Best War movies of 1980s

Actors : Sergiu Nicolaescu, Virgil Flonda, George Alexandru, Vladimir Gaitan,
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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Tatsuya Nakadai, Toshirô Mifune, Teruhiko Aoi, Hisaya Morishige,
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 : Francisco Rabal, Melissa Leo, William Hurt, Timothy Hutton,
Directors : Gregory Nava,

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

Actors : Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, John Carson, Gary Graham, Maria Holvoe,
Directors : Martin Wragge,

The biggest Japanese destroyer "Yamato" is badly damaged in a battle and shall be repaired at a small island in the Pacific which is inhabited only by Gibb, an US American observation post,...

Actors : Paul Wyett, Marianne Basler, Judge Reinhold, Gabriel Byrne,
Directors : Larry Parr,

A British soldier falls in love with a French woman wanted by the resistance for crimes against her country.

Actors : Guy Stockwell, Peter Haskell, Ronnie Carol, Kabir Bedi,
Directors : Sarky Mouradian,

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Chung-Hua Tou, Chun Hsiung Ko, Gaowa Siqin, Andy Lau,
Directors : Yen-Ping Chu,

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 : Richard Harris, Brent Huff, Mary Stavin, Ottaviano Dell'Acqua,

Michael Ransom's Vietnam squad leader, Vic Jenkins, is captured by terrorists demanding ten million dollars worth of diamonds in return for his release. Michael, reluctantly aided by local ...

Actors : Rick Dean, Vernon Wells, Brad Johnson, Kevin Duffis,
Directors : Cirio H. Santiago,

Lt. Vance Calhoun takes on a dangerous rescue mission of American P.O.W.s in the treacherous Darloc Valley in Vietnam. His only chance to escape is with the help of five young, fearless ...

Actors : Emmanuelle Riva, László Szabó, Maurice Garrel, Christine Boisson,
Directors : Philippe Garrel,

In the mist of the Algerian events, a man finds a fugitive happiness beside a local woman.