Best War movies of 1980s

Actors : Bushra Ejaz, Hakun Jana Abai, Amir Farid, Jawed Babur,

GHAME AFGHAN was filmed from October 85 to January 86 under extremely difficult conditions in the contested tribal area of Afghanistan/Pakistan by an Afghan-Swiss-Pakistani film crew. ...

Actors : Lorents Arushanyan, Arshak Hovhannisyan, Anahit Aghajanyan, Aleksandr Yanvaryov,
Directors : Levon Grigoryan,

Movie on World War II. An uneven battle occurs between a small detachment of Soviet soldiers and German detachment from the Edelweiss division.

Actors : Zvonko Lepetic, Slobodan Aligrudic, Sanja Vejnovic, Ljubisa Samardzic,
Directors : Aleksandar Djordjevic,

It is 1941 and the German occupying forces are taking over Yugoslavia, making a train ride to Kraljevo a dangerous game for a secret communist agent carrying important documents. Both the ...

Actors : William Hutt, Ann-Marie MacDonald, Martha Henry, Brent Carver,
Directors : Robin Phillips,

Robert Ross lives a protected adolescence in a well-off Toronto suburb. Secretive and withdrawn, he shares his thoughts only with his sister Rowena, who is mentally disabled. He feels ...

Actors : Giorgos Foundas, Nikos Apergis, Gely Mavropoulou, Mary Vidali,

Iro Konstantopoulou was thirteen years old when the Germans invaded Greece. Despite her age, however, she got involved with the resistance. When she was arrested for the first time, her ...

Actors : Thierry Frémont, André Dussollier, Valérie Kaprisky, Steve Kalfa,
Directors : José Giovanni,

Two criminals who enrolled in the German police to get out of prison seize an opportunity after the War to redeem themselves. The elder of the two, Mad Bosco, dies at the beginning of their...

Actors : Christos Zannidis, Jenny Lipman, Aristodimos Fessas, Dimitri Andreas,
Directors : Michael Papas,

Almost documentary-like drama of the war between Turkish and Greek people on the island of Cyprus, seen through the eyes of a young Greek boy who greatly admires his grandfather.

Actors : Hei-ling Cheung, Shing-chung Cheung, Fung Cham,
Directors : Zhiyu Wang,

Set during the last days of the Sung dynasty as Chin forces overrun the countryside. Only esteemed general Yao has managed to hold out. When the Chin kidnap Yao's mother in order to force ...

Actors : Aleksandr Denisov, Mihai Volontir, Igor Bezgin, Les Serdyuk,
Directors : Timofei Levchuk,

The picture narrates about the last raid of the Ukrainian guerrilla division of Kovpak on Vershigora's management to the back of the enemy in 1943 - 1944, its exit to frontier of the USSR ...

Actors : Xuecheng Fu, Guoqiang Tang, Yue Gu, Ange Jin,

The Red Army and Nationalist forces battle over the Chishui River in 1935.

Actors : Wladyslaw Kowalski, Rafal Wieczynski, Halina Mikolajska, Maja Komorowska,
Directors : Waldemar Dziki,

A story of a middle-aged Jew methodically preparing himself to be shipped off to a concentration camp. The main character, Jacob Rosenberg, is a former industrial counselor, who is forced ...

Actors : Yamin Zhao, Ke Poo, Min Pang, Yuanqi Xu,

In 1948 a People's Liberation Army scout operates alone in the city of Hekou to destroy a troop withdrawal route for the Nationalist Army.

Actors : Rio Locsin, Phillip Salvador, Tetchie Agbayani, Johnny Delgado,

In the war which ensued with the arrival of the military forces, Father Balweg was forced out of his parish and into the mountains, where he later became one of the most charismatic of ...

Actors : Milena Dravic, Miodrag 'Miki' Krstovic, Milutin Jevdjenijevic, Maja Lalevic,
Directors : Mladomir 'Purisa' Djordjevic,

A film about an incident in the last war when a gypsy girl sacrifices herself for her lover, a partisan who has deserted.

Actors : Xuecheng Fu, Hengduo Zhao, Shi Han, Huaizheng Liu,
Directors : Nong Lin,

In 1935 the Red Army needs to cross the Dadu River.

Actors : Ewa Szykulska, Wieslawa Mazurkiewicz, Ewa Salacka, Alicja Jachiewicz,
Directors : Vladislav Ikonomov,

The action in the film takes place in 1941. Five polish women of different age and an adopted Jewish girl have been exiled to a small Bulgarian town on the Black Sea coast. They do believe ...

Actors : Kumiko Ohba, Komaki Kurihara, Yoshiko Tanaka, Yûko Kotegawa,
Directors : Tadashi Imai,

Story follows a group of high school girls trained as nurses during World War II who witness the horrors of war first-hand on Okinawa.

Actors : Christopher George, Nancy Kwan, Woody Strode, Robert Walker Jr.,
Directors : Lek Kitaparaporn,

An American journalist returns to Cambodia to bring out the girlfriend he was forced to leave behind when the murderous Khmer Rouge took over the country.

Actors : Arnold Vosloo, Kelsey Middleton, Eric Nobbs, Frank Dankert,
Directors : Regardt van den Bergh,

80's South African action comedy shot mostly in Afrikaans, one of South Africa's 11 indigenous languages. The main character, played by Arnold Vosloo, is a spoilt young man from a rich ...

Actors : Eva Arnaz, Dana Christina, Dorman Borisman, Rini S. Bono,
Directors : Gope T. Samtani,

The story of Indonesia's fight for independence from the Dutch.