Best World War II movies of 1980s

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 : Cherie Gil, Manny Ojeda, Liza Lorena, Sandy Andolong,
Directors : Peque Gallaga,

A tale set in World War II Philippines about how a rich family copes with the war and how the people change amidst violence and death

Actors : Bob Hoskins, Dexter Fletcher, Zoë Wanamaker, 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 : Michael Beach, Michael Biehn, Maureen Mueller, Patrick Dempsey,
Directors : Kenneth Bowser,

When a physically and emotionally scarred soldier returns home from World War II, he mistakenly trusts a mysterious young drifter to deliver a secret love letter to his old sweetheart.

Actors : Ricky Hui, Kitty Chan, Jacky Cheung, Fung Woo,
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 : Rod Taylor, Raf Vallone, Edward Albert, 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 : Han Chin, Maggie Cheung, Josephine Koo, Brigitte Lin,
Directors : Ho Yim,

A talented lady novelist falls in love with a Chinese traitor working with the Japanese during the WWII.

Actors : Harold Sakata, Woody Strode, Edmund Purdom, Stuart Whitman,
Directors : Alan Birkinshaw,

A group of Japanese WWII soldiers transporting a gold shipment are captured and fight against a savage cannibal tribe. Years later, an expedition heads back into the jungle to locate the lost gold.

Actors : Francisco Rabal, William Hurt, Melissa Leo, Timothy Hutton,
Directors : Gregory Nava,

A modernized version of the story which inspired Verdi's opera, "La Forza del Destino".

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 : 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 : Marianne Basler, Nicole Garcia, Philippe Galland, Brigitte Roüan,
Directors : Brigitte Roüan,

In French Algeria, after WWII, three daughters of wealthy settlers begin their adult lives. Zon marries an often absent sailor. Malene's husband, Gildas, refuses to work in the farm, so she...

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 : 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 : 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 : 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.

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 : Katsuhisa Yamazaki, Noritake Kobinata, Tetsuya Fujita, Yuji Horioka,
Directors : Masahiro Shinoda,

Bombing during World War II resulted in whole urban populations fleeing to the countryside, and this created a meeting of urban and rural cultures. Shinji (a young boy evacuated from Tokyo)...

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.