Best World War II movies

Actors : John Hurt, Christian Bale, Nicolas Cage, Penélope Cruz,
Directors : John Madden,

When a fisherman leaves to fight with the Greek army during World War II, his fiancé falls in love with the local Italian commander.

Actors : Jason Clarke, Keira Knightley, Pandora Colin, Ned Wills,
Directors : James Kent,

Post World War II, a British colonel and his wife are assigned to live in Hamburg during the post-war reconstruction, but tensions arise with the German who previously owned the house.

Actors : Izabella Scorupco, Remy Sweeney, Stellan Skarsgård, James D'Arcy,
Directors : Renny Harlin,

Years before Father Lankester Merrin helped save Regan MacNeil's soul, he first encounters the demon Pazuzu in East Africa. This is the tale of Father Merrin's initial battle with Pazuzu and the rediscovery of his faith.

Actors : Martijn Lakemeier, Jamie Campbell Bower, Yorick van Wageningen, Raymond Thiry,
Directors : Martin Koolhoven,

In the Nazi-occupied Netherlands, a teenage boy gets involved in the Dutch Resistance after coming to the aid of a wounded RAF pilot.

Actors : Frederic Forrest, Martin Landau, Jeff Bridges, Joan Allen,
Directors : Francis Ford Coppola,

The story of Preston Tucker, the maverick car designer and his ill-fated challenge to the auto industry with his revolutionary car concept.

Actors : Derek Luke, Omar Benson Miller, Michael Ealy, Laz Alonso,
Directors : Spike Lee,

Set in 1944 Italy, the story of four black American soldiers who get trapped in a Tuscan village during WWII.

Actors : Helen McCrory, Phoebe Fox, Leanne Best, Jeremy Irvine,
Directors : Tom Harper,

40 years after the first haunting at Eel Marsh House, a group of children evacuated from WWII London arrive, awakening the house's darkest inhabitant.

Actors : Johannes Krisch, Alexander Fehling, André Szymanski, Friederike Becht,
Directors : Giulio Ricciarelli,

A story that exposes the conspiracy of prominent German institutions and government branches to cover up the crimes of Nazis during World War II.

Actors : Alexandra Maria Lara, Juliane Köhler, Bruno Ganz, Ulrich Matthes,
Directors : Oliver Hirschbiegel,

Traudl Junge, the final secretary for Adolf Hitler, tells of the Nazi dictator's final days in his Berlin bunker at the end of WWII.

Actors : Samantha Morton, Peter Dinklage, Peter O'Toole, John Lynch,
Directors : Charles Sturridge,

A family in financial crisis is forced to sell Lassie, their beloved dog. Hundreds of miles away from her true family, Lassie escapes and sets out on a journey home.

Actors : André Hennicke, Alexandra Maria Lara, Tim Roth, Bruno Ganz,
Directors : Francis Ford Coppola,

A love story wrapped in a mystery. Set in World War II Europe, a professor is changed by a cataclysmic event and explores the mysteries of life.

Actors : Matthew Fox, Tommy Lee Jones, Colin Moy, Eriko Hatsune,
Directors : Peter Webber,

As the Japanese surrender at the end of World War II, General Fellers is tasked with deciding if Emperor Hirohito will be hanged as a war criminal. Influencing his ruling is his quest to find Aya, an exchange student he met years earlier in the U.S.

Actors : James Fleet, Cate Blanchett, Abigail Cruttenden, Charlotte McDougall,
Directors : Gillian Armstrong,

A young Scottish woman joins the French Resistance during World War II to rescue her Royal Air Force boyfriend who is lost in France.

Actors : Stuart Townsend, Thomas Kretschmann, Penélope Cruz, Charlize Theron,
Directors : John Duigan,

HEAD IN THE CLOUDS is a sweeping romantic drama set in 1930's England, Paris, and Spain. Gilda Bessé shares her Paris apartment with an Irish schoolteacher, Guy Malyon, and Mia, a refugee ...

Actors : Julian Wadham, Miranda Richardson, John Slattery, Brian Cox,
Directors : Jonathan Teplitzky,

96 hours before the World War II invasion of Normandy, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill struggles with his severe reservations with Operation Overlord and his increasingly marginalized role in the war effort.

Actors : Lea Thompson, C. Thomas Howell, Charlie Sheen, Patrick Swayze,
Directors : John Milius,

It is the dawn of World War III. In mid-western America, a group of teenagers bands together to defend their town, and their country, from invading Soviet forces.

Actors : Nick Nolte, Elias Koteas, Jim Caviezel, Sean Penn,
Directors : Terrence Malick,

Adaptation of James Jones' autobiographical 1962 novel, focusing on the conflict at Guadalcanal during the second World War.

Actors : Ulrich Mühe, Ulrich Tukur, Mathieu Kassovitz, Michel Duchaussoy,
Directors : Costa-Gavras,

During WWII SS officer Kurt Gerstein tries to inform Pope Pius XII about Jews being sent to extermination camps. Young Jesuit priest Riccardo Fontana helps him in the difficult mission to inform the world.

Actors : Alexander Polinsky, Kirby Heyborne, Corbin Allred, Larry Bagby,
Directors : Ryan Little,

Four American soldiers and one Brit fighting in Europe during World War II struggle to return to Allied territory after being separated from U.S. forces during the historic Malmedy Massacre.

Actors : Lucas Bond, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Tom Courtenay, Gemma Arterton, Penelope Wilton,
Directors : Jessica Swale,

During World War II, an Englishwoman opens her heart to an evacuee after initially resolving to be rid of him in this moving journey of womanhood, love and friendship.