Best World War II movies of 1980s

Actors : Jay Roberts Jr., Michael Standing, James Lew, Elizabeth Kaitan,
Directors : Frank Harris,

An alien visits Earth during World War III, learns English by absorbing a dictionary, and meets good and bad earthlings.

Actors : Piotr Polk, Horst Buchholz, Maya Ramati, Didi Ramati,
Directors : Alexander Ramati,

This is the true story about a group of Romani's (gypsy) in occupied Poland during World War II as they confront the atrocities and tragedies of a forgotten holocaust.

Actors : Sally Yeh, Joyce H. Cheng, Hui-Shan Yang, Brigitte Lin,
Directors : Yen-Ping Chu,

A group of women with various criminal skills are thrown into prison during World War 2. They escape and proceed to head off to destroy a chemical lab in a well fortified valley.

Actors : Jack Thompson, Carol Burns, Denis Lill, Donna Akersten,
Directors : Mike Newell,

During World War 2, a farmer in New Zealand murders seven people, and the police, along with local Maori trackers, hunt him in the bush country.

Actors : Per Morberg, Helena Bergström, Helene Egelund, Ingvar Hirdwall,
Directors : Göran Carmback,

World War II through the eyes of a Stockholm waitress.

Actors : Jean-Claude Brialy, Francis Huster, Evelyne Bouix, Jacques Villeret,
Directors : Claude Lelouch,

The world's most popular entertainer and Europe's greatest boxer: the film puts the love affair of these two national heroes against a backdrop of the end of World War II, hotel suites in ...

Actors : Stephen Quadros, Michael Wayne, William Knight, David Parry,
Directors : David A. Prior,

An American reporter covering a civil war in Nicaragua discovers that four soldiers that he used to know during World War II are there and they are actual vampires fighting their own ...

Actors : Giovanni Mauriello, Tom Watson, Phyllis Logan, Denise Coffey,
Directors : Michael Radford,

Set in 1943 Scotland during World War II, Janie is young housewife married to a man named Dongal, 15 years her senior. As part of a war rehabilation program, Janie and Dongal welcome three ...

Actors : Bryan Brown, Debra Byrne, Bill Hunter, Matt Dillon,
Directors : Michael Jenkins,

This drama is set in World War II Australia, where an American Marine, Rebel is recuperating from wounds suffered in battle. He is weary of war and is intent on going AWOL and escaping from...

Actors : Lea Thompson, Lukas Haas, Steve Hendrickson, Alan Wright,
Directors : Jenny Bowen,

After his mother dies and father goes to fight in World War II, a young boy moves in with his aunt and uncle who live in the countryside. Lonely and unhappy, he starts believing he has super powers. Then a "dead" man shows up.

Actors : John Savage, Kelly Reno, Ildikó Bánsági, László Mensáros,
Directors : Pál Gábor,

This movie is about the love and protection of a man from another culture from the lowly horsemen of the plains in Hungary during World War II.

Actors : Han Chin, Maggie Cheung, Josephine Koo, Brigitte Lin,
Directors : Ho Yim,

A talented lady novelist falls in love with a Chinese traitor working with the Japanese during the WWII.

Actors : Joan Plowright, Jane Horrocks, Pete Postlethwaite, Billie Whitelaw,
Directors : Jim O'Brien,

In England during World War II, a repressed dressmaker and her sister struggle looking after their 17-year-old niece, who is having a delusional affair with an American soldier.

Actors : Karlo Bulic, Relja Basic, Frano Lasic, María Baxa,
Directors : Antun Vrdoljak,

Melkior Tresic is one of many intellectuals in 1941 Zagreb who is helplessly waiting for the encroaching war.

Actors : Powers Boothe, Liubomiras Laucevicius, Fernando Allende, Sergey Nikonenko,
Directors : Yuriy Ozerov,

The WWII pivotal battle of Stalingrad is shown through the eyes of the soldiers and officers on both sides of the war.

Actors : Rebecca Jenkins, Michael Ontkean, Luke Reilly, Chad Krowchuk,
Directors : Anne Wheeler,

Story about a WWII wife & mother who joins a local dance band to provide for family while husband at war. Romantic involvement with one of the band members make her decisions difficult when...

Actors : Hideji Ôtaki, Rentarô Mikuni, Misako Konno, Nobuko Otowa,

Ten years before the outbreak of the Second World War in Asia, a Japanese Go master and his Chinese rival meet in China to play a game of Go (loosely described as an Asian version of chess)...

Actors : Jennifer Runyon, Gretchen German, Marc Singer, Gary Kroeger,
Directors : Stuart Gillard,

In the midst of WWII, a group of half-witted soldiers led by a slightly smarter sergeant, battle the Germans and especially Von Kraut in the desert.

Actors : Tchéky Karyo, Agnès Soral, Fanny Ardant, Jeremy Irons,
Directors : Jean-Jacques Andrien,

Australia is about Edouard Pierson, a Belgian-born wool dealer who emigrated to Australia after World War Two. The movie actual takes place in Belgium as he returns to his homeland to ...

Actors : Ellen Burstyn, Maruschka Detmers, Donald Pleasence, Anthony Andrews,
Directors : Menahem Golan,

During WW2 Hanna Szenes, a Hungarian Jew living in British Palestine, volunteers to go behind enemy lines to rescue Jews from deportation to death camps.