Best World War II movies of 1980s

Actors : Daniel Olbrychski, Geraldine Chaplin, Robert Hossein, Nicole Garcia,
Directors : Claude Lelouch,

Trough fabulous Music this movie tracks three generations of musicians and dancers from Russia, Germany, France and the USA, from before World War II through the war and the Holocaust, to ...

Actors : François Cluzet, Nils Tavernier, Marie Trintignant, Isabelle Huppert,
Directors : Claude Chabrol,

Marie Latour, a woman of limited schooling, raises two children in a ratty flat during World War II in occupied France. In 1941, her husband Paul returns from German captivity, too weak to ...

Actors : William Sanderson, Sissy Spacek, Sam Shepard, Eric Roberts,
Directors : Jack Fisk,

It's 1944 in the small town of Gregory, Texas. Divorcée Nita Longley has been brought into the town by the telephone company to work as its switchboard operator, a job which requires her to...

Actors : John Phillip Law, Sam Neill, Mel Gibson, Chris Haywood,
Directors : Tim Burstall,

A group of Australian commandos launch a secret mission against Japanese forces in World War II.

Actors : Cristina Marsillach, Benedict Taylor, Anat Atzmon, Tom Hanks,
Directors : Moshé Mizrahi,

A Protestant World War II pilot and a Jewish girl fall in love in Jerusalem, even though their diverse backgrounds threaten to pull them apart.

Actors : Jet Li, Keith Anthony, Kaiming Chen, Wing Cho,
Directors : Jet Li,

Jet, a young soldier at the end of the second World War must overcome some abusive Americans who are bullying him as well as the Chinese people.

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 : Klaus Maria Brandauer, Ildikó Bánsági, Walter Schmidinger, Erland Josephson,
Directors : István Szabó,

A man's story parallels Hitler's rise. Austrian Klaus Schneider, wounded in World War I, recovers in the care of Dr. Emil Bettleheim. Bettleheim discovers that Schneider possesses powers of...

Actors : Alan Arkin, Bill Hunter, Christopher Lee, Kate Fitzpatrick,
Directors : Philippe Mora,

In WWII, Captain Invincible used his superpowers against the Nazis, and he was a hero. But when they accused him of supporting the communists, he retired to Australia. Now, after a US super...

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 : Thierry Tevini, Évelyne Dandry, Anja Schüte, Valérie Dumas,
Directors : David Hamilton,

With the outbreak of WWII, the sudden call to arms will send the men of a family's estate to the front, leaving a curious adolescent alone with the remaining women of the house, in need of a warm embrace and, possibly, a daring kiss.

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 : Philippe Noiret, Michel Blanc, Gérard Depardieu, Jean-Pierre Marielle,
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 : 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 : Michael Beck, Annie McEnroe, James Wainwright, Bruno Lawrence,
Directors : Harley Cokeliss,

Post World War III futuristic tale of collapsed governments & bankrupt countries heralding a new lawless age.

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 : Wulf Kessler, Ulrich Tukur, Oliver Siebert, Lena Stolze,
Directors : Michael Verhoeven,

During the Second World War, a small group of students at Munich University begin to question the decisions and sanity of Germany's Nazi government. The students form a resistance cell ...

Actors : Alfred Böhm, Marte Harell, Hans Holt, Karl Merkatz,
Directors : Franz Antel,

A politically naive Viennese butcher (Bockerer) manages to survive the Nazi occupation of Austria and the second world war.

Actors : Jason Miller, Fernando Rey, Geneviève Bujold, Christopher Reeve,
Directors : Frank Perry,

An ambitious priest seduces a nun and leads the Vatican into shady business during and after World War II.

Actors : Maria Concetta Salieri, Jessica Moore, Claudio Aliotti, Robert Egon,
Directors : Lucio Fulci,

Six teenagers are terrorized in an isolated villa by ghosts of Nazis killed during World War II by an air raid while participating in an orgy.