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Monsieur Verdoux
🇫🇷 France The 1930s The 1920sA Comedy of Murders. — The film is about an unemployed banker, Henri Verdoux, and his sociopathic methods of attaining income. While being both loyal and competent in his work, Verdoux has been laid-off. To make money for his wife and child, he marries wealthy widows and then murders them. His crime spree eventually works against him when two particular widows break his normal routine.
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The Spring River Flows East
Shanghai The 1930s The 1940s1930's China. The village of a poor family is taken over by the occupying Japanese army. One son, Zhongliang, leaves his wife and young son to join a medic group for the Chinese Army. The other son, Zhangmin goes into hiding to protect his family. The focus shifts back and forth from the brothers' parents and Zhongliang's wife and son to Zhongliang's newfound life of luxury in a town not too far away. The plight of Zhongliang's mother, his wife, Sufan and her son, Kongeson is contrasted with Zhongliang's rise in a flourishing company.
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If Winter Comes
England The 1930sA.S.M. Hutchinson's beloved classic of English countryside life becomes a screen masterpiece ! — It's 1939 in the small English town of Penny Green and events in Poland are about to change lives. Mark Sabre, a writer of school textbooks, has married Mabel "on the rebound", after his real love Nona marries someone else. Just as war is about to break out, Nona returns home with her husband Tony. Mabel is sure she can hold onto Mark, though. But misunderstood good deeds on Mark's part turn life for him upside down when his relationship with a young girl starts tongues wagging. Soon, wartime casualties take their toll in Penny Green as well as on the front, as the death of fighting men affects lives back home.
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Marriage in the Shadows
🇩🇪 Germany The 1930sSet during the rise of the Nazi regime, Elisabeth Maurer and Hans Wieland enjoy successful careers as actors in Berlin. Confident in her career, Elisabeth, who is Jewish, ignores the advice of a colleague to leave Germany in the face of increasing anti-Semitism. Believing that he can protect her if she becomes his wife, Hans convinces Elisabeth to marry him. In the following years, as Hans's career thrives, Elisabeth awaits the end of the Nazi terror which bars her from public life. When the situation worsens in 1938 with the Kristallnacht pogrom, Elisabeth decides to leave the country, but Hans, who still believes he can protect her, convinces her to stay with him.
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Killer Dill
The 1930sHow Funny Can A Picture Get??? You'll Know When You See Killer Dill! — Door-to-door salesman Johnny Dill, the exact double of a notorious gangster, finds himself struck between the forces of good and evil.
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Eight Thousand Li of Cloud and Moon
Shanghai The 1930s The 1940sA college girl and a musician go to the front of the anti-Japanese war and fall in love.
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It's a Wonderful Life
New York The 1940s The 1930s The 1920s The 1910sIt's a wonderful laugh! It's a wonderful love! — A holiday favourite for generations... George Bailey has spent his entire life giving to the people of Bedford Falls. All that prevents rich skinflint Mr. Potter from taking over the entire town is George's modest building and loan company. But on Christmas Eve the business's $8,000 is lost and George's troubles begin.
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Night Editor
The 1940s The 1930sIn the middle of a kiss...Murder! — "Night Editor" was based on the already existing radio program in which a newspaper editor would recount the 'inside story' of some bit newspaper story, and later became a television series.
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The Locket
England The 1930sHer Mysterious Secret Wrecked 3 Men's Lives! Not love, not money...but a haunting hunger drove her to lie, cheat, steal. Why? IT'S THE STRANGEST SECRET EVER TOLD! — A dark personal secret drives a young woman to use every man she encounters.
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No Regrets for Our Youth
Tokyo Prefecture Kyoto Prefecture The 1940s The 1930sYukie, the well-bred daughter of a university professor, is shocked when her father is relieved of his post for his political teachings during a purge of anti-militarism in pre-war Kyoto. Years go by as she is courted by two of her father's former students; one a fiery leftist, the other more moderate and equable.
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Tomorrow Is Forever
Maryland The 1930s The 1910sThe Vibrant, Pulsing Story of a Woman Escaping Her Past! — In 1918, Elizabeth MacDonald learns that her husband, John Andrew, has been killed in the war. Elizabeth bears John's son and eventually marries her kindly boss. Unknown to her, John has survived but is horribly disfigured and remains in Europe. Years later, on the eve of World War II, Elizabeth refuses to agree to her son's request to enlist and is stunned when an eerily familiar stranger named Kessler arrives from abroad and becomes involved.
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The Searching Wind
District of Columbia 🇫🇷 France 🇩🇪 Germany 🇮🇹 Italy The 1940s The 1930s The 1920sWith a screenplay adapted by Lillian Hellman from her own play, director William Dieterle's 1946 drama stars Robert Young as a U.S. ambassador in Europe in the years before WW2.
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Dr. Kotnis Ki Amar Kahani
🇨🇳 China The 1930s The 1940sDuring the Japanese invasion of China, a young Indian doctor joins the Chinese resistance, meets and courts a Chinese girl, cures a virulent plague, and is captured by a Japanese platoon...
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Brief Encounter
England The 1930sA story of the most precious moments in woman's life! — Returning home from a shopping trip to a nearby town, bored suburban housewife Laura Jesson is thrown by happenstance into an acquaintance with virtuous doctor Alec Harvey. Their casual friendship soon develops during their weekly visits into something more emotionally fulfilling than either expected, and they must wrestle with the potential havoc their deepening relationship would have on their lives and the lives of those they love.
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Scarlet Street
New York The 1930sThe things she does to men can end only one way - in murder! — Cashier and part-time starving artist Christopher Cross is absolutely smitten with the beautiful Kitty March. Kitty plays along, but she's really only interested in Johnny, a two-bit crook. When Kitty and Johnny find out that art dealers are interested in Chris's work, they con him into letting Kitty take credit for the paintings. Cross allows it because he is in love with Kitty, but his love will only let her get away with so much.
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Dillinger
Indiana The 1920s The 1930sA Cold Blooded Bandit and a Hot Blooded Blonde ... who stopped at Nothing! — The life of American public enemy number one who was shot by the police in 1934.
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The Great Flamarion
Illinois California Ciudad de México The 1930sGreat with a gun — A vaudevillian is tricked into murder by a bored wife.
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The House on 92nd Street
New York 🇩🇪 Germany The 1940s The 1930sThe F.B.I.'s own tense, terrific story behind the protection of the ATOMIC BOMB! — The US Government tries to track down embedded Nazi agents in the States.
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Her Highness and the Bellboy
New York The 1930sA Royal Command to Love! — In a fictional European country, a beautiful princess meets a handsome American reporter and falls in love with him. On a trip to New York, she hopes to find him again. While staying at one of the city's finest hotels she meets a kind-hearted bellhop who mistakes her for a maid. She invites him to be her escort, not realizing that he believes he has fallen in love with her. Every nice thing the princess does encourages him to believe that she feels the same way he does.
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China Sky
🇨🇳 China The 1930s The 1940sIn a hill city of war-torn China, the American mission hospital is run by Dr. Gray Thompson and Dr. Sara Durand, who secretly loves him. Then Gray comes back from the USA with new equipment ...and new wife Louise, who is jealous of Sara, shows herself a coward in the first Japanese air raid, and wants to take Gray back to the States. Others have similar troubles; and Japanese prisoner Colonel Yasuda manipulates them for his own ends.
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God Is My Co-Pilot
Yunnan Province The 1930s The 1940sRobert L. Scott has dreamed his whole life of being a fighter pilot, but when war comes he finds himself flying transport planes over The Hump into China. In China, he persuades General Chennault to let him fly with the famed Flying Tigers, the heroic band of airmen who'd been fighting the Japanese long before Pearl Harbor. Scott gets his chance to fight, ultimately engaging in combat with the deadly Japanese pilot known as Tokyo Joe.
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Incendiary Blonde
New York The 1930s The 1920s The 1910s The 1900sShe was the biggest sucker of them all! — Paramount's highly-fictionalized 1945 musical biography of Texas Guinan, the Roaring '20s New York nightclub owner and celebrity with alleged underworld connections who famously greeted her customers with the phrase, "Hello, suckers!"
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Roughly Speaking
The 1930s The 1920s The 1910s The 1900sIt's the ROUSING STORY of a Gallant Lady... who lost EVERYTHING BUT HER Laughter! — In the 1920s, enterprising Louise Randall is determined to succeed in a man's world. Despite numerous setbacks, she always picks herself back up and moves forward again.
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Confidential Agent
England 🇪🇸 Spain The 1930sYou'll see the screen cook when "The Lover" meets "The Look"!!! — During the Spanish Civil War, an agent on a mission to purchase coal meets with murder and counterspies.
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Captain Eddie
The 1930s The 1920s The 1910s"Rick" is on the Screen ! The Gripping . . . Exciting Story of America's First Ace of Aces ! — WWI flyer Eddie Rickenbaker remembers his life which brought him from a car salesman, race driver and pilot in WWI, to an important person in the early years of civil airline service, after his plane crashed in the South Pacific in late 1942.
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Jungle Queen
Africa - General The 1930sA young girl journeys to Africa to find her father, an explorer who vanished in the jungle.
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Molly and Me
England The 1930sA vivacious actress needing work becomes a housekeeper for a crusty retired politician, and gives his life the shaking-up that it needs.
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China's Little Devils
🇨🇳 China The 1930s The 1940sOut of the raging heart of China storms the first story of these reckless young guerillas... — In this propaganda film, a courageous group of Chinese children risk their lives to assist downed American pilots escape the ruthless Japanese oppressors.
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Double Indemnity
California The 1930sIt's love and murder at first sight! — A rich woman and a calculating insurance agent plot to kill her unsuspecting husband after he signs a double indemnity policy. Against a backdrop of distinctly Californian settings, the partners in crime plan the perfect murder to collect the insurance, which pays double if the death is accidental.
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The Uninvited
The 1930sFrom the Most Popular Mystery Romance since "Rebecca"! — A brother and sister move into an old seaside house they find abandoned for many years on the English coast. Their original enchantment with the house diminishes as they hear stories of the previous owners and meet their daughter (now a young woman) who now lives as a neighbor with her grandfather. Also heard are unexplained sounds during the night. It becomes obvious that the house is haunted.
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The Fighting Sullivans
Iowa The 1930s The 1940sTHEY MET LIFE - AND GLORY - IN ONE BLINDING FLASH!! — The lives of a close-knit group of brothers growing up in Iowa during the days of the Great Depression and of World War II and their eventual deaths in action in the Pacific theater are chronicled in this film based on a true story.
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This Happy Breed
England The 1930s The 1920s The 1910sIn 1919, Frank Gibbons returns home from army duty and moves into a middle-class row house, bringing with him wife Ethel, carping mother-in-law Mrs. Flint, sister-in-law Sylvia and three children. Years pass, with the daily routine of family infighting and reconciliation occasionally broken by a strike or a festival.
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The Rats of Tobruk
🇵🇬 Papua New Guinea 🇱🇾 Libya The 1940s The 1930sThree friends enlist in the Australian Army and serve in North Africa, holding the city of Tobruk against Rommel's forces.
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The Seventh Cross
🇩🇪 Germany The 1930sHis greatest role! — In Nazi Germany in 1936 seven men escape from a concentration camp. The camp commander puts up seven crosses and, as the Gestapo returns each escapee he is put to death on a cross. The seventh cross is still empty as George Heisler seeks freedom in Holland.
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Why We Fight: The Battle of China
🇨🇳 China The 1930s The 1940sThe sixth film illustrates Japan's occupation of China, including Madame Chiang Kai-Shek's stirring address before congress, the rape of Naking, the great 2,000 mile migration, and Claire Chennault's Flying Tigers.
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In Our Time
🇵🇱 Poland The 1930sTheir Love was all these things — It is early 1939 in Poland when Mrs. Bromley and Jennifer come to buy antiques for her business in London. Jennifer meets Count Stephen and they wine, dine and see the sights though out the city. He wishes to marry, but his family is against plain Jennifer. When she tries to leave, he catches her at the train station and they are married. To be self sufficient, they modernize the family farm with tractors and increase production, but then Germany starts the war.
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Hotel Reserve
🇫🇷 France The 1930sDeath Signs the Register — A hunt for a spy, in a hotel in the South of France just before World War Two.
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Dragon Seed
🇨🇳 China The 1930s The 1940sM-G-M's immortal production of the great novel — The lives of a small Chinese village are turned Upside down when the Japanese invade it. And heroic young Chinese woman leads her fellow villagers in an uprising against Japanese Invaders.
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Address Unknown
🇩🇪 Germany The 1930sIt Startled Millions! NOW...It Becomes the Great Screen Drama of Our Time! — When a German art dealer living in the US returns to his native country he finds himself attracted to Nazi propaganda.
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Mr. Emmanuel
England 🇩🇪 Germany The 1930sAn elderly Jewish man from Manchester, travels to Nazi Germany to seek the mother of a young German refugee that has attempted suicide. In Germany, Mr. Emmanuel’s efforts to seek out Hertha Rosenhein are greeted by a wall of silence from the scared Jewish community and anti-Semitic hatred from many Germans.
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The Traveler Without Luggage
The 1930sHaving lost his memory due to serving in World War I, Gaston has spent the past 15 years in a psychiatric hospital. Due to his large disability pension fund, several families claim him as their missing son. Gaston is introduced to the Renaud family by the Duchess Dupont-Dufort and her lawyer. The Renaud family attempt to revive Gaston's memory with stories of his past, but he is apalled by some of the things he hears and dislikes the man he is supposed to be.
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Lake Placid Serenade
🇨🇿 Czechia The 1930sGlittering with gay musical scenes! Glistening with brilliant spectacles! Gleaming with romantic gaiety! — On a peaceful, pre-war winter in Czechoslovakia, the genial godfather, Jaroslav Haschek, of Vera Hascheck, presents the young girl with her first pair of ice skates. Soon, she astonished the warm-hearted people of her village with her skill, and she is acclaimed a marvel-on-ice.
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Lassie Come Home
Scotland The 1930sA Thrilling Saga Of Courage And Loyalty ! — Hard times come for the Carraclough family and they are forced to sell their dog, Lassie, to the rich Duke of Rudling. Lassie, however, is unwilling to remain apart from young Carraclough son Joe and sets out on a long and dangerous journey to rejoin him.
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Heaven Can Wait
The 1940s The 1930s The 1920s The 1900s The 1890s The 1880s The 1870sHe believed in Love… Honor… and Obey – That Impulse! — Spoiled playboy Henry van Cleve dies and arrives at the entrance to Hell, a final destination he is sure he deserves after living a life of profligacy. The devil, however, isn't so sure Henry meets Hell's standards. Convinced he is where he belongs, Henry recounts his life's deeds, both good and bad, including an act of indiscretion during his 25-year marriage to his wife, Martha, with the hope that "His Excellency" will arrive at the proper judgment.
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Victory Through Air Power
The 1940s The 1930s The 1920s The 1910s The 1900sThis is a unique film in Disney Production's history. This film is essentially a propaganda film selling Major Alexander de Seversky's theories about the practical uses of long range strategic bombing. Using a combination of animation humorously telling about the development of air warfare, the film switches to the Major illustrating his ideas could win the war for the allies.
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Above Suspicion
England 🇫🇷 France 🇦🇹 Austria The 1930sIt happened on a honeymoon! — Two newlyweds spy on the Nazis for the British Secret Service during their honeymoon in Europe.
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The Fallen Sparrow
🇪🇸 Spain The 1930sImprisoned during the Spanish Civil War, John "Kit" McKittrick is released when a New York City policeman pulls some strings. Upon returning to America, McKittrick hears that a friend has committed suicide, and he begins to smell a rat. During his investigation, McKittrick questions three beautiful women, one of whom has a tie to his refugee past. Pursued by Nazi operatives, McKittrick learns of the death of another friend, and begins to suspect the dark Dr. Skaas.
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
🇪🇸 Spain The 1930sThunderous! Tender! Touching! — Spain in the 1930s is the place to be for a man of action like Robert Jordan. There is a civil war going on and Jordan—who has joined up on the side that appeals most to idealists of that era—has been given a high-risk assignment up in the mountains. He awaits the right time to blow up a crucial bridge in order to halt the enemy's progress
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The Amazing Mrs. Holliday
🇨🇳 China The 1930s The 1940sAs a Secret Wife...She Doesn't Do Bad! — A missionary tries to outwit the U.S. government and smuggle Chinese orphans into the country.
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Dream
🇵🇱 Poland 🇺🇦 Ukraine The 1930sThe spiritual and material misery of a group of people inhabiting the hotel of the title during the War.
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