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89
8.4
/26990/
82
/448/
80
/582/
4.3
/16728/
94
/62/
98
/603/
89
/28/

The Best of Youth (2003)
After a fateful encounter in the summer of 1966, the lifepaths of two brothers from a middle-class Roman family diverge, intersecting with some of the most significant events of postwar Italian history in the following decades.
poster
Fandor
89
8.2
/21093/
80
/445/
80
/449/
4.3
/57652/
100
/25/
92
/256/
93
/18/

Late Spring (1949)
Noriko is perfectly happy living at home with her widowed father, Shukichi, and has no plans to marry -- that is, until her aunt Masa convinces Shukichi that unless he marries off his 27-year-old daughter soon, she will likely remain alone for the rest of her life. When Noriko resists Masa's matchmaking, Shukichi is forced to deceive his daughter and sacrifice his own happiness to do what he believes is right.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
88
8.1
/192964/
78
/3019/
79
/2014/
4.2
/174084/
99
/97/
93
/3386/
97
/30/
cc age 13+

The Third Man (1949)
In postwar Vienna, Austria, Holly Martins, a writer of pulp Westerns, arrives penniless as a guest of his childhood chum Harry Lime, only to learn he has died. Martins develops a conspiracy theory after learning of a "third man" present at the time of Harry's death, running into interference from British officer Major Calloway, and falling head-over-heels for Harry's grief-stricken lover, Anna.
poster
Criterion Channel
85
7.9
/56514/
79
/1077/
79
/1039/
4.3
/164883/
100
/30/
91
/543/
82
/14/

Mirror (1975)
A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell of and juxtapose pivotal moments in Soviet history with daily life.
poster
Netflix
83
7.4
/56852/
75
/2424/
73
/1274/
3.8
/54871/
97
/202/
85
/314/
85
/44/
cc age 15+

Mudbound (2017)
In the post–World War II South, two families are pitted against a barbaric social hierarchy and an unrelenting landscape as they simultaneously fight the battle at home and the battle abroad.
poster
Criterion Channel
86
82
8.0
/10470/
78
/204/
78
/199/
4.2
/20005/
100
/11/
92
/97/
94
/5/

Early Summer (1951)
A 28-year-old single woman is pressured to marry.
poster
HBO Max Amazon Channel
81
7.3
/110984/
70
/4416/
70
/1433/
3.9
/700614/
93
/336/
80
/513/
90
/57/
cc age 17+

The Brutalist (2024)
When an innovative modern architect flees post-war Europe, he is given the opportunity to rebuild his legacy. Set during the dawn of the modern United States (in Pennsylvania), his wife joins him, and their lives are forever changed by a demanding, wealthy patron.
poster
81
7.7
/26020/
75
/578/
73
/392/
3.9
/27821/
97
/34/
87
/337/
cc age 10+

Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)
One-armed war veteran John J. Macreedy steps off a train at the sleepy little town of Black Rock. Once there, he begins to unravel a web of lies, secrecy, and murder.
poster
81
7.4
/6258/
68
/59/
67
/76/
3.6
/3256/
100
/15/
86
/87/
cc age 12+

The Dresser (1983)
In a touring Shakespearean theater group, a backstage hand - the dresser, is devoted to the brilliant but tyrannical head of the company. He struggles to support the deteriorating star as the company struggles to carry on during the London blitz. The pathos of his backstage efforts rival the pathos in the story of Lear and the Fool that is being presented on-stage, as the situation comes to a crisis.
poster
Kanopy
80
7.2
/12961/
71
/411/
70
/341/
3.8
/29098/
93
/111/
76
/43/
85
/26/

Beanpole (2019)
1945, Leningrad. World War II has devastated the city, demolishing its buildings and leaving its citizens in tatters, physically and mentally. Two young women, Iya and Masha, search for meaning and hope in the struggle to rebuild their lives amongst the ruins.
poster
Kanopy
80
7.8
/4303/
71
/68/
75
/126/
4.0
/5504/
86
/14/
89
/54/

Black Rain (1989)
Shigematsu Shizuma, who lives with his family in a village near Fukuyama, was in Hiroshima with his wife and niece just after the devastating atomic bombing, a tragedy that cruelly took the lives of thousands of people and forever marked the harsh existence of the survivors.
poster
80
7.8
/48616/
77
/1848/
78
/1431/
4.0
/31725/
91
/105/
89
/114/
75
/26/

Land of Mine (2015)
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.
poster
fuboTV
78
7.2
/38648/
72
/1508/
70
/477/
3.6
/67535/
96
/224/
91
/134/
81
/40/
cc age 13+

Living (2022)
London, 1953. Mr. Williams, a veteran civil servant, is an important cog within the city's bureaucracy as it struggles to rebuild in the aftermath of World War II. Buried under paperwork at the office and lonely at home, his life has long felt empty and meaningless. Then a devastating medical diagnosis forces him to take stock, and to try and grasp some fulfilment before it passes permanently beyond reach.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
78
7.1
/16405/
68
/500/
67
/302/
3.6
/8545/
94
/115/
76
/227/
76
/28/

Lore (2012)
After being abandoned by their Nazi parents at the end of World War II, five German siblings embark on a harrowing journey across their war-torn country. Led by the eldest, 14 year-old Lore, the children are forced to confront their parents’ actions and the reality of a new world.
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Kanopy
81
77
7.7
/14551/
73
/251/
74
/259/
4.0
/26914/
96
/26/
87
/151/

Ashes and Diamonds (1958)
A young academy soldier, Maciek Chelmicki, is ordered to shoot the secretary of the KW PPR. A coincidence causes him to kill someone else. Meeting face to face with his victim, he gets a shock. He faces the necessity of repeating the assassination. He meets Krystyna, a girl working as a barmaid in the restaurant of the "Monopol" hotel. His affection for her makes him even more aware of the senselessness of killing at the end of the war. Loyalty to the oath he took, and thus the obligation to obey the order, tips the scales.
poster
HBO Max Amazon Channel
84
77
8.0
/8754/
76
/133/
78
/262/
4.1
/11534/
100
/12/
92
/61/
82
/7/

Shoeshine (1946)
Two shoeshine boys in postwar Rome, Italy save up to buy a horse, but their involvement as dupes in a burglary lands them in juvenile prison; the experience take a devastating toll on their friendship.
poster
FXNow
76
7.1
/163689/
70
/5745/
70
/2824/
3.7
/910509/
75
/320/
76
/313/
75
/57/
cc age 15+

The French Dispatch (2021)
The staff of an American magazine based in France puts out its last issue, with stories featuring an artist sentenced to life imprisonment, student riots, and a kidnapping resolved by a chef.
poster
76
7.5
/24358/
73
/323/
74
/343/
3.9
/26305/
81
/16/
88
/323/
69
/15/

Europa (1991)
Just after World War II, an American takes a railway job in Germany, but finds his position politically sensitive with various people trying to use him.
poster
74
IMDb 14
7.6
/14751/
75
/437/
69
/56/
3.5
/45889/
72
/183/
96
/743/
61
/37/
cc age 14+

Nuremberg (2025)
In postwar Germany, an American psychiatrist must determine whether Nazi prisoners are fit to go on trial for war crimes, and finds himself in a complex battle of intellect and ethics with Hermann Göring, Hitler's right-hand man.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
74
7.6
/55872/
78
/1991/
71
/549/
3.7
/83945/
76
/46/
89
/2990/
56
/17/
cc age 7+

White Christmas (1954)
Two talented song-and-dance men team up after the war to become one of the hottest acts in show business. In time they befriend and become romantically involved with the beautiful Haynes sisters who comprise a sister act.
poster
81
72
7.8
/5243/
73
/48/
70
/77/
3.8
/2385/
100
/9/
91
/41/
85
/7/

The Search (1948)
In postwar Germany, a displaced Czech boy, separated from his family during wartime, is befriended by an American GI while the boy's mother desperately searches for him.
poster
77
72
7.3
/9203/
73
/167/
71
/151/
3.7
/9431/
100
/14/
77
/79/
75
/7/

A Foreign Affair (1948)
In occupied Berlin, a US Army Captain is torn between an ex-Nazi cafe singer and the US Congresswoman investigating her.
poster
70
7.1
/1379/
72
/31/
61
/25/
3.6
/1346/
67
/27/
66
/28/

The Spirit of '45 (2013)
How the spirit of unity, which buoyed Britain during the war years, carried through to create a vision of a fairer, united society.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
69
6.5
/137393/
66
/7996/
65
/2658/
3.0
/374104/
76
/298/
76
/684/
63
/52/
cc age 13+

A Haunting in Venice (2023)
Celebrated sleuth Hercule Poirot, now retired and living in self-imposed exile in Venice, reluctantly attends a Halloween séance at a decaying, haunted palazzo. When one of the guests is murdered, the detective is thrust into a sinister world of shadows and secrets.
poster
Starz Apple TV Channel
69
6.7
/6474/
69
/323/
65
/134/
3.2
/3321/
68
/78/
91
/54/
56
/15/
cc age 15+

The Last Vermeer (2019)
A soldier and member of the Dutch resistance investigates stolen art in the wake of the Second World War, including a Vermeer sold to the Nazis by a flamboyant forger.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
76
69
7.1
/4487/
69
/144/
69
/95/
3.6
/2451/
97
/69/
84
/34/
73
/13/

1945 (2017)
An unsettling feeling overwhelms a small Hungarian town when two orthodox Jews arrive with a mysterious trunk. As residents begin to speculate on the purpose of the visit of these two strangers, order starts to crumble in town with some pursuing devious plans and others finding remorse in their hearts.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
69
6.2
/17291/
61
/398/
59
/303/
3.4
/15415/
82
/142/
52
/376/
82
/30/
cc age 14+

The Deep Blue Sea (2011)
The wife of a British Judge is caught in a self-destructive love affair with a Royal Air Force pilot.
poster
Netflix
68
7.1
/165666/
69
/6645/
71
/3534/
3.3
/476543/
65
/219/
79
/748/
55
/39/
cc age 18+

The Devil All the Time (2020)
In Knockemstiff, Ohio and its neighboring backwoods, sinister characters converge around young Arvin Russell as he fights the evil forces that threaten him and his family.
poster
Criterion Channel
79
67
7.4
/3674/
74
/110/
76
/223/
3.9
/5241/
93
/598/

A Monkey in Winter (1962)
During World War II, an innkeeper vows to abstain from alcohol for the sake of his family. Years later, as they thrive in Normandy, his resolve is tested by a charming advertising professional who loves to drink.
poster
Criterion Channel
73
67
7.2
/8687/
70
/182/
71
/211/
3.9
/17589/
67
/12/
80
/43/

Stromboli (1950)
After the end of WWII, a young Lithuanian woman and a young Italian man from Stromboli impulsively marry, but married life on the island is more demanding than she can accept.
poster
65
6.6
/23338/
67
/377/
66
/486/
3.4
/31046/
57
/49/
58
/386/
64
/11/

New York, New York (1977)
An egotistical saxophone player and a young singer meet on V-J Day and embark upon a strained and rocky romance, even as their careers begin a long uphill climb.
poster
Hoopla
80
63
7.2
/4029/
75
/256/
74
/116/
3.5
/2167/
100
/11/
93
/5/

The Windermere Children (2020)
The story of the pioneering project to rehabilitate child survivors of the Holocaust on the shores of Lake Windermere.
poster
Britbox Apple TV Channel
67
61
7.0
/4832/
73
/201/
63
/94/
3.3
/3003/
66
/53/

Christopher and His Kind (2011)
In 1931, budding author Christopher Isherwood goes to Berlin at the invitation of his friend W. H. Auden for the gay sex that abounds in the city. He falls for street sweeper Heinz, paying medical bills for the boy's sickly mother, to the disapproval of her other son, Nazi Gerhardt.
poster
Kanopy
61
6.6
/97657/
69
/2212/
69
/1851/
3.7
/182499/
33
/149/
60
/3839/
45
/40/
cc age 15+

Mona Lisa Smile (2003)
Katherine Watson is a recent UCLA graduate hired to teach art history at the prestigious all-female Wellesley College, in 1953. Determined to confront the outdated mores of society and the institution that embraces them, Katherine inspires her traditional students, including Betty and Joan, to challenge the lives they are expected to lead.
poster
Kanopy
73
59
7.4
/3051/
68
/51/
69
/69/
3.6
/3833/
83
/6/
77
/29/

The Murderers Are Among Us (1946)
After returning from a concentration camp, Susanne finds a traumatized ex-soldier living in her apartment in bombed out Berlin. Together the two try to move past their experiences during WWII.
poster
fuboTV
71
58
7.0
/3843/
72
/85/
67
/71/
3.5
/2670/
89
/9/
59
/24/

Somewhere in the Night (1946)
George Taylor returns from WWII with amnesia. Back home in Los Angeles, he tries to track down his old identity, stumbling into a 3-year old murder case and a hunt for a missing $2 million.
poster
Netflix
70
58
7.1
/9252/
72
/438/
65
/176/
3.4
/3033/
77
/8/

Riphagen the Untouchable (2016)
Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1944, during World War II. Andries Riphagen, a powerful underworld boss, has made his fortune by putting his many criminal talents at the service of the Nazi occupiers. But the long battle is about to end and the freedom fighters, who have been persecuted and murdered for years, are abandoning their hideouts to mercilessly hunt down those who have collaborated with the killers.
poster
Kanopy
57
6.6
/7049/
69
/216/
65
/312/
3.3
/4530/
32
/56/
62
/17/
40
/17/

From the Land of the Moon (2016)
In 1950s France, a free-spirited woman trapped in an arranged marriage falls in love with an injured veteran of the Indochinese War.
poster
66
54
6.9
/4270/
67
/67/
64
/64/
3.4
/4327/
62
/47/

The House on Telegraph Hill (1951)
Concentration camp survivor Victoria Kowelska finds herself involved in mystery, greed, and murder when she assumes the identity of a dead friend in order to gain passage to America.
poster
75
54
7.6
/3250/
71
/38/
70
/72/
3.7
/3002/
88
/22/

Le Bal (1983)
In a French nightclub, choreographed song and dance routines are performed, rather than a streamlined narrative. They tell the story of Parisian culture and politics from the 1920s—1980s. A disparate, anachronistic series of characters, including an ordinary waiter, a Nazi collaborator, resistance fighters, and 1960s student protestors gather to celebrate and satirize 20th century France's icons, demons, and social changes.
poster
Kanopy
65
54
6.6
/1854/
73
/170/
69
/352/
3.2
/4745/
78
/9/
42
cc age 10+

Belle and Sebastian: The Adventure Continues (2015)
September, 1945. Sebastian impatiently waits for the return of his friend Angelina, whom he has not seen for two years. When the plane carrying the young woman to her small village in the Alps is reported to have crashed in the mountains, Sebastian is convinced that Angelina is still alive. Along with his faithful dog Belle, Sebastian embarks on the most dangerous adventure of his life.
poster
77
53
7.1
/2444/
68
/24/
70
/77/
3.7
/2435/
100
/6/
84
/9/

Sandra (1965)
Sandra returns to her childhood village to take care of family business, but childhood memories and secrets soon overcome her.
poster
FXNow
53
6.4
/25520/
66
/1393/
64
/704/
3.0
/20145/
26
/156/
51
/111/
43
/33/
cc age 16+

The Aftermath (2019)
In the aftermath of World War II, a British colonel and his wife are assigned to live in Hamburg during the post-war reconstruction, but tensions arise with the German widower who lives with them.
poster
53
6.1
/147362/
65
/6858/
60
/3716/
2.8
/99575/
30
/256/
44
/2725/
52
/43/
cc age 15+

The Monuments Men (2014)
Based on the true story of the greatest treasure hunt in history, The Monuments Men is an action drama focusing on seven over-the-hill, out-of-shape museum directors, artists, architects, curators, and art historians who went to the front lines of WWII to rescue the world’s artistic masterpieces from Nazi thieves and return them to their rightful owners. With the art hidden behind enemy lines, how could these guys hope to succeed?
poster
Kanopy
51
5.9
/8076/
63
/645/
60
/265/
2.8
/3806/
62
/63/
42
/31/
48
/14/
cc age 16+

The Secrets We Keep (2020)
In post-World War II America, a woman, rebuilding her life in the suburbs with her husband, kidnaps her neighbor and seeks vengeance for the heinous war crimes she believes he committed against her.
poster
49
5.7
/842/
50
/16/
54
/19/
3.1
/362/
20
/5/
36
/1/

Heart Beat (1980)
An exploration of the relationship between Beat Generation writers Jack Kerouac and Neal Cassady, and Cassady's wife, Carolyn.
poster
68
49
7.1
/4074/
66
/78/
67
/60/
3.4
/1203/

Purge (2012)
Aliide experienced The Great Terror under Stalin’s regime, and decades after her hometown people were deported to Siberia, she lives alone in an isolated house. One night, she finds a young woman in her yard – Zara has just escaped from the claws of the Russian mafia that held her as a sex slave. Survivors both, Aliide and Zara engage in unearthing each other’s motives and gradually their stories merge into one, revealing the tragedy of a family during the cruelest years in Estonian history.
poster
76
49
7.6
/4182/
73
/108/
71
/65/
3.6
/1605/
90
/7/

Rose (2012)
This harrowing tale of survival centers on Rose, a Masurian woman, whose German soldier husband was killed in the war, leaving her alone on their farm. A single woman had no defense against Russian soldiers who raped as a form of revenge, nor against plundering Poles who found themselves in desperate straits. Help arrives for Rose in the form of Tadeusz, a former officer in the Polish Home Army who deserted after he saw his wife raped and murdered by Russian troops and is attempting to hide his identity.


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