Hamburg, Germany, 1944, during World War II. A serial killer terrorizes the city. When it seems clear that the local police are unable to catch him, forces as dark and terrible as the criminal himself become involved in the case.

The Hidden Child

2013

Swedish

6.0

♡ 2

42%

Crime

Thriller

world war ii

Per Hanefjord Director

Jan Malmsjö as Axel Frankel

Inga Landgré as Britta Johansson

Anders Nyström as Erik Frankel

Fridtjov Såheim as Hans-Erik Olavsen

Erica's parents are killed in a traffic accident. She moves to Fjällbacka and discovers she has a brother.

Letters from Iwo Jima

2006

English

7.8

♡ 84

91%

Clint Eastwood Director

Tsuyoshi Ihara as Baron Nishi

Ken Watanabe as General Kuribayashi

Hiroshi Watanabe as Lieutenant Fujita

Ryô Kase as Shimizu

The story of the battle of Iwo Jima between the United States and Imperial Japan during World War II, as told from the perspective of the Japanese who fought it.

Codebreaker

2011

English

7.0

♡ 19

84%

Clare Beavan Director

Ed Stoppard as Alan Turing

Henry Goodman as Franz Greenbaum

Samuel West as Himself - Narrator

Paul McGann as Himself - Narrator

Alan Turing is the genius British mathematician who was instrumental in breaking the German naval Enigma Code during World War II, arguably saving millions of lives. Turing's achievements went unrecognised during his lifetime. Instead he ended up being treated as a common criminal, for being homosexual at a time when homosexual acts were a crime. In 1952, he was convicted of 'gross indecency' with another man and was forced to undergo so-called 'organo-therapy' - chemical castration. Two years later, he killed himself with cyanide, aged just 41. Alan Turing was driven to a terrible despair and early death by the nation he'd done so much to save.

The Chalice of Blood

2022

Finnish

4.7

♡ 5

Jarno Elonen Director

Jarno Elonen as Isä Stefano Lombardus

Jevgeni Haukka as Lugan kylänvanhin / metropoliitta Sergei

Slava Dugin as MG-42 -ampuja / sotilas

Kirill Wilen as Partisaanijohtaja

During the final years of the World War II, Finnish sergeant Myllykoski and his fellow soldiers are forced to join the notorious Waffen-SS on a mission to find a mythical medieval chalice in the Soviet Union.

Radio Days

1987

English

7.4

♡ 27

92%

Woody Allen Director

Seth Green as Joe

Wallace Shawn as Masked Avenger

Diane Keaton as New Year's Singer

William H. Macy as Radio Voice

The Narrator tells us how the radio influenced his childhood in the days before TV. In the New York City of the late 1930s to the New Year's Eve 1944, this coming-of-age tale mixes the narrator's experiences with contemporary anecdotes and urban legends of the radio stars.

The Biggest Battle

1978

Italian

4.7

♡ 2

Umberto Lenzi Director

Edwige Fenech as Danielle

Robert Spafford as Gen. George S. Patton

Helmut Berger as Lt. Kurt Zimmer

Stacy Keach as Maj. Manfred Roland

A story of how World War II affected the lives of a German family and an American family, both of whom had sons and fathers fighting in the war.

Hail the Conquering Hero

1944

English

7.6

♡ 4

95%

Preston Sturges Director

Ella Raines as Libby

Kenneth Gibson as Town Councilman

Hal Taggart as Townsman

Eddie Bracken as Woodrow Truesmith

Having been discharged from the Marines for a hayfever condition before ever seeing action, Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith delays the return to his hometown, feeling that he is a failure. While in a moment of melancholy, he meets up with a group of Marines who befriend him and encourage him to return home to his mother by fabricating a story that he was wounded in battle with honorable discharge.

Bones of Crows

2022

English

6.8

♡ 4

95%

roman catholic church

world war ii

Marie Clements Director

Glen Gould as Matthew Spears

Cara Gee as Percy Whallach

Karine Vanasse as Sister Ruth

Alanis Obomsawin as TRC Film Director

Cree matriarch Aline Spears survives a childhood in Canada’s residential school system to continue her family’s generational fight in the face of systemic starvation, racism, and sexual abuse. She uses her uncanny ability to understand and translate codes into working for a special division of the Canadian Air Force as a Cree code talker in World War II. The story unfolds over 100 years with a cumulative force that propels us into the future.

The Eagle Has Landed

1976

English

6.9

♡ 35

71%

67%

Action

Adventure

based on novel or book

John Sturges Director

Robert Duvall as Colonel Radl

John Standing as Father Verecker

Jenny Agutter as Molly

Michael Caine as Oberst Kurt Steiner

When the Nazi high command learns in late 1943 that Winston Churchill will be spending time at a country estate in Norfolk, it hatches an audacious scheme to kidnap the prime minister and spirit him to Germany for enforced negotiations with Hitler.

All Through the Night

1942

English

7.1

♡ 5

100%

Vincent Sherman Director

Kenneth Gibson as Club Patron

Barton MacLane as Marty Callahan

William Hopper as Reporter

Ben Welden as Smitty

Broadway gamblers stumble across a plan by Nazi saboteurs to blow up an American battleship.

Ivan's Childhood

1962

Russian

8.0

♡ 42

100%

Andrei Tarkovsky Director

Ivan Savkin as (as I. Savkin)

Vladimir Marenkov as (as V. Marenkov)

Irina Tarkovskaya as Ivan's Mother

Andrey Konchalovskiy as Soldier with glasses

In WW2, twelve year old Soviet orphan Ivan Bondarev works for the Soviet army as a scout behind the German lines and strikes a friendship with three sympathetic Soviet officers.

Come See the Paradise

1990

English

6.7

♡ 10

64%

Alan Parker Director

David Carpenter as Army Captain

Dennis Quaid as Jack McGurn

Tamlyn Tomita as Lily Yuriko Kawamura / McGann

Kim Robillard as Road Block Soldier

In this drama from director Alan Parker, on-the-lam Jack McGurn flees to Los Angeles and takes a job as a projectionist at a movie theater owned by a Japanese-American man. Jack falls for the owner's daughter, Lily, but they are forced to elope to Seattle when her father forbids the relationship. The couple marry and have a daughter, but when World War II breaks out, Jack is powerless to stop his new family's forced internment.

Australia

2008

English

6.6

♡ 88

53%

Baz Luhrmann Director

Ben Mendelsohn as Captain Dutton

Bruce Spence as Dr. Barker

Hugh Jackman as Drover

Nicole Kidman as Lady Sarah Ashley

Set in northern Australia before World War II, an English aristocrat who inherits a sprawling ranch reluctantly pacts with a stock-man in order to protect her new property from a takeover plot. As the pair drive 2,000 head of cattle over unforgiving landscape, they experience the bombing of Darwin by Japanese forces firsthand.

The Bunker

1981

English

6.8

♡ 10

55%

George Schaefer Director

Anthony Hopkins as Adolf Hitler

Susan Blakely as Eva Braun

Terrence Hardiman as Gen. Fegelein

Robert Pugh as Turnow

Dramatization depicting the events surrounding Adolf Hitler's last weeks in and around his underground bunker in Berlin before and during the battle for the city.

Philadelphia Experiment II

1993

English

4.5

♡ 7

Stephen Cornwell Director

Brad Johnson as David Herdeg

Cyril O'Reilly as Decker

David Wells as Pinstripes

James Jude Courtney as Vortex Technician

It is several years after the events of the first movie, and David Herdeg (the survivor of the Philadelphia Experiment from the first film) and Allison (the woman from 1984 he fell in love with) have married and have a child. David awakes, in agony, to a changed world. Germany won World War II and the United States is now about to mark 50 years as a Nazi conquest.

Eye of the Needle

1981

English

7.1

♡ 18

85%

75%

Action

based on novel or book

d-day

husband wife relationship

Richard Marquand Director

Philip Martin Brown as Billy Parkin

Ian Bannen as Godliman

Sam Kydd as Lock Keeper

Bill Nighy as Squadron Leader Blenkinsop

Great Britain, 1944, during World War II. Relentlessly pursued by several MI5 agents, Henry Faber the Needle, a ruthless German spy in possession of vital information about D-Day, takes refuge on Storm Island, an inhospitable, sparsely inhabited island off the coast of northern Scotland.

Tankers

2018

Russian

5.6

♡ 5

Konstantin Maksimov Director

Sergei Halturin as

Olga Pogodina as Pavla Chumak

Vladimir Epifantsev as Sgt. Siitov

Roman Madyanov as (uncredited)

The film is based on the true story about a Soviet KV-1 crew of a Soviet KV-1 tank, under the command of Semyon Konovalov , whom despite being heavily outnumbered by German forces, destroyed 16 tanks, 2 armored vehicles and 8 other enemy vehicles at the village of Nizhnemytyakin, Tarasovsky district, Rostov region on July 13th, 1942.

I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians

2018

Romanian

7.3

♡ 4

92%

Radu Jude Director

Sofia Nicolaescu as

Ilinca Harnut as

Gabriel Spahiu as

Mihai Niculescu as

"I do not care if we go down in history as barbarians." These words, spoken in the Council of Ministers of the summer of 1941, started the ethnic cleansing on the Eastern Front. The film attempts to comment on this statement.