Best World War II movies

Actors : Gary Grimes, Jerry Houser, Oliver Conant, Jennifer O'Neill,
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 : 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 : 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 : Judy Parfitt, Kenny Doughty, Caroline Carver, Martin Landau,
Directors : John Daly,

A WWII Drama about a German/Jewish industrialist who, in order to ensure his family's safe passage out of Germany, is forced to hand over his business to the Nazis.

Actors : Willem Dafoe, Luo Yan, Sau Sek, John Cho,
Directors : Ho Yim,

With World War 2 looming, a prominent family in China must confront the contrasting ideas of traditionalism, communism and Western thinking, while dealing with the most important ideal of all: love and its meaning in society.

Actors : Fengyi Zhang, Chen Chang, Tony Chiu-Wai Leung, Takeshi Kaneshiro,
Directors : John Woo,

In this sequel to Red Cliff, Chancellor Cao Cao convinces Emperor Xian of the Han to initiate a battle against the two Kingdoms of Shu and Wu, who have become allied forces, against all ...

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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.

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 : Harry Dean Stanton, Dan Shor, John Huston, Brad Dourif,
Directors : John Huston,

A Southerner--young, poor, ambitious but uneducated--determines to become something in the world. He decides that the best way to do that is to become a preacher and start up his own church.

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 : 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 ...