Best War movies of 1981

Actors : Harold Ramis, Bill Murray, John Candy, Warren Oates,
Directors : Ivan Reitman,

Two friends who are dissatisfied with their jobs decide to join the army for a bit of fun.

Actors : Kate Nelligan, Philip Martin Brown, Stephen MacKenna, Donald Sutherland,
Directors : Richard Marquand,

A ruthless German spy, trying to get out of Britain with vital information about D-Day, must spend time with a young woman and her crippled husband.

Actors : Jean Carmet, Hanna Schygulla, Jerzy Skolimowski, Bruno Ganz,
Directors : Volker Schlöndorff,

Laschen, a German journalist, travels to the city of Beirut during the fights between Christians and Palestinians to produce an essay about the situation. Together with his photographer, he...

Actors : Loes Luca, Peter Tuinman, Renée Soutendijk, Johan Leysen,
Directors : Ben Verbong,

The story of Hannie Schaft, Dutch Resistance, told in flashback as they try to bring collaborators and criminals to justice in 1945.

Actors : Stoyko Peev, Vania Tzvetkova, Antony Genov, Vassil Mihajlov,
Directors : Ludmil Staikov,

This is an epic screen presentation showing the creation, the consolidation and the power of First Bulgarian Kingdom and the first Bulgarian ruler Khan Asparuh.

Actors : Carlo Giuffrè, Ken Marshall, Marcello Mastroianni, Alexandra King,
Directors : Liliana Cavani,

After the Allies liberate Naples in 1943, the life for the locals is not much easier, especially for women. Many sacrifice their dignity and morale to survive.

Actors : Jacqueline Bisset, Toshirô Mifune, Laurence Olivier, Ben Gazzara,
Directors : Terence Young,

During the Korean War, General Douglas MacArthur masterminds the amphibious invasion of Inchon in September 1950.

Actors : Jerzy Stuhr, Mariusz Dmochowski, Krystyna Janda, Roman Wilhelmi,
Directors : Piotr Szulkin,

Film opens on December 28, 1999, three days before the dawn of the new century. A local reporter, Iron Idem, announces that the Martians have landed. Shortly after that his program loses ...

Actors : Martin Walz, Tina Engel, Hans Diehl, Curt Bois,
Directors : Markus Imhoof,

During World War II, Switzerland severely limited refugees: "Our boat is full." A train from Germany halts briefly in an isolated corner of Switzerland. Six people jump off seeking asylum: ...

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 : Sergiu Nicolaescu, Mircea Albulescu, Gheorghe Cozorici, Ion Besoiu,
Directors : Sergiu Nicolaescu,

In 1918 a defeated Austro-Hungarian Baron Colonel Von Görtz returns home to Transylvania which has just been lost to Romania. A vengeful Von Görtz punishes the nearby villagers but Romanian Major Tudor Andrei aids them.

Actors : Juozas Budraitis, Uldis Dumpis, Regimantas Adomaitis, Donatas Banionis,
Directors : Almantas Grikevicius,

This film only evokes one day, the last day of a Lithuanian village of which all the inhabitants have been massacred, shot and burnt by Nazi executioners Saturday, June 3td. 1944. But the ...

Actors : Edit Frajt, Christian Van Cau, László Szabó, André Dussollier,
Directors : András Kovács,

During WWII French POWs catched by Germans fleing to Hungary -an Allied to Germany-. where civilians welcome them very helpful. The tragig love story beginnig in febr.1943 . A small group ...

Actors : Geoffrey Bowes, Tom Do-Trong Chau,
Directors : Ian McLeod,

This story of a fictional north Vietnamese and American soldier as they went through the Vietnam war is told from the point of view of each soldier, using documentary footage and scripted ...

Actors : Houcem Sabbah, Nadine Acoury, Najoua Haydar, Haithem el Amine,
Directors : Borhane Alaouié,

Just after telephone communication is restored between the warring East and West sides of Beirut, two old college lovers, one Christian, the other Shiite, whose efforts to meet have ...

Actors : Józef Fryzlewicz, Edmund Fetting, Ignacy Gogolewski, Krzysztof Chamiec,
Directors : Bohdan Poreba,

A historical reconstruction of dramatic events leading to creation of Polish state. Covers the First World War and the postwar period up to the Treaty of Versailles.

Actors : Lucas Belvaux, Jean Carmet, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Jean-François Stévenin,
Directors : Yves Boisset,

This is a coming of age drama adapted from the 1952 Yves Gibeau novel of the same title. A young anti-militarist is forcibly sent to military school by his father. He's a bookish pacifist ...

Actors : Tôru Ibuki, Susumu Fujita, Akihiko Hirata, Hiroshi Hasegawa,
Directors : Shûe Matsubayashi,

A lavish retelling of the true story of the final voyage and ultimate destruction and sinking of the battleship Yamato, Japan's greatest flagship during the Second World War.

Actors : Emil Hossu, Mircea Cosma, Stelian Stancu, Traian Stanescu,
Directors : Mircea Moldovan,

In WW2 when a new fascist prison warden takes over a Romanian prison he plans to kill the Communist inmates under the pretext of attempted escape during their forced-march transfer to another prison.

Actors : Nikola-Kole Angelovski, Velimir 'Bata' Zivojinovic, Ilija Dzuvalekovski, Jordanco Cevrevski,
Directors : Stole Popov,

A joint fight of Macedonian and Greek people against the fascist monarchical government of Greece ended with their defeat in 1949, after many years of bloodshed. Many members of the ...