Keyword: 1940s

Murder in the First

7.3

1995

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An eager and idealistic young attorney defends an Alcatraz prisoner accused of murdering a fellow inmate. The extenuating circumstances: his client had just spent over three years in solitary confinement.

Haywire

2.1

2023

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A tank crew ventures behind enemy lines to find \Hitlers Riches\ but uncovers a far more sinister secret the Nazis were hiding.

June Bride

7.8

1948

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A magazines staff, including bickering ex-lovers Linda and Carey, cover an Indiana wedding, which goes slightly wrong...

The Ascent

8.3

1977

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Two Soviet partisans on a mission to gather food contend with the winter cold, the occupying Germans, and their own psyches.

Black Bread

6.9

2010

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In the harsh post-war years Catalan countryside, Andreu, a child that belongs to the losing side, finds the corpses of a man and his son in the forest. The authorities want his father to be made responsible of the deaths, but Andreu tries to help his father by finding out who truly killed them. In this search, Andreu develops a moral consciousness against a world of adults fed by lies. In order to survive, he betrays his own roots and ends up finding out the monster that lives within him.

Jacquot

7.7

1991

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A boy growing up in Nantes during WW2 around his fathers mechanic workshop has a love for puppet shows and cinema and develops it into his own art. Jacques Demy, the artist at the end of his life, reflects on his childhood influences.

The (Silent) War

5.5

2019

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A rebel revolutionary against Franquists dictatorship who turns deaf after a failed sabotage tries to escape from the military forces who prosecute him.

Land of Mine

7.8

2015

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In post-World War II Denmark, a group of young German POWs are forced to clear a beach of thousands of land mines under the watch of a Danish Sergeant who slowly learns to appreciate their plight.

Lucie Aubrac

6.3

1997

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A love story or a tale of the resistance, this poignant movie tells both the haunting story of a French resistance cell in Lyon but also the love of Lucie Aubrac for her husband, and the lengths she goes to to rescue her husband from prison on more than one occasion. Based on a true story Lucie Aubrac works as both history lesson and love story.

Herod's Law

7.8

1999

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A naive man appointed as an acting mayor of a small town turns into a corrupt politician capable of anything to stay in power.

A Lesson Before Dying

5

1999

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In the 1940s South, an African-American man is wrongly accused of the killing of a white store owner. In his defense, his white attorney equates him with a lowly hog, to indicate that he didnt have the sense to know what he was doing. Nevertheless convicted, he is sentenced to die, but his godmother and the aunt of the local schoolteacher convince the schoolteacher to go to the convicted mans cell each day to try to reaffirm to him that he is not an animal but a man with dignity.

To Live

8.2

1994

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After Fugui and Jiazhen lose their personal fortunes, they raise a family and survive difficult cultural changes during 1940s to 1970s China.