Best World War II movies

Actors : Giancarlo Giannini, Hanna Schygulla, Mel Ferrer, Karl-Heinz von Hassel,
Directors : Rainer Werner Fassbinder,

In Switzerland German singer 'Willie' falls in love with Jewish composer 'Robert' who offers resistance to the Nazis by helping refugees. But his family thinks that 'Willie' is also a Nazi ...

Actors : Sam Neill, André Maranne, Meryl Streep, Charles Dance,
Directors : Fred Schepisi,

A young Englishwoman spends twenty years to make whatever kind of life for herself, at the expense of others around her, in post-World War II England.

Actors : Daniel Sauli, Lawrence Pressman, Annie Parisse, Sarah Wikenczy,
Directors : Jeremy Davidson,

A man unwillingly tries to get to the bottom of his families dysfunctionality. It all has something to do with the deportation of Jews from Hungary during WWII, something his grandfather ...

Actors : John Amos, Pierce Brosnan, Clémence Poésy,
Directors : Terry Loane,

A WWII veteran escapes his care home in Northern Ireland and embarks on an arduous but inspirational journey to France to attend the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings, finding the courage to face the ghosts of his past.

Actors : Linus Roache, Radhika Apte, Sarah Megan Thomas, Stana Katic,
Directors : Lydia Dean Pilcher,

In the beginning of WWII, with Britain becoming desperate, Churchill orders his new spy agency -- the Special Operations Executive (SOE) -- to recruit and train women as spies. Their ...

Actors : Lee Montague, Michael Crawford, Roy Kinnear, John Lennon,
Directors : Richard Lester,

An inept British WWII commander leads his troops to a series of misadventures in North Africa and Europe.

Actors : William Holden, Vince Edwards, Andrew Prine, Cliff Robertson,
Directors : Andrew V. McLaglen,

An American colonel who has never been in combat is assigned to create a special forces unit from Canadian Army troops and a ragtag group of U.S. Army misfits.

Actors : John Mills, Dennis Price, Alec Guinness, Susannah York,
Directors : Ronald Neame,

Major Jock Sinclair has been in this Highland regiment since he joined as a boy piper. During the Second World War, as Second-in-Command, he was made acting Commanding Officer. Now the ...

Actors : Matthew Sunderland, Karlos Drinkwater, Gina Varela, Craig Hall,
Directors : Paul Campion,

Set in the Channel Islands on the eve of D Day,two Kiwi commandos, sent to destroy German gun emplacements to distract Hitler's forces away from Normandy, discover a Nazi occult plot to unleash demonic forces to win the war.

Actors : Alun Armstrong, Hugh Grant, Alan Rickman, Georgina Cates,
Directors : Mike Newell,

Set right after World War II, a naive teenage girl joins a shabby theatre troupe in Liverpool. During a winter production of Peter Pan, the play quickly turns into a dark metaphor for youth...

Actors : Laura Morante, Harvey Keitel, Bogdan Iancu, Gérard Depardieu,
Directors : Bogdan Dumitrescu,

Once upon a time, during WWII, somewhere in Nazi occupied Romania, a night of comic misadventures ensues when a boy discovers a dead soldier.

Actors : Lesley-Anne Down, Harrison Ford, Christopher Plummer, Alec McCowen,
Directors : Peter Hyams,

Margaret is a nurse in England during WW2, and married to a secret agent. Things get complicated when she falls for David, an American pilot.

Actors : Peter Lohmeyer, Lucas Gregorowicz, Louis Klamroth, Johanna Gastdorf,
Directors : Sönke Wortmann,

The movie deals with the championship-winning German soccer team of 1954. Its story is linked with two others: The family of a young boy is split due to the events in World War II, and the ...

Actors : Shahid Kapoor, Saif Ali Khan, Richard McCabe, Kangana Ranaut,
Directors : Vishal Bhardwaj,

A love triangle forms against the backdrop of the Second World War.

Actors : Timothy Spall, Maggie Smith, Christopher Villiers, Alex Etel,
Directors : Julian Fellowes,

A haunting ghost story spanning two worlds, two centuries apart. When 13 year old Tolly finds he can mysteriously travel between the two, he begins an adventure that unlocks family secrets laid buried for generations.

Actors : Catherine McCormack, Steven Mackintosh, Rachel Weisz, Anna Friel,
Directors : David Leland,

Three young women from very different walks of life join the women's land army during World War II and are sent to work together on a farm in Dorset and the experience changes their lives forever.

Actors : John Mills, George Peppard, Trevor Howard, Sophia Loren,
Directors : Michael Anderson,

Allied agents attempt to infiltrate the Nazis' rocket research site.

Actors : Christopher Dunne, Terry Stone, Andy Beckwith, Josh Myers,
Directors : Simon Rumley,

In the 1930s, organized crime came to England. The Italian Sabinis and English White family in West End dominated the London underworld. Come WWII and Jack "Spot" took over and later Billy Hill.

Actors : Willam Belli, Brendan Fletcher, Michael Paré, Natassia Malthe,
Directors : Uwe Boll,

Rayne fights against the Nazis in Europe during World War II, encountering Ekart Brand, a Nazi leader whose target is to inject Adolf Hitler with Rayne's blood in an attempt to transform ...

Actors : Martijn Lakemeier, Marwan Kenzari, Abel van Gijlswijk, Jonas Smulders,
Directors : Jim Taihuttu,

A young Dutch soldier deployed to suppress post-WWII independence efforts in the Netherlands' colony of Indonesia finds himself torn between duty and conscience when he joins an increasingly ruthless commander's elite squad.