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poster
82
7.8
/91228/
74
/1647/
73
/1425/
4.0
/69836/
96
/48/
89
/1129/
86
/12/
cc age 10+

The Remains of the Day (1993)
A rule-bound head butler's world of manners and decorum in the household he maintains is tested by the arrival of a housekeeper who falls in love with him in post-WWI Britain. The possibility of romance and his master's cultivation of ties with the Nazi cause challenge his carefully maintained veneer of servitude.
poster
MGM Plus
70
7.6
/28738/
73
/449/
77
/663/
3.9
/17954/
52
/23/
84
/386/
70
/14/

1900 (1976)
The epic tale of a class struggle in twentieth century Italy, as seen through the eyes of two childhood friends on opposing sides.
poster
68
7.1
/5863/
68
/96/
66
/55/
3.5
/1755/
68
/25/
75
/109/

Mother Night (1996)
An American spy behind the lines during WWII serves as a Nazi propagandist, a role he cannot escape in his future life as he can never reveal his real role in the war.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
67
6.5
/6720/
64
/137/
62
/91/
3.2
/9199/
65
/110/
68
/303/
64
/32/

Bright Young Things (2003)
During the 1930s in England, a group of young socialites dominate the national gossip with extravagant and outlandish antics. Among the group is the aspiring novelist Adam Fenwick-Symes, who is attempting to raise enough money to marry fellow member Nina Blount. However, after customs officials confiscate his first manuscript, Fenwick-Symes must recover from the financial setback and figure out new ways to earn money for a wedding.
poster
HBO Max Amazon Channel
74
67
7.4
/7663/
74
/177/
66
/68/
3.4
/1753/
83
/6/
81
/74/

The Gathering Storm (2002)
A love story offering an intimate look inside the marriage of Winston and Clementine Churchill during a particularly troubled, though little-known, moment in their lives.
poster
The Roku Channel
74
67
7.3
/8661/
73
/219/
72
/140/
3.6
/1734/
82
/64/

As Far As My Feet Will Carry Me (2001)
The German soldier Clemens Forel - determined to be reunited with his beloved family - makes a dramatic escape through bitter cold winters, desolate landscapes, and life threatening ventures from a Siberian labor camp after World War II. 8000 miles and three endless years of uncertainty later, he is finally about to reach his destination... An edge of your seat drama that celebrates the power of the human spirit and the force of will, while inspired and impowered by love.
poster
Netflix
66
7.3
/170481/
75
/4609/
76
/3273/
3.5
/158006/
35
/165/
83
/20576/
54
/38/
cc age 13+

Memoirs of a Geisha (2005)
In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a maid in a geisha house.
poster
65
6.9
/14905/
68
/171/
64
/151/
3.3
/4564/
64
/39/
76
/321/
53
/26/
cc age 11+

Tea with Mussolini (1999)
In 1930s fascist Italy, adolescent Luca just lost his mother. His father, a callous businessman, sends him to be taken care of by British expatriate Mary Wallace. Mary and her cultured friends - including artist Arabella, young widow Elsa, and archaeologist Georgie - keep a watchful eye over the boy. But the women's cultivated lives take a dramatic turn when Allied forces declare war on Mussolini.
poster
Criterion Channel
76
63
7.4
/3221/
71
/53/
70
/79/
3.8
/5841/
89
/9/
77
/37/

Sisters of the Gion (1936)
Umekichi, a geisha in the Gion district of Kyoto, feels obliged to help her lover Furusawa when he asks to stay with her after becoming bankrupt and leaving his wife. However her younger sister Omocha tells her she is wasting her time and money on a loser. She thinks that they should both find wealthy patrons to support them. Omocha therefore tries various schemes to get rid of Furusawa, and set themselves up with better patrons.
poster
74
62
7.6
/9153/
65
/108/
70
/89/
3.6
/1506/
88
/112/

The Winter War (1989)
Russia attacked Finland in late November 1939. This film tells the story of a Finnish platoon of reservists from the municipality of Kauhava in the province of Pohjanmaa/Ostrobothnia who leave their homes and go to war. The film focuses on the farmer brothers Martti and Paavo Hakala.
poster
Britbox Apple TV Channel
67
61
7.0
/4834/
73
/201/
63
/94/
3.3
/3031/
66
/53/

Christopher and His Kind (2011)
In 1931, budding author Christopher Isherwood goes to Berlin at the invitation of his friend W. H. Auden for the gay sex that abounds in the city. He falls for street sweeper Heinz, paying medical bills for the boy's sickly mother, to the disapproval of her other son, Nazi Gerhardt.
poster
59
6.7
/111713/
67
/2333/
63
/1240/
3.2
/32206/
56
/172/
51
/7890/
61
/33/
cc age 17+

The Good Shepherd (2006)
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.
poster
HBO Max Amazon Channel
58
6.2
/189095/
65
/12788/
66
/4913/
2.6
/419457/
46
/247/
83
/1875/
47
/49/
cc age 12+

Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore (2022)
Professor Albus Dumbledore knows the powerful, dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald is moving to seize control of the wizarding world. Unable to stop him alone, he entrusts magizoologist Newt Scamander to lead an intrepid team of wizards and witches. They soon encounter an array of old and new beasts as they clash with Grindelwald's growing legion of followers.
poster
56
6.1
/17045/
61
/224/
61
/255/
2.9
/5373/
35
/69/
59
/751/
40
/22/

The Man Who Cried (2000)
A young refugee travels from Russia to America in search of her lost father and falls in love with a gypsy horseman.
poster
67
55
6.7
/4685/
67
/111/
64
/109/
3.5
/3022/
68
/30/

The Girl of Your Dreams (1998)
A company of Spanish movie makers leaves Franco's Spain and moves to Hitler's Germany to make a film in co-production. Soon some problems start to arise...
poster
MGM Plus
51
5.7
/669/
60
/19/
47
/17/
3.6
/777/
38
/7/

The Good Wife (1987)
In pre-WWII Australia, a love triangle develops between a man, his wife and the man's brother.
poster
Kanopy
70
45
7.3
/1934/
65
/19/
59
/32/
3.6
/1161/
83
/281/

A Slave of Love (1976)
During the Russian Civil War, the production of a silent melodrama runs into numerous complications.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
49
45
6.2
/8118/
60
/179/
60
/158/
3.0
/2296/
34
/71/
32
/269/
40
/16/

Good (2008)
When John Halder's latest novel is enlisted by powerful political figures in the Nazi party to push their agenda, his career and social standing instantly advance. But after learning of the Reich's horrific plans for the future and the devastating effects they will have on people close to him, John must decide whether or not to take a stand and risk losing everything.
poster
Kanopy
41
5.5
/9411/
60
/761/
57
/223/
2.6
/8482/
28
/79/
32
/28/
26
/19/
cc age 11+

Blithe Spirit (2020)
A spiritualist medium holds a seance for a writer suffering from writers block but accidentally summons the spirit of his deceased first wife which leads to an increasingly complex love triangle with his current wife of five years.
poster
Kanopy
40
4.6
/4075/
52
/186/
46
/208/
2.5
/5121/
15
/26/
22
/10/
44
/13/

Planetarium (2016)
In 1930s France, two sisters who are thought to be able to communicate with ghosts meet a visionary producer while performing in Paris.
poster
67
19
6.6
/845/
66
/22/
71
/19/
3.3
/428/

Tomorrow, We're Going to the Movies (2007)
Three high school graduates prepare to start the next chapter of their lives, but the outbreak of World War II may derail their dreams forever.
poster
53
18
6.5
/908/
60
/26/
59
/21/
3.3
/613/
14
/19/

Singapore (1947)
After the war, Matt Gordon returns to Singapore to retrieve a fortune in smuggled pearls. Arrived, he reminisces in flashback about his prewar fiancée, alluring Linda, and her disappearance during the Japanese attack. But now Linda resurfaces...with amnesia and married to rich planter Van Leyden. Meanwhile, sinister fence Mauribus schemes to get Matt's pearls.
poster
53
18
6.3
/582/
53
/14/
52
/17/
3.4
/449/
33

Black Journal (1977)
A mother so insanely overprotective of her grown son decides to make a deal with death by offering alternate victims plucked from among her fellow tenants in a 1938 Italian apartment building.
poster
58
15
6.6
/1369/
66
/14/
58
/11/
3.2
/432/
39
/11/

Golden Earrings (1947)
A British colonel escapes from the Gestapo to the Black Forest and poses as a Gypsy's mate.
poster
75
14
7.4
/1143/
68
/17/
62
/12/
3.7
/422/
100
/1/

Occupation in 26 Pictures (1978)
Set in Dubrovnik, this drama chronicles a friendship between three men, that began just before World War II. One of the men is of Italian origin, another is the wealthy heir of a shipping fortune, and the third is the son of a Jewish antique-store owner. Before the war, they are fast friends, enjoying one another's company at carnivals and at a private fencing club. However, when the war comes, the Italians and Germans move in to create the Independent State of Croatia. The Italian friend becomes a fascist and courts and marries the sister of his rich friend. Soon enough, atrocities are being committed, and anyone suspected of Jewish or Serbian parentage or anti-fascist leanings, is killed.
poster
?
5.8
/39/
60
/1/

She Shall Have Music (1935)
Millionaire shipbuilder Freddie Gates decides to publicize his ships by hiring Jack Hylton and his orchestra to broadcast from his yacht.. Brian Gates, Freddie's son, has a low-approval-rating and a high dislike for jazz music and refuses board ship with the band on board. His father enters a conspiracy with singer Dorothy Drew to get him on the yacht, where the broadcasts will be made. Brian falls in love with Dorothy, but calls of the romance when he sees her dancing and singing with Hylton's band in Paris. Dorothy induces three members of the band to shanghai Brian when the yacht sails. A rival shipowner, determined to stop the broadcasts, bribes the crew to desert the ship and all hands are left stranded in mid-ocean on the yacht. The band-members manage to extricate them from their predicament and they get back to London, where Hylton is acclaimed and Brian marries Dorothy.
poster
?
5.3
/25/
60
/1/

Enemies (1940)
The focus of this wartime propaganda film from 1940 is the foreman Keith, who works at a Polish sawmill, not far from the German border. It is 1939 and the War is fast approaching. The Polish workers at the sawmill revolt and kill the mill's German owner, as well as threaten their German colleagues. Keith flees with the children of his dead boss and joins other German refugees on their way to safety across the borders of the Reich.
poster
?
7.9
/22/
80
/1/

Suomen tie jatkosotaan (2009)
N/A
poster
?
6.1
/40/
10
/1/
52
/4/

Hipoteza (1973)
A brilliant but troubled professor confronts his fears while working on his design of a space rocket.
poster
50
?
5.5
/127/
30
/2/
65
/5/

Mommilan veriteot 1917 (1973)
On the eve of the Finnish Civil War, the film follows the last days of Alfred Kordelin, the richest man in Finland.
poster
?
6.9
/37/
60
/7/
20
/1/

Who Is That Man? (1985)
The story is set in 1939. A military officer is stripped of his rank for his apparent collaboration with a counter-espionage agent while on a mission in Paris. Then he is enlisted in his own country's counterespionage unit, due to his knowledge of languages. He is assigned to Gdansk where he is trying to uncover mysterious "Wotan" in the German Secret Service. He eventually tracks down and kills the agent, but by doing so wipes out the possibility to clearing himself of the charges. Just as the death sentence is to be carried out on him the war breaks out and he escapes out of the bombed prison to join partisans.
poster
?
4.4
/18/

The Price of Gold (1913)
A girl falls in love with a rich passerby. She breaks off her engagement, marries the rich man and moves to the city. After five years she feels very lonely, and goes to stay with her sister who lives a simple life with her family. She also sees her ex-fiance. When she is back in town, she realizes how empty her life is.
poster
?
6.3
/17/
10
/1/
80
/1/

Сколько лет, сколько зим! (1966)
N/A
poster
?
6.8
/61/
35
/2/
50
/1/

Jack's Joke (1913)
A comic sketch that features two players who think each one is deaf, causing them to shout. Part of the Edison Kinetophone Collection. The Kinetophone was a fairly complex mechanical means of creating talking pictures. Unlike previous systems, in which actors would be required to lip sync to preexisting recordings on camera, the Kinetophone was one of the earliest film technologies to record sound at the same time as the image.
poster
?
6.9
/26/

Peaceful Neighbors (1939)
Two rival families of chickens are arming in preparation for a battle in a property-line dispute over the division line between their two barnyard coops. After much fighting, squabbling and squawking between the two factions, two peaceful doves bring about a settlement between the two groups.
poster
?
10
/1/

Sarhento Fofonggay: A, Ewan! (1974)
Dolphy comedy.
poster
65
?
6.7
/180/
64
/7/

The Prince and the Dybbuk (2017)
A cinematic journey on the trail of a mysterious filmmaker. Prince Michal Waszynski, Poland's top pre-war, director who later became an influential figure in the broader European film scene. He produced big Hollywood cinema hits with Sophia Loren and Claudia Cardinale, but his most spectacular creation was his own life. Prince Michal was an extraordinary human chameleon who, with the help of the magical invention of cinema, continually changed his identity.
poster
?
5.1
/20/
10
/1/
50
/1/

Children of the Sea (1964)
The film delves into the moral dilemmas of human relationships. An old sailor, the sole survivor of a ship that sank during the war, grapples with the weight of a moral compromise made many years ago. As he reflects on his past, he recalls his carefree life, filled with mistakes, and the crime he committed against the captain of the lost ship.
poster
?
6.0
/37/
50
/4/

Guerrilla Brigade (1939)
Episodic story of the resistance to the German invasion of the Ukraine in 1918 during World War 1, and made as an example of the guerrilla warfare and fierce spirit in which Ukrainian peasants were again resisting Teuton onslaughts in 1939. Highlights a small band of guerrillas and their battles using scythes, shotguns and, often, just clubs against the Kaiser's army in the Ukrainian forests.
poster
?
6.7
/59/
10
/1/
46
/5/

Unloved (1966)
The story of the tumultuous relationship between a Jewish girl called Noemi and a Polish art student named Kamil is set at the outbreak of World War II.
poster
?
6.3
/39/
27
/3/

Peat-Bog Soldiers (1938)
This story of the Nazi prison camps in the 1930s deals with the attempts of the Nazi guards to break the spirit of the Communists in concentration camps.
poster
51
?
5.6
/306/
47
/4/
51
/8/

The Tanks Are Coming (1941)
Educational short about the status of battle tanks and tank training in the U.S. Army in pre-War 1941, featuring a comical Army trainee from the Bronx.
poster
?
4.0
/81/
30
/3/

After Mein Kampf? (1961)
By combining actual footage with reenactments, this film offers both a documentary and fictional account of the life of Adolf Hitler, from his childhood in Vienna, through the rise of the Third Reich, to his final act of suicide in the waning days of WWII. The film also provides considerable, and often shocking, detail of the atrocities enacted by the Nazi regime under Hitler's command.
poster
51
?
6.3
/129/
43
/6/
48
/8/

Crystal Nights (1992)
In Occupied Athens, a German woman, the wife of a Greek officer, falls in love with a teenage Jewish ice vendor. Love becomes fate: the woman dies and is reborn, living two lives in a world that is rapidly changing.
poster
?
8.2
/19/

The Devil's Lieutenant (1984)
In the pre-WWI Austro-Hungarian Empire, an older officer (Capt. Kunze) investigates a brilliant junior officer (Lt. Dorfrichter) suspected of complicity in a murder by poisoning.
poster
59
?
6.0
/87/
60
/1/

Sea Raiders (1941)
A bunch of waterfront youths pursue the Sea Raiders, a gang of saboteurs.
poster
?
6.8
/24/
10
/1/
76
/4/

When Unku was Ede's Girlfriend (1981)
Ede falls in love with Unku, a girl from a travelling circus. Love cannot run smoothly however because Unku is a Gypsy. Various adventures take place before love is finally allowed to run its natural course.
poster
?
3.2
/56/
65
/2/

The Spirit of Stanford (1942)
Columbia's Spirit of Stanford is built around the talents of a real-life college football star, in this instance all-American quarterback Frankie Albert.


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