Best World War II movies

Actors : Alec Guinness, Madlyn Rhue, Rosalind Russell, Ray Danton,
Directors : Mervyn LeRoy,

A gentle love story about a Japanese businessman and widower, and a Brooklyn widow. But before a happy ending can ensue, they must learn again the lessons of tolerance, kindness and forgiveness.

Actors : Richard Burton, John Colicos, Clinton Greyn, Wolfgang Preiss,
Directors : Henry Hathaway,

In 1942 Libya, a German-speaking British Intelligence officer uses former British POWs, some dressed in German uniforms, to fulfill a secret sabotage mission inside German-captured Tobruk.

Actors : Jess Alexander, Troy Kotsur, Zhiwen Wang, Naiwen Li, Johnny Sequoyah, Wu Jiang,
Directors : Johannes Roberts, Linshan Zhao,

Set against the backdrop of the bacterial experiments conducted by the Japanese Imperial Army's Unit 731 in Northeast China, and reveals the crimes of Unit 731 through the turbulent fate of an ordinary individual.

Actors : Tonko Bossen, Joes Brauers, Maas Bronkhuyzen, Michael Nierse,
Directors : Dennis Bots,

During WWII, the friendship of two boys is at risk when a girl tells a very personal secret to only one of them.

Actors : Lee J. Cobb, Charles Boyer, Ingrid Thulin, Glenn Ford,
Directors : Vincente Minnelli,

In Argentina, the family man Julio Madariaga is the patriarch of his family and considers his farm the paradise on Earth. One of his daughters, Luisa Desnoyers, has married the Frenchman ...

Actors : Sergey Bondarchuk, Vasiliy Shukshin, Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Georgiy Burkov,
Directors : Sergey Bondarchuk,

In July 1942, in the Second World War, the rearguard of the Red army protects the bridgehead of the Don River against the German army while the retreating soviet troops cross the bridge. ...

Actors : Michael Aranda, Richard L. Hawkins, Ken Abraham, Linnea Quigley,
Directors : David DeCoteau,

A group of survivors try to avoid the battles of World War III; when they try to escape to the quiet lands, they encounter something much more deadly.

Actors : Nick Adams, Yoshio Tsuchiya, Tadao Takashima, Kumi Mizuno,
Directors : Ishirô Honda,

During WWII, a human heart taken from a certain lab in Europe (Dr. Frankenstein's) is kept in a Japanese lab, when it gets exposed to the radiation of the bombing of Hiroshima. The heart ...

Actors : Jeannette Clift, Robert Rietty, Arthur O'Connell, Julie Harris,
Directors : James F. Collier,

Corrie and Betsie ten Boom are middle-aged sisters working in their father's watchmaker shop in pre-WWII Holland. Their uneventful lives are disrupted with the coming of the Nazis. ...

Actors : Shirley Anne Field, Steve McQueen, Gary Cockrell, Robert Wagner,
Directors : Philip Leacock,

Buzz Rickson is a dare-devil World War II bomber pilot with a death wish. Failing at everything not involving flying, Rickson lives for the most dangerous missions. His crew lives with this...

Actors : Audie England, Raven Snow, Eric da Silva, Costas Mandylor,
Directors : Zalman King,

A struggling American writer (England) and a fellow American expatriate (Mandylor) begin a sordid affair among the chaos and discord of 1940 Paris, France on the brink of World War II.

Actors : Patrick Bergin, James Bolam, Jack Warden, Jordan Kiziuk,
Directors : Søren Kragh-Jacobsen,

Alex is an 11-year old boy who, during WWII, hides in the Jewish ghetto from Nazis after all the relatives have been sent to the concentration camp. The movie portrays the ghetto through ...

Actors : Michael Conner Humphreys, Christopher Serrone, Kyle Erickson, Philip De Lorenzo,
Directors : Curt A. Sindelar,

Three companies of paratroopers travel in a deadly mission to France to prepare the drop zone for the airborne attack on the D-Day. They have to install an Eureka transmitter and searchlight to guide the planes in the Normandy invasion.

Actors : Shelley Winters, Phil Silvers, Peter Lawford, Gina Lollobrigida,
Directors : Melvin Frank,

Carla Campbell receives maintenance payment by three former GIs who all believe to be the father of her daughter Gia.

Actors : Jan Nowicki, Malgorzata Braunek, Leszek Teleszynski, Jerzy Golinski,
Directors : Andrzej Zulawski,

Set during the occupation of Poland during World War II. Some German soldiers, slaughter a woman, her son and daughter-in-law. The husband and his father escape by being in the forest. The ...

Actors : Mel Stewart, Howard Hesseman, Morgan Upton, Donald Sutherland,
Directors : Alan Myerson,

A group of misfits decide to leave for a place that they can all be free. Their mode of transportation is a PBY flying boat. The only problem is that the PBY needs a lot of work and they ...

Actors : Tommy Sands, Robert Walker Jr., Burl Ives, Walter Matthau,
Directors : Joshua Logan,

Life becomes so harried after Ensign Pulver's prank, he and the Captain are swept off deck during a storm, ending up on a tropical island, a group of ship wrecked nurses, dancing natives and 1 very big case of appendicitis.

Actors : Benoît Magimel, Thierry Lhermitte, André Dussollier, Jacques Villeret,
Directors : Jean Becker,

France under occupation by the Germans during WW2: Two men inspired by a free France radio broadcast perpetrate an act of sabotage with unwitting consequences for them and their fellow villagers.

Actors : Eileen Walsh, Tom Vaughan-Lawlor, Martin McCann, Barry Ward,
Directors : Stephen Burke,

Inspired by the true events of the infamous 1983 prison breakout of 38 IRA prisoners from HMP, which was to become the biggest prison escape in Europe since World War II.

Actors : Peter Franzén, Ahti Kuoppala, Ville Virtanen, Taisto Reimaluoto,
Directors : Markku Pölönen,

Bright young soldier Mertsi suffers a permanent brain injury in the Second World War. In the late 1940s he wanders around the Finnish countryside looking for simple work and relying on ...