Best War movies of 1980s

Actors : Baobao Gao, Chen Hong, Jinghua Guo, Nong Li,
Directors : Zien Zhang,

Chinese folk artists are ordered to perform for the Japanese emperor's birthday and use their art to fight back.

Actors : Kameliya Todorova, Pavel Popandov, Petar Slabakov, Lyuben Chatalov,
Directors : Kosta Bikov,

The end of World War II. The Bulgarian army is fighting the German one. Private Peycho Peychev known as Peychina is also at the frontier - a sensitive and timid person forced to witness the...

Actors : Nikola-Kole Angelovski, Velimir 'Bata' Zivojinovic, Ilija Dzuvalekovski, Jordanco Cevrevski,
Directors : Stole Popov,

A joint fight of Macedonian and Greek people against the fascist monarchical government of Greece ended with their defeat in 1949, after many years of bloodshed. Many members of the ...

Actors : Aleksandr Zbruev, Nikolay Eryomenko, Lyudmila Saveleva, Nikolay Olyalin,
Directors : Georgiy Nikolaenko,

Autumn of 1944. The commander of the army calls the intelligence chief Colonel Nikolay Pavlov and orders him to establish within three days what is happening in the German special zone (in ...

Actors : Geoffrey Bowes, Tom Do-Trong Chau,
Directors : Ian McLeod,

This story of a fictional north Vietnamese and American soldier as they went through the Vietnam war is told from the point of view of each soldier, using documentary footage and scripted ...

Actors : Masahiro Motoki, Tomokazu Miura, Katsutoshi Arata, Ken'ichi Hagiwara,
Directors : Hideo Gosha,

Based on the "2.26 Incident", an attempted coup d'état in Japan 1936, launched by radical ultra-nationalist parts of the military. Several leading politicians were killed and the center of ...

Actors : Michael Aitkens, Craig Ballard, James Belton, Vincent Ball,

The true story of a daring raid on Japanese-occupied Singapore Harbour by Australian and British troops during WWII.

Actors : Marta Straszna, Iwona Swietochowska, Lidia Maksymowicz, Krzysztof Kolberger,
Directors : Kazimierz Kutz,

Set during the World War II. Story follows a young officer, returning home after lost September 1939 campaign, who organizes an underground network, but is betrayed by a girl who had more ...

Actors : Zarko Lausevic, Velimir 'Bata' Zivojinovic, Dragana Varagic, Dragomir Pesic,
Directors : Predrag Golubovic,

Two partisans, a man and a woman, try to escape a Nazi manhunt in the infernal landscape of WW2 Vojvodina.

Actors : Jay North, Dale Cummings, Dusan Janicijevic, George Montgomery,

During World War 2, a special Allied unit is formed to destroy a Nazi armored train that has been terrorizing the Yugoslavian countryside.

Actors : Zongxiang Guan, Ke Gai, Dahong Ni, Xiaohe Lü,
Directors : Jin Xie,

Follows a Red Army company from training through to combat in the Sino-Vietnamese War of 1979 and the aftermath of war, focusing on the anger created by corruption among the Party elite.

Actors : Pyotr Glebov, Evgeniy Menshov, Yuriy Gorobets, Ilona Balsyte,
Directors : Gennadiy Ivanov,

The group of paratroopers is thrown in the back of Germans on the territory of Lithuania. They are faced by a task: to take and keep the bridge before arrival of active armed forces.

Actors : Stéphane Legros, Christine Pascal, Michel Morin, Roland Giraud,
Directors : Jacques Monnet,

We follow the life of a 12-year-old boy living in occupied France in 1944. We see his family, his chubby best friend, the girl who ignores him ... and the German deserter he hides in the ...

Actors : Mariusz Benoit, Tadeusz Galia, Jerzy Bonczak, Krzysztof Janczar,
Directors : Andrzej Kotkowski,

The film deals with the a clandestine Olympiade held in a German POW camp during WW II, housing many Poles, but also French and Brits. A spit and a Polish German lieutenant is added to the ...

Actors : Pyotr Velyaminov, Lyudmila Smorodina, Konstantin Stepankov, Yuri Muravitsky,
Directors : Grigori Kokhan,

The life of the legendary Russian Prince.

Actors : Lucas Belvaux, Jean Carmet, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Jean-François Stévenin,
Directors : Yves Boisset,

This is a coming of age drama adapted from the 1952 Yves Gibeau novel of the same title. A young anti-militarist is forcibly sent to military school by his father. He's a bookish pacifist ...

Actors : William Smith, Fritz Matthews, Chet Hood, Ted Prior,
Directors : David A. Prior,

Vietnam: The battle-tested Seargents Casey and Lance have to accompany a young Lieutenant and a group of newly arrived teenage soldiers on a practice trip in the jungle. But the trip turns ...

Actors : Emil Hossu, Mircea Cosma, Stelian Stancu, Traian Stanescu,
Directors : Mircea Moldovan,

In WW2 when a new fascist prison warden takes over a Romanian prison he plans to kill the Communist inmates under the pretext of attempted escape during their forced-march transfer to another prison.

Actors : Parviz Parastui, Mohsen Sadeghi, Ghodrat Latifi, Jalal Azizi Moshfegh,
Directors : Hassan Karbakhsh,

During Iran-Iraq war Ali is a soldier who has to go to the front line. But he has spent his life in peace and is unwilling to go to the front line of war. One day he meets an old friend Mojtaba. This meeting is changing him forever.

Actors : Mohsen Mossavi, Fatemeh Naghavi, Mehdi Asadi, Maryam Ashrafi,
Directors : Abolfazl Jalili,

During Iran-Iraqi war Hamed who has missed his parents in an air raid on his city Bostan is taken to the north to a war refugee's camp. An old man who his work is guarding the jungle take ...