Best World War II movies of 1980s

Actors : Michael Beach, Michael Biehn, Maureen Mueller, Patrick Dempsey,
Directors : Kenneth Bowser,

When a physically and emotionally scarred soldier returns home from World War II, he mistakenly trusts a mysterious young drifter to deliver a secret love letter to his old sweetheart.

Actors : Gretchen German, Jennifer Runyon, 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 : Kelly Reno, John Savage, 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 : Stephen Quadros, William Knight, Michael Wayne, 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 : 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 : 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 : Katsuhisa Yamazaki, Noritake Kobinata, Tetsuya Fujita, Yuji Horioka,
Directors : Masahiro Shinoda,

Bombing during World War II resulted in whole urban populations fleeing to the countryside, and this created a meeting of urban and rural cultures. Shinji (a young boy evacuated from Tokyo)...

Actors : Reb Brown, Bill Hunter, James Coburn, Maurie Fields,
Directors : Philippe Mora,

Based on a true story, James Coburn portrays a military lawyer assigned to defend a confessed psychotic killer. Set in the context of WWII and the uneasy US-Australian military alliance. ...

Actors : Ricky Hui, Kitty Chan, Jacky Cheung, Fung Woo,
Directors : Jeffrey Lau,

A Hong Kong police station used to be a clubhouse of the Japanese at the time of their occupation of the city during World War II. However, at the end of the war, many of the Japanese ...

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 : 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.

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 : Francisco Rabal, Timothy Hutton, Melissa Leo, William Hurt,
Directors : Gregory Nava,

A modernized version of the story which inspired Verdi's opera, "La Forza del Destino".

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 : Harold Sakata, Woody Strode, Edmund Purdom, Stuart Whitman,
Directors : Alan Birkinshaw,

A group of Japanese WWII soldiers transporting a gold shipment are captured and fight against a savage cannibal tribe. Years later, an expedition heads back into the jungle to locate the lost gold.

Actors : Kumiko Ohba, Komaki Kurihara, Yoshiko Tanaka, Yûko Kotegawa,
Directors : Tadashi Imai,

Story follows a group of high school girls trained as nurses during World War II who witness the horrors of war first-hand on Okinawa.

Actors : Kumiko Ohba, Masato Furuoya, Isao Natsuyagi, Misako Tanaka,
Directors : Noboru Tanaka,

An emotionally distraught young man goes on a violent killing spree after his tuberculosis keeps him from serving in World War II and is frowned upon by his fellow villagers.

Actors : Frank C. Turner, David Edney, Doug Kier, Donald Sutherland,
Directors : Anne Wheeler,

A Canadian doctor interned at a Japanese POW Camp during WWII must tend to his fellow British prisoners who are being worked to death in a mine.

Actors : Sebastian Keneas, David Spielberg, Cheryl Gianini, Kyra Sedgwick,
Directors : Moshé Mizrahi,

Jacek, who is Jewish, miraculously manages to survive World War II in Nazi-occupied Poland. As a subplot to Jacek's story, which also involves a love affair with Haling ( Kyra Sedgwick ) ...