Keyword: 1940s

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...

Mr. Klein

7.6

1976

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In Nazi-occupied Paris, the immoral art dealer, Robert Klein, leads a life of luxury, until a copy of a Jewish newspaper brings him to the attention of the police, linking him with a mysterious doppelgänger. Will Mr Klein clear his name?

Black Rain

8

1989

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The story of the aftermath of the Hiroshima bombing, based on Masuji Ibuses novel.

The Most Precious of Cargoes

7.4

2024

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During a war that plagues everything around, a lumberjacks wife finds an abandoned baby girl. This meeting transforms the life of the couple and those whose destinations intertwine with that of the child.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Saturday Fiction

6.6

2019

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Yu Jin is working undercover gathering intelligence for the Allies.

School for Secrets

6.8

1946

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During World War II, on the eve of the Battle of Britain, British scientists develop the first radar systems to be employed against the German Luftwaffe.