965 Films & TV Shows Set In Europe During The 1940s
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Bye Bye Germany
🇩🇪 Germany The 1940sDavid Berman and his friends, all Holocaust survivors, have only one purpose: to go to America as soon as possible. For this they need money. Close to his aim, David is not only deprived of his savings but also overtaken by his shady past.
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Django
🇫🇷 France The 1940sThe story of Django Reinhardt, famous guitarist and composer, and his flight from German-occupied Paris in 1943.
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Another Mother's Son
🇯🇪 Jersey The 1940sThe Strength To Resist - The Courage To Hope — The true story of Louisa Gould, a widow living in Nazi occupied Jersey, who takes in a Russian prisoner of war.
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Cold Tango
🇱🇹 Lithuania 🇷🇺 Russia The 1940sBy miracle he avoided death and returns to the house where he was born. In the house now lives the love of his life. But the hope for happiness turns sour with a terrible discovery: his beloved is the daughter of his enemy.
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All the Money in the World
California England 🇫🇷 France 🇮🇹 Italy 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia 🇲🇦 Morocco The 1970s The 1960s The 1950s The 1940sJ. Paul Getty had a fortune. Everyone else paid the price. — The story of the kidnapping of 16-year-old John Paul Getty III and the desperate attempt by his devoted mother to convince his billionaire grandfather Jean Paul Getty to pay the ransom.
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Carnage: Swallowing the Past
🇬🇧 United Kingdom The 1940s The 2010s The 2020s The 2030s The 2060sIt's 2067, the UK is vegan, but older generations are suffering the guilt of their carnivorous past. Simon Amstell asks us to forgive them for the horrors of what they swallowed.
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Rainbow: A Private Affair
🇮🇹 Italy The 1940sSummer 1943, Piedmont, Italy. Milton loves Fulvia who plays with his love: she only likes the depth of his thought and the letters he writes to her. One year later, Milton has joined the Resistance and fights beside other partisans. He learns during a conversation that Fulvia was secretly in love with his best friend Giorgio, a partisan like him. Milton decides to go find Giorgio in the Langhe region of Italy with all its misty hills...But Giorgio has just been arrested by the Fascists.
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The Last Note
🇬🇷 Greece The 1940sThe execution of 200 Greek resistance fighters by the German occupiers on May 1st, 1944 in Kaisariani, as reprisal for the Greek Resistance ambush against Nazis.
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The Black Gloves
Scotland The 1940sA psychologist becomes obsessed with the disappearance of his young patient, and the menacing owl-headed figure that plagued her nightmares.
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Milada
🇨🇿 Czechia The 1940sShe fought for her country's freedom at the cost of her own. — The story of communist show-trial victim Milada Horáková. Horáková was one of the first victims of the communist regime in Czechoslovakia. She opposed the communist coup in 1948 but did not leave the country. She was arrested and tried for treason on fabricated charges in a show trial that was broadcast on the radio and shown in film clips. The film focuses on the time from 1945 to 1950 when the communists took over, but also goes back a little further in Horáková's life into the late 1930s
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SS-GB: Specials
England The 1940sAdapted from Len Deighton’s 1978 alternate history novel. A British detective investigates a murder in German-occupied Britain during World War II.
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SS-GB: Season 1
England The 1940sAdapted from Len Deighton’s 1978 alternate history novel. A British detective investigates a murder in German-occupied Britain during World War II.
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Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
California Florida Wales England Tokyo Prefecture The 2000s The 2010s The 1940sStay peculiar — 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.
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Race
Ohio 🇩🇪 Germany The 1930s The 1940sThe incredible true story of gold medal champion Jesse Owens — Based on the story of Jesse Owens, the athlete whose quest to become the greatest track and field athlete in history thrusts him onto the world stage of the 1936 Olympics, where he faces off against Adolf Hitler's vision of Aryan supremacy.
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Dad's Army
England The 1940sBlend in! — A cinema remake of the classic sitcom Dad's Army (1968). The Walmington-on-Sea Home Guard platoon deal with a visiting female journalist and a German spy as World War II draws to its conclusion.
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Alone in Berlin
🇩🇪 Germany The 1940sBerlin in June of 1940. While Nazi propaganda celebrates the regime’s victory over France, a kitchen-cum-living room in Prenzlauer Berg is filled with grief. Anna and Otto Quangel’s son has been killed at the front. This working class couple had long believed in the ‘Führer’ and followed him willingly, but now they realise that his promises are nothing but lies and deceit. They begin writing postcards as a form of resistance and in a bid to raise awareness: Stop the war machine! Kill Hitler! Putting their lives at risk, they distribute these cards in the entrances of tenement buildings and in stairwells. But the SS and the Gestapo are soon onto them, and even their neighbours pose a threat.
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A United Kingdom
England 🇧🇼 Botswana The 1950s The 1940sThe true story of a love that shook an empire — The inspiring true story of Seretse Khama, the King of Bechuanaland (modern Botswana), and Ruth Williams, the London office worker he married in 1948 in the face of fierce opposition from their families and the British and South African governments. Seretse and Ruth defied family, Apartheid and empire - their love triumphed over every obstacle flung in their path and in so doing they transformed their nation and inspired the world.
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Anthropoid
🇨🇿 Czechia The 1940sResistance has a code name — In December 1941, Czech soldier Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš parachute into their occupied homeland to assassinate Nazi officer Reinhard Heydrich
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Neruda
🇫🇷 France 🇨🇱 Chile The 1940sA renowned poet. An unknown inspector. A legendary manhunt. — It’s 1948 and the Cold War has arrived in Chile. In the Congress, prominent Communist Senator and popular poet Pablo Neruda accuses the government of betraying the Party and is stripped of his parliamentary immunity by President González Videla. The Chief of Investigative Police instructs inspector Óscar Peluchonneau to arrest the poet. Neruda tries to escape from the country with his wife, the painter Delia del Carril, but they are forced to go underground.
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The Innocents
🇵🇱 Poland The 1940sDeeply moving and emotionally layered. — Poland, 1945. Mathilde, a young French Red Cross doctor, is on a mission to help the war survivors. When a nun seeks for her help, she is brought to a convent where several pregnant sisters are hiding, unable to reconcile their faith with their pregnancy. Mathilde becomes their only hope.
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Allied
England 🇫🇷 France 🇲🇦 Morocco The 1940sThe enemy is listening. — 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.
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Fanny's Journey
🇫🇷 France The 1940sFanny is a Jewish girl in a French orphanage in 1943. When she and her friends are no longer safe from the Nazis, they try to flee to Switzerland. After their guide disappears, Fanny has to take the lead and help the other kids make it over the mountains.
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Maikäfer flieg
🇦🇹 Austria The 1940sA movie based on the book by Christine Nöstlinger “Maikäfer, flieg! Mein Vater, das Kriegsende, Cohn und ich”
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The King's Choice
🇳🇴 Norway The 1940sThree Days in April — On 9 April 1940, German soldiers arrive in the city of Oslo. The King of Norway faces a choice that will change his country forever. The King's Choice is a story about the three most dramatic days in Norway's history, the royal family's escape and King Haakon's difficult choice after Nazi Germany's invasion of Norway.
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Whisky Galore
Scotland The 1940sThe story of the inhabitants of the isolated Scottish island of Todday, in the Outer Hebrides, where gloom sets in as their wartime rationing of whisky runs out. When cargo ship the SS Cabinet Minister runs aground the shrewd islanders run rings around the buffoonish English Home Guard commander Captain Waggett and conspire to hide away cases of the precious amber nectar.
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