At the start of World War II, Cmdr. Ericson is assigned to convoy escort HMS Compass Rose with inexperienced officers and men just out of training. The winter seas make life miserable enough, but the men must also harden themselves to rescuing survivors of U-Boat attacks, while seldom able to strike back. Traumatic events afloat and ashore create a warm bond between the skipper and his first officer

Absent

2015

Romanian

6.1

♡ 1

Matthew Mishory Director

For over a hundred years, Mărculești was a vibrant Jewish agricultural and mercantile community in Bessarabia (now present-day Moldova). In July 1941, the village was the site of an unimaginable atrocity. Seventy-three years later, few speak honestly or completely about what happened. ABSENT is a cinematic portrait of the ghost village of Mărculești, its current inhabitants, and their very complex relationship to their own history. Filmed entirely on location, the film documents one of Europe's poorest, most remote, and least-visited places.

Bedknobs and Broomsticks

1971

English

7.1

♡ 39

66%

live action and animation

Robert Stevenson Director

Sam Jaffe as Bookman

John Ericson as Col. Heller

Roddy McDowall as Mr. Jelk

Hank Worden as Old Home Guardsman

Three children evacuated from London during World War II are forced to stay with an eccentric spinster. The children's initial fears disappear when they find out she is in fact a trainee witch.

Operation Finale

2018

English

6.6

♡ 50

60%

67%

Action

adolf eichmann

based on a true story

Chris Weitz Director

Ben Kingsley as Adolph Eichmann

Rainer Reiners as Fritz Bauer

Oscar Isaac as Peter Malkin

Haley Lu Richardson as Sylvia Hermann

In 1960, a team of Israeli secret agents is deployed to find Adolf Eichmann, the infamous Nazi architect of the Holocaust, supposedly hidden in Argentina, and get him to Israel to be judged.

Sophie Scholl: The Final Days

2005

German

7.6

♡ 7

87%

Marc Rothemund Director

Franco Moscon as Gestapo Officer

Paul Herwig as Rechtsanwalt August Klein

André Hennicke as Roland Freisler

Maria Hofstätter as Wärterin

In 1943, as Hitler continues to wage war across Europe, a group of college students mount an underground resistance movement in Munich. Dedicated expressly to the downfall of the monolithic Third Reich war machine, they call themselves the White Rose. One of its few female members, Sophie Scholl is captured during a dangerous mission to distribute pamphlets on campus with her brother Hans. Unwavering in her convictions and loyalty to the White Rose, her cross-examination by the Gestapo quickly escalates into a searing test of wills as Scholl delivers a passionate call to freedom and personal responsibility.

My Best Friend Anne Frank

2021

Dutch

6.3

♡ 9

63%

68%

Action

anne frank

based on a true story

based on true story

Drama

world war ii

Ben Sombogaart Director

Balázs Veres as Drunk Officer

Zsolt Trill as Fritz

Björn Freiberg as Officer Bruno

Stefan de Walle as Vader Frank

Based on the real-life friendship between Anne Frank and Hannah Goslar, from Nazi-occupied Amsterdam to their harrowing reunion in a concentration camp.

The Fox

2022

German

7.1

♡ 9

Adrian Goiginger Director

Cornelius Obonya as Doktor

Alexander Beyer as Hauptmann Glück

Pit Bukowski as Jokesch

Karl Markovics as Josef Streitberger

At the dawn of World War II, a young motorcycle courier in the Austrian army encounters a wounded fox cub and takes it with him to occupied France. The soldier and the fox develop an unlikely bond. Based on the true story of Franz Streitberger, director Adrian Goiginger’s great-grandfather.

The Fighter Pilot

2013

Japanese

7.3

♡ 9

Takashi Yamazaki Director

Tarô Suruga as

Takehiro Hira as

Kazue Fukiishi as Keiko

Jun Fubuki as Kiyoko

A brother and sister learn their biological grandfather was a kamikaze pilot who died during World War II. During their research into his life, they get conflicting accounts from his former comrades about his character and how he joined his squadron.

Alien Endgame

2022

English

4.7

♡ 3

central intelligence agency (cia)

Documentary

extraterrestrial technology

interview

job interview

los angeles, california

world war ii

In 2021, a Pentagon report revealed what the US government had denied for decades -- UFOs are real and may even pose a threat to our planet. Now, ex-military members break their silence about the massive cover-up. Are we prepared for an alien invasion?

Barefoot Gen

1983

Japanese

8.0

♡ 15

71%

Mori Masaki Director

Taeko Nakanishi as Hana

Yoshie Shimamura as Kimie

Kôji Yada as Walla

Kôji Totani as Walla

A story about the effect of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on a boy's life and the lives of the Japanese people.

Tom of Finland

2017

Finnish

6.8

♡ 26

83%

Dome Karukoski Director

Jakob Oftebro as Jack

Werner Daehn as Müller

Pekka Strang as Touko Laaksonen aka Tom of Finland

Lauri Tilkanen as Veli

Touko Laaksonen, a decorated officer, returns home after a harrowing and heroic experience serving his country in World War II, but life in Finland during peacetime proves equally distressing. He finds peace-time Helsinki rampant with persecution of the homosexual and men around him even being pressured to marry women and have children. Touko finds refuge in his liberating art, specialising in homoerotic drawings of muscular men, free of inhibitions. His work – made famous by his signature ‘Tom of Finland’ – became the emblem of a generation of men and fanned the flames of a gay revolution.

The Third Part of the Night

1971

Polish

7.3

♡ 25

89%

Andrzej Zulawski Director

Leszek Dlugosz as

Janina Ordezanka as

Jerzy Golinski as Michal's father

Anna Milewska as Sister Klara

Set during the Nazi occupation of Poland, the story follows Michał, who witnesses the murder of his mother, wife and child and then is hurled into a life that literally is not his own; a surreal world littered with trapdoors, doppelgängers and wormholes.

Bawaal

2023

Hindi

6.6

♡ 13

21%

Nitesh Tiwari Director

Varun Dhawan as Ajay Dixit

Manoj Pahwa as Ajju's Father

Mukesh Tiwari as MLA

Janhvi Kapoor as Nisha

Ajay Dixit, an ordinary history teacher in a high school, enjoys mini celebrityhood in his town courtesy of the fake image he has built. He shares a strained relationship with his newly-wed wife. Circumstances force him to take a trip to Europe for the World War II trail accompanied by his wife. Will his relationship with his wife survive this trip? Will he manage to win the war within?

Map of the Human Heart

1992

English

7.0

♡ 7

Adventure

arctic polar circle region

Vincent Ward Director

Anne Parillaud as Albertine

Ben Mendelsohn as Farmboy

Richard Zeman as MP

John Cusack as The Mapmaker

In an Arctic village in 1931, British mapmaker Walter Russell selects 12-year-old Eskimo Avik as his guide. When the boy contracts tuberculosis, Walter flies him to a Montreal hospital, where Avik meets Albertine and is infatuated. A decade later, a grown Avik encounters Albertine again in London, where he's serving as a British combat pilot. Despite her relationship with Walter, she and Avik begin an affair.

The Tuskegee Airmen

1995

English

7.1

♡ 26

86%

79%

Action

african american history

Robert Markowitz Director

Laurence Fishburne as Hannibal Lee

Janet MacLachlan as Hannibal's Mother

Courtney B. Vance as Lt. Glenn

John Lithgow as Senator Conyers

During the Second World War, a special project is begun by the US Army Air Corps to integrate African American pilots into the Fighter Pilot Program. Known as the "Tuskegee Airman" for the name of the airbase at which they were trained, these men were forced to constantly endure harassement, prejudice, and much behind the scenes politics until at last they were able to prove themselves in combat.

Their Finest

2016

English

♡ 60

90%

72%

Action

based on novel or book

Lone Scherfig Director

Bill Nighy as Ambrose Hilliard

Jake Lacy as Carl Lundbeck

Gemma Arterton as Catrin Cole

Sam Claflin as Tom Buckley

During the Blitz of World War II, a female screenwriter works on a film celebrating England's resilience as a way to buoy a weary populace's spirits. Her efforts to dramatise the true story of two sisters who undertook their own maritime mission to rescue wounded soldiers are met with mixed feelings by a dismissive all-male staff.

What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?

1966

English

6.6

♡ 4

50%

Blake Edwards Director

Leon Askin as Col. Kastorp

James Coburn as Lt. Christian

William Bryant as Minow

Aldo Ray as Sgt. Rizzo

A by-the-book Captain is ordered to capture a strategic village in Italy. The Italian soldiers are willing to surrender, if they can have a festival first. The lieutenant convinces the Captain this is the only way. Because of aerial reconnaissance, they must look like they are fighting. To sort this out an intelligence officer is sent in. Meanwhile the festival gets complicated with the Mayors daughter.

Halls of Montezuma

1951

English

6.6

♡ 8

88%

Lewis Milestone Director

Karl Malden as Doc

Edward Binns as First Soldier in Final Tracking Shot

Joe Turkel as Marine

Robert Wagner as Private Coffman

Richard Widmark leads an all star cast of marine leathernecks including Jack Palance, Robert Wagner, Karl Malden, Richard Boone and Jack Webb into battle on a heavily fortified island. This action-packed story follows the squad as they pick their way through enemy-infested jungles on a time sensitive mission to find the source of the enemy rockets. As the mission progresses, the squad and leader overcome many challenges as they are transformed into an effective and efficient fighting unit.

U-571

2000

English

6.6

♡ 52

67%

Jonathan Mostow Director

Burnell Tucker as Adm. Duke

Harvey Keitel as CPO Henry Klough

Matthew McConaughey as Lt. Andrew Tyler

Rebecca Tilney as Mrs. Dahlgren

In the midst of World War II, the battle under the sea rages and the Nazis have the upper hand as the Allies are unable to crack their war codes. However, after a wrecked U-boat sends out an SOS signal, the Allies realise this is their chance to seize the 'enigma coding machine'.

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Alien Endgame

Barefoot Gen

Tom of Finland

The Third Part of the Night

Bawaal

Map of the Human Heart

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Their Finest

What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?

Halls of Montezuma

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