Best War movies of 1980s

Actors : Anna Dymna, Mathieu Carrière, Sharon Brauner, Günter Lamprecht,
Directors : Jerzy Hoffman,

As the Germans invade Poland Jewish Ruth and her mother are trapped by the oncoming Nazis. When they are loaded onto a truck for transportation to a ghetto, Ruth is told by her mother to ...

Actors : Jack Yates, Corwin Sperry, Jim Gaines, Max Thayer,
Directors : Teddy Page,

Texas Ranger Daniel Custer leaves for Vietnam to find his brother Michael, a Green Beret Lieutenant who has been reported missing in action. Michael's squad was searching for a mysterious ...

Actors : Robert Forster, George Kennedy, Ramon Estevez, Fernando Rey,
Directors : Jesús Franco,

A priest secretly leads rebels in their struggle against the corrupt military dictatorship of the Central American country of Puerto Santo.

Actors : Terence Knox, Jamie Rose, Thom Gossom Jr., Charles Hill,
Directors : Milton Bagby,

During the American Civil War, a lonely Indiana farm widow finds love when she takes in an injured traveling salesman, only to learn he is a Confederate spy on the run from Yankee patrols.

Actors : Mikhail Ulyanov, Viktor Pavlov, Gennadi Korolkov, Vsevolod Platov,
Directors : Vladimir Shevchenko,

"Counterstrike" - depicts the battle on Soviet-German front in November-December 1943. The story-line is seen mostly through the eyes of the high commanders of the Red Army and the Wehrmacht.

Actors : Yi Lu, Yi Chen, Shixiang Ma,
Directors : Abuer,

Drugs are hidden with weapons shipments of the Chinese Army during the early anti-Japanese war in Inner Mongolia.

Actors : Jerzy Trela, Marek Frackowiak, Jolanta Mielech, Jan Jankowski,
Directors : Wojciech Wójcik,

Set in a small town in Pomerania in 1946. Follows the steps of a young lieutenant in the unit of Polish army, fighting the underground forces still in existence. His assignment as a "...

Actors : Yaming Ge, Hengduo Zao, Junjie Zhai,
Directors : Guangyuan Yang,

The Chinese army stops the Japanese army in 1938 at Suzhou.

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 : Reza Asadi, Ali Gholami, Jalil Farjad,
Directors : Ebrahim Hatamikia,

Nasser Pooyan goes on a trip to the north of Iran with some of his friends. He has an accident with a child hitting him with his motorcycle. Because of his conscience hurting him badly he ...

Actors : Massimo Foschi, Flavio Bucci, Ivana Monti, Monica Guerritore,
Directors : Valentino Orsini,

In Milan, in the winter of 1944, the ruthless Cane Nero leads the fascists against the partisans. Enne 2, one of the leading figures of the C.N.L., meets Berta, whom he loved three years ...

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 : Mária Varga, Gyula Szabó, Marcello Mastroianni, Hanna Schygulla,
Directors : Pál Sándor,

Story of the owners (Mastroianni and Schygulla) of a fancy nightclub in Budapest before and during WWII.

Actors : Bia Gomes, Pedro da Silva, Tunu Eugenio Almada, Mamadu Uri Balde,
Directors : Flora Gomes,

The story of a woman who searches through the country for her husband, a resistant, while the war for independence is raging. She finds him at last and saves his life. When peace finally ...

Actors : Maria Pakulnis, Wladyslaw Kowalski, Krzysztof Kolberger, Marzena Trybala,
Directors : Jerzy Sztwiertnia,

A popular 60-year-old actor falls for a much younger dancer and a cocaine addict. During the Nazi occupation, he needs money for her rehab but artists are prohibited by the undeground government to perform for Germans.

Actors : Gérard Klein, Patrick Chesnais, Sandrine Bonnaire, Miou-Miou,
Directors : Jacques Renard,

A little town in the north of France, 1941. Blanche has three children. She worries about her husband Victor, who often goes out at night. Actually, Victor belongs to the Resistance. Soon, ...

Actors : Tibor Szilágyi, Ferenc Bács, Zoltán Nagy, Klaus Abramowsky,
Directors : Erika Szántó,

Somebody once told me the world was gonna roll me, I ain't the sharpest tool in the shed, she was looking kinda dumb with her finger in her thumb and the shape of an L on her forehead

Actors : Craig Alan, David Light, Larry Brand, Max Laurel,
Directors : Ignazio Dolce,

Commander and his small band of freedom fighters make life difficult for the VC after the Vietnam War is over. They free Vietnamese prisoners, and destroy enemy convoys every chance they ...

Actors : Rick Washburn, J. Christian Ingvordsen, Amanda Zinsser, Stuart Garrison Day,
Directors : J. Christian Ingvordsen,

Inside the stately Senate Hearing Room, Frank White, professional soldier, Vietnam vet and CIA operative, is fighting the toughest battle of his life: he's on trial for the assassination of...

Actors : Yukiyo Toake, Masatomo Nakabayashi, Chikage Awashima, Gô Katô,
Directors : Keisuke Kinoshita,

In Nagasaki, Japan, on 09 August 1945, at 11:02 AM, 80.000 dead and thousand of persons wounded or contaminated by radiation were victims of one of the most hideous crimes of the mankind ...