Best War movies of 1980s

Actors : Michael Aitkens, Craig Ballard, James Belton, Vincent Ball,

The true story of a daring raid on Japanese-occupied Singapore Harbour by Australian and British troops during WWII.

Actors : Christopher George, Woody Strode, Nancy Kwan, Robert Walker Jr.,
Directors : Lek Kitaparaporn,

An American journalist returns to Cambodia to bring out the girlfriend he was forced to leave behind when the murderous Khmer Rouge took over the country.

Actors : Mustafa Nadarevic, Irfan Mensur, Izet Hajdarhodzic, Ljiljana Blagojevic,
Directors : Mirza Idrizovic,

Thanks to his friendliness towards Nazis, Sarajevo businessman is more and more rich during WW2. However, his infatuation towards the Jewish girl will cause his demise.

Actors : Tony King, David Warbeck, Annie Belle, Luciano Pigozzi,
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 : 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 : Ron Haddrick, Mia Farrow, John Faasen, Joan Bruce,
Directors : Yoram Gross,

The story is about a little girl during the beginning of the Second World War. It is also known as "Sarah" and "The Seventh Match".

Actors : Reda Khoury, Nabil Ismaïl, Roger Hawa, Soraya Khoury,
Directors : Maroun Bagdadi,

Lebanon, 1975. How Tahal, an affluent young man becomes a warlord ; how Soraya, the girl he leaves behind, tries to help him in abducting a businessman ; how Nabil, a press photographer ...

Actors : Piotr Bajor, Henryk Machalica, Ryszarda Hanin, Maria Klejdysz,
Directors : Stanislaw Rózewicz,

Set during the German occupation of Poland during the WWII. A priest in a small village meets "the devil" in the confessional, who appears as a revolutionary on an assignemnt to kill a ...

Actors : Bislim Muçaj, Mehdi Popaj, Muharrem Qena, Melihate Ajeti,
Directors : Ismail Ymeri,

This movie is set at the start of World War II, with little shepherds on the green slopes of an Albanian mountain range featured as intrigued, distant observers of the Italian army and ...

Actors : Tomokazu Miura, Teruhiko Aoi, Masako Natsume, Tetsurô Tanba,
Directors : Toshio Masuda,

Favorable portrayal of Japanese Prime Minister Hideki Tojo, who approved of the bombardment of Pearl Harbor, as a patriot. The film is a jingoistic defense of Japanese imperialism.

Actors : Ljubivoje Tadic, Milan Strljic, Mihajlo Kostic-Pljaka, Tanja Boskovic,
Directors : Dragovan Jovanovic,

In the end of World War II young partisan falls in love with German secretary who is captured and imprisoned by partisans. He decides to free her and escape with her

Actors : Ivan Lapikov, Evgeniy Matveev, Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Valeriya Zaklunnaya,

Front v tylu vraga (1981) is the final episode in the trilogy about the Russian partisan's resistance during WWII. The film is set in 1944, when Russian partisans are making progress in ...

Actors : Zarko Lausevic, Velimir 'Bata' Zivojinovic, Dragana Varagic, Dragomir Pesic,
Directors : Predrag Golubovic,

Two partisans, a man and a woman, try to escape a Nazi manhunt in the infernal landscape of WW2 Vojvodina.

Actors : Pyotr Velyaminov, Lyudmila Smorodina, Konstantin Stepankov, Yuri Muravitsky,
Directors : Grigori Kokhan,

The life of the legendary Russian Prince.

Actors : Pei-Pei Cheng, Kuang-Li Hsia, Wan-yi Chu, Linda Jui-Chi Liu,
Directors : Tso Nam Lee,

Six female POWs lead an escape from a North Vietnamese prison camp, then join the local rebel forces to plan an attack to wipe out the camp and free the rest of the prisoners.

Actors : Lorents Arushanyan, Arshak Hovhannisyan, Anahit Aghajanyan, Aleksandr Yanvaryov,
Directors : Levon Grigoryan,

Movie on World War II. An uneven battle occurs between a small detachment of Soviet soldiers and German detachment from the Edelweiss division.

Actors : Kumiko Ohba, Komaki Kurihara, Yoshiko Tanaka, Yûko Kotegawa,
Directors : Tadashi Imai,

Story follows a group of high school girls trained as nurses during World War II who witness the horrors of war first-hand on Okinawa.

Actors : Shangxin Wang, Changhua Jiang, Kun Xiang, Jianhua Gong,

Set in winter in 1948, two high level officers plan to go over to the communist side.

Actors : William Hutt, Ann-Marie MacDonald, Martha Henry, Brent Carver,
Directors : Robin Phillips,

Robert Ross lives a protected adolescence in a well-off Toronto suburb. Secretive and withdrawn, he shares his thoughts only with his sister Rowena, who is mentally disabled. He feels ...

Actors : Edward Albert, Steve Railsback, James Franciscus, Helmut Berger,
Directors : Veljko Bulajic,

This WW2 epic was one of the last movies of that kind made in former Yugoslavia. It tells the true story of great transport of Partizans from Vojvodina to Bosnia in 1943.