1940S Movies

During World War II, the organisation "The Women's Land Army" recruited women to work on British farms while the men were off to war. Three such "land...

London, England, during World War II. After living a tragic life experience, young Violette Szabo joins the Special Operations Executive and crosses t...

The time is 1945-46. 10 year old Eda and his friend Tonda live in a small village outside Prague. In school, their class is so wild and indisciplined...

David Hare's account of a one-time French freedom fighter who gradually realizes that her post-war life is not meeting her expectations.

A nice young couple move into an eerie house located in a small Louisiana town, unaware of its violent history.

In 1945, two young American soldiers, brothers Budd and Stuart Schulberg, are commissioned to collect filmed and recorded evidence of the horrors comm...

In the summer of 1947, Britain prepares to commemorate the wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Phillip. To get around food-rationing laws, Dr. Ch...

A re-imagination of Japanese Emperor Hirohito’s final days in power as WWII draws to a close.

The mass murder of Jewish people by the Nazi regime is chronicled, with a warning that anti-Semitism is on the rise and the events of the Holocaust co...

A tale of friendship between two men, one Jewish and the other Arab, as the state of Israel is being created.

Philippe Clarence, a famous Parisian dressmaker, seduces his friend's fiancee. But, for the first time in his life, this is for real. The film is also...

How, in 1945, after the end of World War II and the fall of the Nazi regime, the defeated were atrociously mistreated, especially those ethnic Germans...

A man hired to impersonate a bankrupt business mogul who is currently on the run from creditors sets out organize a musical starring beauties from Bra...

Set against the backdrop of April 9, 1940, a night etched in history, aging 64-year-old Colonel Birger Eriksen is in command of Oscarsborg Fortress, a...

In July 1942, in the Second World War, the rearguard of the Russian army protects the bridgehead of the Don River against the German army while the re...

Jacquot Demy is a little boy at the end of the thirties. His father owns a garage and his mother is a hairdresser. The whole family lives happily and...

Russian front, winter 1943. Soldier Arturo Andrade and Sergeant Fernando Espinosa are commissioned to investigate a mysterious murder while the Spanis...

José Henrique Fonseca crafts an ambitious and long overdue homage to a central icon in Brazil’s 20th century history. Reminiscent of film noir classi...

How can the masses be controlled? Apparently, the American publicist Edward L. Bernays (1891-1995),a pioneer in the field of propaganda and public re...

Set in 1947, Knights of Swing is a feature film that chronicles a group of young jazz musicians whose dream is to form a “really swingin’ Big Band”....