965 Films & TV Shows Set In Europe During The 1940s
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Outside the Law
๐ซ๐ท France ๐ฉ๐ฟ Algeria The 1960s The 1950s The 1940sThree brothers. One destiny. Freedom at all costs. โ After losing their family home in Algeria in the 1920s, three brothers and their mother are scattered across the globe. Messaoud joins the French army fighting in Indochina; Abdelkader becomes a leader of the Algerian independence movement in France and Saรฏd moves to Paris to make his fortune in the shady clubs and boxing halls of Pigalle.
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The Way Back
๐ต๐ฑ Poland ๐ท๐บ Russia ๐ฎ๐ณ India ๐จ๐ณ China ๐ฒ๐ณ Mongolia The 1980s The 1940s The 1930sTheir escape was just the beginning. โ At the dawn of WWII, several men escape from a Russian gulagโto take a perilous and uncertain journey to freedom as they cross deserts, mountains and several nations.
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From Time to Time
England The 1940s The 1800sUnlock the secrets of the past... โ A haunting ghost story spanning two worlds, two centuries apart. When 13 year old Tolly finds he can mysteriously travel between the two, he begins an adventure that unlocks family secrets laid buried for generations.
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Paper Birds
๐ช๐ธ Spain The 1940sDreams are part of the journey. Laughterโฆ a choice โ At the end of the Spanish Civil War, the members of a group of vaudeville performers have been stripped of everything: all they have left is hunger and the instinct to survive. Day after day, agonizingly, lost and helpless between the victors and the vanquished, the musician Jorge, the ventriloquist Enrique, the couplet singer Rocรญo and the orphan Miguel search tirelessly for something to eat and a safe place to live.
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Fortress of War
๐ง๐พ Belarus ๐ท๐บ Russia The 1940sSurrender was not an option โ The film covers the heroic defence of the Brest Fortress, which was attacked during the first strike of German invaders on June 22 1941. The story describes the events of the first days of the defence, including the three main resistance zones, headed by the regiment commander, Pyotr Mikhailovich Gavrilov, the commissar Efim Moiseevich Fomin and the head of the 9th frontier outpost, Andrey Mitrofanovich Kizhevatov. Many years later veteran Alexander Akimov again recalls the memories of the time, when he, then a 15 year old Sasha Akimov was deeply in love with the beautiful Anya and suddenly found himself in the middle of the bloody events of war.
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Sarah's Key
๐ซ๐ท France The 2000s The 1940sUncover the mystery. โ On the night of 16 July 1942, ten year old Sarah and her parents are being arrested and transported to the Velodrome d'Hiver in Paris where thousands of other jews are being sent to get deported. Sarah however managed to lock her little brother in a closet just before the police entered their apartment. Sixty years later, Julia Jarmond, an American journalist in Paris, gets the assignment to write an article about this raid, a black page in the history of France. She starts digging archives and through Sarah's file discovers a well kept secret about her own in-laws.
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Black Bread
๐ช๐ธ Spain The 1940sThe lies of adults raise little monsters. โ In the harsh post-war years' Catalan countryside, Andreu, a child that belongs to the losing side, finds the corpses of a man and his son in the forest. The authorities want his father to be made responsible of the deaths, but Andreu tries to help his father by finding out who truly killed them. In this search, Andreu develops a moral consciousness against a world of adults fed by lies. In order to survive, he betrays his own roots and ends up finding out the monster that lives within him.
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Jackboots on Whitehall
Scotland England The 1940sThe smallest epic film you'll ever see! โ A satirical alternative history of World War II where the Nazis seize London and England must band together to prevent a full on invasion.
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A Film Unfinished
๐ต๐ฑ Poland The 1940sIn 1942 The Nazi Propaganda Machine Was Hard at Work. 70 Years Later, The Deceit is Finally Unmasked. โ Yael Hersonski's powerful documentary achieves a remarkable feat through its penetrating look at another film-the now-infamous Nazi-produced film about the Warsaw Ghetto. Discovered after the war, the unfinished work, with no soundtrack, quickly became a resource for historians seeking an authentic record, despite its elaborate propagandistic construction. The later discovery of a long-missing reel complicated earlier readings, showing the manipulations of camera crews in these "everyday" scenes. Well-heeled Jews attending elegant dinners and theatricals (while callously stepping over the dead bodies of compatriots) now appeared as unwilling, but complicit, actors, alternately fearful and in denial of their looming fate.
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Max Schmeling
New York ๐ฉ๐ช Germany ๐ฌ๐ท Greece The 1930s The 1940sBased on the true story of Max Schmeling. A national hero in the 1930's when he became World heavyweight champion. He lost favour with the Nazi regime when he lost to a black man, Joe Louis, and is sent to the front in the hope he will be killed in battle.
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Jew Suss: Rise and Fall
๐ฉ๐ช Germany The 1940s The 1930sThis intricate historical drama tells the story of actor Ferdinand Marian (Tobias Moretti), who is ordered by Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels to star in the 1940 anti-Semitic film Jew Suss. Despite his cooperation, Ferdinand's actions have unexpected costs. Ferdinand's Jewish wife, Anna (Martina Gedeck), is sent to a concentration camp, and as World War II intensifies, he rebels against the Nazis, leading to the destruction of his career.
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Free Man
๐น๐ท Turkey The 1870s The 1880s The 1890s The 1900s The 1910s The 1920s The 1930s The 1950s The 1940she story is real story that tells about a man's life who has a very influential philosopher that had lived in between 1877-1960. His name is 'Said Nursi' and he is originally Kurdish. But, he speaks perfectly Turkish, Kurdish, Arabic, and Persian. He wrote and compiled too many books that had aimed to develop personal beliefs, the belief of faith, brotherhood, philanthropy, the loyalty of state, moreover, discovering the problems in Turkey; the reasons of weakness, poorness, ignorance, untutored, divisions in society, divergence, estrangement of ethics, religion. And to find the solutions of those problems.. And his struggle for doing this toward a secret committee..
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Storming Juno
๐ซ๐ท France The 1940sStorming Juno is a film based on the remarkable and determined actions of a handful of young Canadian men who stormed Juno Beach on June 6, 1944. D-Day.
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The Convoys of Shame
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Ensemble
๐ซ๐ท France The 1940sParis, 1942, Isaac, a Jewish child, escapes the Nazis, finding refuge in the mosque of Paris. Ahmed, the Imam, took him under his protection. Ahmed decides to save as many children as possible from certain death.
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Roses on Credit
๐ซ๐ท France The 1950s The 1940sA young couple marry in France in the 1940s and the film follows the arc of their marriage over the next decade. As France recovers from the trauma of the war, the wife finds herself increasingly caught up in acquiring material possessions while the husband prefers a more traditional lifestyle.
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Leningrad
๐ท๐บ Russia The 1940sSome fight. Others fall. All are heroes. โ When in 1941 Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union, their troops quickly besieged Leningrad. Foreign journalists are evacuated but one of them, Kate Davies, is presumed dead and misses the plane. Alone in the city she is helped by Nina Tsvetnova a young and idealist police officer and together they will fight for their own survival and the survival of the people in the besieged Leningrad.
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The Hessen Affair
๐ฉ๐ช Germany New York The 1940sThe Winner Takes All... And More. โ In 1945 a group of victorious American officers discover a stash of German jewels and try to fence them in New York.
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Hilde
๐ฉ๐ช Germany The 1960s The 1950s The 1940sA biography of Hildegard Knef, one of Germany's biggest post-war stars.
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Inglourious Basterds
๐ซ๐ท France England The 1940sOnce upon a time in Nazi occupied France... โ In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Basterds" are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds, lead by Lt. Aldo Raine soon cross paths with a French-Jewish teenage girl who runs a movie theater in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers.
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First Squad: The Moment of Truth
๐ท๐บ Russia The 1940sSet during the opening days of World War II on the Eastern Front. Its main cast are a group of Soviet teenagers with extraordinary abilities; the teenagers have been drafted to form a special unit to fight the invading German army. They are opposed by a Schutzstaffel officer who is attempting to raise from the dead a supernatural army of crusaders from the 12th-century Order of the Sacred Cross.
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Julie & Julia
New York ๐ซ๐ท France The 2000s The 1950s The 1940sBased on Two True Stories. โ Julia Child and Julie Powell โ both of whom wrote memoirs โ find their lives intertwined. Though separated by time and space, both women are at loose ends... until they discover that with the right combination of passion, fearlessness and butter, anything is possible.
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Nowhere Boy
England The 1950s The 1940sAs a boy all John Lennon needed was love โ The drama tells the story of John Lennon's teenage years in Liverpool and the start of his journey to becoming a successful musician. The story also examines the impact on his early life and personality of the two dominant females in his childhood.
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Enid
England The 1950s The 1940s The 1930s The 1920sEdwardian child Enid Blyton begins to tell stories to her brothers as an escape from their parents' rows before the father deserts the family...
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