Best History movies of 1980s

Actors : Raymond Bossaerts, Frank Aendenboom, Camilia Blereau, Chris Boni,
Directors : Paul Cammermans,

Flanders' countryside in Belgium's early decades didn't belong to the hard-working farmers, like patriarch Van Paemel, who would rather die then consider any alternative to knowing his ...

Actors : Nikolay Karachentsov, Vladimir Gostyukhin, Oleg Menshikov, Lyudmila Nilskaya,
Directors : Aleksandr Muratov,

Captain Artenyev is in love with a beautiful lady-spy Klara.

Actors : Boguslaw Linda, Magda Teresa Wójcik, Zbigniew Zapasiewicz, Franciszek Pieczka,
Directors : Janusz Zaorski,

Made in 1982, shelved for five years. Story opens with Lucja Krol's husband under the tram. She gives birth to her fourth son on the floor of their new apartment. Neighbor Wiktor, a ...

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

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 : Janusz Zakrzenski, Marta Lipinska, Iwona Katarzyna Pawlak, Adam Marjanski,
Directors : Zbigniew Kuzminski,

Actors : Jennifer Beals, Faye Dunaway, Matthew Modine, Ian Bannen,
Directors : Carlo Vanzina,

Actors : Mark Asquith, Sherry Baines, Ben Kingsley, Magdalen Asquith,
Directors : Tony Palmer,

The story of the great Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) and his life and career during the rule of Stalin.

Actors : Nikolai Voloshin, Andrey Dudarenko, Sergey Nikonenko, Nina Ruslanova,
Directors : Grigori Nikulin,

Epic film about life of three generations in central Russia on the Volga river.

Actors : Michael McGuire, Bruce Newbold, Craig Wasson, Morgan White,
Directors : Peter N. Johnson,

It showed the process it took to write the Constitution of the United States.

Actors : Kasym Zhakibayev, Lyubov Germanova, Aleksandr Pan, Valentina Te,
Directors : Yermek Shinarbayev,

After their son is murdered a couple raise a second son to avenge him.

Actors : Aleksandr Cherednik, Robert Vaap, Aleksandr Abdulov, Cécile Zervudacki,
Directors : Aleksandr Sokurov,

Inspired by Flaubert's Madame Bovary, Sokurov's Save and Protect recalls the most crucial events of Emma's decline and fall, including affairs with an aristocratic and a student. Focusing ...

Actors : Branca de Camargo, Alex Carozzo, Paola Agosti, Luigi Mezzanotte,
Directors : Franco Piavoli,

At the end of the war, Odysseus, the wandering hero, with his companions begins his sail back home to the Mediterranean. The conclusion of his adventure is delayed by many natural obstacles...

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 : 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 : Eiji Okuda, Toshirô Mifune, Kinnosuke Nakamura, Gô Katô,
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 : Sergey Nikonenko, Aleksandr Feklistov, Evgeniy Evstigneev, Aleksey Petrenko,
Directors : Yuriy Kara,

A dance troupe from the autonomous region of Abkhazia in western Georgia perform for Stalin, Lavrentiy Beria, Abkhaz leader Nestor Lakoba, and other high-ranking party officials in the Black Sea coastal town of Gagra.

Actors : Amin Tarokh, Jalal Moghadam, Hadi Eslami, Farimah Farjami,
Directors : Masud Kimiai,

Tehran, 1948. A young Jewish couple, Danial and his wife Munes, decide to immigrate to the recently founded state of Israel. But their application is rejected on the ground of the documents...

Actors : Natalya Gundareva, Rolan Bykov, Elena Sanaeva, Svetlana Kryuchkova,
Directors : Sergei Ovcharov,

The bureaucratic epos on dialogues and M.E.Saltykova-Shchedrina's plots, life of the city of Glupov led by petty tyrants - city's mayors.

Actors : Luca Barbareschi, Elena Sofia Ricci, Jacques Perrin, Nino Manfredi,
Directors : Luigi Magni,

1849 - Ciceruacchio declares the Independent Republic of Rome, but the French and the Austrians try to bring back the Pope to Rome.