This great political thriller has 5 Oscar nominations and is on Netflix: based on real events and directed by Spielberg

Considered as one of the best films by Steven Spielberg, Munich (2005) is perhaps one of the most misunderstood feature films by the filmmaker. But perhaps it was also one of the productions that best knew how to analyze a conflict that remains present to this day.

Based on real events, combined with certain creative liberties, Munich tells the story of what happens after the assassination of several Israeli athletes by the Palestinian terrorist group Black September.

While the Olympic Games were being held in the German city in 1972, a Mossad special agent had to carry out a highly secretive mission: to assassinate those responsible for what happened.

In the year the movie was released -which coincided with the success of War of the Worlds-,many still assumed that Spielberg's career would always be marked by that nostalgic sentimentality, and expected that Munich would replicate this, although without abandoning cinematic rigor.

However, the film ended up making a statement and showed that the filmmaker could also deliver other types of darker stories with a greater political charge. It also showed that he was capable of continuing to pose timeless reflections and giving us some of the most transcendent final shots of the last five years.

Munich is perhaps Steven Spielberg's most mature film, especially due to the mastery with which he represented this event, in a way that was daring yet ambiguous, but also credible enough.

Currently, Munich is available on Netflix, and this may be the ideal opportunity to revisit one of the filmmaker's lesser-known films that, despite everything, should not go unnoticed in his filmography.

Another success from the same year

'War of the Worlds'

Also in 2005, War of the Worlds was released -currently available on Movistar Plus+ and SkyShowtime-, an action and science fiction film in which Steven Spielberg adapted H. G. Wells' classic story. The invasion of Earth by Martians and the terrible battle that humanity has to fight to survive focuses on an American family.

In this context, the chosen protagonist is Ray Ferrier (Tom Cruise), a divorced dockworker and far from a model father. While his children are visiting his house, a tremendous and unexpected lightning storm erupts, and moments later, Ray witnesses an extraordinary event that will change his life and theirs forever: a huge tripod emerges from the ground and wreaks havoc on everything in its path.

*This article has been automatically translated using artificial intelligence