Best World War II movies of 1980s

Actors : Herbert Grönemeyer, Klaus Wennemann, Hubertus Bengsch, Jürgen Prochnow,
Directors : Wolfgang Petersen,

The claustrophobic world of a WWII German U-boat; boredom, filth, and sheer terror.

Actors : Ally Sheedy, John Wood, Dabney Coleman, Matthew Broderick,
Directors : John Badham,

A young man finds a back door into a military central computer in which reality is confused with game-playing, possibly starting World War III.

Actors : Christian Bale, Miranda Richardson, John Malkovich, Nigel Havers,
Directors : Steven Spielberg,

A young English boy struggles to survive under Japanese occupation during World War II.

Actors : Bobby Di Cicco, Mark Hamill, Robert Carradine, Lee Marvin,
Directors : Samuel Fuller,

The story of a sergeant and the inner core members of his unit as they try to serve in and survive World War II.

Actors : Frederic Forrest, Martin Landau, Jeff Bridges, Joan Allen,
Directors : Francis Ford Coppola,

The story of Preston Tucker, the maverick car designer and his ill-fated challenge to the auto industry with his revolutionary car concept.

Actors : Lea Thompson, Charlie Sheen, Patrick Swayze, C. Thomas Howell,
Directors : John Milius,

It is the dawn of World War III. In mid-western America, a group of teenagers bands together to defend their town, and their country, from invading Soviet forces.

Actors : Vic Morrow, Doug McGrath, Albert Brooks, Dan Aykroyd,

Four horror and science fiction segments, directed by four famous directors, each of them being a new version of a classic story from Rod Serling's landmark television series.

Actors : John Goodman, Brad Johnson, Holly Hunter, Richard Dreyfuss,
Directors : Steven Spielberg,

The spirit of a recently deceased expert pilot mentors a newer pilot while watching him fall in love with the girlfriend that he left behind.

Actors : Peter Cushing, Jeremy Kemp, Lucy Gutteridge, Val Kilmer,

Parody of WWII spy movies in which an American rock and roll singer becomes involved in a Resistance plot to rescue a scientist imprisoned in East Germany.

Actors : Saundra McClain, Joanne Woodward, Paul Newman, Margaret Welsh,
Directors : James Ivory,

Set during World War II, an upper-class family begins to fall apart due to the conservative nature of the patriarch and the progressive values of his children.

Actors : Raphael Fejtö, Stanislas Carré de Malberg, Francine Racette, Gaspard Manesse,
Directors : Louis Malle,

A French boarding school run by priests seems to be a haven from World War II until a new student arrives. He becomes the roommate of top student in his class. Rivals at first, the roommates form a bond and share a secret.

Actors : Robin Williams, John Lithgow, Mary Beth Hurt, Glenn Close,
Directors : George Roy Hill,

A struggling young writer finds his life and work dominated by his unfaithful wife and his radical feminist mother, whose best-selling manifesto turns her into a cultural icon.

Actors : Matthew Broderick, Matt Mulhern, Corey Parker, Christopher Walken,
Directors : Mike Nichols,

A group of young recruits go through boot camp during the Second World War in Biloxi, Mississippi. From the play by Neil Simon.

Actors : David Bowie, Takeshi Kitano, Tom Conti, Ryuichi Sakamoto,
Directors : Nagisa Ôshima,

During WWII, a British colonel tries to bridge the cultural divides between a British POW and the Japanese camp commander in order to avoid bloodshed.

Actors : Sarah Miles, Sebastian Rice-Edwards, Geraldine Muir, David Hayman,
Directors : John Boorman,

A semi-autobiographical project by John Boorman about a nine year old boy called Bill as he grows up in London during the blitz of World War 2. For a young boy, this time in history was ...

Actors : Rolf Hoppe, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Ildikó Bánsági, Krystyna Janda,
Directors : István Szabó,

A German stage actor finds unexpected success and mixed blessings in the popularity of his performance in a Faustian play as the Nazis take power in pre-WWII Germany. As his associates and ...

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 : Adolph Caesar, David Alan Grier, Art Evans, Howard E. Rollins Jr.,
Directors : Norman Jewison,

An African American officer investigates a murder in a racially charged situation in World War II.

Actors : Allan Edwall, Susan Fleetwood, Guðrún Gísladóttir, Erland Josephson,
Directors : Andrei Tarkovsky,

At the dawn of World War III, a man searches for a way to restore peace to the world and finds he must give something in return.

Actors : Rod Steiger, Anthony Quinn, Irene Papas, Oliver Reed,
Directors : Moustapha Akkad,

In the Fascist Italy Pre-World War II of Benito Mussolini, the cruel General Rodolfo Graziani is directly assigned by Il Duce to fight in the colonial war in Libya to vanquish the Arab ...