Best World War II movies

Actors : Uldis Dumpis, Gundars Abolins, Maija Apine, Inese Caune,
Directors : Aigars Grauba,

Set in Riga, the capital of Latvia, the film tells a tragic love story before and during the Soviet invasion of Latvia in 1940 and the early stages of World War II.

Actors : Rod Taylor, Edward Albert, Raf Vallone, Rex Harrison,

A World War II vet sets out in 1948 to avenge the death of his wife at the hands of Nazis. His targets are four Germans, a Sicilian, and a Hungarian who committed the atrocities. He is ...

Actors : Greta Volkova, Titus Himmelberger, James Carolus, Jeff Kirkendall,
Directors : Mark Polonia,

In the final days of World War II, a secret experiment to weaponize sharks is shut down and destroyed by the Third Reich. But now 60 years later, a small ocean town is plagued by a ...

Actors : Mari Sato, Pat Morita, Chris Makepeace, Michael Sarrazin,
Directors : Paul Almond,

December 1944. As their bomber is shot down during a mission over Japan, Sergeant McManus and Robert, a young lieutenant, have no other choice but make a parachute jump. They are captured ...

Actors : Reine Bartève, Paul-Eric Shulmann, Joseph Goldenberg, Richard Constantini,
Directors : Jacques Doillon,

Two young French Jewish boys and their family struggle to survive the WWII and the invasion of Germans.

Actors : Paul Kersey, Jing Ning, Xinjun Wang, Tumen,
Directors : Xiaoning Feng,

The film tells the story of a grounded American pilot during the Second World War who learns about the noble spirit of the Chinese poeple when he is rescued by the communist-led Chinese ...

Actors : Jane Haslehurst, Philip Berzamanis, Nathan Head, Bob Lee,
Directors : Philip Gardiner,

In 1945 the Second World War came to an end and the Nazis fled. Scientists and military elite escaped across borders and found themselves in new worlds. Some fled to Russia, some the United...

Actors : Darren Andrichuk, Thomas Beckman, Jackson Berlin, Chris Walters,
Directors : Jason Mills,

It's the close of World War II. Unwilling to surrender, rogue German forces shoot down a returning British squadron leaving Sydney Baker wounded and lost with the enemy closing in. He's ...

Actors : Sufia, Rawshan Zamil, Dolly Anowar, Sitara Begum,

A poor family returns to their village from Dhaka after The Great Bengal Femine 1943. This movie centers on their struggling life during the World War II period.

Actors : Roberto Posse, Gianfilippo Carcano, Sirpa Lane, Giancarlo Sisti,
Directors : Mario Caiano,

As the menacing clouds of WWII spread all over across Europe, a young flaxen-haired Jew woman will witness her idyllic life crumble into pieces as she is rounded up and thrown to forced prostitution at the infamous "joy-camp" 27.

Actors : Bo Lindquist-Ellingsen, Anna Sofie Skarholt, Bianca Ghilardi-Hellsten, Samson Steine,
Directors : Johanne Helgeland,

WW2, December 1942, four children on the run. Sarah and Daniel are Jews about to be deported, but hide in the cellar of Otto and Gerda, until they are discovered and their parents are arrested. They have to get to faraway neutral Sweden.

Actors : F. Murray Abraham, Thomas Kretschmann, Thomas Heinze, Charlton Heston,
Directors : Egidio Eronico,

A man who grew up an orphan finally gets to meet his father: The psychopath Dr. Josef Mengele, the Auschwitz surgeon who performed genetic experiments on concentration camp refugees during WWII.

Actors : Bert Remsen, James Keach, Charles Durning, Pam Grier,
Directors : Alan Beattie,

A World War II vet is pushed to the limit when gang members and drug dealers take over his neighborhood.

Actors : Sacco van der Made, Leen Jongewaard, Coen Flink, Frederik de Groot,
Directors : Wim Verstappen,

In a Dutch village during the German occupation, a small group of badly organized resistance fighters attempt to assassinate a collaborator.

Actors : Robert Sheehan, Eline Powell, Antonio Cupo, Andrea Osvárt,
Directors : Roberto Faenza,

Immediately after WWII, Anita, a young survivor of Auschwitz, looks at the world with worried eyes. She quickly finds herself involved in an intense and passionate affair that almost ...

Actors : Bob Hoskins, Zoë Wanamaker, Dexter Fletcher, Zoë Nathenson,
Directors : Bob Hoskins,

During WWII a youth deserts his country's army after a combat experience, but not before wounding his commanding officer with a knife in order to escape. The young man, now very emotionally...

Actors : João Nunes Monteiro, Vítor Norte, Carlos Paulo, Leonor Seixas,

This is the story of Aristides de Sousa Mendes, a man who issued 30,000 visas for safe passage to Portugal during WWII, in June 1940, defying the direct orders of his government. Among them were 10,000 Jews.

Actors : Piotr Wawrzynczak, Bernadetta Machala-Krzeminska, Paulina Mlynarska, Dariusz Dobkowski,
Directors : Andrzej Wajda,

Set in the summer months preceding the September 1939 outbreak of World War II in Polish part of Lithuania. A young highschool lad, Witek, is hoping to pass the entrance exams to the ...

Actors : Rita Moreno, Van Heflin, James MacArthur, Leopoldo Salcedo,
Directors : Irving Lerner,

During World War II, the spoiled son of a wealthy businessman finds himself involved in the guerrilla movement fighting against the Japanese, and finds romance and adventure.

Actors : Sayuri Yoshinaga, Tadanobu Asano, Haru Kuroki, Kazunari Ninomiya,
Directors : Yôji Yamada,

Set in post-World War II Japan, midwife Nobuko is resolved to move on as she stands at the grave of her son Koji who died, alongside thousands of others, when the Americans dropped an ...