Best World War II movies

Actors : Robbie Kay, Monika Schurmann, Nina Dobrev, Jordan Pettle,
Directors : Jeremy Podeswa,

A child escapes from Poland during World War II and first heads to Greece before coming of age in Canada.

Actors : Jean Reno, Gad Elmaleh, Raphaëlle Agogué, Mélanie Laurent,
Directors : Rose Bosch,

A faithful retelling of the 1942 "Vel' d'Hiv Roundup" and the events surrounding it.

Actors : Paul Rudd, Connie Nielsen, Shea Whigham, Sienna Miller,
Directors : Ben Lewin,

A major league baseball player, Moe Berg, lives a double life working for the Office of Strategic Services.

Actors : Amy Seimetz, Jackson Dean Vincent, Chris Messina, Noomi Rapace, Joel Kinnaman,
Directors : Yuval Adler,

In post-WWII America, a woman, rebuilding her life in the suburbs with her husband, kidnaps her neighbor and seeks vengeance for the heinous war crimes she believes he committed against her.

Actors : Charles Bronson, Ernest Borgnine, Lee Marvin, John Cassavetes,
Directors : Robert Aldrich,

During World War II, a rebellious U.S. Army Major is assigned a dozen convicted murderers to train and lead them into a mass assassination mission of German officers.

Actors : Ken Duken, Nicolai Cleve Broch, Agnes Kittelsen, Aksel Hennie,

The true story about one of the most brilliant saboteurs during World War II and his battle to overcome his inner demons.

Actors : Brendan Gleeson, Daniel Brühl, Emma Thompson, Mikael Persbrandt,
Directors : Vincent Perez,

After a Nazi German working class couple loses their son in World War II, they decide to retaliate by secretly leafletting handwritten cards in Berlin denouncing their government.

Actors : Alan Ritchson, Kyle Gallner, Brenton Thwaites, Theo Rossi,
Directors : Eric Bress,

Five American soldiers assigned to hold a French Chateau near the end of World War II. This unexpected respite quickly descends into madness when they encounter a supernatural enemy more terrifying than anything seen on the battlefield.

Actors : Issey Takahashi, Masahiro Higashide, Yû Aoi, Ryôta Bandô,
Directors : Kiyoshi Kurosawa,

A Japanese merchant who leaves his wife behind in order to travel to Manchuria, where he witnesses an act of barbarism. His subsequent actions cause misunderstanding, jealousy and legal problems for his wife.

Actors : Marcell Nagy, Béla Dóra, Bálint Péntek, Áron Dimény,
Directors : Lajos Koltai,

14-year-old György's life is torn apart in World War II Hungary as he is sent to a concentration camp where he is forced to become a man, and learns to find happiness in the midst of hatred, and what it really means to be Jewish.

Actors : Cristian Motiu, Willem Dafoe, Derek Jacobi, Jeff Goldblum,
Directors : Paul Schrader,

In the aftermath of WWII, a former circus entertainer who was spared from the gas chamber becomes the ringleader at an asylum for Holocaust survivors.

Actors : Sami Bouajila, Chafia Boudraa, Roschdy Zem, Jamel Debbouze,
Directors : Rachid Bouchareb,

A drama about the Algerian struggle for independence from France after WWII.

Actors : Brian Stirner, Davyd Harries, Julie Neesam, Nicholas Ball,
Directors : Stuart Cooper,

During the Second World War a young lad is called up and, with an increasing sense of foreboding, undertakes his army training ready for D-day.

Actors : Luke Newberry, Alexander Mercury, Hon Ping Tang, Robert Gwilym,
Directors : Richard Raaphorst,

Toward the end of World War II, Russian soldiers pushing into eastern Germany stumble across a secret Nazi lab, one that has unearthed and begun experimenting with the journal of one Dr. ...

Actors : Michelle Williams, Eric Godon, Kristin Scott Thomas, Margot Robbie,
Directors : Saul Dibb,

During the early years of Nazi occupation of France in World War II, romance blooms between Lucile Angellier (Michelle Williams), a French villager, and Bruno von Falk (Matthias Schoenaerts), a German soldier.

Actors : Nigel Lindsay, Eddie Izzard, Jim Broadbent, Judi Dench,
Directors : Andy Goddard,

UK, Aug. 15, 1939: 17 days before WWII, an English teacher and his camera disappear on a coastal boarding school with 20 German teen girls. Miller gets the job 6 days later, secretly trying to find out what happened.

Actors : Maria Schrader, Svea Lohde, Katja Riemann, Jutta Lampe,
Directors : Margarethe von Trotta,

After the death of her father, Hannah becomes concerned with the strange behavior of her mother. As her mother's troubled childhood is revealed, Hannah realizes how little she ever knew.

Actors : Kippei Shîna, Jared Leto, Shioli Kutsuna, Tadanobu Asano,
Directors : Martin Zandvliet,

An epic set in post-WWII Japan and centered on an American former G.I. who joins the yakuza.

Actors : Heinz, Russell Balogh, Mark Tandy, Andrew Havill,
Directors : Oliver Parker,

The Walmington-on-Sea Home Guard platoon deal with a visiting female journalist and a German spy as World War II draws to its conclusion.

Actors : Alex Brendemühl, Brigitte Roüan, Louis Garrel, Marion Cotillard,
Directors : Nicole Garcia,

In 1950s France, Gabrielle is a passionate, free-spirited woman who is in a loveless marriage and falls for another man when she is sent away to the Alps to treat her kidney stones. Gabrielle yearns to free herself and run away with André.