Best War movies of 1981

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 : Lucas Belvaux, Jean Carmet, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Jean-François Stévenin,
Directors : Yves Boisset,

This is a coming of age drama adapted from the 1952 Yves Gibeau novel of the same title. A young anti-militarist is forcibly sent to military school by his father. He's a bookish pacifist ...

Actors : Józef Fryzlewicz, Edmund Fetting, Ignacy Gogolewski, Krzysztof Chamiec,
Directors : Bohdan Poreba,

A historical reconstruction of dramatic events leading to creation of Polish state. Covers the First World War and the postwar period up to the Treaty of Versailles.

Actors : Zvonko Lepetic, Slobodan Aligrudic, Sanja Vejnovic, Ljubisa Samardzic,
Directors : Aleksandar Djordjevic,

It is 1941 and the German occupying forces are taking over Yugoslavia, making a train ride to Kraljevo a dangerous game for a secret communist agent carrying important documents. Both the ...

Actors : Nikola-Kole Angelovski, Velimir 'Bata' Zivojinovic, Ilija Dzuvalekovski, Jordanco Cevrevski,
Directors : Stole Popov,

A joint fight of Macedonian and Greek people against the fascist monarchical government of Greece ended with their defeat in 1949, after many years of bloodshed. Many members of the ...

Actors : Bozidarka Frajt, Kresimir Zidaric, Miodrag Krivokapic, Ivo Serdar,
Directors : Berislav Makarovic,

Based on a TV sit-com series and set in World War II, about how an ordinary woodcutter develops into an active partisan fighter.

Actors : Edit Frajt, Christian Van Cau, László Szabó, André Dussollier,
Directors : András Kovács,

During WWII French POWs catched by Germans fleing to Hungary -an Allied to Germany-. where civilians welcome them very helpful. The tragig love story beginnig in febr.1943 . A small group ...

Actors : Tôru Ibuki, Susumu Fujita, Akihiko Hirata, Hiroshi Hasegawa,
Directors : Shûe Matsubayashi,

A lavish retelling of the true story of the final voyage and ultimate destruction and sinking of the battleship Yamato, Japan's greatest flagship during the Second World War.

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 : Christos Zannidis, Jenny Lipman, Aristodimos Fessas, Dimitri Andreas,
Directors : Michael Papas,

Almost documentary-like drama of the war between Turkish and Greek people on the island of Cyprus, seen through the eyes of a young Greek boy who greatly admires his grandfather.

Actors : Geoffrey Bowes, Tom Do-Trong Chau,
Directors : Ian McLeod,

This story of a fictional north Vietnamese and American soldier as they went through the Vietnam war is told from the point of view of each soldier, using documentary footage and scripted ...

Actors : Birgit Doll, Brigitte Horney, Elisabeth Trissenaar, Max Croiset,
Directors : Frans Weisz,

In 1939, Charlotte Salomon leaves Berlin to seek refuge at her grandparents' villa in the south of France. A little later, war breaks out, and Charlotte must, besides forgetting all she ...

Actors : Emil Hossu, Mircea Cosma, Stelian Stancu, Traian Stanescu,
Directors : Mircea Moldovan,

In WW2 when a new fascist prison warden takes over a Romanian prison he plans to kill the Communist inmates under the pretext of attempted escape during their forced-march transfer to another prison.

Actors : Szymon Szurmiej, Käthe Reichel, Axel Griesau, Karla Runkehl,
Directors : Jürgen Brauer,

World War II is over and Heinrich, a German young boy, influenced by the Russians, starts to act according to the Communism in a small German village.

Actors : Houcem Sabbah, Nadine Acoury, Najoua Haydar, Haithem el Amine,
Directors : Borhane Alaouié,

Just after telephone communication is restored between the warring East and West sides of Beirut, two old college lovers, one Christian, the other Shiite, whose efforts to meet have ...