Best World War II movies

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.

Actors : Loïs van Wijk, Lily James, Jai Courtney, Christopher Plummer,
Directors : David Leveaux,

A German soldier tries to determine if the Dutch resistance has planted a spy to infiltrate the home of Kaiser Wilhelm in Holland during the onset of World War II, but falls for a young Jewish Dutch woman during his investigation.

Actors : Dóra Sztarenki, Péter Rudolf, Tamás Szabó Kimmel, Bence Tasnádi,
Directors : Ferenc Török,

12 August 1945, 11 AM. Two mysterious strangers dressed in black appear at the railway station of a Hungarian village. Within a few hours, everything changes.

Actors : Samy Naceri, Sami Bouajila, Jamel Debbouze, Roschdy Zem,
Directors : Rachid Bouchareb,

During WWII, four North African men enlist in the French army to liberate that country from Nazi oppression, and to fight French discrimination.

Actors : Anna Geislerová, Ivan Trojan, Jaroslava Adamová, György Cserhalmi,
Directors : Ondrej Trojan,

A nurse and her surgeon-lover are part of a resistance movement in 1940s Czechoslovakia. When they are discovered, her lover flees and she must find a place to hide. A patient whose life ...

Actors : Richard Attenborough, James Garner, Charles Bronson, Steve McQueen,
Directors : John Sturges,

Allied prisoners of war plan for several hundred of their number to escape from a German camp during World War II.

Actors : William H. Macy, Meat Loaf, Laura Dern, David Paymer,
Directors : Neal Slavin,

In the waning months of World War II, a man and his wife are mistakenly identified as Jews by their anti-Semitic Brooklyn neighbors. Suddenly the victims of religious and racial persecution...

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 : Chris Messina, Jackson Dean Vincent, Joel Kinnaman, Amy Seimetz, Noomi Rapace,
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, John Cassavetes, Ernest Borgnine, Lee Marvin,
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 : Shea Whigham, Paul Rudd, Connie Nielsen, Sienna Miller,
Directors : Ben Lewin,

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

Actors : Johnny Flynn, Lena Olin, Anthony Hopkins, Helena Bonham Carter,
Directors : James Hawes,

Follows British humanitarian Nicholas Winton, who helped save hundreds of Central European children from the Nazis on the eve of World War II.

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 : Andrea Riseborough, Alexander Skarsgård, Marion Cotillard, Kate Winslet,
Directors : Ellen Kuras,

The story of photographer Elizabeth 'Lee' Miller, a fashion model who became an acclaimed war correspondent for Vogue magazine during World War II.

Actors : Kyle Gallner, Brenton Thwaites, Theo Rossi, Alan Ritchson,
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 : Brendan Gleeson, Daniel Brühl, Mikael Persbrandt, Emma Thompson,
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 : Masahiro Higashide, Yû Aoi, Issey Takahashi, 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 : Ken Duken, Agnes Kittelsen, Nicolai Cleve Broch, 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 : 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 : Sami Bouajila, Roschdy Zem, Chafia Boudraa, Jamel Debbouze,
Directors : Rachid Bouchareb,

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