Best War movies of 1985

Actors : Olga Mironova, Liubomiras Laucevicius, Vladas Bagdonas, Aleksey Kravchenko,
Directors : Elem Klimov,

After finding an old rifle, a young boy joins the Soviet resistance movement against ruthless German forces and experiences the horrors of World War II.

Actors : Hugo Arana, Héctor Alterio, Norma Aleandro, Chunchuna Villafañe,
Directors : Luis Puenzo,

After the end of the Dirty War, a high school teacher sets out to find out who the mother of her adopted daughter is.

Actors : Kate Nelligan, Oliver Cotton, John Malkovich, Linda Hunt,
Directors : Peter Yates,

Nick is a writer in New York when he gets posted to a bureau in Greece. He has waited 30 years for this. He wants to know why his mother was killed in the civil war years earlier. In a ...

Actors : Pirkka-Pekka Petelius, Mika Mäkelä, Paavo Liski, Risto Tuorila,
Directors : Rauni Mollberg,

This film is the second silver screen adaption of the Finnish war book by Väinö Linna with the same name as the film. The story is based on Linna's experiences as an infantry man in the ...

Actors : Guillermo Montesinos, José Sacristán, Alfredo Landa, Santiago Ramos,
Directors : Luis García Berlanga,

A platoon of mismatched republican soldiers cross the front-line to steal the bull that the enemy is going to fight on the saint patron date of the village. In addition to ruining the ...

Actors : Oliver Tobias, Sylvia Kristel, Christopher Cazenove, Gaye Brown,
Directors : Curtis Harrington,

Mata Hari is a beautiful Dutch-born dancer, working in Paris. It is August 1914 and war between France and Germany seems imminent. However, she accepts an invitation to travel to Berlin as ...

Actors : Ed Harris, Horst Buchholz, Max von Sydow, Helmut Berger,
Directors : Jonathan Sanger,

In April 1944, an allied agent is sent to France in order to rescue an "overlord" captured by the Germans. (An "overlord" is one of the few men who know the date and place of the "D" day). ...

Actors : Wojciech Pszoniak, Gerd Baltus, Elisabeth Trissenaar, Armin Mueller-Stahl,
Directors : Agnieszka Holland,

In the winter of 1942-43, a Jewish family leaps from a train going through Silesia. They are separated in the woods, and Leon, a local peasant who's now a farmer of some wealth, discovers ...

Actors : Frank Aendenboom, Piet Balfoort, Theu Boermans, Bert André,
Directors : Hugo Claus,

A tale centered on the Battle of the Golden Spurs in 1302 where the Flemish rank and file won a major victory over the glorious French knights.

Actors : George Alexandru, Anda Onesa, Valentin Uritescu, Ion Besoiu,
Directors : Sergiu Nicolaescu,

The Last Assault is a 1986 Romanian drama film directed by Sergiu Nicolaescu. It is set during World War II, during the period when Romania joined the Allies against the Axis.

Actors : James Mason, Maximilian Schell, Ben Cross, Irene Papas,
Directors : Alexander Ramati,

This film sheds light on the role of the Catholic Church and the people of Assisi in rescuing Italian Jews from the Nazis in 1943.

Actors : Romano Kristoff, Daniel Stephen, Urs Althaus, Gwendolyn Hung,
Directors : Ferdinando Baldi,

A group of soldiers in Vietnam, saving some missing in action soldiers in a schoolbus.

Actors : Mikhail Ulyanov, Aleksandr Goloborodko, Bruno Frejndlikh, Yakov Tripolsky,
Directors : Yuriy Ozerov,

The battle of Moscow was the first major defeat of German Wehrmacht in the Second World War. The film is dedicated to some fighting events that took place in the USSR after Hitler's conquest of western Europe.

Actors : Maurice Arama, Antonin Brunel, Daniel Berlioux, Denise Boulet,
Directors : Alexandra von Grote,

Two women fall in love in nazi-occupied France, and must fight to survive the war. A task made more difficult as one is a jew on the run from Germany.

Actors : Mohsen Mohieddin, Michel Piccoli, Mohamad Atef, Patrice Chéreau,
Directors : Youssef Chahine,

A story during the French Occupation of Egypt (1797-1803), depicting the conflict between tradintion and modernization in the context of fighting the French invadors.

Actors : Annette Charles, Américo González, Robert Beltran, Michael Goodwin,
Directors : Haskell Wexler,

Set in the context of the Sandinista government in Nicaragua and their battle with the U.S.-backed Contra rebels. Eddie Guerrero (Robert Beltran) is a Vietnam War veteran sent to help U.S. ...

Actors : Atsushi Watanabe, Takuzô Kawatani, Kiichi Nakai, Kôji Ishizaka,
Directors : Kon Ichikawa,

Actors : Gerard Thoolen, Kitty Courbois, Ester Spitz, Frank Rigter,
Directors : Kees Van Oostrum,

15 year old Sara, a Jewish girl living in the Netherlands during the German occupation slowly begins to realize the danger she and her family are in. When her parents are forced to move to ...

Actors : Gerard Thoolen, Kees Hulst, Renée Soutendijk, Bruno Ganz,
Directors : Dimitri Frenkel Frank,

The story of a Jewish man, escaped from Berlin in the beginning of WW 2, now an owner of an Amsterdam ice cream parlor. The city is a battlefield between local Nazis and the resistance. The...

Actors : Gary Sweet, Richard Moir, Wendy Hughes, Jonathan Hyde,
Directors : Lex Marinos,

Sister Honour Langtree (Wendy Hughes), is in charge of a military hospital for psychiatric patients. She however transgresses boundaries by developing a sexual attraction for a new patient.