Best World War II movies

Actors : Leslie Caron, Jack Good, Trevor Howard, Cary Grant,
Directors : Ralph Nelson,

During World War II, a man persuaded to live on an isolated island and spot aircraft finds himself responsible for a teacher and several students, all female.

Actors : Jennifer O'Neill, Gary Grimes, Jerry Houser, Oliver Conant,
Directors : Robert Mulligan,

During his summer vacation on Nantucket Island in 1942, a youth eagerly awaiting his first sexual encounter finds himself developing an innocent love for a young woman awaiting news on her soldier husband's fate in WWII.

Actors : Robert Ryan, Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews, Robert Shaw,
Directors : Ken Annakin,

A dramatization of Nazi Germany's final Western Front counterattack of World War II.

Actors : Ferenc Szabó, Gyula Franczia, Tamás Garbacz, László Bajkó,
Directors : Dénes Nagy,

World War II, occupied Soviet Union. István Semetka is a simple Hungarian farmer who serves as a Caporal in a special unit scouting for partisan groups. On their way to a remote village, ...

Actors : Jenny Seagrove, John Hannah, Julian Kostov, Amanda Abbington,
Directors : Christopher Menaul,

Based on the true story of Louisa Gould, the drama is set during World War II on the Nazi-occupied island of Jersey. Lou took in an escaped Russian POW and hid him over the war's course. ...

Actors : Angela Winkler, David Bennent, Mario Adorf, Katharina Thalbach,
Directors : Volker Schlöndorff,

In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of stairs and stops growing. In 1939, World War II breaks out.

Actors : Kiefer Sutherland, Mark Strong, Robert Carlyle, Ciarán McMenamin,
Directors : David L. Cunningham,

A true story about four Allied POWs who endure harsh treatment from their Japanese captors during World War II while being forced to build a railroad through the Burmese jungle. Ultimately ...

Actors : Rod Steiger, Anthony Quinn, Irene Papas, Oliver Reed,
Directors : Moustapha Akkad,

In the Fascist Italy Pre-World War II of Benito Mussolini, the cruel General Rodolfo Graziani is directly assigned by Il Duce to fight in the colonial war in Libya to vanquish the Arab ...

Actors : Toby Regbo, Romola Garai, Eddie Redmayne, Juno Temple,
Directors : Stephen Poliakoff,

The adopted daughter of a privileged British politician uncovers a family secret in the weeks leading up to World War II.

Actors : Allan Edwall, Susan Fleetwood, Guðrún Gísladóttir, Erland Josephson,
Directors : Andrei Tarkovsky,

At the dawn of World War III, a man searches for a way to restore peace to the world and finds he must give something in return.

Actors : Michael Lonsdale, Mahmud Shalaby, Lubna Azabal, Tahar Rahim,
Directors : Ismaël Ferroukhi,

In Paris during WWII, an Algerian immigrant is inspired to join the resistance by his unexpected friendship with a Jewish man.

Actors : Maurizio Benazzo, Daniel Asher, Brian Bancale, C.J. Barkus,
Directors : Ari Taub,

The story of ordinary men during WWII as seen from three different points of View.

Actors : Nick Nolte, Alan Arkin, Bernard Behrens, Sheryl Lee,
Directors : Keith Gordon,

An American spy behind the lines during WWII serves as a Nazi propagandist, a role he cannot escape in his future life as he can never reveal his real role in the war.

Actors : Julian Wadham, Richard Brake, Paul Blair, Ray Stevenson,
Directors : Steve Barker,

In war-torn Eastern Europe, a world-weary group of mercenaries discover a long-hidden secret in an abandoned WWII bunker.

Actors : Chad Lowe, Lois Smith, Alison Elliott, Leo Burmester,
Directors : Chris Boebel,

A close-knit Midwestern farm family deals with loss, change, and social progress during the 1940's.

Actors : Norman Burton, Laurie Heineman, Jack Gilford, Jack Lemmon,
Directors : John G. Avildsen,

A disillusioned aging decent man and once proud WWII veteran is dealing with midlife crisis as well as a tough moral dilemma. If he wants his small near-bankrupt clothing company to survive, he has two days to let go of his shaken morals.

Actors : Jackie Chan, Shôko Ikeda, Carol 'Do Do' Cheng, Eva Cobo,
Directors : Jackie Chan,

Agent Jackie is hired to find WWII Nazi gold hidden in the Sahara desert. He teams up with three bundling women (the 3 stooges?) who are all connected in some way. However a team of ...

Actors : Sean Bridgers, Aidan Turner, Ron Livingston, Sam Elliott,
Directors : Robert D. Krzykowski,

A legendary American war veteran is recruited to hunt a mythical creature.

Actors : Hana Slivková, Martin Hollý, Ida Kaminska, Jozef Kroner,

Slovakia during WW2. Tono lives a poor life, but the authorities offer him to take over the Jewish widow Lautman's little shop for sewing material. She is old and confused and thinks that ...

Actors : Jenny Agutter, Robert Duvall, Michael Caine, Donald Sutherland,
Directors : John Sturges,

A German plot to kidnap Winston Churchill unfolds at the height of World War II.