Best World War II movies

Actors : Mark Coles Smith, Sam Delich, Joel Nankervis,
Directors : Kiah Roache-Turner,

A group of young soldiers, fresh out of boot camp, find themselves stranded on a raft in the middle of the ocean after their ship is sunk by the enemy and must battle for their lives against a giant hungry great white shark.

Actors : Eric Godon, Michelle Williams, 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 : 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 : Eddie Izzard, Nigel Lindsay, 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 : 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 : 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 : Raphael Fejtö, Stanislas Carré de Malberg, Francine Racette, Gaspard Manesse,
Directors : Louis Malle,

A French boarding school run by priests seems to be a haven from World War II until a new student arrives. He becomes the roommate of top student in his class. Rivals at first, the roommates form a bond and share a secret.

Actors : Saundra McClain, Margaret Welsh, Joanne Woodward, Paul Newman,
Directors : James Ivory,

Set during World War II, an upper-class family begins to fall apart due to the conservative nature of the patriarch and the progressive values of his children.

Actors : Cate Blanchett, Frances McDormand, Glenn Close, Pauline Collins,
Directors : Bruce Beresford,

Fact-based recounting of a group of women who are imprisoned on the island of Sumatra by the Japanese during World War II and used music as a relief to their misery.

Actors : Robert Ryan, Richard Burton, Henry Fonda, John Wayne,

The events of D-Day, told on a grand scale from both the Allied and German points of view.

Actors : Max Casella, Massimo Ranieri, Angela Luce, John Turturro,
Directors : John Turturro,

A look at the musical roots and traditions of Naples, Italy, as well as its influence on the rest of the world.

Actors : Rüdiger Vogler, Nina Hoss, Evgeniy Sidikhin, Irm Hermann,
Directors : Max Färberböck,

A woman tries to survive the invasion of Berlin by the Soviet troops during the last days of World War II.

Actors : Barry Primus, Robert De Niro, Lionel Stander, Liza Minnelli,
Directors : Martin Scorsese,

An egotistical saxophonist and a young singer meet on V-J Day and embark upon a strained and rocky romance, even as their careers begin a long, up-hill climb.

Actors : Richard Burton, Clint Eastwood, Patrick Wymark, Mary Ure,
Directors : Brian G. Hutton,

Allied agents stage a daring raid on a castle where the Nazis are holding an American General prisoner... but that's not all that's really going on.

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.

Actors : Henry Hopper, Mia Wasikowska, Schuyler Fisk, Ryo Kase,
Directors : Gus Van Sant,

The story of a terminally ill teenage girl who falls for a boy who likes to attend funerals and their encounters with the ghost of a Japanese kamikaze pilot from WWII.

Actors : Telly Savalas, Clint Eastwood, Carroll O'Connor, Don Rickles,
Directors : Brian G. Hutton,

A group of U.S. soldiers sneaks across enemy lines to get their hands on a secret stash of Nazi treasure.

Actors : Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Giancarlo Giannini, Anthony Quinn, Keanu Reeves,
Directors : Alfonso Arau,

A married soldier returning from World War II poses as a pregnant woman's husband to save her from her father's anger and honor.