Best World War II movies

Actors : Nina Bergman, Daniel Bernhardt, Louis Mandylor, Timothy V. Murphy,
Directors : Jesse V. Johnson,

Branded a traitor by her countrymen, French national Marie DuJardin is rescued by American soldiers on one condition: to survive, she must lead them to a cache of gold hunted by the Nazis, the French resistance, and the Americans alike.

Actors : Vladimir Privaltsev, Aleksandr Nazarov, Aleksandr Lebedev, Sergo Zakariadze,
Directors : Rezo Chkheidze,

During World War II, Georgy Makharashvili, an old peasant wine-grower, leaves his Georgian village and goes off to the front lines to find his son, a wounded soldier. But before the father ...

Actors : Andrey Terentev, Vladimir Yaglych, Dmitriy Volkostrelov, Danila Kozlovsky,
Directors : Andrey Malyukov,

My iz budushchego, or We Are from the Future, is a movie about time travel. Four 21st century treasure seekers are transported back into the middle of a WWII battle in Russia. The movie's ...

Actors : Andrey Panin, Andrey Krasko, Aleksandr Golovin, Sergei Rychenkov,
Directors : Aleksandr Atanesyan,

A "Hitlerjugend" kind of story, set in the Soviet Union during the Second World War, based on a fictitious story from the eponymous book by Vladimir Kunin. The Red Army has a gang of ...

Actors : Abraham Wapler, Suzanne Lindon, Vincent Macaigne,
Directors : Cédric Klapisch,

Follows the lives of the cousins who inherit an old house in rural Normandy and retrace their steps of their ancestors in 19th century Paris.

Actors : Patrick Bergin, Jason Scott Lee, Anne Parillaud, Robert Joamie,
Directors : Vincent Ward,

Fantastic improbabilities, happenstance and the undying bridge of love are part of this romantic fantasy about an Inuit who crosses years, oceans and the ravages of WWII to find his ...

Actors : Susan Sarandon, Gabriel Byrne, Roy Dupuis, Christopher Plummer,
Directors : Paolo Barzman,

Semi-retired university professor David Winters and his wife and former student Melanie Winters née Lansing live on a hobby farm in the Eastern Townships of Quebec with their adult son ...

Actors : Vincent D'Onofrio, Tracey Ullman, Judith Malina, Lili Taylor,
Directors : Nancy Savoca,

Unsettling drama about three generations of Italian-American women struggling to get by in post-World War II New York's Little Italy.

Actors : Ellen Barkin, JoBeth Williams, Annabeth Gish, Jon Voight,
Directors : Eugene Corr,

The story involves Rose Chismore's youth. She flashes back and remembers her coming-of-age. Her recollections are sometimes less than sweet, particularly those of her troubled and alcoholic...

Actors : Jan Bijvoet, Theo Barklem-Biggs, Gijs Blom, Jamie Flatters, Tom Felton, Susan Radder,
Directors : Matthijs van Heijningen Jr.,

1944, the Second World War. A British glider pilot, a Dutch boy fighting on the German side and a Dutch female resistance member all end up involved in the Battle of the Scheldt. Their choices differ, but their goal is the same: freedom.

Actors : Gregory Peck, Tony Curtis, Eddie Albert, Angie Dickinson,
Directors : David Miller,

In 1944, an Army doctor is in charge of a neuropsychiatric ward at an Army Air Corps hospital in Arizona and he must deal with a variety of tough cases.

Actors : Kay Greidanus, Sigrid ten Napel, Lisa Zweerman, Jeroen van Koningsbrugge,
Directors : Pieter Kuijpers,

The story about Riphagen, a cunning Dutch traitor during WW2 who helped Nazi round up Jews, stealing their treasures for himself. He destroyed Resistance groups, making many who pursued justice after the war look like fools.

Actors : Wotan Wilke Möhring, Iain Glen, Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, Vivian Ólafsdóttir, Jack Fox,
Directors : Óskar Thór Axelsson,

A lawyer sucked is into an international conspiracy after being accused of a murder she didn't commit. Her only chance of survival lies in uncovering the secret of an old German WWII airplane, discovered on Iceland's largest glacier.

Actors : Galina Andreeva, Marcello Mastroianni, Lyudmila Saveleva, Sophia Loren,
Directors : Vittorio De Sica,

An Italian woman conducts a desperate search for her husband, a soldier considered missing in action in Russia - like fifty thousand others during WWII.

Actors : Vladimir Mashkov, Yuliya Peresild, Sergey Garmash, Anjorka Strechel,
Directors : Aleksey Uchitel,

In 1945, Soviet war hero Ignat is sent to work as a locomotive mechanic in a Siberian labor camp where he meets an assortment of Germans and Russians.

Actors : Tyler Wood, Yusuke Ogasawara, Timothy V. Murphy, Hiroyuki Watanabe,

In post-war Tokyo, undefeated Japanese Champion trains for his upcoming bout against the American challenger. Pitted amongst political tensions, the fighters' parallel journeys will test the very limits of human spirit.

Actors : Elena Drapeko, Ekaterina Markova, Andrey Martynov, Irina Dolganova,
Directors : Stanislav Rostotskiy,

During WWII in a small village outpost, a commander has his troop replaced by an all female unit. As they finally begin to appreciate one another, German paratroopers are spotted nearby and the realities of war emerge.

Actors : Lucy Gaskell, Louis Dempsey, Laurence Fox, Coral Beed,
Directors : Colin Teague,

Different factions in WWII-era Holland race to find a stash of Nazi gold.

Actors : Miki Mizuno, Les Loveday, Ario Bayu, Sam Hazeldine,
Directors : Steven Sheil,

The legend of Yamashita's Gold lures a treasure hunter and his group deep into the Indonesian jungle. Once they are trapped in an abandoned World War II Japanese bunker, they face the terrifying reality that the only way out is to go further in.

Actors : Yuriy Borisov, Artur Smolyaninov, Sergey Gazarov, Olga Lerman,
Directors : Konstantin Buslov,

Wounded as tank driver in 1941 during WWII, Kalashnikov sees the latest Soviet machine gun fail. As he's also an inventor, he starts looking for improvements and in 1947 ends up with AK-47 assault rifle.