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 : 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 : 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 : Audie England, Eric da Silva, Raven Snow, 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 : 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 : Jack Lemmon, John Lund, Ricky Nelson, Chips Rafferty,
Directors : Richard Murphy,

Lieutenant Rip Crandall is hoodwinked into taking command of the "Wackiest Ship in the Navy" - a real garbage scow with a crew of misfits who don't know a jib from a jigger. What none of ...

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 : Tamás Major, Imre Sinkovits, Iván Darvas, György Pálos,
Directors : Márton Keleti,

PFC Molnár decides his WWII services are over, and with serious money hidden in his hand grenades, he heads to an abandoned mansion where he encounters not only the sour butler but a bunch ...

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 : Yueh Sun, Jackie Chan, Brigitte Lin, Yu Wang,
Directors : Yen-Ping Chu,

Similar to "The Dirty Dozen" or one of that nature. Japan is trying to take over the world and the generals of the allied forces trying to stop the Japanese have been taken prisoner. A ...

Actors : Peter Kern, Hellmut Lange, Heinz Schubert, Rainer von Artenfels,
Directors : Hans-Jürgen Syberberg,

Director Hans-Jurgen Syberberg examines the rise and fall of the Third Reich in this brooding seven-hour masterpiece, which incorporates puppetry, rear-screen projection, and a Wagnerian ...

Actors : Biff Manard, Art LaFleur, Timothy Van Patten, Tim Thomerson,
Directors : Danny Bilson,

In Italy, during World War II some American soldiers find an alien UFO.

Actors : Yvonne Mitchell, Lilli Palmer, Sylvia Syms, Ronald Lewis,
Directors : Ralph Thomas,

Catholic nuns risk their lives to help Jewish children in an Italian internment camp escape to Palestine during World War II.

Actors : Chien-ru Huang, Giong Lim, Kuei-Chung Cheng, Tian-Lu Li,
Directors : Hsiao-Hsien Hou,

In the first half of this century, young Li Tienlu joines a travelling puppet theatre and subsequently makes a career as one of Taiwan's leading puppeteers. During World War II the Japanese...

Actors : Ballard Berkeley, Tom Betts, Ballard Berkely, Frieda Anderson,
Directors : Ella Wright,

This approach brings history to life through vividly restored archival footage and firsthand accounts of WWII Britain during the Blitz.

Actors : Campbell Scott, Anthony Hopkins, Isabella Rossellini, Ronald Nitschke,
Directors : John Schlesinger,

A young engineer is sent to post World War II Berlin to help the Americans, in spying on the Russians. In a time and place where discretion is still a man's best friend, he falls in love ...

Actors : Macha Magall, Xiro Papas, Edilio Kim, Gino Turini,
Directors : Luigi Batzella,

This is one of many so called Video Nasties about fictionalized World War 2 Nazi POW camp atrocities. A beautiful, nefarious senior female SS officer/doctor (Magall) creates a genetic, ...

Actors : Hart Bochner, Gilbert Roland, David Hemmings, George C. Scott,
Directors : Franklin J. Schaffner,

An isolated sculptor is visited by his three sons just before the start of WWII.