Best History movies of 1980s

Actors : Kanako Higuchi, Toshiyuki Nishida, Ken Ogata, 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 : Sergiu Nicolaescu, Virgil Flonda, George Alexandru, Vladimir Gaitan,
Directors : Sergiu Nicolaescu,

In medieval Wallachia a young prince battles his twin brother for their father's throne and for their ancestors' crown of fire.

Actors : Mohsen Mohieddin, Michel Piccoli, Mohamad Atef, Patrice Chéreau,
Directors : Youssef Chahine,

A story during the French Occupation of Egypt (1797-1803), depicting the conflict between tradintion and modernization in the context of fighting the French invadors.

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

Actors : Rebecca Miller, Nigel Le Vaillant, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Brian Dennehy,
Directors : Klaus Maria Brandauer,

A true story about Johann Georg Elser, a quiet carpenter who tried to assassinate Hitler with an explosive device in 1939.

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 : Marga Barbu, Florin Piersic, Szabolcs Cseh, Alexandru Repan,
Directors : Gheorghe Vitanidis,

Actors : Bernard Blier, Avtandil Makharadze, Richard Berry, Isabelle Huppert,
Directors : Aleksandar Petrovic,

Based on the famous novel of Milos Crnjanski, the story follows Serbian migrations from the Austro-Hungarian Empire during the XVIII century.

Actors : Brian Benben, Michael Nouri, Joe Penny, Richard S. Castellano,
Directors : Richard C. Sarafian,

Three poor ghetto kids in turn-of-the-century New York grow up to become feared gangsters.

Actors : John Ahlgren, Ernst Günther, Georg Adelly, 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 : 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 ...

Actors : Cüneyt Arkin, Zülfikar Divani, Talat Gözbak, Recep Filiz,
Directors : Remzi Jöntürk,

Actors : Eiji Okuda, Toshirô Mifune, Gô Katô, Kinnosuke Nakamura,
Directors : Kei Kumai,

Years after the death of legendary tea master Rikyu, his disciple Honkakubo attempts to resolve the mystery of the master's death. Years before: Sen Rikyu is a ceremonial tea master who ...

Actors : Hema Malini, Pradeep Kumar, Parveen Babi, Dharmendra,
Directors : Kamal Amrohi,

An account of the reign of Indian empress Razia Sultan and her love for her slave Jamaluddin Yakut.

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 : Guy Stockwell, Peter Haskell, Ronnie Carol, Kabir Bedi,
Directors : Sarky Mouradian,

Actors : George Motoi, Marga Barbu, Florin Piersic, Szabolcs Cseh,
Directors : Mircea Moldovan,

Actors : Martin Vaughan, Angela Punch McGregor, Arthur Dignam, Lewis Fitz-Gerald,
Directors : Igor Auzins,

Jeannie Gunn faced being the only civilised woman in an uncivilised land. A story of personal triumph about one woman who reached out in a hard, hostile, prejudiced world and managed to find love.

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 : Jean Yanne, Claude Jade, Philippe Laudenbach, Daniel Mesguich,
Directors : Iradj Azimi,

Jean Yanne, Daniel Mesguich, Claude Jade: A la recherche de la fortune et du paradis ils ne connurent que l'enfer.