1940s movies

Female Agents (2008)

Sunday, June 6th, 2010
Genres: Drama | History
Countries: France
Actors: Marceau, Sophie | Depardieu, Julie | Gillain, Marie | François, Déborah | Bleibtreu, Moritz | Sansa, Maya | Boisselier, Julien | Rottiers, Vincent | Bruch, Volker | Renucci, Robin | Beauvois, Xavier | Reese, Colin David | Mash, Jurgen | Cecil, Conrad | Jazede, Alexandre
Directors: Salomé, Jean-Paul
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In May 1944, a group of French servicewomen and resistance fighters are enlisted into the British Special Operations Executive commando group under the command of Louise Desfontaines and her brother Pierre. Their mission, to rescue a British army geologist caught reconnoitering the beaches at Normandy, and to kill a German SS colonel who is close to figuring out the imminent secret of D-Day, proves to be emotional and brutal. The story is inspired by the accomplishments of decorated SOE agent Lisé de Baissac.

Good War, The (2002)

Sunday, June 6th, 2010
Genres: Drama | History | War
Countries: Italy | USA
Actors: Farrior, Robert | Scheider, Roy | Zingaretti, Luca | Riotta, Vincent | Cremin, Sue | Fathy, Charles | Judica, Giampiero | Miele, Luciano | Opinato, Mario | Jivkov, Christo | Loeb, Nicholas M. | Chakarova, Asya | Serafini, Laura
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Based on a true story its the untold story of Italian World War II POW”S in Jan 1946. Luca Zingaretti stars as one of over 50,000 Italian Prisoners of War detained at POW camps in the U.S. Roy Schneider stars as Colonel Gartner, the Commander of the camp. Things take a turn for the worse when Manin is brought back from his most recent escape by a patrol force, only to realize that the camp has been evacuated while he was gone. Gartner is forced to keep Manin at the camp until another patrol force can come pick him up. However, no one ever comes. The phone lines get cut, and the two men realize they are completely isolated from the outside world. It is up to each man now to escape the camp.An untold and rarely known fact of US held Italian POW”S

Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma (1975)

Sunday, June 6th, 2010
Genres: Drama | Horror | War
Countries: France | Italy
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Set in the Nazi-controlled, northern Italian state of Salo in 1944, four dignitaries round up sixteen perfect specimens of youth and take them together with guards, servants and studs to a palace near Marzabotto. In addition, there are four middle-aged women: three of whom recount arousing stories whilst the fourth accompanies on the piano. The story is largely taken up with their recounting the stories of Dante and De Sade: the Circle of Manias, the Circle of Shit and the Circle of Blood. Following this, the youths are executed whilst each libertine takes his turn as voyeur.

Black Dahlia, The (2006)

Sunday, June 6th, 2010
Genres: Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Hartnett, Josh | Johansson, Scarlett | Eckhart, Aaron | Swank, Hilary | Kirshner, Mia | Starr, Mike | Shaw, Fiona | Fischler, Patrick | Otis, James | Kavanagh, John | Evans, Troy | Russell, Anthony | Serna, Pepe | MacInnes, Angus | Miner, Rachel
Directors: De Palma, Brian
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The Black Dahlia is set in 1940s Los Angeles. Two cops, Bucky Bleichert (Josh Hartnett) and his partner, Lee Blanchard, investigate the death of Elizabeth Short, a young woman found brutally murdered. Bucky soon realizes that his girlfriend had ties to the deceased, and soon after that, he begins uncovering corruption and conspiracy within the police department.

Life Is Beautiful (1997)

Sunday, June 6th, 2010
Genres: Comedy | Drama | War
Countries: Italy
Actors: Benigni, Roberto | Braschi, Nicoletta | Durano, Giustino | Alfonsi, Lidia | Bini Bustric, Sergio | Lojodice, Giuliana | Fontani, Amerigo | De Silva, Pietro | Guzzo, Francesco | Lebboroni, Raffaella | Cantarini, Giorgio | Paredes, Marisa | Buchholz, Horst | Alfonsi, Claudio | Baroni, Gil
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In 1930s Italy, a carefree Jewish book keeper named Guido starts a fairy tale life by courting and marrying a lovely woman from a nearby city. Guido and his wife have a son and live happily together until the occupation of Italy by German forces. In an attempt to hold his family together and help his son survive the horrors of a Jewish Concentration Camp, Guido imagines that the Holocaust is a game and that the grand prize for winning is a tank.

Boat, The (1981)

Sunday, June 6th, 2010
Genres: Drama | War
Countries: West Germany
Actors: Prochnow, Jürgen | Grönemeyer, Herbert | Wennemann, Klaus | Bengsch, Hubertus | Semmelrogge, Martin | Tauber, Bernd | Leder, Erwin | May, Martin | Hoenig, Heinz | Ochsenknecht, Uwe | Rudolph, Claude-Oliver | Fedder, Jan | Richter, Ralf | Bernhard, Joachim | Stritzel, Oliver
Directors: Petersen, Wolfgang
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It is 1942 and the German submarine fleet is heavily engaged in the so called “Battle of the Atlantic” to harass and destroy English shipping. With better escorts of the Destroyer Class, however, German U-Boats have begun to take heavy losses. “Das Boot” is the story of one such U-Boat crew, with the film examining how these submariners maintained their professionalism as soldiers, attempted to accomplish impossible missions, while all the time attempting to understand and obey the ideology of the government under which they served.

Scoundrel’s Wife, The (2002)

Sunday, June 6th, 2010
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: O'Neal, Tatum | Sands, Julian | Curry, Tim | Chabert, Lacey | Bailey, Eion | McCullough, Patrick | Martin, Rudolf | Farrar, Lorna | McConnell, John | Spellerberg, Lance | Gerard, Kurt | Arata, Michael
Directors: Pitre, Glen
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Already an outcast for crimes she did not commit, a woman struggling to raise her two children in a small village during World War II is suspected of being a saboteur.

Amen. (2002)

Sunday, June 6th, 2010
Genres: Drama | War
Countries: France | Germany | Romania | USA
Actors: Tuker, Ulrich | Kassovitz, Mathieu | Mühe, Ulrich | Duchaussoy, Michel | Caramitru, Ion | Iures, Marcel | von Thun, Friedrich | Schmidt, Antje | Zischler, Hanns | Koch, Sebastian | Hallhuber, Erich | Heyl, Burkhard | MacInnes, Angus | Fischerauer, Bernd | Franckh, Pierre
Directors: Costa-Gavras
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Kurt Gerstein, a brilliant German scientist, is recruited into the SS during the opening years of the Second World War. Assigned as a sanitation engineer, Gerstein is sent to the Eastern Front to supervise water purification for the German Army. Soon after, however, he is asked to help with a “special project” involving fumigation of “vermin infested” areas behind the front lines. Gerstein develops Zyklon-B, a deadly chemical gas which Gerstein believes will be put to use killing rats, lice, and other disease carrying creatures. However, when Gerstein realizes that his invention will be used to kill not animals but people, he begins an emotional search of his Christian values and ultimately decides to betray the SS by attempting to expose the Holocaust by way of informing the Catholic Church.

Edges of the Lord (2001)

Sunday, June 6th, 2010
Genres: Crime | Drama | War
Countries: Poland | USA
Actors: Osment, Haley Joel | Dafoe, Willem | Hess, Liam | Banel, Richard | Lubaszenko, Olaf | Foremniak, Malgorzata | Grabowski, Andrzej | Vahonin, Chiril | Frycz, Ola | Piasecka, Dorota | Smolarz, Wojciech | Weglarski, Marek | Jurecka, Edyta | Ronczewski, Ryszard | Feldman, Krystyna
Directors: Bogayevicz, Yurek
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A young Jewish boy in Nazi occupied Poland hides with a family of Catholic peasants and a compassionate priest to escape Nazi forces.

Head in the Clouds (2004)

Sunday, June 6th, 2010
Genres: Drama | Romance | War
Countries: Canada | Spain | UK | USA
Actors: Theron, Charlize | Townsend, Stuart | | Berkoff, Steven | Penélope Cruz | La Haye, David
Directors: John Duigan
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HEAD IN THE CLOUDS is a sweeping romantic drama set in 1930’s England, Paris, and Spain. Gilda Bessé shares her Paris apartment with an Irish schoolteacher, Guy Malyon, and Mia, a refugee from Spain. As the world drifts toward war, Gilda defiantly pursues her hedonistic lifestyle and her burgeoning career as a photographer. But Guy and Mia feel impelled to join the fight against fascism, and the three friends are separated - seemingly forever.