Best World War II movies of 1980s

Actors : Barbara Durkin, Trudi Cavanagh, Clare Clifford, Emily Lloyd,
Directors : David Leland,

In a staid English seaside town after the Second World War, young Lynda grows up with her widowed father and younger sister. Rebellious Lynda has been swearing constantly from an early age....

Actors : Anne Bancroft, Mel Brooks, Ronny Graham, Estelle Reiner,
Directors : Alan Johnson,

A bad Polish actor is just trying to make a living when what should intrude but World War II in the form of an invasion. His wife has the habit of entertaining young Polish officers while ...

Actors : Albert Finney, Edward Fox, Tom Courtenay, Zena Walker,
Directors : Peter Yates,

An effeminate personal assistant of a deteriorating veteran actor struggles to get him through a difficult performance of King Lear.

Actors : Terence Hill, Bud Spencer, John Fujioka, Louise Bennett,
Directors : Sergio Corbucci,

On a small pacific island, Alan and Charlie try to find a war treasure left behind by the Japanese army in World War II.

Actors : Kurt Russell, Fred Ward, Goldie Hawn, Christine Lahti,
Directors : Jonathan Demme,

A woman finds romance when she takes a job at an aircraft plant to help make ends meet after her husband goes off to war.

Actors : Lawrence Tierney, Vicky Dawson, Christopher Goutman, Farley Granger,
Directors : Joseph Zito,

An unknown killer, clad in World War II U.S. Army fatigues, stalks a small New Jersey town bent on reliving a 35 year-old double murder by focusing on a group of college kids holding an annual Spring Dance.

Actors : Heikki Paavilainen, Vesa Vierikko, Timo Torikka, Taneli Mäkelä,
Directors : Pekka Parikka,

Set during World War 2. After Nazi Germany invaded Poland in September 1939, Russia attacked Finland in November 1939. Finnish reservists leave their homes and go to war. The film focuses ...

Actors : Giancarlo Giannini, Mel Ferrer, Hanna Schygulla, Karl-Heinz von Hassel,
Directors : Rainer Werner Fassbinder,

In Switzerland German singer 'Willie' falls in love with Jewish composer 'Robert' who offers resistance to the Nazis by helping refugees. But his family thinks that 'Willie' is also a Nazi ...

Actors : John Karlen, Elizabeth McGovern, Nicolas Cage, Sean Penn,
Directors : Richard Benjamin,

In 1942 California, two young men await induction into the U.S. Marines and say goodbye to their girlfriends.

Actors : Sam Neill, Meryl Streep, André Maranne, Charles Dance,
Directors : Fred Schepisi,

A young Englishwoman spends twenty years to make whatever kind of life for herself, at the expense of others around her, in post-World War II England.

Actors : Anne-Marie Johnson, Gary Graham, Robert Sampson, Paul Koslo,
Directors : Stuart Gordon,

It is post-World War III. War is outlawed. In its place, are matches between large Robots called Robot Jox. These matches take place between two large superpowers over disputed territories....

Actors : Nick Nolte, Frank McRae, Gerry Lopez, Nigel Havers,
Directors : John Milius,

An American soldier who escapes the execution of his comrades by Japanese soldiers in Borneo during WWII becomes the leader of a personal empire among the headhunters in this war story told...

Actors : Shizuko Hoshi, Tamlyn Tomita, Sab Shimono, Dennis Quaid,
Directors : Alan Parker,

The passionate romance between an Irish-American man and a Japanese-American woman is threatened when the Pearl Harbor attacks happen and the woman is forced into a prison camp because of her ethnicity.

Actors : Marthe Keller, John Gielgud, Marlon Brando, George C. Scott,
Directors : John G. Avildsen,

The synthetic fuel production formula, invented by the Nazis at the end of WW2, is sought after by some who aim to sell it and by others who wish to destroy it.

Actors : Sarah Miles, Greta Scacchi, Joss Ackland, Charles Dance,
Directors : Michael Radford,

A millionaire past his prime, and his young wife, arrive in Kenya circa 1940 to find that the other affluent British expatriates are living large, as the homefront gears up for war. They ...

Actors : Anthony Zerbe, Lisa Niemi, Christopher Neame, Patrick Swayze,
Directors : Lance Hool,

In a post-apocalyptic world, a warrior wandering through the desert comes upon a group of settlers who are being menaced by a murderous gang that is after the water they control.

Actors : David Niven, Roger Moore, Gregory Peck, Trevor Howard,
Directors : Andrew V. McLaglen,

A true World War II story: the British must attack a German ship, but it's safe, in neutral Goa. So they send civilians, ex-soldiers about sixty-years-old.

Actors : Robert Mitchum, Keith Carradine, John Savage, Nastassja Kinski,
Directors : Andrey Konchalovskiy,

Ivan Bibic returns to his Pittsburgh PA suburb after surviving a Japanse POW camp, causing regular nightmares. All the time he remained faithfully devoted to his childhood love, fellow ...

Actors : François Cluzet, Marie Trintignant, Nils Tavernier, Isabelle Huppert,
Directors : Claude Chabrol,

Marie Latour, a woman of limited schooling, raises two children in a ratty flat during World War II in occupied France. In 1941, her husband Paul returns from German captivity, too weak to ...

Actors : Willem Dafoe, Robert Loggia, Edward James Olmos, Wendy Gazelle,
Directors : Robert M. Young,

Fact based story about a former Greek Olympic boxer who was taken as a prisoner during World war II and placed in the Auschwitz prison camp. There he was permitted to survive as long as he ...