fi classic. The film was inducted into the National Film Registry in 1994 and was named one of the top ten greatest science fiction films by the American Film Institute. Time magazine and Entertainment Weekly have also both included the film on their lists of the greatest films of all time.

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Inglourious Basterds (2009)

Where to Watch: DirecTV, Sling, or rentable on most platforms.

Quentin Tarantino's violent, clever re-history, Inglourious Basterds, featured a Nazi-killing brigade, a Jewish movie theater owner, a ruthless SS officer, and a German film star-turned-spy as they all converge on occupied Paris for a movie premiere that proves to be quite crucial for the Allied war effort. Brad Pitt, Michael Fassbender, Diane Kruger, Daniel Brühl, Mélanie Laurent, and Christoph Waltz (who won an Academy Award for his role) starred in this tense, quirky revenge saga nestled among the horrors of war.

Read IGN's review of Inglourious Basterds.

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 Das Boot (1981)

Where to Watch: Fubo, Tubi, Crackle, or rentable on most platforms.

Written and directed by German filmmaker Wolfgang Petersen (who would go on to direct Air Force One and Troy), Das Boot was hailed as one of the greatest war films ever made. Taut, thrilling, and smart, this epic naval adventure follows the crew of a German U-boat as they set out on to patrol the waters during the Battle of the Atlantic. Das Boot is moving, exciting, and claustrophobic, depicting both the anxiety and banality of combat.

8. All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)

Famously hated by the Nazis, who released mice into cinemas that screened it, Lewis Milestone’s Best Picture winner remains an extraordinary film about loss of innocence under fire. Its German soldiers are played by American actors, including Lew Ayres as Paul Bäumer, and there’s a strange early dissonance in trying to tally the accents with the uniforms. But the unsparing depiction of combat in all its brutality is still confronting. A soldier’s severed hands clinging to barbed wire is just one moment that sears itself into your mind.

The expert view: ’Its depiction of the war, only a dozen years after it ended, is extraordinary. The conventional view of it – of smiling Tommies and German soldiers going to the trenches to find glory – was being challenged at the time, and this film was a big part of that. The attacks and counterattacks and the depiction of trench warfare are very accurate. A lot of the cast had fought in the war.’

9. King and Country (1964)

A bit like the episode of Blackadder Goes Forth where Captain Blackadder is put on trial for eating General Melchett’s favourite carrier pigeon, only absolutely not a comedy, this brooding, angry ’60s war film is a late British New Wave take on hierarchy, control and shellshock in the trenches. It also lays bare an important but lesser-told Great War story in following a private (Tom Courtenay) as he’s put on trial for desertion and faced with a firing squad at Passchendaele. Dirk Bogarde plays the increasingly sympathetic officer assigned to defend him. The result is Britain’s answer to Paths of Glory.

The expert view: ‘For a long time, it wasn’t really well known that British soldiers had been shot in the First World War, and this film opened a door to our understanding of it. It gives an insight into the fate of some actual soldiers. For me, it should be better known.’

10. Paths of Glory (1957)

Part war film, part courtroom drama, Stanley Kubrick’s 1957 masterpiece sees Kirk Douglas playing a French colonel, Drax, who leads his men in a futile attack on a German position known as the Anthill. When the assault fails, his superiors look for scapegoats, leaving Drax to fight their case in a kangaroo court. Probably the definitive antiwar statement about the conflict, its impeccable casting, Kubrick’s direction, German cinematographer Georg Krause’s virtuoso camerawork and its heartbreaking ending make it a must-see. The martial snare drumbeat will play in your head for days.

The expert view: ‘It’s loosely based on a real incident on the Champagne front. The Anthill was a real position and men were executed by firing squad in that part of the battlefield. The two events aren’t entirely connected but the film tells a powerful wider truth about the war.’