15 Great War Movies (Nobody Ever Talks About)

9. Jacob’s Ladder

Directed by Fatal Attraction helmer/ genre film legend Adrian Lyne, 1990's Jacob's Ladder is a unique and surreal Vietnam drama which more than makes up for the director's later, deeply misguided update of Nabokov's Lolita.

The Shawshank Redemption's Tim Robbins stars, in appropriately shaggy and dishevelled form, as a brutalized, mentally shattered veteran who is haunted by flashes of terrifying demonic hospitals and faceless orderlies in this chilling and disturbing flick.

A big influence on the likes of the Silent Hill franchise, this is a Vietnam war flick which (spoilers!) never leaves the war zone in its nightmarish runtime, and is incredibly effective in portraying the existential horrors of war.