At the beginning of the 1940s, in a France occupied by Nazi forces, lived the Jewish Joffo family. Happy and tight-knit, she sees her future darken when all members of the family are forced to wear the yellow star. Fearing the worst, the parents organized their family to flee to the free zone in the south of the country. Maurice, twelve years old, and Joseph, ten years old, will therefore leave alone in order to maximize their chances of finding their older brothers already settled in Nice. The brothers left to their own devices demonstrate an incredible amount of cleverness, courage, and ingenuity to escape the enemy invasion and to try to reunite their family once again.

Falling in Love Again

1980

English

5.0

Steven Paul Director

Terrence Evans as Beaver

Elliott Gould as Harry Lewis

Susannah York as Sue Lewis

Michelle Pfeiffer as Sue Wellington

Harry and Sue Lewis met in the 40s as teenagers living in the Bronx. He was an aspiring architect, she was the most beautiful girl in school, and both had a fondness for bran muffins. They fell in love, got married, moved to Los Angeles, and had two kids. While struggling with his midlife crisis, Harry receives an invitation for his high school's reunion back so he takes Sue and their teenage kids on a cross-country car trip back to the Big Apple. Will they see in the Bronx what they expected? Will the good memories from their past help rekindle their fading love? Is it too late to dream?

Gangster Squad

2013

English

6.7

♡ 171

30%

los angeles, california

tense

Thriller

Ruben Fleischer Director

Emma Stone as Grace Faraday

John Aylward as Judge Carter

Robert Patrick as Officer Max Kennard

Ryan Gosling as Sgt. Jerry Wooters

Los Angeles, 1949. Ruthless, Brooklyn-born mob king Mickey Cohen runs the show in this town, reaping the ill-gotten gains from the drugs, the guns, the prostitutes and — if he has his way — every wire bet placed west of Chicago. And he does it all with the protection of not only his own paid goons, but also the police and the politicians who are under his control. It’s enough to intimidate even the bravest, street-hardened cop… except, perhaps, for the small, secret crew of LAPD outsiders led by Sgt. John O’Mara and Jerry Wooters who come together to try to tear Cohen’s world apart.

Land of Mine

2015

Danish

♡ 59

91%

Martin Zandvliet Director

Laura Bro as Karin

Mikkel Boe Følsgaard as Lt. Ebbe Jensen

Louis Hofmann as Sebastian Schumann

Roland Møller as Sgt. Carl Rasmussen

In the days following the surrender of Germany in May 1945, a group of young German prisoners of war is handed over to the Danish authorities and subsequently sent to the West Coast, where they are ordered to remove the more than two million mines that the Germans had placed in the sand along the coast. With their bare hands, crawling around in the sand, the boys are forced to perform the dangerous work under the leadership of a Danish sergeant.

Resistance: They Fought Back

2024

English

7.5

100%

Kirk Wolfinger Director

Corey Stoll as Abba Kovner

Mark Zeisler as Emanuel Ringelblum

Romy Rosemont as Esther Raab

Michael Berenbaum as Self - American Jewish University

Maggie Siff as Vladka Meed

We’ve all heard of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, but most people have no idea how widespread and prevalent Jewish resistance to Nazi barbarism was. Instead, it’s widely believed “Jews went to their deaths like sheep to the slaughter.” Filmed in Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Israel, and the U.S., Resistance – They Fought Back provides a much-needed corrective to this myth of Jewish passivity. There were uprisings in ghettos large and small, rebellions in death camps, and thousands of Jews fought Nazis in the forests. Everywhere in Eastern Europe, Jews waged campaigns of non-violent resistance against the Nazis.

The World Will Tremble

2025

English

6.5

♡ 5

93%

Lior Geller Director

Jeremy Neumark Jones as Michael

Kitodar Todorov as Polish Man

Anton Lesser as Rabbi Schulman

Oliver Jackson-Cohen as Solomon

The incredible, untold true story of how a group of prisoners attempt a seemingly impossible escape from the first Nazi death camp in order to provide the first eyewitness account of the Holocaust.

Emperor

2012

English

6.5

♡ 31

31%

Peter Webber Director

Will Wallace as CIC Commander

Tommy Lee Jones as General Douglas MacArthur

Masatô Ibu as Koichi Kido

Kaori Momoi as Mitsuko Kajima

As the Japanese surrender at the end of WWII, Gen. Fellers is tasked with deciding if Emperor Hirohito will be hanged as a war criminal. Influencing his ruling is his quest to find Aya, an exchange student he met years earlier in the U.S.

Shanghai Blues

1984

Cn

7.0

♡ 5

64%

Hark Tsui Director

Ken Boyle as Rude Caucasian

Sylvia Chang as Shu-Shu

Sally Yeh as Stool

Kenny Bee as Tung Kwok-Man

In 1937 Shanghai, a soon-to-depart soldier meets a young woman under a bridge during a Japanese air raid. They vow to meet after the war ends, but they don't know each other's name or face. Ten years later, the young woman, a nightclub singer, takes in a naive girl fresh from the country. The country girl falls in love with the would-be song-writer upstairs who, unbeknownst to the singer, is none other than the soldier from the bridge.

A Day in October

1991

Danish

6.4

♡ 1

25%

Kenneth Madsen Director

Tovah Feldshuh as Emma Kublitz

D.B. Sweeney as Niels Jensen

Morten Suurballe as Peter

Kelly Wolf as Sara Kublitz

During the month of October 1943, the Danish resistance movement and just plain ordinary citizens joined together in staging a mass exodus by fishing boats to neutral Sweden of their Jewish countrymen, practically on the eve of the Nazi's planned round-up and delivery to concentration camps of all Jews. Story is told from the point of view of one Jewish family.

The Children's Train

2024

Italian

7.4

♡ 9

92%

1940s

based on novel or book

Cristina Comencini Director

Dora Romano as

Monica Nappo as

Alistair McKenzie as Alicide

Barbara Ronchi as Derna

In late 1940s Italy, a mother makes the difficult decision to send her son to the north, where he catches glimpses of a new life away from poverty.

Irena's Vow

2023

English

6.7

♡ 31

86%

Louise Archambault Director

Eryk Kulm as Abram Klinger

Sophie Nélisse as Irena Gut Opdyke

Dougray Scott as Rugmer

Andrzej Seweryn as Schultz

19 year old Irena Gut is promoted to housekeeper in the home of a highly respected Nazi officer in Poland when she finds out that the Jewish ghetto is about to be liquidated. Determined to help twelve Jewish workers, she decides to shelter them in the safest place she can think of – the basement of the German Major's house. Over the next eight months, Irena uses her wit, humour and immense courage to hide her friends as long as possible.

Peyton Place

1957

English

7.2

♡ 6

65%

73%

1940s

based on novel or book

Mark Robson Director

Terry Moore as Betty Anderson

Robert Adler as Jury Foreman

Lee Philips as Michael Rossi

Barry Coe as Rodney Harrington

In the outwardly respectable New England community of Peyton Place, shopkeeper Constance McKenzie tries to make up for a past indiscretion -- which resulted in her illegitimate daughter Allison -- by adopting a chaste, prudish attitude towards all things sexual. In spite of herself, Constance can't help but be attracted to handsome new teacher Michael Rossi. Meanwhile, the restless Allison, who'd like to be as footloose and fancy-free as the town's "fast girl" Betty Anderson, falls sincerely in love with mixed-up mama's boy Norman Page.

Bonhoeffer: Pastor. Spy. Assassin.

2024

English

6.2

♡ 15

66%

Todd Komarnicki Director

Katharina Heyer as Else Niemoller

Flula Borg as Hans Dohnanyi

Simon Licht as Herman Punder

Felix von Bredow as Rudolf-Christoph Von Gersdorff

As the world teeters on the brink of annihilation, Dietrich Bonhoeffer joins a deadly plot to assassinate Hitler, risking his faith and fate to save millions of Jews from genocide.

The Water Horse

2007

English

6.4

♡ 93

1940s

Action

Adventure

based on children's book

Jay Russell Director

Emily Watson as Anne MacMorrow

Brian Cox as Old Angus

Jason Hood as Scottish Officer

Marshall Napier as Sgt. Strunk

A lonely boy discovers a mysterious egg that hatches a sea creature of Scottish legend.

Jacquot of Nantes

1991

French

7.6

♡ 6

Agnès Varda Director

Jacques Demy as Jacques Demy

Philippe Maron as Jacquot 1

Brigitte De Villepoix as Marilou, la mere

Daniel Dublet as Raymond, le pere

Jacquot Demy, the son of a garage owner and a hairdresser, is fascinated by cinema and decides to pursue his dream of becoming a filmmaker by any means necessary.

My Childhood

1972

English

7.3

♡ 7

89%

Bill Douglas Director

Helen Rae as Bus Conductress

Ann Smith as Jamie's Mother

Eileen McCallum as Nurse

Helen Crummy as Schoolteacher

The first part of Bill Douglas' influential trilogy harks back to his impoverished upbringing in early-'40s Scotland. Cinema was his only escape - he paid for it with the money he made from returning empty jam jars - and this escape is reflected most closely at this time of his life as an eight-year-old living on the breadline with his half-brother and sick grandmother in a poor mining village.

There's Still Tomorrow

2023

Italian

7.7

♡ 9

89%

Paola Cortellesi Director

Armando De Razza as Commendator Fiacchini

Paola Cortellesi as Delia

Valerio Mastandrea as Ivano Santucci

Vinicio Marchioni as Nino

In postwar Rome, a working-class woman dreams of a better future for herself and her daughter while facing abuse at the hands of her domineering husband. When a mysterious letter arrives, she discovers the courage to change the circumstances of her life.

Battle Over Britain

2023

English

4.0

♡ 8

9%

Callum Burn Director

Arnold Voysey as Andrew Sharp

Hannah Harris as Nancy White

Sam Parsons as Pilot Officer Frater

Ryan Gooyear as Sgt

A young pilot, fresh out of training, is called to join a Flight while they wait for the call to scramble. Throughout a single day, he witnesses the skies of southern England filled with deadly dog fights, and after every exhausting battle the men return to their dispersal hut, only to find another of their number missing. Unwilling to surrender, the pilot and his comrades unite to take to the skies once more, determined to defend not only the airfield, but their entire country.

Battle of Britain

1969

English

7.0

♡ 32

67%

based on a true story

Guy Hamilton Director

Trevor Howard as Air Vice Marshal Keith Park

Ian McShane as Sgt. Pilot Andy

Michael Caine as Squadron Leader Canfield

Aileen Lewis as Woman in Air Raid Shelter

In 1940, the Royal Air Force fights a desperate battle against the might of the Luftwaffe for control of the skies over Britain, thus preventing an attempted Nazi invasion.

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The Children's Train

Irena's Vow

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Bonhoeffer: Pastor. Spy. Assassin.

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Jacquot of Nantes

My Childhood

There's Still Tomorrow

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