My Fav's 80's
by mjenson57 | created - 26 Jun 2016 | updated - 04 Jul 2016 | PublicMovies from the 80's
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1. The Big Red One (1980)
R | 113 min | Drama, War
A hardened sergeant and the four core members of his infantry unit try to survive World War II as they move from battle to battle throughout Europe.
Director: Samuel Fuller | Stars: Lee Marvin, Mark Hamill, Robert Carradine, Bobby Di Cicco
Votes: 21,387
2. The Great Escape II: The Untold Story (1988 TV Movie)
R | 178 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Allied prisoners tunnel out of a stalag, then return to avenge fellow escapees executed by the Nazis.
Directors: Jud Taylor, Paul Wendkos | Stars: Christopher Reeve, Judd Hirsch, Tony Denison, Charles Haid
Votes: 601
3. The Dirty Dozen: Next Mission (1985 TV Movie)
95 min | Action, War
During WW2, American General Worden orders Major Reisman to pick 12 soldiers from the military prison for the dangerous mission of killing a Nazi General.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen | Stars: Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Ken Wahl, Larry Wilcox
Votes: 2,604
4. The Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission (1987 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 90 min | Action, War
During WW2, American General Worden orders Major Wright to pick 12 condemned soldiers from the brig and parachute into occupied France where they must destroy a Nazi nerve gas facility and extricate the foreign scientists working there.
Director: Lee H. Katzin | Stars: Telly Savalas, Ernest Borgnine, Vince Edwards, Bo Svenson
Votes: 1,227
5. The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mission (1988 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 100 min | Action, Adventure, War
A team of renegade soldiers in World War II tries to stop the creation of the Fourth Reich in the Middle East.
Director: Lee H. Katzin | Stars: Telly Savalas, Ernest Borgnine, Hunt Block, Matthew Burton
Votes: 1,326
6. Every Time We Say Goodbye (1986)
PG-13 | 98 min | Drama, Romance, War
A Protestant World War II pilot and a Jewish girl fall in love in Jerusalem, even though their diverse backgrounds threaten to pull them apart.
Director: Moshé Mizrahi | Stars: Tom Hanks, Cristina Marsillach, Benedict Taylor, Anat Atzmon
Votes: 2,744 | Gross: $0.28M
7. Attack Force Z (1981)
Not Rated | 84 min | Action, Drama, History
A group of Australian commandos launch a secret mission against Japanese forces in World War II.
Director: Tim Burstall | Stars: John Phillip Law, Mel Gibson, Sam Neill, Chris Haywood
Votes: 2,721
8. Return from the River Kwai (1989)
PG-13 | 101 min | Drama, War
A group of war prisoners from the Kwai bridge building camp undertake a harsh journey to Japan.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen | Stars: Timothy Bottoms, Nick Tate, George Takei, Edward Fox
Votes: 1,044
9. Empire of the Sun (1987)
PG | 153 min | Drama, War
A young English boy struggles to survive under Japanese occupation of China during World War II.
Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Christian Bale, John Malkovich, Miranda Richardson, Nigel Havers
Votes: 134,267 | Gross: $22.24M
10. Hitler's S.S.: Portrait in Evil (1985 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 135 min | Drama, War
The story of Helmut and Karl Hoffmann. Both come of age at the start of Hitler's power in Germany. Helmut joins the SS and eventually becomes a successful flag rank officer. Karl joins the ... See full summary »
Director: Jim Goddard | Stars: John Shea, Bill Nighy, Lucy Gutteridge, David Warner
Votes: 869
11. The Bunker (1981 TV Movie)
150 min | Drama, History, War
Dramatization depicting the events surrounding Adolf Hitler's (Sir Anthony Hopkins) last weeks in and around his underground bunker in Berlin before and during the battle for the city.
Director: George Schaefer | Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Richard Jordan, Cliff Gorman, James Naughton
Votes: 2,539
12. Casablanca Express (1989)
Not Rated | 85 min | Action, Thriller, War
In 1942, a commando is assigned to protect Winston Churchill when it is learned that the Nazis are plotting to kidnap him.
Director: Sergio Martino | Stars: Jason Connery, Francesco Quinn, Jinny Steffan, Manfred Lehmann
Votes: 616
13. Das Boot (1981)
R | 149 min | Drama, War
A German U-boat stalks the frigid waters of the North Atlantic as its young crew experience the sheer terror and claustrophobic life of a submariner in World War II.
Director: Wolfgang Petersen | Stars: Jürgen Prochnow, Herbert Grönemeyer, Klaus Wennemann, Hubertus Bengsch
Votes: 264,271 | Gross: $11.49M
14. Der Bockerer (1981)
104 min | Drama, History
A politically naïve Viennese butcher (Bockerer) manages to survive the unification of Germany and Austria and the Second World War.
Director: Franz Antel | Stars: Karl Merkatz, Alfred Böhm, Hans Holt, Marte Harell
Votes: 1,026
15. Who's Singin' Over There? (1980)
86 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
It's April 5, 1941, somewhere in Serbia. A group of people go on a bus to Belgrade, on a journey that will change their lives forever.
Director: Slobodan Sijan | Stars: Pavle Vuisic, Dragan Nikolic, Danilo 'Bata' Stojkovic, Aleksandar Bercek
Votes: 16,625
16. To Be or Not to Be (1983)
PG | 107 min | Comedy, Drama, War
At the onset of WW2, a Polish actor's family and the Polish Resistance help the troupe of a theatre escape Poland and the invading Nazis.
Director: Alan Johnson | Stars: Mel Brooks, Anne Bancroft, Ronny Graham, Estelle Reiner
Votes: 12,031 | Gross: $13.03M
17. Eye of the Needle (1981)
R | 112 min | Romance, Thriller, War
A ruthless German spy, trying to get out of Britain with vital information about D-Day, must spend time with a young woman and her crippled husband.
Director: Richard Marquand | Stars: Donald Sutherland, Kate Nelligan, Stephen MacKenna, Philip Martin Brown
Votes: 11,818 | Gross: $17.58M
18. Barefoot Gen (1983)
TV-PG | 83 min | Animation, Biography, Drama
A powerful statement against war, Barefoot Gen is a disturbing story about the effect of the atomic bomb on a boy's life and the lives of the Japanese people.
Director: Mori Masaki | Stars: Issei Miyazaki, Catherine Battistone, Yoshie Shimamura, Iona Morris
Votes: 9,206
19. Fat Man and Little Boy (1989)
PG-13 | 127 min | Biography, Drama, History
This film reenacts the Manhattan Project, the secret WWII project, and the first atomic bombs designed, built, and tested in Los Alamos.
Director: Roland Joffé | Stars: Paul Newman, Dwight Schultz, Bonnie Bedelia, John Cusack
Votes: 9,120 | Gross: $3.56M
20. Hope and Glory (1987)
PG-13 | 113 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Bill, a young boy living on the outskirts of London experiences the exhilaration of World War II. During this period, Bill learns about sex, death, love, hypocrisy, and the faults of adults as he prowls the ruins of bombed houses.
Director: John Boorman | Stars: Sarah Miles, David Hayman, Sebastian Rice-Edwards, Geraldine Muir
Votes: 14,594 | Gross: $10.02M
21. War and Remembrance (1988–1989)
Not Rated | 135 min | Drama, War
The trials of the Henry and the Jastrow families amidst the events after the U.S.'s entry into World War II.
Stars: Robert Mitchum, Jane Seymour, Hart Bochner, Victoria Tennant
Votes: 3,125
22. The Sea Wolves (1980)
PG | 120 min | Action, History, War
During World War II, British Intelligence brings a crew of ex-soldiers out of retirement, using their age as cover, to take to the seas and pull off an unlikely undercover mission in neutral Goa.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen | Stars: Gregory Peck, Roger Moore, David Niven, Trevor Howard
Votes: 5,277
23. Lili Marleen (1981)
R | 120 min | Drama, Music, Romance
In 1938, a German singer falls in love with a Jewish composer in Zurich, who helps Jews flee Nazi Germany. She wants to help but is forced back to Germany. Her song "Lili Marleen" becomes a hit with soldiers and the Nazi top brass.
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Stars: Hanna Schygulla, Giancarlo Giannini, Mel Ferrer, Karl-Heinz von Hassel
Votes: 4,291
24. Victory (1981)
PG | 116 min | Drama, Sport, War
As allied P.O.W.s prepare for a soccer game against the German National Team to be played in Nazi-occupied Paris, the French Resistance and British officers are making plans for the team's escape.
Director: John Huston | Stars: Michael Caine, Sylvester Stallone, Pelé, Bobby Moore
Votes: 33,264 | Gross: $10.85M
25. The Winds of War (1983)
126 min | Drama, Romance, War
The trials of the Henry and Jastrow families in the early years of World War II.
Stars: Robert Mitchum, Ali MacGraw, Jan-Michael Vincent, John Houseman
Votes: 4,656
26. Friend or Foe (1982)
70 min | Family
Two children in wartime England find a German fighter pilot.
Director: John Krish | Stars: John Bardon, Stacey Tendeter, John Holmes, Mark Luxford
Votes: 81
27. The Highest Honor (1982 TV Movie)
R | 144 min | Drama, War
The true story of a daring raid on Japanese-occupied Singapore Harbour by Australian and British troops during WWII.
Directors: Peter Maxwell, Seiji Maruyama | Stars: John Howard, Atsuo Nakamura, Stuart Wilson, Steve Bisley
Votes: 167
28. Veliki transport (1983)
134 min | Action, Drama, War
This WW2 epic was one of the last movies of that kind made in former Yugoslavia. It tells the story of great transport of Partizans from Vojvodina to Bosnia in 1943.
Director: Veljko Bulajic | Stars: James Franciscus, Steve Railsback, Edward Albert, Helmut Berger
Votes: 188
29. Code Name: Emerald (1985)
PG | 95 min | Action, Drama, War
Emerald is an agent the Germans "have" inside allied intelligence 1944/WWII. With "help" from Emerald, the Germans catch Wheeler, believed to know the when and where of D-Day. Emerald is sent to be Wheeler's cell mate. Let the game begin.
Director: Jonathan Sanger | Stars: Ed Harris, Max von Sydow, Horst Buchholz, Helmut Berger
Votes: 1,098 | Gross: $0.52M
30. Farewell to the King (1989)
PG-13 | 117 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Borneo, 1942: An American soldier escapes WWII and becomes the king of the headhunters in the jungle. Two British soldiers are parachuted into the area to find local support for the battle against the Japanese.
Director: John Milius | Stars: Nick Nolte, Nigel Havers, Frank McRae, Gerry Lopez
Votes: 3,133 | Gross: $2.42M
31. Rebel (1985)
R | 89 min | Drama, Music, Romance
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... See full summary »
Director: Michael Jenkins | Stars: Matt Dillon, Debra Byrne, Bryan Brown, Bill Hunter
Votes: 426
32. The Misfit Brigade (1987)
R | 99 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
War story of the 27th Panzers, Hitler's heavy-duty combat regiment composed of prisoners. In 1943, this motley tank crew is sent on a suicide mission behind enemy lines to destroy a Soviet train that's carrying fuel for the Red Army.
Director: Gordon Hessler | Stars: Bruce Davison, David Patrick Kelly, D.W. Moffett, Jay O. Sanders
Votes: 2,174
33. Captive Hearts (1987)
PG | 97 min | Drama, Romance, War
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Paul Almond | Stars: Pat Morita, Chris Makepeace, Mari Sato, Michael Sarrazin
Votes: 232 | Gross: $3.00M
34. Hanna's War (1988)
PG-13 | 148 min | Biography, Drama, War
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.
Director: Menahem Golan | Stars: Ellen Burstyn, Maruschka Detmers, Anthony Andrews, Donald Pleasence
Votes: 482 | Gross: $0.14M
35. Shadowman (1988)
96 min | Drama
The story of a war refugee who's hiding in Amsterdam.
Director: Piotr Andrejew | Stars: Jeroen Krabbé, Tom Hulce, Manouk van der Meulen, Trudy Labij
Votes: 63
36. A Soldier's Tale (1989)
R | 96 min | Drama, Romance, War
A British soldier falls in love with a French woman wanted by the resistance for crimes against her country.
Director: Larry Parr | Stars: Gabriel Byrne, Marianne Basler, Paul Wyett, Judge Reinhold
Votes: 274
37. Triumph of the Spirit (1989)
R | 120 min | Biography, Drama, History
In Greece during World War II, a young Jewish boxer, his girlfriend, and their families are sent to Auschwitz. When the camp guards learn of his boxing abilities, they force him to participate in weekly boxing matches.
Director: Robert M. Young | Stars: Willem Dafoe, Edward James Olmos, Robert Loggia, Wendy Gazelle
Votes: 2,777 | Gross: $0.41M
Story of Salamo Arouch
38. The Last Warrior (1989)
R | 94 min | Action, Drama, War
The biggest Japanese battleship, Yamato, is badly damaged and will be repaired at a small island in the Pacific which is inhabited only by Gibb, a US American observation post, and a few ... See full summary »
Director: Martin Wragge | Stars: Gary Graham, Maria Holvoe, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, John Carson
Votes: 217
39. The Winter War (1989)
199 min | Drama, History, War
In 1939, two Finnish brothers are conscripted in the army to fight in the war between Finland and the Soviet Union.
Director: Pekka Parikka | Stars: Taneli Mäkelä, Vesa Vierikko, Timo Torikka, Heikki Paavilainen
Votes: 8,728
40. 1939 (1989)
193 min | Biography, Drama, History
World War II through the eyes of a Stockholm waitress.
Director: Göran Carmback | Stars: Helene Egelund, Helena Bergström, Per Morberg, Ingvar Hirdwall
Votes: 957
41. Enola Gay: The Men, the Mission, the Atomic Bomb (1980 TV Movie)
156 min | Adventure, Drama, History
The decision to drop the atom bomb, the secrecy surrounding the mission, and the men who flew it.
Director: David Lowell Rich | Stars: Billy Crystal, Kim Darby, Patrick Duffy, Gary Frank
Votes: 325
42. The Diary of Anne Frank (1980 TV Movie)
109 min | Biography, Drama
During World War II, a teenage Jewish girl named Anne Frank and her family are forced into hiding in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands.
Director: Boris Sagal | Stars: Maximilian Schell, Joan Plowright, James Coco, Doris Roberts
Votes: 633
43. The White Rose (1982)
108 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
During the Second World War, a small group of students at Munich University begin to question the decisions and sanity of Germany's Nazi government. The students form a resistance cell ... See full summary »
Director: Michael Verhoeven | Stars: Lena Stolze, Martin Benrath, Wulf Kessler, Oliver Siebert
Votes: 1,100
44. Entre Nous (1983)
PG | 110 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
A Jewish refugee marries a soldier to escape deportation to Germany. Meanwhile a wealthy art student loses her first husband to a stray Resistance bullet; at the Liberation she meets an actor, gets pregnant, and marries him.
Director: Diane Kurys | Stars: Miou-Miou, Isabelle Huppert, Guy Marchand, Jean-Pierre Bacri
Votes: 2,258
45. The Keep (1983)
R | 96 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Nazis are forced to turn to a Jewish historian for help in battling the ancient demon they have inadvertently freed from its prison.
Director: Michael Mann | Stars: Scott Glenn, Ian McKellen, Alberta Watson, Jürgen Prochnow
Votes: 14,292 | Gross: $3.76M
46. Angry Harvest (1985)
R | 105 min | Drama, Romance, War
In the winter of 1942-43, a Jewish family leaps from a train going through Silesia. They are separated in the woods, and Leon, a local peasant who's now a farmer of some wealth, discovers ... See full summary »
Director: Agnieszka Holland | Stars: Armin Mueller-Stahl, Elisabeth Trissenaar, Wojciech Pszoniak, Gerd Baltus
Votes: 867
47. The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank (1988 TV Movie)
PG | 97 min | Drama, History, War
Miep Gies struggles to keep Anne Frank and her family hidden and safe inside the secret annex, as the Nazis turn Amsterdam upside-down.
Director: John Erman | Stars: Mary Steenburgen, Paul Scofield, Huub Stapel, Eleanor Bron
Votes: 501
48. Too Young the Hero (1988 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 100 min | Biography, Drama, War
The true story of Calvin Graham who at the age of twelve, but looking quite a lot older, succeeded in joining the navy during World War II. In spite of his young age, he received a Purple ... See full summary »
Director: Buzz Kulik | Stars: Ricky Schroder, Jon DeVries, Debra Mooney, Mary-Louise Parker
Votes: 552
49. Countdown to War (1989 TV Movie)
78 min | Drama, History, War
Based on a play, the story details the dramatic negotiations between the UK, France, Poland, Nazi Germany, and the U.S.S.R. from the day Czechoslovakia fell, until Britain's declaration of war on Germany, caused by Hitler's invasion of Poland.
Director: Patrick Lau | Stars: Ian McKellen, Michael Aldridge, Tony Britton, John Woodvine
Votes: 204
50. The Skin (1981)
Not Rated | 131 min | Drama, War
After the Allies liberate Naples in 1943, the life for the locals is not much easier, especially for women. Many sacrifice their dignity and morale to survive.
Director: Liliana Cavani | Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Ken Marshall, Alexandra King, Carlo Giuffrè
Votes: 1,292
51. Wallenberg: A Hero's Story (1985 TV Movie)
200 min | Biography, Drama, History
The story of Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat responsible for saving thousands of lives from the Nazi Holocaust.
Director: Lamont Johnson | Stars: Richard Chamberlain, Alice Krige, Kenneth Colley, Melanie Mayron
Votes: 430
52. Shoah (1985)
Not Rated | 566 min | Documentary, History, War
Claude Lanzmann's epic documentary recounts the story of the Holocaust through interviews with witnesses - perpetrators as well as survivors.
Director: Claude Lanzmann | Stars: Simon Srebnik, Michael Podchlebnik, Motke Zaïdl, Hanna Zaïdl
Votes: 10,546 | Gross: $0.02M
53. Bridge to Hell (1986)
91 min | Action, Drama, War
Three prisoners from a Nazi prison camp (an American, an Italian and a German deserter), are trying to make their way through Nazi occupied territory and over to freedom. Along the way, ... See full summary »
Director: Umberto Lenzi | Stars: Andy J. Forest, Carlo Mucari, Paki Valente, Francesca Ferre
Votes: 148
AKA: Bridge to Hell
54. Crossings (1986)
TV-MA | 269 min | Drama, Romance, War
An industrialist meets a French ambassador's wife on a transatlantic voyage. As Paris falls under Nazi occupation, she returns to America, rekindling an affair with the industrialist. Her husband's allegiance remains ambiguous.
Stars: Cheryl Ladd, Lee Horsley, Christopher Plummer, Jane Seymour
Votes: 283
55. The Assault (1986)
PG | 144 min | Drama, History, Romance
A Dutch doctor, haunted by grueling childhood memories of World War II, struggles to find peace as he spends his life looking for answers about the tragic night that shaped him.
Director: Fons Rademakers | Stars: Derek de Lint, Marc van Uchelen, Monique van de Ven, John Kraaijkamp Sr.
Votes: 3,401 | Gross: $0.20M
56. The Last Days of Patton (1986 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 146 min | Biography, Drama
July 1945. The war in Europe is over and General George S Patton is now military governor of Bavaria. True to form he doesn't always see eye-to-eye with his superiors and is prone to making comments that they don't approve of.
Director: Delbert Mann | Stars: George C. Scott, Richard Dysart, Murray Hamilton, Ed Lauter
Votes: 1,117
57. Fortunes of War (1987)
407 min | Drama, War
A British couple living in Romania try to survive as Europe is engulfed in World War II.
Stars: Emma Thompson, Kenneth Branagh, Charles Kay, Mark Drewry
Votes: 879
58. Die Wannseekonferenz (1984 TV Movie)
87 min | Drama, History
At the Wannsee Conference on January 20, 1942, senior Nazi officials meet to determine the manner in which the so-called "Final Solution to the Jewish Question" can be best implemented.
Director: Heinz Schirk | Stars: Dietrich Mattausch, Gerd Böckmann, Friedrich G. Beckhaus, Robert Atzorn
Votes: 1,267
AKA: The Wannsee Conference
59. Man Behind the Sun (1988)
Not Rated | 105 min | Drama, History, Horror
Japanese troops round up Chinese and Russian prisoners of war and take them to unit 731, where they're horribly tortured and experimented on to test new biological weapons.
Director: Tun-Fei Mou | Stars: Gang Wang, Dai Yao Wu, Runshen Wang, Zhe Quan
Votes: 7,271
60. And a Nightingale Sang (1989 TV Movie)
95 min | Drama, Romance
Romance lifts a sister from a lively family in working-class Newcastle during World War II.
Director: Robert Knights | Stars: Phyllis Logan, Tom Watt, Joan Plowright, John Woodvine
Votes: 75
61. Black Rain (1989)
Not Rated | 123 min | Drama, War
The story of the aftermath of the Hiroshima bombing, based on Masuji Ibuse's novel.
Director: Shôhei Imamura | Stars: Yoshiko Tanaka, Kazuo Kitamura, Etsuko Ichihara, Shôichi Ozawa
Votes: 3,951
62. For Those I Loved (1983)
145 min | Biography, Drama, War
A story of the life of a Polish Jewish Holocaust survivor.
Director: Robert Enrico | Stars: Michael York, Jacques Penot, Macha Méril, Helen Hughes
Votes: 570
63. And the Violins Stopped Playing (1988)
116 min | Biography, Drama, War
This is the true story about a group of Romani's (gypsy) in occupied Poland during World War II as they confront the atrocities and tragedies of a forgotten holocaust.
Director: Alexander Ramati | Stars: Horst Buchholz, Didi Ramati, Piotr Polk, Maya Ramati
Votes: 199
64. A Town Like Alice (1981)
301 min | Drama, Romance, War
Set against the brutal chaos of World War II, a love story begins that will take two lovers through a living nightmare of captivity, across three continents and two decades.
Stars: Helen Morse, Bryan Brown, Gordon Jackson, John Lee
Votes: 1,057
65. The Assisi Underground (1985)
PG | 115 min | Drama, History, War
A simple friar and a local bishop set up a pipeline for hundreds of Jews to hide and escape the Nazis in World War II Assisi.
Director: Alexander Ramati | Stars: Ben Cross, James Mason, Irene Papas, Maximilian Schell
Votes: 450
66. The Key to Rebecca (1985 TV Movie)
R | 194 min | Drama, Romance, War
In Cairo during World War II, a German Agent tries to infiltrate the British command to lay the groundwork for Erwin Rommel's conquest of Egypt.
Director: David Hemmings | Stars: Cliff Robertson, David Soul, Season Hubley, Lina Raymond
Votes: 521
67. Mussolini and I (1985)
120 min | Biography, Drama, War
A compelling drama and documentary chronicling the life and death of Il Duce (Bob Hoskins), from his days as a terrorist, to his alliance with Hitler, to the betrayal of his son-in-law, and untimely demise.
Stars: Susan Sarandon, Anthony Hopkins, Bob Hoskins, Annie Girardot
Votes: 453
68. Jenny's War (1985)
PG | 198 min | Drama, War
This fact-based story follows a woman who launches a rescue of her Royal Air Force pilot son, who was shot down over Germany in 1941. Getting no help from the underground, she sets up her own rescue mission.
Stars: Dyan Cannon, Elke Sommer, Robert Hardy, Patrick Ryecart
Votes: 166
69. Mussolini: The Untold Story (1985)
Unrated | 410 min | Biography, Drama, History
The rise and fall of the Italian fascist dictator, Benito Mussolini.
Stars: George C. Scott, Virginia Madsen, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Lee Grant
Votes: 645
70. Biloxi Blues (1988)
PG-13 | 106 min | Comedy, Drama
A group of young recruits go through boot camp during the Second World War in Biloxi, Mississippi. From the play by Neil Simon.
Director: Mike Nichols | Stars: Matthew Broderick, Christopher Walken, Matt Mulhern, Corey Parker
Votes: 16,498 | Gross: $43.18M
Basic Training
71. Bomber Harris (1989 TV Movie)
85 min | Biography, Drama, History
The history of one of the key commanders of WW2, the head of RAF Bomber Command, Air Chief Marshall Sir Arthur "Bomber" Harris.
Director: Michael Darlow | Stars: John Thaw, Robert Hardy, Frederick Treves, Bernard Kay
Votes: 190
72. Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story (1989 TV Movie)
160 min | Biography, Drama, War
A biographical portrayal of Simon Wiesenthal, famous Nazi Hunter. From his imprisonment in a Nazi Concentration Camp, the film follows his liberation and his rise to become one of the ... See full summary »
Director: Brian Gibson | Stars: Ben Kingsley, Anton Lesser, Craig T. Nelson, Robert Morelli
Votes: 362
73. That Summer of White Roses (1989)
R | 98 min | Drama, War
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.
Director: Rajko Grlic | Stars: Tom Conti, Susan George, Nitzan Sharron, Rod Steiger
Votes: 172
AKA: The Summer of White Roses
75. Miracle at Moreaux (1985 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 58 min | Drama, History, War
It is 1943, and the students at a catholic boarding school decide to hide three Jewish children from the Nazis. To save the children, the members of the boarding school will have to find the courage to risk their own lives in the process.
Director: Paul Shapiro | Stars: Loretta Swit, Robert Joy, Ken Pogue, Robert Kosoy
Votes: 146
76. Glowy pelne gwiazd (1983)
64 min | Drama, Romance, War
Two young boys living in a small town in the east of Poland try to survive the war by working as projectionists in a local cinema. They provide entertainment to Poles, Germans and Russians alike.
Director: Janusz Kondratiuk | Stars: Witold Golinski, Wlodzimierz Preyss, Maria Baster, Ewa Szykulska
Votes: 15
AKA: Heads Full of Stars
77. Droga daleka przed nami... (1980)
91 min | Drama, War
Director: Wladyslaw Slesicki | Stars: Boleslaw Abart, Elzbieta Borkowska, Slawomir Dobrowolski, Edmund Fetting
Votes: 12
AKA: A Long Way to Go
78. Zielone lata (1980)
102 min | Drama, Family, War
Set in 1939 tells a story of friendship among three 10-year olds, living in town of Sosnowiec: a Polish and Jewish boys and a German girl. The Jewish boy's parents are killed and he is ... See full summary »
Director: Stanislaw Jedryka | Stars: Tomasz Jarosinski, Jacek Bryniarski, Agnieszka Konopczynska, Malgorzata Pritulak
Votes: 20
AKA: Salad Days
79. Urodziny mlodego warszawiaka (1980)
96 min | Drama, History, Romance
The four sequences in the film cover four days in the life of a young Warsaw lad in September 1938, 1939, 1943, and 1944. In the first sequence Jurek decides not to study at Sorbonne but ... See full summary »
Directors: Ewa Petelska, Czeslaw Petelski | Stars: Piotr Lysak, Andrzej Lapicki, Jolanta Grusznic, Gabriela Kownacka
Votes: 38
80. Wyrok smierci (1980)
105 min | Action, Drama, War
A spy thriller set in 1943 when the Polish Resistance was killing SS- officers and collaborators in Lublin and Zamosc. Polish hitman romances with "officer's lady" while he is setting up ... See full summary »
Director: Witold Orzechowski | Stars: Wojciech Wysocki, Jerzy Bonczak, Doris Kunstmann, Stanislaw Igar
Votes: 31
AKA: The Death Sentence
81. Dzien Wisly (1980)
70 min | Drama, History, War
Set in a suburb of Warsaw in September of 1944, as the Germans were withdrawing after leaving the city of ruins after the Warsaw uprising and the Russians were preparing to cross the river.
Director: Tadeusz Kijanski | Stars: Ewa Borowik, Marek Dabrowski, Edmund Fetting, Zygmunt Fok
AKA: Vistula Day
82. Godzina 'W' (1980 TV Movie)
77 min | Drama, War
Tells the story of a very memorable in Warsaw - August 1, 1944. The Germans have been withdrawing for some time, everyone is waiting for the signal of the Polish uprising to start.
Director: Janusz Morgenstern | Stars: Ewa Blaszczyk, Jerzy Gudejko, Piotr Lysak, Wojciech Wysocki
Votes: 82
83. The Boat Is Full (1981)
PG | 101 min | Drama, War
During World War II, Switzerland severely limited refugees: "Our boat is full." A train from Germany halts briefly in an isolated corner of Switzerland. Six people jump off seeking asylum: ... See full summary »
Director: Markus Imhoof | Stars: Tina Engel, Hans Diehl, Martin Walz, Curt Bois
Votes: 702
AKA: The Boat is Full
84. Boldyn (1982)
119 min | Biography, Drama, History
A psychological movie set in World War II in occupied Poland. Partisans, commanded by autocratic self-proclaimed General Boldyn, who becomes unbearable during inactivity, start to submit false reports on sudden German troop movements.
Directors: Ewa Petelska, Czeslaw Petelski | Stars: Wirgiliusz Gryn, Tomasz Stockinger, Tomasz Zaliwski, Henryk Talar
Votes: 22
85. The Girl with the Red Hair (1981)
PG | 110 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
The story of Hannie Schaft of the Dutch resistance told in flashbacks how she tries to bring collaborators and criminals to justice in 1945.
Director: Ben Verbong | Stars: Renée Soutendijk, Peter Tuinman, Loes Luca, Johan Leysen
Votes: 854
86. The Imperial Navy (1981)
145 min | Drama, War
A lavish retelling of the true story of the final voyage and ultimate destruction and sinking of the battleship Yamato, Japan's greatest flagship during the Second World War.
Director: Shûe Matsubayashi | Stars: Susumu Fujita, Hiroshi Hasegawa, Akihiko Hirata, Tôru Ibuki
Votes: 105
87. The Boy Soldier (1981)
118 min | Drama, War
This is a coming of age drama adapted from the 1952 Yves Gibeau novel of the same title. A young anti-militarist is forcibly sent to military school by his father. He's a bookish pacifist ... See full summary »
Director: Yves Boisset | Stars: Lucas Belvaux, Jean Carmet, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Jean-François Stévenin
Votes: 361
AKA: Let's Go Children
88. The Lynx (1982)
84 min | Drama, War
During the German occupation of Poland a young priest tries hard to prevent the execution of a local farmer, accused of treason, by a resistance fighter.
Director: Stanislaw Rózewicz | Stars: Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Franciszek Pieczka, Piotr Bajor, Ryszarda Hanin
Votes: 298
AKA: Lynx: The Smile of the Evil Eye
89. Assassination Attempt (1981)
150 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Alain Delon and Claude Jade stars in this Soviet movie: Documents reveal in 1980 that the Germans planned to kill the Big Three in Teheran in 1943.
Directors: Aleksandr Alov, Vladimir Naumov | Stars: Natalya Belokhvostikova, Curd Jürgens, Igor Kostolevskiy, Claude Jade
Votes: 1,321
90. The Night of the Shooting Stars (1982)
R | 107 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
In 1944, the residents of a small Italian town under Axis control flee their homes to seek out the liberating Allied forces.
Directors: Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani | Stars: Omero Antonutti, Margarita Lozano, Claudio Bigagli, Massimo Bonetti
Votes: 4,648
91. Haracz szarego dnia (1984)
84 min | Drama, War
In 1943 a group of partisans is ordered to blow up a railway bridge during the passage of a military transport. The mission is accomplished, but at great cost to themselves and others.
Director: Roman Wionczek | Stars: Leonard Andrzejewski, Boguslaw Augustyn, Jolanta Grusznic, Anna Milewska
Votes: 7
AKA: Tribute to a Gray Day
92. Wedle wyroków twoich... (1984)
95 min | Drama, War
As the Germans invade Poland Jewish Ruth and her mother are trapped by the oncoming Nazis. When they are loaded onto a truck for transportation to a ghetto, Ruth is told by her mother to ... See full summary »
Director: Jerzy Hoffman | Stars: Sharon Brauner, Anna Dymna, Günter Lamprecht, Mathieu Carrière
Votes: 75
AKA: After Your Decrees
93. Balkan ekspres (1983)
102 min | Comedy, War
A group of petty criminals is trying to make some money under the disguise of a musical band in German-occupied Serbia.
Director: Branko Baletic | Stars: Dragan Nikolic, Bora Todorovic, Tanja Boskovic, Velimir 'Bata' Zivojinovic
Votes: 2,824
94. Katastrofa w Gibraltarze (1984)
164 min | Biography, Drama, War
Tells the story of General Wladyslaw Sikorski from September 1939 to his tragic and controversial death on July 4, 1943. During the Second World War, Sikorski became prime minister of the ... See full summary »
Director: Bohdan Poreba | Stars: Jerzy Sergiusz Adamczewski, Leonard Andrzejewski, Boguslaw Augustyn, Arkadiusz Bazak
Votes: 20
AKA: Crash of Gibraltar
95. Hong Kong 1941 (1984)
R | 100 min | Drama, War
Years later, a woman narrates her personal story of the Japanese takeover of Hong Kong in 1941. She's Nam, young, attractive, daughter of a wealthy rice merchant, and prey to painful, ... See full summary »
Director: Po-Chih Leong | Stars: Chow Yun-Fat, Cecilia Yip, Alex Man, Stuart Ong
Votes: 691
AKA: Hong Kong 1941
96. Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (1983)
R | 123 min | Drama, War
During WWII, a British colonel tries to bridge the cultural divides between a British POW and the Japanese camp commander in order to avoid bloodshed.
Director: Nagisa Ôshima | Stars: David Bowie, Tom Conti, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Takeshi Kitano
Votes: 20,005 | Gross: $2.31M
97. Yi ge he ba ge (1984)
86 min | War
Set in the Anti-Japanese War, an instructor who used to be an undercover at the enemy-occupied area. He is set up by a spy and could not prove his innocence.
Director: Junzhao Zhang | Stars: Daoming Chen, Xiaoyan Lu, Zeru Tao, Zongwan Wei
Votes: 82
AKA: One and Eight
98. Kartka z podrózy (1984)
78 min | Drama, War
A story of a middle-aged Jew methodically preparing himself to be shipped off to a concentration camp. The main character, Jacob Rosenberg, is a former industrial counselor, who is forced ... See full summary »
Director: Waldemar Dziki | Stars: Wladyslaw Kowalski, Rafal Wieczynski, Maja Komorowska, Halina Mikolajska
Votes: 45
AKA: Postcard From a Journey
99. Roman Rapido (1983)
Action, Drama, War
THIS FAMILY SAGA THAT SPANS TWO DECADES, FROM THE JAPANESE OCCUPATION TO THE 1950s, IS ADAPTED FOR THE BIG SCREEN FROM THE RADIO SERIAL THAT WENT ON AIR IN THE 1950s.
Director: Argel Joseph | Stars: Fernando Poe Jr., Helen Vela, Dang Cecilio, Julie Vega
Votes: 12
100. The Scarlet and the Black (1983 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 143 min | Drama, History, War
Vatican efforts, led by Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty, to save Allied P.O.W.s and downed Allied airmen as the Nazis invade Rome.
Director: Jerry London | Stars: Gregory Peck, Christopher Plummer, John Gielgud, Raf Vallone
Votes: 3,710
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