Best War movies of 1980s

Actors : Faramarz Gharibian, Kazem Afrandnia, Ali Sabet, Abdolreza Akbari,
Directors : Seifollah Dad,

The story of an Iraqi pilot whose plane being shot by Iranian army during war, but he saved by Parachute landing on Kani-manga Mountains in Kurdistan. Two groups are after capturing him, ...

Actors : David Haig, Benedict Taylor, Lucy Hornak, Frances Barber,
Directors : William Brayne,

Flame to the Phoenix, set in Poland in 1939, captures the ambience at all levels of society and the behind-the-scenes intelligence-gathering and diplomacy in the leadup to the day Hitler ... See full synopsis »

Actors : Juozas Budraitis, Uldis Dumpis, Regimantas Adomaitis, Donatas Banionis,
Directors : Almantas Grikevicius,

This film only evokes one day, the last day of a Lithuanian village of which all the inhabitants have been massacred, shot and burnt by Nazi executioners Saturday, June 3td. 1944. But the ...

Actors : Joel Alano, Renato Del Prado, June Ariston, Tony Beso,
Directors : Segundo Ramos,

A murderous band of rebels kidnaps a provincial governor and his daughters. The government wants to get them back, but is worried that sending in the army would result in the kidnappers ...

Actors : Edit Frajt, László Szabó, Christian Van Cau, André Dussollier,
Directors : András Kovács,

During WWII French POWs catched by Germans fleing to Hungary -an Allied to Germany-. where civilians welcome them very helpful. The tragig love story beginnig in febr.1943 . A small group ...

Actors : Viktor Solovyov, Vadim Zavyalov, Vitaliy Zikora, Sergey Bystritskiy,
Directors : Vladimir Laptev,

Summer, 1944. A military airbase near the very front-line. A young soviet pilot Sergey makes his first practice flight... See full synopsis »

Actors : Tomokazu Miura, Teruhiko Aoi, Masako Natsume, Tetsurô Tanba,
Directors : Toshio Masuda,

Favorable portrayal of Japanese Prime Minister Hideki Tojo, who approved of the bombardment of Pearl Harbor, as a patriot. The film is a jingoistic defense of Japanese imperialism.

Actors : Ahmed Benaissa, Mustapha Chougrani, Athmane Ariout, Robert Bazil,
Directors : Benamar Bakhti,

The story of the film revolves around the epic of Sheikh Bouamama, a leader of the national resistance in Algeria during the French colonial era. The events are taking place in southwestern...

Actors : Ljubivoje Tadic, Milan Strljic, Mihajlo Kostic-Pljaka, Tanja Boskovic,
Directors : Dragovan Jovanovic,

In the end of World War II young partisan falls in love with German secretary who is captured and imprisoned by partisans. He decides to free her and escape with her

Actors : Jianqing Di, Youbin Li, Mian Wu,
Directors : Ren Ke,

A Volunteer Army division fights the Japanese in 1937.

Actors : Peter Sodann, Helene Anders, Hartmut Pohl, Peter Scholz,
Directors : Helmut Dziuba,

1934, Germany. Jan is a 13 year old boy, who is raised without a mother. His father, a communist, is accused of a political murder, and predicted to be shot by the police when he was on the...

Actors : Bo Svenson, Carlo Mucari, Peter Hooten, Werner Pochath,
Directors : Tonino Valerii,

War is Hell... especially NAM. A group of battle weary soldiers in Vietnam are trapped behind enemy lines. There is no way back. No help on the way. It's only a matter of time and these ...

Actors : Tihomir Arsic, Bogdan Diklic, Ljiljana Blagojevic, Tatjana Beljakova,
Directors : Miomir 'Miki' Stamenkovic,

The tragic story of a group of prisoners, ordinary people, were detained in the camp at Lager in Naise at the beginning of WWII, after that mighty torture and abuse by the Germans, will try escape from the camp. A few succeeded.

Actors : Tamás Major, Gábor Reviczky, Ági Margitai, Antal Páger,

October 1944. Carlotta, a run-down traveling circus proprietress, recurs to smuggling to sustain herself and her band of Yugoslav partisans. In her adventurous journey, she comes across ...

Actors : Malgorzata Pritulak, Agnieszka Konopczynska, Tomasz Jarosinski, Jacek Bryniarski,
Directors : Stanislaw Jedryka,

Set in 1939 tells a story of friendship among three 10-year olds, living in town of Sosnowiec: a Polish and Jewish boys and a German girl. The Jewish boy's parents are killed and he is ...

Actors : Peter Nelson, Anthony Finetti, Loren Haynes, Kevin Duffis,
Directors : Cirio H. Santiago,

Captain Baronski, assigned a squad of misfit soldiers, trains them into a fighting powerhouse "The Expendables." Breaking every rule, they must risk their lives crossing into Cambodia to ...

Actors : Christian Defleur, Catherine Reynet, Philippe Nahoun, Maurice Tuech,
Directors : Jean Baronnet,

When Antoine Combalat ,a peasant,reads the papers,he knows everything is brainwashing.But the church bells have rung:WW1 which was bound to end all wars has begun.

Actors : Wieslaw Golas, Tomasz Zaliwski, Henryk Talar, Krzysztof Kolbasiuk,
Directors : Wlodzimierz Golaszewski,

During World War II, a group of bandits roam the Polish countryside robbing and fighting local militia. When a group is captured, a man is called to idenitfy the leader of the bandits by ...

Actors : Zongwan Wei, Xiaoyan Lu, Daoming Chen, Zeru Tao,
Directors : Junzhao Zhang,

Set in the Anti-Japanese War, an instructor who used to be an undercover at the enemy-occupied area. He is set up by a spy and could not prove his innocence.

Actors : Chiyu Yang, Xitian Liu, Xing Xu,
Directors : Zhaoren Yang,

In 1940 a Chinese Communist force defeats a Nationalist force 10 times its size.