Best World War II movies of 1980s

Actors : Lea Thompson, Lukas Haas, Steve Hendrickson, Alan Wright,
Directors : Jenny Bowen,

After his mother dies and father goes to fight in World War II, a young boy moves in with his aunt and uncle who live in the countryside. Lonely and unhappy, he starts believing he has super powers. Then a "dead" man shows up.

Actors : Karlo Bulic, Relja Basic, Frano Lasic, María Baxa,
Directors : Antun Vrdoljak,

Melkior Tresic is one of many intellectuals in 1941 Zagreb who is helplessly waiting for the encroaching war.

Actors : Stephen Quadros, William Knight, Michael Wayne, David Parry,
Directors : David A. Prior,

An American reporter covering a civil war in Nicaragua discovers that four soldiers that he used to know during World War II are there and they are actual vampires fighting their own ...

Actors : Giovanni Mauriello, Tom Watson, Phyllis Logan, 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 : 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 : Tchéky Karyo, Fanny Ardant, Agnès Soral, Jeremy Irons,
Directors : Jean-Jacques Andrien,

Australia is about Edouard Pierson, a Belgian-born wool dealer who emigrated to Australia after World War Two. The movie actual takes place in Belgium as he returns to his homeland to ...

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 : Jay Roberts Jr., James Lew, Michael Standing, Elizabeth Kaitan,
Directors : Frank Harris,

An alien visits Earth during World War III, learns English by absorbing a dictionary, and meets good and bad earthlings.

Actors : Per Morberg, Helena Bergström, Helene Egelund, Ingvar Hirdwall,
Directors : Göran Carmback,

World War II through the eyes of a Stockholm waitress.

Actors : Piotr Polk, Horst Buchholz, Maya Ramati, Didi Ramati,
Directors : Alexander Ramati,

This is the true story about a group of Romani's (gypsy) in occupied Poland during World War II as they confront the atrocities and tragedies of a forgotten holocaust.

Actors : Jack Thompson, Carol Burns, Denis Lill, Donna Akersten,
Directors : Mike Newell,

During World War 2, a farmer in New Zealand murders seven people, and the police, along with local Maori trackers, hunt him in the bush country.

Actors : Gretchen German, Jennifer Runyon, Marc Singer, Gary Kroeger,
Directors : Stuart Gillard,

In the midst of WWII, a group of half-witted soldiers led by a slightly smarter sergeant, battle the Germans and especially Von Kraut in the desert.

Actors : Sally Yeh, Joyce H. Cheng, Hui-Shan Yang, Brigitte Lin,
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 : Powers Boothe, Liubomiras Laucevicius, Fernando Allende, Sergey Nikonenko,
Directors : Yuriy Ozerov,

The WWII pivotal battle of Stalingrad is shown through the eyes of the soldiers and officers on both sides of the war.

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 : Rebecca Jenkins, Michael Ontkean, Luke Reilly, Chad Krowchuk,
Directors : Anne Wheeler,

Story about a WWII wife & mother who joins a local dance band to provide for family while husband at war. Romantic involvement with one of the band members make her decisions difficult when...

Actors : Rousy Chanev, Maria Statulova, Stefan Danailov, Radko Dishliev,
Directors : Borislav Punchev,

World War II. Vasil is in serious conflict with the police officer Simeonov and at the same time with his childhood friend and brother by faith - the partisan Kalin. Yana comes between ...

Actors : Ljubivoje Tadic, Milan Strljic, Mihajlo Kostic-Pljaka, Tanja Boskovic,
Directors : Dragovan Jovanovic,

In the end of World War II young partisan falls in love with German secretary who is captured and imprisoned by partisans. He decides to free her and escape with her

Actors : Zygmunt Bielawski, Mieczyslaw Janowski, Jerzy Kaszubowski, Jerzy Binczycki,
Directors : Jerzy Kaszubowski,

During the Second World War, tens of thousands of blonde, blue-eyed Polish children were snatched from their parents and given to German families. Lebensborn was part of Hitler's plan to ...

Actors : Jack M. Sell, Adrienne Richmond, Troy Donahue, Tippi Hedren,
Directors : Jack M. Sell,

A secret agent tries to prevent World War III.