Best War movies of 1980s

Actors : Filip Sovagovic, Fabijan Sovagovic, Nada Subotic, Krunoslav Saric,
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 : 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 : 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 : Mohsen Zaehtab, Mahmud Bigham, Roya Nonahali, Ebrahim Abadi,
Directors : Mohsen Makhmalbaf,

Haji is severely traumatized by the war with Iraq. Back from the front, he's unable to adapt to civilian life. Despite family opposition, his fiancée stands by him as together they ...

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 : 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 : 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 : Alejandro Parodi, Dean Stockwell, Carmen Bunster, Alan Esquivel,
Directors : Miguel Littin,

Alsino, a boy of 10 or 12, lives with his grandmother in a remote area of Nicaragua. He's engulfed in the war between rebels and government troops when a US advisor orders the army to open ...

Actors : Christine Hakim, Rudy Wowor, Slamet Rahardjo, Piet Burnama,
Directors : Eros Djarot,

Set in 1896, Tjoet Nja Dhien celebrates one of Indonesia's great heroes who fought for independence from the Dutch. The pious Muslim people of Aceh, a city that had flourished since ancient...

Actors : Maurice Arama, Antonin Brunel, Daniel Berlioux, Denise Boulet,
Directors : Alexandra von Grote,

Two women fall in love in nazi-occupied France, and must fight to survive the war. A task made more difficult as one is a jew on the run from Germany.

Actors : Mohsen Mohieddin, Michel Piccoli, Mohamad Atef, Patrice Chéreau,
Directors : Youssef Chahine,

A story during the French Occupation of Egypt (1797-1803), depicting the conflict between tradintion and modernization in the context of fighting the French invadors.

Actors : Ramkumar, Suhasini, Ashwath, Vishnuvardhan,
Directors : S.V. Rajendra Singh,

Mutthina Haara - A Necklace of Pearls - tells the tale of an Indian (Coorg) soldier, Achchappa and an army nurse, Annapurna (Anu) and the toils of warfare on them during the 1940's to the 1960's.

Actors : Bruno Cremer, Giuliano Gemma, Mimsy Farmer, Laurent Malet,
Directors : Raoul Coutard,

In May 1978, the mining town of Kolwezi in Katanga, Zaire (now Democratic Republic of Congo, the former Belgian Congo) is under attack from a group of communist guerillas coming from nearby... See full synopsis »

Actors : Annette Charles, Américo González, Robert Beltran, Michael Goodwin,
Directors : Haskell Wexler,

Set in the context of the Sandinista government in Nicaragua and their battle with the U.S.-backed Contra rebels. Eddie Guerrero (Robert Beltran) is a Vietnam War veteran sent to help U.S. ...

Actors : Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy, Boris Nevzorov, Margarita Terekhova, Lyudmila Chursina,
Directors : Gennadiy Vasilev,

Action of a picture happens in Ancient Russia (Rus) - in those days when the Slavs who have united in army under leadership of Ratibor, the son Vseslav managed to win the first victories over tribes of nomads.

Actors : Georges Wilson, Nicole Garcia, Jacques Perrin, Charles Denner,
Directors : Pierre Schoendoerffer,

In einer TV-Sendung bezeichnet Professor Paulet den im Algerienkrieg gefallenen Capitaine Caron als Folterer und Mörder. Dessen Witwe zieht mit der in Kriegsprozessen unerfahreren Anwältin ...

Actors : Nitzan Sharron, Rod Steiger, Susan George, Tom Conti,
Directors : Rajko Grlic,

In the summer of 1944, in a peaceful resort town in the Nazi-occupied Yugoslavia, an easy-going lifeguard takes in a widow of a partisan and her young son. Their relationship grows until he unknowingly saves a Nazi officer from drowning.

Actors : Tatsuya Nakadai, Toshirô Mifune, Hisaya Morishige, Teruhiko Aoi,
Directors : Toshio Masuda,

Depicts the bloody siege of the fortress Port Arthur during the Russo-Japanese War 1904 - 1905. In the story dominated the character Lt Takeshi Kogyo (Teruhiko Aoi), teachers, and a reserve...

Actors : Gerard Thoolen, Kees Hulst, Renée Soutendijk, Bruno Ganz,
Directors : Dimitri Frenkel Frank,

The story of a Jewish man, escaped from Berlin in the beginning of WW 2, now an owner of an Amsterdam ice cream parlor. The city is a battlefield between local Nazis and the resistance. The...

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...