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page 11980s war drama films
Platoon
1986 film directed by Oliver Stone
Full Metal Jacket
1987 film by Stanley Kubrick
Grave of the Fireflies
1988 anime film directed by Isao Takahata
Das Boot
1981 film directed by Wolfgang Petersen
Born on the Fourth of July
1989 film directed by Oliver Stone
Come and See
1985 film by Elem Klimov
The Killing Fields
1984 film by Roland Joffé
Glory
1989 film directed by Edward Zwick
The Last Metro
1980 film by François Truffaut
Au revoir les enfants
1987 autobiographical film directed by Louis Malle
Casualties of War
1989 film directed by Brian De Palma
Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence
1983 film by Nagisa Ōshima
Salvador
1986 film directed by Oliver Stone
Gallipoli
1981 Australian film by Peter Weir
Red Sorghum
1988 film by Zhang Yimou
Birdy
1984 film by Alan Parker
Enemy Mine
1985 film by Wolfgang Petersen
The Big Red One
1980 film by Samuel Fuller
Hamburger Hill
1987 American war film directed by John Irvin
Revolution
1985 film directed by Hugh Hudson
A City of Sadness
1989 film by Hou Hsiao-Hsien
When the Wind Blows
1986 film by Jimmy T. Murakami
Lili Marleen
1980 film by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Men Behind the Sun
1988 Hong Kong–Chinese historical horror film directed by Mou Tun-fei
Inchon
1981 film directed by Terence Young
Breaker Morant
1980 film by Bruce Beresford
Battle of Moscow
4-part 1985 film by Yuri Ozerov
Life and Nothing But
1989 film by Bertrand Tavernier
The Scarlet and the Black
1983 film directed by Jerry London
Attack Force Z
1982 film by Tim Burstall
Fat Man and Little Boy
1989 film by Roland Joffé
Confidence
Confidence () is a 1980 Hungarian film directed by István Szabó, set in the waning days of World War II. It chronicles the story of two resistance members who are compelled to assume the roles of husband and wife in order to evade detection by the Nazis, despite being married to others. The film garnered critical acclaim, earning Szabó the Silver Bear for Best Director at the 30th Berlin International Film Festival and receiving a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 53rd Academy Awards.
The Skin
1981 film by Liliana Cavani
Torpedo Bombers
1983 film directed by Semyon Aranovich
Trial on the Road
Soviet film by Aleksei Yuryevich German, released in 1986
Gardens of Stone
1987 film by Francis Ford Coppola
Tomorrow Was the War
1987 film by Yuri Kara
Circle of Deceit
1981 film by Volker Schlöndorff
1969
1988 drama film directed by Ernest Thompson
Germany, Pale Mother
1980 film by Helma Sanders-Brahms
The Boat Is Full
1981 Swiss film directed by Markus Imhoof
Spring on the Oder
1968 film by Lev Saakov
Battle of Kosovo
1989 film by Zdravko Šotra
Black Rain
1989 film by Shōhei Imamura
Hong Kong 1941
1984 film by Po-Chih Leong
Hit Back
1981 film by Mikhail Tumanishvili
Camp de Thiaroye
1987 film by Ousmane Sembène
Eleni
1985 American film directed by Peter Yates
Operation Leopard
1980 film by Raoul Coutard
The Fall of Italy
1981 film by Lordan Zafranović
Monsignor
1982 film by Frank Perry
Triumph of the Spirit
1989 film by Robert M. Young
The Hanoi Hilton
1987 Vietnam War film directed by Lionel Chetwynd
Primary Russia
1986 film by Gennady Vasilyev
Solo
1980 film by Konstantin Lopushansky
Moonzund
Moonzund () is a 1988 Soviet war film based on Valentin Pikul's 1970 novel of the same name. "Moonzund" refers to the West Estonian archipelago, where the Battle of Moon Sound took place during World War I.
Mata Hari
1985 film by Curtis Harrington
Gunpowder
1985 film by Viktor Aristov
Forbidden Dreams
1986 film by Karel Kachyňa
Great Transport
1983 film by Veljko Bulajić