Best World War II movies of 1980s

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 : Tchéky Karyo, Fanny Ardant, Agnès Soral, 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 : 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 : Giovanni Mauriello, Phyllis Logan, Tom Watson, 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 : Per Morberg, Helena Bergström, Helene Egelund, Ingvar Hirdwall,
Directors : Göran Carmback,

World War II through the eyes of a Stockholm waitress.

Actors : Mustafa Nadarevic, Fabijan Sovagovic, Mira Furlan, Branislav Lecic,
Directors : Bahrudin 'Bato' Cengic,

Bosnian Serb mountainous village is divided between Chetniks and Communist-led Partizans during the WWII. Hateread and violence between the neighbours ia a sinister prelude to war that will...

Actors : Yoshiyuki Omori, Shiori Sakura, Masako Natsume, Takaya Yamauchi,
Directors : Masahiro Shinoda,

In this drama at the end of World War II, the inhabitants of a small Japanese fishing village must come to terms with their nation's defeat and the sudden occupation of General MacArthur ...

Actors : Mikhail Ulyanov, Aleksandr Goloborodko, Yakov Tripolsky, Bruno Frejndlikh,
Directors : Yuriy Ozerov,

The battle of Moscow was the first major defeat of German Wehrmacht in the Second World War. The film is dedicated to some fighting events that took place in the USSR after Hitler's conquest of western Europe.

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 : Linda van Dyck, Marieke van der Pol, Jeroen Krabbé, Edwin de Vries,
Directors : Ate de Jong,

During WWII, two members of the Dutch resistance share the same goal but use very different methods to reach it.

Actors : Pat Morita, Mari Sato, Chris Makepeace, Michael Sarrazin,
Directors : Paul Almond,

December 1944. As their bomber is shot down during a mission over Japan, Sergeant McManus and Robert, a young lieutenant, have no other choice but make a parachute jump. They are captured ...

Actors : Irina Milan, Tom Wentzel, Hannu Lauri, Esko Salminen,
Directors : Jaakko Pakkasvirta,

Follows several Finnish officers and soldiers during World War II, mainly in the Finnish headquarters.

Actors : Bob Hoskins, Zoë Wanamaker, Dexter Fletcher, Zoë Nathenson,
Directors : Bob Hoskins,

During WWII a youth deserts his country's army after a combat experience, but not before wounding his commanding officer with a knife in order to escape. The young man, now very emotionally...

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 : Piotr Polk, Maya Ramati, Horst Buchholz, 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 : 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 : Lena Nyman, Harriet Andersson, Gunnar Hellström, Agnetha Fältskog,
Directors : Gunnar Hellström,

The story of the charlatan Gustaf Raskenstam life and times during World War II, who for financial gain seduced a large number of women.

Actors : Piotr Wawrzynczak, Bernadetta Machala-Krzeminska, Paulina Mlynarska, Dariusz Dobkowski,
Directors : Andrzej Wajda,

Set in the summer months preceding the September 1939 outbreak of World War II in Polish part of Lithuania. A young highschool lad, Witek, is hoping to pass the entrance exams to the ...

Actors : Jay Roberts Jr., James Lew, Michael Standing, 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 : Sally Yeh, Joyce H. Cheng, Brigitte Lin, Hui-Shan Yang,
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.