JTB Italian War Action Movies (Action/War/Drama/Thriller/Comedy)
by johntbakken | created - 22 Dec 2019 | updated - 26 Dec 2019 | PublicA list of Italian Spaghetti/Macaroni Combat films. Many genre directors like Umberto Lenzi, Antonio Margheriti, Bruno Mattei and Claudio Fragrasso appears multiple times on this list.
- Instant Watch Options
- Genres
- Movies or TV
- IMDb Rating
- In Theaters
- Release Year
- Keywords
1. Under Ten Flags (1960)
Not Rated | 92 min | Drama, War
German raider, using various disguises, forces British ship to surrender. Story told from German point of view.
Director: Duilio Coletti | Stars: Van Heflin, Charles Laughton, Mylène Demongeot, John Ericson
Votes: 553
2. Commando (1962)
101 min | Action, War
A French Foreign Legion commander is told to assemble a unit and capture an Algerian rebel leader. He gathers in his old unit, most of whom are no longer in top form. One is having ... See full summary »
Director: Frank Wisbar | Stars: Stewart Granger, Dorian Gray, Leo Anchóriz, Rafael Luis Calvo
Votes: 95
3. Warriors Five (1962)
Not Rated | 84 min | Drama, Romance, War
In German-occupied Italy during World War II, an American paratrooper on a mission to blow up a bridge enlists the help of five Italians just released from a military prison, and a sexy Italian girl who joined up with them along the road.
Directors: Leopoldo Savona, George Gonneau | Stars: Jack Palance, Giovanna Ralli, Serge Reggiani, Folco Lulli
Votes: 116
4. The Shortest Day (1963)
95 min | Comedy, War
Two jerks are enlisted in the Italian army during W.W.1 and by pure luck manage to help win an important battle.
Director: Sergio Corbucci | Stars: Ciccio Ingrassia, Franco Franchi, Gino Cervi, Totò
Votes: 331
5. Torpedo Bay (1963)
99 min | War, Drama
An Italian submarine captain tries to navigate his sub through enemy waters whilst being stalked by a British commander (James Mason). The Italian sub manages to make it into the neutral port of Tangiers, followed by the British commander.
Directors: Charles Frend, Bruno Vailati | Stars: Lilli Palmer, James Mason, Gabriele Ferzetti, Alberto Lupo
Votes: 101
6. War Italian Style (1965)
Approved | 84 min | Comedy
In May 1943, two American soldiers, Joe and Frank, of Italian descent are searching the North African desert for a German general called Von Kassler, when they are captured by Von Kassler ... See full summary »
Director: Luigi Scattini | Stars: Franco Franchi, Ciccio Ingrassia, Buster Keaton, Fred Clark
Votes: 245
7. Suicide Commandos (1968)
98 min | War
World War 2 - a British commando squad is tasked with attacking the "secret" German airfield from which German fighters have been attacking bombers which are trying to stop German tanks from reinforcing the D Day defences.
Director: Camillo Bazzoni | Stars: Aldo Ray, Tano Cimarosa, Ugo Fangareggi, Luis Dávila
Votes: 176
8. Commandos (1968)
PG | 98 min | Action, Drama, War
During World War II, an Italian-American commando outfit disguised as an Italian Army unit is parachuted behind Axis lines in North Africa.
Director: Armando Crispino | Stars: Lee Van Cleef, Jack Kelly, Giampiero Albertini, Marino Masé
Votes: 1,061
9. Code Name, Red Roses (1968)
97 min | Drama, War
During the Second World War, a major American seeks to recover, with the help of some partisans, a valuable memorandum from the hands of the Nazis.
Director: Fernando Di Leo | Stars: James Daly, Pier Angeli, Nino Castelnuovo, Peter van Eyck
Votes: 92
10. Testa di sbarco per otto implacabili (1968)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, War
The movie is set during World War II in the days just prior to the D-Day invasion. A special parachute unit is sent to destroy a German flame thrower installation on Omaha Beach.
Director: Alfonso Brescia | Stars: Guy Madison, Peter Lee Lawrence, Erika Blanc, Philippe Hersent
Votes: 330
11. 36 ore all'inferno (1969)
93 min | Action, War
A rag tag bunch of US marines are sent in to the Pacific Island of Rabaul to clear any remaining Japanese forces after heavy bombing. They meet fierce resistance.
Director: Roberto Bianchi Montero | Stars: Richard Harrison, Pamela Tudor, Alain Gerard, Carlo Gaddi
Votes: 126
12. Hell Commandos (1969)
88 min | Action, Drama, War
An American major trains a group of elite soldiers for a dangerous covert mission behind enemy lines during WW2.
Director: José Luis Merino | Stars: Guy Madison, Raffaella Carrà, Stelvio Rosi, Manuel Zarzo
Votes: 113
13. Five for Hell (1969)
95 min | Action, Adventure, War
Five oddball American commandos infiltrate a well-guarded villa to steal the documents for "Plan K", which the Nazis intend to use to drive the Allies out of Italy.
Director: Gianfranco Parolini | Stars: Gianni Garko, Margaret Lee, Klaus Kinski, Aldo Canti
Votes: 673
14. The Battle of the Damned (1969)
79 min | War
After landing in North Africa in World War II, a group of soldiers led by Capt. Bruce Clay is assigned to attack an enemy position in order to destroy a large oil storage cellar in the desert.
Director: Roberto Bianchi Montero | Stars: Dale Cummings, Maurice Poli, Herb Andress, Lex Monson
Votes: 126
15. Battle of the Commandos (1969)
Not Rated | 94 min | Action, War
Irish Colonel Charlie McPhearson has just had his platoon of 28 slaughtered by German troops. Angered at his superiors for this suicide mission, he takes convicts on his next one, along ... See full summary »
Director: Umberto Lenzi | Stars: Jack Palance, Thomas Hunter, Robert Hundar, Wolfgang Preiss
Votes: 297
16. The Battle of El Alamein (1969)
PG | 96 min | Action, Drama, History
World war two drama about the 1942 North Africa battle at El Alamein between the Allies and the Axis forces.
Director: Giorgio Ferroni | Stars: Frederick Stafford, George Hilton, Michael Rennie, Marco Guglielmi
Votes: 698
17. No importa morir (1969)
94 min | Drama, War
Six U.S. soldiers are sent to destroy a bridge that spans the Elbe, which will somehow prevent the Soviets from occupying Germany in this fictional vehicle.
Director: León Klimovsky | Stars: Tab Hunter, Howard Ross, Erika Wallner, Claudio Trionfi
Votes: 88
18. Eagles Over London (1969)
PG | 100 min | Action, Drama, War
In World War II, a German undercover unit infiltrates British lines during the evacuation of Dunkirk, 1940. The film revolves around their successes and failures in disrupting Royal Air Force operations during the Battle of Britain.
Director: Enzo G. Castellari | Stars: Frederick Stafford, Van Johnson, Francisco Rabal, Ida Galli
Votes: 791
19. Salt in the Wound (1969)
PG | 98 min | War, Drama
An inexperienced American lieutenant and two American prisoners are the only force standing between advancing German troops and an Italian town that was "freed" by the trio.
Director: Tonino Ricci | Stars: Klaus Kinski, George Hilton, Rai Sanders, Betsy Bell
Votes: 280
20. The Seven Red Berets (1969)
90 min | Action, Drama
Seven mercenaries on a mission into Simba controlled Congo territory requisite with typical sterotypes.
Director: Mario Siciliano | Stars: Ivan Rassimov, Sieghardt Rupp, Kirk Morris, Pamela Tudor
Votes: 97
21. Churchill's Leopards (1970)
84 min | Action, Thriller, War
The mission: The British have to carry out a plan hatched by Churchill himself to blow up a French dam, by bringing in commandos led by the twin brother of the German commander.
Director: Maurizio Pradeaux | Stars: Richard Harrison, Pilar Velázquez, Giacomo Rossi Stuart, Frank Braña
Votes: 296
22. Hornets' Nest (1970)
R | 110 min | Action, Drama, War
In 1944, during a sabotage mission, the sole surviving U.S. paratrooper is saved by a group of Italian orphans who later aid him in blowing up a vital enemy dam.
Directors: Phil Karlson, Franco Cirino | Stars: Rock Hudson, Sylva Koscina, Sergio Fantoni, Giacomo Rossi Stuart
Votes: 1,119
23. Heroes Without Glory (1971)
92 min | Drama, War
A desert patrol is persuaded by 3 prisoners to follow them in their quest for the tomb of a Pharoah and its treasure.
Director: Alfredo Rizzo | Stars: Jeff Cameron, Isarco Ravaioli, Lemmy Carson, Rossella Como
Votes: 76
24. The Heroes (1973)
PG | 105 min | War, Adventure, Comedy
Four soldiers and a beautiful Greek nurse, thrown together in North Africa during World War II, team up to pull off a heist of two-million pounds in boxes marked "plasma."
Director: Duccio Tessari | Stars: Rod Steiger, Rosanna Schiaffino, Rod Taylor, Claude Brasseur
Votes: 115
25. Heroes in Hell (1974)
83 min | Drama, War
In World War II, guerrillas kidnap a German general.
Director: Joe D'Amato | Stars: Lars Bloch, George Manes, Rosemarie Lindt, Luciano Rossi
Votes: 180
26. The Inglorious Bastards (1978)
R | 99 min | Action, Adventure, War
In 1944 France, a group of escaped American military prisoners en route to Switzerland volunteers to steal a German V2 rocket warhead for the Allies.
Director: Enzo G. Castellari | Stars: Bo Svenson, Peter Hooten, Fred Williamson, Michael Pergolani
Votes: 10,396
27. Scorticateli vivi (1978)
95 min | Adventure
Colonel Franz Kübler leads a pack of mercenaries in an unnamed African nation.
Director: Mario Siciliano | Stars: Bryan Rostron, Mario Novelli, Giuseppe Castellano, Pier Luigi Giorgio
Votes: 86
28. Tough to Kill (1979)
88 min | Action, War
A ruthless hit man, joins a group of mercenaries deep in a South American jungle. His plan is to kidnap and collect the million dollar bounty on one of the other hired soldiers during one ... See full summary »
Director: Joe D'Amato | Stars: Luc Merenda, Donald O'Brien, Percy Hogan, Laurence Stark
Votes: 175
29. From Hell to Victory (1979)
PG | 100 min | Drama, War
In 1939, at a Paris café, six friends of various nationalities vow to meet again at the same spot after the end of WW2.
Director: Umberto Lenzi | Stars: George Peppard, George Hamilton, Horst Buchholz, Anny Duperey
Votes: 489
30. The Last Hunter (1980)
95 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
During the Vietnam war, an American soldier gets trapped behind enemy lines. A squad of his buddies sets out to rescue him.
Director: Antonio Margheriti | Stars: David Warbeck, Tisa Farrow, Tony King, Bobby Rhodes
Votes: 1,039
31. Fuga dall'arcipelago maledetto (1982)
TV-PG | 96 min | Action, War
On one of his last trips before retirement, a plane of an illegal gunrunner in Vietnam is shot down where he hooks up Annie Belle, a humanitarian rebel.
Director: Antonio Margheriti | Stars: David Warbeck, Annie Belle, Tony King, Luciano Pigozzi
Votes: 189
32. Angkor: Cambodia Express (1982)
Not Rated | 90 min | Action, Drama, War
An American journalist returns to Cambodia to bring out the girlfriend he was forced to leave behind when the murderous Khmer Rouge took over the country.
Director: Lek Kitaparaporn | Stars: Robert Walker Jr., Woody Strode, Christopher George, Nancy Kwan
Votes: 111
33. The Last Blood (1983)
TV-14 | 90 min | Action, Drama, War
During the Vietnam war, an army sergeant rebels against his tyrant commanding officer, whilst they are cut off by the enemy in the jungle. Things get worse for all of them after that.
Director: Antonio Margheriti | Stars: Giancarlo Prete, Antonio Marsina, Luciano Pigozzi, Paul Vance
Votes: 308
34. Ciao nemico (1982)
82 min | Comedy, War
Soon after the Allies land in Sicily, the U.S. Army finds itself on the other side of a 2,000 year old Roman bridge from the Italian Army. Both armies want to be the first to blow up the bridge, but they are both doing their best not to.
Director: Enzo Barboni | Stars: Johnny Dorelli, Giuliano Gemma, Carmen Russo, Eros Pagni
Votes: 142
35. Code Name: Wild Geese (1984)
R | 101 min | Action
Commander Robin Wesley, leader of a group of mercenaries, go to the Golden Triangle in Southeast Asia to overthrow the dictator, who is a major manufacturer and dealer of the world's opium.
Director: Antonio Margheriti | Stars: Lewis Collins, Lee Van Cleef, Ernest Borgnine, Klaus Kinski
Votes: 1,106
36. Kommando Leopard (1985)
TV-PG | 103 min | Action
A cruel dictator rules a Latin American state. Corruption, brutality and exploitation are present every day. A few people begin to organise resistance. Under the leader "El Leopardo" a ... See full summary »
Director: Antonio Margheriti | Stars: Lewis Collins, Klaus Kinski, Cristina Donadio, Manfred Lehmann
Votes: 566
37. The Wild Team (1985)
90 min | Action, Drama, War
A South American rebel leader in exile in Miami is given one last chance to overthrow his successor, a brutal dictator, by a multi-national mining group out to exploit his countries' mineral resources.
Director: Umberto Lenzi | Stars: Antonio Sabato, Ivan Rassimov, Werner Pochath, Julia Kent
Votes: 125
38. Cobra Mission (1986)
85 min | Action, War
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Fabrizio De Angelis | Stars: Oliver Tobias, Christopher Connelly, Manfred Lehmann, John Steiner
Votes: 289
39. War Bus (1985)
R | 92 min | Action, War
A group of soldiers in Vietnam, saving some missing in action soldiers in a schoolbus.
Director: Ferdinando Baldi | Stars: Daniel Stephen, Romano Kristoff, Urs Althaus, Gwendolyn Hung
Votes: 312
40. 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
41. Strike Commando (1987)
R | 104 min | Action, Adventure, War
In the Vietnam war, an American soldier survives a botched mission, with help from a group of locals who perceive him as a hero. He's sent back for a reconnaissance mission, only to find his helpers massacred by a brutal Russian soldier.
Director: Bruno Mattei | Stars: Reb Brown, Christopher Connelly, Louise Kamsteeg, Luciano Pigozzi
Votes: 1,144
42. Brothers in Blood (1987)
R | 92 min | Action, Adventure, War
War is Hell... especially NAM. A group of battle weary soldiers in Vietnam are trapped behind enemy lines. There is no way back. No help on the way. It's only a matter of time and these ... See full summary »
Director: Tonino Valerii | Stars: Bo Svenson, Carlo Mucari, Peter Hooten, Werner Pochath
Votes: 174
43. Wartime (1987)
85 min | Adventure, Mystery, War
World War II in eastern Europe and the Germans have succeeded in capturing a Swedish scientist. Their plan is to force the scientist to create weapons of mass destruction.
Director: Umberto Lenzi | Stars: Peter Hooten, Werner Pochath, Giacomo Rossi Stuart, Maurizio Schmidt
Votes: 78
44. Hell's Heroes (1987)
92 min | War
Disgruntled Sgt. Darkin has to protect a senator who's visiting a Vietnam village. Senator gets assassinated by the Vietcong, and Darkin gets arrested for AWOL. When the Vietcong attacks the base, he and others escape. Now what?
Director: Stelvio Massi | Stars: Miles O'Keeffe, Fred Williamson, Scott Green, Gabriele Gori
Votes: 135
45. Cobra Mission 2 (1988)
93 min | Action, Drama
A Vietnam vet who specializes in freeing POWs goes behind enemy lines on a rescue mission with a group of mercenaries.
Director: Camillo Teti | Stars: Brett Baxter Clark, Jeff Moldovan, César Olmos, Julie Carlo
Votes: 54
46. Last Platoon (1988)
80 min | Action, War
After ex-cop and highly decorated war hero Chet Costa's Vietnamese girlfriend disappears, he accepts a risky mission: he shall blow up a bridge at the Vietnamese border to close the ... See full summary »
Director: Ignazio Dolce | Stars: Richard Hatch, Vassili Karis, David Light, Milene Thy-Sanh
Votes: 114
47. The Commander (1988)
105 min | Action, War
A Major leads a group of mercenaries whose mission is to protect a disc full of secrets, located in South Asia.
Director: Antonio Margheriti | Stars: Lewis Collins, Lee Van Cleef, Donald Pleasence, Manfred Lehmann
Votes: 454
48. Delta Force Commando (1987)
R | 89 min | Action
Latin American revolutionaries invade a military base on Puerto Rico, and steal a nuclear bomb, killing a pregnant woman in the process. Captain Beck (Fred Williamson) is assigned to track ... See full summary »
Director: Pierluigi Ciriaci | Stars: Brett Baxter Clark, Fred Williamson, Mark Gregory, Bo Svenson
Votes: 405
49. Striker (1988)
Not Rated | 90 min | Action, Drama
John Slade is hired to rescue a journalist named Frank Morris from a Sandanista prison in Nicaragua. He teams with Marta, a local woman, to carry out this mission, but then he's captured, ... See full summary »
Director: Enzo G. Castellari | Stars: Frank Zagarino, Melonee Rodgers, John Steiner, Werner Pochath
Votes: 201
50. War Bus Commando (1989)
90 min | Action, War
A group of soldiers find themselves trapped behind enemy lines in Afghanistan. Their only hope for survival is to board a specially-designed bus.
Director: Pierluigi Ciriaci | Stars: Mark Gregory, John Vernon, Savina Gersak, Mario Novelli
Votes: 179
51. Bye Bye Vietnam (1988)
90 min | Action, War
Vietnam 1965. A platoon about to leave the war zone are sent back into the jungle deep behind enemy lines to find the pilot of a crashed helicopter. They soon discover that the pilot is being held prisoner in an enemy camp.
Director: Camillo Teti | Stars: Christopher Alan, Antonio Sabato, Duria Harris, Graham Scott
Votes: 57
52. Brothers in War (1989)
89 min | Action, Romance, War
Two American soldiers in Viet Nam , with differing opinions , are tasked with escorting a singer and her manager back to friendly territory after their unit is engaged by enemy forces.
Director: Camillo Teti | Stars: Christopher Alan, Sherrie Rose, Victor Rivers, Jim Pelish
Votes: 47
53. Nato per combattere (1989)
TV-PG | 94 min | Action, War
Vietnam War veteran Sam Wood is a survivor of a vicious prison camp where he was brutally and painfully tortured before finally managing to escape. Then he returns to rescue his friends.
Director: Bruno Mattei | Stars: Brent Huff, Mary Stavin, Werner Pochath, John van Dreelen
Votes: 226
54. 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
55. Colli di cuoio (1989)
87 min | Action, Adventure, War
The Leathernecks, a special military unit, comes to a Vietnamese village to teach the inhabitants how to defend themselves against the enemy.
Director: Ignazio Dolce | Stars: Richard Hatch, Antonio Marsina, Vassili Karis, Robert Marius
Votes: 49
56. Delta Force Commando II: Priority Red One (1990)
R | 100 min | Action, Thriller
This brillant action packed sequel once again centers upon the courageous exploits of a secret, elite cadre of American jet fighters fighting to keep the world safe from communism and ... See full summary »
Director: Pierluigi Ciriaci | Stars: Richard Hatch, Fred Williamson, Giannina Facio, Van Johnson
Votes: 101
Tell Your Friends