1980s historical films

1987 film by Bernardo Bertolucci

1986 film directed by Roland Joffé

is a 1980 Japanese epic jidaigeki film directed by Akira Kurosawa. It is set in the Sengoku period of Japanese history and tells the story of a lower-class petty thief who is taught to impersonate the dying daimyō Takeda Shingen to dissuade opposing lords from attacking the newly vulnerable clan. Kagemusha is the Japanese term for a political decoy, literally meaning "shadow warrior". The film ends with the climactic 1575 Battle of Nagashino.

1982 film by Guy Hamilton

1984 film directed by Roger Donaldson

1980 film by Moustapha Akkad

1982 film by Peter Greenaway

1980 film by Andrew V. McLaglen

1986 film by Med Hondo

1984 film by Volker Schlöndorff

1981 Nigerian film by Sharad Patel

Chouans! is a 1988 French historical adventure film directed by Philippe de Broca and starring Sophie Marceau, Philippe Noiret, and Lambert Wilson. Loosely based on the 1829 novel Les Chouans by Honoré de Balzac, the film is about a woman who must choose between two brothers on opposite sides of the French Civil War of 1793. For her performance in the film, Sophie Marceau received the Cabourg Romantic Film Festival Award for Best Actress.

1983 Indian film

1981 television film directed by George Schaefer

1987 film by Simon Wincer

1981 film by Christopher Miles

1988 film by Piers Haggard

1979 film

1987 film by Filip Bajon

1981 Chinese film

1989 film about Mircea I of Wallachia, the Christian king of Wallachia directed by Sergiu Nicolaescu

1989 Polish film by Jerzy Kawalerowicz

1980 American made-for-TV historical drama film by Jim Goddard

1981 film by Filip Bajon

1981 film by Shūe Matsubayashi