Best War movies of 1980s

Actors : Katt Shea, Rick Hill, Terrence O'Hara, Bill McLaughlin,
Directors : Cirio H. Santiago,

This war's in your own backyard. Violent warfare erupts in Northern California when Vietnam vet Deacon Porter reassembles his Combat Strike Force to avenge the death of a commanding officer.

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 : James Whyle, Sean Taylor, Greg Latter, Frantz Dobrowsky,
Directors : Darrell Roodt,

A bloods thirsty, anti-war film.

Actors : Deddy Mizwar, Nurul Arifin, Wawan Wanisar, Afrizal Anoda,
Directors : M.T. Risyaf,

Naga Bonar is a pickpocket. During the withdrawal of the Japanese occupying forces from Indonesia in 1945 he declares himself a general of the Liberation Forces. Soon a mask becomes his true self, and he becomes a true soldier and patriot.

Actors : Oliver Tobias, Manfred Lehmann, John Steiner, Christopher Connelly,
Directors : Fabrizio De Angelis,

Ten years after the end of the war in Vietnam, four ex-Marines decide to return to S.E. Asia to investigate reports of American POWs still being held there. These four include Roger, whose ...

Actors : Manny Ojeda, Cherie Gil, Liza Lorena, Sandy Andolong,
Directors : Peque Gallaga,

A tale set in World War II Philippines about how a rich family copes with the war and how the people change amidst violence and death

Actors : David Thewlis, Tom Bell, Rita Tushingham, Rudi Davies,
Directors : Paul Greengrass,

True story of a British soldier (David Thewlis), who is left behind in the Falklands after the war with Argentina. He travels on a journey from the Falkland Islands, to his army barracks in...

Actors : Irina Milan, Tom Wentzel, Hannu Lauri, Esko Salminen,
Directors : Jaakko Pakkasvirta,

Follows several Finnish officers and soldiers during World War II, mainly in the Finnish headquarters.

Actors : Ellen Burstyn, Donald Pleasence, Maruschka Detmers, 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 : Gerard Thoolen, Kitty Courbois, Ester Spitz, Frank Rigter,
Directors : Kees Van Oostrum,

15 year old Sara, a Jewish girl living in the Netherlands during the German occupation slowly begins to realize the danger she and her family are in. When her parents are forced to move to ...

Actors : Jacqueline Bisset, Irene Worth, Jürgen Prochnow, Peter Vaughan,
Directors : Anthony Page,

In Berlin in the early 1940s, romance is forbidden between the young countess who is studying veterinary medicine and a young man she meets at the home of a former professor. But they fall ...

Actors : Stephen Quadros, Michael Wayne, William Knight, 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 : 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 : Julia Blake, Carol Drinkwater, Max von Sydow, Steve Jacobs,
Directors : John Power,

On a TV tabloid show, Iya Zetnick exposes Joe Mueller as the Nazi war criminal who killed her family. Mueller is arrested, but prevails in a trial. Zetnick breaks into his house, and kills ...

Actors : Bo Svenson, Miles O'Keeffe, Donald Pleasence, Kristine Erlandson,
Directors : Bruno Mattei,

After several American and British military personnel are killed in suicide attacks throughout southeast Asia, the U.S. begins to suspect a plot by the Vietnam government. To uncover the ...

Actors : Romano Kristoff, Urs Althaus, Daniel Stephen, Gwendolyn Hung,
Directors : Ferdinando Baldi,

A group of soldiers in Vietnam, saving some missing in action soldiers in a schoolbus.

Actors : José Sancho, Alfredo Landa, Fiorella Faltoyano, Óscar Ladoire,
Directors : Ricardo Palacios,

Actors : Julie Carmen, Mary Crosby, David Huffman, Jan-Michael Vincent,
Directors : David Nelson,

An American journalist covering the civil war in Nicaragua falls in love with a beautiful Sandinista rebel.

Actors : Jennifer Runyon, Gretchen German, 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 : Yong Chol Choe, Pong Ho Han, Kwang Jo, Sung Chol Cha,

A group of elite soldiers is sent across the border to South Korea to destroy a military base. The soldiers are well aware of the inherent suicide nature of their mission, but are happy to ...