Keyword: 1940s

True Confessions

6.4

1981

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A worldly ambitious monsignor clashes with his older brother, a cynical Los Angeles homicide detective who is investigating the brutal murder of a young prostitute.

Swing Shift

5.9

1984

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A woman finds romance when she takes a job at an aircraft plant to help make ends meet after her husband goes off to war.

Shanghai Blues

7.2

1984

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In 1937 Shanghai, a soon-to-depart soldier meets a young woman under a bridge during a Japanese air raid. They vow to meet after the war ends, but they dont each others name or face. Ten years later, the young woman, a nightclub singer, takes in a naive girl fresh from the country. The country girl falls in love with the would-be song-writer upstairs who, unbeknownst to the singer, is none other than the soldier from the bridge.

Escape to Athena

6

1979

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A World War II adventure involving a group of Allied P.O.W.s, Nazis, black market priceless art treasures, Greek resistance, a Greek monastery, and a secret German rocket base.

Random Harvest

8

1942

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An amnesiac World War I veteran falls in love with a music hall star, only to suffer an accident which restores his original memories but erases his post-war life.

Story of Women

7.6

1988

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A housewife in Nazi-occupied France struggles to make ends meet when her husband returns home after being wounded in the war.

Von Ryan's Express

7.4

1965

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An American POW leads a group of mainly British prisoners to escape from the Germans in WWII.

Saints and Soldiers

7.1

2003

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Four American soldiers and one Brit fighting in Europe during World War II struggle to return to Allied territory after being separated from U.S. forces during the historic Malmedy Massacre.

The Resistance Banker

6.9

2018

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In Nazi-occupied Amsterdam, banker brothers Walraven and Gijs van Hall face their greatest challenge yet when they decide to help fund the Dutch resistance.

Into the Storm

6.8

2009

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Continuing the storyline of The Gathering Storm (2002), Churchill at War is a look at the former British prime ministers life and career at the end of WWII.

They Were Expendable

7.3

1945

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A Navy commander fights to prove the battle-worthiness of the PT boat at the start of World War II.

Fires on the Plain

8.2

1959

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In the closing days of WWII remnants of the Japanese army in Leyte are abandoned by their command and face certain starvation.