1940s Movies

An earthy, naturalistically erotic and blood-soaked tale of young Martta's ill-fated affair with Oula, a womanizing reindeer herdsman in the Finnish...

A look into the life of American actor James Stewart, whose inspiring tale of valor, purpose and faith will win over everyone.

1940, Kawamoto Akiko lives in Hiroshima with her father and mother, Genkichi and Shizuko, as well as her two younger brothers. Akiko loves playing...

Knatten and Janne, just released from the prison of Långholmen, meet a romantic Stockholm in the 40s. Knatten tries to earn money while Janne...

An injured stranger comes to a peasant family that lives in isolation, announcing that he can help them find water, as a drought threatens them.

Six disparate souls are sent on a secret government mission to make propaganda porn films for the boys on the front, each one struggling under the...

In Fascist Albania 1942, Albanian partisans will do all they can to remove the Italian fascists from their country.

A film set during World War II - a small partisan unit must ambush a German convoy.

The film looks at men and women of color in the U.S. Merchant Marine from 1938-1975. Through chronicling the lives of these men and women who, with a...

In Japanese, “shi kata ga nai” means “it can't be helped”. As a phrase, it represents the philosophical basis of the Japanese...

This is movie is about the story of the people who keep on fighting after the Spanish Civil War were officially finished. They were republicans who...

In 1947, the Indonesian first diplomatic mission arrived in Cairo without passport, to gain recognition over Indonesian sovereignty. They were having...

Britain's Special Operations Executive (SOE) provides trained agents, arms and other assistance to the European resistance groups fighting against...

Affected by the powerful images in the pamphlet Om kriget kommer (If war comes), farmhand Karl-Göran Persson begins fortifying his house....

In 1946, in Soror city, three different stories intersect amid macabre events. While detectives Thomas and Carlos work in the unsolved cases of the...

A brisk visual summary of the changing faces of the English town throughout the ages, from the ancients and their hill-forts to the Second World War...

Detective Renthro gets more than he bargained for.

Bardhi, an orphan boy, goes to the city to work in the house of a rich man, where he learns how to play the violin.