Best Rebellion movies of 1980s

Actors : Peter O'Toole, John Lone, Ruocheng Ying, Joan Chen,
Directors : Bernardo Bertolucci,

The story of the final Emperor of China.

Actors : David Warner, Cindy Morgan, Bruce Boxleitner, Jeff Bridges,
Directors : Steven Lisberger,

A computer hacker is abducted into the digital world and forced to participate in gladiatorial games where his only chance of escape is with the help of a heroic security program.

Actors : Warren Beatty, Jerzy Kosinski, Edward Herrmann, Diane Keaton,
Directors : Warren Beatty,

A radical American journalist becomes involved with the Communist revolution in Russia and hopes to bring its spirit and idealism to the United States.

Actors : Candice Bergen, Edward Fox, John Gielgud, Ben Kingsley,
Directors : Richard Attenborough,

Gandhi's character is fully explained as a man of nonviolence. Through his patience, he is able to drive the British out of the subcontinent. And the stubborn nature of Jinnah and his commitment towards Pakistan is portrayed.

Actors : Peter Cushing, Jeremy Kemp, Lucy Gutteridge, Val Kilmer,

Parody of WWII spy movies in which an American rock and roll singer becomes involved in a Resistance plot to rescue a scientist imprisoned in East Germany.

Actors : Ronny Cox, Timothy Hutton, George C. Scott, Sean Penn,
Directors : Harold Becker,

Military cadets take extreme measures to insure the future of their academy when its existence is threatened by local condo developers.

Actors : Wood Moy, Peter Wang, Marc Hayashi, Laureen Chew,
Directors : Wayne Wang,

Two cabbies search San Francisco's Chinatown for a mysterious character who has disappeared with their $4000. Their quest leads them on a humorous, if mundane, journey which illuminates the...

Actors : Gregory Hines, Mel Brooks, Madeline Kahn, Dom DeLuise,
Directors : Mel Brooks,

Mel Brooks brings his one-of-a-kind comic touch to the history of mankind covering events from the Old Testament to the French Revolution in a series of episodic comedy vignettes.

Actors : Pelé, Bobby Moore, Sylvester Stallone, Michael Caine,
Directors : John Huston,

As allied POWs prepare for a soccer game against the German National Team to be played in Nazi-occupied Paris, the French Resistance and British officers are making plans for the team's escape.

Actors : Olga Mironova, Liubomiras Laucevicius, Vladas Bagdonas, Aleksey Kravchenko,
Directors : Elem Klimov,

After finding an old rifle, a young boy joins the Soviet resistance movement against ruthless German forces and experiences the horrors of World War II.

Actors : Nick Nolte, Ed Harris, Gene Hackman, Joanna Cassidy,
Directors : Roger Spottiswoode,

Three journalists in a romantic triangle are involved in political intrigue during the last days of the corrupt Somozoa regime in Nicaragua before it falls to a popular revolution in 1979.

Actors : Christopher Lambert, Joss Ackland, Terence Stamp, John Turturro,
Directors : Michael Cimino,

Egocentric bandit Salvatore Giuliano fights the Church, the Mafia, and the landed gentry while leading a populist movement for Sicilian independence.

Actors : Giancarlo Giannini, Mel Ferrer, Hanna Schygulla, Karl-Heinz von Hassel,
Directors : Rainer Werner Fassbinder,

In Switzerland German singer 'Willie' falls in love with Jewish composer 'Robert' who offers resistance to the Nazis by helping refugees. But his family thinks that 'Willie' is also a Nazi ...

Actors : Gailard Sartain, Paul Newman, Lolita Davidovich, Jerry Hardin,
Directors : Ron Shelton,

A middle-aged Louisiana governor falls in love with a young stripper, which jeopardizes his political career and the radical policies which have made him a controversial figure.

Actors : Al Pacino, Joan Plowright, Nastassja Kinski, Donald Sutherland,
Directors : Hugh Hudson,

New York trapper Tom Dobb becomes an unwilling participant in the American Revolution after his son Ned is drafted into the Army by the villainous Sergeant Major Peasy. Tom attempts to find...

Actors : Bob Balaban, Richard Dreyfuss, John Cassavetes, Christine Lahti,
Directors : John Badham,

Ken Harrison is an artist who makes sculptures. One day he is involved in a car accident, and is paralyzed from his neck down. All he can do is talk, and he wants to die. In hospital he ...

Actors : C. Thomas Howell, Frank Finlay, Michael York, Oliver Reed,
Directors : Richard Lester,

It's 1649: Mazarin hires the impoverished D'Artagnan to find the other musketeers: Cromwell has overthrown the English king, so Mazarin fears revolt, particularly from the popular Beaufort....

Actors : Humbert Balsan, Isabelle Huppert, Guy Marchand, Gérard Depardieu,
Directors : Maurice Pialat,

Maurice Pialat's portrait of contemporary France mocks prosperity as a substitute for social and sexual revolution. Nelly abandons her bourgeois friends and a steady relationship for the ...

Actors : Tommy Chong, Roy Dotrice, Cheech Marin, Shelby Chong,
Directors : Tommy Chong,

Two brothers who can feel each others' pain and pleasure mess up the French revolution.

Actors : Monique van de Ven, Marc van Uchelen, John Kraaykamp, Derek de Lint,
Directors : Fons Rademakers,

In January 1945, during the 2nd world-war, the Dutch resistance kills a collaborator in the street where the 12 year old Anton Steenwijk lives. The man was shot in front of his neighbors ...