Best War movies of 1980s

Actors : Shaoxiong Guo, Daolin Xu, Qi Lu, Tangmin Tang,
Directors : Jialin Chen,

Set in 1929, Guangxi Province. On behalf of CCP, Deng comes to Guangxi and leads a uprising of some local warlords who have friction with the central army.

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 ...

Actors : Zongwan Wei, Xiaoyan Lu, Zeru Tao, Daoming Chen,
Directors : Junzhao Zhang,

Set in the Anti-Japanese War, an instructor who used to be an undercover at the enemy-occupied area. He is set up by a spy and could not prove his innocence.

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 : Gérard Klein, Sandrine Bonnaire, Patrick Chesnais, 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 : 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 : Chien-Chang Chen, Yi Kuei Chang, Chien-Ho Chen, Chi Ping Chang,
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 : Tamás Major, Ági Margitai, Gábor Reviczky, Antal Páger,

October 1944. Carlotta, a run-down traveling circus proprietress, recurs to smuggling to sustain herself and her band of Yugoslav partisans. In her adventurous journey, she comes across ...

Actors : Juozas Budraitis, Uldis Dumpis, Regimantas Adomaitis, Donatas Banionis,
Directors : Almantas Grikevicius,

This film only evokes one day, the last day of a Lithuanian village of which all the inhabitants have been massacred, shot and burnt by Nazi executioners Saturday, June 3td. 1944. But the ...

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Nel Angeles, Hugh Arnold, Emmanuel Ayl, Marilyn Bautista,
Directors : Tony Y. Reyes,

In 1973 Vietnam, gas bombs are dropped on villages, killing men, women, and children. Two downed American pilots, accused of the bombings, are captured and tortured. Both men give name, ...

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

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