Best War movies of 1988

Actors : Akemi Yamaguchi, Yoshiko Shinohara, Tsutomu Tatsumi, Ayano Shiraishi,
Directors : Isao Takahata,

A young boy and his little sister struggle to survive in Japan during World War II.

Actors : George Dzundza, Stephen Baldwin, Steven Bauer, Jason Patric,
Directors : Kevin Reynolds,

A Soviet tank and its warring crew become separated from their patrol and lost in an Afghan valley with a group of vengeance-seeking rebels on their tracks.

Actors : Jerry Reed, Gene Hackman, Danny Glover, David Marshall Grant,
Directors : Peter Markle,

During the Vietnam War, Colonel Hambleton's aircraft is shot down over enemy territory and a frantic rescue operation ensues.

Actors : Kiefer Sutherland, Bruce Dern, Mariette Hartley, Robert Downey Jr.,
Directors : Ernest Thompson,

Two friends living in a small town during the 1960s, run away to enjoy their freedom during the Vietnam War, thus disappointing the father of one of them. When they return to town, they realize the importance of family unity.

Actors : Aki Aleong, Roland Harrah III, Chuck Norris, Miki Kim,
Directors : Aaron Norris,

Braddock mounts a one-man assault to free his wife and son who are still being held in a Vietnam prison camp.

Actors : Fred Ward, Willem Dafoe, Gregory Hines, Amanda Pays,
Directors : Christopher Crowe,

McGriff and Albaby are probably doing the worst law enforcement job in the world - they are plain clothes U.S. military policemen on duty in war-time Saigon. However, their job becomes even...

Actors : Robert F. Lyons, Tony Pierce, Michael Dudikoff, Michael DeLorenzo,
Directors : Aaron Norris,

A young officer, just out of West Point is sent to Vietnam, where the men don't respect him until he gets wounded and returns to be a wiser soldier and a better commander

Actors : Ismaila Cissé, Ababacar Sy Cissé, Sidiki Bakaba, Hamed Camara,

In this semi-autobiographical film, black soldiers help to defend France, but are detained in prison camp before being repatriated home.

Actors : Philippe Noiret, Raoul Billerey, Claudine Delvaux, Vincent Schmitt,
Directors : Philippe de Broca,

In 1793 when terror is widespread in France,peasants known as Chouans help the revolutionaries.

Actors : Fabijan Sovagovic, Filip Sovagovic, Krunoslav Saric, Nada Subotic,
Directors : Branko Schmidt,

The story begins in a small rural village in Slavonia,Ladimirevci in 1943, where a land owner Sima is helping the Partisan Movement and the official Ustasha regime in order to save the life...

Actors : Ernest Borgnine, Herbert Lom, Robert Vaughn, Oliver Reed,
Directors : John 'Bud' Cardos,

During the Angola Civil War, CIA agent Michael Smith is captured by the Communists, prompting a rescue mission organized by his father aided by hired mercenaries.

Actors : Gustavo Bueno, José Tejada, Gilberto Torres, Toño Vega,
Directors : Francisco J. Lombardi,

The Peruvian anti-terrorist army takes control of a far away and unknown small village isolated in the Andes by the terrorist militia "Sendero Luminoso" (Shining Path), during the dirty war in Peru at 80's decade.

Actors : Christine Hakim, Rudy Wowor, Slamet Rahardjo, Piet Burnama,
Directors : Eros Djarot,

Set in 1896, Tjoet Nja Dhien celebrates one of Indonesia's great heroes who fought for independence from the Dutch. The pious Muslim people of Aceh, a city that had flourished since ancient...

Actors : Piotr Polk, Horst Buchholz, Maya Ramati, Didi Ramati,
Directors : Alexander Ramati,

This is the true story about a group of Romani's (gypsy) in occupied Poland during World War II as they confront the atrocities and tragedies of a forgotten holocaust.

Actors : James Whyle, Sean Taylor, Greg Latter, Frantz Dobrowsky,
Directors : Darrell Roodt,

A bloods thirsty, anti-war film.

Actors : Ana María González, Leopoldo Aban, Guillermo Delgado, Juan José Camero,
Directors : Miguel Pereira,

A rural teacher in Jujuy, establishes a friendly relationship with the inhabitants of Chorcán , a small Andean village . Circumstances in EEE Outbreak of War of the Malvinas and one of his ...

Actors : Michel Voïta, Jean-François Pichette, Matthias Habich, Johanne-Marie Tremblay,
Directors : Léa Pool,

A war photographer returns home to Montréal to discover that his two partners have left him to be together. Alone in the city, he photographs what he sees, trying to heal both his war memories and a broken heart.

Actors : Bob Hoskins, Dexter Fletcher, Zoë Wanamaker, Zoë Nathenson,
Directors : Bob Hoskins,

During WWII a youth deserts his country's army after a combat experience, but not before wounding his commanding officer with a knife in order to escape. The young man, now very emotionally...

Actors : Richard Harris, Brent Huff, Mary Stavin, Ottaviano Dell'Acqua,

Michael Ransom's Vietnam squad leader, Vic Jenkins, is captured by terrorists demanding ten million dollars worth of diamonds in return for his release. Michael, reluctantly aided by local ...

Actors : Ellen Burstyn, Maruschka Detmers, Donald Pleasence, Anthony Andrews,
Directors : Menahem Golan,

During WW2 Hanna Szenes, a Hungarian Jew living in British Palestine, volunteers to go behind enemy lines to rescue Jews from deportation to death camps.