Best War movies of 1980s

Actors : Gholamreza Ali Akbari, Ebrahim Hatamikia, Mehrdad Solaymani, Esmail Soltanian,
Directors : Ebrahim Hatamikia,

In Iran-Iraq's war, a young scout joins the front-line to help his comrades single-handed.

Actors : Ramkumar, Suhasini, Ashwath, Vishnuvardhan,
Directors : S.V. Rajendra Singh,

Mutthina Haara - A Necklace of Pearls - tells the tale of an Indian (Coorg) soldier, Achchappa and an army nurse, Annapurna (Anu) and the toils of warfare on them during the 1940's to the 1960's.

Actors : Ivan Klemenc, Jadranka Matkovic, Ante Vican, Gorica Popovic,
Directors : Vesna Ljubic,

A poor village in Herzegovina suffers from constant flooding and different armies that periodically plunder the countryside. One woman is convinced that the solution to the problems lies in...

Actors : Kai Fischer, Tina Aumont, William Berger, Elisabeth Tulin,
Directors : Angelo Pannacciò,

A secret group of Jewish activists locates and murders the Nazi doctors and soldiers who tortured and murdered their relatives in a notorious extermination camp.

Actors : Pavle Vuisic, Danica Maksimovic, Svetozar Cvetkovic, Branislav Lecic,
Directors : Aleksandar Petkovic,

After WWI, two friends, awarded officers return to their lives in peacetime. One of them becomes a commander of the gendarme's, while the other gets into conflict with the authorities and ...

Actors : Anda Onesa, Tark Laszlo, Amza Pellea, Levente Bíró,
Directors : Alexandru Tatos,

Actors : Chien-Chang Chen, Yi Kuei Chang, Chi Ping Chang, Chien-Ho Chen,
Directors : Da Chiao Lin,

Set during the Sung Dynasty, patriotic monks of the Shaolin Temple fight against foreign invasion

Actors : Tamás Major, Gábor Reviczky, Ági Margitai, Antal Páger,

October 1944. Carlotta, a run-down traveling circus proprietress, recurs to smuggling to sustain herself and her band of Yugoslav partisans. In her adventurous journey, she comes across ...

Actors : Malgorzata Pritulak, Agnieszka Konopczynska, Tomasz Jarosinski, Jacek Bryniarski,
Directors : Stanislaw Jedryka,

Set in 1939 tells a story of friendship among three 10-year olds, living in town of Sosnowiec: a Polish and Jewish boys and a German girl. The Jewish boy's parents are killed and he is ...

Actors : Stanislaw Igar, Jerzy Kryszak, Jerzy Bonczak, Piotr Dejmek,
Directors : Witold Orzechowski,

A spy thriller set in 1943 when the Polish Resistance was killing SS- officers and collaborators in Lublin and Zamosc. Polish hitman romances with "officer's lady" while he is setting up ...

Actors : Aparna, Shriti Rekha Biswas, Banani Chowdhury, Sunil Dasgupta,
Directors : Nirmal Chowdhury,

Chattagram Astragar Lunthan is a social political drama that is based on the historical battle for India's independence with focus on the Bengal and the revolt in Chattagram. The movie ...

Actors : Mariusz Benoit, Tadeusz Galia, Krzysztof Janczar, Jerzy Bonczak,
Directors : Andrzej Kotkowski,

The film deals with the a clandestine Olympiade held in a German POW camp during WW II, housing many Poles, but also French and Brits. A spit and a Polish German lieutenant is added to the ...

Actors : Miljenko Brlecic, Inge Appelt, Ena Begovic, Janez Bermez,
Directors : Ljubisa Ristic,

Zagreb in 1942. The police blocks on of the houses while looking for one of the communist officials hiding in the apartment of young female illegal fighter. Them two manage to escape, ...

Actors : Milena Dravic, Milutin Jevdjenijevic, Miodrag 'Miki' Krstovic, Maja Lalevic,
Directors : Mladomir 'Purisa' Djordjevic,

A film about an incident in the last war when a gypsy girl sacrifices herself for her lover, a partisan who has deserted.

Actors : Xuecheng Fu, Hengduo Zhao, Shi Han, Huaizheng Liu,
Directors : Nong Lin,

In 1935 the Red Army needs to cross the Dadu River.

Actors : Natalya Sayko, Anatoliy Vasilev, Ivan Bortnik, Vladimir Gostyukhin,
Directors : Nikolay Koshelev,

After lying in the hospital and bidding farewell to the front-line service, Sergeant Katsuba goes to a small provincial town to teach young cadets a military wisdom. However, the ...

Actors : Birgit Doll, Brigitte Horney, Elisabeth Trissenaar, Max Croiset,
Directors : Frans Weisz,

In 1939, Charlotte Salomon leaves Berlin to seek refuge at her grandparents' villa in the south of France. A little later, war breaks out, and Charlotte must, besides forgetting all she ...

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 : 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 ...

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.