965 Films & TV Shows Set In Europe During The 1940s
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Before Him All Rome Trembled
🇮🇹 Italy The 1940sAn opera singer hides an American soldier in his house in Nazi-occupied Rome.
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Rome, Open City
🇮🇹 Italy The 1940sPowerful Portrayal of Dignity and Courage — A realistic portrayal of the underground resistance in Italy in 1945. The film has strong impacting imagery with its mix of fiction and reality that strengthened Italian Neo-realism and the film industry.
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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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Tonight and Every Night
England The 1940sThe screen's first dramatic musical — An American girl falls for an RAF pilot while performing at a British music hall.
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Red Meadows
🇩🇪 Germany The 1940sA suspense tale revolving around the memories of a Danish saboteur as he awaits his execution in a German war-time prison.
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The Last Chance
🇮🇹 Italy The 1940sEscaping a Nazi prison train in war-torn Italy, an American and a British soldier set out for the Swiss border and find themselves leading a multi-national party of refugees for the Italian underground.
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A Bell for Adano
🇮🇹 Italy The 1940sDirector Henry King's WWII drama about American soldiers occupying a tiny Italian village stars John Hodiak, Gene Tierney, William Bendix, Richard Conte, Glenn Langan, Harry Morgan and Eduardo Ciannelli.
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The Turning Point
🇷🇺 Russia The 1940sA Soviet 1945 film directed by Fridrikh Ermler based on a screenplay by Boris Chirskov. The film was one of the Cannes top prize winners of 1946.
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Paris Underground
🇫🇷 France The 1940sSENSATIONAL! REVEALING! Amazing story that tears the veil of secrecy from terrors of occupied Paris! — Constance Bennett both produced and starred in the espionager Paris Underground. Bennett and Gracie Fields play, respectively, an American and an English citizen trapped in Paris when the Nazis invade. The women team up to help Allied aviators escape from the occupied city into Free French territory. The screenplay was based on the true wartime activities of Etta Shiber, who engineered the escape of nearly 300 Allied pilots. British fans of comedienne Gracie Fields were put off by the scenes in which she is tortured by the Gestapo, while Constance Bennett's following had been rapidly dwindling since the 1930s; as a result, the heartfelt but tiresome Paris Underground failed to make a dent at the box-office. It would be Constance Bennett's last starring film--and Gracie Fields' last film, period.
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Scotland Yard Investigator
England 🇫🇷 France The 1940sSECRETS NEVER BEFORE REVEALED...the thief that rocked the international scene...exposed in a thrilling screen story! — A London curator loses the Mona Lisa to a collector, who discovers it's a fake.
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Ministry of Fear
England The 1940sThrilling drama of the Invisible Network of Terror! — Stephen Neale is released into WWII England after two years in an asylum, but it doesn't seem so sane outside either. On his way back to London to rejoin civilization, he stumbles across a murderous spy ring and doesn't quite know to whom to turn.
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Bon Voyage
🇫🇷 France The 1940sA young, Scottish RAF gunner is debriefed by French officials about his escape from Nazi-occupied territory. They are particularly interested in one person who may or may not have been a German agent.
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The White Cliffs of Dover
England The 1910s The 1940sThe greatest love story of our time ! — Susan travels with her father to England for a vacation. Invited to a society ball, Susan meets Sir John Ashwood and marries him after a whirlwind romance. However, American Susan never quite adjusts to life as a new member of the British gentry. Upon the outbreak of World War I, Ashwood is sent to the trenches and never returns. When her son goes off to fight in World War II, Susan fears the same tragic fate may befall him too.
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Uncertain Glory
🇫🇷 France The 1940sA French playboy gets serious when his country is threatened during World War II — A French playboy gets serious when his country is threatened during World War II.
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Days of Glory
🇷🇺 Russia The 1940sA heroic guerilla group fights back against impossible odds during the 1941 Nazi invasion of Russia.
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The Halfway House
Wales England The 1940sA group of travellers, each with a personal problem that they want to hide, arrive at a mysterious Welsh country inn. There is a certain strangeness in the air as they are greeted by the innkeeper and his daughter. Why are all the newspapers a year old? And why doesn't Gwyneth seem to cast a shadow?
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Fiddlers Three
England 🇮🇹 Italy The 1940s The 1st CenturyTwo British soldiers and a WREN take refuge at Stonehenge during a thunderstorm, they are struck by lightning and transported back to ancient Rome.
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English Without Tears
England 🇨🇭 Switzerland The 1940sWhile Lady Christabel Beauclark, a bird fancier, is scurrying about demanding certain territorial rights for British birds from other countries, Her Ladyship's niece is falling in love with the family butler, Tom Gilbey. The birds are forgotten when war breaks out, and Gilbey now finds himself in love with the niece whose love was previously unrequited. Written by Les Adams
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Secrets of Scotland Yard
England The 1940sSecrets of Scotland Yard is Republic's spin on a plotline first elucidated in the old E. Phillips Oppenheim novel The Great Impersonation. After losing WW I, the German high command, with remarkable foresight, prepares for the next war by planting a spy in the British Admiralty. Edgar Barrier plays the dual role of the German spy and his British twin brother. When one twin is killed, the other assumes his identity. The question: is the surviving brother the "good" one or the bad? It is up to C. Aubrey Smith, cast as Scotland Yard inspector Sir Christopher Belt, to sort out the mystery. Though it owes a great deal to the aforementioned Oppenheim yarn, Secrets of Scotland Yard is actually based on a novel by Denison Clift, who also wrote the screenplay.
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Passport to Destiny
England 🇩🇪 Germany The 1940sOnly the Nazis don't think it's so funny! — A British war widow travels to Berlin to assassinate Hitler.
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Medal for the General
England The 1940sA retired general helps out by sheltering some evacuees during WWII.
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Don't Take It to Heart
England The 1940sA stray World War Two bomb releases the ghost of the 3rd Earl of Chaunduyt after 400 years. A visiting professor, while wooing the beautiful Lady Mary, daughter of the present Earl, finds him an ally in his fight on behalf of the villagers to protect their ancient rights against a meddling newcomer.
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Give Us the Moon
England The 1940sSet just after the end of WWII (but filmed in the middle of it) in a time of general euphoria at having won the war, with full employment and general happiness for all (or nearly all). Peter, the young wastrel son of a hard working hotel owner doesn't like the idea of having to work for a living. He discovers a society of "White Elephants" who are quite willing to be poor as long as they don't have to work. They are protected and guided by Nina (Margaret Lockwood) and her precocious sister Heidi (Jean Simmons).
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The Hour Before the Dawn
England The 1940s The 1920sW. Somerset Maugham's most savage portrait of a dangerous woman! — A beautiful Austrian refugee in England--who is also a Nazi agent--marries a scholarly English pacifist. He lives near a secret military base she needs to get information about so she can help in Hitler's planned invasion of England.
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