Keyword: 1940s

A Town Like Alice

7.2

1956

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A newly wealthy English woman returns to Malaya to build a well for the villagers who helped her during war. Thinking back, she recalls the Australian man who made a great sacrifice to aid her and her fellow prisoners of war.

Avalon

7.3

1990

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A Polish-Jewish family comes to the U.S. at the beginning of the twentieth century. There, the family and their children try to make themselves a better future in the so-called promised land.

Plenty

6.1

1985

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A young Englishwoman spends twenty years to make whatever kind of life for herself, at the expense of others around her, in post-World War II England.

Map of the Human Heart

7.2

1992

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Arctic, 1965: Avik tells his story starting 1931. A mapmaker flies Avik, then a preteen Eskimo boy with TB, to a hospital in Montreal, where he meets Albertine. They meet again when Avik joins WWII in UK.

Distant Voices, Still Lives

7.5

1988

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The lives of an English working-class family are told out of order in a free-associative manner. The first part, Distant Voices, focuses on the fathers role in the family. The second part, Still Lives, focuses on his children.

Comes a Horseman

6.2

1978

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A brave and proud woman struggles for her land, finding help and something more in unexpected way.

Cry, the Beloved Country

6.9

1995

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A South African preacher goes to search for his wayward son, who has committed a crime in the big city.

Our Miss Fred

5.8

1972

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Shakespearian actor Fred Wimbushs drafted during WWII. While entertaining the troops with his drag act one day, the Germans capture them. Thinking hes a girl, they let him go. He mustnt break his character until he reaches safety.

The Grass Harp

7

1995

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Based on the novel by Truman Capote, this often-witty coming-of-age drama looks at a young man growing up with an unusual family in the Deep South in the 1940s.

Diplomacy

7.1

2014

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A historical drama that depicts the relationship between Dietrich von Choltitz, the German military governor of occupied Paris, and Swedish consul-general Raoul Nordling.

The Victors

7

1963

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Intelligent, sprawling saga of a squad of American soldiers, following them through Europe during World War II.

Zoo

6.7

2017

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Young Tom Hall (Art Parkinson) and his misfit friends fight to save Buster the baby elephant during the German air raid bombings of Belfast, Northern Ireland in 1941.