Best War movies of 1980s

Actors : Andrey Martynov, Nikolay Grinko, Yuriy Lakhin, Mikhail Gluzskiy,
Directors : Eduard Gavrilov,

During the Second World War a big plant in Urals region gets an order from the State Defence Committee: to double the output of the tanks T-34 within 24 hours... See full synopsis »

Actors : Natalya Sayko, Anatoliy Vasilev, Ivan Bortnik, Vladimir Gostyukhin,
Directors : Nikolay Koshelev,

After lying in the hospital and bidding farewell to the front-line service, Sergeant Katsuba goes to a small provincial town to teach young cadets a military wisdom. However, the ...

Actors : Chi Sujing, Lanyin Wang, Ying Cai, Kou Qiaoling,
Directors : Guangyuan Yang,

Women soldiers of the Volunteer Army battle the Japanese in Northeast China in 1936.

Actors : Tom Wright, Will Gotay, California Xuan Tran, Steve Antin,

Last days in Vietnan in 3 acts.

Actors : Payak Ramnate, Manny Aswatep, Peter Ramwa, Sorapong Chatree,
Directors : Sumat Saichur,

After the fall of Saigon, a Vietnamese officer named Cobra receives orders from the CIA to rescue General Chu, who has fallen into the hands of the Viet Cong along with some secret microfilm.

Actors : Shangxin Wang, Changhua Jiang, Kun Xiang, Jianhua Gong,

Set in winter in 1948, two high level officers plan to go over to the communist side.

Actors : Mira Banjac, Ksenija Martinov, Jadranka Selec, Bekim Fehmiu,
Directors : Petar Latinovic,

The action takes place in 1943 and today, and a Partisan school in Srem is in the center of action. A young journalist gets appointed to shoot a film report about the participants in the ...

Actors : David Light, Vassili Karis, Richard Hatch, Milene Thy-Sanh,
Directors : Ignazio Dolce,

After ex-cop and highly decorated war hero Chet Costa's Vietnamese girlfriend disappears, he accepts a risky mission: he shall blow up a bridge at the Vietnamese border to close the ...

Actors : Edward Albert, Steve Railsback, James Franciscus, Helmut Berger,
Directors : Veljko Bulajic,

This WW2 epic was one of the last movies of that kind made in former Yugoslavia. It tells the true story of great transport of Partizans from Vojvodina to Bosnia in 1943.

Actors : Christopher Alan, Jim Pelish, Sherrie Rose, Victor Rivers,
Directors : Camillo Teti,

Two American soldiers in Viet Nam , with differing opinions , are tasked with escorting a singer and her manager back to friendly territory after their unit is engaged by enemy forces.

Actors : Kelsey Middleton, Arnold Vosloo, 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 : Hiromi Kurita, Meiko Kaji, Fumie Kashiyama, Catharia,
Directors : Sadao Saito,

Weeks before the end of WW2, a boy finds an American girl hidden in the barn of his grandmother's house. The girl turns out to be his cousin, and they become friends. But the Japanese police is informed of the girl's presence.

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

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

Actors : Féodor Atkine, Jean-Roger Milo, Didier Sauvegrain, Aï Keïta,
Directors : Med Hondo,

On January 2 1899, starting from the French Soudan, a french column under the commandment of the captains Voulet and Chanoine is send against the black Sultan Rabah in what is now the ...

Actors : Ke Poo, Yamin Zhao, 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 : Ivan Klemenc, Jadranka Matkovic, Ante Vican, Gorica Popovic,
Directors : Vesna Ljubic,

A poor village in Herzegovina suffers from constant flooding and different armies that periodically plunder the countryside. One woman is convinced that the solution to the problems lies in...

Actors : Clive Wood, Robert Haufrecht, Baird Stafford, Peter Elich,
Directors : Romano Scavolini,

POW's rescued from tiger cages in Vietnam are brought into a secret mission by an Army Captain. However when the group finds a cache of gold, greed sets in and the mission goes awry.

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 : Jun Hashizume, Yû Hayami, Daijiro Tsutsumi, Yûzô Kayama,
Directors : Toshio Masuda,

Two young men are recruited into the Japanese air force just before outbreak of WW2 by the testpilot of Japans new super fighter - the Zero. The movie is told in reverse from the point of ...

Actors : Haihua Han, Stephen Chang, Yajun Xu,

In World War II, an American Air Force pilot of the Flying Tigers was flying over Yunnan province of southern China on a special mission, carrying vital information. He was shot down and ...