1940s

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.

Battle of Britain | United Kingdom
Genre
IMDB
7.0 (19930 votes)
Budget
12,000,000.00$
In 1940, the Royal Air Force fights a desperate battle against the might of the Luftwaffe for control of the skies over Britain, thus preventing the Nazi invasion of Britain.

The Eagle Has Landed | United Kingdom
Genre
IMDB
6.9 (18246 votes)
When the Nazi high command learns in late 1943 that Winston Churchill will be spending time at a country estate in Norfolk, it hatches an audacious scheme to kidnap the prime minister and spirit him to Germany for enforced negotiations with Hitler.

Map of the Human Heart | France| Canada| United Kingdom| Australia
Genre
IMDB
7.1 (2992 votes)
Fantastic improbabilities, happenstance and the undying bridge of love are part of this romantic fantasy about an Inuit who crosses years, oceans and the ravages of WWII to find his childhood love, a Metis girl, but finds that their cultures are the most difficult spaces to gap.

Genre
IMDB
7.4 (49483 votes)
Budget
22,000,000.00$
Operation Market Garden, September 1944. The Allies attempt to capture several strategically important bridges in the Netherlands in the hope of breaking the German lines.

Red Joan | United Kingdom
Genre
IMDB
6.3 (7482 votes)
London, England, May 2000. The peaceful life of elderly Joan Stanley is suddenly disrupted when she is arrested by the British Intelligence Service and accused of providing information to communist Russia during the forties.

Les Confins du monde | France| Belgium
Genre
IMDB
6.4 (725 votes)
Indochina, 1945. While the French are harassed by both the Japanese army and the Vietnamese rebels, private Robert Tassen, driven by the memory of a tragedy of which he is the only survivor, embarks on the search for the mysterious and cruel Võ Bình Yên, one of the leaders of the insurrection…

La Nouvelle Guerre des boutons | France
Genre
IMDB
6.2 (1949 votes)
Occupied France; Lebrac leads a play war between two rival kid gangs, but a girl he likes, who's Jewish, is in danger of being discovered by local Nazi sympathisers. Lebrac and the village must now respond to the reality of what's happening.

Their Finest | France| United Kingdom| Sweden
Genre
IMDB
6.8 (16538 votes)
Budget
11,795,877.00$
During the Blitz of World War II, a female screenwriter (Gemma Arterton) works on a film celebrating England's resilience as a way to buoy a weary populace's spirits. Her efforts to dramatise the true story of two sisters (Lily Knight and Francesca Knight) who undertook their own maritime mission to rescue wounded soldiers are met with mixed feelings by a dismissive all-male staff.

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