Best War movies of 1980s

Actors : Yuet Sang Chin, Doo Hee Jang, Ho Kon Kim, Eddy Ko,
Directors : John Woo,

The Thai government hires a group of Chinese mercenaries to capture a powerful drug lord from the Golden Triangle. The mercenaries manage to capture the drug lord, but soon find themselves ...

Actors : Edward Fox, Nick Tate, Timothy Bottoms, George Takei,
Directors : Andrew V. McLaglen,

A group of war prisoners from the Kwai bridge building camp undertake a harsh journey to Japan.

Actors : Carlo Giuffrè, Ken Marshall, Marcello Mastroianni, Alexandra King,
Directors : Liliana Cavani,

After the Allies liberate Naples in 1943, the life for the locals is not much easier, especially for women. Many sacrifice their dignity and morale to survive.

Actors : Paul Le Mat, John Edwin Shaw, Ken Wright, Michael Moriarty,
Directors : Lionel Chetwynd,

A drama focusing on the suffering, torture, and brutal treatment the American P.O.W.s had to deal with daily while in North Vietnam's Hoa Lo Prison, the most infamous P.O.W. camp in Hanoi. ...

Actors : Sophie Marceau, Philippe Noiret, Catherine Deneuve, Gérard Depardieu,
Directors : Alain Corneau,

French civilization in the desert. Saganne is of peasant stock, with courage and a forceful will. In 1911, he volunteers and is posted to the Sahara under the aristocratic Colonel Dubreuilh...

Actors : Jason Miller, Fernando Rey, Geneviève Bujold, Christopher Reeve,
Directors : Frank Perry,

An ambitious priest seduces a nun and leads the Vatican into shady business during and after World War II.

Actors : Luís Miguel Cintra, Miguel Guilherme, Diogo Dória, Luís Lucas,
Directors : Manoel de Oliveira,

Episodes from entire military history of Portugal are told through flashbacks as a professorish soldier recounts them while marching through a Portuguese African colony in 1973. He easily ...

Actors : Ed Harris, Horst Buchholz, Max von Sydow, Helmut Berger,
Directors : Jonathan Sanger,

In April 1944, an allied agent is sent to France in order to rescue an "overlord" captured by the Germans. (An "overlord" is one of the few men who know the date and place of the "D" day). ...

Actors : Ewa Dalkowska, Scott Wilson, Hanna Skarzanka, Maja Komorowska,
Directors : Krzysztof Zanussi,

Shortly after WWII an American soldier (Norman) and a Polish refugee (Emilia) fall in deep love. Eventually he will return to USA and both expect that she will soon follow him. Emilia's ...

Actors : Vera Alentova, Sergey Nikonenko, Irina Cherichenko, Nina Ruslanova,
Directors : Yuriy Kara,

This movie is based on a novel by Boris Vasiliev and describes life in a small Russian provincial town in 1940 - one year before Germany invaded the Soviet Union. Two school girls for the ...

Actors : Oliver Tobias, Sylvia Kristel, Christopher Cazenove, Gaye Brown,
Directors : Curtis Harrington,

Mata Hari is a beautiful Dutch-born dancer, working in Paris. It is August 1914 and war between France and Germany seems imminent. However, she accepts an invitation to travel to Berlin as ...

Actors : Jean Carmet, Hanna Schygulla, Jerzy Skolimowski, Bruno Ganz,
Directors : Volker Schlöndorff,

Laschen, a German journalist, travels to the city of Beirut during the fights between Christians and Palestinians to produce an essay about the situation. Together with his photographer, he...

Actors : Tony King, Tisa Farrow, David Warbeck, Bobby Rhodes,
Directors : Antonio Margheriti,

During the Vietnam war, an American soldier gets trapped behind enemy lines. A squad of his buddies sets out to rescue him.

Actors : Josef Abrhám, Janusz Bukowski, Zoltán Bezerédy, Tadeusz Chudecki,
Directors : Janusz Majewski,

Set in military barracks in a small town during World War I. The soldiers herded in the barracks are 'politically suspect' mix of characters from all over of the Austro-Hungarian Empire: ...

Actors : Joe Melia, Michael Elphick, John Standing, Patrick Pearson,
Directors : Michael Blakemore,

The members of SADUSEA (Song And Dance Unit South East Asia) fall in and out of love while trying to dodge Malayan Communist bullets in the late 1940s. Not only that, they have to contend ...

Actors : Stoyko Peev, Vania Tzvetkova, Antony Genov, Vassil Mihajlov,
Directors : Ludmil Staikov,

This is an epic screen presentation showing the creation, the consolidation and the power of First Bulgarian Kingdom and the first Bulgarian ruler Khan Asparuh.

Actors : Ernest Borgnine, Lewis Collins, Klaus Kinski, Lee Van Cleef,
Directors : Antonio Margheriti,

Commander Robin Wesley, leader of a group of mercenaries, go to the Golden Triangle in Southeast Asia to overthrow the dictator, who is a major manufacturer and dealer of the world's opium.

Actors : Wojciech Pszoniak, Elisabeth Trissenaar, Gerd Baltus, Armin Mueller-Stahl,
Directors : Agnieszka Holland,

In the winter of 1942-43, a Jewish family leaps from a train going through Silesia. They are separated in the woods, and Leon, a local peasant who's now a farmer of some wealth, discovers ...

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 : 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.