Keyword: 1940s

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.

A Private Function

6.6

1984

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In post-World War II Britain, food rationing continues, leading a married couple to become involved in the flourishing bacon black market.

Radio Days

7.6

1987

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A nostalgic look at radios golden age focusing on one ordinary family and the various performers in the medium.

Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman

7.4

2005

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The life and times of Albert Pierrepoint - Britains most prolific hangman.

Whisky Galore!

7.3

1949

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Scottish islanders try to plunder 50,000 cases of whisky from a stranded ship.

The Young Lions

7.3

1958

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The lives of three young men, a German and two Americans, during WWII.

Odor-Able Kitty

6.7

1945

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A cat, tired of being abused by everyone in his neighborhood, disguises himself as a skunk and inadvertently attracts the romantic advances of a real skunk.

Paradise Road

6.8

1997

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A group of women who are imprisoned on the island of Sumatra by the Japanese during World War II use music to relieve their misery.

The Land That Time Forgot

5.7

1974

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During World War I, a German U-boat sinks a British ship and takes the survivors on board. After it takes a wrong turn, the submarine takes them to the unknown land of Caprona, where they find dinosaurs and neanderthals.

The Naked Civil Servant

7.9

1975

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The life and times of Quentin Crisp, an outrageous and flamboyant homosexual, coming of age and growing into old age in conservative England.

Attack Force Z

5.5

1981

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A group of Australian commandos launch a secret mission against Japanese forces in World War II.

RKO 281

7.1

1999

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Orson Welles produces his greatest film, Citizen Kane (1941), despite the opposition of the films de facto subject, William Randolph Hearst.