After World War II the crew of a motor gunboat join together to buy their old vessel and go into business for themselves. This may sound like a laudable scheme, but the business they choose to go into is smuggling.

Instrument of War

2017

English

6.0

85%

Adam Thomas Anderegg Director

Andrea Deck as Anne Cline

Tomas Zaibus as German Soldier

Barney White as Jack Findlay

Elliot James Langridge as Reed 'Whit' Whitaker

When U.S. B-24 bomber pilot Clair Cline is shot down and captured in northern Germany, one war ends and another begins -- to keep hope alive. Now behind Nazi barbed wire and oppression, Cline and his fellow POW's must find a way to bond together to not just survive but transcend their captivity. Inspired by true events.

Westerplatte Resists

1967

Polish

7.0

♡ 3

Stanislaw Rózewicz Director

Bogusz Bilewski as Capt. Mieczyslaw Slaby, Medical Officer

Józef Nalberczak as Cpl. Edmund Szamlewski

Stefan Friedmann as Cpl. Stanislaw Trela

Marian Glinka as Pvt. Edward Rokicki

Westerplatte is a small peninsula at the entry to the Gdańsk Harbour. Before World War II, it functioned as a Polish ammunition depot in the Free City of Danzig. Its crew consisted of one infantry company and a group of civilians, 182 people in total. It was the only Polish guard-post at the mouth of the Vistula River, with as little as five sentries, one field cannon, two anti-armour guns and four mortars. The first shots of World War II were fired there. This film tells the story of Westerplatte's courageous defenders.

Betrayal

2023

Dutch

5.3

♡ 3

Dennis Bots Director

Nico van Gijn as Dutch Resistance

Laurent Cecillon as French SAS commando

Bert Olsder as Levi van Praag

Diana Olsder-Koers as Zarah van Praag

During the final months of World War II, a Nazi officer assigned to protect the war-torn frontline in the Netherlands decides to risk his life to protect a Jewish family in hiding.

The Good Traitor

2020

Danish

6.4

♡ 3

44%

Christina Rosendahl Director

Burn Gorman as Berle

Denise Gough as Charlotte Kauffmann

Henry Goodman as Franklin D. Roosevelt

Ulrich Thomsen as Henrik Kauffmann

The Danish ambassador to Washington declares himself to be the sole representative of a free Denmark during the Nazi occupation of the country.

The Longest Day

1962

English

7.7

♡ 57

83%

90%

Action

allies

based on a true story

Ken Annakin Director

Bernard Fresson as French Commando

Howard Marion-Crawford as Glider Doctor

Tom Tryon as Lt. Wilson

Sean Connery as Pvt. Flanagan

The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that when the Allied invasion comes they must be stopped on the beach. "For the Allies as well as the Germans, it will be the longest day"

Warsaw: A City Divided

2019

Polish

7.4

♡ 4

Documentary

History

holocaust (shoah)

holocaust (shoah) survivor

Eric Bednarski Director

Adam Bauman as Lectour

Justyna Gardzinska as Lectour

Jaroslaw Lukomski as Lectour

The history of the Warsaw Ghetto (1940-43) as seen from both sides of the wall, its legacy and its memory: new light on a tragic era of division, destruction and mass murder thanks to the testimony of survivors and the discovery of a ten-minute film shot by Polish amateur filmmaker Alfons Ziółkowski in 1941.

Divided We Fall

2000

Czech

7.6

♡ 5

90%

Action

based on novel or book

Jan Hrebejk Director

Bolek Polívka as Josef Cízek

Simona Stasová as Libuse Simácková

Otto Sevcík as SS Offcier

Vladimír Marek as SS Officer

In 1943, a childless couple, the Čížeks, decide to hide a Jewish refugee, David Wiener, the son of Čížek's former employer, in the secret pantry of their apartment. Čížek is aware of the danger into which he has brought his household and his neighbours, but he takes helping his fellow man in need for granted. But at the same time, as a largely unheroic hero, he is dying of fear. His personal situation is greatly complicated by the approaching end of the war, when he faces danger from both the Germans and his "honest" fellow Czechs...

Before the Fall

2004

German

7.4

♡ 13

67%

Dennis Gansel Director

Tom Schilling as Albrecht Stein

Justus von Dohnányi as Gauleiter Heinrich Stein

Götz Schubert as SS-Führer

Dennis Gansel as Trainer Boxverein

In 1942, Friedrich Weimer's boxing skills get him an appointment to a National Political Academy (NaPolA) – high schools that produce Nazi elite. Over his father's objections, Friedrich enrolls. During his year in seventh column, Friedrich encounters hazing, cruelty, death, and the Nazi code. His friendship with Albrecht, the ascetic son of the area's governor, is central to this education.

Omoiyari: A Song Film by Kishi Bashi

2022

English

8.2

100%

japanese american internment

Violinist and songwriter Kishi Bashi travels on a musical journey to understand WWII era Japanese Incarceration, assimilation, and what it means to be a minority in America today.

Arcadia of My Youth

1982

Japanese

7.0

♡ 12

77%

Tomoharu Katsumata Director

Hideyuki Tanaka as Additional Voices

Mugihito as Additional Voices

Makio Inoue as Captain Harlock / Phantom F. Harlock II

Kôji Yada as Illumidas Officer

Space captain Harlock, the latest in a family of proud aerial warriors, begins his journey to free the oppressed Earth from the despotic Illumidas Command.

The Bridge at Remagen

1969

English

6.7

♡ 16

20%

John Guillermin Director

Hans Christian Blech as Capt. Carl Schmidt

Tom Heaton as Lt. Pattison

Robert Logan as Pvt. Bissell

Ben Gazzara as Sgt. Angelo

In March of 1945, as the War in Europe is coming to a close, fighting erupts between German and American troops at the last remaining bridgehead across the Rhine.

The Sorrow and the Pity

1969

French

8.1

♡ 1

100%

nazi collaborationism

Marcel Ophüls Director

Adolf Hitler as Self

Maurice Chevalier as Self - Denies Making Tour of Germany

Marcel Ophüls as Self, interviewer

Anthony Eden as Self, Winston Churchill's foreign Secretary 1940-1945

An investigation into the nature, details and reasons for the collaboration between France’s Vichy government and Nazi Germany from 1940 to 1944.

Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At!

1966

French

7.9

♡ 17

94%

Gérard Oury Director

Marie Dubois as Juliette

Helmuth Schneider as L'officier allemand dans le train

Claudio Brook as Peter Cunningham

Louis de Funès as Stanislas Lefort

During World War II, two French civilians and a downed British Bomber Crew set out from Paris to cross the demarcation line between Nazi-occupied Northern France and the South. From there they will be able to escape to England. First, they must avoid German troops – and the consequences of their own blunders.

Storming Juno

2010

English

6.6

♡ 14

59%

Tim Wolochatiuk Director

Kevin Jake Walker as Hartigan

Michael James Regan as LCA Soldier

Craig Cyr as Sgt. Armstrong

Alden Adair as Sgt. MacPhee

A landmark WWII docudrama, told through the eyes of three young Canadians, chronicling the events of the Allied invasion of Juno Beach on June 6, 1944 - otherwise known as D-Day.

Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison

1957

English

7.3

♡ 7

83%

roman catholic church

War

world war ii

John Huston Director

Robert Mitchum as Corporal Allison USMC

Deborah Kerr as Sister Angela

A Roman Catholic nun and a hard-bitten US Marine are stranded together on a Japanese-occupied island in the South Pacific during World War II. Under constant threat of discovery by a ruthless enemy, they hide in a cave and forage for food together. Their forced companionship and the struggle for survival forge a powerful emotional bond between them.

Mother Night

1996

English

7.1

♡ 11

68%

Keith Gordon Director

Arye Gross as Dr. Abraham Epstein

John Goodman as Major Frank Wirtanen

Thomas Hauff as SS Officer

Kirsten Dunst as Young Resi Noth

An American spy behind the lines during WWII serves as a Nazi propagandist, a role he cannot escape in his future life as he can never reveal his real role in the war.

The 12th Man

2017

Norwegian

♡ 89

86%

82%

Action

based on a true story

based on novel or book

Harald Zwart Director

Trond Peter Stamsø Munch as Aslak Fossvoll

Harry Van Gorkum as Commander Crawley

Jonathan Rhys Meyers as Kurt Stage

Mads Sjøgård Pettersen as Marius Grønvoll

After a failed anti-Nazi sabotage mission leaves his eleven comrades dead, a Norwegian resistance fighter finds himself fleeing the Gestapo through the snowbound reaches of Scandinavia.

Passport to Pimlico

1949

English

7.1

♡ 8

94%

83%

Comedy

food rationing

political negotiations

Henry Cornelius Director

Betty Warren as Connie Pemberton

Basil Radford as Gregg

Jimmy Charters as Man Eating Jellied Eels

Sam Kydd as Sapper

When an unexploded WWII bomb is accidentally detonated in Pimlico, it reveals a treasure trove and documents proving that the region is in fact part of Burgundy, France and thus foreign territory. The British government attempts to regain control by setting up border controls and cutting off services to the area.