16 Films & TV Shows Set In Belgium During The 1940s
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The Monuments Men
๐ฆ๐น Austria ๐ง๐ช Belgium ๐ซ๐ท France ๐ฉ๐ช Germany The 1940s The 1970sIt was the greatest art heist in history โ Based on the true story of the greatest treasure hunt in history, The Monuments Men is an action drama focusing on seven over-the-hill, out-of-shape museum directors, artists, architects, curators, and art historians who went to the front lines of WWII to rescue the worldโs artistic masterpieces from Nazi thieves and return them to their rightful owners. With the art hidden behind enemy lines, how could these guys hope to succeed?
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Company of Heroes
๐ง๐ช Belgium ๐ฉ๐ช Germany The 1940sAmerican soldiers lost behind enemy lines during the WWII make a horrific discovery: Hitler has a super bomb in development. Against all odds, they set out to find the scientist in charge of the program who is looking to defect.
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Saints and Soldiers
๐ง๐ช Belgium The 1940sTrapped behind enemy lines. All they have is their hope. โ Five American soldiers fighting in Europe during World War II struggle to return to Allied territory after being separated from U.S. forces during the historic Malmedy Massacre.
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Resistance
๐ง๐ช Belgium The 1940sThe epic tale of an American reconnaissance pilot downed in occupied Belgium at the height of World War II. Hidden by resistance fighters, the pilot falls in love with the wife of the man who will save him. When their affair is exposed, an act of betrayal threatens their lives and the entire resistance movement, forcing the pilot to make a powerful choice that could change the course of the war.
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The Sexual Life of the Belgians
๐ง๐ช Belgium The 1960s The 1950s The 1940sJan Bocquoy narrates the story of his sexual life to age 28, imagining his conception (parents drunk, the encounter lasting ten seconds) and reporting his first orgasm (at the hands of Eddy, in a beach-side caravan, as they watch Laurel and Hardy), his comparative experiences with girls, and his move from Harelbeck to Brussels. There he meets Greta, bartender at a Bohemian cafe, who teaches him the Kama Sutra, the naked Esther, who reads him stories, and Thรฉrรจse, his wife for three years. They split after two children; he moves to a small flat, writes pornography to pay the bills, works sporadically on a novel, espouses anarchism, and meets more women. His self-confidence grows.
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A Midnight Clear
๐ง๐ช Belgium ๐ซ๐ท France The 1940sSet in 1944 France, an American Intelligence Squad locates a German Platoon wishing to surrender rather than die in Germany's final war offensive. The two groups of men, isolated from the war at present, put aside their differences and spend Christmas together before the surrender plan turns bad and both sides are forced to fight the other.
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Plenty
England ๐ง๐ช Belgium The 1960s The 1950s The 1940sDavid Hare's account of a one-time French freedom fighter who gradually realizes that her post-war life is not meeting her expectations.
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Patton
๐ง๐ช Belgium ๐ซ๐ท France ๐ฉ๐ช Germany ๐ฒ๐ฆ Morocco ๐น๐ณ Tunisia ๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1940sThe Rebel Warrior โ "Patton" tells the tale of General George S. Patton, famous tank commander of World War II. The film begins with patton's career in North Africa and progresses through the invasion of Germany and the fall of the Third Reich. Side plots also speak of Patton's numerous faults such his temper and habit towards insubordination.
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Castle Keep
๐ง๐ช Belgium The 1940sA one-eyed major and his oddball heroes fight a twentieth-century war in a tenth-century castle! โ During the Battle of the Bulge, an anachronistic count shelters a ragtag squad of Americans in his isolated castle hoping they will defend it against the advancing Germans.
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Counterpoint
๐ง๐ช Belgium The 1940sFor every move... a counter move - for every attack... a counter attack! โ In December of 1944, Lionel Evans, an internationally renowned American conductor, is on a USO tour with his 70-piece symphony orchestra in newly-liberated Belgium. While fleeing from a German counterattack, Evans and his orchestra members are captured by a Panzer division and taken to an old chateau in Luxembourg. Despite orders to execute every prisoner, General Schiller, an avid music lover, commands Evans to give a private concert for him.
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Battle of the Bulge
๐ง๐ช Belgium The 1940sWarner Bros.' super action show of shows! โ In the winter of 1944, the Allied Armies stand ready to invade Germany at the coming of a New Year. To prevent it, Hitler orders an all-out offensive to re-take French territory and capture the major port city of Antwerp.
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Attack
๐ง๐ช Belgium The 1940sThe Story of the "Fragile Fox" Company! โ At the end of World War II, a National Guard infantry company must set up artillery observation posts in a strategic area. Lt. Costa (Jack Palance) knows that Capt. Cooney (Eddie Albert) is in command only because of the "connections" he made stateside. Costa has serious doubts concerning Cooney's ability to lead, and when Cooney sends Costa and his men out on a dangerous mission -- and refuses to reenforce them -- all hell breaks loose.
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A 'Soir' Full of Joy
๐ง๐ช Belgium The 1940sBased on a true story from November 1943 : the Resistance manages to publish a fake edition of the pro-German newspaper 'Le Soir', put on sale by surprise in the newsstands and stuffed full of parodic articles pouring ridicule upon occupying forces. The film faithfully traced the course of this humorous and enterprising attempt to wake up the populace, filling out the basic plot with irreverent patriotic gags.
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Battleground
๐ง๐ช Belgium The 1940sThe First Great Picture Of The Second World War! โ The film concentrates on the camaraderie and the divisions between the troops as they ready for the big offensive. Told in a taut narrative, the men of the 101st, led by Van Johnson, wait out the winter in the Ardennes forest to confront the German army in what would be the last major offensive of World War II. The men are demoralized and trapped, with no hope of support from the Allies.
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The Flemish Farm
๐ง๐ช Belgium The 1940sWartime commando story based on fact. Allied airman risks return (on the ground) to occupied France for the honour of his regiment.
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Uncensored
๐ง๐ช Belgium The 1940sDuring the Nazi occupation of Belgium during World War II, a Belgian resistance group revives the newspaper "La Libre Belgique" to expose and counter Nazi propaganda efforts to deceive the people. They are so effective that the Nazis offer a reward for the capture of the paper's staff, although they don't know their identities. One of them is a well-known entertainer, and when his jealous partner hears of the reward, he turns him in. The paper's publishers escape capture, but their staff doesn't. The paper's founders must find not only a way to keep from getting captured by the Nazis but keep their newspaper going and get their staff released.