Best War movies of 1980s

Actors : John Phillip Law, Nick Nicholson, Timothy Bottoms, Candy Raymond,
Directors : Eddie Romero,

Filipino actor Eddie Romero directs this arresting drama set during the Vietnam War. A handful of prisoners escape their captors but have to make their way through the thicket of the Vietnamese jungle.

Actors : Tony King, David Warbeck, Luciano Pigozzi, Annie Belle,
Directors : Antonio Margheriti,

On one of his last trips before retirement, a plane of an illegal gunrunner in Vietnam is shot down where he hooks up Annie Belle, a humanitarian rebel.

Actors : Chris Sarandon, Josef Sommer, John Seitz, Renée Soutendijk,
Directors : Rick King,

Ben Kline is a successful television actor looking for a meaningful role to make him a movie star. When he sets out to play a hero who died in the Holocaust, he is forced to face the ...

Actors : Petar Banicevic, Predrag 'Miki' Manojlovic, Petar Bozovic, Rade Serbedzija,
Directors : Radomir Saranovic,

This is a movie about the start of uprising People Montenegro in World War II. After the capitulation of the Yugoslav Royal Army in April 1941, the Italians managed to infiltrate their ...

Actors : Zari Boroomand, Saeed Rad, Reza Rooygari, Jamshid Hashempur,
Directors : Samuel Khachikian,

Based on true events, this movie depicts of the sacrifices made by the Iranian Air Force at the unset of the Iran-Iraq war. In particular the story of the fighter pilot Yadi Sharifirad based in second tactical airbase of Tabriz.

Actors : Roi Vinzon, Anthony Alonzo, Michael De Mesa, Bembol Roco,
Directors : Jerry O. Tirazona,

After knowing the truth behind their mission, members of a covert assault group decided to back out resulting to a massacre that became one of the most sensationalized issue in the Philippines during the 60s.

Actors : Marko Ratic, Neda Arneric, Velimir 'Bata' Zivojinovic, Gorica Popovic,
Directors : Dragan Kresoja,

As WW2 comes to an end in the former Yugoslavia, a man without an arm and his young son are on a mission. Their goal is to find and kill five members of the fascist militia who had tortured...

Actors : Ivan Rassimov, Julia Kent, Antonio Sabato, Werner Pochath,
Directors : Umberto Lenzi,

A South American rebel leader in exile in Miami is given one last chance to overthrow his successor, a brutal dictator, by a multi-national mining group out to exploit his countries' mineral resources.

Actors : Marjan Srienc, Oleg Vidov, Gordana Bjelica, Ljubisa Samardzic,
Directors : Svetislav Pavlovic,

True story about the brass band of a fire brigade during WW2.

Actors : Aleksandr Cheskidov, Yevgeni Buntov, Romualds Ancans, Aleksandr Danilchenko,
Directors : Georgiy Kuznetsov,

Afghanistan. 1986. A column of soviet military armour heads from the frontier for Kabul, along a mountain road... See full synopsis »

Actors : Frank C. Turner, David Edney, Donald Sutherland, Doug Kier,
Directors : Anne Wheeler,

A Canadian doctor interned at a Japanese POW Camp during WWII must tend to his fellow British prisoners who are being worked to death in a mine.

Actors : David Phanampai, Tinakarn Srisungmaun, So Sombat, So Wanpen,
Directors : Toranong Shrichula,

The war machine has turned the country into a battleground, transformed under the thunder of the cannons. Everything is silent, and the law of death controls the land. This history shows ...

Actors : Miles O'Keeffe, Gabriele Gori, Scott Green, Fred Williamson,
Directors : Stelvio Massi,

Disgruntled Sgt. Darkin has to protect a senator who's visiting a Vietnam village. Senator gets assassinated by the Vietcong, and Darkin gets arrested for AWOL. When the Vietcong attacks the base, he and others escape. Now what?

Actors : Bo Svenson, Jim Gaines, Don Holtz, Robert Marius,
Directors : Teddy Page,

A movie crew is shooting in Thailand when some military guys kidnap the female star. The crew decide to fight back to get the movie star while shooting their movie.

Actors : Jizhong Liu, Enhe Feng, Yun Qu, Lixiao Wang,

Liberation of Shijiazhuang, a city in the center of north China. CCP army attacks the peripheral units to lure the Nationalist Party army in the city out and then destroys it.

Actors : Viktor Plyut, Sergey Kachanov, Boris Galkin, Aleksey Zolotnitskiy,
Directors : Timur Zoloyev,

Summer 1944, Belorussia. Group of Soviet soldiers have to bring back their scout through the front line behind German lines.

Actors : Olga Kabo, Valentina Shendrikova, Elena Koreneva, Aleksandr Kalyagin,
Directors : Valeri Rubinchik,

Lysistrata led the women of ancient Greece in forcing men to stop the war, that was devastating the land. Lysistrata declared to women: "We must refrain from male altogether - till the men come to terms of peace".

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 : Barbara Rudnik, Hito Jaulmes, Andréa Ferréol, Hanns Zischler,
Directors : François Chardeaux,

In this village,French are much more victims of their fellow countrymen than they are of the occupying forces.

Actors : Donald Paul Pemrick, Michael John Meyer, Wren T. Brown, Richard Norton,
Directors : Anthony Maharaj,

The first reviewer did not understand the movie. The rescue team was sent ACROSS the border into North Vietnam territory. They never encounter any Viet Con guerrillas but regular North Vietnamese army troops.