Best War movies of 1980s

Actors : Reb Brown, Bill Hunter, James Coburn, Maurie Fields,
Directors : Philippe Mora,

Based on a true story, James Coburn portrays a military lawyer assigned to defend a confessed psychotic killer. Set in the context of WWII and the uneasy US-Australian military alliance. ...

Actors : Gerry Barnett, Cora Miao, Chiao Chiao, Yun-Fat Chow,
Directors : Ann Hui,

A cynical playboy pursues an introverted divorcee in the decadent Hong Kong on the eve of the Japanese invasion.

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 : Gerard Thoolen, Kitty Courbois, Ester Spitz, Frank Rigter,
Directors : Kees Van Oostrum,

15 year old Sara, a Jewish girl living in the Netherlands during the German occupation slowly begins to realize the danger she and her family are in. When her parents are forced to move to ...

Actors : Harold Sakata, Woody Strode, Edmund Purdom, Stuart Whitman,
Directors : Alan Birkinshaw,

A group of Japanese WWII soldiers transporting a gold shipment are captured and fight against a savage cannibal tribe. Years later, an expedition heads back into the jungle to locate the lost gold.

Actors : Alfredo Landa, José Sancho, Fiorella Faltoyano, Óscar Ladoire,
Directors : Ricardo Palacios,

Actors : Yong Chol Choe, Pong Ho Han, Kwang Jo, Sung Chol Cha,

A group of elite soldiers is sent across the border to South Korea to destroy a military base. The soldiers are well aware of the inherent suicide nature of their mission, but are happy to ...

Actors : Cherie Gil, Manny Ojeda, Liza Lorena, Sandy Andolong,
Directors : Peque Gallaga,

A tale set in World War II Philippines about how a rich family copes with the war and how the people change amidst violence and death

Actors : Deddy Mizwar, Nurul Arifin, Wawan Wanisar, Afrizal Anoda,
Directors : M.T. Risyaf,

Naga Bonar is a pickpocket. During the withdrawal of the Japanese occupying forces from Indonesia in 1945 he declares himself a general of the Liberation Forces. Soon a mask becomes his true self, and he becomes a true soldier and patriot.

Actors : James Mason, Maximilian Schell, Ben Cross, Irene Papas,
Directors : Alexander Ramati,

This film sheds light on the role of the Catholic Church and the people of Assisi in rescuing Italian Jews from the Nazis in 1943.

Actors : Irina Milan, Tom Wentzel, Hannu Lauri, Esko Salminen,
Directors : Jaakko Pakkasvirta,

Follows several Finnish officers and soldiers during World War II, mainly in the Finnish headquarters.

Actors : Bo Svenson, Miles O'Keeffe, Donald Pleasence, Kristine Erlandson,
Directors : Bruno Mattei,

After several American and British military personnel are killed in suicide attacks throughout southeast Asia, the U.S. begins to suspect a plot by the Vietnam government. To uncover the ...

Actors : Julie Carmen, Mary Crosby, David Huffman, Jan-Michael Vincent,
Directors : David Nelson,

An American journalist covering the civil war in Nicaragua falls in love with a beautiful Sandinista rebel.

Actors : David Thewlis, Tom Bell, Rita Tushingham, Rudi Davies,
Directors : Paul Greengrass,

True story of a British soldier (David Thewlis), who is left behind in the Falklands after the war with Argentina. He travels on a journey from the Falkland Islands, to his army barracks in...

Actors : Tuvia Gelber, Salim Dau, Danny Segev, Suhel Haddad,
Directors : Rafi Bukai,

June 11th 1967, the Six-Day War is over and the cease fire has just begun. We follow the journey of Gassan and Haled, two Egyptian soldiers whose only wish is to make their way through the ...

Actors : Katt Shea, Rick Hill, Terrence O'Hara, Bill McLaughlin,
Directors : Cirio H. Santiago,

This war's in your own backyard. Violent warfare erupts in Northern California when Vietnam vet Deacon Porter reassembles his Combat Strike Force to avenge the death of a commanding officer.

Actors : Romano Kristoff, Daniel Stephen, Urs Althaus, Gwendolyn Hung,
Directors : Ferdinando Baldi,

A group of soldiers in Vietnam, saving some missing in action soldiers in a schoolbus.

Actors : Atsushi Watanabe, Takuzô Kawatani, Kiichi Nakai, Kôji Ishizaka,
Directors : Kon Ichikawa,

Actors : Jacqueline Bisset, Irene Worth, Jürgen Prochnow, Peter Vaughan,
Directors : Anthony Page,

In Berlin in the early 1940s, romance is forbidden between the young countess who is studying veterinary medicine and a young man she meets at the home of a former professor. But they fall ...

Actors : Jennifer Runyon, Gretchen German, 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.