Best World War II movies

Actors : Ana Girardot, Baptiste Lecaplain, Bastien Bouillon, Aurélia Petit,
Directors : Julie Lopes-Curval,

Alice, a twenty-year-old girl of modest origin, lives in Bayeux, a small town in Normandy. She has an unambitious boyfriend, Kevin, and works at the the moment as a salesgirl in a bakeshop....

Actors : Nina Usatova, Elizaveta Arzamasova, Kirill Pletnyov, Sergey Makovetskiy,
Directors : Vladimir Khotinenko,

Father Alexander is trying to maintain peaceful life for his church amidst the Nazi occupation during WWII.

Actors : Vasiliki Troufakou, Christina Hilla Fameli, Haris Fragoulis, Andreas Konstantinou,
Directors : Manousos Manousakis,

During World War II in Greece, under the submission of Germans, one Christian, Giorgos, falls in love with a Jewish, Estrea, something completely forbidden. Can they and their families ...

Actors : Mao Inoue, Yutaka Takenouchi, Sean McGowan, Markus Waldow,
Directors : Hideyuki Hirayama,

During the end of World War 2, a group of Japanese soldiers fight on after US forces capture most of the island. They refuse to surrender and continue to resist after the Emperor surrenders.

Actors : Ismaila Cissé, Ababacar Sy Cissé, Sidiki Bakaba, Hamed Camara,

In this semi-autobiographical film, black soldiers help to defend France, but are detained in prison camp before being repatriated home.

Actors : Stellan Skarsgård, Miklós B. Székely, Károly Eperjes, Katharina Thalbach,
Directors : Kjell Grede,

Swedish national Raoul Wallenberg, newcomer to politics and international machinations, travels to German-occupied Budapest during WWII in order to effectively intervene in the fate of ...

Actors : Dean Newcombe, Lily Franky, Tatsuya Nakamura, Yûko Nakamura,
Directors : Shin'ya Tsukamoto,

A Japanese soldier endures illness, starvation and brutality in the Philippines at the tail end of WW2.

Actors : Philippe Noiret, Michel Blanc, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Gérard Depardieu,
Directors : Claude Berri,

After World War II, a small French village struggles to put the war behind as the controlling Communist Party tries to flush out Petain loyalists. The local bar owner, a simple man who ...

Actors : Dolph Lundgren, Hiram A. Murray, Andrew Stecker, Apostolos Gliarmis,
Directors : Steven Luke,

In the last days of WWII, Germany, desperate for any last grasp to defeat the allied powers, formed together the German Navy and the last remaining U-Boats, for one last mission, to attack the United States Homeland.

Actors : Franco Fabrizi, Lea Massari, Alberto Sordi, Lina Volonghi,
Directors : Dino Risi,

Silvio refuses to fight for the fascists and joins the resistance with Elena. After the war, his vitriolic newspaper articles cause him to be sentenced to imprisonment.

Actors : Henrikke Lund Olsen, Kristoffer Joner, Pål Sverre Hagen, Ine Marie Wilmann,
Directors : Gunnar Vikene,

The sailor Alfred is in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean when World War II breaks out. Suddenly the sailors are in the front of the war, without any weapons.

Actors : Dirk Bogarde, Maria Perschy, Nigel Stock, Alfred Lynch,
Directors : Andrew L. Stone,

A World War II British officer named Charles Coward, having been captured by the Germans, tries everything he can to escape. In the process, among many other adventures he gets awarded the ...

Actors : Joan Collins, Tom Bell, Denholm Elliott, Laurence Naismith,
Directors : Ralph Thomas,

After a scientific experiment goes horribly wrong during a demonstration, a scientist finds himself trapped in an alternative reality that bears some similarities to our own, but also has ...

Actors : Cristian Motiu, Sergiu Nicolaescu, Vladimir Gaitan, Petr Falc,
Directors : Sergiu Nicolaescu,

After WWII "Comisarul Moldova" (Sergiu Nicolaescu / Petr Falc) spent years as a political prisoner of the communist regime. The favorite entertainment of the Russian Colonel in charge of ...

Actors : Bülent Alkis, Baki Davrak, Sertaç Ekici, Ali Barkin,
Directors : Burak Arliel,

The human tragedy and the suffering of the Crimean Turks who were taken hostage as prisoners of war in German prison camps during World War II.

Actors : Hughie Restorick, Jean Taylor Smith, Stephen Archibald, Karl Fieseler,
Directors : Bill Douglas,

The second part (My ain folk) of Bill Douglas' influential trilogy harks back to his impoverished upbringing in early-'40s Scotland. Cinema was his only escape - he paid for it with the ...

Actors : Shinjirô Ebara, Isao Natsuyagi, Sachiko Hidari, Tetsurô Tanba,
Directors : Kinji Fukasaku,

One woman's search to find the truth about her husband's death in World War II.

Actors : Philippe Tlokinski, Bradley James, Julie Engelbrecht, Martin Butzke,
Directors : Wladyslaw Pasikowski,

Film about the lead up to the Polish uprising against German occupation at the end of the Second World War.

Actors : Pat Morita, Trevor Morgan, Haley Joel Osment, Pam Dawber,
Directors : Bob Clark,

Four young boys find a shipwrecked Japanese sailor during World War II and struggle with the decision to save him.

Actors : Vesa-Matti Loiri, Uti Saurio, Pentti Tarkiainen, Hannu Vironmäki,
Directors : Mikko Niskanen,

A group of mischievous Finnish boys experience the ups and downs of life during World War 2.