I know I have a soft spot for military/military related movies being a veteran and coming from a military family so I may be biased but if y’all don’t mind an older movie check out The Best Years of our Lives. It came out in 1946 and is about 3 guys from the same town returning home after WW2 and picking up where they left off.
It may sound like a boring premise but I promise it’s an excellent movie. I know it’s currently available on Pluto TV.
Judging from the premise, it can lead to interesting situations since returning home from the meat grinders that were the European or Pacific fronts couldn't have been easy. Well it never appears to be easy, no matter the war.
If you don't mind me adding to your suggestion, I've assembled a list of noir and noir-ish movies. Check them out and see if anything looks interesting enough to watch, there's also some big names in there.
1941 High Sierra
1942 This Gun for Hire
1944 Murder, My Sweet
1944 Double Indemnity
1945 Detour
1946 Gilda
1946 The Killers
1946 The Blue Dahlia
1946 The Big Sleep
1947 Dead Reckoning
1947 Out of the Past
1948 Chaos Theory
1949 The Third Man
1950 Dark City
1955 Kiss Me Deadly
1955 The Big Combo
1958 Touch of Evil
I might only suggest to add Sunset Boulevard (1950) and The Killing (1956).
Sunset Boulevard is an absolute classic, but The Killing is frequently overlooked as a sort of "practice run" for Kubrick (as we're the other Noirs he directed early in his career).
My Saturday movie group has many of these on our list. This is solid work, and thank you for it.
We’ve seen “Touch of Evil”, “Out of the Past”, “The Big Sleep”, and “The Third Man”, all of which I think are great. “Kiss Me Deadly” falls a little short for me, but is still a solid movie.
Holy geez I just realized what the OP was about. I got excited when I saw all those old noir films and didn't read the about the military stuff.
With that in mind I'll have to recommend Key Largo (1948) then.
I’ve seen some of those but not all. Thanks! The Third Man is good. Although I was first made aware of it due to Pinky and the Brain