Best Rebellion movies of 1980s

Actors : Antonio Mayans, Howard Vernon, Anouchka, Pierre-Marie Escourrou,

In a small village, somewhere in France, German soldiers, killed and thrown into the lake by the Resistance during WW II, come back.

Actors : Marcello Mastroianni, Harvey Keitel, Hanna Schygulla, Jean-Louis Barrault,
Directors : Ettore Scola,

In June of 1791, a group of passengers in a stagecoach find themselves caught up in the events of the French Revolution, when they find themselves in the city of Varennes when ...

Actors : Monique van de Ven, Marc van Uchelen, John Kraaykamp, Derek de Lint,
Directors : Fons Rademakers,

In January 1945, during the 2nd world-war, the Dutch resistance kills a collaborator in the street where the 12 year old Anton Steenwijk lives. The man was shot in front of his neighbors ...

Actors : Étienne Guichard, Régis Bouquet, Francesco De Rosa, Arnault LeCarpentier,
Directors : Ettore Scola,

The 50 year story of a ballroom in France, from the 1920s. The people who go there is always the same, even the musicians. You can see all kind of people dancing all the fashion dances (...

Actors : Jean-Pierre Bacri, Miou-Miou, Isabelle Huppert, Guy Marchand,
Directors : Diane Kurys,

In 1942 in occupied France, a Jewish refugee marries a soldier to escape deportation to Germany. Meanwhile a wealthy art student loses her first husband to a stray Resistance bullet; at the...

Actors : Klaus Maria Brandauer, Jean-François Balmer, François Cluzet, Jane Seymour,

A history of the French Revolution from the decision of the king to convene the Etats-Generaux in 1789 in order to deal with France's debt problem. The first part of the movie tells the ...

Actors : Richard Ng, Michelle Yeoh, Lowell Lo, Tung-Shing Yee,
Directors : David Chung,

Action film about Chinese resistance after Japanese invasion in 1930's

Actors : Loes Luca, Peter Tuinman, Renée Soutendijk, Johan Leysen,
Directors : Ben Verbong,

The story of Hannie Schaft, Dutch Resistance, told in flashback as they try to bring collaborators and criminals to justice in 1945.

Actors : Chang Son Hui, Ham Gi Sop, Jong-uk Ri, Gwon Ri,
Directors : Sang-ok Shin,

In feudal Korea, the evil King becomes aware that there is a peasant rebellion being planned in the country. He steals all the iron farming tools and cooking pots from the people so that he...

Actors : Dilip Kumar, Manoj Kumar, Shashi Kapoor, Hema Malini,
Directors : Manoj Kumar,

This is the story of India's Freedom Struggle between the years of 1825&1875.

Actors : Jean-Louis Trintignant, Carole Bouquet, Roger Dumas, Maria Schneider,
Directors : Enki Bilal,

In an imaginary dictature of a futuristic world, rebellion has broken out. The men in power scramble to the Bunker Palace Hotel, a bunker built long ago for just this kind of contingency. ...

Actors : Philippe Noiret, Raoul Billerey, Claudine Delvaux, Vincent Schmitt,
Directors : Philippe de Broca,

In 1793 when terror is widespread in France,peasants known as Chouans help the revolutionaries.

Actors : Wulf Kessler, Ulrich Tukur, Oliver Siebert, Lena Stolze,
Directors : Michael Verhoeven,

During the Second World War, a small group of students at Munich University begin to question the decisions and sanity of Germany's Nazi government. The students form a resistance cell ...

Actors : Hema Malini, Navin Nischol, Parveen Babi, Amitabh Bachchan,
Directors : Manmohan Desai,

Master Dinanath is an ex-freedom fighter. When he gets Thakur Pratap Singh arrested for arms smuggling, he has Master's wife Bharati and young daughter Priti kidnapped and also turns his ...

Actors : Oszkárné Gombik, Károly Csáki, Ildikó Bánsági, Péter Andorai,
Directors : István Szabó,

During WW2 Hungarian resistance hides a married couple from the officials. The woman is sent to act as the wife of one of the resistance members who is also in hiding and pretending to be somebody else. They slowly begin to fall in love.

Actors : Lambert Wilson, Michael Ontkean, Sam Neill, Jodie Foster,
Directors : Claude Chabrol,

WWII. In German occupied Paris, Helene is torn between the love for her boyfriend Jean, working for the resistance and the German administrator Bergmann, who will do anything to gain her ...

Actors : Iurie Darie, Marga Barbu, Florin Piersic, Ion Marinescu,
Directors : Doru Nastase,

Margelatu, the feared criminal helps the Romanian resistance to fight the dictatorial authorities.

Actors : George Lam, Season Ma, Andy Lau, Cora Miao,
Directors : Ann Hui,

A Japanese photojournalist revisits Vietnam after the Liberation and learns harsh truths about its regime and its "New Economic Zones".

Actors : Naseeruddin Shah, Smita Patil, Amrish Puri, Om Puri,
Directors : Govind Nihalani,

A public prosecutor discovers the harsh realities about life of the scheduled tribes in India during 1980s while defending a case of a tribesman charged of murdering his wife.

Actors : Shigeru Izumiya, Kaori Momoi, Ken Ogata, Masao Kusakari,
Directors : Shôhei Imamura,

Near the turbulent end of the Edo era, a man returning to Japan after exile in America searches for his wife and becomes swept up in the current of revolution in this incisive period drama from the great Shohei Imamura.