1940s
"1940s" Movies and TV Shows
#1
The Zone of Interest
Synopsis:
The commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolf Höss, and his wife Hedwig, strive to build a dream life for their family in a house and garden next to the camp.
Starring:
Christian Friedel,
Sandra Hüller,
Johann Karthaus
Plot:
holocaust,
world war two,
auschwitz,
auschwitz concentration camp,
nazi,
wartime romance,
love,
jewish,
garden,
based on novel
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#2
The Boy and the Heron
Synopsis:
While the Second World War rages, the teenage Mahito, haunted by his mother's tragic death, is relocated from Tokyo to the serene rural home of his new stepmother Natsuko, a woman who bears a striking resemblance to the boy's mother. As he tries to adjust, this strange new world grows even stranger following the appearance of a persistent gray heron, who perplexes and bedevils Mahito, dubbing him…
Starring:
Masaki Suda,
Takuya Kimura,
Ko Shibasaki
Plot:
heron,
parakeet,
fire,
grief,
studio ghibli,
anime animation,
magic,
1940s,
year 1943,
world war two
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#3
Godzilla Minus One
Synopsis:
Postwar Japan is at its lowest point when a new crisis emerges in the form of a giant monster, baptized in the horrific power of the atomic bomb.
Starring:
Minami Hamabe,
Ryunosuke Kamiki,
Munetaka Aoki
#4
A Haunting in Venice
Synopsis:
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.
Starring:
Tina Fey,
Jamie Dornan,
Kenneth Branagh
Plot:
based on novel,
seance,
detective,
murder,
whodunit,
hercule poirot character,
whodunnit mystery,
ghost,
medium,
children
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#5
1923
Synopsis:
Follow a new generation of the Dutton family during the early twentieth century when pandemics, historic drought, the end of Prohibition and the Great Depression all plague the mountain west, and the Duttons who call it home.
Starring:
Helen Mirren,
Harrison Ford,
Darren Mann
Plot:
prequel,
range war,
historical drama,
1920s,
breasts,
prequel to tv series,
cowboy,
west,
journey,
origin
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#6
Oppenheimer
Synopsis:
The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer's role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II.
Starring:
Cillian Murphy,
Emily Blunt,
Kenneth Branagh
#7
Blood & Gold
Synopsis:
At the end of World War II, a German soldier is looking for his daughter while an SS troop is looking for a Jewish treasure.
Starring:
Alexander Scheer,
Robert Maaser,
Jördis Triebel
Plot:
soldier,
year 1945,
period drama,
based on true story,
gold,
mission,
exploration,
military,
world war,
world war two
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#8
Operation Seawolf
Synopsis:
During the last days of World War II, Germany, desperate for any last grasp to defeat the allied powers, looked to their last remaining weapons and soldiers. The German Navy and the last remaining U-Boats were formed together for one desperate last mission – a mission to attack the United States Homeland, known as Operation Seawolf. Captain Hans Kessler, a grizzled submarine commander from both W…
Starring:
Dolph Lundgren,
Frank Grillo,
Hiram A. Murray
Plot:
fictional war,
male nudity,
rear nudity,
defeat,
mission,
u boat,
german submarine,
world war two,
atlantic ocean,
prologue
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#9
Sisu
Synopsis:
Deep in the wilderness of Lapland, Aatami Korpi is searching for gold but after he stumbles upon Nazi patrol, a breathtaking and gold-hungry chase through the destroyed and mined Lapland wilderness begins.
Starring:
Aksel Hennie,
Jorma Tommila,
Jack Doolan
Plot:
one man army,
gun violence,
world war two,
1940s,
nazi,
gun,
handgun,
rifle,
woman with a gun,
world war
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#10
Young Frankenstein
Synopsis:
A young neurosurgeon inherits the castle of his grandfather, the famous Dr. Victor von Frankenstein. In the castle he finds a funny hunchback, a pretty lab assistant and the elderly housekeeper. Young Frankenstein believes that the work of his grandfather was delusional, but when he discovers the book where the mad doctor described his reanimation experiment, he suddenly changes his mind.
Starring:
Richard Haydn,
Teri Garr,
Cloris Leachman
Plot:
spoof,
hunchback,
reanimation,
laboratory,
sexual joke,
experiment,
castle,
electricity,
corpse,
rain
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#11
X-Men
Synopsis:
Two mutants, Rogue and Wolverine, come to a private academy for their kind whose resident superhero team, the X-Men, must oppose a terrorist organization with similar powers.
Starring:
James Marsden,
Ray Park,
Ian McKellen
#12
Windtalkers
Synopsis:
Joe Enders is a gung-ho Marine assigned to protect a "windtalker" - one of several Navajo Indians who were used to relay messages during World War II because their spoken language was indecipherable to Japanese code breakers.
Starring:
Mark Ruffalo,
Nicolas Cage,
Peter Stormare
Plot:
navajo indian,
year 1944,
saipan,
military,
japanese army,
japanese soldier,
arizona,
tortoise,
semper fi,
bigotry
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#13
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Synopsis:
'Toon star Roger is worried that his wife Jessica is playing pattycake with someone else, so the studio hires detective Eddie Valiant to snoop on her. But the stakes are quickly raised when Marvin Acme is found dead and Roger is the prime suspect.
Starring:
Bob Hoskins,
Christopher Lloyd,
Charles Fleischer
#14
Where Eagles Dare
Synopsis:
World War II is raging, and an American general has been captured and is being held hostage in the Schloss Adler, a Bavarian castle that's nearly impossible to breach. It's up to a group of skilled Allied soldiers to liberate the general before it's too late.
Starring:
Clint Eastwood,
Robert Beatty,
Richard Burton
#15
We All Loved Each Other So Much
Synopsis:
Three partisans bound by a strong friendship return home after the war, but the clash with everyday reality puts a strain on their bond.
Starring:
Vittorio Gassman,
Stefania Sandrelli,
Stefano Satta Flores
#16
Two Women
Synopsis:
Widowed shopkeeper Cesira and her 13-year-old daughter Rosetta flee from the allied bombs in Rome during the second World War; they travel to the remote village where Cesira was born. During their journey and in the village and onward, the mother does everything she can to protect Rosetta. Meanwhile, a sensitive young intellectual, Michele, falls in love with Cesira.
Starring:
Pupella Maggio,
Jean-Paul Belmondo,
Andrea Checchi
#17
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Synopsis:
In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos and failed diplomacy come to no end. "Tora! Tora! Tora!", named after the code words use by the lead Japanese pilot to indicate they had surprised the Americans, covers the days leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor, which plunged America into the Second World War.
Starring:
James Whitmore,
Wesley Addy,
Martin Balsam
#18
The Way We Were
Synopsis:
Two desperate people have a wonderful romance, but their political views and convictions drive them apart.
Starring:
Robert Redford,
Murray Hamilton,
Bradford Dillman
#19
The Train
Synopsis:
As the Allied forces approach Paris in August 1944, German Colonel Von Waldheim is desperate to take all of France's greatest paintings to Germany. He manages to secure a train to transport the valuable art works even as the chaos of retreat descends upon them. The French resistance however wants to stop them from stealing their national treasures but have received orders from London that they ar…
Starring:
Burt Lancaster,
Paul Scofield,
Jeanne Moreau
Plot:
train,
french resistance,
sabotage,
nazi stolen art,
year 1944,
world war two,
art theft,
art,
painting,
train movie
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#20
The Three Caballeros
Synopsis:
For Donald's birthday he receives a box with three gifts inside. The gifts, a movie projector, a pop-up book, and a pinata, each take Donald on wild adventures through Mexico and South America.
Starring:
Sterling Holloway,
José Oliveira,
Pinto Colvig