Best World War II movies

Actors : Bob Balaban, Jeffrey DeMunn, Martin Landau, Jim Carrey,
Directors : Frank Darabont,

Set in 1951, a blacklisted Hollywood writer gets into a car accident, loses his memory and settles down in a small town where he is mistaken for a long-lost son.

Actors : John Hurt, Christian Bale, Nicolas Cage, Penélope Cruz,
Directors : John Madden,

When a fisherman leaves to fight with the Greek army during World War II, his fiancé falls in love with the local Italian commander.

Actors : Jason Clarke, Keira Knightley, Pandora Colin, Ned Wills,
Directors : James Kent,

Post World War II, a British colonel and his wife are assigned to live in Hamburg during the post-war reconstruction, but tensions arise with the German who previously owned the house.

Actors : Vasilisa Perelygina, Viktoria Miroshnichenko, Igor Shirokov, Andrey Bykov,
Directors : Kantemir Balagov,

1945, Leningrad. WWII has devastated the city, demolishing its buildings and leaving its citizens in tatters, physically and mentally. Two young women search for meaning and hope in the struggle to rebuild their lives amongst the ruins.

Actors : Izabella Scorupco, Remy Sweeney, James D'Arcy, Stellan Skarsgård,
Directors : Renny Harlin,

Years before Father Lankester Merrin helped save Regan MacNeil's soul, he first encounters the demon Pazuzu in East Africa. This is the tale of Father Merrin's initial battle with Pazuzu and the rediscovery of his faith.

Actors : Tina Fey, Michelle Yeoh, Jamie Dornan, Kenneth Branagh,
Directors : Kenneth Branagh,

In post-World War II Venice, Poirot, now retired and living in his own exile, reluctantly attends a seance. But when one of the guests is murdered, it is up to the former detective to once again uncover the killer.

Actors : Martijn Lakemeier, Jamie Campbell Bower, Yorick van Wageningen, Raymond Thiry,
Directors : Martin Koolhoven,

In the Nazi-occupied Netherlands, a teenage boy gets involved in the Dutch Resistance after coming to the aid of a wounded RAF pilot.

Actors : Frederic Forrest, Martin Landau, Jeff Bridges, Joan Allen,
Directors : Francis Ford Coppola,

The story of Preston Tucker, the maverick car designer and his ill-fated challenge to the auto industry with his revolutionary car concept.

Actors : Omar Benson Miller, Derek Luke, Michael Ealy, Laz Alonso,
Directors : Spike Lee,

Set in 1944 Italy, the story of four black American soldiers who get trapped in a Tuscan village during WWII.

Actors : Helen McCrory, Phoebe Fox, Leanne Best, Jeremy Irvine,
Directors : Tom Harper,

40 years after the first haunting at Eel Marsh House, a group of children evacuated from WWII London arrive, awakening the house's darkest inhabitant.

Actors : Johannes Krisch, Alexander Fehling, André Szymanski, Friederike Becht,
Directors : Giulio Ricciarelli,

A story that exposes the conspiracy of prominent German institutions and government branches to cover up the crimes of Nazis during World War II.

Actors : Alexandra Maria Lara, Juliane Köhler, Bruno Ganz, Ulrich Matthes,
Directors : Oliver Hirschbiegel,

Traudl Junge, the final secretary for Adolf Hitler, tells of the Nazi dictator's final days in his Berlin bunker at the end of WWII.

Actors : Samantha Morton, Peter Dinklage, Peter O'Toole, John Lynch,
Directors : Charles Sturridge,

A family in financial crisis is forced to sell Lassie, their beloved dog. Hundreds of miles away from her true family, Lassie escapes and sets out on a journey home.

Actors : André Hennicke, Alexandra Maria Lara, Tim Roth, Bruno Ganz,
Directors : Francis Ford Coppola,

A love story wrapped in a mystery. Set in World War II Europe, a professor is changed by a cataclysmic event and explores the mysteries of life.

Actors : Matthew Fox, Colin Moy, Tommy Lee Jones, Eriko Hatsune,
Directors : Peter Webber,

As the Japanese surrender at the end of World War II, General Fellers is tasked with deciding if Emperor Hirohito will be hanged as a war criminal. Influencing his ruling is his quest to find Aya, an exchange student he met years earlier in the U.S.

Actors : James Fleet, Cate Blanchett, Abigail Cruttenden, Charlotte McDougall,
Directors : Gillian Armstrong,

A young Scottish woman joins the French Resistance during World War II to rescue her Royal Air Force boyfriend who is lost in France.

Actors : Stuart Townsend, Thomas Kretschmann, Penélope Cruz, Charlize Theron,
Directors : John Duigan,

HEAD IN THE CLOUDS is a sweeping romantic drama set in 1930's England, Paris, and Spain. Gilda Bessé shares her Paris apartment with an Irish schoolteacher, Guy Malyon, and Mia, a refugee ...

Actors : Julian Wadham, Miranda Richardson, John Slattery, Brian Cox,
Directors : Jonathan Teplitzky,

96 hours before the World War II invasion of Normandy, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill struggles with his severe reservations with Operation Overlord and his increasingly marginalized role in the war effort.

Actors : Lea Thompson, C. Thomas Howell, Charlie Sheen, Patrick Swayze,
Directors : John Milius,

It is the dawn of World War III. In mid-western America, a group of teenagers bands together to defend their town, and their country, from invading Soviet forces.

Actors : Nick Nolte, Elias Koteas, Jim Caviezel, Sean Penn,
Directors : Terrence Malick,

Adaptation of James Jones' autobiographical 1962 novel, focusing on the conflict at Guadalcanal during the second World War.