Yang Zirong disguises himself as a bandit to infiltrate and destroy a bandit group. He joins hands with a hostage, and together, they fight against the warlord, Hawk.

I Saw the Light

2015

English

5.8

♡ 38

19%

Marc Abraham Director

Elizabeth Olsen as Audrey Williams

Tom Hiddleston as Hank Williams

David Krumholtz as James Dolan

James DuMont as Mayor W.B. Nolin

Singer and songwriter Hank Williams rises to fame in the 1940s, but alcohol abuse and infidelity take a toll on his career and marriage to fellow musician Audrey Mae Williams.

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.

Road to Boston

2023

Korean

7.1

♡ 4

85%

japanese occupation of korea

marathon

Sport

Je-kyu Kang Director

Eun-bin Park as (as Eun-bin Park)

Ron Roggé as Harris

Jung-woo Ha as Kee-Jung Son

Si-wan Im as Yun-Bok Suh

A rousing tale of the Korean athletes who ran the 1947 Boston International Marathon, the first international marathon held since World War II.

Sophie and the Rising Sun

2016

English

6.7

♡ 10

75%

61%

1940s

Action

based on novel or book

Drama

interracial relationship

south carolina

woman director

world war ii

Maggie Greenwald Director

Diane Ladd as Ruth Jeffers

Lorraine Toussaint as Salome Whitmore

Ben VanderMey as Soldier

Julianne Nicholson as Sophie Willis

In a small Southern town in the autumn of 1941, Sophie’s lonely life is transformed when an Asian man arrives under mysterious circumstances. Their love affair becomes the lightning rod for long-buried conflicts that erupt in bigotry and violence with the outbreak of World War ll.

Herod's Law

1999

Spanish

7.8

♡ 6

68%

Luis Estrada Director

Maya Zapata as Chencha

Isela Vega as Doña Lupe

Alex Cox as Gringo

Salvador Sánchez as Pek

In the 1940s, a small Mexican town has seen its last three mayors assassinated in rapid succession. A naive janitor is recruited to become the new mayor, and he believes he will modernize the little town and usher in a reign of peace. But the system corrupts him very quickly, and he takes to abusing his power while associating with an unscrupulous assortment of opportunists, hypocrites and criminals.

Saints and Soldiers: Airborne Creed

2012

English

5.7

♡ 6

55%

Ryan Little Director

Nichelle Aiden as Charlotte

Corbin Allred as Cpl. James Rossi

Ivan R. Bird as French Partisan #2

Nate Harward as German Motorcycle Driver

On August 15, 1944 the 517th Parachute Regimental Combat Team (PRCT) jumped over the south of France. Their mission was to support and protect the Allied Troops marching to Berlin. Landing in enemy territory, they fell under immediate attack. In their effort to complete the mission and rendez-vous with their unit, three isolated paratroopers come across a group of French resistants in desperate need. They decide to help liberate some of the captive Partisans. Doing so they will risk their lives.

Bardejov

2024

English

4.9

♡ 2

100%

1940s

Action

based on true story

concentration camp prisoner

History

War

world war ii

Danny A. Abeckaser Director

Emil A. Fish as

Danny A. Abeckaser as Dr. Atlas

Robert Davi as Lowey

Yigael Sachs as Rabbi Halberstam

The story of Holocaust survivor Emil A. Fish, who was nine years old when he and his family in Bardejov, Slovakia were sent to a concentration camp.

O Jerusalem

2006

French

6.0

♡ 1

38%

Élie Chouraqui Director

Ian Holm as Ben Gurion

JJ Feild as Bobby Goldman

Matthew Marsh as Sir Gordon

Liron Levo as Yoel

A tale of friendship between two men, one Jewish and the other Arab, as the state of Israel is being created.

The Young Lions

1958

English

7.1

♡ 21

75%

Edward Dmytryk Director

Gene Roth as Bavarian Café Manager

Maximilian Schell as Capt. Hardenberg

Michael Pataki as Pvt. Hagstrom

Robert Ellenstein as Rabbi Joseph Silverstein

The lives of three young men, a German and two Americans, during WWII.

Red Sorghum

1988

Chinese

7.3

♡ 14

85%

83%

1940s

Action

based on novel or book

distillery

Drama

History

japanese occupation of china

Yimou Zhang Director

Yimou Zhang as

Hongguang Wang as Li Gong

Li Gong as Wo Nainai

Wen Jiang as Wo Yeye

An old leper who owned a remote sorghum winery dies. Jiu'er, the wife bought by the leper, and her lover, identified only as "my Grandpa" by the narrator, take over the winery and set up an idealized quasi-matriarchal community headed by Jiu'er. When the Japanese invaders subject the area to their rule and cut down the sorghum to make way for a road, the community rises up and resists as the sorghum grows anew.

Hidden Blade

2023

Chinese

6.3

♡ 7

67%

japanese occupation of china

Thriller

undercover agent

Er Cheng Director

Han Shumei as

Minowa Yasufumi as

Tony Chiu Wai Leung as Mr. He

Xun Zhou as Ms. Chen

Follows the story of underground workers who risked their lives to send intelligence and defend the motherland, set after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor when the Wang Jingwei regime declared war on Britain and the U.S.

Emitai

1971

Wolof

7.1

♡ 6

Ousmane Sembene Director

Fode Cambay as

Etienne Mane as

Joseph Diatta as

Cherif Tamba as

As World War II rages in Europe, a conflict arises between the French and the Diola-speaking tribe of Africa, prompting the village women to organize their men to sit beneath a tree to pray.

Robbing Mussolini

2022

Italian

5.4

♡ 15

45%

Renato De Maria Director

Matilda De Angelis as

Filippo Timi as

Pietro Castellitto as

Giorgio Antonini as Leonida

Near the end of WWII, a young bootlegger and his nightclub-singing girlfriend assemble a ragtag team for an dangerous heist: to steal Mussolini's treasure right from his headquarters.

Murder Company

2024

English

3.6

♡ 12

67%

Shane Dax Taylor Director

Pooch Hall as Coolidge

Gilles Marini as Daquin

Kelsey Grammer as General Haskel

Ian Niles as Miller

In the midst of the D-Day invasion, a group of US soldiers are given orders to smuggle a member of the French Resistance behind enemy lines to assassinate a high-value Nazi target.

Diplomacy

2014

French

7.1

♡ 12

94%

Volker Schlöndorff Director

Niels Arestrup as General Dietrich von Choltitz

Paula Beer as Ingrid

Marie Dompnier as La dame maquillée

Attila Borlan as Officier SS #2

On the night of August 24, 1944, the fate of Paris rests with General von Choltitz, who plans to destroy the city on Hitler's orders. As the general prepares to detonate explosives throughout the capital, Swedish consul Raoul Nordling uses diplomacy in a desperate bid to convince him to defy the orders and save Paris.

The Crossing 2

2015

Chinese

6.0

♡ 10

32%

John Woo Director

Hitomi Kuroki as

Bowie Lam as

Takeshi Kaneshiro as Yan Zekun

Hye-Kyo Song as Zhou Yunfen

A story of three couples and their intertwining love stories set in 1940s Taiwan and Shanghai, centered around the 1949 sinking of Taiping.

A Royal Night Out

2015

English

6.5

♡ 13

74%

Julian Jarrold Director

Sarah Gadon as Elizabeth

Sophia Di Martino as Phoebe

Emily Watson as Queen

Rab Affleck as Raymond

The re-imagining of VE Day in 1945, when Princess Elizabeth and her sister, Margaret were allowed out from Buckingham Palace for the night to join in the celebrations, and encounter romance and danger.

Vermiglio

2024

Italian

6.9

♡ 12

93%

Maura Delpero Director

Sara Serraiocco as

Roberta Rovelli as Adele

Tommaso Ragno as Cesare

Orietta Notari as Zia Cesira

Set in the small, mountainous village of Vermiglio during the waning days of WWII, a series of dramatic, consequential events unfold after the arrival of a taciturn Sicilian soldier, who hides out in town after deserting the army. While there, the soldier develops a romance with a provincial family’s eldest daughter.

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O Jerusalem

The Young Lions

Red Sorghum

Hidden Blade

Emitai

Robbing Mussolini

Murder Company

Diplomacy

The Crossing 2

A Royal Night Out

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