Best World War II movies of 1980s

Actors : Sally Yeh, Joyce H. Cheng, Brigitte Lin, Hui-Shan Yang,
Directors : Yen-Ping Chu,

A group of women with various criminal skills are thrown into prison during World War 2. They escape and proceed to head off to destroy a chemical lab in a well fortified valley.

Actors : Hideji Ôtaki, Rentarô Mikuni, Misako Konno, Nobuko Otowa,

Ten years before the outbreak of the Second World War in Asia, a Japanese Go master and his Chinese rival meet in China to play a game of Go (loosely described as an Asian version of chess)...

Actors : Giovanni Mauriello, Phyllis Logan, Tom Watson, Denise Coffey,
Directors : Michael Radford,

Set in 1943 Scotland during World War II, Janie is young housewife married to a man named Dongal, 15 years her senior. As part of a war rehabilation program, Janie and Dongal welcome three ...

Actors : John Savage, Kelly Reno, László Mensáros, Ildikó Bánsági,
Directors : Pál Gábor,

This movie is about the love and protection of a man from another culture from the lowly horsemen of the plains in Hungary during World War II.

Actors : Jean-Claude Brialy, Francis Huster, Evelyne Bouix, Jacques Villeret,
Directors : Claude Lelouch,

The world's most popular entertainer and Europe's greatest boxer: the film puts the love affair of these two national heroes against a backdrop of the end of World War II, hotel suites in ...

Actors : Lena Nyman, Harriet Andersson, Gunnar Hellström, Agnetha Fältskog,
Directors : Gunnar Hellström,

The story of the charlatan Gustaf Raskenstam life and times during World War II, who for financial gain seduced a large number of women.

Actors : Jacqueline Bisset, Irene Worth, Jürgen Prochnow, Peter Vaughan,
Directors : Anthony Page,

In Berlin in the early 1940s, romance is forbidden between the young countess who is studying veterinary medicine and a young man she meets at the home of a former professor. But they fall ...

Actors : Yoshiyuki Omori, Shiori Sakura, Takaya Yamauchi, Masako Natsume,
Directors : Masahiro Shinoda,

In this drama at the end of World War II, the inhabitants of a small Japanese fishing village must come to terms with their nation's defeat and the sudden occupation of General MacArthur ...

Actors : Bryan Brown, Debra Byrne, Bill Hunter, Matt Dillon,
Directors : Michael Jenkins,

This drama is set in World War II Australia, where an American Marine, Rebel is recuperating from wounds suffered in battle. He is weary of war and is intent on going AWOL and escaping from...

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 : Mikhail Ulyanov, Aleksandr Goloborodko, Bruno Frejndlikh, Yakov Tripolsky,
Directors : Yuriy Ozerov,

The battle of Moscow was the first major defeat of German Wehrmacht in the Second World War. The film is dedicated to some fighting events that took place in the USSR after Hitler's conquest of western Europe.

Actors : Reb Brown, Bill Hunter, James Coburn, Maurie Fields,
Directors : Philippe Mora,

Based on a true story, James Coburn portrays a military lawyer assigned to defend a confessed psychotic killer. Set in the context of WWII and the uneasy US-Australian military alliance. ...

Actors : Eiji Okuda, Takahiro Tamura, Kyôko Kishida, Ken Watanabe,
Directors : Kei Kumai,

Downed American fliers in WWII are vivisected by Japanese surgeons in cruel medical experiments.

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 : 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 : Ricky Hui, Kitty Chan, Fung Woo, Jacky Cheung,
Directors : Jeffrey Lau,

A Hong Kong police station used to be a clubhouse of the Japanese at the time of their occupation of the city during World War II. However, at the end of the war, many of the Japanese ...

Actors : Pat Morita, Mari Sato, 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 : Ellen Burstyn, Maruschka Detmers, Donald Pleasence, Anthony Andrews,
Directors : Menahem Golan,

During WW2 Hanna Szenes, a Hungarian Jew living in British Palestine, volunteers to go behind enemy lines to rescue Jews from deportation to death camps.

Actors : Joan Plowright, Jane Horrocks, Pete Postlethwaite, Billie Whitelaw,
Directors : Jim O'Brien,

In England during World War II, a repressed dressmaker and her sister struggle looking after their 17-year-old niece, who is having a delusional affair with an American soldier.