Best War movies of 1980s

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 : Sergiu Nicolaescu, Vladimir Gaitan, Sebastian Papaiani, Joanna Pacula,
Directors : Sergiu Nicolaescu,

In 1916 Romanian Army lieutenant Tudor Gheorghiu jealously obsesses over his wife Lena's apparent infidelity and contests against gigolo lawyer Nicolau for Lena's love.

Actors : Jacqueline Bisset, Laurence Olivier, Toshirô Mifune, Ben Gazzara,
Directors : Terence Young,

During the Korean War, General Douglas MacArthur masterminds the amphibious invasion of Inchon in September 1950.

Actors : Martin Walz, Tina Engel, Hans Diehl, Curt Bois,
Directors : Markus Imhoof,

During World War II, Switzerland severely limited refugees: "Our boat is full." A train from Germany halts briefly in an isolated corner of Switzerland. Six people jump off seeking asylum: ...

Actors : Jerzy Stuhr, Mariusz Dmochowski, Krystyna Janda, Roman Wilhelmi,
Directors : Piotr Szulkin,

Film opens on December 28, 1999, three days before the dawn of the new century. A local reporter, Iron Idem, announces that the Martians have landed. Shortly after that his program loses ...

Actors : Edward Fleming, Kirsten Olesen,
Directors : Lars von Trier,

A German officer visits his Danish mistress the days after the occupation of Denmark has ended.

Actors : Ewa Domanska, Wojciech Pszoniak, Jan Szurmiej, Franciszek Pieczka,
Directors : Jerzy Kawalerowicz,

During a pogrom in Poland on the eve of World War I, a group of Jews seek refuge from the Cossacks. The fugitives hide out in a rural inn, terrified that they may be given away at any moment.

Actors : Brigitte Fossey, Jacques Penot, Michael York, Helen Hughes,
Directors : Robert Enrico,

The true story of Martin Gray, a Polish survivor of the Holocaust, from how he survived the German invasion, how got captured, and how he fought back with the rebels, to his life in the ...

Actors : Jana Janovská, Jozef Kroner, Michal Docolomanský, Stefan Kvietik,
Directors : Juraj Jakubisko,

A historic mega-film, one family saga, three generations (1887 -1917) assimilated to the bee community in the hive. The queen bee serves as a big mother that symbolizes the family and ...

Actors : Ayse Emel Mesci Kuray, Brasse Brännström, Gösta Ekman, Lasse Åberg,
Directors : Mats Arehn,

The famous Swedish Karoliner army has suffered its biggest defeat ever at Poltava in 1709. The Swedish king Karl XII is waiting in the small village of Bender for the Turkish sulton to help...

Actors : Héctor Bidonde, Víctor Laplace, Federico Luppi, Rodolfo Ranni,
Directors : Héctor Olivera,

A small revolution breaks out in a small Argentine town, as one group of Peronists calls they newly elected peronist a communist. The newly elected official enlists the aid of allies ...

Actors : Cecilia Yip, Alex Man, Yun-Fat Chow, Kien Shih,
Directors : Po-Chih Leong,

Years later, a woman narrates her personal story of the Japanese takeover of Hong Kong in 1941. She's Nam, young, attractive, daughter of a wealthy rice merchant, and prey to painful, ...

Actors : Frank Aendenboom, Piet Balfoort, Theu Boermans, Bert André,
Directors : Hugo Claus,

A tale centered on the Battle of the Golden Spurs in 1302 where the Flemish rank and file won a major victory over the glorious French knights.

Actors : George Alexandru, Anda Onesa, Ion Besoiu, Valentin Uritescu,
Directors : Sergiu Nicolaescu,

The Last Assault is a 1986 Romanian drama film directed by Sergiu Nicolaescu. It is set during World War II, during the period when Romania joined the Allies against the Axis.

Actors : Charles R. Floyd, Mako, David Carradine, Steve James,
Directors : Gideon Amir,

Col. Carradine leads a group of American P.O.W.s, battling their way to freedom as Saigon falls to the Viet Cong.

Actors : Reb Brown, Louise Kamsteeg, Christopher Connelly, Luciano Pigozzi,
Directors : Bruno Mattei,

While operating behind enemy lines, Sergeant Mike Ransom learns of a Russian presence in North Vietnam. Ordered to obtain proof of this discovery, Ransom returns to enemy territory but is ...

Actors : Ernest Borgnine, Herbert Lom, Robert Vaughn, Oliver Reed,
Directors : John 'Bud' Cardos,

During the Angola Civil War, CIA agent Michael Smith is captured by the Communists, prompting a rescue mission organized by his father aided by hired mercenaries.

Actors : Gustavo Bueno, José Tejada, Gilberto Torres, Toño Vega,
Directors : Francisco J. Lombardi,

The Peruvian anti-terrorist army takes control of a far away and unknown small village isolated in the Andes by the terrorist militia "Sendero Luminoso" (Shining Path), during the dirty war in Peru at 80's decade.

Actors : Fabijan Sovagovic, Filip Sovagovic, Krunoslav Saric, Nada Subotic,
Directors : Branko Schmidt,

The story begins in a small rural village in Slavonia,Ladimirevci in 1943, where a land owner Sima is helping the Partisan Movement and the official Ustasha regime in order to save the life...

Actors : Nathaniel Parker, Tilda Swinton, Laurence Olivier, Patricia Hayes,
Directors : Derek Jarman,

A film with no spoken dialogue, just follows the music and lyrics of Benjamin Britten's "War Requiem, which include WWI soldier poet Wilfred Owen's poems reflecting the war's horrors. It ...