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Netflix
88
8.3
/13805/
84
/1011/
83
/484/
4.1
/44809/
100
/10/
99
/122/
8.8
/332085/
cc age 13+

Violet Evergarden: The Movie (2020)
As the world moves on from the war and technological advances bring changes to her life, Violet still hopes to see her lost commanding officer again.
poster
86
8.0
/14080/
75
/293/
77
/341/
4.1
/13138/
100
/20/
92
/223/

Forbidden Games (1952)
Orphaned after a Nazi air raid, Paulette, a young Parisian girl, runs into Michel, an older peasant boy, and the two quickly become close. Together, they try to make sense of the chaotic and crumbling world around them, attempting to cope with death as they create a burial ground for Paulette's deceased pet dog. Eventually, however, Paulette's stay with Michel's family is threatened by the harsh realities of wartime.
poster
Netflix
83
7.4
/57119/
75
/2451/
73
/1284/
3.8
/56073/
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
Netflix
82
7.5
/8340/
78
/850/
81
/437/
3.9
/33257/
100
8.4
/278738/

Violet Evergarden: Eternity and the Auto Memory Doll (2019)
Violet Evergarden comes to a private women's academy to tutor Isabella in the ways of being a lady. Heir to the York family, Isabella feels trapped in this new and uncomfortable world. She still grieves for the only person to ever bring her happiness – now lost to her. Violet's lessons do give her a brief respite from the melancholy but with the absence of joy, how long does it take to truly heal?
poster
Criterion Channel
81
79
7.8
/15116/
75
/306/
76
/414/
4.0
/32440/
96
/24/
86
/117/

Germany, Year Zero (1948)
In the ruins of post-WWII Berlin, a twelve-year-old boy is left to his own devices in order to help provide for his family.
poster
Kanopy
81
77
7.7
/14650/
73
/253/
74
/264/
4.1
/28715/
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
Amazon Prime Video
74
7.5
/18598/
74
/607/
73
/724/
3.8
/24088/
91
/138/
85
/64/
73
/28/

Frantz (2016)
In the aftermath of WWI, a young German who grieves the death of her fiancé in France meets a mysterious French man who visits the fiance’s grave to lay flowers.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
74
6.8
/3679/
70
/62/
65
/74/
3.5
/2275/
85
/33/
77
/70/

Wish You Were Here (1987)
In a staid English seaside town after the Second World War, young Lynda grows up with her widowed father and younger sister. Rebellious Lynda has been swearing constantly from an early age. At sixteen, she becomes more exhibitionist and seeks out sexual encounters challenging the prevailing lower-middle class attitudes to sex.
poster
Kanopy
73
7.1
/199206/
70
/5082/
71
/3220/
4.0
/438810/
85
/257/
62
/3891/
86
/43/
cc age 17+

The Master (2012)
Freddie, a volatile, heavy-drinking veteran who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, finds some semblance of a family when he stumbles onto the ship of Lancaster Dodd, the charismatic leader of a new "religion" he forms after World War II.
poster
YouTube TV
77
72
7.3
/9299/
73
/169/
70
/153/
3.7
/9695/
100
/14/
77
/79/
75
/7/

A Foreign Affair (1948)
In occupied Berlin, an army captain is torn between an ex-Nazi café singer and the US congresswoman investigating her.
poster
71
7.2
/3618/
67
/62/
67
/41/
3.5
/1001/
79
/15/

The Assault (1986)
At the end of WWII the Dutch resistance kills a German officer in front of the house of a Dutch family. Years after the war the young boy who witnessed the killing runs into the members of the resistance who committed the killing.
poster
The Roku Channel
69
6.6
/24173/
69
/525/
65
/351/
3.5
/31301/
71
/92/
71
/1461/
66
/10/
cc age 15+

Tommy (1975)
After a series of traumatic childhood events, a psychosomatically deaf, dumb and blind boy becomes a master pinball player and the object of a religious cult.
poster
77
68
7.5
/6591/
72
/108/
69
/103/
3.8
/5818/
94
/17/
77
/57/

Act of Violence (1949)
A former prisoner of war, Frank Enley is hailed as a hero in his California town. However, Frank has a shameful secret that comes back to haunt him when fellow survivor Joe Parkson emerges, intent on making Frank pay for his past deeds.
poster
Criterion Channel
73
63
7.5
/5069/
71
/60/
71
/61/
3.7
/2439/
70
/10/
78
/52/

Tunes of Glory (1960)
Following World War II in peacetime Scotland, brigade headquarters replaces commanding officer Major Jock Sinclair, a boisterous battalion leader, with the strict, temperamental Lieutenant Colonel Basil Barrow. Resentful toward his replacement, Sinclair undermines Barrow's authority and damages his successor's reputation among the soldiers. Barrow faces an uphill battle in regaining the discipline and respect of his battalion.
poster
Kanopy
61
6.6
/98429/
69
/2272/
69
/1871/
3.7
/199329/
33
/149/
60
/3840/
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
60
5.6
/10980/
63
/1179/
63
/603/
2.7
/15152/
66
/101/
42
/73/
59
/20/
cc age 8+

The Secret Garden (2020)
Mary Lennox is born in India to wealthy British parents who never wanted her. When her parents suddenly die, she is sent back to England to live with her uncle. She meets her sickly cousin, and the two children find a wondrous secret garden lost in the grounds of Misselthwaite Manor.
poster
Kanopy
73
59
7.4
/3097/
68
/52/
68
/71/
3.6
/4054/
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
Kanopy
68
59
6.9
/5211/
69
/131/
67
/123/
3.5
/2913/
65
/47/

Black Bread (2010)
In the harsh post-war years' Catalan countryside, Andreu, a child that belongs to the losing side, finds the corpses of a man and his son in the forest. The authorities want his father to be made responsible of the deaths, but Andreu tries to help his father by finding out who truly killed them. In this search, Andreu develops a moral consciousness against a world of adults fed by lies. In order to survive, he betrays his own roots and ends up finding out the monster that lives within him.
poster
Criterion Channel
69
58
6.5
/3708/
66
/52/
63
/63/
3.3
/2572/
91
/11/
63
/52/
cc age 13+

A Private Function (1984)
In the summer of 1947, Britain prepares to commemorate the wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Phillip. To get around food-rationing laws, Dr. Charles Swaby, accountant Henry Allardyce and solicitor Frank Lockwood are fattening a black-market pig for the big day. Egged on by his wife, meek Gilbert Chilvers steals the swine, but the couple must conceal it from inspector Morris Wormold.
poster
Kanopy
76
58
7.3
/2419/
75
/155/
75
/106/
3.8
/2659/
78
/9/
82
/7/
7.6
/11718/
cc age 13+

Giovanni's Island (2014)
In the aftermath of the most devastating conflict mankind had ever experienced, the tiny island of Shikotan became part of the Sakhalin Oblast... and on the unhealed border in this remote corner of the world, friendship among children from two different countries timidly blossomed, striving to overcome language barriers and the waves of history. Inspired by true events.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
63
57
6.3
/3441/
64
/217/
64
/84/
3.1
/4117/
62
/144/
6.5
/15417/

Appleseed (1988)
In the futuristic city of Olympus, built on the ashes of the third world war, a police officer and her cyborg partner fight terrorism.
poster
57
56
6.0
/26888/
58
/408/
58
/337/
3.0
/10728/
49
/34/
cc age 17+

The Good German (2006)
An American journalist arrives in Berlin just after the end of World War Two. He becomes involved in a murder mystery surrounding a dead GI who washes up at a lakeside mansion during the Potsdam negotiations between the Allied powers. Soon his investigation connects with his search for his married pre-war German lover.
poster
60
54
6.2
/7774/
61
/163/
61
/127/
3.3
/3150/
52
/284/

Sauna (2008)
It is 1595. Brutal wars have just ended in an uneasy peace between Protestant Sweden and Orthodox Russia. We focus on the spiritual defeats of two conquered Finnish brothers, one a hardened near-psychopathic war hero, the other a gentle scientist in an age with no use for such men. They find themselves in the swampy interior, demarcating the new border with a unit of sadistic Russians.
poster
74
51
7.2
/2775/
77
/141/
66
/105/
3.7
/3178/
86
/11/

The Sleeping Voice (2011)
Finished the Spanish Civil War in April 1939, in November 1940, while Spain is being crushed by the ruthless boot of dictator Franco, Pepita travels from rural Córdoba to Madrid to be near her sister Hortensia, who is seven months pregnant and imprisoned, haunted by the shadow of a death sentence.
poster
71
49
7.5
/1926/
67
/67/
70
/60/
3.8
/2048/

Peace on Earth (1939)
Two baby squirrels ask grandpa to explain what "men" are when he comes in singing "peace on earth, goodwill to men". Grandpa tells the story of man's last war. This classic animation short was an Academy Award Best Short Subject, Cartoons nominee.
poster
47
5.3
/15554/
59
/708/
58
/407/
2.5
/3597/
23
/52/
33
/2144/
28
/13/

Blood: The Last Vampire (2009)
On the surface, Saya is a stunning 16-year-old, but that youthful exterior hides the tormented soul of a 400-year-old "halfling". Born to a human father and a vampire mother, she has for centuries been a loner obsessed with using her samurai skills to rid the world of vampires, all the while knowing that she herself can survive only on blood like those she hunts.
poster
Kanopy
69
47
7.1
/1617/
67
/67/
65
/66/
3.5
/1831/
68
/18/
7.3
/6659/

Barefoot Gen 2 (1986)
Three years after the Hiroshima bombing, a teenager helps a group of orphans to survive and find their new life.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
46
6.0
/11767/
68
/934/
60
/282/
2.8
/3675/
17
/54/
60
/174/
28
/18/
cc age 17+

Man Down (2015)
When a U.S. Marine returns home from Afghanistan, he finds that the place he once called home is no better than the battlefields he fought on overseas. Accompanied by his best friend, he searches desperately for the whereabouts of his estranged son and wife. In their search, the two intercept a man carrying vital information about his family.
poster
Kanopy
71
45
7.0
/2866/
65
/52/
71
/64/
3.6
/1972/
77
/11/

The Man Between (1953)
A British woman on a visit to post-war Berlin is caught up in an espionage ring smuggling secrets into and out of the Eastern Bloc.
poster
AMC+
56
45
6.1
/4712/
64
/145/
56
/60/
3.2
/622/
56
/16/
40
/57/
56
/9/

Edwin Boyd: Citizen Gangster (2011)
Based on a real WWII vet and family man turned bank robber. Disillusioned by his post war circumstances, Eddie Boyd is torn between the need to provide for his young family and an unfulfilled dream to head to Hollywood to become a star. He discovers a way to do both, robbing banks Hollywood style, but his dream leads him down a path of danger and tragedy.
poster
Criterion Channel
75
42
7.4
/1314/
66
/27/
73
/35/
3.8
/2036/
87
/15/

Late Chrysanthemums (1954)
With delicate, unobtrusive strokes, Naruse evokes both the humor and bitterness of his characters’ dilemmas, in this bleak, compelling poignant portrait of a quartet of aging geishas contemplating their troubles with men and money.
poster
71
42
7.5
/2671/
70
/47/
72
/41/
3.4
/843/

Enclave (2015)
Nenad, ten years Christian boy from a Serbian enclave, determined to create a proper community burial for his late grandfather, crosses enemy lines and makes friends among the Muslim majority in deeply divided, war-torn Kosovo.
poster
71
40
7.2
/907/
67
/17/
70
/36/
3.8
/2871/

Aimless Bullet (1961)
Two brothers—Chul-ho, an accountant with a toothache and a pregnant wife, and Yong-ho, an unemployed ex-soldier wounded in battle—navigate life in post-war Korea.
poster
Kanopy
68
32
7.0
/1789/
66
/19/
68
/32/
3.5
/809/

The Night My Number Came Up (1955)
British Air Marshal Hardie is attending a party in Hong Kong when he hears of a dream, told by a pilot, in which Hardie's flight to Tokyo on a small Dakota propeller plane crashes on a Japanese beach. Hardie dismisses the dream as pure fantasy, but while he is flying to Tokyo the next day, circumstances start changing to align with the pilot's vivid vision, and it looks like the dream disaster may become a reality.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
58
31
4.9
/1121/
66
/209/
69
/106/
2.8
/412/
51
/11/

Hostile Territory (2022)
Former P.O.W. Jack Calgrove moves Heaven and Earth to be reunited with his children following the Civil War. After returning home, Jack discovers that his wife has tragically died and his children, presumed to be orphans, are heading deep into the West on a train crossing enemy lines, with the intent of being placed into new homes. Calgrove and another soldier team up with a troop of Native American sharpshooters and a freed slave as they try to stop the train.
poster
65
31
6.7
/1752/
65
/15/
64
/18/
3.3
/856/
63
/9/
65
/5/

Till the End of Time (1946)
Three former marines have a hard time readjusting to civilian life. Perry can't deal with the loss of the use of his legs. William is in trouble with bad debts. And Cliff can't decide what he wants to do with his life, although he gets encouragement from war widow Pat Ruscomb.
poster
69
30
7.3
/1550/
68
/33/
69
/42/
3.6
/959/
64
/3/

Hunted (1952)
An unexpected bond develops between a fugitive killer and a runaway orphan on an odyssey across England.
poster
68
28
7.1
/1252/
66
/45/
64
/45/
3.5
/905/
69
/2/

The Beehive (1982)
As in the novel of the same title from Camilo Jose Cela, "La Colmena" is a sad composition with the stories of many people in the Madrid of 1942, just the postwar of the spanish civil war. The main theme of the film is the contrast between the poets, surviving close to misery under the Franco's regime, and the winners of the war, the emerging class of the people that makes easy money with illegal business.
poster
Criterion Channel
71
27
7.3
/1043/
55
/18/
68
/21/
3.9
/1500/
81
/3/

Adelheid (1970)
In the aftermath of World War II, a soldier takes charge of a manor formerly owned by a German family and falls in love with the daughter, now a maid. Their relationship forces him to confront the tension between his love and his conscience.
poster
74
24
7.6
/1013/
70
/14/
64
/27/
3.8
/901/
87
/3/

Freeze, Die, Come to Life (1990)
Stuck in a mining town near Vladivostok in 1947 amongst Soviet exiles and Japanese POWs (Japanese prisoners remained in Siberia for years after the war had ended), the kids have to come up with something to keep them busy. Two friends, Valerka and Galia, play some peculiar, very dangerous games of their own amid the man-made wasteland of Suchan.
poster
78
12
8.1
/164/
90
/4/
70
/1/
3.7
/953/

Ky Nam Inn (2025)
Set in 1985 post-war Vietnam, Khang moves to Saigon after securing a position to translate "The Little Prince." Due to his family connections, Khang's life under the new regime is secure. But everything changes when he meets Ky Nam, a reserved older widow who lives in Khang's new community.
poster
Criterion Channel
63
11
7.3
/444/
51
/6/
53
/15/
3.7
/376/

A Japanese Tragedy (1953)
At the close of the war in Japan, a widowed mother makes every possible sacrifice to bring up her ungrateful son and daughter who are unimpressed with their poor standard of living at home. They gradually reject her in search of the material comforts that working as a maid cannot provide. The mother's despair becomes interminable.
poster
62
11
6.3
/572/
56
/13/
59
/13/
3.5
/215/

Merry-Go-Round c. 1950 (2004)
This movie doesn't have any coherent plot. It's the portrait of the lives of different people in the hard years of post-war in Spain (the 40's), and how they manage to survive in a country desolated by the war. Like other films: La colmena or Roma (Fellini) it shows us lots of characters and some moments of their lives.
poster
63
10
7.4
/204/
48
/5/
59
/14/
3.6
/288/

Little Peach (1958)
Anzukko (Little Peach) is the daughter of a successful writer. She turns down each one of her suitors, until she marries a beginning writer named Ryokichi. Their life quickly sinks into despair.
poster
58
10
6.4
/883/
57
/9/
65
/11/
3.3
/314/
38
/1/
cc age 13+

The Juggler (1953)
A Holocaust survivor moves to Israel and experiences difficulty adjusting to life.
poster
?
100
/1/

Ones Left Behind (2025)
A couple returns to Aghdam, the city they once fled 32 years ago due to the war. It's a story about memory held in people, and about the small, powerful ways the past resurfaces when you finally face it.
poster
?
75
/2/
70
/2/

Procès de Tokyo, le Nuremberg oublié (2025)
N/A
poster
?
60
/1/

Willy Ronis, autoportrait d'un photographe (2015)
Willy Ronis lived his life between Paris and Provence capturing post-war life. From a historical shot to intimacy, his pictures speak of history and the idea of framing. He was the first French photographer to work for LIFE magazine.


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