War is brutal, exhausting, and, more often than not, meaningless. That's one key message that Wolfgang Petersen’s 1981 World War II picture Das Boot puts across more powerfully than most war movies.

There are plenty of other gripping cinematic portrayals of modern war to check out before A24's new intensely accurate war ...

Land of Bad, Mosul, War Machine, and more make up our list of the best modern war movies on Netflix right now.