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51. The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death (2014)
PG-13 | 98 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
40 years after the first haunting at Eel Marsh House, a group of children evacuated from WWII London arrives, awakening the house's darkest inhabitant.
Director: Tom Harper | Stars: Helen McCrory, Jeremy Irvine, Phoebe Fox, Leanne Best
Votes: 29,618 | Gross: $26.50M
52. The Wings of Eagles (1957)
Approved | 110 min | Biography, Drama, War
A biography of Navy flier-turned-screenwriter Frank W. "Spig" Wead.
Director: John Ford | Stars: John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Dan Dailey, Ward Bond
Votes: 4,622
53. Farewell, Mr. Haffmann (2021)
TV-14 | 115 min | Drama
After the Germans occupy Paris, a talented jeweler, Joseph Haffmann, arranges for his family to flee the city and offers one of his employees the opportunity to take over his store until the conflict subsides.
Director: Fred Cavayé | Stars: Daniel Auteuil, Gilles Lellouche, Sara Giraudeau, Nikolai Kinski
Votes: 2,935
54. The Red Ghost (2020)
99 min | Action, History, Horror
A detachment of Soviet soldiers, including a dangerous half-man, half-ghost, come up against an elite death squad within the Wehrmacht.
Director: Andrey Bogatyrev | Stars: Aleksey Shevchenkov, Vladimir Gostyukhin, Yura Borisov, Polina Chernyshova
Votes: 2,187
55. Glen or Glenda (1953)
PG | 65 min | Drama
A psychiatrist tells the stories of a transvestite (Glen or Glenda) and a pseudohermaphrodite (Alan or Anne).
Director: Edward D. Wood Jr. | Stars: Edward D. Wood Jr., Bela Lugosi, Lyle Talbot, Timothy Farrell
Votes: 9,212
56. The Fox (2022)
118 min | Drama, History, War
At the dawn of WW2, a young soldier encounters a wounded fox cub and takes it with him to occupied France. The story of an unlikely friendship.
Director: Adrian Goiginger | Stars: Simon Morzé, Karl Markovics, Adriane Gradziel, Joseph Stoisits
Votes: 828
57. Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story (2017)
88 min | Documentary, Biography, History
The life and career of the hailed Hollywood movie star and underappreciated genius inventor, Hedy Lamarr.
Director: Alexandra Dean | Stars: Hedy Lamarr, Mel Brooks, Jennifer Hom, Anthony Loder
Votes: 4,320 | Gross: $0.82M
58. The Yellow Rolls-Royce (1964)
Approved | 122 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Anthology movie about three owners of a yellow Rolls-Royce. A British diplomat buys the car for his French wife. A mobster's girlfriend has an affair in Italy. An American woman drives a Yugoslavian partisan
Director: Anthony Asquith | Stars: Ingrid Bergman, Rex Harrison, Shirley MacLaine, Jeanne Moreau
Votes: 4,023
59. Ganz normale Männer - Der 'vergessene Holocaust' (2022 TV Movie)
58 min | Documentary, History, War
The Nuremberg Einsatzgruppen trial of 1947/1948 is considered the largest murder trial in history against members of four death squads from the security police and SD (the security service ... See full summary »
Directors: Manfred Oldenburg, Oliver Halmburger | Stars: Brian Cox, Benjamin Ferencz, Christopher Browning, Harald Welzer
Votes: 1,718
60. In Which We Serve (1942)
Not Rated | 115 min | Drama, War
This "story of a ship", the British destroyer H.M.S. Torrin, is told in flashbacks by survivors as they cling to a life raft.
Director: Noël Coward | Stars: Noël Coward, John Mills, Bernard Miles, Celia Johnson
Votes: 6,470 | Gross: $0.45M
61. An Awfully Big Adventure (1995)
R | 112 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Set right after World War II, a naive teenage girl joins a shabby theatre troupe in Liverpool. During a winter production of Peter Pan, the play quickly turns into a dark metaphor for youth... See full summary »
Director: Mike Newell | Stars: Hugh Grant, Alan Rickman, Georgina Cates, Alun Armstrong
Votes: 3,030 | Gross: $0.26M
62. The Magus (1968)
R | 117 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
A teacher on a Greek island becomes involved in bizarre mind-games with the island's magus (magician) and a beautiful young woman.
Director: Guy Green | Stars: Anthony Quinn, Michael Caine, Candice Bergen, Anna Karina
Votes: 1,910
63. The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel (1951)
Approved | 88 min | Biography, Drama, War
The story of the final years of the respected World War II German general, Erwin Rommel.
Director: Henry Hathaway | Stars: James Mason, Cedric Hardwicke, Jessica Tandy, Luther Adler
Votes: 6,736
64. The Silence of the Sea (1949)
Not Rated | 87 min | Drama, Romance, War
In occupied France, an elderly man and his niece are forced to give shelter to a German army lieutenant who seemingly loves their country and culture.
Director: Jean-Pierre Melville | Stars: Howard Vernon, Nicole Stéphane, Jean-Marie Robain, Ami Aaröe
Votes: 5,672
65. To the Shores of Tripoli (1942)
Passed | 86 min | Drama, Romance, War
Life at the Marine Training Base in San Diego on the eve of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
Director: H. Bruce Humberstone | Stars: John Payne, Maureen O'Hara, Randolph Scott, Nancy Kelly
Votes: 991 | Gross: $2.30M
66. Panfilov's 28 Men (2016)
PG-13 | 121 min | Action, Drama, History
In November 1941, remaining squad of Soviet soldiers must stop a column of Nazi Germany tanks.
Directors: Kim Druzhinin, Andrey Shalopa | Stars: Maksim Abrosimov, Sergey Agafonov, Pavel Aseev, Ivan Batarev
Votes: 6,028
67. Onionhead (1958)
Passed | 111 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
In 1941, an Oklahoma college graduate joins the US Coast Guard and serves as a cook on a ship based in Boston.
Director: Norman Taurog | Stars: Andy Griffith, Felicia Farr, Walter Matthau, Erin O'Brien
Votes: 657
68. Torpedo (2019)
102 min | Action, Adventure, History
Resistance fighters led by commander Stan must transport a stolen German submarine carrying uranium to America during WWII while evading German forces determined to sink the U-boat.
Director: Sven Huybrechts | Stars: Koen De Bouw, Thure Riefenstein, Ella-June Henrard, Joren Seldeslachts
Votes: 2,949
69. The Angry Hills (1959)
Approved | 105 min | Drama, War, Thriller
In 1941, the Greek resistance entrusts an American journalist with a secret Greek double-agent list that must reach London and not fall into German hands.
Director: Robert Aldrich | Stars: Robert Mitchum, Stanley Baker, Elisabeth Müller, Gia Scala
Votes: 1,165
70. Who's Singin' Over There? (1980)
86 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
It's April 5, 1941, somewhere in Serbia. A group of people go on a bus to Belgrade, on a journey that will change their lives forever.
Director: Slobodan Sijan | Stars: Pavle Vuisic, Dragan Nikolic, Danilo 'Bata' Stojkovic, Aleksandar Bercek
Votes: 16,674
71. Charlotte (III) (2021)
Not Rated | 92 min | Animation, Biography, Drama
An account of German-Jewish artist Charlotte Salomon's life in the south of France between 1941 and 1943, before she was sent to Auschwitz during World War II. Inspired by her memoir "Life? or Theatre?".
Directors: Tahir Rana, Éric Warin | Stars: Keira Knightley, Marion Cotillard, Brenda Blethyn, Jim Broadbent
Votes: 488
72. Dauntless: The Battle of Midway (2019)
98 min | Action, Adventure, History
Actual events as written by carrier pilots at the time of the battle of Midway, Computer-generated imagery but it's so good you have a hard time telling it!
Director: Mike Phillips | Stars: Jade Willey, John Enick, Judd Nelson, C. Thomas Howell
Votes: 956
73. Puppet Master III: Toulon's Revenge (1991 Video)
R | 82 min | Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
A puppeteer's ability to bring inanimate objects to life attracts the attention of the Nazis during World War II.
Director: David DeCoteau | Stars: Guy Rolfe, Richard Lynch, Ian Abercrombie, Kristopher Logan
Votes: 5,471
74. April and the Extraordinary World (2015)
PG | 105 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
It's 1941 but France is trapped in the nineteenth century, governed by steam and Napoleon V, where scientists vanish mysteriously. Avril, a teenage girl, goes in search of her missing scientist parents.
Directors: Christian Desmares, Franck Ekinci | Stars: Marion Cotillard, Marc-André Grondin, Philippe Katerine, Jean Rochefort
Votes: 8,465 | Gross: $0.29M
75. Stalin (1992 TV Movie)
TV-MA | 172 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
The life and career of the brutal Soviet dictator, Joseph Stalin.
Director: Ivan Passer | Stars: Robert Duvall, Julia Ormond, Maximilian Schell, Jeroen Krabbé
Votes: 2,797
76. The Desert Rats (1953)
Approved | 88 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Richard Burton plays a Scottish Army officer put in charge of a disparate band of ANZAC troops on the perimeter of Tobruk with the German Army doing their best to dislodge them.
Director: Robert Wise | Stars: Richard Burton, James Mason, Robert Newton, Robert Douglas
Votes: 5,313
77. Morning Glory (1993)
PG-13 | 96 min | Drama
An ex-convict on parole is accused of murdering a loose woman in the town where he works.
Director: Steven Hilliard Stern | Stars: Christopher Reeve, Deborah Raffin, Lloyd Bochner, Nina Foch
Votes: 557 | Gross: $0.02M
78. Map of the Human Heart (1992)
R | 109 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
Arctic, 1965: Avik tells his story starting in 1931. A mapmaker flies Avik, then a preteen Eskimo boy with TB, to a hospital in Montreal where he meets Albertine. They meet again when Avik joins World War II in the UK.
Director: Vincent Ward | Stars: Jason Scott Lee, Anne Parillaud, Patrick Bergin, Robert Joamie
Votes: 3,437 | Gross: $2.81M
79. Les Misérables (1995)
R | 175 min | Drama, History
A variation on Victor Hugo's classic novel by means of the story of a man whose life is affected by and somewhat duplicated by the Hugo story of the beleaguered Jean Valjean.
Director: Claude Lelouch | Stars: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Michel Boujenah, Alessandra Martines, Salomé Lelouch
Votes: 4,015 | Gross: $1.04M
80. Mussolini: The Untold Story (1985)
Unrated | 410 min | Biography, Drama, History
The rise and fall of the Italian fascist dictator, Benito Mussolini.
Stars: George C. Scott, Raul Julia, Virginia Madsen, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
Votes: 652
81. The Key (1958)
Approved | 134 min | Drama, Romance, War
During World War II, successive tugboat British Captains sent on dangerous salvage missions pass-on the key to a home-port apartment, where a lonely Swiss-Italian young war-widow lives.
Director: Carol Reed | Stars: William Holden, Sophia Loren, Trevor Howard, Oscar Homolka
Votes: 1,658
82. Across the Pacific (1942)
Passed | 97 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
In December 1941, ex-army captain Rick Leland boards a Japanese ship heading to Asia via the Panama Canal where his Japanese hosts show interest in the American defense plans for the canal zone.
Directors: John Huston, Vincent Sherman | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Sydney Greenstreet, Charles Halton
Votes: 5,461
83. Special Section (1975)
PG | 110 min | Drama, History, Thriller
In occupied France during World War II a German officer is murdered. The collaborationist Vichy government decides to pin the murder on six petty criminals. Loyal judges are called in to convict them as quickly as possible.
Director: Costa-Gavras | Stars: Louis Seigner, Roland Bertin, Michael Lonsdale, Ivo Garrani
Votes: 1,604
84. Train of Life (1998)
R | 103 min | Comedy, Drama, War
In 1941, the inhabitants of a small Jewish village in Central Europe organize a fake deportation train so that they can escape the Nazis and flee to Palestine.
Director: Radu Mihaileanu | Stars: Lionel Abelanski, Rufus, Clément Harari, Michel Muller
Votes: 9,602 | Gross: $0.15M
85. The Last Frontier (2020)
136 min | Action, Drama, War
A film about the feat of the Podolsk cadets in October 1941 near Moscow. The cadets of the Podolsk artillery-infantry schools are ordered to take up defenses on the Ilyinsky line.
Director: Vadim Shmelyov | Stars: Artyom Gubin, Lubov Konstantinova, Igor Yudin, Aleksey Bardukov
Votes: 1,891
86. Housewife, 49 (2005 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 93 min | Drama, Romance, War
In the late 1930s, Nella Last, a 49 year old housewife living in Barrow-in-Furness on the North West English coast, agrees to send details of her routine to the Mass Observation Project; a ... See full summary »
Director: Gavin Millar | Stars: Victoria Wood, David Threlfall, Christopher Harper, Ben Crompton
Votes: 807
87. The Unknown Soldier (1955)
177 min | Drama, War
The tale of a platoon of soldiers during the Continuation War. Based on Väinö Linna's book of the same name.
Director: Edvin Laine | Stars: Kosti Klemelä, Heikki Savolainen, Reino Tolvanen, Veikko Sinisalo
Votes: 7,827
88. The One That Got Away (1957)
Not Rated | 111 min | Adventure, Drama, War
A cocky German fighter pilot is shot down over England in 1940 and makes numerous attempts to escape to fight again.
Director: Roy Ward Baker | Stars: Hardy Krüger, Colin Gordon, Michael Goodliffe, Terence Alexander
Votes: 2,494
89. Fortress of War (2010)
Not Rated | 138 min | Action, Drama, History
A war drama set during the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, in which Soviet troops held on to a border stronghold for nine days.
Director: Aleksandr Kott | Stars: Aleksey Kopashov, Andrey Merzlikin, Pavel Derevyanko, Aleksandr Korshunov
Votes: 10,546
90. Cantinflas (2014)
PG | 102 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
The untold story of Mexico's greatest and most beloved comedy film star of all time, from his humble origins on the small stage to the bright lights of Hollywood.
Director: Sebastian del Amo | Stars: Óscar Jaenada, Michael Imperioli, Ilse Salas, Bárbara Mori
Votes: 4,187 | Gross: $6.37M
91. Hanagatami (2017)
169 min | Drama, War
Fulfilling his filmmaking dream of 40 years, Nobuhiko Obayashi's luminous new feature "Hanagatami" delivers a timeless story of the pureness of youth beset by the chaos of war.
Director: Nobuhiko Ôbayashi | Stars: Shunsuke Kubozuka, Shinnosuke Mitsushima, Keishi Nagatsuka, Tokio Emoto
Votes: 786
92. Air Force (1943)
Approved | 124 min | Action, Drama, History
The crew of an Air Force bomber arrives in Pearl Harbor in the aftermath of the Japanese attack on December 7, 1941, and is sent on to Manila to help with the defense of the Philippines.
Director: Howard Hawks | Stars: John Garfield, John Ridgely, Gig Young, Arthur Kennedy
Votes: 3,829
93. Beloved Infidel (1959)
Not Rated | 123 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
Toward the end of his life, F. Scott Fitzgerald is writing for Hollywood studios to be able to afford the cost of an asylum for his wife. He is also struggling against alcoholism. Into his life comes the famous gossip columnist.
Director: Henry King | Stars: Gregory Peck, Deborah Kerr, Eddie Albert, Philip Ober
Votes: 1,189
94. Wake Island (1942)
Passed | 88 min | Action, Drama, War
December, 1941. With no hope of relief or re-supply, a small band of United States Marines tries to keep the Japanese Navy from capturing their island base.
Director: John Farrow | Stars: Brian Donlevy, Robert Preston, Macdonald Carey, William Bendix
Votes: 2,203
95. The North Star (1943)
Passed | 108 min | Drama, Romance, War
A Ukrainian village must suddenly contend with the German invasion of June 1941.
Director: Lewis Milestone | Stars: Anne Baxter, Dana Andrews, Walter Huston, Walter Brennan
Votes: 1,802
96. Railroad Tigers (2016)
TV-PG | 124 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
A railroad worker in China in 1941 leads a team of freedom fighters against the Japanese in order to get food for the poor.
Director: Sheng Ding | Stars: Jackie Chan, Jaycee Chan, Zitao Huang, Kai Wang
Votes: 4,921 | Gross: $0.22M
97. Leningrad (2009)
R | 110 min | Drama, War
Winter, 1941. World War II rages on as Nazi troops invade the Soviet Union and besiege the devastated city of Leningrad. Foreign journalists are quickly evacuated, but in the chaos that ensues, Kate Davies is left behind.
Director: Aleksandr Buravskiy | Stars: Mira Sorvino, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Olga Sutulova, Gabriel Byrne
Votes: 4,802
98. Captain America (1966)
TV-G | 18 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
The patriotic sole recipient of a revolutionary body enhancement project battles evil as the star spangled defender of America.
Stars: Bernard Cowan, Don Mason, Jack Creley, Claude Rae
Votes: 1,045
99. Sophie and the Rising Sun (2016)
R | 105 min | Drama
Autumn of 1941 in Salty Creek, a fishing village in South Carolina, two interracial lovers are swept up in the tides of history.
Director: Maggie Greenwald | Stars: Julianne Nicholson, Takashi Yamaguchi, Margo Martindale, Diane Ladd
Votes: 1,475 | Gross: $0.03M
100. The Unknown Soldier (1985)
197 min | Drama, War
This film is the second silver screen adaption of the Finnish war book by Väinö Linna with the same name as the film. The story is based on Linna's experiences as an infantry man in the ... See full summary »
Director: Rauni Mollberg | Stars: Risto Tuorila, Pirkka-Pekka Petelius, Paavo Liski, Mika Mäkelä
Votes: 3,048