20 War Movies EVERY Film Fan Should Have Seen

Released in 1985, Elem Klimlov's cult hit Come and See offers an almost fairytale like retelling of the Nazi invasion of Belarus.

Seen through the disturbed eyes of a young local as he is stripped of his innocence by the horrors of war, the film's ironic title implores the viewer to stare shell-shocked at the atrocities recreated here.

Slow and surreal, the film fuses elements of magical realism with pitch black satire in order to actualize the inhuman evil of war onscreen, resulting in a strange and singularly disturbing vision of war which ends up all the more convincing despite its unusual stylistic divergences from strict reality.