1940s Movies

Erika is 13 years and lives with her parents and her grandmother in the far north of Sweden in the 1940's. The family is depressed and disappointed...

Chicago 1941. Meet private eye Richard Stone, celebrating at his Christmas Even office party after beating the draft by way of a bribe. He's a...

Set at a roadside café in the early morning in the Spring of 1947, a young boy and an older man meet by chance. The man relates a luminous...

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.

Staffan returns to Svalöv, his childhood town. The visit becomes an odyssey of his memories with his friends Maria and Janne when they grew up...

A young naive reporter romances a female reporter who is quietly organizing a journalist union and joins her cause.

A group of young soldiers, fresh out of boot camp, find themselves stranded on a raft in the middle of the ocean after their ship is sunk by the...

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

October 1945. A young Japanese boy in the devastated city of Nagasaki, two months after the atomic bomb, carries on his back the lifeless body of his...

Set in 1944, The Farm Boy is a black and white feature film. A love story and adventure, the film is loosely based on the real life story of the...

During World War II, an Italian agent tries to infiltrate the Albanian guerrilla units under the identity of 'engineer Tosti'.

A portrait of the life and work of the great Hungarian composer Béla Bartók, exploring both his music and his passionate interest in...

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.

Year 1943. A group of soldiers, carrying an injured comrade, are trying to reach the hospital.

Many members of the Dutch Underground were gay and lesbian. This film pays homage to them and recounts their story.

The true story of Traian Popovici, a Romanian Mayor that saved 20,000 Jewish People from death during WWII and his friend, who married a Jewish woman...

The year is 1940. Bethany is a beautiful hairdresser and owner of a barber shop in the city. On an ordinary day, the new clumsy customer Harry...

A deep dive into the history of the Canadian Government and the Department of National Defence leasing First Nations reserves as practice bombing...

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