Best World War II movies

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 : 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 : Paul Dano, Michelle Williams, Judd Hirsch, Gabriel LaBelle,
Directors : Steven Spielberg,

Growing up in post-World War II era Arizona, young Sammy Fabelman aspires to become a filmmaker as he reaches adolescence, but soon discovers a shattering family secret and explores how the power of films can help him see the truth.

Actors : Cate Blanchett, James Fleet, 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 : 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.

Actors : Matthew Goode, Anthony Hopkins, Liv Lisa Fries,
Directors : Matt Brown,

Psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud invites professor C.S. Lewis to debate the existence of God, Freud's unique relationship with his daughter, and Lewis' unconventional relationship with his best friend's mother.

Actors : Vic Morrow, Doug McGrath, Albert Brooks, Dan Aykroyd,

Four horror and science fiction segments, directed by four famous directors, each of them being a new version of a classic story from Rod Serling's landmark television series.

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 : Gary Oldman, Linda Cardellini, Common, Gerard Butler,
Directors : Donovan Marsh,

An untested American submarine captain teams with U.S. Navy Seals to rescue the Russian president, who has been kidnapped by a rogue general.

Actors : Michael Fassbender, Kevin Bacon, James McAvoy, Jennifer Lawrence,
Directors : Matthew Vaughn,

In 1962, the United States government enlists the help of Mutants with superhuman abilities to stop a malicious dictator who is determined to start World War III.

Actors : Ed Harris, Félix Moati, Matthias Schweighöfer, Edgar Ramírez, Jesse Eisenberg, Clémence Poésy,
Directors : Jonathan Jakubowicz,

The story of mime Marcel Marceau as he works with a group of Jewish boy scouts and the French Resistance to save the lives of ten thousand orphans during World War II.

Actors : Sebastian Koch, Thom Hoffman, Halina Reijn, Carice van Houten,
Directors : Paul Verhoeven,

In the Nazi-occupied Netherlands during World War II, a Jewish singer infiltrates the regional Gestapo headquarters for the Dutch resistance.

Actors : Martin Brambach, August Diehl, Devid Striesow, Karl Markovics,
Directors : Stefan Ruzowitzky,

The story of the Operation Bernhard, the largest counterfeiting operation in history, carried out by Germany during WWII.

Actors : Holly Hunter, John Goodman, Richard Dreyfuss, Brad Johnson,
Directors : Steven Spielberg,

The spirit of a recently deceased expert pilot mentors a newer pilot while watching him fall in love with the girlfriend that he left behind.

Actors : Julie Andrews, Richard Haydn, Eleanor Parker, Christopher Plummer,
Directors : Robert Wise,

A woman leaves an Austrian convent to become a governess to the children of a Naval officer widower.

Actors : Julian Sands, Harvey Keitel, Stellan Skarsgård, Barry Pepper,
Directors : Václav Marhoul,

A young Jewish boy somewhere in Eastern Europe seeks refuge during World War II where he encounters many different characters.

Actors : Ed Harris, Julian Adams, William Fichtner, David Duchovny,
Directors : Todd Robinson,

The haunted Captain of a Soviet submarine holds the fate of the world in his hands. Forced to leave his family behind, he is charged with leading a covert mission cloaked in mystery.

Actors : Jakob Salvati, David Henrie, Emily Watson, Michael Rapaport,
Directors : Alejandro Monteverde,

An eight-year-old boy is willing to do whatever it takes to end World War II so he can bring his father home. The story reveals the indescribable love a father has for his little boy and the love a son has for his father.

Actors : Peter Cushing, Jeremy Kemp, Lucy Gutteridge, Val Kilmer,

Parody of WWII spy movies in which an American rock and roll singer becomes involved in a Resistance plot to rescue a scientist imprisoned in East Germany.

Actors : Joan Plowright, Cher, Maggie Smith, Judi Dench,
Directors : Franco Zeffirelli,

An orphaned Italian boy is raised among a circle of British and American women living in Mussolini's Italy before and during the Second World War.