Movies (199) tagged by '1940s'
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Hacksaw Ridge (2016)
WWII American Army Medic Desmond T. Doss, who served during the Battle of Okinawa, refuses to kill people, and becomes the first man in American history to win ...
The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
Andy Dufresne is a young and successful banker whose life changes drastically when he is convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of his wif...
Kelly's Heroes (1970)
During World War II a German Colonel is captured by the Americans but before he can be interrogated an artillery barrage hits the camp. However, Ex-Lieutenant ...
Casablanca (1942)
During World War II, Europeans who were fleeing from the Germans, sought refuge in America. But to get there they would first have to go Casablanca and once th...
The Longest Ride (2015)
After an automobile crash, the lives of a young couple intertwine with a much older man, as he reflects back on a past love.
Return to Never Land (2002)
The classic tale of 'Peter Pan' continues in Disney's sequel 'Return to Never Land'. In 1940 on a world besieged by World War II, Wendy, now grown up, has two ...
The Black Dahlia (2006)
In 1946, the former boxers Dwight "Bucky" Bleichert and Lee Blanchard are policemen in Los Angeles. Lee has a good relationship with his chief and uses a box fi...
Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives (1995)
Ten women, most of them in Vancouver or Toronto, talk about being lesbian in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s: discovering the pulp fiction of the day about women in...
Oorlogswinter (2008)
Near the end of World War II, 14-year-old Michiel becomes involved with the Resistance after coming to the aid of a wounded British soldier. With the conflict ...
Slaughterhouse-Five (1972)
"Listen: Billie Pilgrim has come unstuck in time." The opening words of the famous novel are the quickest summary of this haunting, funny film. Director Hill f...
100 million BC (2008)
A scientist from the failed Philadelphia Experiment leads a team of Navy SEALs back in time to the Cretaceous Period to rescue the first team he sent back duri...
Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983)
Four horror/sci-fi segments directed by four famous directors which are their own versions of classic stories from Rod Serling's landmark television series.
The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler (2009)
The story of Irena Sendler, a social worker who was part of the Polish underground during World War II and was arrested by the Nazi's for saving the lives of ...
Shining Through (1992)
He needed to trust her with his secret. She had to trust him with her life.
Psycho IV: The Beginning (1990)
Norman Bates returns for this "prequel", once more having mommy trouble. This time around he is invited to share memories of mom with a radio talk show host, b...
To Hell and Back (1955)
True-life account of the military career of Audie Murphy, the most decorated soldier in WWII. Native of Texas, he was placed in charge of his many younger sibl...
Zoot Suit (1981)
A kind of musical accompanying the story of the early 1940's and the effect that the "zoot suit" (a man's suit of long jacket and pegged pants, always worn with...
The Sheltering Sky (1990)
An American couple (John Malkovich, Debra Winger) drift toward emptiness in postwar North Africa.
All the Pretty Horses (2000)
Billy Bob Thornton's ALL THE PRETTY HORSES is about John Grady Cole (Matt Damon), a young rancher growing up just after WWII. After his mother sells the family ...
The Eagle Has Landed (1976)
Oberst Steiner, a German parachute unit commander, is sent to England on a covert mission to kidnap Prime Minister Winston Churchill and bring him to Berlin. Th...
Train to Pakistan (1998)
Tensions run high near the border of British India, which is about to be partitioned with a new country called Pakistan. Sikhs living in this border town have h...
A Town Like Alice (1981)
Set against the brutal chaos of World War II, a love story begins that will take two lovers through a living nightmare of captivity, across three continents and...
Murder in Coweta County (1983)
In 1948, in rural Georgia, Coweta County is watched over by its legendary, indomitable Sheriff Lamar Potts (Johnny Cash). No felony had ever gone unsolved while...
10 Rillington Place (1971)
After subletting his upstairs London flat to a mentally deficient young man named Timothy Evans and his pregnant wife Beryl, John Christie announces to the imp...
White Mischief (1988)
A millionaire past his prime and his young wife arrive in Kenya circa 1940 to find that the other affluent British expatriates are living large as the homefront...
Pollock (2000)
At the end of the 1940's, abstract expressionist Jackson Pollock (1912-1956) is featured in Life magazine. Flashback to 1941, he's living with his brother in a ...
Zelary (2003)
Zelary is a 2004 Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign Language Film. Prague has become a battleground in the midst of World War II. A man within the resistanc...
An Awfully Big Adventure (1995)
In a world of make believe Stella is about to discover the difference between true love... and real life.
1942: A Love Story (1942)
It was August 1942. The Quit India movement had gathered momentum. Protesters, all over the country, came out in large numbers and the thunderous cry of quit ...
Sahara (1995) (1995)
After the fall of Tobruk in June 1942, U.S. Army sergeant Joe Gunn leads his tank into the Sahara desert, in order to evade advancing Rommel's forces and reach ...
Mission of the Shark: The Saga of the U.S.S. Indianapolis (1991)
True story of the sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis, its crew's struggle to survive the sharks and exposure, and the captain's scape-goat court-marti...
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
A toon hating detective is a cartoon rabbit's only hope to prove his innocence when he is accused of murder.
Tarzan and the Mermaids (1948)
Boy is away at school in England. The high priest is trying to force a young girl to marry an evil pearl trader posing as the god Balu. She escapes, is recaptu...
Back to Bataan (1945)
The US Army's defense of its Philippines colony and the allied Malay countries/colonies behind it counted on its island fortress of Corregidor on Luzon -and a ...
Tropic of Desire (1979)
The infamous World War II cat house, The Pink Flamingo, is the setting where Frances, the warm-hearted madam, caters to the sex starved servicemen. Includes nos...
Charlotte Gray (2001)
A young Scottish woman joins the French Resistance during World War II to rescue her Royal Air Force boyfriend who is lost in France.
D-Day the Sixth of June (1956)
'Twas the night before D-Day. One ship, carrying Special Force Six, leaves ahead of the main invasion on a dangerous mission. On board are British Colonel Wynte...
Copacabana (1985)
Easy listening legend Barry Manilow stars in this 1982 musical, based on the famous song of the same name. COPACABANA fleshes out the story of beautiful showg...
Forbidden Games (1952)
Two children (Brigitte Fossey, Georges Poujouly) make a cemetery for animals outside 1940 Paris.
White Light/Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (2007)
As global tensions rise, the unthinkable now seems possible. The threat of nuclear weapons of mass destruction has become frighteningly real... See full sy...
The Haunted Boy: The Secret Diary of the Exorcist ( 2010) (2010)
While filming a haunted asylum in St. Louis, Missouri, documentary filmmakers uncover a secret diary of the infamous 1949 exorcism of a 13 year old boy possesse...
The Man Who Wasn't There (2002)
1949, Santa Rosa, California. A laconic, chain-smoking barber with fallen arches tells a story of a man trying to escape a humdrum life. It's a tale of suspecte...
Brief Encounter (1946)
On a caf? at a railway station, housewife Laura Jesson meets doctor Alec Harvey. Although she is already married, they gradually fall in love with each other. ...
Hitler: The Last Ten Days (1973)
Hitler: The Last Ten Days is cinema at its most powerful. Oscar
Le bal (1983)
The 50 year story of a ballroom in France, from the 1920s. The people who go there is always the same, even the musicians. You can see all kind of people dancin...
Attack Force Z (1982)
A group of Australian commandos launch a secret mission against Japanese forces in World War II.
Swing Shift (1984)
A plucky housewife who replaces her husband on the factory production line when he is called up to fight in the Second World War.
The Pied Piper (1942) (1942)
Englishman Mr Howard is on a fishing holiday in eastern France when the Germans invade in 1940. Setting off to try and get back home he is persuaded to take alo...
Paradox Soldiers (2010)
Four strangers are enjoying a World War II re-enactment weekend when fantasy becomes reality and they find themselves accidentally caught up in a time vortex wh...
Vacation From Marriage (1945)
Robert and Catherine have a quiet little marriage until WWII separates them for three years. Serving in the navy dramatically transforms both of them and they r...
13 Rue Madeleine (1947)
Documentary-style prologue follows training of O.S.S. agents for WWII work behind enemy lines. One of the group is a German "mole;" leaders Gibson and Sharkey ...
YellowBrickRoad (2010)
1940: the entire population of Friar, New Hampshire walked up a winding mountain trail, leaving everything behind. 2008: the first official expedition into the ...
Martin and Lewis (2002)
Even at the start of his singing career, Dean Martin is an impressive gentleman, big, tall, hansom, exquisitely dressed, fitting his nightingale voice and natur...
Comes a Horseman (1978)
Lavishly photographed, COMES A HORSEMAN is a dramatic Western set in the post-World War II new West. Jane Fonda stars as Ella, a stubborn rancher who will not...
Kill Your Darlings (2013)
A murder in 1944 draws together the great poets of the beat generation: Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs.
36 Hours (1965)
In this psychological war-drama an Army Major is captured by the Germans during World War II. They attempt to brainwash him into believing the war is over and ...
Suite Francaise (2014)
During the early years of German occupation of France in World War II, romance blooms between Lucile Angellier, a French villager and Bruno von Falk, a German s...
The White Tiger (2012)
Great Patriotic War, early 1940s. After barely surviving a battle with a mysterious, ghostly-white Tiger tank, Red Army Sergeant Ivan Naydenov becomes obsessed ...
Holiday Inn (1943)
Lovely Linda Mason has crooner Jim Hardy head over heels, but suave stepper Ted Hanover wants her for his new dance partner after femme fatale Lila Dixon gives...
Mudbound (2017)
Two men return home from World War II to work on a farm in rural Mississippi, where they struggle to deal with racism and adjusting to life after war.
Humongous (1982)
Woman is raped at cocktail party. Years later, her son grows up to be a big hairy murderous monster who stalks a group of teens shipwrecked on his island.
American Pastime (2007)
The dramatic impact W.W.II had in the home-front as U.S. Japanese families were uprooted from their daily lives and placed in internment camps in western States...
Captain America (1944)
Superhero Captain America battles the evil forces of the archvillain called The Scarab, who poisons his enemies and steals a secret device capable of destroying...
Breakthrough (1979)
German sergeant gets involved in anti-Hitler conspiracy, and saves the life of an American colonel.
Margie (1946)
Margie and her daughter reminisce about Margie's girlhood in the roaring twenties. In flashback, Margie, a smarter, less popular girl at Central High, meets han...
G-men vs. the Black Dragon (1943)
American, British and Chinese secret agents battle the Japanese Black Dragon Society, a secretive ring that smuggles enemy agents into the U.S. disguised as mum...
Hell in Normandy (1968)
Hell in Normandy is set during World War II in the days just prior to the D-Day invasion. A special parachute unit is sent out to destroy a German flame throw...
Against the Wind (1948)
British agents engage in hazardous duty behind German lines.
My Dog Skip (2000)
A shy boy is unable to make friends in Yazoo City, Mississippi in 1942, until his parents give him a terrier puppy for his ninth birthday. The dog, which he nam...
The Woman in the Window (1947)
Gotham College professor Wanley and his friends become obsessed with the portrait of a woman in the window next to the men's club. Wanley happens to meet the wo...
Willie the Operatic Whale (1946)
The Metropolitan Opera is looking for the sea monster reported in newspaper headlines, because this monster sings beautifully! The "monster" is actually Willie,...
Things to Come (1936)
William Cameron Menzies' adaptation of the H.G. Wells novel tells of humankind's efforts to rebuild the war-torn planet.
Chemical Wedding (2008)
The year 2000, Cambridge University, Dr Joshua Mathers' state-of-the-art virtual reality suit is being linked to the world's biggest super computer, the Z93. Lo...
Walking My Baby Back Home (1953)
Walking My Baby Back Home is a bubbly musical The film wastes no time in showing off the singing and dancing skills of star Donald O'Connor, who is seen cavorti...
Blondie Goes Latin (1941)
Dagwood disguises himself as a drummer in the ship's conga band to sneak aboard a South American cruise ship. Blondie performs several song-and-dance routines.
Great Guns (1941)
Laurel and Hardy work for sickly heir Dan Forrester, who has been diagnosed with a myriad of debilitating allergies. However, when the draft board sees things ...
World War II: When Lions Roared (1994)
This TV Movie is about the Tehran Conference between FDR, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin. It shows the interaction between the three leaders at the close ...
Puppet Master: The Legacy (2003)
Peter Hertz tells a woman the past stories about the puppets, but she secretly wants to kill them.
Gandhi, My Father (2007)
Mohandas was born in the Gujarati speaking family, had several brothers who jointly owned property in Rajkot. At the age of 13 Mohandas married Kasturba. On att...
The Dark Mirror (1946)
A woman suspected of murdering her doctor boyfriend has an identical twin sister. When both twins have an alibi for the night of the murder, a psychiatrist is c...
Marvel One-Shot: Agent Carter (2013)
Frustrated at being marginalized at work, Peggy Carter goes on an unauthorized solo field mission.
Tarzan's New York Adventure (1942)
Tarzan and Jane go to New York to rescue Boy after he is kidnapped into a circus.
Popiól i diament (1958)
A young Polish Resistance fighter is ordered on the last day of WWII to assassinate an incoming Russian commissar. However, a mistake leads to him having an e...
The Human Condition I (1959)
First of a trilogy of films. During the Second World War, a Japanese conscientious objector named Kaji works as a supervisor in a Manchurian prison camp. He hop...
Nothing But Trouble (1944)
A businessman finds he and his friends the prisoners of a sadistic judge and his equally odd family in the backwoods of a bizarre mansion.
Chip an’ Dale (1947)
Donald needs a log for his fire. Unfortunately, the one he picks is occupied by a couple of chipmunks and their stash of acorns. When he cuts it down, Chip and ...
The Way Ahead (1945)
At the outset of World War II, a disparate group of civilians undergo basic training and prepare to fight - and die - for their country. The recruits include m...
The Scarlet and the Black (1983)
Vatican efforts, lead by Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty, to save Allied POWs and downed Allied airmen as the Nazis invade Rome.
Marvels Captain America 75 Heroic Years (2016)
Marvel celebrates the history of Captain America, both in the comics and on TV and film, and examines the character as a reflection of American culture througho...
The Night Watch (2011)
In post-war London Viv Pearce, seeing married spiv Reggie, runs a dating bureau with Helen Giniver, who lives with her older lover, authoress Julia Standing. Vi...
The Pacific Battleship: Yamato (2005)
On April, 6th 2005, in Makurazi, Kagoshima, Makiko Uchida seeks a boat in the local fishing cooperative to take her to the latitude N30, longitude L128, where t...
Make Mine Music (1949)
Segments: "A Rustic Ballad," a story of feuding hillbillys; "A Tone Poem," a mood piece set on a blue bayou; "A Jazz Interlude," a bobby-soxer goes jitterbuggin...
Fist of Anger (1973)
When the Imperial Japanese forces invade mainland China their occupation brings oppression, violence and brutality. Jackie Chan stars as the young master forc...
Eleanor First Lady of the World (1982)
Biography of former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt, who forged a new role for herself in the years after her husband's death.
That Hagen Girl (1947)
Mary Hagen lives in a small town in Ohio and goes to Jordon Junior College. For years, there has been whispers, rumors and gossip about who are her real parents...
Tuppen (1981)
1944. Cederqvist comes to a small cloth factory to see how the all-women employees can work more effeciently. At the beginning he is greeted with suspicion and ...
The House on Chelouche Street (1973)
A fatherless family immigrates to Israel from Egypt during the British Mandate period. The film traces the hardships the family suffers in the politically unsta...
Adam's Rib (1949)
Domestic and professional tensions mount when a husband and wife work as opposing lawyers in a case involving a woman who shot her husband.
The Human Condition III (1970)
Part three of a trilogy. After the Japanese defeat to the Russians in the last episode, Kaji, the Japanese soldier and humanist protagonist, leads the last rema...
San Pietro (1945) (1945)
This documentary movie is about the battle of San Pietro, a small village in Italy. Over 1,100 US soldiers were killed while trying to take this location, that ...
Ski Troop Attack (1960)
An American patrol has to cross behind enemy lines by skis in order to blow up an important railroad bridge. The task is made harder by conflicts between the p...
Charlie Chan in Dark Alibi (1946)
Three men are convicted of bank robbery, the main evidence against them being that their fingerprints were found at the scene. However, Charlie Chan believes th...
Murder Over New York (1940)
Coincidence like ancient egg, leave unpleasant odour. Canary unlike faithful dog, do not die from sympathy. Number 2 son very promising detective, promise very...
3 Seasons in Hell (2009)
A 19 year old nonconformist living in Czechoslovakia in 1947 lives a Bohemian lifestyle while ignoring the Communist behemoth looming over him...
Blondie Goes to College (1942)
Dagwood decides to go to college. Blondie goes along with him, keeping their marriage a secret. They send Baby Dumpling off to military school where he becomes ...
Blondie Has Servant Trouble (1940)
Mr. Dithers has a house he can't unload because it is rumored to be haunted. When he lets the Bumsteads move into it, they discover sliding panels and secret pa...
The Caller (2008)
An energy business exec is assisted by a private investigator in his effort to expose his corporation's corrupt practices.
Blondie in Society (1941)
Dagwood brings home a pedigreed Great Dane which an important company client wants and which Blondie enters in the big dog show. A highlight of this film is the...
Saps at Sea (1940)
Stan and Ollie begin to suffer after working in a horn factory.
Voodoo Man (1944)
Though no more expensive or ambitious than any of his earlier Sam Katzman-produced vehicles, Bela Lugosi's Voodoo Man is perhaps the best of the batch, if onl...
Sisu (2023)
When an ex-soldier who discovers gold in the Lapland wilderness tries to take the loot into the city, Nazi soldiers led by a brutal SS officer battle him.
Victory Through Air Power (1943)
This is a unique film in Disney Production's history. This film is essentially a propaganda film selling Major Alexander de Seversky's theories about the practi...
This Is the Army (1943)
A Broadway star (George Murphy) does a show in World War I, and his son (Ronald Reagan) does one in World War II.
City Across the River (1949)
The macho head of an urban community center tries to reform juvenile delinquents.
The Man on the Eiffel Tower (1949)
In Paris, a down and out medical student Johann Radek (Franchot Tone) is paid by Bill Kirby (Robert Hutton) to murder his wealthy aunt. A knife grinder (Burges...
Murder on the Home Front (2013)
Set during the London Blitz of 1940, this is a world where people live life in the moment. It is also a world where criminals can use the blackout and devastati...
In the Mood (1987)
Based upon the true story of "Sonny" Wisecarver. In 1944, Sonny made headlines nationwide due to his affairs with 2 older adult women. (ie. He was so irresistib...
Whistle Stop (1946)
Beautiful Mary returns to her small hometown after many years from Chicago wearing a mink coat and carrying an expensive cigarette case. Her arrival causes lon...
The Dancing Masters (1943)
The boys operate a ballet school (appearing in drag) and try to help a young inventor sell his idea, to get in the good graces of his girl's father. In their e...
The Hick Chick (1946)
Clueless country rooster Clem's plan to marry his sweetheart Daisy are ruined when city slicker Charles sweeps Daisy off her (hen's) feet. When Charles takes Da...
Hollywood and Vine (1945)
A young girl arrives in Hollywood determined to become a star in the movies, but finds that attaining stardom is a lot more difficult then she counted on. Howew...
Screwball Squirrel (1944)
A screwy squirrel provokes a pedigreed birddog to chase him throughout the picture.
Mickey's Birthday Party (1942)
The gang throws Mickey a surprise birthday party; his present is an electric organ, which Minnie plays while Mickey does a jazzy dance. Goofy bakes the cake, bu...
For a Woman (2013)
After her mother dies, Anne discovers a photo that shatters her existence. The old photo makes her doubt her origins and leads her to discover a mysterious uncl...
Madras Town (2010)
A film set in 1940s India, during the country's struggle for independence. The young daughter of an English governor falls in love with a local Indian boy.
Tuntematon sotilas (2017)
A film adaptation of Väinö Linna's best selling novel The Unknown Soldier (1954) and the novel's unedited manuscript version, Sotaromaani.
Torso The Evelyn Dick Story (2002)
The 1946/1947 murder trial of young and beautiful Evelyn Dick remains the most lurid murder case in Canadian history. After children find only the torso of her ...
Private Contentment (1982)
A young soldier goes home to attend his mother's funeral just before being shipped out to serve in World War II.
Cult of the Cobra (1955)
American G.I.s who trespass on a Hindu ceremony are hunted down by a beautiful woman who has the power to transform herself into a cobra.
A Christmas Story (1983)
In the 1940s, a young boy named Ralphie attempts to convince his parents, his teacher and Santa that a Red Ryder BB gun really is the perfect Christmas gift.
Je treba zabit Sekala (1998)
Baran, a protestant blacksmith arrives in the little village of Lakotice to kill Sekal, a cruel Nazi collaborator.
George Stevens D-Day to Berlin (1994)
Some of the most-important events of World War II are captured in this remarkable color footage shot by Hollywood director George Stevens using his own camera. ...
Henpecked Hoboes (1946)
George and Junior are two hungry bears who try to make a meal out of a not too bright barnyard chicken.
Pearl Harbor II Pearlmageddon (2001)
December 7, 1941, Pearl Harbor: it's not the Japanese air force killing people on the beach but the shards of a giant meteor, headed for Earth. FDR gets the bad...
3-D Rarities (2015)
In commemoration of the centennial of 3-D motion pictures, we present 3-D RARITIES. It has taken over 30 years for the 3-D Film Archive to assemble and restore ...
Gojira -1.0 (2023)
Post war Japan is at its lowest point when a new crisis emerges in the form of a giant monster, baptized in the horrific power of the atomic bomb.
Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1957)
A marine and a nun form an unlikely friendship. The marine is shipwrecked on a Pacific island and the nun has been left behind there; they find comfort in one a...
Gate of Flesh (1964)
After World War II, some Tokyo prostitutes band together with a strict code: no pimps, attack any street walker who comes into our territory, defend the abandon...
Auschwitz (2015)
Auschwitz is synonymous with the Holocaust, but it's also a place on the map with a surprising history preceding World War II. Narrated by Meryl Streep, this sh...
A Day In October (1991)
This story, based on fact, is about the movement of Danish Jews out of Denmark to neutral Sweden in the 1940's. It focuses on a single family and tells of their...
Into the Darkness (2020)
Denmark, April 9th, 1940. Danish industrialist (portrayed by Jesper Christensen of James Bond fame) , cooperates and profits from the German occupation of Denma...
O Matador (2017)
A Brazilian western about Cabeleira, a feared killer living in the countryside of Pernambuco State in the 40's.
Donald Gets Drafted (1942)
Donald Fauntleroy Duck gets his draft notice and goes in, past all the amazingly enticing recruiting posters, to sign up. First he has to pass the physical. Des...
J.D.'s Revenge (1976)
A docile black law student is possessed by a 1940's mobster in mid-70's New Orleans. The mobster seeks revenge upon the people who killed him and his sister.
Blitz Wolf (1942)
Yet another variation on the Three Little Pigs theme, this time told as WW2 anti-German propaganda (the US had just entered the war), with the wolf as a thinly-...
The Scarlet Clue (1945)
Charlie discovers a scheme for the theft of government radar plans while investigating several murders.
Hei tai yang 731 si wang lie che (1994)
During the shut down and destruction of the Japanese test camp Squadron 731 in Manchuria, a soldier becomes infected with a virus developed during the camp's te...
Who Killed Santa Claus (1941)
The story concerns an old globe-maker who is mysteriously killed while going through the town portraying Pere Noel ("Father Christmas" aka Santa Claus...
They Who Dare (1954)
In Greece during the war a small group of British commandoes and patriots land on an island with orders to attack two airfields from which the Luftwaffe is thre...
Hare Trigger (1945)
Yosemite Sam means to hold up the Superchief and Bugs is out to stop him.
The Last Time I Committed Suicide (1997)
Neal Cassady is living the beat life during the 1940s, working at The Tire Yard and and philandering around town. However, he has visions of a happy life with k...
Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969)
A shy, withdrawn English schoolteacher falls for a flashy showgirl.
Freaks Out (2021)
Rome, 1943: Matilde, Cencio, Fulvio and Mario are the main attractions of the "Mezza Piotta Circus" run by Israel, meanwhile someone start looking for the four ...
Tomorrow Was the War (1987)
This movie is based on a novel by Boris Vasiliev and describes life in a small Russian provincial town in 1940 - one year before Germany invaded the Soviet Unio...
De slag om de Schelde (2021)
1944, the Second World War. A British glider pilot, a Dutch boy fighting on the German side and a Dutch female resistance member all end up involved in the Batt...
Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid (1942)
Mama Buzzard wants her children to learn to bring back meat for dinner. One buzzardling is shy and has to be kicked out of the nest. He's told to at least bring...
McHale's Navy Joins the Air Force (1965)
The crew of PT-73 are in trouble again when Ensign Parker is mistaken for a pilot and gets shanghied into the Air Force.
Two Girls and a Sailor (1944)
A sailor helps two sisters start up a service canteen. The sailor soon becomes taken with gorgeous sister Jean, unaware that her sibling Patsy is also in love w...
A Is for Acid (2002)
John George Haigh, the notorious "acid bath murderer" in 1940s England, becomes the subject of this dramatization.
A Trip to Bountiful - Reise ins Glück (1985)
In 1940s Texas, an elderly woman is determined to visit her childhood home for one last time.
The Execution of Private Slovik (1974)
The story of Eddie Slovik, who was executed by the Army in 1945, the only American soldier to be executed for desertion since the Civil War.
Mame (1974)
It's the late 1920s. Upon the death of wealthy Chicagoan Edward Dennis, his nine-year old son Patrick Dennis becomes the ward of their only living relative, Edw...
The Last Train (2006)
A group of people are imprisoned in a rail car bound from Berlin to a concentration camp in 1945.
Space Is the Place (1974)
Sun Ra--space-age prophet, pharoanic jester, shaman-philosopher and avant-jazz keyboardist/bandleader--lands his spaceship in Oakland, having been presumed lost...
The Wabbit Who Came to Supper (1942)
Bugs Bunny exploits the situation when an uncle leaves Elmer Fudd three million dollars on the condition that he harm no animals, especially rabbits.
Tarzan Triumphs (1943)
As WWII rages on, a group of Nazi paratroopers land on the secret city of Palandria to exploit its wealth, and they start taking hostages. Can the powerful King...
Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise (1940)
Charlie tries to discover the identity of a strangler who strikes multiple times on a cruise ship bound from Honolulu to California.
Calling Dr. Death (1943)
Losing his memories of the last few days, neurologist Dr. Steele is told that his wife has been brutally murdered. Steele, aware of his conniving wife's infidel...
A Stranger in Town (1943)
In the small town of Crown Port local attorney Bill Adams is trying to break up the ring of corrupt town officials by running for mayor. The cards seemed stacke...
Dead Men Tell (1941)
A treasure map in four pieces, the ghost of a hanged pirate, a talking parrot, and a ship full of red herrings complicate Charlie's search for a murderer on boa...
The Rules of Film Noir (2009)
Documentary that shows the characteristic traits of film noir and their historical context.
Castle in the Desert (1942)
Paul Manderley, eccentric historian, and his wife, descendant of the Borgias, live in an isolated castle-like mansion in the Mojave Desert. When a guest suddenl...
De deugden de ondeugd (1963)
Set against the backdrop of the Nazi occupation of France, VICE AND VIRTURE is a stylized retelling of the Marquis de Sade's Justine, as envisioned by one of ci...
Blondie's Big Deal (1949)
By accident Dagwood discovers a non-flammable paint. Bad guys Dillon and Stack steal it before he can give it to his boss Radcliffe. To show off his invention, ...
Hired Wife (1940)
Cement company CEO Stephen Dexter asks his secretary Kendall to marry him as a wife in name only, an arrangement made to protect his finances from an attempt at...
Elesin Oba: The King's Horseman (2022)
After his king dies, a horseman must sacrifice himself to serve his ruler in the afterlife but sudden distractions lead to unexpected tragedy.
The Plastics Inventor (1944)
Donald is listening to a radio program that tells how to build an airplane from plastic, in a process much like baking a cake, cookies, and making toast. He tak...
Mao Zedong 1949 (2019)
The film is set in 1949, as the members of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China prepare to establish a new Chinese state, the People's Republic...
Mighty Mouse Meets Jekyll and Hyde Cat (1944)
Mice, seeking shelter from a storm, enter Dr. Jekyll's house. His cat chases them, ultimately crashing into the lab, where he mixes up some of the potion. H...
Ali-Baba Bound (1940)
Porky finds out that Ali-Baba and his Dirty Sleeves plan to attack the fort; it's up to him to go warn the fort. He gets there to discover everyone has left for...
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