Best Rebellion movies of 1980s

Actors : Shigeru Izumiya, Kaori Momoi, Ken Ogata, Masao Kusakari,
Directors : Shôhei Imamura,

Near the turbulent end of the Edo era, a man returning to Japan after exile in America searches for his wife and becomes swept up in the current of revolution in this incisive period drama from the great Shohei Imamura.

Actors : Lambert Wilson, Michael Ontkean, Sam Neill, Jodie Foster,
Directors : Claude Chabrol,

WWII. In German occupied Paris, Helene is torn between the love for her boyfriend Jean, working for the resistance and the German administrator Bergmann, who will do anything to gain her ...

Actors : Oszkárné Gombik, Károly Csáki, Ildikó Bánsági, Péter Andorai,
Directors : István Szabó,

During WW2 Hungarian resistance hides a married couple from the officials. The woman is sent to act as the wife of one of the resistance members who is also in hiding and pretending to be somebody else. They slowly begin to fall in love.

Actors : Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu, Bernard Blier, Jutta Lampe, Isabelle Huppert,
Directors : Andrzej Wajda,

This story begins in 1870 at a little town somewhere in Russia. It processed the real "Nyecsajev story". A group of young revolutionists wanna ruin the system with violence. They think this...

Actors : Iurie Darie, Marga Barbu, Florin Piersic, Ion Marinescu,
Directors : Doru Nastase,

Margelatu, the feared criminal helps the Romanian resistance to fight the dictatorial authorities.

Actors : Sammo Kam-Bo Hung, Andy Lau, Anita Mui, Alan Tam,
Directors : Kent Cheng,

Set in China during the Japanese occupation. A young man breaks out of a POW camp to marry his sweetheart, but finds she is now a spy for the resistance, code-named "Number 3". With the ...

Actors : Sándor Zsótér, Péter Rudolf, Katalin Szerb, Mari Töröcsik,
Directors : Pál Sándor,

In December 1956 there is a chaotic situation in Hungary. The revolution is put down by the Soviet army. People leave the country in large numbers for fear of revenge. A young soldier (...

Actors : Ursula Andress, Mimi Coutelier, Jean Poiret, Michel Serrault,
Directors : Jean Yanne,

A parody of the French Revolution, on Arabian Nights background. Bagdad Calif is in Paris in 1789, where he decides to visit the Executionner equipment exhibition.

Actors : Gerard Thoolen, Kees Hulst, Renée Soutendijk, Bruno Ganz,
Directors : Dimitri Frenkel Frank,

The story of a Jewish man, escaped from Berlin in the beginning of WW 2, now an owner of an Amsterdam ice cream parlor. The city is a battlefield between local Nazis and the resistance. The...

Actors : Rick Podell, Pamela Jean Bryant, Candy Moore, Rosanne Katon,
Directors : Ernest Pintoff,

Three women start a lunch wagon business but run into stiff resistance from their competitor Mr. Schmeckler: their presence is interfering with some sort of illegal activity he's involved ...

Actors : Aytaç Arman, Salih Balik, Murat Ersan, Hülya Avsar,
Directors : Süreyya Duru,

Story of a village girl who transforms into a courageous and independent woman and fights against the men who destroyed her life.

Actors : Deddy Mizwar, Nurul Arifin, Wawan Wanisar, Afrizal Anoda,
Directors : M.T. Risyaf,

Naga Bonar is a pickpocket. During the withdrawal of the Japanese occupying forces from Indonesia in 1945 he declares himself a general of the Liberation Forces. Soon a mask becomes his true self, and he becomes a true soldier and patriot.

Actors : Reb Brown, Peter Fonda, Ron O'Neal, James Mitchum,
Directors : Riki Shelach Nissimoff,

The president of an African country wants to boost his economy with a new dam. He ignores the protests of the tribes in the flooded region, so they declare rebellion. To avoid bad publicity...

Actors : Hale Soygazi, Aytaç Arman, Sahika Tekand, Tarik Tarcan,
Directors : Atif Yilmaz,

A woman's fight for her identity and freedom as a woman.

Actors : Ursula Andress, Jorge Luke, Blanca Guerra, Franco Nero,
Directors : Sergey Bondarchuk,

A chronicle of the Russian and Mexican revolutions in the early 20th century.

Actors : Marianne Basler, Paul Wyett, Gabriel Byrne, Judge Reinhold,
Directors : Larry Parr,

A British soldier falls in love with a French woman wanted by the resistance for crimes against her country.

Actors : Linda van Dyck, Marieke van der Pol, Edwin de Vries, Jeroen Krabbé,
Directors : Ate de Jong,

During WWII, two members of the Dutch resistance share the same goal but use very different methods to reach it.

Actors : Malin Ek, Etienne Glaser, Hanna Hartleb, Pia Bäckström,
Directors : Suzanne Osten,

In a fictional country, around 1912, student are rioting. There are cries for democracy and to overthrow of the old regime. The revolt is brutally downcast by the regime's forces. The leader of the rebellion is arrested.

Actors : Katerina Evro, Iossif Surchadzhiev, Georgi Kaloyanchev, Stoyan Aleksiev,
Directors : Rangel Vulchanov,

This is a philosophical, eccentric and fantastic comedy. This is a fantastic escape from the reality and a dream-rebellion of the fantasy.

Actors : Mikhail Ulyanov, Igor Livanov, Andrei Popov, Sergey Yakovlev,
Directors : Vladimir Dostal,

Soviet propaganda film set in Russia under the Tsar, just before the February Revolution of 1917. A Bolshevik Communist, politician Kirill Astakhov, is transfered from a regular prison to a...