1940s

Genre
IMDB
7.6 (343 votes)
Budget
30,000,000.00$
Julian Albans, the bully who left Beecher Prep, is visited by his Grandmère from Paris and is transformed by her remarkable story of compassion and courage. As a girl in Nazi-occupied France, the young Grandmère goes into hiding with the help of a schoolmate, a young man who risks everything to give her the chance to survive. Together, they find beauty and love in the secret world of their own creation.

Brutal Season | United States of America
Genre
IMDB
7.4 (9 votes)
Budget
130,000.00$
In 1948, the Trouths are facing no income and the hottest summer on record. When their estranged son inexplicably returns, the apartment is full again - but is it big enough for the gambling, trauma, and substantial life insurance policy that comes in his wake?

Genre
The commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolf Höss, and his wife Hedwig, strive to build a dream life for their family in a house and garden next to the camp.

A League of Their Own | United States of America
Genre
IMDB
7.3 (112,785 votes)
Budget
40,000,000.00$
As America's stock of athletic young men is depleted during World War II, a professional all-female baseball league springs up in the Midwest, funded by publicity-hungry candy maker Walter Harvey. Competitive sisters Dottie Hinson and Kit Keller spar with each other, scout Ernie Capadino and grumpy has-been coach Jimmy Dugan on their way to fame.

Genre
IMDB
6.3 (36232 votes)
Budget
55,000,000.00$
The hit musical based on the life of Evita Duarte, a B-movie Argentinian actress who eventually became the wife of Argentinian president and dictator Juan Perón, and the most beloved and hated woman in Argentina.

Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio | United States of America
Genre
IMDB
7.7 (58818 votes)
Budget
35,000,000.00$
During the rise of fascism in Mussolini's Italy, a wooden boy brought magically to life struggles to live up to his father's expectations.

A Jazzman's Blues | United States of America
Genre
IMDB
6.7 (3236 votes)
A tale of forbidden love and family drama unravels 40 years of secrets and lies against a soundtrack of juke joint blues in the Deep South.

12 Mighty Orphans | United States of America
Genre
IMDB
6.9 (5522 votes)
Haunted by his mysterious past, a devoted high school football coach leads a scrawny team of orphans to the state championship during the Great Depression and inspires a broken nation along the way.

Who Framed Roger Rabbit | United States of America
Genre
IMDB
7.7 (180,823 votes)
Budget
70,000,000.00$
'Toon star Roger is worried that his wife Jessica is playing pattycake with someone else, so the studio hires detective Eddie Valiant to snoop on her. But the stakes are quickly raised when Marvin Acme is found dead and Roger is the prime suspect.

Eye of the Needle | United Kingdom
Genre
IMDB
7.1 (9466 votes)
A ruthless German spy, trying to get out of Britain with vital information about D-Day, must spend time with a young woman and her crippled husband.

4 Tage im Mai | Germany| Ukraine| Russia
Genre
IMDB
6.3 (699 votes)
Germany, Baltic Sea coast, May 1945, a few days before the end of World War II. A small Soviet patrol arrives at an isolated house where an elderly baroness gives shelter to a group of orphan girls and a boy who is determined to continue the fight.

Der Untergang | Germany| Italy| Austria
Genre
IMDB
8.2 (319427 votes)
Budget
18,339,750.00$
In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the east and the Allied Expeditionary Force attacking from the west. In Berlin, capital of the Third Reich, Adolf Hitler proclaims that Germany will still achieve victory and orders his generals and advisers to fight to the last man. When the end finally does come, and Hitler lies dead by his own hand, what is left of his military must find a way to end the killing that is the Battle of Berlin, and lay down their arms in surrender.

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