Best History movies of 1980s

Actors : Valentin Teodosiu, Serban Ionescu, Ioana Craciunescu, Petrica Gheorghiu,
Directors : Mircea Muresan,

Set in the 1910's Transylvanian countryside, a poor but industrious peasant must choose between his obsessive lust for riches and his desire for true love.

Actors : Lambert Wilson, Gabriela Roel, Omero Antonutti, Eusebio Poncela,
Directors : Carlos Saura,

The film tells the epic story of an expedition that took place between 1560 and 1561, headed by Pedro de Ursúa, in search of "El Dorado." The territory they explored subsequently became ...

Actors : Mark Asquith, Ben Kingsley, Sherry Baines, Magdalen Asquith,
Directors : Tony Palmer,

The story of the great Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) and his life and career during the rule of Stalin.

Actors : Kanako Higuchi, Ken Ogata, Toshiyuki Nishida, Yûko Tanaka,
Directors : Kaneto Shindô,

The famous woodblock artist Hokusai (1760-1849), a widower in need of a steady income, lives with his daughter Oei in the house of his friend Bakin.

Actors : Nikolay Eryomenko, Natalya Bondarchuk, Dmitriy Zolotukhin, Tamara Makarova,
Directors : Sergey Gerasimov,

Part one of a pair of historical films about the life of Peter the Great.

Actors : Garry McDonald, Paul Daniel, Tony, Mike,
Directors : Jonathan Dawson,

The escapades of Ginger Meggs, local larrikin. He's trying to win the heart of Minnie Peters, but the pressures of school, his rival Eddie Coogan and bully Tiger Kelly make life tough for him. Besides, there's fishing to be done.

Actors : Sergey Nikonenko, Aleksandr Feklistov, Evgeniy Evstigneev, Aleksey Petrenko,
Directors : Yuriy Kara,

A dance troupe from the autonomous region of Abkhazia in western Georgia perform for Stalin, Lavrentiy Beria, Abkhaz leader Nestor Lakoba, and other high-ranking party officials in the Black Sea coastal town of Gagra.

Actors : Djoko Rosic, György Cserhalmi, Lajos Balázsovits, Dezsö Garas,
Directors : Tamás Rényi,

Actors : Jaya Prada, Srinivasa Murthy, Balkrishna, Rajkumar,
Directors : Renuka Sharma,

Sanskrit and upper-caste poet, Kalidas, faces many challenges after falling in love with a low-caste woman, and being entered into a competition against a learned princess.

Actors : Daniel Olbrychski, Ena Begovic, Mirjana Karanovic, Gorica Popovic,
Directors : Lordan Zafranovic,

A partisan commander had to shoot one of his comrades because he had neglected the struggle and turned to a life of lust and vice. When Italy capitulates in September of 1943 and the war ...

Actors : Freark Smink, Joke Tjalsma, Peter Tuinman, Huub Stapel,
Directors : Pieter Verhoeff,

On the turn of the 20th century, in Netherlands, three socialist activists and brothers are imprisoned for a crime they didn't commit. The prosecutor tries to get to the truth, but their comrades and others betray them.

Actors : John Cullum, Franco Nero, Carole Laure, Jane Alexander,
Directors : Mihalis Kakogiannis,

Anna and Ben are settled in rural Chile in the early 1970's. They are very isolated and their only real friends are two Chilean sisters, Eva and Monica. When Ben is stranded in Santiago on ...

Actors : Janusz Zakrzenski, Marta Lipinska, Iwona Katarzyna Pawlak, Adam Marjanski,
Directors : Zbigniew Kuzminski,

Actors : John Ahlgren, Georg Adelly, Ernst Günther, Per Oscarsson,
Directors : Per Oscarsson,

This farce cocerns Sweden's King Gustav (Per Oscarsson who plays all the lead roles). The royal monarchs of three major European countries are patiently or not-so-patiently hovering on the ...

Actors : Tatsuya Nakadai, Toshirô Mifune, Hisaya Morishige, Teruhiko Aoi,
Directors : Toshio Masuda,

Depicts the bloody siege of the fortress Port Arthur during the Russo-Japanese War 1904 - 1905. In the story dominated the character Lt Takeshi Kogyo (Teruhiko Aoi), teachers, and a reserve...

Actors : Tomasz Hudziec, Marek Kondrat, Teresa Marczewska, Zdzislaw Wardejn,
Directors : Wojciech Marczewski,

Set in the early 1950's, during the Stalin's Personality Cult. The story opens in a provincial town. Tomek's father, a former member of the Home Army is arrested so the mother is left with ...

Actors : Natalya Gundareva, Rolan Bykov, Elena Sanaeva, Svetlana Kryuchkova,
Directors : Sergei Ovcharov,

The bureaucratic epos on dialogues and M.E.Saltykova-Shchedrina's plots, life of the city of Glupov led by petty tyrants - city's mayors.

Actors : Timothy Patrick Murphy, Richard Boone, Toshirô Mifune, Mike Starr,
Directors : Tsugunobu Kotani,

A steel samurai blade that was to be given to the American ambassador by the Emperor of Japan is stolen. American sailors and Japanese samurai are sent to find it.

Actors : Jennifer Beals, Faye Dunaway, Matthew Modine, Ian Bannen,
Directors : Carlo Vanzina,

Actors : Oswald Berzins, Kirill Lavrov, Elena Prudnikova, Andrey Smirnov,

Krasnaya strela (The Red Arrow) is the special train No.1 between Leningrad and Moscow. The film is set in the 1980s during perestroika in the Soviet Union. Kropotov (Lavrov) is communist ...