Best History movies of 1980s

Actors : Kirill Lavrov, Oswald Berzins, Elena Prudnikova, Andrey Smirnov,

Krasnaya strela (The Red Arrow) is the special train No.1 between Leningrad and Moscow. The film is set in the 1980s during perestroika in the Soviet Union. Kropotov (Lavrov) is communist ...

Actors : Jean Yanne, Claude Jade, Philippe Laudenbach, Daniel Mesguich,
Directors : Iradj Azimi,

Jean Yanne, Daniel Mesguich, Claude Jade: A la recherche de la fortune et du paradis ils ne connurent que l'enfer.

Actors : Martin Vaughan, Angela Punch McGregor, Arthur Dignam, Lewis Fitz-Gerald,
Directors : Igor Auzins,

Jeannie Gunn faced being the only civilised woman in an uncivilised land. A story of personal triumph about one woman who reached out in a hard, hostile, prejudiced world and managed to find love.

Actors : Jaya Prada, Srinivasa Murthy, Balkrishna, Rajkumar,
Directors : Renuka Sharma,

Sanskrit and upper-caste poet, Kalidas, faces many challenges after falling in love with a low-caste woman, and being entered into a competition against a learned princess.

Actors : Daniel Olbrychski, Ena Begovic, Mirjana Karanovic, Gorica Popovic,
Directors : Lordan Zafranovic,

A partisan commander had to shoot one of his comrades because he had neglected the struggle and turned to a life of lust and vice. When Italy capitulates in September of 1943 and the war ...

Actors : Eiji Okuda, Toshirô Mifune, Gô Katô, Kinnosuke Nakamura,
Directors : Kei Kumai,

Years after the death of legendary tea master Rikyu, his disciple Honkakubo attempts to resolve the mystery of the master's death. Years before: Sen Rikyu is a ceremonial tea master who ...

Actors : Rebecca Miller, Nigel Le Vaillant, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Brian Dennehy,
Directors : Klaus Maria Brandauer,

A true story about Johann Georg Elser, a quiet carpenter who tried to assassinate Hitler with an explosive device in 1939.

Actors : Cüneyt Arkin, Zülfikar Divani, Talat Gözbak, Recep Filiz,
Directors : Remzi Jöntürk,

Actors : Sergiu Nicolaescu, Virgil Flonda, Vladimir Gaitan, George Alexandru,
Directors : Sergiu Nicolaescu,

In medieval Wallachia a young prince battles his twin brother for their father's throne and for their ancestors' crown of fire.

Actors : John Ahlgren, Ernst Günther, Georg Adelly, Per Oscarsson,
Directors : Per Oscarsson,

This farce cocerns Sweden's King Gustav (Per Oscarsson who plays all the lead roles). The royal monarchs of three major European countries are patiently or not-so-patiently hovering on the ...

Actors : Timothy Patrick Murphy, Richard Boone, Toshirô Mifune, Mike Starr,
Directors : Tsugunobu Kotani,

A steel samurai blade that was to be given to the American ambassador by the Emperor of Japan is stolen. American sailors and Japanese samurai are sent to find it.

Actors : Garry McDonald, Paul Daniel, Tony, Mike,
Directors : Jonathan Dawson,

The escapades of Ginger Meggs, local larrikin. He's trying to win the heart of Minnie Peters, but the pressures of school, his rival Eddie Coogan and bully Tiger Kelly make life tough for him. Besides, there's fishing to be done.

Actors : Emanoil Petrut, Ion Dichiseanu, Alexandru Repan, George Constantin,
Directors : Gheorghe Vitanidis,

The life of Dacian war-leader Burebista who ruled between 80-44 B.C.and founded a strong Dacian Kingdom despite considerable pressure from the neighboring Celtic warlords and the Greek cities of the Black Sea coast.

Actors : Natalya Gundareva, Rolan Bykov, Elena Sanaeva, Svetlana Kryuchkova,
Directors : Sergei Ovcharov,

The bureaucratic epos on dialogues and M.E.Saltykova-Shchedrina's plots, life of the city of Glupov led by petty tyrants - city's mayors.

Actors : Mihai Mereuta, Marioara Sterian, Stela Furcovici, Adrian Pintea,
Directors : Dinu Cocea,

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 : Bernard Blier, Avtandil Makharadze, Richard Berry, Isabelle Huppert,
Directors : Aleksandar Petrovic,

Based on the famous novel of Milos Crnjanski, the story follows Serbian migrations from the Austro-Hungarian Empire during the XVIII century.

Actors : Hema Malini, Pradeep Kumar, Parveen Babi, Dharmendra,
Directors : Kamal Amrohi,

An account of the reign of Indian empress Razia Sultan and her love for her slave Jamaluddin Yakut.

Actors : Brian Benben, Michael Nouri, Joe Penny, Richard S. Castellano,
Directors : Richard C. Sarafian,

Three poor ghetto kids in turn-of-the-century New York grow up to become feared gangsters.

Actors : George Motoi, Marga Barbu, Florin Piersic, Szabolcs Cseh,
Directors : Mircea Moldovan,