🏷 Best 1940s Movies & TV Shows - Page 5 - Full Archive

119 titles with this tag

The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
Cast
Henry Cavill Henry Cavill
Eiza Gonzu00e1lez Eiza Gonzu00e1lez
Alan Ritchson Alan Ritchson
Henry Golding Henry Golding
7.0 1.9K votes
Genre: Action, Comedy, War
Country: United Kingdom, United States of America
Duration: 120 min.
Audience: R
Story:  During World War II, the British Army assigns a group of competent soldiers to carry out a mission against the Nazi forces behind enemy lines... A true story about a secret British WWII organization — the Special Operations Executive. Founded by Winston Churchill, their irregular warfare against the Germans helped to change the course of the war, and gave birth to modern black operations.
Plot:  casino, based on novel or book, nazi, based on true story, historical figure, military prison, harbor, british spy, ...
Time:  world war ii, 1940s
Place:  west africa
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The Zone of Interest
Cast
Christian Friedel Christian Friedel
Sandra Hu00fcller Sandra Hu00fcller
Johann Karthaus Johann Karthaus
Luis Noah Witte Luis Noah Witte
7.0 2.7K votes
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: United States of America, Poland
Duration: 105 min.
Audience: PG-13
Story:  The commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolf Höss, and his wife Hedwig, strive to build a dream life for their family in a house and garden next to the camp.
Plot:  husband wife relationship, based on novel or book, nazi, concentration camp, holocaust (shoah), auschwitz-birkenau concentration camp, garden, biography, ...
Time:  world war ii, 1940s
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Lee
Cast
Kate Winslet Kate Winslet
Andy Samberg Andy Samberg
Alexander Skarsgu00e5rd Alexander Skarsgu00e5rd
Marion Cotillard Marion Cotillard
7.0 644 votes
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Australia, United States of America
Duration: 117 min.
Audience: R
Story:  The true story of photographer Elizabeth "Lee" Miller, a fashion model who became an acclaimed war correspondent for Vogue magazine during World War II.
Plot:  photographer, photography, concentration camp, holocaust (shoah), war photographer, biography, based on true story, misogyny, ...
Time:  world war ii, 1940s
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The Brutalist
Cast
Adrien Brody Adrien Brody
Felicity Jones Felicity Jones
Guy Pearce Guy Pearce
Joe Alwyn Joe Alwyn
7.0 1.7K votes
Genre: Drama
Country: United Kingdom, United States of America
Duration: 215 min.
Audience: R
Story:  When an innovative modern architect flees post-war Europe, he is given the opportunity to rebuild his legacy. Set during the dawn of the modern United States (in Pennsylvania), his wife joins him, and their lives are forever changed by a demanding, wealthy patron.
Style:  exploitation, slow burn
Plot:  new york city, immigrant, husband wife relationship, philadelphia, pennsylvania, venice, italy, capitalism, ...
Time:  1940s, 1980s, 1950s
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The Photographer of Mauthausen
Cast
Mario Casas Mario Casas
Richard van Weyden Richard van Weyden
Alain Hernu00e1ndez Alain Hernu00e1ndez
Adriu00e0 Salazar Adriu00e0 Salazar
7.0 749 votes
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Hungary, Spain
Duration: 111 min.
Audience: R
Story:  Spanish photographer Francesc Boix, imprisoned in the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp, works in the SS Photographic Service. Between 1943 and 1945, he hides, with the help of other prisoners, thousands of negatives, with the purpose of showing the freed world the atrocities committed by the Nazis, exhaustively documented. He will be a key witness during the Nuremberg Trials.
Plot:  photographer, holocaust (shoah), spanish civil war (1936-39), biography, based on true story, holocaust (shoah) survivor, woman director, nazi occupation, ...
Time:  world war ii, 1940s
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The Tin Drum
Cast
Mario Adorf Mario Adorf
Angela Winkler Angela Winkler
David Bennent David Bennent
Katharina Thalbach Katharina Thalbach
7.0 535 votes
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 162 min.
Audience: R
Story:  In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of stairs and stops growing. In 1939, World War II breaks out.
Plot:  puberty, adultery, lolita, suicide, based on novel or book, nazi, dwarf, gdansk, ...
Time:  world war ii, 1920s, 1940s, ...
Place:  germany
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Nightmare Alley
Cast
Bradley Cooper Bradley Cooper
Cate Blanchett Cate Blanchett
Toni Collette Toni Collette
Willem Dafoe Willem Dafoe
6.9 3.4K votes
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: United States of America
Duration: 151 min.
Audience: R
Story:  An ambitious carnival man with a talent for manipulating people with a few well-chosen words hooks up with a female psychologist who is even more dangerous than he is.
Plot:  infidelity, based on novel or book, love triangle, tarot cards, mentor, hustler, lie, supernatural, ...
Time:  1940s
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Cat People
Cast
Simone Simon Simone Simon
Kent Smith Kent Smith
Tom Conway Tom Conway
Jane Randolph Jane Randolph
6.9 675 votes
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Romance
Country: United States of America
Duration: 73 min.
Audience: NR
Story:  A Serbian émigré in Manhattan believes that, because of an ancient curse, any physical intimacy with the man she loves will turn her into a feline predator.
Plot:  work, jealousy, love triangle, isolation, cat, smoking, office, zoo, ...
Time:  1940s
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Flags of Our Fathers
6.9 2.0K votes
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: United States of America
Duration: 135 min.
Audience: R
Story:  There were five Marines and one Navy Corpsman photographed raising the U.S. flag on Mt. Suribachi by Joe Rosenthal on February 23, 1945. This is the story of three of the six surviving servicemen - John 'Doc' Bradley, Pvt. Rene Gagnon and Pvt. Ira Hayes - who fought in the battle to take Iwo Jima from the Japanese.
Plot:  dying and death, based on true story, pacific, pacific war, iwo jima, aftercreditsstinger, duringcreditsstinger
Time:  world war ii, 1940s
Place:  japan
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Sound of Falling
Cast
Luise Heyer Luise Heyer
Lena Urzendowsky Lena Urzendowsky
Claudia Geisler-Bading Claudia Geisler-Bading
Lea Drinda Lea Drinda
6.9 102 votes
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 148 min.
Audience: NR
Story:  Four adolescent girls each spend their youth in the same farmhouse over the last century. Though separated by decades, resonances between their lives emerge: their desires and distress, secrets and truths, encounters with another’s gaze and defiant gaze in return.
Plot:  family, woman director, children's story, connected, traumatic childhood, rural, intergenerational trauma, non-linear narrative
Time:  1940s, 1980s, 1910s, ...
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Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
Cast
Eva Green Eva Green
Asa Butterfield Asa Butterfield
Samuel L. Jackson Samuel L. Jackson
Judi Dench Judi Dench
6.8 10.5K votes
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy
Country: United States of America
Duration: 127 min.
Audience: PG-13
Story:  A teenager finds himself transported to an island where he must help protect a group of orphans with special powers from creatures intent on destroying them.
Style:  nostalgic
Plot:  children's home, shapeshifting, falcon, time travel, orphan, super power, based on young adult novel, peregrine
Time:  1940s
Place:  wales
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Allied
Cast
Brad Pitt Brad Pitt
Marion Cotillard Marion Cotillard
Jared Harris Jared Harris
Simon McBurney Simon McBurney
6.8 4.8K votes
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: China, United States of America
Duration: 124 min.
Audience: R
Story:  In 1942, an intelligence officer in North Africa encounters a female French Resistance fighter on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. When they reunite in London, their relationship is tested by the pressures of war.
Style:  romantic
Plot:  nazi, resistance, spy, past, love, couple, french woman, dreary
Time:  world war ii, 1940s
Place:  north africa
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Lore
Cast
Saskia Rosendahl Saskia Rosendahl
Kai-Peter Malina Kai-Peter Malina
Nele Trebs Nele Trebs
Ursina Lardi Ursina Lardi
6.8 317 votes
Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: Australia, Germany
Duration: 109 min.
Audience: NR
Story:  After being abandoned by their Nazi parents at the end of World War II, five German siblings embark on a harrowing journey across their war-torn country. Led by the eldest, 14 year-old Lore, the children are forced to confront their parents’ actions and the reality of a new world.
Plot:  sibling relationship, nazi, post world war ii, woman director, nazism, mother daughter relationship, children in wartime, nazi war criminal, ...
Time:  world war ii, 1940s
Place:  germany
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Overlord
Cast
Jovan Adepo Jovan Adepo
Wyatt Russell Wyatt Russell
Pilou Asbu00e6k Pilou Asbu00e6k
Mathilde Ollivier Mathilde Ollivier
6.7 3.2K votes
Genre: Horror, Science Fiction, War
Country: United States of America
Duration: 110 min.
Audience: R
Story:  On the eve of D-Day, a team of American paratroopers crash behind enemy lines and come face-to-face with a Nazi threat unlike any the world has ever seen.
Style:  suspenseful
Plot:  nazi, village, normandy, france, d-day, laboratory, german occupation of france, explosion, ...
Time:  world war ii, 1940s
Place:  france
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Exodus
Cast
Paul Newman Paul Newman
Eva Marie Saint Eva Marie Saint
Ralph Richardson Ralph Richardson
Peter Lawford Peter Lawford
6.7 230 votes
Genre: Drama, War
Country: United States of America
Duration: 208 min.
Audience: PG
Story:  Ari Ben Canaan, a passionate member of the Jewish paramilitary group Haganah, attempts to transport 600 Jewish refugees on a dangerous voyage from Cyprus to Palestine on a ship named the Exodus. He faces obstruction from British forces, who will not grant the ship passage to its destination.
Plot:  palestinian-israeli conflict, propaganda, jewry, british army, zionism, based on true story, ethnic cleansing, historical drama, ...
Time:  1940s
Place:  israel
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Red Tails
Cast
Bryan Cranston Bryan Cranston
David Oyelowo David Oyelowo
Cuba Gooding Jr. Cuba Gooding Jr.
Daniela Ruah Daniela Ruah
6.7 719 votes
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: United States of America, Czech Republic
Duration: 125 min.
Audience: PG-13
Story:  The story of the Tuskegee Airmen, the first African-American pilots to fly in a combat squadron during World War II.
Plot:  fighter pilot, u.s. air force, based on true story, fighter airplane, all black cast, tuskegee airmen, african american history
Time:  world war ii, 1940s
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The Final Countdown
Cast
Kirk Douglas Kirk Douglas
Martin Sheen Martin Sheen
Katharine Ross Katharine Ross
James Farentino James Farentino
6.6 677 votes
Genre: Action, Science Fiction, War
Country: United States of America
Duration: 103 min.
Audience: PG
Story:  During routine manoeuvres near Hawaii in 1980, the aircraft-carrier USS Nimitz is caught in a strange vortex-like storm, throwing the ship back in time to 1941—mere hours before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
Plot:  airplane, time travel, pearl harbor, pacific war, naval warfare, japanese, uss nimitz
Time:  world war ii, 1940s, 1980s
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The End of the Affair
Cast
Ralph Fiennes Ralph Fiennes
Julianne Moore Julianne Moore
Stephen Rea Stephen Rea
James Bolam James Bolam
6.6 276 votes
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: United States of America
Duration: 102 min.
Audience: R
Story:  On a rainy London night in 1946, novelist Maurice Bendrix has a chance meeting with Henry Miles, husband of his ex-mistress Sarah, who abruptly ended their affair two years before. Bendrix's obsession with Sarah is rekindled; he succumbs to his own jealousy and arranges to have her followed.
Plot:  infidelity, london, england, jealousy, bomb, obsession, romance, church, ...
Time:  world war ii, 1940s
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Freud's Last Session
Cast
Anthony Hopkins Anthony Hopkins
Matthew Goode Matthew Goode
Liv Lisa Fries Liv Lisa Fries
Jodi Balfour Jodi Balfour
6.6 182 votes
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland, United Kingdom
Duration: 109 min.
Audience: PG-13
Story:  On the eve of the Second World War, two of the greatest minds of the twentieth century, C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud converge for their own personal battle over the existence of God. The film interweaves the lives of Freud and Lewis, past, present, and through fantasy, bursting from the confines of Freud’s study on a dynamic journey.
Plot:  based on true story, author, historical fiction, belief in god, psychiatry, lesbian, independent film, sigmund freud
Time:  world war ii, 1940s, 1930s
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Blue Moon
Cast
Ethan Hawke Ethan Hawke
Bobby Cannavale Bobby Cannavale
Andrew Scott Andrew Scott
Margaret Qualley Margaret Qualley
6.6 300 votes
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
Country: Ireland, United States of America
Duration: 100 min.
Audience: R
Story:  On the evening of March 31, 1943, legendary lyricist Lorenz Hart confronts his shattered self-confidence in Sardi’s bar as his former collaborator, Richard Rodgers, celebrates the opening night of his ground-breaking hit musical, “Oklahoma!”
Style:  witty
Plot:  alcoholism, lyricist, lgbt, bar
Time:  1940s
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