Best World War II movies

Actors : Robert Wieckiewicz, Michalina Labacz, Ryszard Ronczewski, Agata Kulesza,
Directors : Wojciech Smarzowski,

The story of a WWII tragedy in a Polish village mixed with the story of a wedding taking place in the same place 100 years later. A bitter look at a xenophobic community that forgets its own history.

Actors : Stjepan Peric, Kristijan Jaic, Tena Jeic Gajski, Ljubisa Savanovic,
Directors : Ivan-Goran Vitez,

This comedy of the absurd is set in the Nazi puppet Independent State of Croatia (NDH) during World War II. The hero, Ljiljan is a young peasant poet who joins the Partisan movement just ...

Actors : Shinjirô Ebara, Isao Natsuyagi, Sachiko Hidari, Tetsurô Tanba,
Directors : Kinji Fukasaku,

One woman's search to find the truth about her husband's death in World War II.

Actors : Ella-June Henrard, Joren Seldeslachts, Thure Riefenstein, Koen De Bouw,
Directors : Sven Huybrechts,

a team of Belgian resistance fighters kidnap a German submarine during WWII to bring Uranium, needed for the Manhattan Project, from Belgian Kongo to New York.

Actors : Anatoliy Papanov, Aleksey Glazyrin, Evgeniy Leonov, Vsevolod Safonov,
Directors : Andrey Smirnov,

A sympathetic, emotionally persuasive drama describing the friendship of four World War II veterans, their sudden reunion after 25 years and the subsequent effect of this occasion upon ...

Actors : Philippe Tlokinski, Bradley James, Julie Engelbrecht, Martin Butzke,
Directors : Wladyslaw Pasikowski,

Film about the lead up to the Polish uprising against German occupation at the end of the Second World War.

Actors : John Hackett, Jack Nicholson, Annabelle Huggins, Jimmie Rodgers,
Directors : Monte Hellman,

During WWII, a three-man commando team places its trust in the hands of a band of Filipino resistants, as they try to knock out a Japanese communication center.

Actors : Veronika Mox, Igor Petrenko, Mikhail Novikov,
Directors : Mark Gorobets,

Two friends come to Saur-Mogila - nurse Sergey from Russia and German Paul. They are looking for things from the Second World War and are suddenly transported to 1941, during the battles at Saur-Mogila. The heroes are faced with a choice - to stay and help or return to their own time.

Actors : Lilli Palmer, Robert Taylor, Curd Jürgens, Eddie Albert,
Directors : Arthur Hiller,

In 1945 the fate of Vienna's famous Lipizzaner stallions hangs into balance.American general Patton could save them but first he asks to see them perform.

Actors : Lisa Lu, Glenn Corbett, Harry Morgan, James Stewart,
Directors : Daniel Mann,

A US Army Major stationed in East China in 1944 is ordered to blow up military installations in order to slow down the advancing Japanese Army.

Actors : Norman Bowler, David Sumner, Brian Grellis, James Caan,
Directors : William A. Graham,

After losing a submarine and fifty crew in a battle with a German ship during WWII, a Royal Navy officer gets a second chance in a daring raid with midget subs.

Actors : Marc Barbé, Léo-Paul Salmain, Jean-Marc Roulot, Ulrich Matthes,
Directors : Volker Schlöndorff,

A teenager joins the resistance in Nazi-occupied France during World War II.

Actors : Gino Franco, Harry Northup, Peter Fonda, Philip Carey,
Directors : Jonathan Demme,

An Arkansas farmer stages a one-man war against corrupt land developers who want to evict him and his neighbors from their farms for real estate developments.

Actors : Geoff Meed, Danny Trejo, William Baldwin, Eric Roberts,
Directors : Nick Lyon,

PT-218: THE REBELS OF WWII not only tells a true story, but gives us never seen details of what happened in 1943. At the height of WWII, the Atlantic Ocean becomes a deadly battleground as ...

Actors : Sergio Rubini, Francisco Gaspar, Daniel de Oliveira, Thogun Teixeira,
Directors : Vicente Ferraz,

The unusual meeting between three deserters from different nationalities (Brazil, German and Italy) during World War II.

Actors : Maya Stange, Martin Donovan, Max Cullen, Rufus Sewell,
Directors : Bill Bennett,

Two anthropologists married to each other go to an island off of Papua New Guinea for field research in pre-World War II.

Actors : Simone Signoret, Sarah Miles, Laurence Olivier, Terence Stamp,
Directors : Peter Glenville,

Graham Weir is an alcoholic schoolteacher whose criminal record for refusing to fight during the Second World War has prevented him from progressing further in his teaching career. He is ...

Actors : Bercel Tóth, Levente Molnár, Vica Kerekes, Tamás Szabó Kimmel,
Directors : Attila Szász,

Shortly after the end of World War II, a con man on the run finds himself in a passionate love affair that may well cost him his life.

Actors : Pierre Romans, Zbigniew Horoks, Bérangère Bonvoisin, Michel Serrault,
Directors : Christian de Chalonge,

Based on the real life of Dr. Marcel Petiot: During world war II Petiot, an MD living in occupied Paris, promised to help wealthy Jewish people among his patients to flee occupied France ...

Actors : Juan Diego Botto, Carmelo Gómez, Víctor Clavijo, Jordi Aguilar,
Directors : Gerardo Herrero,

How do you find a murderer amidst the chaos, death and destruction of the Second World War? On the Russian Front in the harsh winter of 1943, a series of bodies, hideously mutilated and ...