376 Films & TV Shows Set In North America During The 1940s
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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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Watchmen
New York District of Columbia Mars ๐ป๐ณ Vietnam ๐ฆ๐ถ Antarctica The 1970s The 1980s The 1960s The 1950s The 1940s The 1930sJustice is coming to all of us. No matter what we do. โ In a gritty and alternate 1985 the glory days of costumed vigilantes have been brought to a close by a government crackdown, but after one of the masked veterans is brutally murdered, an investigation into the killer is initiated. The reunited heroes set out to prevent their own destruction, but in doing so uncover a sinister plot that puts all of humanity in grave danger.
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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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Revolutionary Road
Connecticut The 1950s The 1940sHow do you break free without breaking apart? โ A young couple living in a Connecticut suburb during the mid-1950s struggle to come to terms with their personal problems while trying to raise their two children. Based on a novel by Richard Yates.
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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
New York Louisiana Florida ๐ซ๐ท France ๐ท๐บ Russia ๐ฎ๐ณ India The 1970s The 1980s The 1990s The 1960s The 1950s The 1940s The 1930s The 1920s The 1910s The 2000sLife isn't measured in minutes, but in moments. โ I was born under unusual circumstances. And so begins. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, adapted from the 1920s story by F. Scott Fitzgerald about a man who is born in his eighties and ages backwards: a man, like any of us, who is unable to stop time. We follow his story, set in New Orleans, from the end of World War I in 1918 into the 21st century, following his journey that is as unusual as any man's life can be. Directed by David Fincher and starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett with Taraji P. Henson, Tilda Swinton, Jason Flemyng, Elias Koteas and Julia Ormond, Benjamin Button, is a grand tale of a not-so-ordinary man and the people and places he discovers along the way, the loves he finds, the joys of life and the sadness of death, and what lasts beyond time.
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Miracle at St. Anna
New York ๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1980s The 1940sWorld War II had its heroes and its miracles. โ Miracle at St. Anna chronicles the story of four American soldiers who are members of the all-black 92nd "Buffalo Soldier" Division stationed in Tuscany, Italy during World War II.
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Crazy
Tennessee The 1970s The 1960s The 1950s The 1940sEveryone wanted him. No one could control him. โ Crazy is the story of a legendary guitar player who emerged from Nashville in the 1950s. Blessed with incomparable, natural talent, Hank Garland quickly established his reputation as the finest sessions player in Nashville.
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Hope & Redemption: The Lena Baker Story
Georgia The 1940sBased on true events, The Lena Baker Story recounts one African-American womans struggle to rise above the challenges of her life, to face the choices she makes, and to ultimately triumph over her...Lena Baker was the first and only woman to be sentenced to death by the electric chair in the state of Georgia and was executed in 1945. She was pardoned posthumously in 2005.
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Dachimawa Lee
๐ฐ๐ท South Korea Jilin Province New Jersey The 1940sUnder Japanese imperialism, Korean national treasure Golden Buddha is stolen. More important to national security, the statue contains vital information concerning Korean freedom fighters and their whereabouts as well as their true identities. The interim Korean government appoints legendary Korean spy Agent Dachimawa Lee to recover the fabled statue and reveal the dark plot behind the theft.
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Death in Love
New York The 1990s The 1940sSin. Suffer. Repeat. โ Death in Love is a psychosexual-thriller about a love affair between a Jewish woman and a doctor overseeing human experimentation at a Nazi German concentration camp, and the impact this has on her sons' lives in the 1990s.
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Hannibal Rising
๐ซ๐ท France ๐ฑ๐น Lithuania ๐ฉ๐ช Germany ๐จ๐ฆ Canada The 1950s The 1940sIt started with revenge. โ The story of the early, murderous roots of the cannibalistic killer, Hannibal Lecter โ from his hard-scrabble Lithuanian childhood, where he witnesses the repulsive lengths to which hungry soldiers will go to satiate themselves, through his sojourn in France, where as a med student he hones his appetite for the kill.
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La Vie en Rose
๐ซ๐ท France California New York The 1960s The 1950s The 1940s The 1930s The 1920s The 1910sThe Extraordinary Story of Edith Piaf. โ From the mean streets of the Belleville district of Paris to the dazzling limelight of New York's most famous concert halls, Edith Piaf's life was a constant battle to sing and survive, to live and love. Raised in her grandmother's brothel, Piaf was discovered in 1935 by nightclub owner Louis Leplee, who persuaded her to sing despite her extreme nervousness. Piaf became one of France's immortal icons, her voice one of the indelible signatures of the 20th century.
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Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
Alabama California The 1940s The 1950s The 1960s The 1970s The 1980s The 1990sLife made him tough. Love made him strong. Music made him hard. โ Following a childhood tragedy, Dewey Cox follows a long and winding road to music stardom. Dewey perseveres through changing musical styles, an addiction to nearly every drug known and bouts of uncontrollable rage.
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Savage Grace
New York England ๐ซ๐ท France The 1970s The 1960s The 1950s The 1940sTruth is more shocking than fiction. โ This examination of a famous scandal from the 1970s explores the relationship between Barbara Baekeland and her only son, Antony. Barbara, a lonely social climber unhappily married to the wealthy but remote plastics heir Brooks Baekeland, dotes on Antony, who is homosexual. As Barbara tries to "cure" Antony of his sexuality -- sometimes by seducing him herself -- the groundwork is laid for a murderous tragedy.
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Closing the Ring
Michigan Northern Ireland The 1990s The 1940sDiscover the love of a lifetime. โ During the 1940s, a group of young men go off to war, leaving behind Ethel Ann, who is in love with one of them, Teddy. In modern-day Belfast, a man named Jimmy endeavors to return a ring found in the wreckage of a crashed plane. He travels to Michigan, where the grown Ethel Ann, who married another man after Teddy was killed in battle, now lives. Ethel Ann must decide whether to go with Jimmy to meet the soldier who last saw Teddy alive.
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Young Triffie's Been Made Away With
Newfoundland and Labrador The 1940sIn 1947 Whitbourne, Newfoundland, Alan Hepditch, a by-the-books but squeamish and somewhat dimwitted criminologist is constantly being tormented by his fellow ranger candidates and his sergeant, Bill O'Mara. Before Hepditch can quit, O'Mara, as a sort of punishment, assigns him to his first posting at Swyer's Harbour, where five sheep mutilations have taken place over the past year. When he arrives in Swyer's Harbour, Hepditch has a more serious crime to investigate, that of the murder of a local, mentally slow woman named Tryphenia Maud Pottle, better known to the locals as Young Triffie.
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A Kitten For Hitler
New York ๐ฉ๐ช Germany The 1940sThe result of a challenge from Melvyn Bragg to write a film that Ken Russell himself would be eager to see banned, was A Kitten For Hitler โ a 10-minute short in which a plucky young Jewish boy traverses the globe on a quest to warm the Fรผhrer's heart with the gift of a cuddly feline.
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The Good Shepherd
Connecticut Virginia District of Columbia England ๐ฉ๐ช Germany ๐จ๐ฉ Congo Democratic Republic of the The 1960s The 1950s The 1940s The 1930sThe untold story of the most powerful covert agency in the world. โ Edward Wilson, the only witness to his father's suicide and member of the Skull and Bones Society while a student at Yale, is a morally upright young man who values honor and discretion, qualities that help him to be recruited for a career in the newly founded OSS. His dedication to his work does not come without a price though, leading him to sacrifice his ideals and eventually his family.
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Flags of Our Fathers
Wisconsin Massachusetts Illinois Arizona Texas The 1990s The 1950s The 1940sThey fight for their country but they die for their friends. โ There were five Marines and one Navy Corpsman photographed raising the U.S. flag on Mt. Suribachi by Joe Rosenthal on February 23, 1945. This is the story of three of the six surviving servicemen - John 'Doc' Bradley, Pvt. Rene Gagnon and Pvt. Ira Hayes - who fought in the battle to take Iwo Jima from the Japanese.
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The Black Dahlia
California The 1940sInspired by the most notorious unsolved murder in California history. โ Lee Blanchard and Bucky Bleichert are former boxers-turned-cops in 1940s Los Angeles and, when an aspiring young actress turns up dead, Blanchard and Bleichert must grapple with corruption, narcissism, stag films and family madness as they pursue the killer.
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Molly: An American Girl on the Home Front
Illinois The 1940sThe world is at war and one girl's hope and courage are put to the test. โ Molly is a girl living in the year 1944 and WWII has brought many changes to Molly's life. An English girl comes to live with Molly's family to escape the bombings. They slowly become good friends.
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Spitfire 944
Washington England The 1940s The 2000sIn 2005, an 83 year-old World War II pilot views 16mm footage of his 1944 Spitfire crash for the first time.
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Walk the Line
California Tennessee Arkansas The 1940s The 1950s The 1960sLove is a burning thing. โ A chronicle of country music legend Johnny Cash's life, from his early days on an Arkansas cotton farm to his rise to fame with Sun Records in Memphis, where he recorded alongside Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins.
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