Best War movies of 1980s

Actors : Bob Hoskins, Dexter Fletcher, Zoë Wanamaker, 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 : Nitzan Sharron, Rod Steiger, Tom Conti, Susan George,
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 : John Ahlgren, Georg Adelly, Ernst Günther, 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 : Gholamreza Ali Akbari, Seyed Ebrahim Asgharzadeh, Ali Reza Heydari, Seyed Ali Reza Khatami,
Directors : Ebrahim Hatamikia,

A man who controls small airplanes to detect Iraq's front line, is put in danger not being able to return.

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Gerard Thoolen, Renée Soutendijk, Kees Hulst, 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 : Gholamreza Ali Akbari, Ebrahim Hatamikia, Mehrdad Solaymani, Esmail Soltanian,
Directors : Ebrahim Hatamikia,

In Iran-Iraq's war, a young scout joins the front-line to help his comrades single-handed.

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 : Jeff Osterhage, Miles Anderson, Ronald Lacey, Scott McGinnis,
Directors : Zoran Perisic,

Through a series of circumstances, a pair of Old West gunfighters end up as fighter pilots in World War I.

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 : 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 : Mari Sato, Pat Morita, 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 : 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 : 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 : Ramkumar, Suhasini, Vishnuvardhan, Ashwath,
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 : 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 ...